Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23786, Peter Chartier, Continental
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Vt. Agency and residence in 1818
CONTENTS
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CHARTIER, PETER
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[verso]
851
Burlington Vermont
Polly Chartier widow of Peter Chartier dec'd N.Y. who died on the 24 December 1830 of Addison in the State of Vermont who as an Artificer in the Company commanded by Captain Oglebee of the Reg't commanded by Col. Hazen in the N. York line for 2 years & upwards
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Inscribed on the Roll of Burlington at the rate of 144 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of May 1837 and sent Hon Wm. Slade Middlebury Vt.
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Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1837 $864.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. 72.00
$936.00
{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3}
Recorded by D. D. Addison Clerk
Book A. Vol. 1. Page 36

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Let to Hon S. Lawrence & Hon G. P. Marsh Jan 19, 49
Let to same March 12 49
Let to Messrs E. D. & F. E. Woodbridge. June 27. 49. 
Letter to J. D. Woodward July 9, 1849
Papers to copy
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10.738
Vermont. R 
Peter Chartier, of Addison Co. in the state of Vermont who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Hazen, of the art'y artifs, ['line' crossed out] for the term of seven years, 1776. 
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Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 6. of April, 1818. 
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Certificate of Pension issued the 15, of May, '19. and sent to Ezra Hoyt, judge, Vergennes, Addison Co. Verm't
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Arrears to 4th of March, 1819....87.70
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4. Sept. 1819.} 48  "
10 mo's 25.30 & 4/31} $135.70
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
Continued
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Notification sent to Samuel Swift Esqr 27th July 1830. Vergennes Vt.
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Peter Chartier's case
Evidence taken by me Ezra Hoyt Esq. Judge of the County Court within and for the County of Addison on application of Peter Chartier of Vergennes in said County of Addison to be placed on the pension list of the United States in pursuance of an act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed March 18. 1818 he having served in the war of the Revolution against the common enemy for more than nine months to wit, from the year 1776 to the end of said war in the continental establishment as a private soldier and by reason of his reduced circumstances in life is in need of assistance from his Country for support - to wit. - 
The said Peter Chartier being duly sworn deposes and says that some time in the year 1776 to the best of his recollection, the precise time he cannot say he having lost his discharge he enlisted as a private soldier into Capt. Oliver Company of Col'o Hazen's Regiment known by the appellation of Congress's own, during the war, of the Revolution, and he further says that he continued with said Regiment during the time of his enlistment and served therein faithfully against the common enemy ['faithfully' crossed out] during said term - and he further says that at the close of the war he was honorably discharged by Gen'l Washington at New Windsor on the North River in the State of New York - and he further says that he is now and since the June of 1783 has been a Citizen of the United States, and he further says that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his Country for support
/s/X his mark Peter Chartier
State of Vermont
Addison County ss} sworn and subscribed before me this 6th day of April AD 1818 
/s/Ezra Hoyt Judge
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David Brydie & David McKillips of Vergennes in said County of Addison being duly sworn depose and say that they and each of them are well acquainted with the within named Peter Chartier and well know that he was a private soldier belonging to Col'o Hazen's Reg't for more than two years in the Revolutionary war. 
/s/David Brydie
/s/David McKillips
State of Vermont
Addison County ss} Sworn and subscribed before me this 6th day of April AD. 1818. And I further certify that the above deponents are in my opinion credible witnesses 
Ezra Hoyt Judge
I, Ezra Hoyt Esq Judge of the County Court within and in the  County of Addison afs'd do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Peter Chartier did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding affidavit against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me to the Secretary of the Department of war pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & carried the seal of said County Court  &c hereto affixed this 6th day of April AD 1818
Adm'd /s/Ezra Hoyt Judge
State of Vermont
Addison County ss} I, Samuel Swift Clerk of the County Court for said County do certify that Ezra Hoyt who has made the above certificate was at the date thereof a Judge of s'd Court, & his name thereto is his own proper signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this 24th August 1818. 
/s/Sam'l Swift Clerk
Peter Chartier
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Peter Chartier.
11,38.
Sept 1819. 
Continue -
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STATE OF VERMONT.
COUNTY OF ADDISON, SS. - ON this 14th day of June 1820, personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of record (having the power of fine and imprisonment) for the said Peter Chartier aged 71 years, resident in Vergennes in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: - in 1775, he retreated with Montgomery's troops, & enlisted on his arrival in Albany in Col. Hazen's, Congress regiment, in Capt. Oliver's Company for during the war, and served until the close of the war: - that the date of his original declaration is the sixth day of April 1818, the number of his pension certificate is 10.738.
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 for the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. 
1 Iron pot, - 50
2 Tea cups - 4
2 Knives & forks - 17
1 Old pine table - 25.
2 Old chairs - 25
1 pail - .20
1.41
/s/X his mark Peter Chartier
And the said declarant on his oath aforesaid further states, that he has no occupation, but that of a day labourer, and has depended wholly upon his daily labour for his subsistence; and for five or six years
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has not been able to labour at all, and has since that time depended upon his friends for support, except the assistance afforded by his pension; that he has in his family only a wife aged 57 years. 
Sworn to & declares on the 14th day of June 1820, before the Court aforesaid.
/s/Sam'l Swift Clerk 
I, SAMUEL SWIFT, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Addison in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property, exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is one Dollar and 41 Cents. 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 13th day of June 1820. 
/s/Sam'l Swift {Clerk of the County Court for the County of Addison.
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[handwritten letter]
(Copy 1)
Pension Office January 19, 1849

