Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 902, Jonathan Chandler, New Jersey New York.
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New Jersey
New York

Chandler, Jonathon
                   Mary

W.902
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3587
    NEW JERSEY

 Jonathon Chandler
of Essex Co. in there State of New Jersey     who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Rosecrant of the Reg't commanded
by Col. Duboois in the N. York
line for 15 mos and 24 days Private - $58.89
                                    & N.J.

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 58 Dollars and 89 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March,  1834

Certificate of Pension issued the 27th day of Dec. 1832  and sent to FB Chetwood
                              Elizabeth Town
                                 N.J.

Arrears to 4th Sept 1832.                      $88.33
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 1833 29.44
                                                                   $117.77

Recorded by Final Luce clerk
Book D Vol. 4 Page 145
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(page torn off at top - left side)

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New Jersey

Mary Chandler
widow of Jonathon Chandler 
who served in the Revolutionary N. Y.
War, as a Private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
   58 dollars 89
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848

Certificate of Pension issued the
27 day of Dec 1848
and sent to
   Hon. D S Gregory
       H of R

Recorded on Roll of pensioners under---(page torn)
February 2, 1848, Page 287. Vol (torn off)
  
(right side of page)
   Reported Dec'd Dec. 27.  AB
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     DECLARATION

   In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832

State of New Jersey
Borough of Elizabeth
    On this fourth day of September AD 1832 personally appeared in Open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the borough of Elizabeth in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey  now sitting Jonathon Chandler a resident of the township of Elizabeth in the County and State aforesaid, aged seventy years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of theAct of Congress passed June 7th 21832.
      That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as therein stated -
     He was born in the township of Elizabeth aforesaid on the twenty third of May 1762 and has the record of his age in his family bible in his possession - he resided in the township of Elizabeth until he was 9 years of age and then went to Frederick borough in the County of Dutchess in the States New York and resided with his mother - In the month of June 1777 while a resident near Frederick Borough aforesaid he enlisted at the age 15 years in the Continental service or State Troops and can not now say which one in the New York line in the Regiment of Col. Dubois in the company commanded by Captain Rosecrant, Lieutenant Pendleton for the term of 3 years and was stationed at Fort Mongomery - at the expiration of 3 months he was.....
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....taken sick with the measles which was followed with the camp distemper and was so ill that the officer consented to discharge him and was accordingly discharged - He received a regular discharge but can not tell what has become of it - after his discharge he returned to his brother in Fredericks borough and as soon as he recovered he hired himself as a substitute for 9 months to take the place of a cla--  that hired him to perform 9 months constant duty  in their stead.  This service commenced in April 1778 and he was first under  the command of one Captain Smith as he thinks but shortly after the commencement of the service Captain Daniel Williams took command of the company - he was stationed in White Plains, Terrytown, Tuckahoe, and Mount Misery until within about a week of the of the expiration of the 9 months, when on Christmas Eve together with most of the guard he was taken prisoner by a company of Refugees commanded by one -?- or Bear Moore from Kings Bridge - he was carried to Kings Bridge and kept there 3 days then removed to New York City and confined in the Provost under the charge of Provost Master Cunningham until the 20th February 1779 when he was exchanged and went t Elizabeth Town aforesaid at the residence of his father - about a week after a party of Refugees came over from Staten Island to Elizabeth town in pursuit of Governor Livingston of New Jersey, and he volunteered and turned .....
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...out and assisted in driving them off and killed some of their party and took some of their boats - the Refugees burned the academy and several houses at this time.
     In March 1779 while a resident of Elizabeth town aforesaid he was a substitute for his brother in law John Atkins and was stationed one month at Hackensack in Bergen County under the command of Col. Frelinghuysen but forgets the name of the other officers - during this service he was on guard several nights at the Bridge in A-----kanouck (?) township.  Before the expiration of the month his brother in law John Watkins hired him to take the place of a class (of which he was a member) for 6 months which he did, and he served 6 months from that time, in succession as a substitute for the class - during the whole of these 6 months he was stationed on the lines in the township of Elizabeth aforesaid, and kept guard along the shore opposite Station Island at Elizabeth Town Point, Halstead Point, and  -- Point - the enemy were encamped on Staten Island opposite the places of his station - the one officer whom he recollects during the whole of this service was Lieut. John Miller - The company was commanded each month by different Captains, none of whom names he can recollect - during this service he had a number of skirmishes with the Refugees -
     In February 1780 while he was an apprentice to Jonathon Price he turned out on alarm and was taken prisoner by the Refugees together with Col. Thomas and....
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.....Doctor Dayton and was severely beaten by the Refugees with their swords, and was carried with Col. Thomas Doctor Dayton and 2 or 3 others to Staten Island - and kept in the fort all the next night, and in the morning Col. Thomas and Doctor Dayton interceded in their behalf and they were paroled and had permission to return home until called for - at the expiration of about a year he was exchanged with others for some prisoners taken by the American troops and confined at Morristown in the State of New Jersey - Captain Stephen Chandler procured his exchange - This service was performed in the small arms services -

