Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1144, Lemuel Chapman, Mass.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Mass  

Chapman, Lemuel  
Tracy, Sicha
(Former widow)

NUMBER
W. 1144

CONTENTS
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12,332 R
Ohio

Lemuel Chapman
of Knox County in the state of Ohio who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Putnam of the Massachusetts line, for the term of two years

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 8 dollars per month commence the 20 of July 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 6 of July 1819 and sent to John H Mifford 
Mount Vernon Ohio

Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819               60.12
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1819   48.00
7 Mo. 16/31                                     _______                             
                                                      $108.12

War

[Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.]

Continued

Notification sent November 10. 1820 to Col R. D. Simons, Mount Vernon Ohio
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[illegible] 11.
Curtis & Scribner
9 Transferred [illegible]
[illegible] Iowa from 4 Sept
1863

Date of wid [illegible]
death not on AR


26920  26920
Iowa [illegible]
(Ohio Cincinnati crosed out)
Sicha Tracy formerly
widow of Samuel Chapin
who served in the Revolutionary
Mass
war, as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
96 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 2d February, 1853.

Certificate of Pension issued the
29. the day of Oct/53
and sent to 
Curtis & Scribner
Mt Vernon
Ohio

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 3, 1853, Page 16 Vol. A

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The deposition of two creditable & disinterested witnesses, duly to be taken & authenticated (or a certificate from an officer of the Regt.) to prove the service of the
Applicant, is required - 


The Honl John C Calhoun
Secretary at War
City of Washington D.C.


Lemuel Chapman
private
Col Putnam Regiment
Massachusetts Line
1781 - 2 years
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Lemuel Chapman
Private
81 to 83
Putnam Massactts.
Regt.
Admitted

Lemuel Chapman
private
Col Putman's Regiment
Massachusetts Line
1781 - 2 years


The Hone. John C Calhoun
Secretary at War
City of Washington D.C.


The deposition of two creditable & disinterested witnesses, duly to be taken & authenticated, (or a certificate from an officer of the Regt.) to prove the service of the Applicant, is required. -
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The State of Ohio Knox County ss
Personally appeared before me the Subscriber John H Mefford esq. associate Judge in and for said county & State aforesaid Lemuel Chapman a resident of the United States at present a resident of the county of Knox and State of Ohio who being duly sworn doth depose say and declare that he served in the War of the Revolution against G. Britain the
common enemy, on the continental establishment for the Term of nearly three years - Deponent states that he enlisted on
the tenth day of July in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and eighty one in the Town of South Brimfield, Hampshire County,
State of Massachusetts, for the Term of three years and marched from thence to the white Plains before New York when deponent joined the army and was attached to a company commanded by Phineas Bowman in the fifth
Regiment of the Massachusetts line commanded by Colo. Rufus Putnam and continued in said Regt. in its movements and opperations (operations), untill (until) the cessation of arms in the fore part of the year '83 When Deponents
Regiment was broken up and by arranged was attached to the 1st. Regt. of the Massachusetts Line commanded Colo. Joseph Voase in a company under Capt. Benson & continued with the army in its movements and opperatiions (operations) untill (until) the evacuation of the British Troops at New York when deponent
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was engaged, and from that untill the final
end and close of the War when Deponent Recd. a printed discharge on the 24th day of Decr. 1783 Signed by Henry Knox Majr. General, and attested by Ralph Boxlie adjt. - Deponent states that he Recd. his discharge at Hudson River, West Point but which discharge from the misfortune of being burnt out by five has long since been destroyed. -Deponent further states that he served his country faithfully during all the aforesaid period, that he is now old and infirm and from his reduced circumstances in life is in need of assistance from his country for support and further he said not
Lemuel Chapman

Sworn to & subscribed before me the 20th July 1818
John H. Mefford
Associate Judge

The State of Ohio Knox County ss
I John H Mefford associate Judge of the Court of Common for the County of Knox aforesaid, do certify that it appears to my Satisfaction that the said Lemuel Chapman did Serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding
declaration, against the Common enemy for the term of two years and five months a half, commencing about 10th. of July 1781. ending about the 24th of Dec. 1783. on the -
Continental establishment; and I now transmitt the proceedings and Testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the department of war pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid act of Congress Given under my hand and seal this 25th. day of July 1818

John H. Mefford
Associate Judge

decd.