Sir,
In answer to the enclosed letter I have the honor to inform you that the files in this office shew that Peter Chartier was married to Polly Robinson on or about the 15th November 1779 or 1780, at the Highlands, near Fishkill NY, by the Father Deferne a Roman Catholic Priest. Sally Chartier of Massena N.Y. and Alexander Ferrill (Ferriol) of Chazy NY., was present at the marriage.
Polly Chartier, at the time of the declaration in 1837 was in the 74' year of her age.
Land Warrant No. 12,884 for 100 acres was paid on the 21st February 1792 to Benjamin Mooers assignee of Peter Chartier.
I have the honor to be Very Respectfully Your Obt Serv't
/s/J. L. Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions
Hon. G. P. Marsh
House of Representatives

Rouses Point Mar 22d 1849
Sir, 
The above is a copy of a Letter send to me, to be used as evidence in several Ejectment suits, coming on for the 16th day of April next. On examination, I find it to be defective, and does not state the time that Peter Chartier died, which no doubt the records of your office
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[handwritten letter]
will shew - By an act of the Legislature of the State of New York passed May 12, 1846, "a copy of any act, proceeding, record, document, roll, warrant, order, or other paper or writing, now or hereafter remaining in any of the departments of the Government of the United States, may when certified by the head or acting chief officer at the time being of such department to have been compared by him with the original & to be a correct transcript thereof, & if the whole of such original, and attested by the seal of his department, be given in evidence in all courts of this State.
Now Sir, you will  do a very great favor to the persons interested, if you will without delay in the receipt of this add to a like letter as the one on the other side of this sheet the time that Peter Chartier died, & affix your Seal of Office & Certificate is pointed out in the extract of the law given above - and forward the same to me. 
I am with much Respect your obt. Serv't
/s/C. K. Averill
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions 
N.B. If you have made one out for the Hon G. P. Marsh before you receive this, you may omit to send one to me - C.K.A.
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1425
Polly Chartier's Declaration
widow of Peter - 
see Col Hazen's roll & also final Set'lt. cert. 
paid per mo 17.83
decl'n in 1820. was '57.
she says 83. in 1836 - diff - 10 yrs
Allow. as artificer $144 per ann. com. on 4 March 1831 - 
Hon W. Slade H.R.
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State of Vermont
Addison County ss} On this 22nd day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty seven personally appeared before the Hon: Court of Probate now sitting at ['Vergennes' crossed out] Middlebury within & for the District of ['New Haven' crossed out] Addison in said County of Addison Polly Chartier a resident of Vergennes in the County of Addison and State of Vermont aged eighty three years the 8th day of April next being 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 July 4, 1836. That she is the widow of Peter Chartier, a soldier of the army of the Revolution at the time she was married to him, as is herein after stated - 
Her husband the said Peter Chartier, volunteered into the service of the United States in the Province of Lower Canada in the year 1775 under the command of Gen'l Montgomery, and assisted in capturing St John, Chambly and Montreal, on the retreat of the American Army in the Spring of 1776, he retreated with them and at Albany shortly after the arrival of the Army at that place, he enlisted into the Army during the Revolutionary war, his Capt name was Oliver (Olivier) or Oglebe a frenchman by birth and was attached to Col'o Hazen's Regiment called Congress's own, she believes the said Peter was in the battle of Brandywine where he was taken prisoner. he was also in the battle of Monmouth, and also in the battle of Yorktown at the time Cornwallis surrendered - And she further declares that her said husband the said Peter Chartier continued in the service of the United States until after the peace of 1783, when he was honorably discharged by Gen'l Washington at New Windsor in the State of New York. 
This discharge she remembers of frequently seeing many years ago - She further declares that she was married to the said Peter Chartier on or about the 15th day of November 1779 or 1780, but she believes it was 1780 by the Rev'd father Deferne a Roman Catholic Priest at the
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Highland so called in said State of New York, the troops then being stationed at Fishkill, and that she lived with the said Peter Chartier as his wife until the time of his death which took place at said Vergennes on the 25th day of December AD 1829 That she had nine children by the said Peter five of whom are now living. She has no record evidence of her marriage as neither she nor the said Peter could write, but she had a certificate of her marriage in French signed by the said Priest, but the same many years since was accidently burnt. - she presumes the Priest is dead, as he was then a very old man. and she is advised & believes there is no record of her marriage taken at Fishkill, the Highland or any other place, as the Laws of New York did not then require any such record to be made. - And she further declares that the said Peter Chartier was placed on the pension roll of the United States in the year 1818 for revolutionary services as she believes; Vermont Agency and continued to receive his pension up to the time of his death, and for a more particular account of his services she would refer to this declaration & proof made on the occasion of his obtaining said pension - And that she now remains his widow and have never been married since the death of the said Peter her said husband, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. - 
