Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 27661, John Wadleigh, N.H.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
N.H.

Wadleigh, John
Batchelder, Martha

NUMBER
W. 27661
B.L. Wt. 3546 issued Nov. 28. 1789
B.L. Wt. 42.-60-55:

Former widow

CONTENTS
This woman applied for Bounty Land for her last husband William Bachelder, N.H.
B.L.Rej claim 273.093.-55.
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2791
New Hampshire Rolls
John Wadleigh Private
New Hampshire line 6 years
(In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War)
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of Eight Dollars per month to commence on the 11th of April 1812 Certificate of Pension issued the 23rd of Sept 1812 and sent to Dan Waldron (unk PVT?) Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas Stafford Cty, NH Arrears to 4th of Sept (Illegible) 38, Semi-anually ending 4th March 1819.   48. $86 
{Revolutionary Claim Act 18th March,1818}

Dead.  Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 April 1838(illegible) 4th March - 21 March, 1826  Agent notified 17 March 1843
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2248
New Hampshire   Martha Batchelder  widow of John Wadleigh NH who served in the Revolutionary war as a Priv
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 90(?) Dollars per annum, to commence the 3d February, 1853
Certificate of Pension issued th 4th day of Oc 1853 and sent to J Elkins Meredith Bridge NH
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under  act February 3, 1853, Page 13 vol W
1863 Oct 8 Pension Agent Portsmouth
(Reg 36632/ 273093
(Ad 42 ?)- 60 acres
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36.632
273.093

( Aer Mar 3/55 [March 3 1835]
Due Apr 3/55 [April 3 1835]

Martha Bachelder
Formerly wid [Widow] of John wadleigh [crossed out: Private]

Sergt:
[crossed out: Capt] [crossed out: Ent]
[crossed out: Col] [crossed out: Dis]

War of the Revolution
Capt: [Captain] McClary.
Col: [colonel] Scammel.
[written diagonally over text: NH No. 42 Issd [Issued] Sept 29 1825]

U.S. Pensioner
N.H. Contl. [New Hampshire Continental] Line

Admit: 60 acres. aug: 20/55 [August 20, 1855]
Boytow

[Rdev??]

L.D. Stevens
Concord NH

Sets D.Burnham, Nov:29/55 [November 29, 1855]
NH
[Feby or Revy??] 53-No 2248
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36632
Martha Bachelder
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Form of Declaration To be made by the Widow of a deceased person who has not had a land warrant.
State of New Hampshire, County of Belknap
On this 27th day of March AD 1855 personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid, Martha Bachelder aged eighty two years, a resident of Meredith in the State of New Hampshire, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of John Wadleigh, deceased, who was a private soldier in the Revolutionary War that she is now in reciept of a pension under the act of February 3rd, 1853 AD and her name is on the Portsmouth Agency for the amount of ninety six dollars per annum, that for proof of the herein stated, she refers to evidence filed in Pension Office in support of her claim under the aforesaid Act. She further states that she was married to the said John Wadleigh in Gilmanton on the Nineteenth of March 1804 by one Richard Martin, a Clergyman and her name before said marriage was Martha Woodman, that her said husband died at Meredith on or about  the twenty third day of 1826 and that she is now a widow. She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled to under the "act approved March 3, 1855
Signature of Martha Bachelder
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  State of New Hampshire
                  Secretary's Office, Concord
                                  March 31,1855
I hereby certify, that as the date of the 
annexed attestation Hugh Blaisdell was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Belknap in the said State, duly commissioned and qualified; and to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith are and ought to be given,
in and out of Court.
In testimony whereof, I have affixed the Seal of the State, the date above written. 
Signature of John L. Hadley Secretary of State
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We, Bartlett Hill and Amasa Horn, residents of Meredith in the State of New Hampshire, upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing Declaration was signed and acknowledged by
Martha Bachelder in our presence, and that we believe, from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
(Signatures): Bartlett Hill and Amasa Horn