I further certify that from (my) knowledge and also from other Testimony that the Deponent is aged infirm, reduced in circumstances & needs assistance from his County 
John H. Mefford
Associate Judge
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The State of Ohio Knox County ss
I James Smith Clerk of the Court of Common pleas for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the Hone. John H Mefford esquire before whom the foregoing Deposition & Certificate was Taken and executed is now and was at the time and date thereof one of the associate Judges of Common pleas for this County and full faith and credit ought to be
Given to all his official acts and deeds as Such in Knox County or elsewhere Testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal of my office at Mount Vernon the 25th day of July 1818.
James Smith Clk. K C ps - 

State of Ohio
Washington County}
At Marietta June 1t 1819.
I Rufus Putnam hereby certify that the within named Lemuel Chapman, served in the fifth Massachusetts Regiment, commanded by me, from some time in the summer of the year one thousand seven hundred eighty-one, until January 7th one thousand seven hundred eighty-three; when I was promoted to a Brigadier and Col. Cobb appointed to the command of said Regiment
Rufus Putnam
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Lemuel Chapman
12,332.
Pension Applicant.

Declaration & Schedule
admt
6. July, 1819.
Sep '19

Cen

Direct to
"Colo. R. D. Simons
Mount Vernon
Ohio"
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At a Supreme Court of the State of Ohio, holden at Mt.Vernon within and for the County of Knox on Tuesday the 29th day of August A.D. 1820.
Leml Chapman one of the Revolutionary pensioners appeared in Court with a Declaration of his service in the Revolutionary War
together with an Exhibit or Schedule of his Estate by him subscribed and herein open Court is duly qualified to the truth of the same
It is thereupon ordered that the same be placed among the files of this Court and that the said Lemuel Chapman receive a certified copy of said Declaration and Schedule, And further let it be Certified that in the opinion of this Court the value of the property
Enumerated enumerated in said Schedule would not Exceed thirty three Dollars and fifty cents which said Declaration & Schedule above refered to read in the words and figures following, towit
State of Ohio Knox County Supreme Court of the State of Ohio in and for the County of Knox, Term of 1820 in and for the said County. On this 29th day of August 1820 Personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record in pursuance of the Constitution and Laws of said State of Ohio Lemuel Chapman aged
fifty five years resident in said County of Knox, who being first duly Sworn according to Law, doth on his oath declare that he served
in the Revolutionary War as follows, towit, I enlisted in South Brimfield Hampshire County and State of Massachusetts on
the 10th day of July 1781 and joined the main army near New York in the month of August 1781, and was then and there attached to Captain Phineas Bowman's Company in the 5th
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Regt 2nd Brig. on the Continental establishment, said Regiment being commanded by Colo Rufus Pitnam, and the Brigade by General Patterson, and that I served in the Company Regt and Brigade aforesaid as a private Soldier until the cessation of
Hostilities, at which time the Regiment was disbanded and I was transfered [transferred] (being enlisted for 3 years) to the 1st Regiment and attached to Capt Joshua Bensons Company, where I served untill [until]
the 24th Decr [December] 1783 at which time I was honorably discharged by Majr[Major] General Knox - my Original Declaration was dated on or about the 25th day of July 1818. And the number of my pension
Certificate under the act of 1818 is 12332 - And I 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
any property or securities, contracts or Debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed, to wit,
One half of ten Acres Corn on the ground
One Scythe and hangings
One old axe, more than half worn
Lemuel Chapman
I furthermore swear that my occupation is a common labourer [laborer] but am frequently unable to pursue it being very much
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afflicted with the Rheumatism, and one of my hands often almost useless by weakness in the rist [wrist] and hand - I have no family residing with me 
Lemuel Chapman
The whole of the foregoing Sworn to and declared in open Court at Mount Vernon, Knox County Ohio this 29th day of August 1820.
Attest
James Smith Clk. Supreme Court

I James Smith Clerk of the Supreme Court of
the State of Ohio in and for the County of Knox
Do hereby certify that the order of Court recited
on the first page of this sheet is a true Abstract
from the minutes of said Court, And also that the foregoing is a true & correct copy of the Declaration and schedule as sworn to by
this applicant (Lemuel Chapman) all of which appears by Documents and Records in my office still remaining - In Testimony whereof ┃
I have hereto subscribed my name & let the seal of my office and of said Court at Mount Vernon this 5th day of Sept A.D. 1820.
Attest
AD. 1820