/s/X her mark Polly Chartier
Subscribed & sworn the day & year aforesaid, before the Court aforesaid
/s/Sam'l Swift Judge 
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the said Peter Chartier was a Revolutionary soldier, and that the above named applicant is the widow of the said Peter Chartier, & remains unmarried, and that their marriage took place before the expiration of the last period of the said Peters's service. 
/s/Sam'l Swift Judge
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State of Vermont
Addison District ss} I, Samuel Swift, Judge of the Probate Court for the said District of Addison, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Polly Chartier for a pension. 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 22d day of February 1837. 
/s/Sam'l Swift Judge
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Know all men by these presents - That now Joseph Chartier Sally Alden, Fanny Yattaw - All of the City of Vergennes County of Addison & state of Vermont. do hereby constitute & appoint Henry Weed of Hinesburgh Vermont our true & lawful attorney for us & in behalf of other surviving children of Peter Chartier & Polly Chartier to prosecute any & all claims we may have against the General Government of the United States for an increase & arrearages of Pension due to the s'd Peter Chartier & his widow the s'd Polly Chartier & to do all lawful acts & to appoint attorneys under him should he deem it necessary, and we hereby ratify & confirm any lawful act the s'd Weed may do in order to obtain s'd increase & arrearages. 
[official seals affixed] In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands & seals, at Vergennes this 25th day of August 1851 - 
/s/X her mark Sally Alden
/s/X her mark Fanny Yattaw
/s/X his mark Joseph Chartier 
In presence of 
/s/F. E. Woodbridge
/s/E. D. Woodward
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Joseph Chartier Sally Alden & Fanny Yattaw the signers & sealers of the foregoing power of attorney. Personally appeared before me on the day before written & acknowledged the same to their act & deed
Before me 
/s/F. E. Woodbridge Justice of the Peace
Know all men by these presents that I Henry Weed of Hinesburgh, Vermont, Do Hereby constitute Lyman Mason Esq of the City of Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts to act for me & in my behalf in the prosecution of the claim of Peter and Polly Chartier within named & to do all lawful acts with full power in the case as I myself possesses - 
[city seal affixed] Witness my hand & seal of Hinesburgh this 29th day of September 1851 
/s/Henry Weed
In presence of /s/Charles H. Weed
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Enoch D Woodbridge of Vergennes Addison County Vermont, Attorney & Counsellor at law, being sworn saith that he acted as the agent in the application of one Peter Chartier for a pension under the law of March 18th 1818. And that a Certificate of Pension was sent him allowing s'd Peter Chartier one hundred and forty four dollars per annum for his service as Artificer in Col. Hazen's Reg't. That s'd pension was paid until his death in 1832 as he believes 
Deponent further states that he also acted as the Agent of his widow Polly Chartier in her application for a pension under the law of July 4th 1836 and that a pension was allowed his said widow until her death which took place in ['1850 May' crossed out] 1850 as he believes. He further states that he is acquainted with the children of s'd Peter & Polly Chartier & that Jacob Chartier, Peter Chartier, Joseph Chartier, Sally Alden & Fanny Yattaw are the surviving heirs as he believes & further saith not 
/s/E. D. Woodbridge
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E. D. Woodbridge the signer of the foregoing Affidavit personally appeared & made oath to the facts before stated on the 26th August 1851
Before me 
/s/F. E. Woodbridge Justice of the Peace
State of Vermont
City of Vergennes ss} I Philip C. Tucker Jr. Clerk of the City Court of said Vergennes do hereby certify that Frederick E. Woodbridge before whom the three foregoing affidavits purports to have been taken was at their respective dates a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Addison in ['and' crossed out] State of Vermont, duly elected commissioned & sworn and the signatures of said Justice thereto annexed are genuine. 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & the seal of said City Court at said Vergennes this 26th day of August A.D. 1851.
/s/Philip C. Tucker Jr
Clerk of City Court