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
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4
Town Clerk; Certificate
of marriage - 
Ira A. Eastman
the Magistrate, having
been a member of Congress
& now one of the Justices
of the Superior Court
the Clerks, Certificate
is deemed [illegible]
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The following is an extract from the records of the town of Gilmanton in the County of Belknap and State of New Hampshire

"John Wadleigh and Widow Sally Harvey both
of Gilmanton were married March thirteenth in 
the year one thousand eight hundred and four
by Elder Richard Martin"

I hereby certify that the above is a true copy
of the record with the exception of the date, which is expressed on record in fair legible figures as follows. "March 13, 1804"

Alfred Prescott Town Clerk of Gilmanton

I, Alfred Prescott above named depose and say that I hold the office of town Clerk in the town of Gilmanton, in the County of of Belknap and State of New Hampshire and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town of Gilmanton with the exception above named as certified by me

Alfred Prescott, Town Clerk of Gilmanton

State of New Hampshire
Belknap Ss. June 9, 1853}
Personally appearing of Alfred Prescott the above named who is a credible witness made under oath that the above affidavit by him Subscribed is true

Before me Ira A. Eastman Jus. [Justice] Peace &c [Etc.]
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State of Newhampshire [New Hampshire]
County of Strafford Ss
}

On this 11th day of April A.D. [Annon Domini] 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of common pleas for said [erased or written over: id] County personally appears John Wadleigh aged sixty three years resident in the Town of Gilmanton county and state aforesaid who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the [crossed out: the] provision made by the late 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

That he the said John Wadleigh sometime in the forepart of the year A.D. 1777 enlisted in the Town of Exeter in said state in the aforesaid service for during the war and entered the company commanded by Captain Michael McClarey and regiment commanded by Colo [Colonel] Alexander Scammel New-Hampshire line that he continued to serve in said service of the United States in said revolutionary war on the continental [possibly crossed out: establishment] from the aforesaid time of his enlistment until the 7th day of June 1783 when he was discharged at Newburgh
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In the State of NewYork [New York] that he was in the battle of Yorkton [Yorktown] in Virginia in 1781 and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.

Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid_

William Badger

I William Badger Judge &c. [Et Cetera] as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said John Wadleigh did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months on the Continental establishment and that from my own knowledge he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress_

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and have caused the seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed this 27th day of July 1818_

William Badger

Attest Dan Waldrone Clerk of the Court of Com. [Common] Pleas for said County of Strafford
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Bal

Harding

[Common??] A with Parties

[Stamp with oval border] DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR PENSION OFFICE APR [APRIL] 22 1870
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J.M.B.

Department of the Interior,

PENSION OFFICE

Washington, D. C., Apl. [April] 9th, 1870

Sir:

This Office respectfully requests you to furnish it with the following information:

Mrs Martha Batchelder widow of John [Wadleigh], a Soldier in the Revolutionary War, is reported as living within the delivery of your Office.  Was she living January 1, 1870? No

If not, when did she die? Dec [December] 22, 1868 [illegible] Sept 4/66 [September 4, 1866]

With whom does (or did) she live? Rob Norton Greenland N.H [New Hampshire]

Or, who provides for her support and manages her business affairs?

Relationship of either of the above?

Can you give date of her birth?

If not, approximate her age, [a&e??] says 89 but I think she was older

What is her physical condition?

Immediate replies are requested.

Respectfully

H. Van Aernam
Commissioner.

John Bachelder, Postmaster
North Hampton
Rockingham Co., N. Hamp

Apr 20, 1870

I certify that the replies given to the above inquiries are true to my own personal knowledge, or are established by the statement of parties known to me to be credible witnesses.

John Bachelder Jr
Postmaster.

Portsmouth 2a [check mark]
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204

John Wadleigh

2791

Con

March 1819
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To the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting at Gilford within and for the County of Strafford and State of New-Hamsphire, on the third Tuesday of July, 1820.