    He has no documentary evidence of his services or discharge at any time during the war and knows of no person who can testify to his particular services.  since the Revolutionary War he has always resided in the township of Elizabeth in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey  -

    He was acquainted in the time of the Revolutionary War with Col. Dubois, Captain Rosecrant, and Capt.Godwin, and Lieut. Pendleton of the Continental Troops service in the New York lines Gen'l Oliver Spencer, Captain Jonathon Dayton and Captain Thomas Monell of the Continental services in the New Jersey line -

    He knows of no person by whom he can prove his services - and can make proof only that he was taken prisoner by the Refugees at the time they came....
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....after Governor Livingston

     He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State -
Jonathon Chandler

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid 


    We John McDowell a clergyman residing in the township of Elizabeth in the County of Essex and Site of New Jersey and Moses Chandler residing in the same place do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jonathon Chandler who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resided to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
John McDowell
Moses Chandler

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid 

   And the  said Court do hereby declare their opinion that 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.....
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.....Court further certifies that it appears to them that John McDowell who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the township of Elizabeth in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey and that Moses Chandler who has also signed the same is a resident in the township of Elizabeth aforesaid and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
     I Francis B. Chetwood clerk of the Court of common Pleas of theBorough of Elizabeth the same being a Court of Record in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jonathon chandler for a pension.
     In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this fourteenth day of September eighteen hundred and thirty (?)
        FB Chetwood Clk
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                   DECLARATION
   In order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed July 7th 1838 and August twenty third 1842 and a Resolution approved August 16th 1844 granting pensions to certain Widows.
State of New Jersey
Essex County
        On this seventh day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three before me Samuel B. Miller one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Essex State of New Jersey - the widow Mary Chandler (whose maiden name was Mary Jewel) a respectable person residing in the township of Elizabeth Essex County New Jersey, aged seventy four years last June (who I certify cannot from bodily infirmity attend Court). Who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath made the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 8th 1838 and August 23rd 1844 and a Resolution approved August 16th 1844 granting pensions to certain widows that she is the widow of Jonathon Chandler late of the township of Elizabeth in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey deceased - Who was a private soldier during the war of the revolution and a Revolutionary Pensioner, of the United States under the Law of Congress of June 7th, 1832, at the time of his death at the rate of fifty-eight dollars and eighty nine cents per annum And the said Mary Chandler further declares that she was Married to the said Jonathon Chandler in the month of October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven by the Rev. Mr. ---(blank---- a presbyterian clergyman who was at that time preaching at the Elizabeth Town Presbyterian Church as a supply,  at the time of her said marriage there being no regular stated minister at that time at said Church but verily believes it was the Rev. Mr. Sinn - but cannot say certain as to his name. And that her husband the aforesaid.....
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.....aforesaid Jonathon Chandler died on the ninth day of February eighteen hundred and thirty six, at his said residence in Essex County New Jersey, aged seventy four years.  that she was not married to the said Jonathon Chandler prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz at the time above stated.  And that she has not intermarried but continues the widow of said Jonathon Chandler deceased - And the said Mary Chandler further declares that she has no documentary evidence except her Family Bible and hereunto annexed, which is the only record she ever had except some old memorandum now wholly lost and destroyed, which record is in the hand writing of her oldest son Stephen Chandler now residing in the State of Ohio - Which Family Record was written more than thirty years ago and contains her dec'd husband and her own age the date of their marriage as to the month and year and the births of their several children nine in number And has been in her possession ever since it was made and was she verily believes a true record of all therein stated and that the clergyman that married her to the said Jonathon Chandler has left no marriage record to be found nor is there any one now living that was present at their marriage and the said applicant would most respectfully refer the Commissioner of Pensions, to her said family record the evidence hereunto annexed and her said husbands papers on file in his office - And would state as a reason she did not sooner apply for a pension is that she did not know that she was entitled to one under the Act of Congress of July 8th 1838 until about one month ago.
Mary Chandler her X mark