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Know all men by these presents that I Joseph Chartier of the City of Vergennes Addison County Vermont do hereby constitute & appoint Lyman Mason Esq of the City of Boston Commonwealth of Massachusetts to be my sole true & lawful attorney for me & on my behalf to prosecute any claim I may have on the general government of the United States by virtue of the services of my father Peter Chartier as an Artificer in the war of the Revolution and for an increase of pension as such artificer that may be due to him or to his widow Polly Chartier. 
And the s'd Lyman Mason is hereby authorised to take all necessary proper & legal steps as fully as I can do in order to obtain s'd increase
Witness my hand & seal this 10th day of October AD 1851
/s/X his mark Joseph Chartier
Signed & sealed in presence of}
/s/C. T. Storms
/s/Henry Weed
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State of Vermont
City of Vergennes ss} I Philip C. Tucker Jr. Clerk of the City Court of said Vergennes, do hereby certify that Peter Chartier was a pensioner of the United States & died in said Vergennes in the month of June AD 1832, leaving a widow named Polly Chartier, who was also a pensioner & died on the 27th day of May AD 1850. And that Peter Chartier, Joseph Chartier, Jacob Chartier, Fanny Yattaw & Sally Alden are the only surviving children of said Peter & Polly Chartier deceased. 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & affix the seal of said court at said Vergennes this 26th day of August A.D. 1851.
/s/Philip C. Tucker Jr.
Clerk City Court
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State of Vermont
Addison County ss} I Polly Chartier of Vergennes in the County of Addison & State of Vermont being duly sworn, depose, testify & say, that when I made my statement to Enoch D. Woodbridge Esqr. for the purpose of having my declaration made in February last before the Probate Court for the district of Addison, for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the act of Congress of July 4th 1836, (to which I supposed myself entitled) I stated to said Woodbridge that I was Eighty four years old, & at the same time told him that I was about thirteen years old when I was brought out of Canada with my father's family in the year 1776. My father's name was James Robinson, I understood him to be a Sergeant Major in Hazen's regiment & he died at Crown Point on the retreat from Canada, when I came out with him=I also stated to Mr Woodbridge that I was married at about the age of 20 years near Fishkill in the State of New York by Mr. Deferne, a Roman Catholic Priest. I am a woman of no learning & cannot read nor write & have been many years infirm in health. 
/s/X her mark Polly Chartier
Witness /s/P. C. Tucker
over
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State of Vermont
Addison County ss} Vergennes May 2d 1837 - 
Personally appeared Polly Chartier the signer of the foregoing affidavit & made solemn oath to the truth thereof, after a very full & careful explanation of the contents thereof; & having been acquainted with said Polly for about Twenty years, I fully believe that the said Polly is a credible witness & worthy of perfect belief - 
/s/Philip C. Tucker
Justice of the Peace 
Philip C. Tucker above named is a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Addison in this State, and the above signature of his name is in his own proper hand writing - May 2, 1837
/s/William Slade M.C. 
Enoch D. Woodbridge, whose affidavit is on the 2nd page of this sheet is a lawyer & magistrate of first respectability in the County of Addison 
/s/William Slade
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State of Vermont
Addison County ss} I Enock D. Woodbridge of Vergennes in the County of Addison and State of Vermont being duly sworn do depose & say, that at the time Polly Chartier widow of Peter Chartier made her declaration before the Probate Court for the District of Addison in February last I made out the papers for the purpose of her obtaining her pension under the act of Congress of July 4, 1836 - At that time she related to me, that she believed she was about Eighty four years old but at the same time she stated that she was about thirteen years old when she with her family retreated from [illegible] in the Spring of 1776. and that she was nineteen or twenty when she married, & that her oldest child was about two years old when her husband was discharged 
This will make her now about seventy four years old, instead of Eighty four as stated in her declaration - I made no calculation but took her statement, and without reflection - she the said Polly is a very ignorant & infirm however, much broken by life, & from her appearance I should think she might be Eighty four years or more. I have known the said Polly for more than forty years as the respected wife & widow of the said Peter Chartier & further the Deponent saith not
/s/E. D. Woodbridge
State of Vermont
Addison County ss} Vergennes May 2d 1837
The above affidavit sworn before me
/s/P. C. Tucker Jus Peace
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES Form VAM-51 12-5-41 Division of Veterans' Administration Archives 
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD* 
NAME Chartier, Peter GRADE Private LINE Hazen's Regiment  
WARRANT NUMBER 12884 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED February 20, 1792 to Benj. Moore, assignee