John Wadleigh aged Sixty five years, resident in Gilmanton in said County, comes into court, and in pursuance of an act of Congress passed on the 1st day of May, 1820, brings with him, and in his proper person exhibits to said Court a Schedule by him subscribed, containing his whole Estate and Income -- his necessary clothing and bedding excepted -- as follows :--

One Cow, two small pigs, two pairs old hand irons shovel & tongs, one pretty good table, one old kitchen table, six dining chairs, 3 kitchen chairs, one light stand, one loom and apparatus, one looking glass, two old washtubs tow old chests, one old Case drawers, one old desk, one case knives & fork, four common tea spoons, on four pail kettle, one pot, one disk kettle, on tea kettle, on frying pan, one baking Kettle, old crockery, on tin tea pot, one pitch fork, one very old axe, one old hoe, one Iron Shovel

I am owning more than one hundred dollars and have not any thing due me

John Wadleigh


And the said John Wadleigh in pursuance as aforesaid produceth to said Court the following oath by him duly taken and subscribed :-- viz.

I John Wadleigh do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 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 thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions 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, 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 hereto annexed and by me subscribed.

John Wadleigh

And the said John Wadleigh doth here in Court further declare an oath, that he served in the revolutionary war as follows, viz.

In Captain Michael McLarys Company in Col [Colonel] Alexander Scammels Regiment, enlisted 1777 and served during the war_
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That the date of his original declaration in order to obtain a pension is Apr. [April] 11. 1818 and the number of his pension certificate is 2791 :-- That his occupation is that of a Labourer [laborer] but unable to do any work wholly confined with palsy :-- That the number and names of his family residing with him, and their ages and capacities to contribute to their support, are as follows, viz.

wife Martha aged 49 years healthy_ Children Sophia aged 8 years, health_ Larry aged six years Healthy_ Nathan aged three years healthy

Wherefore he prays the opinion of the said Court as to the value of the property contained in the said schedule, and that the same, together with a copy of the premises, be duly certified to the Secretary of War.

Sworn and declared before the said court the 18th day of July 1820. } John Wadleigh

Attest, A. Peirce, CLERK.


STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE........STRAFFORD SS.

AT a Court of Common Pleas holden at Gilford within and for the County of Strafford and State of New-Hampshire, on the 18th day of July 1820 before

DANIEL M. DURRELL, Esquire, Chief Justice, and 
VALENTINE SMITH, and
SAMUEL QUARLES,
} Associate Justices of said Court.

The aforesaid schedule and oath and the above declaration duly subscribed and sworn by the said John Wadleigh having been by him established in person, and presented to the court, and the same being seen and considered, it is the opinion of said Court that the value of the property contained in said schedule is thirty dollars and fifty cents.  Wherefore the Court order that a copy of the premises, together with the proceedings thereon, be duly certified to the Secretary of War.

Attest, A. Peirce, CLERK.


STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE........STRAFFORD SS.

I, ANDREW PEIRCE, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Strafford, being a court of record, do certify that the foregoing schedule and oath and the declaration annexed, with the proceedings and opinion of the court thereon, are true copies from the Records and files of said court.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, the 18th day of July 1820.

A. Peirce, CLERK
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1.
Declaration of Martha Batchelder for a Pension under the 2d Sec. of Act of February 3, 1853
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of February 3d 1853.

On this nineteenth day of July, A.D. [annon domini] 1853, personally appeared before me the Subscriber, Judge of Probate in and for the County of Belknap in the State of New Hampshire, in open Court, Martha Batchelder of Meredith in said County of Belknap, aged eighty years, who being sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the 2d section of the Act of Congress, passed the third day of February, A.D. 1853; that she is the Widow of John Wadleigh, late of Gilmanton, and afterwards of Meredith in said County, where he resided at the time of his decease, who was a revolutionary pensioner; that said John Wadleigh drew a pension of ninety six dollars per year, and was paid at the Pension Agency at Portsmouth in said State of New-Hampshire, in proof of which she refers to papers on file in the Pension Office._

She further declares that she was married to the said John Wadleigh on the thirteens day of March A.D. 1804; that her name, at the time of her marriage with said John Wadleigh, was Martha or Patty Harvey, by which latter name she was generally known and called; that her husband, the aforesaid John Wadleigh died on or about the twenty third day of March, A.D. 1826; that she was not married to him prior to the second of January, eighteen hundred.

