Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6746, Chauncey Curtis, Conn. Continental
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Conn.
Continental

Curtis, Chauncey
or Chancy
Mary Ann

W.6746
B.L.Wt.1986-100
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Doctor Alva Curtis
Cincinati
Ohio
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I Alexander Burnside of the City of Toronto in the Province of Canada M.D. one of His Majesties Justices assigned to keep the Peace in and for the Home District and Alterman of said city upon oath say that I was present and said the marriage Ceremony performed mutually between Chauncy Curtis Bachelor and Mary-Ann Burnside Spinster both of the Township of Northumberland in the State of New Hampshire by Jeremiah Eames Esquire according to the Laws of said state. This took place about the first of May (I think the 9th) 1791.

Sworn before me this 19th day of August 1843 at Toronto aforesaid

Alexander Burnside
John Powell
J. Ryer of the Home District
Court Prime of Canada
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Dear Alva
The object of my writing you lately on the subject of your mother's pension was to gain a little information respecting the time the marriage took place and the made [illegible] to pursue to make it what Mr. Hay would call legal. I did not know what the law  in different states would call such and to this small [illegible][in]quiring (strange to say) you paid no attention [illegible] instead gave on elaborate sketch of the Mr C's service in the late war of England and States which was no more to do with the subject of my inquiry than the exploits of Dumounier or Allcibiades, I have therefore made the state ment according to the best of my recollection and perhaps not far from what will be covered and 'Legal' Sincerely hoping the pension may be obtained. I wish, to do were as easy as for you to paint it out I would sooner be in Cincinati but anticipating the infirmities of approaching a wage I did, when at Columbus take a last farewell (as I considived) of my ever dear sister, Comennded her in my mind to the Mercy of God and power of his Grace who has promised to bring her to his Holy Will. Words cannot express the love I bear to her. Tho' the spirit take its flight her virtue and piety will leave this influence behind.

Alexander Burnside
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Carmi Illinois 22nd February 1844

Sir
I herewith send you papers upon which I expect a pension for Mrs Mary Ann Curtis which I think will be found satisfactory. Though there is one circumstance that I presume will require an explanation. I am informed that after her hus-bands death  ballance up to his death was drawn by reporting that there was no widow. The explanation is as follows. old Chauncy Curtis in the latter part of his life became ill to-ward his wife and they separated. Doctor Alva Curtis (now of Cincinnati) took his Mother under his protection to maintain her and when the old man died she refused to have anything to do with drawing the ballance of pension and when Dr. A. Curtis had removed to Richmond in Virginia with his Mother steps were taken by some person to draw the ballance by reporting no widow. Whether any person testified falsely or whether they testified without knowing ^the true state of the case or whether any testimony was given  no not. It was true that there was no Widow in that State nor else where who would take any steps to draw the pension. But it was drawn they say for the benefit of Samuel Curtis her son who is now dead and she is not disposed to censure the person who so mannaged the matter. This circumstance
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will not I presume prejudice her claim now to a pension. They were never divorced but only se-parated for a time before his death. She is a remarkably intelegent pious old Lady though very feeble and under an affliction that rendered it out of the question to attend court and I got Judge Morse to wait on her at her room.

When you can investigate her case you will please make know to me the result you will see certificates from tow of her Brothers as to her marriage. The one who resides in Canada is mistaken ten days as to the date of marriage. This is not surprising when people write from recollection

I am Respectfully
your obt sert
Daniel Hay

James L Edwards
Commissioner of pensions
Washington City
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12.110 R
Vermont
Chauncey Curtis
of Esseely in the state of Vermont who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Sheldon of the Connt. line, for the term of 4 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 16 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 19th of June 1819 and sent to C Ingham Esq Canaan Vermont
Arrears of 4th of March 1819 10ms 15/30 4/31 $85.03
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 48..
$133.03

Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.

Continued

[at top right]
Order to the S H Smith, Oct 14. 1833 to pay the balance due the widow.

