Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10385, Nathaniel Blanchard, Continental Vt.
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[Index Card}
(3-1776)

SERVICE | NUMBER

[Handwritten}
Continental Vt. | Blanchard, Nathaniel | S. 10385

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CONTENTS
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Date of death
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20710
New York
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Nathaniel Blanchard
of Franklin Co in the State of New York
who was a Lieutenant in the Comp. commanded by Captain -- 0 --- of the Regt. commended by Col. Allen in the [star] [illegible]
line for 11 mo [illegible]
13 mo [illegible]
$ 211.66

Continental Vt. [star above Vt.]
Jany 31/05
Records corrected [initials]
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Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 211 Dollars 66 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
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Certificate of Pension issued the 28th day of Sept [year illegible] and sent to Claimant [illegible]
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Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 33 $329.16
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 mos 3 [illegible] 105.8  
$634.99
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{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by [illegible name] Clerk,
Book E, Vol. 4, Page 48
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[Signature]
N. Blanchard

[Handwritten]
Nathaniel Blanchard
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[Handwritten]

State of New York}
Franklin County   }

On this twelfth day of October in the year 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of common Please now sitting at the Courthouse in the [illegible words] in and for the County of Franklin Nathaniel Blanchard a resident of the Town of c Malone in the County of state aforesaid aged seventy seven years who being first duly sworn according to law took on his oath made the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress dated June 7, 1832 that he was born at Sainsbury in the County of Hartford int he State of Connecticut on the 17 day of October in the year 1755 according to his best information and belief that he believes there is a record of his birth remaining in the office of the Town Clerk of Sainsbury and that he has a transcript from it in his Bible at home that at the commencement of the war of the revolution and until the year 1785 he resided at Rutland now in the County of Rutland State of Vermont that he [illegible words] of the United Stated under the following named officers and served as hereon stated That he first entered the service about the  first day of may in the year 1775 when he volunteered at Rutland where he resided as a [illegible] in the Company of Volunteers under the command of Col. Ethan Allen to go on a secret expedition in the service of the United Colonies. that the said Company immediately marched out a few meters from Rutland when the object of the expedition was declared to be the capture of the British Forts at [illegible] of Crown Point that he contended with the Company and was one
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of the party which captured the Fort at [illegible] in May 1775 and contend the same with Col. Ethan Allen that they then proceeded to Crown point and took that Fort when his returned home to Rutland having served about two weeks.

That in the beginning of the year 1776 he entered at Rutland as a volunteer in a Company of Vermont Troops of Green Mountain Boys commanded by Captain Jonathan Fassett in  Col Burke's Regiment and served as a corporal in the said Company about nine months  marched first to Burrow Reves Town of Willieston where the Company was for some time stationed as a frontier Guard that in July of that year he marched with the [illegible[ Company to [illegible] and that he remain there on duty till some time November 1776 where he was discharged at [illegible place] but no written discharge.

That in the spring of the year 1777 he [illegible] at Rutland as a Sargent in Capt Thomas Lee's Company in the Regiment of Vermont Forces commanded by Col. Seth Warner and marched first to [illegible] and was stationed there till the evacuation of that place in July of that year  then marched under Col Warner to Manchester in the State of Vermont and remained there with the Regiment until the 15th day of August 1777 then marched with said Regiment under Col. Warner to Birmington where they arrived about twelve at night and on the next day he was engaged with the said Regiment in the Battle of Bennington which resulted in the capture of the enemy soon afterward. was even
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he was sent by order of Capt Lee with two men to Winchester int he State of New Hampshire to arrest some [illegible] and was sent on this service from the Regiment three or four weeks on his return to Bennington the Regiment had marched to Saratoga that he then marched with a part of Captain Lee's Company who had been left at Birmington to [illegible] under General Lincoln and remained there a few weeks. Then marched to Castletown in the County of Rutland and remained on duty that place till November 1777 when he was discharged having served out the term of his enlistment which he believes was eight months he received no written discharge.