James Smith Clk. Knox
Supreme Court
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On this 30th day of September, A.D. 1853. personally appeared before the Probate Court
of Knox County, Ohio in open Court, Sicha
Tracy, a resident of Utica in the County of
Licking, Ohio, aged seventy one years, who
being duly sworn according to law, doth, on
her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions
made by act of Congress passed Feby. 1853:
That she is the widow of Lemuel Chapman, who was a private in the war of the Revolution in the service of the United States. He was in the service about three years towards the close of the war, according to the best information declarant has been able to obtain, and went from the State of Vermont: Declarant is unable to give the names of his officers, - the exact time when he left the service, or entered it: She is unable to state positively whether he was drafted, was a volunteer, or went as a substitute, but he always understood that he was drafted. - She cannot say whether he was engaged in any battle, or if any, in what.

But declarant further states that her said husband, Samuel Chapman was a pensioner, and for many years, and regularly up to
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the time of his death, received from the Government of the United States, a pension of $96.00 per annum: This pension was paid to him regularly by Alexander Elliott Esq. then a resident of Mt. Vernon, in said County of Knox, but now engaged in one of the departments at Washington, D.C. She has no papers or documents, referring to the same, or to the service of the said Chapman: The papers were, at his death taken charge of by his son, who
is now also deceased, and they have become lost.

She further declares that she was married to the said Lemuel Chapman on the twenty
first day of August, eighteen hundred and twenty two: that at that time they resided in the town of Granville, Licking County, Ohio: they afterwards removed to what was then called the Miller four Corners, in said County of Knox about six miles from Mt. Vernon: that her
husband, the aforesaid Lemuel Chapman died at said neither four Corners, as near as the can
fix the time, in the year 1828. She cannot be positive of the time, but it was about six years after their marriage as aforesaid.

After the death of her aforesaid husband, she was married to Henry P. Tracy, - said Tracy had served in the war of 1790, having enlisted in 1791. - He was engaged in
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the battle usually called " St Clair's' defeat," and was twice wounded in that engagement: His officers were, according to declarants information, Capt. Brock, and Col. Darke: - the said Lacy never received any pension or bounty, and all his papers relating to said service have long since been lost. He died in Licking County in the month of July 1849.

She further swears that she is now a widow, and that she has never before made an application for a pension unless it be that
one Barbour formerly of Licking County, had
filed an application on her behalf, within the
past fifteen months, similar to the one above
set forth; Said Barbour was employed by her
to give attention to her claim for a pension
and bounty land, and prepared some papers,
but whether he did ever filed them or not,
declarant is unable to say. - She swears that
she has never received any pension or bounty
Land, or certificate for either, excepting fifty cents of a balance that is hers in said Elliotts land at the death of her said husband.
         her
Sychy X Tracy
        mark

Sworn to and subscribed before me in open
Court, this (30th) thirtieth day of Sept, 1853: -
And I further certify that I have no interest
in the matter of the above application.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto
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subscribed my name as the Judge of said Court, and affixed the seal thereof the day and year last above written.
Samuel F Gilevert
Probate Judge, KCO,
Knox County Ohio
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Marriage Certificate

Sychy Tracy.
In{ Application

Com. of Pensions.
for Pension & Bounties
land.
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1822} Lemuel Chapman
 Aug} To
    21} Sicha Lee

I hereby certify that on the 21st day of August 1822 I joined in the holy state of matrimony Lemuel Chapman and Sicha Lee of lawful age.
Given under my hand and seal this 22nd day of August 1822.
Spencer Wright Justice Peace {Seal}

The State of Ohio Licking County ss 
I Daniel Humphrey Judge of the Court of Probate within and for said County, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy taken from the Marriage record of said County now being and remaining in said Court and that the same there appears of Record.
In testimony whereof witness my name and the seal of said Court at Newark in said County this Seventh day of May AD 1853
Daniel Humphrey Judge