[something written very light sideways on right of page]
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3353
Ohio Cincinnati
Mary Ann Curtis widow of Chauncey Curtiss Conn who served in the Revolutionary war, as a priv. of Dgnt.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 100 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of Jany 1849 and sent to A. Curtic Cincinnatti Ohio
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 336 Vol. 4

Reported Jany 25/49
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Chauncey Curtis
Pension papers
1818 & 19
No 1
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[entire document very light, difficult to read]

State of Vermont
Essex Co

in this sixteenth day of April ano domini one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me Oblion Ingham Chief July of the Columbus Court for the County of [illegible] personally appear Chauncey Curtis resident in Manchead in sd County of [illegible] and state of Vermont aged fifty eight years and being by me first duly sworn according to law made the follow-ing declaration in order to obtaine the benefit of the pension mark by the late act of Congress intitled an act to provide for certain pensioners ingaged in the [illegible] service of the United States in the Revolutionary War ^ & has stated that the the said Chauncey Curtis inlisted as a private soldier near the begining of the war a short over amt then inlisted under Capt Asa Bray in a Regiment Commanded by Col Eno or Enos as a [illegible] man in  the Connecticut line of service on  [illegible] and was honorably dis[charged] and in a short time inlisted for Eight months but  [illegible] that arm [illegible] while in said service. He inlisted in to the Continental service of the United States for D[illegible] the for ^in the Connecticut line took ^was in the [illegible] one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight or nine and served a little more then five years in the the last inlistment
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and in the whole a little more than five years and on half which service was performed according to inlistment aginst the common enemy in the Revoltionary War and that ^ at the end of the war he was honorably discharged at the disbanding of the army at Redding in the state of Connecticut in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty three & that his last term of service by an [illegible] an inlistment under Capt Delin of Wethersfield in the State of Connecticut Regiment under the amidish Command of Capt John Web of said Wethersfield in a Regiment of [illegible] commanded by Col Elisha Sheldon which services were performed acording to inlistment aganst the common enemy in the Continental in the service of the United States that he was in the battle in Long Island and other battles of less importance and that his discharge which he served are all lost and cannot be obtained the [illegible] and honorable discharge that the whole time he [illegible] as a private soldier and that he has no other evidence in his [illegible] to [illegible] & his service on aforeseaid than the evidence hear with transmit & that he is in redired circumstance and stand in need of his country for support I work and declared the day and year above mentioned before me

Chauncey Curtis
Oliver Ingham Chief Judge of the County Court of the County of Essex
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I Oliver Ingham Chief Judge of the County Court within & for the County of Essex as aforesaid do certify that it appears to me that to my full sattisfaction that the said Chauncey Curtis did serve as stated in the preseeding Declaration nine moth and more at one turn or period of service of the army of the United States in the Continental Estabblisment in the Revolutionary war aginst the common enemey and that he is a citisin of the United States and that he is [illegible] and in redused circumstances decripped and without any property I now transmit the foundings ^& [illegible] taken and send in the case before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the Directions of the aforementioned act of Congress and that the said Chauncey Curtis actually stands in need of his Country for suport 

Dist Common Essex Co. State Vermont
This 16th day of March 1818
before me Oliver Ingham Chief Judge of the County Court for Essex Co Vermont
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State of New Hampshire
Coos County
Probate Office
Lancaster October 30th 1833

I certify, that satisfactory evidence was adduced to me, to prove that Samuel Curtis of Guildhall Vermont, and Alva Curtis and Martha Tompkins of Richmond Virginia an the an the Heirs and only heirs at law in fee to Chauncey Curtis a soldier in Sheldon's Regiment of Connecticut Light Dragoons, During the War of the Revolution,
given under my hand and seal of office this 30th Day of October Anno Dom 1833
Benja Hunking Judge Prob.


State of Virginia
City of Richmond Ss.
Be it known that on the 13th day of November 1833, before the subscriber, a justice of the peace in and for said city, personally appeared Alva Curtis the attorney named in the two power of attorney given him on this sheet, and made oath that the same was not given him by reason of any sale, transfer or mortgage of the respective titles to the seriss therein authorized to be received by him. Sworn and subscribed this 13th day of November 1833.

Garland Hanes JP
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Know all men by these presents, that I, Martha Tompkins, of the city of Richmond, County of Hennis, and State of Virginia, do hereby constitute and appoint Alva Curtis of the city of Richmond aforesaid, my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name, to receive from the commissioner of teh General Land Office at Washington D.C. the scrip entitling me, the said Martha Tomkins, to County land, in virtue of my heirship to the estate of Chancy Curtis deceased. In testimony whereof I have herunto set my hand and seal th[is] 13th day of November 1833.