That in the spring of the year 1778 he served a commission signed by Thomas Chittenden then Governor appointing him as a Lieutenant in the Vermont [illegible] and in a Company commanded by Captain Thomas Sawyer and that he immediately entered the Service and served as a Lieutenant in the said Company eight months in the year 1778 at Rutland and Pittsford in the State of Vermont employed in the section of Block Houses of Pickets and in the  Scouting [illegible]. That he retained this command till some time in the year 1818 when it was sent to the war Department at Washington with his Declaration as an applicant for a pension under the Act of the 18 March 1828. that he cannot recollect whether it was returned or unreturned at the Department. if it was returned to him he has since lost it and cannot now find it.

that in the year 1779 he resided in Rutland during which year he volunteered and performed several
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short tours of duty in the service of his Country. That in the month of March 1780 he was appointed Lieutenant in the Military in the State of Vermont by a Commission which is herewith submitted and as such offers he was called on and performed several short tours of military duty in the service of the United Stated with the said Company during the year 1780 amount in the aggregate he verily believes to three months. That in April 1782 he was appointed as Captain in the Militia and he further declares that at all times during the war of the Revolution he had himself in [illegible] to obey the call of his country and did perform several short tours of service as an officer on soldiers which he has not before mentioned.

That in the month of February 1785 he removed from Rutland to Cornwall in the County of Adderson State of Vermont and served there till March of the year 1805 when he moved to the Town of Malone now with the County of Franklin State of New York where he has continued to reside till this day. That he has no documentary evidence of his service except what is herewith exhibited. he hereby relinquished 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. 
[handwritten signature] Nathaniel Blanchard

Sworn to and subscribed this day aforesaid} 

[signed]
John H. Russel Dep Clerk

Franklin County.  We Ashbel Parmelie a clergyman residing in the Town of Malone in the County of Franklin aforesaid and Abel Wilson residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nathaniel Blanchard who as subscribed and sworn to the above
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declaration, that we believe him to be seventy seven years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion.

Sworn and Subscribed } Ashbel, Parmelee (signed
the day above foresaid} A Willson (signed)

John H. Russell Dep. Clerk - 

The word "were" between, who and left, erased & the words "had been" interlined in its stead, also on the next page following the word "of the State of Vermont" interlined after the word "Militia"

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter; and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to think that Ashbel Parmelee who has signed the preceeding certificate, is a clergyman resident in the Town of Malone in said County of Franklin and that Abel Willson who has also signed the same is a resident of the same place, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I, John J. Russell Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Please in and for the County of Franklin aforesaid Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Nathaniel Blanchard for a pension.

[indented right]
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 17th day of October, one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.

John H. Russel Dep. Clerk
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[handwritten record]

State of New York}
Franklin County    }

Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace from [illegible] in the county of Franklin Nathaniel Blanchard who being duly sworn deposeth and saeth that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the days he when he entered the service of his country at the several tours mentioned in his Declaration but is positive that he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades

6 [written along the left margin]  For six weeks I served as a private under Col. Ethan Allen in May & June 1775

9 [written along the left margin] For nine months I served as a Corporal in Captain Fasettis Company in the year 1776

8 [written along the left margin] For eight months I served as a Sargeant in Cap Lee's Company in the year 1777

8 [written along the left margin] For eight months I served as a Lieutenant in Capt Thomas Sawyer's Company in the year 1778

3 [written along the left margin] For three months I served at several tours as a Lieutenant in the year 1780.

and for such service I claim a pension

[indented on the right] Nathaniel Blanchard [signature]

Subscribed and sworn this 10th day of June 1833

Before me Asa Hascall
Justice of the Peace

I further certify that I have been well acquainted with teh above named Nathaniel Blanchard for seventeen years. during all where true he has sustained a good moral character and is reputed to be a man of unquestioned truth and veracity

Asa Hascall Justice of Peace
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[handwritten record]

Franklin County from Benjamin Clark of the Town of Malone in the County of Franklin State of New York being duly sworn doth depose and say that he has been acquainted with Daniel Foot of Cornwall in the State of Vermont for more than thirty years having formerly resided in the same neighborhood with him for several years  that the said Daniel foot has always been reputed to be a man of good character and undoubted truth and veracity and this Deponent further saith that the place of residence of Dorastus Wooster Esquire the Justice of the law before whom the affidavit of the said Daniel Foot in support of the claim of Nathaniel Blanchard for a pension was [illegible] is more than one hundred miles from the [illegible] of the said Nathaniel Blanchard. Affiant further saith not.