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.
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information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. Peter Chartier W.F. 23786
[column headings: DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.|LENGTH OF SERVICE.|RANK.|OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.(CAPTAIN.|COLONEL.)|STATE.|]
1775| - | - |(blank]|Gen. Montgomery|[blank]|
Spring 1776 to|June 1783|Private|(Laurence Olivier|{Moses Hazen in "Congress. Own" regt)|Continental|
[end of columns]
Battles engaged in, At captures of Chambly, St. John & Montreal; Brandywine, Monmouth, Yorktown
Residence of soldier at enlistment, ✓ 
Date of application for pension, Apr. 6, 1818. His claim was allowed. 
Residence at date of application, Vergennes, Addison Co. Vt.
Age at date of application, 69 yrs. Died at Vergennes Dec. 25, 1829 or Dec. 24 1830 (see Ag Book)
Remarks: Soldier married at the Highlands N.Y. Nov. 15, 1779 or 1780 or 1782. Polly daughter of James Robinson a Sgt. Major in Col. Hazen's regt who died at Crown Point on the retreat from Canada in 1776 having brought his family out of Canada with him. She was allowed pension on an application executed Feb. 22, 1837 while a resident of Vergennes. She was born Apr 8. -- and died Ma7 27, 1850. Their children were Jacob, Peter, James, Joseph, Sally Alden and Fanny Yattaw, [margin note: Could not use year of birth, too many conflicting statements, nor births of children]
Very Respectfully, 
[blank]
Commissioner. 
27225b3ml-07
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Peter Chartier of Vt. Act 1818. 
when paid last.
HHC
May 13, 1837
Died 24th Dec'r 1830 paid to that period IH
13+24+37=74
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I Ezra Hoyt Judge &c as afores'd do certify that the within named Peter Chartier is poor & in need of the assistance applied for
/s/E. Hoyt Judge
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[handwritten letter]
Washington Dec 21 '48