Martha Tompkins

State of Virginia
City of Richmond Ss
Be it known that on the 13th day of November 1833, before the subscriber a justice of the peace, in and for said city, personally appeared Martha Tompkins above named, and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be her act and died. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 13th day of November 1833.

Garland Hanes JP

State of Virginia
City of Richmond Ss
I Thomas C. Howard Clerk of the Hastings Court of the city of Richmond, certify that Garland Hanes is a justice of the peace as above, and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this 14th day of November in the year 1833.
Th C Howard Clk
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Know all men by these presents that I Samuel Curtis of Guild hall in the County of Essex and State of Vermont, Do hereby constitute and appoint Alva Curtis of Virginia of Richmond in Henrica County and State of Virginia, my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to receive the scrip entitling me the said Samuel Curtis, to Bounty-land in virtue of my heirship to the estate of Chancy Curtis Deceased. 
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal this 31st day of October 1833

Samuel Curtis.

In presence of L R Webb
Jona M. Mann

State of New Hampshire
Coos Ss
October 31st 1833 Personally appeared Samuel Curtis signer of the foregoing instrument and acknoledged the same to be his voluntary act and deed
Before me Wm Brooks Justice Peace
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[oriented sideways] Rec. Nov 23. 1833

State of New Hampshire
Coos County
Probate Office
Lancaster October 31 1833

I hereby certify that Samuel Curtis whose name is in the foregoing power of attorney personally appeared and acknowledged the same to be his free act and deed
Given under my hand and seal of office at Lancaster the day and year test abovementioned

Benjn Hunking Judge Probate
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Chauncy Curtis
12110
Sept 1814
Con

[on side from another sheet] State of Vermont
[illegible] County
[illegible] County Court June [illegible] 1820
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State of Vermont
Essex County ss
County Court June Term 1820
On this 24th day of June AD 1820
Personally appeared in open Court being 
a Court of Record (having unlimited Jurisdiction
in point of amount with power of fine and 
imprisonment) for the said County, Chauncey Curtis
of Minehead in said County aged fifty nine years
who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth
on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, 
as follows that he enlisted in the
year 1779 for & during the war in the company
of Cavalry Commanded by Capt John Webb in
Sheldon's Regt of Dragoons and that he continued 
in service to the end of the war that he made
a declaration to this service [illegible] on the 18th
day of April AD 1818 and that he was issued a
pension the number of the certificate is 12110

And I the said Declarant to solemnly swear
that I was a resident & Citizen of the United States
on the 18th day of March AD 1818 And that
I have not since that time by gift sale or in
any manner disposed of my property or any
part thereof with intent there be so to [illegible]
to bring myself within the provision
of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide
for certain persons engaged in the land and
naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary 
War passed on the 18th day of
March AD 1818 and that I have not nor has
any person in trust for me any property or
securities contracts or debts due to me nor have
I any income other than what is contained
in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me
subscribed, viz, about thirty two acres of wild
land and Personal Estate is one horse which I purchased 
for the sum of three Dollars, One Cow.
One Swine, one broad ax, one narrow axe, one hal
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one harrow with five Iron teeth, the augers, two chisels
My house hold furniture and but few consisting
of such utensils necessary for upholding life the
whole value of which is not exceeding ten Dollars
My family consists of three members viz myself
and Daughter Margarett Curtis aged twenty one
years, one son William Curtis aged ten years
And that I owe to the amount as much or
more in debts justly due as what I have due to
me
Signed
Chauncey Curtis -
Sworn to and declared in open Court on this 24th
day of June AD 1820 before me
William Gates Clerk of sd [said] Court
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10497
Ohio
Died 3 July 1831
Declaration
Ad Act 7, July 1838
"  " 3 March 1843
$100. for Cav.-
D. Hay 
Carnie
Illinois
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State of Ohio
Hamilton County
On this 10th day of February 1844 before the subscriber
one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in
and for the County aforesaid personally appeared
Mary Ann Curtis a resident of the City of Cincinnati
in the County and State aforesaid aged Seventy five
years who being first duly sworn according to law
doth on her oath make the following declaration in
order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by
the act of Congress passed on the 7th July 1838 -
entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to
certain Widows &c  That she is the Widow of
Chauncy Curtis who was (as she believes) a private
Soldier in the Revolutionary War and served in
the Infantry and Cavalry. She has reason to believe
as much as seven years and six months
in the State of Connecticut and probably in other
States the officers under whom he served she does
not now recollect, for his services aforesaid he was
allowed a pension of Eight dollars a month and
drew his pension in the State of Vermont. She
further declares that she was married to the said
Chauncy Curtis on the 19th day of May (1791) Seventeen 
hundred and ninety one and that her husband the
aforesaid Chauncy Curtis died on the 3rd day of
July Eighteen hundred and thirty one and that
she has remained a Widow ever since that time
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she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service
but the marriage took place previous to the first day
of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four (viz)
at the time above stated - and further that there is no
record evidence in existence to her knowledge which
Shows the date of her marriage
Maryann Curtis
Sworn to and subscribed on the day
and year above written Before me
at her residence in the City of Cincinnati
and I certify he is unable from bodily infirmity to attend Court
Henry Morse
Associate Judge