Benjamin Clark [handwritten signature]

Subscribed and sworn the 10th day of June 1833
Asa Hascall Justice of the Peace
and I further certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Benjamin Clark and that is is a man of truth and good character
A Hascall Justice of Peace [handwritten signature]

State of New York}
Franklin County   }

I, John H. Russell Deputy Clerk of the County of Franklin Do hereby certify that Asa Hascall before whom the foregoing affidavit of Benjamin Clark purports to have taken and whose name is subscribed to the above certificate was on the day of the date of the said affidavit a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Franklin aforesaid duly appointed and sworn - 

And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe that the signature to the said Affidavit and the said Certificate is the proper handwriting of the said Justice and the genuine
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[handwritten]

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of the said County this 10th day of June A.D. 1833.

[indented right]
John J. Russell Dep. Clerk
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[Typewritten]

April 6, 1940

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

NATHANIEL BLANCHARD
S. 10385
BA-J/MLB

Mrs. Clifton S. Humphreys
160 Main Street
Madison Main

Dear Madam:

The data which follow in regard to Nathaniel Blanchard were obtains from the papers in pension claim, S. 10385, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

Nathaniel Blanchard was born October 18, 1755, in Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, where his birth was recorded in the Town Clerk's Office. The name of his parents were not given.

While residing in Rutland, Vermont, Nathaniel Blanchard volunteered and served with the Vermont troops as follows : from May 1, 1775, about six weeks as private in Colonel Ethan Allen's regiment, went on an expedition to Ticonderoga and Crown point and was one of the part that captured those places; from sometime in sprint of 1776, as corporal in Captain Jonathan Fassett's company, Colonel Brush's regiment and was discharged in November 1776, having served nine months; from sometime in the spring of 1777, as sergeant in Captain Thomas Lee's company, Colonel Seth Warner's regiment, was in the battle of Bennington and was discharged in November, 1777, having served eight months; in the spring of 1778, he was commissioned lieutenant, his commission being signed by Thomas Chittenden, Governor of Vermont, served eight months as lieutenant in Captain Sawyer's company and was engaged in the erection of blockhouses and in scouting; in 1779, he served on several short tours, details not given; April 27, 1780, he was commissioned lieutenant in the 5th Regiment, Vermont militia, commission signed by Thomas Chittenden, Governor of Vermont, and served as lieutenant on short tours, amount to about three months, names of superior officers not stated; in April 1782, he was commissioned captain but he gave no details of his service as such officer.

in February, 1785, Nathaniel Blanchard moved from Rutland to Cornwall, Addison County, Vermont, where he lived until March 1805, then moved to Malone, Franklin Country, New York.
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Nathaniel Blanchard was granted pension on his application executed October 12, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Malone, New York.

It is not stated in the claim whether Nathaniel Blanchard ever married.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of the person paid and possibly the date of death of Nathaniel Blanchard, you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data: Nathaniel Blanchard, certificate #20710, issued September 28, 1833, rate $211.66 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, New York Agency.

Very truly yours

A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant 
to the Administrator
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[handwritten, left margin] Rev Tran

10385
(check mark) INVALID.

File No. 10385
Nathaniel Blanchard
Lient Rev War

Act: June 11 1832

Index : -- Vol. A, Page 35
[Arrangement of 1870]

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[handwritten]
1938. Apr 6. Hist to
Mrs. E.B. Fales  El

1940 Apr. 6  - [illegible] = Mrs. Clifton
S. Humphreys = MLB
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[handwritten note, very light]

Admitted
Lieut?  11 months
[illegible]

does the department allow for more than six [illegible] then why [illegible] 28 months?

[computation]

65
146.66
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211.66

1123.33
105.83
329.16
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[Questionnaire. Questions are typed, responses are handwritten]

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Nathaniel Blanchard [handwritten] which require further proof or explanation. 

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? : Yes

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes

V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? No.