Sir
Will you favour me with an answer to the queries of the writer of the accompanying letter, if the information desired is in possession of your office. 
Your respectfully
/s/Geo. P. Marsh
Col. J. L. Edwards
Com. Pensions
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[handwritten letter]
Dear Sir
I send herewith additional testimony in the case of Polly Chartier. The original papers are in your office. The testimony herewith, must I think obviate fully the objections suggested in your letter to me. 
I have to request that you will act upon the case as soon as possible, & report to me. 
Your obedient servant
/s/W. Slade
May 8. '37
J. L. Edwards Esq.
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[handwritten letter]
Rouse's Point Feb. 1, 1849

Hon. G. P. Marsh
Dear Sir, 
Mr. Nathan Griswold of Vergennes Vt. enclosed to me a Letter from J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions to you, conveying information to the following effect "that the files in this office shew that Peter Chartier was married to Polly Robinson on or about the 15th November 1779 or 1780 at the High-lands, near Fishkill N.Y. by the Father Deferne, a Roman Catholic Priest; Sally Chartier of Massena N.Y. and Alexander Ferrill (Ferriol) of Chazy N.Y. were present at the marriage of Polly Chartier, at the time of her declaration in 1837 was in the 74th year of her age"
The information is such as we wanted, inly it did not state where Peter Chartier died, and was not authenticated, so as to be made available in a Court of law, where this indeed is needed.
I send you an extract from the Law of 1846 of the State of New York, which will govern the Commissioner of Pensions in making out the documentary evidence required - 
"§1. A [illegible] act, proceeding, record, document, roll, warrant, order
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[handwritten letter]
or other paper, or writing, now or hereafter remaining in any of the departments of the government of the United States, may where certified by the head or acting chief office at the time being of such department to have been compared by him with the original, and to be a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole of such original and attested by the seal of the department be given in evidence in all Courts of this State with the like effect as the original."
You will confer a great favor on Mr. Griswold who has suits pending in our State Court & considerable depending on establishing the facts, as disclosed by records of the Pension office - 
On your obtaining these papers it will some time if you send them direct to me - 
I am with much Respect Your obt. Serv't
/s/C. K. Averill
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George Moore
State of New York
County of Clinton} ss: I Peter S. Palmer, Deputy Clerk of the County of Clinton do hereby certify that George Moore is a Justice of the Peace for the town of Plattsburgh in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission is dated on the Eighth day of March 1837 and that his term of Office will expire on the first day of January 1841. And that his signature above written is genuine - 
[county seal affixed] In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the said County of Clinton this 1st day of May 1837. 
/s/Peter S. Palmer Deputy Clk.
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State of New York
Clinton County ss
Benjamin Mooers of the Town of Plattsburgh in the County and State aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth and saith, - That this deponant was a Leftenant and Adjutant of the Regiment commanded by General Moses Hazen in the Army of the Revolution and was acquainted with John Chartier, Peter Chartier and Alexander Ferriol who were Soldiers in that Regiment and that the Said Alexander Ferriol is a credible person as this deponant verily believes and furthermore this deponant saith not. 
/s/Benj. Mooers
Sworn & Subscribed, before me, this 1st day of May 1837
George Moore Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
County of Clinton ss} Alexander Ferrioll (Ferriol) of the Town of Chazy in the County and State aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth and saith That this deponant was a Soldier of the Revolutionary Army and belonged to Captain Laurent Olivie's (Olivier) Company in General Moses Hazen's Regiment, called Congress' Regiment 
That this deponant was well acquainted with Peter Chartier, who was a Soldier in the same company and Regiment from the retreat from Canada in 1776 to the time of their discharge in June 1783, at New Windsor, Cantonment. That this deponant was also well acquainted with Polly Robinson and that this deponant was present some time in the spring of the year 1780 when the said Peter Chartier and the said Polly Robinson agreed before a witness to live together as man and wife until they should be able to find some Roman Catholic Priest to Solemnize their marriage That this occurred at or near Fishkill 
That subsequently in the Spring in 1782 about three miles from the baracks at Fishkill this deponant was present when the marriage between the said Peter Chartier and the said Polly was solemnized by a Mr Farm or Form a Roman Catholic Priest who came from Philadelphia to visit the Canadian Roman Catholics of the Regiment, and that the said Polly Chartier was at time of her said marriage in 1782 in her nineteenth year of age as this deponant believes and must now be in the seventy fourth year of her age and furthermore this deponant saith not. 
/s/Alexander Ferriol
Sworn & Subscribed Before me this 1st day of May 1837.}
/s/George Moore Justice of the Peace
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ans'd June 26. 49
file with Polly Chartier's papers.
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[handwritten letter]
Vergennes Vermont
12th June 1849

James L. Edwards Esq'r 
Com'r of Pensions - 
Dear Sir
We have been applied to by Peter & James Chartier of this town to assist them in obtaining pensions for services rendered in the war of the Revolution, and also lands should they be Entitled, You will perceive by the deposition of Polly Chartier their mother, the grounds on which they claim. She is a respectable old french woman, & we have no doubt fully believes what she states to be true - 
We attach a copy of the deposition, for your examination.
Now we wish to enquire, whether from the rolls of Hazen's Regt in the war office the facts stated by her of her son's enrollment are true, & whether they drew their rations & if so, who whether they are entitled by law to pensions and lands or either, - We make the Enquiry to save them fruitless trouble & expense as they are very poor, and we would also have you to understand that, we are not speculators, in obtaining pensions, but assist those only who apply to us of their own accord & in the court of our business - we learn that the boys who obtained pensions alluded to in the old woman's deposition are named Joseph & John Monte & that the information came to the old woman through
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[handwritten letter]
Judge Woodward pf Plattsburgh N.Y. - 
We should be pleased to hear from you as early as convenient - 
We are Sir, Very Respectfully Your Obt. Servant, 
/s/E. D. & F. E. Woodbridge