She further declares that after the decease of her husband, the aforesaid John Wadleigh, she was married to William Batchelder, who died on the first day of June, A.D. 1846, and that she has been a widow ever since the decease of the said William Batchelder, and is now a widow_

Martha Batchelder X her mark

Attest Warren Lovell

Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above written, before
Warren Lovell Judge of Probate

State of New-Hampshire
Belknap County
} Ss.

I. O.A.J. Vaughn, Register of
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Probate in and for the County of Belknap aforesaid, do certify that Warren Lovell is Judge of Probate in and for said County, and that the foregoing signature is his.
Given under my hand and seal of the said court of Probate this nineteenth day of July A.D. 1853
O. A. J. Vaughan
Register
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November 15, 1937
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

John Wadleigh,W.27661
BA-J/MCS


Miss Ruth Chase
93 Lenox Avenue
East Orange, New Jersey

Dear Madam:

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, W. 27661, based upon the Revolutionary War service of John Wadleigh.

The date and place of his birth and the names of his parents were not given.

He enlisted at Exeter, New Hampshire, in the forepart of 1777, served as sergeant in Captain Michael McClary's company in Colonel Alexander Scammell's New Hampshire regiment, was in the siege of Yorktown and was discharged June 7, 1783. He later served as first sergeant in Captain Joseph Swasy's First Company in the Fourth Regiment of New Hampshire Militia and his sergeant's warrant was dated May 25, 1787.

On account of service in the Revolutionary War, John Wadleigh received Warrant 3546 for one hundred acres of bounty land and the warrant was issued November 28, 1789.

He married at Gilmanton, New Hampshire, March 13, 1804, Martha or Patty Harvey or Woodman and she was a widow at time of marriage. The marriage record at Gilmanton stated that John Wadleigh married Patty Harvey but she stated in 1855 that her name before this marriage was Martha Woodman.

John Wadleigh was allowed pension on his application executed April 11, 1818, at which time he was sixty-three years of age and was living in Gilmanton, New Hampshire.
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In 1820 John Wadleigh stated that his wife, Martha, was aged forty-nine years and referred to the following children: Sophia aged eight, Larry aged six, and Nathan aged three years.

John Wadleigh died March 21 or 23, 1826, in Meredith, New Hampshire.

After the death of John Wadleigh, his widow, Martha, married William Bachelder or Batchelder who, she stated, died June 1, 1846.

On account of the Revolutionary War service of John Wadleigh, Martha Bachelder or Batchelder was allowed pension on her application executed July 19, 1853, at which time she was was living in Meredith, Belknap County, New Hampshire, and she stated she was aged eighty years. On account of the Revolutionary War service of John Wadleigh, she also received Warrant 42 for sixty acres of bounty land under the Act of March 3, 1855.

Martha Bachelder or Batchelder died December 22, 1868, and at the time of her death she was living with Rob Norton in Greenland, New Hampshire.

In 1870 John Bachelder, Jr., of North Hampton, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, stated that his father (name not given) provided for his grandmother (referring to Martha ) until a few years before her death and that at the time of death she was living with her daughter (name not given).

The papers in this claim contain no further data relative to the family of William Bachelder or Batchelder.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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Revy [Revolutionary]

WIDOW, &c. [et cetera]

File No. [Number] 27,661
Martha Batchelder
wid of John Wadleigh
Priv. Revon.

Act Feb. [February] 3, 1823 [or 1822]
Index : Vol. 1, Page 42

[Arrangement of 1870.]


1937, Nov. [November] 15, hist. [history] to Miss Ruth Chase. See corres. [corrections or corresponding]  in Rev. clm [claim] Wm. [William] Bachelder B. L. Req. 273093-55

W.C.S.
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BY HIS EXCELLENCY
GEORGE WASHINGTON, ESQ;
General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America.

THESE are to CERTIFY that the Bearer hereof Sarjent [Sergeant] John Wadleigh in the Newhampshire [New Hampshire] Regiment, having faithfully served int he United States six years and being inlisted [enlisted] for the War only is hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army.