$.75
Marriage Record C13
1821 to 1829
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APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER.
State of Iowa ss.
County of Poweshiek
On this twenty ninth day of September, 1864, before me, a Justice of the Peace personally appeared Sichy Tracy, a resident of Poweshiek County, who, being duly sworn, declareth that she is the same person whose name was placed, on the 3rd day of February, 1853, upon the list of Pensions Pensions, at the rate of Eight dollars cents per month, from the 3rd day of February, 1853.
That said Sichy Tracy was last paid at the Cincinnati Ohio Pension Agency to the 4th day of September, 1863, inclusive, but now desires and applies for the payment of said pension at, and the transfer of her name to the roll of, the State of Iowa Pension Agency at Desmoins City
Sworn and subscribed to before me, 
the day and year aforesaid}
Her
Sichy X Tracy
Mark
Wm Walters
Justice of the Peace
[5 cent stamp affixed to document]
EVIDENCE OF IDENTITY.
STATE OF Iowa, COUNTY OF Poweshiek, ss.
I, Wm Walters, Justice of the Peace, in the county above named, do hereby certify that I have the most satisfactory evidence. *viz:
Personal knowledge
that Sichy Tracy, who has this day appeared before me to take the oath of identity, is the identical person named in the pension certificate, which she has exhibited before me, numbered 2692, and bearing data at the Department of the Interior the 29th day of October, 1853, and signed by R.C. McClelland, Secretary of the Interior.
GIVEN under my hand at Brooklyn Iowa this 29th day of Sept, 1864.
Wm Walters J.P.
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N.B. - When the pensioner is personally known to the agent, and he will certify to his identity, the annexed form may be dispensed with. The number of pension certificate is sometimes on the back of it.
*Here state what the evidence is - whether personal knowledge, or the affidavits of respectable persons, giving their names.

The State of Iowa, Poweshiek County, ss.
I H.R. Lewis Clerk of the District Court in and for said County, do hereby certify that Wm. Walters, before whom the above instrument was acknowledged, was at the time thereof, an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county and duly authorized to perform such acts, and that the signature subscribed to said acknowledgement purporting to be his, is true and genuine, and that the foregoing instrument is executed and acknowledged in accordance with the laws of the Sate of Iowa.
In testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal fo said Court at Montezuma, this 4th day of October A.D. 1864.
H.R. Lewis, Clerk
J.M McConnell Deputy
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December 16, 1937
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Nona I. Wood
715 Cherry Street
Anaconda, Montana

LEMUEL CHAPMAN
W. 1144
BA-J/MLB

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to your great-grandmother, Sicha or Sycha Tracy who, you state, received a pension for many years, married first, a Lee, second a Chapman, third, a Tracy, also, that she lived in Virginia where her son, James Lee, was born in 1818 in Hampshire County, in 1824 moved to Licking County, Ohio, and in 1860 was living with her son, James Lee, in Poweshiek County, Iowa. You state that she was born May 5, 1778, and died August 15, 1872, in Iowa.

The record has been found of a Lemuel Chapman whose widow, Sicha, married a Tracy and later received a pension for service of Lemuel Chapman in the Revolutionary War. The papers in the claims for pension of Lemuel Chapman and Sicha Tracy on file under W. 1144, have been examined and the following data found:

The date and place of birth and names of the parents of Lemuel Chapman were not given. It was stated that at one time he lived in Vermont.

Lemuel Chapman enlisted July 10, 1781, in South Brimfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, served as private in Captain Phineas Bowman's company, Colonel Rufus Putnam's 8th Massachusetts Regiment, and in Captain Joshua Benson's company, Colonel Joseph Vose's 1st Massachusetts Regiment, and was discharged December 26, 1785.

The soldier was allowed pension on his application executed July 20, 1818, at which time he was a resident of Knox County, Ohio. In 1820, he was aged fifty-five years and still living in Knox County. He died there March 12, 1827, or in 1828.