"copy"
I Polly Chartier of Vergennes in the County of Addison & State of Vermont, aged Eighty seven years being duly sworn, depose & say, that I am the widow of Peter Chartier late of Vergennes aforesaid deceased who was an artificer in the service of the United States during the Revolutionary War, & belonged to Captain Olivier's Company and Col. Hazen's Reg't called Congress's own & served therein from the time of the retreat of the American forces from Canada after the fall of Gen'l Montgomery to the close of the war & after the year 1878 was a pensioner of the United States 
That after my marriage with the said Peter Chartier I had two sons by him. One by the name of Peter Chartier Jr was born at West point where we were then stationed on the 5th day of July AD 1778 & the other James was born at Fishkill in the State of New York on the 13th day of May AD 1787.
And I further say that after the birth of my said sons, they were both Enrolled or Enlisted by their Father & attached to the service of the United States & Enrolled in the said Captain Olivier's Company, and I distinctly recollect that after Enrollment or Enlistment as aforesaid, they, or their father for them, regularly drew their rations as soldiers
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until the close of the war which I now believe was somewhere about two years. I further say that I am now a United States pensioner as the widow of said Peter Chartier - and I further say that I was totally ignorant that my sons were Entitled to pensions until very lately, but learn that other boys Enrolled in the same manner and about the same age have obtained their pensions & lands - And further the deponent saith not - 
signed. X her mark Polly Chartier 
Witness
/s/H. B. Woodbridge
Subscribed & Sworn before /s/Frederick E. Woodbridge 
Justice of the peace
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[handwritten letter]
Boston Nov. 28, 1851
Sir, 
The children of Polly Chartier,, deceased, believing that she did not recover the full amount of pension to which she was entitled having appointed me their agent for that purpose, I submit for allowance their claim for an increase of the same. 
It is alleged that Peter Chartier husband of said Polly served nearly the whole of the war, that when the regiment of artificers were disbanded, as such, he was stationed with the regiment of Col. Hazen, in which he continued to serve to the end of the war.
I therefore respectfully request that the arrear of pension due to said Peter & Polly may be paid to their surviving children - 
Very Respectfully Your Obt Servt
/s/Lyman Mason
20 Court St

James E. Heath
Com'r of Pensions.
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[handwritten letter]
Plattsburg N.Y. June 23 1849

Dear Sir,
I will thank you to send me an authenticated copy of the declaration & proof upon which Mrs. Polly Chartier, (Alias Carter of Vergennes Vermont, widow of Peter Chartier deceased) was pensioned. 
These documents are wanted to corroborate the Statements of Mrs. Chartier whose Deposition has been taken in an action of ejectment now pending in the Supreme Court of this State, wherein Thomas Perkins & others are Plaintiffs and Nelson Weeks & others are Defendants.
Respectfully Yours,
/s/J. D. Woodward atty for Pltfs
J. L. Edwards Esq
Com'r of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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[typewritten letter]
[initials: T.J.C.]
#23 Killington Avenue,
Rutland, Vermont, July 31, 1907. 
[receipt stamp: U.S. PENSION OFFICE P AUG 2 1907]
Commissioner of Pensions, 
Washington, D.C. 
Dear Sir, Please send me a certified copy of the Revolutionary War record of Peter Chartier, I am a descendant of his and I desire the above to file in my application for membership in the Vermont Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. Please inform me where and when he was born, where and when he died, where buried, to whom married and when and where? 
Very truly yours, 
John Little.
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[typewritten letter]
#23 Killington Avenue,
Rutland, Vermont, Aug. 9, 1907.

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

Dear Sir, I have received the military history etc., of Peter Chartier, a soldier and pensioner of the Revolutionary War which you sent me. Enclosed please find it and kindly make out one more like this one and return both to me, I should like to keep one and as I must file one of them with my application for membership in the Vermont Society of Sons of American Revolution
I desire to have two of them if I can have them.
Also please send me two copies of James Robinson's military history and all other information you can about him and his family the same as you did in Peter Chartier's case. He served as a Sergeant Major in Col. Moses Hazen regiment as stated in Peter Chartier's military history during the Revolutionary War. In joining the Society here if I desire to file military history of
more than one ancestor I must furnish military history of each ancester separate.
Very truly yours,
/s/John Little
[receipt stamp: U.S. PENSION OFFICE A AUG 12 1907]
[receipt stamp: O.W.&N. DIV. FILES AUG 13 1907]
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[typewritten letter]
21 Killington Avenue.
Rutland, Vermont. Oct. 19, 1907. 
[receipt stamp: O.W.& N. DIV. FILES OCT 21 1907]

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

Dear Sir. I have received the 2 copies of the military history of my great great grandfather Peter Chartier that served in Congress Own Continental regiment commanded by Col. Hazen in the Revolutionary War. I had to leave one with the Vt. state society and one with the National society, S. A. R. when I became a member and I should be glad to receive one more of the military history of the above soldier to keep for myself please send me one.
Very truly yours,
John Little. 
[margin note: I thought this a good enough reason for sending him a third copy A.W.]
[receipt stamp: U.S. PENSION OFFICE A OCT 21 1907]
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[verso]
1907 Aug. 7. Hist. to John Little.
1907 Aug 13 Hist to John Little AW
2907 Oct. 24 Hist to John Little Aw