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me - 
  Sam'l B. Miller Judge of the common Pleas in and for the said County of Essex
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   FAMILY RECORD

Marriages (left side)

James Chandler
    to
Jemima Meeker
      Nov. 22 -

Marriages (right side)
 Jonathon Chandler
       to
Mary Jewell
   Oct 1787
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   (678)

            FAMILY RECORD

Births                                                  Deaths
James Chandler Dec 18 1717      April 30 1791
Jemima Meeker Oct 20 1719.      Aug 19 1807  

     their children 

Jemima Chandler July 9 1744         Sep 13 1746
William Chandler Buy 24 1746
Joseph Chandler Sept 21 1748
Phebe Chandler Dec 31 1750           2 May 1813
James Chandler April 22 1753          7 Jan 1808
Jemima Chandler Feb 11 1756
Hannah Chandler July 30 1758      28 April 1836
Jonathon Chandler May 23 1762     9 Feb 1836
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           FAMILY RECORD

BIRTHS                                                  DEATHS

Jonathan Chandler May 23 1762  February 9               
                                                                        1836
Mary Jewel June 13 1768

     their children

Stephen Chandler June 21 1789
David Chandler June 21 1791            March 1797
Phebe Chandler July 16 1793            July 3 1822  
Mariah Chandler Oct 2 1795
James Chandler Oct 9 1798        August  9 1799
Sarah Chandler Feb 12 1801
Mary chandler oct 12 1803
Elizabeth Chandler July 28 1806
Jonathon Chandler Jan 30 1809
Pamela P.Chandler Apr 3 1811
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No. 7291

Jonathon Chandler

-?- 12 Dec '32

Obj 14 16

F.B. Chetwood
  Elizabethtown N.J.

Admitted
Private
17 mo 24
5889

letter
    J.B. Chetwood
    Elizabethtown
       NJ


E P. 149
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BRIEF in the case of Jonathon Chandler
  of Essex County in the State of New Jersey
     (Act 7th June 1832)

1) Court of C.P. (Common Pleas)

2)

3) 70  years

4) Service....
     Period
1777 June
1778 April
1779 Mch
additional
1780 Feby

Duration of Service:
1 month 24 days
'9 months
1 month
6 months 
             17.24
was taken prisoner 
one year elapsed before
exchange

Rank:
  Private

Names of....
     New York line
Capt Roscrant      Col. Dubois
Capt. Smith
Substitute
 Col.  Frelinghuysen
Substitute
    Lieut. Miller none other recollected

5)

6)  Elizabethtown N.J.

7) One witness proves his capture, traditionary


JM Duffield examining clerk
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(on left)

repo (?) 18 May 44

(On right)

88397
New Jersey

Mary Chandler
widow of Jonathon Chandler 
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832
and who died on the 9 Feby. 1836
of Essex Co. in the State of N. jersey
who was a Pri in the com & NY
commanded by Captain Rosecrant of the
Reg't commanded by Col. Dubois in
the N. York line for 17.24 days.

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 58 Dollars 89
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 18 day of
May 1844 and sent to Hon.
  W. Wright H. of R.

   Total amount                              $294.45

Recorded by FS Swann clerk
Book D Vol. 1 Page 193
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5731
New Jersey

Mary Chandler
widow of Jonathon Chandler
who was a Private 
in the N. York line,
           & N.J.