Doctor Alva Curtis known to me to be a person of
good reputed and credible witness, being duly sworn
according to law doth on his oath declare, that to
the best of his knowledge and belief he is the son of
Chauncey and Mary Ann Curtis - that Chauncey Curtis
his Father was in his life time a pensioner of the
United States at the rate of Eight dollars a month
and drew his pension in the State of Vermont
and that he died on the 3rd day of July 1831. and
that Mary Ann Curtis who has sworn and subscribed
to the foregoing declaration is his widow and has remained
a Widow ever since that time
A. Curtis
Sworn to and subscribed this 18th day
of February 1844
before me
Henry Morse Associate Judge
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The State of Ohio
Hamilton County
I Jacob W. Pratt clerk
of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County
do hereby certify that Henry Morse Esq before whom
the foregoing affidavits were made was at the time of
taking and subscribing the same an associate Judge
of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County
duly commissioned and qualified and that full
faith and credit are due to all his official acts as
such, and also that his signature is Genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
to set my hand and affixed the
Seal of the Court of Common Pleas
at Cincinnati this Tenth day
of February AD. 1841
J. Platt Clerk HCCP
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Revy WIDOW, &c. our
File 6746
Mary A. Curtis
Wid
Chauncy Curtis
Pri. Rev. War
Act: Feby 2" /48
Index:-Vol. A, Page 160
[Arrangement of 1870}
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8550
Ohio
Mary Ann Curtis
widow of Chauncey Curtis
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818
and who died on the 3d July 1831.
of Hamilton Co in the State of Ohio
who was a dragoon in the
commanded by Captain Webb
Reg. commanded by Col Sheldon in 
the Connecticut line for 4 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of 100-- Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of
July 1844 and Sent to D. hay
Carnie Illinois
Arrears  to the 4th of
Semi=annual allowance ending 
$500.00
[ACT July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by H.S.Evans Clerk,
Book D Vol 1 Page 385
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Will Mr Hagner State to what period Chauncey Curtis 
of Vermont was paid under the act of March
18. 1818.
G. Crump
Chauncey Curtis a revely Pensioner on the Roll of Vermont was paid to
the 4 March 1831.
3 aud Office Oct 14 1833.
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Reported
7 mo certificates, Act 7 July
1838 &. 3d March 1843
see letter to P. Agt. July 25 1844

Ohio 5.887.
Mary Ann Curtis
widow of Chauncey Curtis
who was a private of the Dragoons
& pensioner under Act 1818
in the Connecticut line for 4
years & who died on 3d July 1831.
inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
100 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on 
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the
24th day of July 1844
and sent to 
Daniel Hay Esq
Carnie 
Illinois
[Act of march 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1 Page 157
H.S. Evans Clerk.
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STATE OF VERMONT,
Essex County, SS.
I William Gates     Clerk

of the County Court for the County aforesaid, do hereby
certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule
thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the
said Court--and I do further certify that it is the opinion
of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the
property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Sixty
Eight
Dollars and sixty four cents. In testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal
of the said Court, on this 24 day of June
1820.
William Gates Clerk of the County Court
for Essex County
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This certifies that Chancy Curtis, who died
at the house of his son Samuel Curtis in Columbia
New Hampshire July 3d 1831 is the Identical
Chauncy Curtis enrolled as a private Dragoon of
Col Shelden's Regiment of the revolution. he was
Well known to me as a faithful soldier of the
Corps, served there several years and was
regularly Discharged.
Nathaniel Beecher

State of Vermont 
Essex County ⎬Guild hall July 23, 1833 then personally
appeared Nathaniel Beecher signer to the
foregoing Certificate & made solemn oath
that the same contains the whole truth &
nothing but the truth
before me John Dodge Justice Peace
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State of New hampshire}
Coos County}
I hereby certify that John Dodge
before whom the foregoing
Instrument is executed is a Magistrate Duly
qualified and that the certificates appear to be
Genuine [illegible]October 31st 1833
Benja Hunkins Judge Probate
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Single
Daniel Hay Esquire
Carme Illinois
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I Samuel M Burnside of Worcester, in the County of
Worcester, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Counsellor at
Law, aged sixty years, do testify and say, that Mrs Mary
Anne Curtis of Cincinnati, or the State of Ohio is my sister;-
from my earliest recollections till the time of her marriage, on
the nineteenth day of May, seventeen hundred and ninety
one, I lived with her in my father's house, in
Northumberland, County of Coos and State of New Hampshire- Sher
was married, on the evening of that day to Chauncey Cuntis,
at my father's house in my presence - Several
circumstances render that event perfectly fresh in my mind, the
most impressive of which is, it was the first marriage [illegible]
many I had ever witnessed - In the winter of 1791-2 and
1792-3,  I lived in her family, her husband being generally
at home-- and I have ever since, visited her occasionally,
as often as my situation in life would admit, and have
ever had an unreserved, uninterrupted correspondence
with her by letter, since I have been capable of writing-
Her husband, Chauncey Curtis has been dead about
twenty years.-The Revolutionary war closed before I was
born; I therefore know nothing personally of his Military
services during our contest for independence-of
such service, when I was a lad, and a young man
I often heard him speak When recounting his
hardships as a soldier of Washington, I have heard
him say
with desperation, that when paid the balance of his wages
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on leaving the army, he was obliged to expend it all,
being $80 continental money, for tow cloth enough
to clothe him on his journey home"-- Doctor Alva
Curtis of [illeligble], in whose family Mrs Curtis resides
, is her son- I knew him from his birth, during the
first four or five years of his life, but afterwards
, only as an occasion a correspondent, except
that I passed three or four days in his family with his
mother, at Columbus, Ohio in November 1839-
Saml M Burnside
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester 
On this second day of August 1843, the
aforesaid deponent was examined, and cautioned, and
sworn according to law to the deposition aforesaid, by him
subscribed-- taken at the request of Mrs Mary Anne Curtis
 and to be filed in the department of War at the
seat of Government of the United States of America, on
support of her application for a pension. The said [illegible]
 is well known to me, and is a competent, and credible
witness, according to the provisions of the laws of this Commonwealth
Before me, J M. Button Jus. Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester ss- I. Jos. G. Kendall Clerk
of the Supreme Judicial Court within
aforesaid County, certify that Ira M. Barton
within named, is a Justice of the Peace
within & for said County, duly qualified, &
that the signature of his name within
written, is in his own hand writing-
In witness whereof I have hereto set my name &
affixed seal of said Court at Worcester,
this third day of August A.D. 1843-
Jos G Kendall, Clerk
Daniel Hay Esqr-
Dr. Sir My deposition has been necessarily delayed
on account of the absence of the Clerk from town
SM Burnside
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Chauncey Curtis
Private
Ghildons Cont
Regiment
149 4 years
dre 10 april 1818
on [illegible]
admitted
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State of Vermont }
Essex County}
I William Yates
Clerk of the County
Court within and for
the County of Essex &
State of Vermont, Do
hereby certify that the
Hand Oliver Ingham Esq
whose name is affixed to the [illegible] declaration
[illegible] No 1-Depose [illegible] No 2 and [illegible]
No 3 was [illegible] the respective days of the
date thereof a Judge of the County Essex
within and for said County of Essex
acting under the authority of the State 
of Vermont and that his name Hereto
affixed is his own proper signature-
and that due faith credit are and ought
to be given to his attestations-
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
subscribed my name and affixed the
Seal of the County of Essex at Simsbury
in said County this 5th day of April
Anno Domini 1819-
William Yates Clerk
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We, the undersigned Justices of the peace and
Selectmen, in and for the Town of Minehead
In Essex County and State of Vermont do
certify, that we are neighbours to Chauncy
Curtis; and have been so for many years
and we have no doubt but that he is
Poor and in reduced circumstances and
that he has always been reputed as a
Meritorious Soldier of the Revolutionary War
Daniel Holbrook
Peter Mills
Justices of the Peace