[recto]
Rev WIDOW, &c. 
File No. 23786
Polly Chartier wid. of Peter Chartier 
Artificer Rev war
Act: July 4th 1836.
Index: - Vol. A, Page 133
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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State of Vermont
Addison County ss} I Sally Chartier of Massena in the County of St Lawrence and State of New York now residing in Vergennes in the County of Addison and State  of Vermont aged seventy years the 31st day of October last being duly sworn depose & say that I am sister of Polly Chartier of Vergennes aforesaid, widow of Peter Chartier late of said Vergennes deceased, and that I was present and saw the said Polly and Peter Chartier duly joined in marriage by the Rev' father Deferne a Roman Catholic Priest, at a place called the Highlands in the State of New York. The marriage took place late in the fall of the year, I should say in the year 1779 or 1780 according to the best of my recollection, but I know for certainty that  it was some years before the peace of 1783 and while the said Peter was a soldier in the American Army - At the time of the marriage Mr. Deferne was an aged man, and I presume has long since deceased, and I understand and believe that there was no recording of marriages in the State of New York at that time - and I further say that the said Peter Chartier was a pensioner of the United States at the time of his decease, and that the said Polly & Peter Chartier lived together as husband and wife from the time of their marriage as afs'd to the time of his decease which happened in the fall of the year or forepart of winter 1829, and that the said Polly Chartier has remained the widow of the said Peter since his death, having never been since married to any other person & further the deponent saith not. - 
/s/X her mark Sally Chartier
State of Vermont
Addison County ss} Sworn to and subscribed before me the 20th day of February AD 1837. And I further certify that the above deponent is in my opinion a credible witness - 
/s/E. D. Woodbridge Justice of the Peace for Addison County
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State of Vermont
Addison County ss} I James Chartier (otherwise called Carter) of Panton in the County of Addison and State of Vermont, aged forty nine years being duly sworn depose and say, that I am the son of Peter Chartier late of Vergennes deceased, and Polly Chartier his widow now a resident of Vergennes in said County of Addison and that my parents the said Peter & Polly lived together as husband and wife ever since my memory serves me, up to the time of my said father's death which took place at Vergennes afr'd on the 25th day of December 1829 - And I further say that I have seen in the possession of my said father and mother an old paper written in the french language, which when interpreted to me purported to be a certificate of marriage signed by the Rev'd Mr. Deferne a Clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church, and I recollect distinctly that the date of their marriage was some three or four years before the peace of 1783. but the exact time I cannot say - And I further say, about the year 1821. I recollect the time from the circumstance of my leaving home for New York about that time, I say my father the said Peter Chartier burn the said marriage certificate among other old papers, including my certificate of baptism by a Roman Catholic priest of Chazy in the State of New York saying at the time, they could be of no use - And I further say, that it was always believed in the family and by their neighbors that the said Peter & Polly were legally married during the year - And that my father was a pensioner of the United States during his life time, and that my mother the said Polly Chartier now lives as his widow, having never been married since his death. and further the deponent saith not. - 
/s/James Carter
State of Vermont
Addison County ss} Sworn to and subscribed before me this 20th day of February AD 1837. And I further certify that the above deponent is in my opinion a credible witness
/s/E. D. Woodbridge Justice of the Peace for Addison County
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State of Vermont
Addison County ss} I Mercy Strong of Vergennes in the County of Addison and State of Vermont aged seventy three years widow of Gen'l Sam'l Strong late of said Vergennes deceased being duly sworn do depose and say, that I have been acquainted with Peter Chartier late of said Vergennes deceased, and with is widow Polly Chartier of Vergennes afor'd for more than forty years. and for a considerable time they were tenants of my late husband. 
I always understood had have no reason to disbelieve that they were lawfully married during the Revolutionary war, and while the said Peter was a soldier in the United States services, from the time of my first acquaintance with them, until the time of the said Peter's death they lived together as husband & wife, and brought up a family of children the oldest of which is of sufficient age to shew that he was married at the time she states in her declaration - The said Polly Chartier is now the widow of said Peter, having never been married since his death & further the Deponent saith not - 
/s/Mercy Strong
State of Vermont
Addison County ss} Sworn to and subscribed before me this 20th day of February Ad 1837 and I further certify that the above deponent is in my opinion a credible witness - 
/s/E. D. Woodbridge Justice of the Peace for Addison County
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Polly Chartier
widow of Peter
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State of Vermont
Addison County ss} I, Samuel Swift, Clerk of the County Court for the said County of Addison, do hereby certify, that Enoch D. Woodbridge, before whom the foregoing affidavits of Sally Chartier, James Carter and Mercy Strong purport to have been made, was at the time a Justice of the peace for said County and his name severally subscribed thereto is his own signature.
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, this 22d day of February 1837. 
/s/Sam'l Swift Clerk
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CHARTIER, PETER, Pvt., HAZEN'S REGT.
BLWt 12884 iss. 2-20-1792
to Benj. Moore, assignee