Lemuel Chapman married in Granville, Licking County, Ohio, August 21, 1822, Mrs. Sicha or Sychy Lee, widow of ___ Lee. At the time of her
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marriage to Lemuel Chapman, she and he were both residents of Granville, and their marriage was recorded in the Office of the Judge of the Probate Court of Licking County, Ohio. Soon after marriage they moved from Granville in Licking County, to Miller Four Corners in Knox County, same state.
Lemuel Chapman's widow, Sicha or Sychy, afterwards married one Henry P. Tracy who enlisted in 1791 in the Northwest Indian War, served in Captain Brook's company, Colonel Darke's regiment, was in the battle in which General St. Clair was defeated and in which Henry P. Tracy was twice wounded. He died July 30, 1849, in Licking County, Ohio, his place of residence then being Utica, that county.
Sicha Tracy applied September 30, 1855, for pension due her on account of the Revolutionary War service of her former husband, Lemuel Chapman. At that time she was aged seventy-one years and a resident of Utica, Licking County, Ohio. The claim was allowed. In 1864 she was living in Poweshick County, Iowa. The date and place of birth, names of parents or maiden name of Sicha Tracy were not stated.
Reference was made to a son of Lemuel Chapman, but his name, or that of his mother, was not given, nor was say reference made to a marriage of Lemuel Chapman other than that to Sicha Lee.
James Lee, son of Sicha by her former husband, _ Lee, made affidavit in Knox County, Ohio, in 1855, that he was about six years old when his mother married Lemuel Chapman. In 1864, James Lee signed as Agent for his mother and at that time was residing in Brooklyn, Poweshick County, Iowa. No other reference was made to children of Lemuel or Sicha.
In order to obtain date of last payment of pension, and name and address of the person paid, you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office Records Division, this city, and cite the following data: Sicha Tracy, former widow of Lemuel Chapman, certificate No. 2892, issued October 29, 1855, rate $96 per annum, Commenced February 3, 1855, Act of February 3, 1855, Iowa Agency.
Very truly yours
A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistance
to the Administrator
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Office of Henry B. Curtis,
Attorney & Solicitor
Mount Vernon Ohio May 6th 1853,

Commissioner of Pensions.}
Washington City D.C.}

Sir: We write for the purpose of
procuring information on behalf of the ladies
who are applicants for pensions under the
present laws of Congress.

Mrs. Sychy Tracy is one applicant, -she was married about 26 years ago at Granville in Licking Co. in this State, to Samuel Chapman,
a pensioner under the then laws: He recd. $96,
as a private in the war of the Revolution; not long after their marriage he removed to this County (Knox) where he died about six years after their marriage.

She subsequently married a Mr. Tracy, who served in the battle which terminated in the defeat of Genl. St Clair, and was twice wounded in that battle. Mr. Tracy died in the latter part of July, 1849. & she is still a widow, in very indigent circumstances.

All the papers of Mr. Chapman, in
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any manner connected with his services, or the receipt of his pension, were taken charge of by his son, shortly after his death: He has also died and the papers are lost: We presume, however, as he recd. a pension, the files in the department show the fact, & that all that is necessary for her to do, is to prove their marriage & the identity of her husband. This can easily be done: what we desire is that you will furnish us, at your earliest convenience with the proper forms and instructions: This we would be glad to have you do as soon as you can: - We learn from her that there has probably been some correspondence on this subject, heretofore with the department, but we are unable to learn the particulars, the gentlemen who were acting for we have removed from this part of the
County.

We also desire information on behalf of
the widow of John Strattan, who died while
in the service of the U.S. in the war of 1812 - 
having served more than one year at the
time of his death. - We presume she would be
entitled to receive the half pay for the time of
five years, mentioned in the act of 16 April, 1816. - We suppose, she would also be entitled
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to bounty land under the act of Sept 28th 1850. -
whether she would be entitled to both might be
a question. - We should also be glad to have you instruct us upon this part, and also forward us forms for application under the act of 1816.
We remain,
Yours truly,
H. B. Curtis Scribner

P.S. We would be glad if you would forward
with your opinion as to whether the second
marriage of Mrs. Chapman to Mr. Tracy cuts off her right to the pension provided by the late law:
and in any event we request you to furnish us with proper forms and instructions, for making application under the late law, as we have other cases, where one second marriage
was [illegible].
H. B. C. S.
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State of Ohio.}
Knox County ss.} On the third day of October,
A.D. 1853, personally appeared before the undersigned, the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County, James Lee, who being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the son of Sychy Tracy, widow of Lemuel Chapman and of Henry P. Tracy, -  by a former husband: That he was about six years of age when his said mother was married to the said Samuel Chapman, and too young to remember the particulars thereof:  Affiant, however, recollects perfectly well the occasion of the decease of said Chapman, which took place at Miller four corners in Knox County Ohio; on the twelfth day of March, A.D. 1827: affiant is able to give this date with accuracy from the fact that the same is noted in the family Record, which is now in his possession: affiant
attended the funeral of the deceased, being a
member of the family at the time. - 

Affiant knows that his said mother was afterwards married to one Henry P. Tracy: That said Tracy died in the County of Licking in said State on the 30th of July
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1849: said Tracy resided at the time in the
village of Utica, where affiant then resided
and still resides: - Affiants said mother, the
said Sychy Tracy, has ever since remained a
widow: -
James Lee

Sworn to and subscribed before me this third
day of October, A.D. 1853. And I do hereby
certify that I have no interest in the matter
of the application of the aforesaid Sychy Tracy,
for a pension and bounty land.