VI. Has he given teh names of the officers under whom he served, in confirmity with the regulations? No.

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1932? Yes

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? Yes.
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[Questionnaire, Questions are typed, responses are handwritten]

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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and other respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? Yes

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?

XIII.  If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?

XIV. If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he she, or they are persons of credibility? [handwritten insertion] not in regard to all of [illegible]  Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?

XV.  Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?  Yes

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And if not, which of them are not answered?

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EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V.  In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c, A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades : For ___ year _____ months and ____ days. I served as a _____. For ____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."
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[typewritten form]

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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase [italicized] about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. 

QUERE XIV. Proof of Service [italicized]
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and the line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.

QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate  must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
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THOMAS CHITTENDEN, Esq. Captain General, Governor and Commander in Chief, in and over the State of Vermont

To [handwritten] Nathaniel Blanchard, Gentleman, 

You being elected [handwritten, rank] Lieutenant of the Company of the fifth Regiment of the Militia of this State; Reposing special trust and confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, I do by these Presents, in the name of the Freemen of this State, authorize and impower You to take charge of said Company as their Lieutenant of said Company by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging: And I do strictly charge and required all Officers, and Soldiers, under your command, to be obedient to your orders as Lieutenant and you are to observe and obey such orders and directions from time to time as you shall receive from me the Governor of this State for the time being, or other your Superior Officers, according to the rules and Discipline of War, and the Laws of this State.

Given under y hand, and the Seal of this State, in Council, this 27 Day of April 1780.

By his EXCELLENCY : Command

[signed]
Thomas Chittenden
Joseph Fay
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State of New York }
Franklin County    }

Nathan Berman of Chatenoogay [not clear} in the County of Franklin and State of New York, aged seventy seven years, being duly sworn says that he knows Nathaniel Blanchard [illegible] of Malone in the County of Franklin aforesaid in the spring of the year 1775 that the said Blanchard was a soldier under Col. Ethan Allen at that time, and was present and assisted in taking Ticonderoga that season; but how long the said Blanchard served as a solider at that time this deponent does not recollect. this deponent further says that the said Blanchard in the year 1777 served as a soldier under Captain Lee, in Col. Warner's Regiment against the common enemy - that this deponent recollects that the said Blanchard was in Bennington Battel in that year and believes according to the best of his recollection that the said Blanchard served against the common enemy during the whole of that season - that the deponent will remember that the said Blanchard served as a Lieutenant under Captain Thomas Sawyer in the Vermont troops in the year 1778 and was stationed as part of the time during that season at Rutland and Pittsford in said State. but how many more that said Blanchard served that year this deponent cannot say -- This deponent further says that he knew the said Blanchard during the whole of the revolution- that he saw him repeatedly and verily believes that the said Blanchard must have served as a Soldier and an Officer, against the common enemy, at different times, more than three years - that the said Blanchard then resided in Vermont and as this deponent believes is no about seventy six years of age - that he is reputed a man of truth and veracity. 

Nathan Beman [signed]

Subscribed and Sworn }
before me August 11th 1832 }

for Clerk Justice of the peace

Franklin County  }
Malone 10 June 1833  }

I Benjamin Clark Justice of Peach before whome the above affidavit was taken certify that I have for 17 years been well acquiainted with Nathan Benman that his is a man
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[illegible] and good character
Benjamin Clark

State of New York }
Franklin County }

I, John H. Russel Deputy Clerk of the Country of Franklin aforesaid do hereby certify that Benjamin Clark before whom the within affidavit of Nathan Beman purports to have made and whose name is subscribed to the within certificate of the same, was on the day of the date of said certificate a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Franklin duly appointed and sworn and further, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Justice, and verily believe that the name subscribed to the said certificate is the proper hand writing of the said Justice and genuine. The word certificate [illegible]

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County the 11th day of August AD 1832.