GIVEN at HEAD-QUARTERS the 27th June. 1783

Go Washington

By HIS EXCELLENCY'S Command,
J Trumbull Jun [Junior] Sy [Secretary]

REGISTERED int he Books of the Regiment,
J Boynton Adjutant,

THE above Sarjt John Wadleigh has been honored with the BADGE OF MERIT for six years Years faithful Service.

Geo [George] Reed Lt. Col. Comd [Lieutenant Colonel Commander]
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HEAD-QUARTER, June 7 [th or /8] 1783.

THE within, CERTIFICATE shall not avail the Bearer as a Discharge, until the Ratification of the definitive Treaty of Peace; previous to which Time, and until Proclamation thereof shall e made, He is to be considered as being on Furlough.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

Sarjt [sergeant] Wadleigh

[stamp with hexagon border] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES

John Wadleigh
N.H. [New Hampshire] W.27661
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42

60 acres
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[stamp with circle border] LACONIA N.H. NOV [November] [23??]

Martha Batchelder

ad [admitted] 60 acres - W [warrant] 42
53-1957

B Boynton

[stamp] FREE

J. Minot
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington D.C.

D.Burnham
Nov: 29/55
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Pen. 3d/53.  N.H. [New Hampshire]
Boynton
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[blank page]
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Pension Office.
30th Sept; [September] 1853.

Sir,

Please Certify the time to which the within named pensioner was paid, on the date of his death.

Very Respectfully,
J. Cole
For the Commission.

John Wadleigh, at 1818, $8 p. [per] month._
Died 21st March 1826
Paid to his death.

Fr Burt
Auditor

Francis Burt, Esqr. [Esquire]
[Hime??] Auditor. [NEArmy??] }
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Jany [January] 26, 1853

#2980

Appl. [Application or Appeal] of Martha Batchelder, widow of John Wadleigh
Belknap Co. [County] , N.H. [New Hampshire]

Act 3d Feb. [February] 1853
$96- per an [annum]
Com. Feb: 3,7853

Rev. [Revolution]

m19

Jere. [Jeremy] Elkins,
Meredith Bridge
N. Hampshire

death 1826

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTEROR
PENSION OFFICE, OFFICIAL BUSINESS

Commissioners
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Weirs Bridge NH [New Hampshire] April 14

Hon [Honorable] J Minot Commr [Commissioner] of Pensions
Washington City D.C.

27309B
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[stamp with circle border] GILFORD N.H. JUL 23 [New Hampshire] [July]

Hon. Loren P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.

1853

E Ms Cole
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North Hampton
Ap [April] 14, 1870

To the Com [commissioner]
My Father Provided for My Gran Mother [grandmother] till a few years before she died.  She had been with her Daughter a few years, with whom she died.
She had a support out of Our Estate left by My Gran Father [grandfather].
Any further information I can give, will cheerfully be given

Yours
J Batchelder Jr
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Affidavits of Ephraim Mallard & George L. Sibley
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I Ephraim Mallard of Gilford in the County of Belknap and State of New Hampshire depose and say that I am personally well acquainted with Martha Batchelder of Meredith and have been acquainted with her about forty years last past; that she is the widow of John Wadleigh deceased, a revolutionary pentioner; that at the time of her Marriage with said Wadleigh she was a widow and generally known by the name of the widow Patty Harvey; that the names of Martha and Patty were then and are sometimes now considered synonymous and that those bearing the name of Martha were then and are sometimes now called by the name of Patty.