In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name as the Clerk of said Court, and have
affixed the seal of said Court hereto, the day and year last above written,
S. W. Farquhar Clerk K.C. P.
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The State of Ohio}
Knox County ss.} Personally appeared before
the undersigned, Clark L. Bennett of the town of Mount Vernon in said County, who being duly sworn according to law, depose and says: That he is now forty nine years of age, That he was for number of years acquainted with Lemuel Chapman, now deceased, having first
become acquainted with him in the State of
Vermont, when deponent was quite a small
boy, deponent's father then living in the same
neighborhood with said Chapman. - He was afterwards acquainted with him in Knox
County Ohio: Deponent resided at the
Miller four corners in said County at the same
time that said Lemuel Chapman and his wife
now Sychy Tracy and widow of Henry P. Tracy
resided there: They were intimate acquaintances and neighbors, and well acquainted with each other: - Deponent knows that the said Sychy lived with said Chapman, and was known as his lawfully wedded wife, and recognised (recognized) as such on all occasions.

Deponent remembers well the death of the said Lemuel Chapman. -  He was present
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at his funeral: - Deponent is unable to fix the
year with accuracy, but thinks it was in 1828: -
He knows it was somewhere near that time.
 Deponent further says he is not of kin to the said Sychy Tracy and that he has no interest
in the matter of her application for a pension.
C. L. Bennett

Sworn to and subscribed before me
this first day of October, A.D. 1853.

And I hereby certify that I
have no interest in the matter of the above mentioned application of the said Sychy Tracy
for a pension-

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my name officially as the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County of Knox, and set the seal of said Court, the day and year last above written.
Saml. W. Farquhar Clk
for Alexr. C. Elliott Dept.
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Mt. Vernon, O. Aug 8' 1853.

Commissioner of Pensions:
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

as soon as our turn comes we would be glad to have an answer to our letter written some
months since reference to the claim of Widow Sycha Tracy, and also the widow of Mr. Stratton.                                     

one Mr. Cortis also wrote you some time since
forwarding the papers of his mother, the widow of Zinah Curtis.

Yours truly,
H.B. Curtis Scribner
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Mt.  Vernon, O.  Oct 4' 1853.

Hon. Commissioner of Pensions}
Washington D.C.}

Sir:  We send herewith the application of Mrs. Sychy Tracy for a pension under the act of last winter, and also for bounty land. - The  declaration and proof are all, we believe, in conformity with the law and the expectations of your department: There can be no difficulty in your ascertaining the fact that her deceased husband, Chapman, was a pensioner, as the banks must show it, and the time of his death is given with accuracy to assist you in aspiring   to the case. - The affidavits establish her identity, and with the marriage certificate clearly prove the fact of her marriage.

This being the case, we presume there will be no obstacles in the [illegible] of this woman, who is old and feeble, as well as needy, receiving that pittance which the
laws of her country have provided and intended for her. -

We remain,
Yours respectfully,
H.B. Curtis
Scribner
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Pension Agency
Cincinnati May 5/64

Sir - 

Inclosed please find application for transfer of Mrs. Sicha Tracy.

It was sent to this agency by mistake I presume.