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
58 Dollars 89
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the
18 day of June 1844
and sent to
   Sam'l B. Miller
        Newark
        N. Jersey

Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1 Page 120
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9309
Mrs. Mary Chandler
Declaration and
Evidence for a Pension
under the Act of July
7th 1838

Add.
17 mo 24  -?- pri
__________
   58.89

Hon. W. Wright HR

(below the above and crossed out:)
Sam b. Miller
Newark, New Jersey
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In the matter of the application of the widow Mary Chandler for a pension under the Act of July 7th, 1838

State of New Jersey 
Essex County
       Personally appeared before me Samuel B. Miller a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County Jonathon Chandler a respectable person residing in the township of Elizabeth in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey and known to me to be entitled to credit as a witness. And being by me duly sworn on his on his oath saith that he is in the thirty fourth year of his age, and is the eighth child of Jonathon Chandler and Mary Chandler his wife (whose maiden name was Mary Jewel)  and that the leaves which is hereunto annexed purporting to be a Family Record of the ages of the said deponents father and mother their marriage and the births of there several children and in the hand writing of my older brother Stephen Chandler now residing in the State of Ohio who is now in the fifty fourth year of his age - And this deponent further saith that the two leaves above mentioned he this day cut out of his said fathers and mothers Family Bible now in the possession of his said mother which record he has known more than twenty years last past and is as this deponent verily believes a true record of all therein stated.  And this deponent further saith that his said father was a pensioner of the United States at the time of his death at the rate of fifty eight dollars and eighty nine cents per annum, died on the ninth day of February eighteen hundred and thirty six at his residence in said County of Essex aged seventy four years.  And that he has left a Widow named Mary Chandler who is still living in the said County of Essex and has remained a widow and unmarried ever since the death of her said husband.  And is now seventy five years of age and further saith not.
Jonathon Chandler

Sworn to and subscribed at Elizabeth Town in said County this seventh day of June A.D. 1843 before me.
Sam B. Miller Justice of the Peace
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In the matter of the application of the Widow Mary Chandler for a pension under the Act of July 7th, 1838

State of New Jersey
Essex County
     Personally appeared before me Samuel B. Miller a Justice of the peace in and for said County Abigail Woodruff - a respectable person residing at Elizabeth Town in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey and personally known to me to be entitled to credit as a witness. and being by me duly sworn on her oath saith that she is in the seventy sixth year of her age that she was well acquainted with Jonathon Chandler and Mary Chandler  his wife (whose maiden name was Mary Jewel) of the township of Elizabeth in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey for more than fifty years last past - and this deponent further saith that the said Jonathon Chandler and Mary his wife always resided together as husband and wife and were reputed so to be until the death of the said Jonathon Chandler who died in the latter part of the winter eighteen hundred and thirty six aged about seventy four years and that the said Jonathon and Mary had a number of children together And that his widow the said Mary Chandler is still living at Elizabeth town in said County of Essex New Jersey and has remained a widow and unmarried ever since the death of her said husband.  And is now as much as seventy five years of age.  And further saith not.
Abigail Woodruff her X mark

Sworn to and subscribed at Elizabeth Town in said County this twenty fourth day of June A.D. 1843 before me - Sam B. Miller Justice of the Peace
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In theater of the application of the widow MaryChandler for a pension under the Act of Congress of July 7th, 1838

State of New Jersey 
Essex County
     Personally appeared before me Samuel B. Miller a Justice of the Peace in and for said County David Price a respectable person residing at Elizabeth Town in the County and State aforesaid.  And being by me duly sworn on his oath saith that he is in the sixty fourth year of his age that he was well acquainted with Jonathon Chandler and Mary Chandler his wife (whose maiden name was Mary Jewel) of the township Elizabeth in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey for more than fifty years last past, and this deponent  further saith that the said Jonathon Chandler and Mary his wife always resided together as husband and wife and reputed so to be until the death of said Jonathon Chandler who died in the latter part of the winter  eighteen hundred and thirty six aged about seventy four years.  And that the said Jonathon Chandler and Mary his wife had a large family of children together - And that his widow the said Mary Chandler is still living at Elizabeth Town in the said County of Essex New Jersey and has remained a widow and unmarried ever since the death of her said husband. And is now as much as seventy five years of age -
David Price

Sworn to and subscribed at Elizabeth Town in said County of Essex this twenty fourth day of June AD 1843 before me Sam B. Miller Justice of the Peace
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In the matter of the application of the Widow Mary Chandler for a pension under the Act of July 7th 1838