John H. Russel Dep. Clerk
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State of New York }
Franklin County   }

Samuel Smith of Malone in the County of Franklin and State of New You, aged seventy three years, being duly sworn doth depose and say, that during the war of the revolution, he was well acquainted with Nathaniel Blanchard now of Malone, in the County of Franklin and State of New York, then residing in Vermont, that in the spring of the year 1776 - the said Nathaniel Blanchard enlisted into a company of Vermont troops or Militia, which company was commanded by Captain Jonathan Fasset in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Brush, that the said Blanchard served as a non-Commissioned officer in said company against the common enemy after his said enlistment about nine months according to this deponent's best recollection and belief; during a part of which time the said Company was stationed on Onion river in Vermont, and a part of that time at Ticonderoga in the State of new York - This deponent further says that in the spring of the year AD 1778, the said Nathaniel Blanchard was appointed a Lieutenant in a company of Vermont troops in which this deponent served, which company was commanded by Captain Thomas Sawyer, in which company the said Blanchard served as a Lieutenant for the term of eight months after his said appointment according to the best of this deponent's recollection and belief - during which time, the said company was stationed at Rutland and Pittsford in the State of Vermont, and was employed in building Blockhouses and Pickets and Scouting down Lake Champlain towards Canada - And this deponent further says that the said Nathaniel Blanchard
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served his country faithfully during the said two terms of service, and is a man of truth and veracity and would be entitled to credit in any Court of Justice

[signed} Samuel Smith

Subscribed and sworn this 23rd day of July AD 1832

Benjamin Clark, Justice of the Peace

Franklin County 
June 10, 1833

I Benjamin Clark the Justice of the Peace before whom the above affidavit was taken do certify that I have been well acquainted with Samuel Smith the Deponent above named for more than thirty years and that he is a man of truth and good character.

State of New York }
Franklin County   }

I Samuel S. Clark, Clerk of the County of Franklin aforesaid do hereby certify that Benjamin Clark, Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavit purposrts to have been made, and who made and signed the foregoing certificate was at the time of making the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Franklin aforesaid, duly appointed and sworn - And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe that the signature subscribed to the said certificate is the proper handwriting of the said Justice and genuine.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County the 23rd day of July AD 1832

Samuel S. Clark Clerk
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[handwritten document]

State of Vermont }
Addison County }

Daniel Foot of Cornwall in the County of Addison and State of Vermont aged about seventy two years being duly sworn doth depose and say that during the war of the revolution, he was well acquainted with Nathaniel Blanchard of Malone, County of Franklin and State of New York that in the spring of the year 1776 the said Blanchard enlisted into a company of Vermont troops or Militia while company was commanded by Capt Jonathan Fasset in a Regiment commanded by Col Brush that the said Blanchard served as a non-commissioned officer in said Company against the common enemy after his said enlisted for about nine months according to his best recollection and belief during a part of which time the said Company was stationed on Onion River in Vermont and a part of the time at Ticonderoga in the State of New York. This deponent further saith that in the sprint of the year of 1778 the said Blanchard
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was appointed a lieutenant in a company of Vermont troops commanded by Capt. Thomas Sawyer in which company the said Blanchard served as a Lieutenant for the time of eight months after his said appointment according to his best recollection and belief during which time the said Company was stationed at Rutland and Pittsford in said State and was employed in Building Blockhouses and Pickets and this deponent further saith that the said Blanchard was a good soldier, served his Country faithfully during his said two terms of service and is a man of truth and veracity and would be entitled to credit in a Court of Justice. 

[signature] Daniel Foot

Sworn and subscribed on this seventh day of July AD 1832 Before me Dorastus Wooster Just of the Peace

State of Vermont Addition County 

I, Samuel Swift, Clerk of the County Court for the said Count of Addison, do hereby certify that Dorastus Wooster before whom the above affidavit of Daniel Foot was made was at the time a Justice of the peace for said County, duly authorized to administer oaths.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court this 7th day of July A.D. 1832.