Arad Silves
Joseph Stevens
Samuel Brooks
Selectmen
-
Minehead January 12 1819
I certify that the foregoing persons
are the two Justices of the Peace and three
Selectmen of said town
Oliver Ingham
only as aforesaid
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Chancy Curtis
No 1986.
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DEPARTMENT OF WAR.

Regulations for the heirs of Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army, who
were slain by the enemy, or who have died since the war, and have not received
land from the United States.
By an Act of Congress of the 16th September, 1776, it is provided, that the Officers and Soldiers who
engaged for, and continued to serve during the war, or until discharged by Congress, and the heirs of such
Officers and Soldiers as shall be slain by the enemy, shall receive land in proportion to their rank.
N. B. Those who engaged for three years, or for any other period than during the war, or who died
of sickness, fatigue, or casualty, are not entitled to land from the United States.
The following declaration (and enclosed blank form of heirship) must be filled up and signed by the
proper authorities:

District of Columbine
County of Washington
I, Alva Curtis one of the heir at law of Chauncey Curtis deceased,
do, upon oath, testify and declare, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that Chauncey Curtis
did enter the service in 1777, for the term of during the war 
and served as a private dragoon in the Regiment No. ___ under the command of Colonel 
Sheldon of the Connecticut line; and that he continued
in the service aforesaid until the close of the war
I further declare, that I have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to Chauncey
Curtis on the part of the United States; nor do I believe that he ever received
it, or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever: 
Alva Curtis
[this section Xed out]
Know all men by these presents, that I ______ aforesaid,
do hereby constitute and appoint _____ to be my true
and lawful attorney, for me in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the
United States, a warrant for the quantity of Land due to me as aforesaid; and my attorney is
hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorney
under him, for the special purposes above expressed.
Attest.
[end Xed out section]

Personally appeared the above named Alva Curtis the subscriber
to the foregoing declaration, and made oath to the same,
Sworn and subscribed this 14th day of October 1833
James Ord-Justice of the Peace

In testimony that the above written _____ was a magistrate
authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgements, &c., in the State of _____
at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have here
unto affixed the county seal, and subscribed my name and quality, at ____
this_____ day of ______ 18
C. Clerk, &c.
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and four [illegible] belonging at Farmington
town also in my Neighborhood and Removed him
about five miles from the [illegible] Chauncey
Curtis on his back [illegible] and being [illegible]
discovered the to Refugees and the [illegible]
and the [illegible] Benjamin Jorom Jr. Curtis Ran
toward  them and with a [illegible] 
[illegible] 
with out their arms Curtis pursued and
as they leapt over the fence he sd Curtis
[illegible] at and but one of them with his [illegible] 
Sword and Returned with the said Jordan and
the four others this Curtis told me [illegible] 
[illegible] Col. Sheldon also and the
said Benjamin Jorom Jr. also time and
again has restated the story to me said Jooron's
Father gave said Curtis a present of a horse 
or something then to that amount which sd
Curtis and Jorom [illegible]  me in Farmington
when they were all returned home
This was will believe and [illegible] 
[illegible]  in my hearing & there no doubt
of the truth of it I have also always considered 
said Curtis to be a man of truth 
[illegible]  and have always been a friend to his 
country and he is a worthy man and a friend to the [illegible] of the war and was
out as I was informed and no doubt true about one
years in the late war with my son who was 
at or near [illegible]  four corners [illegible] 
my sons name was [illegible]  Beecher he was shot
by the Enemy and died in the Late war
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said Benjamin Jorom Jr. also time and
again has restated the story to me said Joron's
Father gave said Curtis a present of a horse 
or something then to that amount which sd
Curtis and Jorom [illegible]  me in Farmington
when they were all returned home
This was will believe and [illegible] 
[illegible]  in my hearing & there no doubt
of the truth of it I have also always considered 
said Curtis to be a man of truth 
[illegible]  and have always been a friend to his 
country and he is a worthy man and a friend to the [illegible] of the war and was
out as I was informed and no doubt true about one
years in the late war with my son who was 
at or near [illegible]  four corners [illegible] 
my sons name was [illegible]  Beecher he was shot
by the Enemy and died in the Late war
and further the deponent saith not
Nathan Beecher
Decr 30 1818

Sworn to before
Oliver Ingham Judge
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I Nathan Beecher Resident in Canaan in
the County of Essex and State of Vermont of
Lawful age testify & say that with the
exception of 6 or 7 years, I have been well acquainted
with Chauncey Curtis from his youth was a neighbor of
him and the family to which he belonged in
Farmington in the State of Connecticut and well
for that he was engaged as a soldier in the
Revolutionary war against the common enemy in 
the Continental Establishment near the
whole of that war that he went [illegible]
Enlistment I will knew that he Served there
three years or more but how much more 
I can't tell in Colonel Sheldons Regiment
of horsemen and that he was a faithful
[illegible] of that Regiment
Uncommonly active and faithful [illegible]
[illegible] I have many times
seen Col Sheldon and the other officers
of that Regiment say that he was worthy
to have [illegible] a commission
I well remember one distinguished act of his
at Rye about 25 mile from N York five
Refugees [illegible] Took Ben Jorom Jr
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[illegible]
Hon J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D. C.
[faint illegible writing]
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State of Ohio
Hamilton County ⎬ ss
On this twentieth day of October 
in the year of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and forty eight, personally appeared 
before the subscriber a Justice of the
peace of the City of Cincinnati and County
and State aforesaid Mary Ann Curtis a resident
of said City, County and State, aged
eighty years, who being first duly sworn 
according to law doth, on her oath, make the
following declaration, in order to obtain the
benefits of the provision made by the act of
Congress, passed on the 2d February 1848, granting 
pensions to widows of persons who served
dining the Revolutionary War. That she is
the Widow of Chaunecy Curtis who was a
private soldier of the Connecticut troops
during the whole Revolutionary war, and
received a pension from the Government
to the year 1831. July 3d when he died. That
she is the same identical person who drew
a pension at the rate of $80 per annum, under the act of Congress of the
third day of March 1843 and of another
act passed June 17th 1844, on account of
the same services, entitled an act to continue 
the pensions of certain widows, that she
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has not intermarried but continues to be a
widow,
Mary Ann X Curtis her mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day
year above written
before me the subscriber
to whom the affiant is personally known
Ebenezer Harrison Justice of the peace
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STATE OF OHIO,  ss.
Hamilton County, 
I, EDWARD C. ROLL, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County
of Hamilton, do hereby certify that Ebenezer Harrison Esq
before whom the affidavit of Mary Ann Curtis hereto attached-
appears to have been made was
at the time of taking and subscribing the same, an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the
County of Hamilton, duly commissioned and qualified, and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts as such and that the signature of the said
Ebenezer Harrison thereto is genuine-

In Testimony Whereof, I, the Clerk aforesaid
have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal
of the said Court in Cincinnati in the said
County, this 20th day of October
A.D. 1840
Edward C Roll, H. C. C. P.
J. McMaster  Deputy
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Hon J.L. Edwards
you will perceive
that the signature of Mary Ann Curtis who wrote
a tolerable hand when she first applied for
a pension through Judge Hay of Illinois in '43
is now only a mark (×) She has become
so feeble that the no longer guides the pen
so as to write her name distinctly. Her
memory also having failed to a considerable
extent, & several of her friend having died since
that day, she is unable to give a very full
affidavit. She refers to the one above alluded
to, which is doubtless reserved in your office
I am aware that my father C. Curtis served
during the whole Revolutionary war, and some
time in that of '12 to '15, and that he received
a pension, and his his hands, and that
my mother has received a pension on his
account since '43, with arrears before that
date, As she is, and will be, needy, I trust
the order will be sent to our pension agent
to pay her while she lives, which cannot be
much longer in all human probability.
Very respectfully,
A. Curtis
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51-
12 - 5 - 41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
NAME Curtis, Daniel
GRADE Private
LINE Connecticut
WARRANT
NUMBER 5562
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED Feb. 5, 1790
to not shown-
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.