State of New Jersey
Essex County
     Personally appeared before me S.P. Brittan one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas and Justice of the Peace in and for the said County the Rev. Nicholas Murray a respectable clergyman residing in Elizabeth Town in the County and State aforesaid who being by me duly sworn on his oath saith that he is forty years of age.  that he has been the regular and stated installed pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Elizabeth Town aforesaid since July 1833 -------- until present time, and that this is the same church over which the Rev. James Caldwell was the pastor at the time of his death, and also the church whereof the Rev. David Austin was subsequently the pastor and that there is not to his knowledge or belief remaining any record of marriage columnized by  Rev. James Caldwell or the Rev. David Austin or kept by the Church previous the year seventeen hundred and ninety four and this deponent further saith that there was no stated pastor of said church from November 1785 to September 1788 and further saith not.
N. Murray

Sworn and subscribed at Elizabeth Town in said county this 21st day of June A.D. 1843 before me -
S.P. Brittan
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State of New Jersey
    I Charles G. McChesney Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey  do hereby certify that Samuel B. Miller Esq. before whom the within declaration of Mary Chandler and the affidavits of Jonathon Chandler Abigail Woodruff and David Price were made and taken, and Stephen B. Brittan Esq. before whom the affidavit of the Rev. Nicholas Murray was taken were at the time of the doing thereof Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas and Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Essex in said State duly appointed commissioned and sworn that full faith and credit are to be given to their official attestations and that the signatures thereto are in the proper handwriting of the said Samuel B. Miller and Stephen B. Brittan Esq.
   In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Trenton in said State this fifth day of July AD one thousand eight hundred and forty three.
Charles G. McChesney
Secy. of State
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General Services Administrator
National Archives and Records Service
Collections Officer
Washington D.C. 20408
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No. 9309

Mary Chandler
N. Jersey
_______
Suspended

let. to SB Miller Sep 25 1843

Act 7th July '38
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Jonathon Chandler W. file 902

Dates:
June 1777
Apr 1778
Mch 1779
Feby 1780

Length of service:
3 mo
    Dec. 24 1778 - taken prisoner by Refugees and detained until Feby 20 1779 when he was exchanged
6 mo
     While on an alarm was taken prisoner by Refugees and kept about a year when he was exchanged. his sub. -?- for his brother-in-law John Watkins

Officers under whom service was rendered:
  Captain Rosekrans / Smith
   Colonel Dubois / Frelinghuysen

State:
NY / NJ

Battles: skirmishes with Refugees at Elizabeth NJ and other places

Residence: near Fredericksborough NY

Date: Sept. 4, 1832 Hackensack (?)

Residence: Elizabeth Essex Co. NJ

Age: born at Elizabeth N.J May 23 1762
        died in Essex N. Jersey Feby 9, 1836

Remarks:  Soldier married Oct 1787 MaryJewel who was born June 13 1768.  She was allowed pension on an application executed June 7, 1843, while a resident of Elizabeth EssexCo. N.J.  In supplement herewith (?). for family data.
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Delaware Ohio
Oct 25 - 1918

Com of Pensions.      (faint) Rev. Ser.
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir:
    Will you please send to Mrs E.H. May Galena Ohio - RTD the military history of Jonathon Chandler who served in the Revolutionary War in 1777 and widow received a Pension file # 902 in 1845 while a resident of Elizabeth New Jersey.
Jonathon died in 1856 -
   Thanking you for favors -

stamped:
  Pension Office
  U.S.
   Oct 29 1918
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Toledo O. Jan. 18

cCmmissioner of Pensions
Washington d.C.
Dear Sir -
    Would you kindly send some information concerning Jonathon Chandler - a pensioner of the Revolutionary War about the years 1832 to 1836 and after his death his widow Mary drew a pension till her death in 1851.
     Did he enlist in New Jersey or N.Y. state ?  He was a resident of Elizabethtown Essex Co. New Jersey.
Thanking you for famous -
      Respectfully
    M.E. Mettler
      #515 Georgia Ave.
          Toledo, Ohio
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(written in faintly at top):
standard envelope retd - CLW
one 2 cent stamped envelope rec'd - RWS

Clerk of US. Pension Dept.
Dear Sir -
       Jonathon Chandler of Elizabethtown Essex Co. New Jersey was a Revolutionary war pensioner before his death in 1837 - Afterward his wife Mary who died in 1851.
       Could you give me any information as to what company or how long his service extended.  And facts will be gratefully received-
   Thanking you I am yours truly