Samuel Swift Clerk
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[handwritten]

State of Vermont }
Rutland County }

On the 6th day of August 1832, personally came Henry Mead, to me well known and a respectable beliefs, who being duly sworn and depose say that he is acquainted with Nathaniel Blanchard of Malone in the State of New York, and was acquainted with him being in the Revolutionary war. the department & said Blanchard [illegible] in Rutland, Vermont during the whole [illegible] aforesaid except on that time in the [illegible] fall of 1777, when the whole in habitants retreated before the enemy - that he knows said Blanchard was in the service in the years 1776, 1777 & 1778 - the two [illegible] years he was understood and believed to be a sergeant in Capt. Fassett and Capt Lee's companies, and the last year a Lieutenant. that he [illegible] a neighbors to the deponent, and left home early in the spring, and returned late in the fall or winter, having been absent for eight to ten months at a time - the [illegible]year the deponent was seventeen years old, and he frequently saw said Blanchard in the fort at Rutland acting as Lieutenant, in Capt Sawyer's company, and he served as [illegible] and the deponent further says the he knew of said Blanchard being [illegible] several times several times as [illegible] and Captain [insertion] from 2 days to a fortnight or 3 weeks at a time but cannot specify any particular times except since he knows he served one month as Captain at Castleton, he thinks in 17880 or 1781 - 

Sworn before me the day and year aforesaid.
R. Temple Jus. Peace

On the day and year aforesaid personally came Silas Pratt to me well known and a credible [illegible] who being duly sworn unto depose and say, that he is
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acquainted with Nathaniel Blanchard before mentioned, and was well acquainted with him being the whole of the Revolutionary war, and he was knowing to the services of said Blanchard as stated in the preceding affidavit of Henry Mead 

R. Temple
Jus. Peace

State of Vermont

I Robert Pierpoint Clerk of Rutland Country Court, do certify that Robert Temple beofre whom the foregoing affidavits were taken, is a Justice of the Peace for said County duly commissioned, and that his signature thereto are in his own handwriting.

In testimony whereof I hereunto let my hand and certify the seal of said Court this 6th day of August 1832

R. Pierpoint
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[Letterhead]

[Stamp on the right side of the note] Received Mar 10 1940

Mrs. Clifton S. Humphreys
160 Main Street
Madison, Maine

[handwritten]

Pension Office
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir:

Did any of the following men ever receive pension from service in the Revolutionary War, or have you any information pertaining to their families.

Charles Dickson of Colchester, Comm
who married in 1747 to Mericuni Ingersoll who was born in 1723 in Westfield Mass (daughter of Thomas Ingersoll and his wife Sarah (Ashley) Ingersoll.

[check mark] Nathaniel Blanchard born 1755 in Sainsbury Conn son of [check mark] Benjamin Blanchard (1730) and his wife Ruth Wilcoxson, who were married in 1752.
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[letter head]

Mrs. Clifton S. Humphreys
160 Main Street
Madison, Maine

[handwritten]

Did they have a son Willard Blanchard (1772 - 1848) who lived and died in Windsor Conn, and had a son Capt. Willard Blanchard who served in war of 1812 and was pensioned.

Would like a copy of any service they may have had in Revolution, either Nathaniel or Benjamin.

Yours Truly

(Mrs. C.S.) Grace Collis Humphreys
160 Main St.
Madison - Maine
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[handwritten note]

[Stamp, upper right hand]  Received Mar 8, 1939

The Commissioner of Pensions - 

Dear Sir - 

I am very sorry to have caused you any trouble, but have recently found out that Nathaniel Blanchard and his son and son's son lived in Vermont until 1869. Also they then moved to Ill. found out that Nathaniel served in the War a year - as one fo the family joined the D.A.R through him - but we do not know where she lives now. .
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or if she is alive even - 

Am so sorry there was a mistake made in the first place. Thanking you and hoping for a reply as soon as possible.  I remain

Respectfully Yours

Mrs. Elizabeth B. Fales
400, 3rd Street

Tracy Minn

March 3rd 1938

Am inclosing returned letter as you will know why I am in such a hurry

E.B.F.
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[letter head of Mrs. Elizabeth B. Fales]

MRS. ELIZABETH B. FALES
400 Third Street
Tracy Minn

[Stamp} Received March 8, 1939
Mail Sub.Div
Vets. Adm 30
Reader #

[handwritten]

The Commissioner of Pensions

Dear Sir - 

I am writing to see if you have the name of Nathaniel Blanchard on the Pension list of Illinois [word encircled; Word inserted - Vermont] as service in the Revolutionary War - anxious to send in my papers so they may be accepted at the March meeting - of the Nat. Society - so wrote to War Department at this same time.

An early reply will be greatly appreciated. 

Respectfully Yours - 
Elizabeth B. Fales - 
Feb 10, 1938

[stamp] Received Feb 14 1938
Mail Sub.Div
Vets. Adm 7
Reader #
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[typewritten letter]

April 6, 1940
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Mrs. Clifton S. Humphreys
160 Main Street
Madison, Maine

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Charles Dickson, of Colchester, Connecticut, who was born in 1723, in Westfield, Massachusetts, married in 1747 Merium Ingersoll; Nathaniel Blanchard, born in
1755 in Simsbury, Connecticut, son of Benjamin Blanchard (1730) and his wife, Ruth Wilcoxson, who were married in 1752 and they
had a son Willard Blanchard (1772 - 1848).
There is no claim for pension or bounty land on file based upon service in the Revolution of a Charles Dickson, under any spelling, of Connecticut, nor of a Benjamin Blanchard who was born in 1730.
The record of Nathaniel Blanchard (S. 10385) is furnished you herewith.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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April 6, 1938
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Nathaniel Blanchard-S.10385

Mrs. Elizabeth B. Fales
#400 - 3" Street
Tracy, Minnesota

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you furnish further information in regard to Nathaniel Blanchard, a soldier of the Revolutionary War. You state that you have
found that he and his family were residents of Vermont until 1869, when they moved to the state of Illinois.
Another search of the Revolutionary War records has been made and the record found of one soldier, only, named Nathaniel
Blanchard, who served with the Vermont troops. His history is furnished you herein, the data for which were obtained from the papers filed in his claim for pension, S.10885, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
Nathaniel Blanchard was born October 18, 1755, at Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut. The names of his parents
are not shown.
[margin note: Identified sol. & all officers in 2t book.]
While residing in Rutland County, Vermont, Nathaniel Blanchard volunteered and served with the Vermont troops, as all follows: from May 1, 1775, about six weeks as a private in
of Colonel Ethan Allen's Regiment, went on an expedition to the Ticonderoga and Crown Point and was one of the party that captured
these places; from sometime in the spring of 1776, as corporal in Captain Jonathan Fassett's Company, Colonel Brush's Regiment and was discharged in November, 1778, having served
nine months from sometime in the spring of 1777, as sergeant in Captain Thomas Lee's Company, Colonel Seth Warner's Regiment was in the battle of Bennington, and was discharged in November, 1777, having served eight months; in the spring of 1778, he was commissioned lieutenant, commission signed by Thomas Chittenden, Governor of Vermont, served eight months as such officer in Captain Thomas Sawyer's Company, and was
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engaged in the erection of blockhouses and in scouting in 1779, he served on several short tours, details not given: April 27, 1780, he was commissioned lieutenant in the 5" Regiment, Vermont Militia, commission signed by Thomas Chittenden, Governor of Vermont, and served as such officer on short tours, for about three months, names of his superior officers not stated; in April, 1782, he was commissioned captain but he gave no details of his service as such officer.
In February, 1785, Nathaniel Blanchard moved from Rutland to Cornwall, Addison County, Vermont, where he lived until March, 1805, then moved to Malone, Franklin New York.
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 12, 1832, while a resident of Malone, ['Franklin County' crossed out], New York.
There are no data as to the family of Nathaniel Blanchard.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Nathaniel Blanchard (S. 10385), you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the
following data:
Nathaniel Blanchard
Certificate No. 20710
Issued September 28, 1833
Rate, $211.66 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
New York Agency.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.

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February 26, 1938
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Mrs. Elizabeth B. Fales
#400 Third Street
Tracy, Minnesota

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request to know if the name of Nathaniel Blanchard appears on the pension list of Illinois, as having served in the Revolutionary War.
There is no claim for pension on file based upon the service in the Revolutionary War of a soldier named Nathaniel Blanchard in whose claim it is shown that he applied for pension
while residing in the state of Illinois. Such claims are the source of the data furnished by this office.
However, if you will furnish as much as possible of the following data, as a means of identification of the particular record of the soldier, in whom you are interested, should it be on file a further search of the records will be made and a report furnished you approximate dates of birth and death, places
of residence at enlistment and after service and given name of widow.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.