I further depose and say that her husband the aforsaid John Wadleigh died sometime in March AD 1826 and that I was well acquainted with the time and know that he was a revolutionary Pentioner--  that his widow the said Martha Batchelder after the decease of the said Wadleigh was married to William Batchelder who died on or about June the first 1846 that since the decease of the said William Batchelder the said Martha Batchelder has continued a widow and is now a widow  that she now resides at Meredith in the County of Belknap and is the widow of the identical John Wadleigh above named
Ephraim Mallard

State of New Hampshire   )
County of Belknap            )  ss:

On this 23d day of July, A.D. 1853.
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before me the subsccriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared the above named Ephraim Mallard and made oath in the form of law, that the above affidavit by him subscribed is in his belief, true--

I further certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Ephraim Mallard and that he is one of the most highly esteemed citizens of the town in which he resides, that he has frequently been elected a member of the State Legislature, and is entitled to full credit and that I have no interest in this claim.
Before me,
Jos. P. Atkinson   Justice of the Peace

I George L. Sibley of Meredith in the County of Belknap and State of New Hampshire, depose & say that I am personally acquainted with the above named Martha Batchelder, and have been acquainted with her for forty or more years last past, and know that the facts stated in the preceding affidavit of Ephraim Mallard are substantially true.
G.L. Sibley

State of New Hampshire      )
County of Belknap               ) ss.

On this 23d day of July, A.D. 1853, before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, the above named George L. Sibley personally appeared, and made oath in the
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form of law, that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true--I further certify that I am personally acquainted with the said George L. Sibley and know him to be a man of high respectability, undoubted truth and veracity and that he is entitled to full credit
Before me
Jos. P. Atkinson  Justice of the Peace

State of New Hampshire
Belknap  fs.

I Samuel c. Baldwin, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said county, hereby certify that Joseph P. Atkinson Esq before whom the annexed deposition were taken and who had thereto subscribed his name was, at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn and that his signature thereto is genuine.  I further certify that Ephraim Mallard and George L. Sibley are well known to me and that their reputation for truth and veracity is unquestioned.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed the seal of said Court this twenty-third day of July A.D. 1853
S.C. Baldwin  Clerk

[illegible seal affixed to the left of the above paragraph]
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Mr Harriman will answer

JM
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Laconia N.H.  Nov'r 26, 1855

J. Minot Esqr.

Dear Sir

Martha Batchelder of Meredith has obtained a land Warrant for sixty acres of land on an account of her former husband having been in the War of the revolution--she wishes me to write you and inquire the reason why she was not intitled to one hundred and sixty acres of land instead of sixty acres  the No of her land warrant is 42...dated 29th of Sept'r 1855.  please write me on the subject

Yours Most Respectfully
Daniel Burnham

Hon J. Minot
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3.
Warrant as 1st Sergeant of the 1st Company of Foot of the 4th Regiment of N. H. [New Hampshire] Militia
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John Wadleigh
N.H. [New Hampshire] W.27661
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State of New Hampshire

To Mr. John Wadley

Greeting

By virtue of the Power and Authority in and by his Excellency's Commifsion to me granted to be Captain of the first Company of Foot in the fourth Regiment of Militia in the State aforesaid; I do (by these Presents) reposing especial trust and Confidence in your Fidelity, Courage and good Conduct; constitute and appoint you the Said Wadley to be first Serjeant in Said Company.  You are therefore carefully and dilligently to dicharge the duty of a Serjeant in leading, ordering & exercifing said Company in Arms, both Inferior Officers and Soldiers & to keep them in good order & discipline hereby commanding them to obey you as their Serjeant; and yourself to observe and follow such orders & injunctions as you shall receive from me or any your superior officers according to military Rules pursuant to the trust repofed in You

Given under my Hand & Seal at Exeter:
May 25th 1787   Joseph Swasey
Capt 1st Company Foot & Regiment Militia
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Brief in the case of Martha Batchelder Former Wid. of Jno. Wadleigh.

Belknap County and State of N.H.
act  3d Feby., 1853.

Claim.  ("original,")  [or "for increase" stricken out]

Proof exhibited. (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls?  If either, state the substance.
Husband was a pensioner under the act of 18" March, 1818 & cont'd.

Recom evidence of Marriage

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim?  If so, what?