W. H. Jacobus
#24 N. Franklin St
Delaware O.
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(left side page - some writing very faint + smudge line down center)

1911 Apr 26 Hist. to Edward H Lum-- Family record also (smudged) sent
1915 Jany 13 Hist to W.H. Jacobus
1915 Jany 22 Hist. to Me (last name smudged)
1918 Oct 31 Hist to Mrs. E.A. (last name smudged)
1932 Feb 26 Hist to H.C. Jacobus see letter - Rev. W. Japhia Condit S975.   ILL

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WIDOW,&c.
Revy

File No. 902
Mary Chandler
widow
Jonathon Chandler
Priv. Rev War

Act: Feb 2 1848

Index:- vol. A, Page 127
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J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Newark N. Jersey November 14, 1843

J.L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions

Sir in answer to your letter 25th September 1843 I herewith transmit to you the certificate of C.G. McChesney Esq. Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey -  Relative to the claim of Mrs. Mary Chandler widow of Jonathon Chandler deceased  for a pension under the Act of Congress of July 7th 1838 - As to said Chandler's services in the State of New York, and as a prisoner of war referred to in said letter I have not been able to find any further evidence, owing to the great length of time elapsed, some said service and imprisonment.  And would most respectfully refer you again to her said husbands and her own papers now on file in your office for such pension as said papers may justify with the addition of said Secretary State Certificate herewith enclosed.

With the highest respect and remain your o. s.
Sam B. Miller
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State of New Jersey
Borough of Elizabeth
     Personally appeared before me David Coriell an alderman of the borough of Elizabeth and a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the said Borough David Price of the township of Elizabeth in the Borough aforesaid, who is known to me to be a man of veracity and whose statement is entitled to credit who being duly sworn according to law on his oath doth depose and say that he is well acquainted with Jonathon Chandler of the township of Elizabeth aforesaid that in the year 1780 the said Jonathon Chandler was an apprentice to his father, that I have perused his declaration of services during the Revolutionary War and have heard him state in substance 50 years since many of the items that are now detailed in said declaration here annexed from the time the said Chandler enlisted in 1777 at fort Montgomery until he was released from prison in New York in February 1779 and that I was engaged with him in a skirmish  at Elizabeth town a few days after he returned and assisted him in driving off and killing a party of refugees who came from Staten Island in pursuit of Governor Livingston, and I well remember that the said Chandler was taken prisoner while bearing arms against the enemy in the winter of 1780 while an apprentice to my father, by a party of refugees light horsemen who pursued a party of our  patrolling light horsemen raised by command of Col. Crane to guard the town, and in which company I was a member, and from my knowledge of other concurring facts I have no doubt but that his declaration is in substance correct.
David Price

Subscribed and sworn this twenty fourth day December AD 1832 (?) before me
David Coriell
alderman of the Borough of Elizabeth

New Jersey
Borough of Elizabeth
        I Francis B Chetwood Clerk of the borough of Elizabeth and of the Court of Common Pleas in and........
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.....for said Borough hereby certify that David Cornell before whom the annexed affidavit of David Price was subscribed and know at the time of taking the said affidavit was and still is an Alderman of the Borough aforesaid and a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said Borough duly commissioned and sworn and residing (?) therein, and as such Alderman and Judge is duly authorized to take affidavits , and I further certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing  of the said Alderman, and that the signature "David Cornell Alderman of the Borough of Elizabeth" to the annexed affidavit subscribed is genuine.
    In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said Court at theBorough aforesaid this twenty fifth day of December AD 1832
F. B. Chetwood CLK
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Receipts for Cash paid Fourth years' interest on Notes given by the Commissioners of the several Counties for Military Services.

251 - 836 -July 16 1784 - Thos Clark - Jonathon Chandler - 2.13.11  


  (statement at bottom)
Thomas Clark

Essex

twenty third day of October 1843

Charles G. McChesney
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State of New Jersey
Borough of Elizabeth
      Personally appeared before me David Cornell an alderman of the Borough of Elizabeth and a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the said Borough Jonathon Chandler of the township of Elizabeth in the Borough aforesaid who is a man of veracity and his statement entitled to credit, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that the statement of his services  mentioned and set forth to have been rendered by him during the Revolutionary War as contained in his declaration ignorer to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 1832 hereto annexed is  (smudged word) according to the best of his recollection and belief, and that he can not account for it, if it appears that he was on the Rolls of Dubois Regiment only one month and twenty four days  for according to the best of his recollection and belief he served three months in that Regiment and was discharged as an invalid unfit for service from his bodily indisposition.
Jonathon Chandler

Subscribed and sworn this twenty fourth day December AD 1832 before me David Coriell Alderman of the Borough of Elizabeth

State of New Jersey
Borough of Elizabeth
    I Francis B. Chetwood Clerk of the Curt of Common Pleas of the Borough of Elizabeth in the County of Essex and State aforesaid do hereby certify that David Coriell before whom the above affidavit of Jonathon Chandler was subscribed and sworn at the time of taking the said affidavit was and still is an alderman of the Borough of Elizabeth and a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the said Borough duly commissioned and sworn and residing therein, and as such is authorized to take affidavits and I further certify that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Alderman, and that the signature of said David Cornell Alderman of the Borough of Elizabeth to the affidavit subscribed is genuine.
In  witness whereof I have herewith subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said Court at Elizabeth Town in the borough aforesaid on the 24th day of December AD 1832.
F.B. Chetwood CLK
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Mrs. Mary Chandler


Sam'l B. Miller
Newark
   N.J.
    agent
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                   DECLARATION
   In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of 2nd February 1848 entitled an act making further provision for surviving widows and soldiers of the Revolution.

State of New Jersey
Essex County
      On this thirty-first day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty eight personal appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Mary Chandler a resident of Elizabeth Town in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey aged eighty 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 2nd day of February 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War  that she is a Widow of Jonathon Chandler deceased who was a private soldier during the war of the Revolution and a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States under the law of Congress of June 7th 1832 at the rate of fifty eight dollars and eighty nine cents per annum and died at his said residence on the ninth day of February 1836.  And the same Mary Chandler further declares that she received a pension under the act of Congress of June 17th 1844 of fifty eight dollars and eighty nine cents per annum - And that she is still a widow.
Mary Chandler her x mark

Sworn to and subscribed n the day and year above written before me - Sam'l B. Miller - a Justice of the Peace

I certify that the above named applicant is personally known to me and that she is the same individual who drew a pension as stated by her in the foregoing declaration. 
August 31st 1848.  Sam'l B. Miller Justice of the 
                                                                  Peace
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State of New Jersey 

.......... Samuel B. Miller....
....was taken...
.........Justice of the Peace...
......Essex
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Samuel B. Miller
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......Seventh day of September.....
.......forty-eight......

Charles G. McChesney
Sec. of State
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Mrs. Mary Chandler
Declaration under the
Act of Congress of March
3rd,1843

$58:89 per an.

Sam'l B. Miller
Newark New Jersey
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              DECLARATION
    In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3rd March 1843 granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pension under the Act of July 7th 1838

State of New Jersey
Essex County
     On this twenty seventh day of May one thousand eight hundred and forty four personally appeared before the subscribed one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County, Mary Chandler a resident of the township of Elizabeth in the County of Essex and State of New Jersey, 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 3rd march 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War that she is the widow of Jonathon Chandler deceased who was a private soldier during the war of the
Revolution - and that the said MaryChandler further declares, that she received a pension from the United States of fifty eight dollars and eighty nine cents per annum, under the Act of July 7th, 1838 - And that she further declares she is still a widow.
Mary Chandler her X mark

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me Saml. B. Miller
Judge of Common Pleas

  And I do hereby certify that the declarant in the foregoing declaration named and personally known to me to be the identical person who received the above mentioned pension from the United States.
May 27th, 1844.        Saml. B. Miller  
                              Judge of Common Pleas
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State of New Jersey
Court of Essex
     I John P. Jackson Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for said County of Essex do hereby certify that Samuel B. Miller before whom the foregoing affidavit of Mary Chandler was made and taken at the time of taking the same was and still is one of the Judges of said Court, duly commissioned and sworn and that the signature  "Saml. B. Miller" to the Jurat of said affidavit and the certificate thereunder written respectively are genuine - In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and the seal of said Court the third day of June AD 1844 -
        J.P. Jackson CLK