Respectfully
H.C. Borden
Pension Agent

Hon. Jos H. Barrett
Comss. of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Brief in the case of Sicha Tracy widow of Lemuel Chapman Licking County and State of Ohio
act of Feb. 3 1853
Claim, ("original," or "for increase.")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband a private in Massachusetts line two yrs. and pensioner of the US. under act of March 18, 1818 at $96 per annum 
Paid to March 4, 1827
Died in - 1828
(If for increase.) Allowed $96 per annum to commence Feb 3. 1853.
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Marriage proved by public record
Death proved by credible witnesses
Identity and Widowhood by credible witnesses and circumstances
Name and residence of Agent
Curtis V Scribner
Mt. Vernon 
Ohio
Examining Clerk
J.L Gray
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Brooklyn Iowa March 15th 1864
Mr. Wm. Helwick
Pension Agent
Cincinnati Ohio
Dear Sir, Inclosed, I send the blank for the transfer of miss Sicha Tracy name to the Pension office at Chicago Illinois. That office will be more convenient than the office in Iowa. I think it will make no difference to the Department and the change will suit the pensioner for the best as she has friends there that will attend to the matter, but if not make the change to this state.
Yours Truly,
James Lee Agent
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3/63
1/64
U.S. Pension Agency
Cincinnati Dec. 30/64
Sir-
You are hereby informed that Caroline Andrews widow of Massom, Private at $8 per month commences November 19, 1863 and has not been paid at this agency. I have marked her transferred to Columbus.
[margin note] 24950
Fredericia Schell widow of Lewis, at $8 per month has been paid as March 4/64 - I have marked her transferred to Wheeling W.Va.
[margin note] 24.524 Lunch
Sicha Tracy widow of Lemuel Chapman Act 2nd Sec. Feby. 3. 1853 at $96 per annum has been paid to Sept. 4, 1862. I have marked her transferred to Fairfield Iowa.
Paid in Mch '65 for Sep. 4. 62 to Mch 4, '65, and Jan '64 to Sep '65
Paid to Set '65
I am very respectfully your obedient servant
H.C. Borden
Pension Agent
Hon. Jos. H. Barrett
Comm of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER.
State of Iowa ss.
County of Poweshick;
On this Second day of March 1864, before me, a Notary Public in and for Iowa personally appeared Sicha Tracy, a resident of Warren Township, who, being duly sworn, declareth that She is the same person whose name was placed on the third day of February, 1853, upon the list of United States Pensions, at the rate of Eight dollars  ___ cents per month, from the third day of February 1853.
That said, Sicha Tracy was last paid at the United States Pension Agency Cincinnati Ohio to the fourth day of September, 1863, inclusive, but now desires and applies for the payment of said pension at, and the transfer of her name to the roll of the United States Pension Agency at Chicago, Illinois
Sworn and subscribed before me, the day and year aforesaid}
Sacha X Tracy
Mark
L S Shields Notary Public
EVIDENCE OF IDENTITY.
STATE OF Iowa, COUNTY OF Poweshick, ss.
I, L.S. Shields Notary Public, in the county above named, do hereby certify that I have the most satisfactory evidence, * viz:
that Sicha Tracy is the identical person named in the above from personal knowledge that Sicha Tracy, who has this day appeared before me to take the oath of identity, is the identical person named in the pension certificate, which she has exhibited before me, numbered 2692, and bearing date at the United States agency Cincinnati Ohio the 3d day of February, 1853, and signed by K Y McClellan, Secretary of Interior.
GIVEN under my hand at Brooklyn this 2d day of March, 1864.
L.S. Shields Notary Public
N.B. - When the pensioner is personally known to the agent, and he will certify to his identity, the annexed form may be dispensed with. The number of pension certificate is sometime on the back of it.
*Here state what the evidence is - whether personal knowledge, or the affidavits of respectable persons, giving their names.
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The official character and signature of the person before whom the affidavit is made, must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
When the fact is personally known to the agent, he is permitted to certify to the official character of a magistrate, and will be held responsible for it.
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Pension Office
Oct. 22, 53
Sir.
Please report time of last payment to , or death  of, within named pensioner.
Respectfully be
F. Burt Esqr
3 aud
J Cole
for Command 
Present
Lemuel Chapman,
Oct 1818. $8.00 p. month.
Paid to 4th March 1827,
no date of death on our Books.
F Burt
Auditor.
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January 27, 1938
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BA-J/MLB
Lemuel Chapman
W. 1144

Nona I. Wood
715 Cherry Street
Anaconda, Montana

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter of January 19, in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Joseph Leigh who, you state, lived in Tear Coat Creek, Hampshire County, Virginia, at the exact place your great -grandmother, Sicha Leigh lived, and that he served in the Revolution from New Hampshire, New Jersey, or some other state, and that he received a grant of land of thirty-three acres in Tear Coat in 1904.
There is no claim for pension or bounty land on file based upon service in the Revolution of the Joseph Leigh or Lee described by you. Such claims are the source of data furnished by this office in regard to soldiers of the Revolutionary War. The land which you state he received may have been granted by the state from which he served.
It is suggested that information in regard to the military service of Joseph Leigh might be obtained from Adjutant General, War Department, this city.
Very truly yours
A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator

[handwritten note] Rec letter correspondence in pen claim of Lemuel Chapman W. 1144
She is trying to obtain name of the husband of Sicha Lee Chapman Tracy, mother of James Lee who was born about 1816 in Hampshire Co., VA.
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[handwritten note] see [illegible] filed under Joseph Leigh letter in her Jan. 27 - 1938

January 25, 1938
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Nona I. Wood
715 Cherry Street
Anaconda Montana

LEMUEL CHAPMAN
W. 1144
BA-J/MMNY; MLB

Dear Madam;
Reference is made to your letter of January 17, in which you request the full name of one of the husbands of Sicha Tracy, his surname Lee.
A careful reexamination has been made of all papers in pension claim W. 1144, based upon service of Lemuel Chapman in the Revolutionary War, and the only claim for pension found which was made by Sicha Tracy, and the Christian name of her husband whose surname was Lee is not shown anywhere in the papers. The only member of that family whose name is shown is James Lee, son of said Sicha.
Very truly yours
A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistance
to the Administrator
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Anaconda Mont
Jan 19 - 1938
Vetrans [Veterans] Administration
Washington D.C.
[stamped] RECEIVED
JAN 24 1938
MAIL SUB-DIV.
VETS ADM.
READER
35

Dear Sir:-
A Joseph Leigh who lived in Hampshire Co. Virginia was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. This man lived exactly at the place (Tear Coat Creek) that my great grand mother Sicha Leigh lived.
I do not know just what state Joseph Leigh served from (might have N.H. or N.J. or some other). Will you please tell me if a Joseph Leigh received a pension for his service in the Revolutionary War? This Joseph Leigh received his grant of land of 33A Tear Coat 1804.
Thanking you very much for your help.
Yours truly,
Nona I. Wood
715 Cherry St.
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Anaconda Mont
Jan 17 - 1938
Vetrans [Veterans] Administration
Washington D.C.
[stamped] RECEIVED 
JAN 20 1938
MAIL [Illegible]
VETS. ADM.
READER
15

Dear Sir:-
In reference to the widows pension which my great grand-mother Sicha Tracy received on the service of her former husband Lemuel Chapman on file under W. 1144. Will you please tell me how I can obtain a copy of the widows pension papers of Sicha Tracy?
I wish to know of what Lee she was the widow, surely it states her first husbands given name in those papers.
Thanking you for any further information you may give me.
Yours truly
Nona I. Wood
715 Cherry St
[Lemuel Chapman
W. 1144
BA-J/MLB]
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Iowa. They got mail at both the towns of Brooklyn Iowa and Hartwick Iowa.
Sicha was married to ? Lee first Then ? Chapman Then Tracy.
She lived first in Virginia Her son James Lee with whom she lived was born in Hampshire Co Va 1818. about 1824 Sicha moved to Licking Co. Ohio. Her husband Lee died when her son James was about six- Sicha then married Chapman and then Tracy. James Lee moved from Ohio to Iowa 1856. His mother Sicha Tracy was living with him in 1860 in Poweshick Co-Iowa.
Tracy - Sicha's husband must have received his pension in Ohio then for years his widow Sicha Tracy received a pension in Iowa. She was born May 5, 1772 and died Aug 15, 1872 in Iowa. I do not know in what war Tracy served..
Yours Truly
Non I Wood
715 Cherry St.
[stamped] 4 Received A.G.O. NOV 6 1937
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Anaconda Mont. Eve
Nov 3 1937
Ajutant General.
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:-
I have bothered your department for many years with letters inquiries, and questions. I want to find some-thing and only Thru your department and Thru your old records can I find it. So please help me and send a copy of widows papers.
My great grand mother Sicha Tracy received a widows pension for many years. I have never written for a copy of these pension papers because I did not know Tracy's first or given name. However the pension department sent Sycha Tracy a pension for many years. Sicha lived at the home of her son James Lee near Hartwick Iowa. He owned a farm in Poweshick Co