Jere Elkins, Esqr.
Meredith Bridge.  N.H.
Name and residence of Agent

S.C. Boynton
Examining Clerk.
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Hon. Loren P. Waldo,
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington City, D.C.
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Meredith Bridge, N.H.
July 23, 1853

Hon. Loren P. Waldo           )
Commissioner of Pensions  )

Sir,

I enclose to you the application of Martha Batchelder, Widow of John Wadleigh, a Revolutionary Pensioner, now deceased for a pension--I have endevoured to make the papers complete and to give to the office as little trouble as possible--

The said Wadleigh drew a pension of only $96.00 per year.  I found among his widow's papers, his warrant as 1st Sergeant, which I enclose.--By the Act of June 7, 1832 ["the" stricken out] each officer, non-commissioned officer and private is entitled to receive his full pay according to his rank in the line.--I conclude, therefore, that at the time said Wadleigh was pensioned, he did not show that he held any higher rank in the line, than that of a private, and that his widow is entitled to an arrearage of pension, independent of her claim to a pension under the Act of February 3, 1853.

She is also entitled to Bounty Land, which said Wadleigh in his life time never received nor his widow or any one else since his decease.--He served, as I am
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informed, to the end of the Revolutionary war.--She, therefore, prays that such Bounty Land as she may be found entitled to may be allotted to her.--If a more formal application for her Bounty Land is necessary, and further Power to her Attorney, than is contained in the accompanying papers, may I ask to be instructed as to what further is necessary.--

The Certificate of the Town Clerk of Gilmanton is sworn to before Hon. Ira A. Eastman, one of the Judges of the Superior Court of this State, and late a Member of Congress.--I thought that the Clerk's certificate of his holding the office of a magistrate was unnecessary.--

I have the honor to be very respectfully,
Your Obt. serv't.
Jere Elkins
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GIDEON, PRINTER

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE.
March 9th, 1843.

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the 3d section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, The widow of John Wadleigh, dec'd, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Portsmouth, N.H. Agency, at the rate of Eight Dollars ["and Cents" stricken out] per month ["annum" stricken out] under the law of the 18th March 1818, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March, to the 21st March 1826.

Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS,
Present.
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2.
Power of Atty. [Attorney]
Martha Batchelder
To Jer. [Jeremy] Elkins
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Know all men by these presents that I Martha Batchelder of Meredith in the County of Belknap and State of New Hampshire Widow of John Wadleigh late of Gilmanton in said County of Belknap, deceased, a Revolutionary Pensioner have made, constituted and appointed Jeremiah Elkins of said Meredith my true and lawfull Attorney and by these presents do make, constitute and appoint the said Jeremiah Elkins my true and lawful Attorney, for me in in my name and for my use and benefit to ask for and and receive the pension which may be due to me as the Widow of the said John Wadleigh under the Act of Congress of February 3d A.D. 1853, or under any other Act of Congress and to receive for my benefit the Certificate of Pension which may be issued in my favor, which Certificate I wish made payable at the Pension Office or Agency at Concord in said State of New Hampshire.  Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Agent may lawfully do in the premises, and hereby revoking all former Powers of Attorney and authority heretofore given by me.--  Dated this 12th day of July, A.D. 1853.
Martha  X her mark  Batchelder

Witness--Jos. P. Atkinson

Subscribed and acknowledged before me this 14th day of July, A.D. 1853.--And I hereby certify that I believe the said Martha Batchelder to be the Widow of the identical John Wadleigh named in the foregoing Power of Attorney, in whose claim I am in non wise interested.
Jos. P. Atkinson  Justice of the Peace
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November 15, 1937

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William Bachelder
B.L.Reg. 273093-'55
John Wadleigh
W.27661
BA-J/MCS

Miss Ruth Chase
93 Lenox Avenue
East Orange
New Jersey

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your request for information relative to Revolutionary War soldiers, William Chase and Carter and William Batchelder.

Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land based upon the military service of soldiers in that war.  A careful search of the records fails to show such claims on file on account of the service of the William Chase described by you, or on account of the service of any Carter Batchelder, searched under all spellings.

You are furnished herewith, the abstracts of papers on file relative to William Bachelder (B.L.Reg. 273093-'55) and John Wadleigh (W.27661), the latter furnished because William Bachelder married Martha Wadleigh who was the widow of John Wadleigh.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator