Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23784, Isaac Chase, Mass.
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SERVICE
Mass

Chase, Isaac
Lois

NUMBER
W 23784
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Maine, No. 26,038

Isaac Chase, deceased
of Cum[berland] Co. in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Co. commanded by Captain Parker of the Reg. commanded by Col. Wade in the Mass line for 9 mo. 7 days.

Incd. [increased] from $26.66

Inscribed on the Roll of Portland,  at the rate of 30 Dollars 77 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831,. end 12 Nov. 1840, when he died.

Certificate of Pension issued the 23rd day of Jan. 1847 and sent to P.B.Abbott, West Buxton, Maine.

Arrears to the 4th of [blank]
Semi-anl allowance ending [blank]


{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by D.W.Wood,  Clerk,
Book E  Vol. 1  Page 9

Payable to children
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Payable to Gideon, Abigail, David, Isaac, Mary F. and James Chase and Jane Harmon, only children

Rev.
3 Certf.
1832, 1838, 1843, & 1846

letter to Philbrick B. Abbott
March 30th 1847


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Maine, 5073

Lois Chase, dec.
widow of Isaac Chase
who was a Private in the Mass line.

Husbd. died on Nov. 12, 1840.

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 30 Dollars 77 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843., end 26th  Dec. '45
 Incd [increased] from $26.66

Certificate of Pension issued the 23rd day of Jany. 1847 and sent to P.B.Abbott
West Buxton, Maine

[in brackets]  
Acts of March 3, 1843 and 7 June 1846

Recorded in Book A,  Vol. 2,  Page 2.
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United States of America
Maine District SS}  At a special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Gorham within and for said District on the thirty first day of July Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty two before the Hon Ashur Ware Judge of said Court.
On this thirty first day of July aforesaid personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge Isaac Chase a resident of Standish in the County of Cumberland in said Maine District, aged seventy five years in December next, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.  That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated viz that in the summer of July 1778 at Gorham in the County of Cumberland & State of Massachusetts at that time enlisted as a private in a company of militia commanded by Capt Parker of North Yarmouth.  That he immediately after enlisting proceeded to Providence in the State of Rhode Island and joined the Regiment under the command of Col Wade.  That he continued there in said service six months, the term for which he enlisted and was discharged from said service at Warwick in January 1779.  That he was born at Presumpscot on the 13th day of December 1757.  That he enlisted again in Gorham the month of July 1779 under the command
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[page 2 of declaration of Issac Chase, 1832]

of Capt Alexander Mclellan for two months.  That he marched to Portland, and then sailed for Bagaduce where he served until the defeat of the army and then returned back to Portland, where he was discharged after [ink blot] service of two months.  That he is now nearly seventy five years of age but has no [ink blot] record of it but what was made  by him ay an early part of his life.  That during the Revolutionary period he lived in Gorham since that time he removed to Standish where he has lived ever since.  That he has two depositions of his service in the two Campaigns above mentioned, viz Zebulon Whitney and Samuel Files of Gorham who served with him as privates, the former with him in the first campaign, the latter with him at Bagaduce.
[signed] Isaac Chase

Signed & Sworn to before me
July 31 - 1832  [signed] Ashur Ware  Judge of United States [unknown]
District of Maine

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that said Isaac Chase above named was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states.
I John Mussey Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Isaac Chase for a pension.
And that Jonah Pierce Esquire who took the annexed deposition of Samuel Files & Zebulon Whitney is a Justice of the Peace duly qualified & that his official attestations are entitled to full faith and credit.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal of office this fifteenth day of August A.D. 1832
[signed] John Mussey  Clerk
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9892

Lois Chace

Me

Act 7 July  38

[M?] 83.

admd [admitted?]
8 mo pri [months private?]
26.66

Hon F. H. Morse
HR [House of Representatives]
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State of Maine.
On this  28th day of December 1843 personally appeared before the District Court of the United States, for the District of Maine, Lois Chase, a resident of Standish in the County of Cumberland and State aforesaid aged 83 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows".  That she is the widow of Isaac Chase who was a private soldier in the Revolutionary War and served one Campaign at Rhode Island and one at Bagaduce in this State, that she is not able to state the Regiment or Corps to which he belonged nor the names of the officers under whom he served, but that he was a pensioner under the Act of June 7, 1832 at the rate of twenty six dollars and sixty six cents per annum payable at Portland Maine.  And she would refer the Department to the evidence accompanying his declaration on which he obtained said certificate for proof of the service &c.  She further declares that she was married to
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the said Isaac Chase the latter part of October or some of the first days of November in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty three at the "Old Indian Fort" in the Town of Gorham at which place she had resided between one and two years, and that James Phinney Esq Solemnized the marriage.  That her name previous to her marriage with said Chase was Lois Smith.  That her husband the aforesaid Issac Chase died on the twelfth day of November 1840.  That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at the time above stated, and that she still remains a widow and unmarried
[signed] Arthur Ashur Ware
Lois Chase  
[illegible scribbles on the right]

Signed & Sworn to in open Court before me
[signed] Ashur Ware
Dc. 28, 1843
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United States
Maine District SS
Circuit Court Clerk's Office
  I hereby certify that the Honorable Asher Ware, before whom the foregoing proceedings were had, is Judge of the United States in and for Maine District and that the signatures thereto purporting to be his, are his genuine signatures.
  In testimony of which I have hereto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Circuit Court this twenty eighth day of December A.D. Eighteen hundred and forty three
[signed] John Mussey  Clerk
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Know all men by these Presents that We, Giddeon Chase, Abigail Chase David Chase Mary F Chase and James Chase all of Standish County of Cumberland and State of Maine and Isaac Chase of Turner and Jane Harmon of Buxton in said State of Maine, Children and heirs of Isaac Chase of Standish deceased a Revolutionary Soldier and Children of Lois Chase of said Standish lately deceased who was the widow of Isaac Chase above mentioned, do hereby for ourselves and in our names constitute and appoint Philbrick B. Abbott Esq of Standish our true and lawful Attorney to make application the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and also to the Secretary of New Hampshire, and to the Secretary of War and to the Hon Commissioner of Pensions for proof of services performed by said Issac Chase during the War of the Revolution; and to several officers here alluded to, one respectfully requests by us to furnish all proof that may appear on any Roll or Rolls Book or Books, or other documents setting forth such service to Philbrick B. Abbott Esq, for the purpose of procuring our Claim for a Pension belonging to us as by statute of Congress made and provided by reason of the service of said Issac Chase and by Claim of the Widow (late deceased) Lois Chase according to the provision of Law under special acts of Congress made and provided.
Signed & sealed this 10th day of April AD 1846
[signed] Isaac Chase  Giddeon Chase  Abigail Chase  David Chase  Jane Harmon  Mary F Chase  James Chase

Witness [signed] Joseph Sanborn
Maria Church
Catherine Sanborn

Oxford, SS. April 10th 1846
Personally appeared the above Isaac Chase and acknowledged the foregoing power of Attorney to be his Free act & deed
Before me [signed] Stephen
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April 13th 1846
Cumberland SS.  Personally appeared the above Gideon Chase Abigail Chase David Chase Jane Harmon Mary F. Chase and James Chase and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be their free act and deed
Before me [signed] Joseph Sanborn} Justice of the Peace

Secretary of [unknown]

N.B. Please return to me. West Buxton Post Office
P. B. Abbott.
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State of Maine  Cumberland County
Standish  October 28th 1846.
We the undersigned citizens of Standish, County and State af [aforesaid], and for a long period to wit: for forty years and more, were the neighbors of Isaac Chase and Lois Chase deceased, and are now the Neighbors of David Chase  Mary F. Chase, Abigail Chase  Giddeon Chase and James Chase all in said Standish, also of Jane Harmon of Buxton, three miles distant, and formerly neighbors of Isaac Chase Jr son of the aforesaid Isaac Chase, a Revolutionary Soldier and Pensioner, deceased, said Isaac now living in the Town of Turner county of Oxford and State aforesaid.  We now do depose on oath and say that we have ever from childhood been intimately and thoroughly acquainted with the whole family of Isaac and Lois Chase deceased, they the aforesaid Isaac, Giddeon, David, James, Abigail, Mary and Jane Harmon being our school mates for a great number of years, residing in our own immediate neighborhood.  That they are the reputed legal Children of Isaac and Lois Chase, acknowledged as such by all persons, and even shared in Care and Kindness as such, and in the distribution of property have been accounted heirs and each received their quota of said property belonging to said Isaac Chase deceased.
[signed]  Pierce Sanborn  Joseph Dow  Jabez Dow
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Cumberland SS.}  Standish  October 28th 1846.

Personally appeared [Stephen Thomes?, crossed out] Jabez Dow, Joseph Dow, Pierce Sanborn and made oath that the foregoing Statements by them subscribed, respecting the family of Isaac and Lois Chase are true, and I further State [state, written again and crossed out] that  I am acquainted with them all, and that they are all good [underlined] and Credible Witnesses [underlined]
Before me [signed] Joseph Sanborn} Justice of the Peace for Cumberland County

And I further state that I am personally and practically acquainted with all of the material facts [underlined] set forth by them in their affidavit having been one of their nearest Neighbors [underlined]  for forty years and that said declaration is true to my certain knowledge
[signed] Joseph Sanborn
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Copy of Family Record
of Isaac and Lois Chase as now this 28th day of October 1846 appears.

Giddeon Chase  born May 16 1784
Eleazer Chase  [born] May 27 1786 Deceased March 17th 1846
Abigail Chase [born] December 15 1788
Isaac Chase  [born] March 20 1791
David Chase  [born] April 19 1793
Jane Chase  [born] October 28 1796
Mary F. Chase  [born] November 18 1798
James Chase  [born] February 20 1801
Zenas Chase  [born] August 15 1802  Deceased Nov. 25th 1829


I Joseph Sanborn Esq, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Cumberland and State of Maine, do hereby Certify that the above is a true copy of the Family Record of Isaac Chase and Lois Chase as this day shewn [shown] me at the late residence of said Isaac and Lois Chase, and I have every reason to believe, that the Record shown me is a just and true Record, and expressive of the actual dates of the births of the aforesaid Children and heirs of Isaac and Lois Chase, aforesaid
[signed] Joseph Sanborn} Justice of the Peace
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1669
Isaac Chase

Admitted
8 mo pr,, [per annum] 26.66


[written sideways] 
Nov. 25, 1833
Pension Office


[written upside down]
FREE
Hon. Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington



John Mussey [?]
Portland
Maine
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,  Oct 7 1833
Sir:  The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned.  The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form.  On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed.  The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done.  Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: } ).  You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by compling [complying]  with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.

[from the table]
A Statement, shewing the Service of Isaac Chase
[1] Period when the service was rendered  1778
[2] Months  6
[3] Rank of the claimant Private
[4] Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served  Capt Parker   Col Wade
[5] Age at present and place of abode when he entered the service  74  Gorham
[6] Proof by which the declaration is supported  Two witnesses neither of whom are certified to be credible

[1] 1779
[2] 2
[3] [ditto]
[4] Capt McLellan   No col mentioned

Application should be made to the Secy [secretary] of the State of Mass for evidence of the claimants service

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
[printed signature] J. L. Edwards,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.

The following regulations have been adopted:
   This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State Troops." "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers. &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c.   Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
   Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1.  The Regular Troops.
2.  The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3.  Persons employed in the Naval Service.
4.  Indian Spies.
   As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides.  And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.

DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
State, Territory, or District of_____}
County of_____ } ss.
   On this_____day of_____personally appeared (a) before_____A.B. a resident (b) of_____in the county of_____and State, Territory or District of_____aged (c)_____years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.  That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)_____, with _____and served in the _____(e) regiment of the_____line, under the following named officers:
    [in brackets:]  Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched.  (L.)  This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c. [end of brackets]

   He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency for the State of
   Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
     [in brackets:] And then will follow the certificate of the Court.

   And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
   I_____of the Court of _____do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of_____for a pension.
   In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this _____day of_____&c.

   If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
   Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers, or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
   (k)  We, A.B., a Clergyman, residing in the _____and C.D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with _____, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be _____years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
   Sworn to and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
    [in brackets:] And then will follow the certificate of the Court.
   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 them that A.B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergymen, resident in the_____and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
   I,_____Clerk of the Court of _____do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of _____for a pension.
     In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this _____day of_____&c.

   Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power.  This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
   If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his  [end of page]
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department.  A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case.  The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected.  All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the county in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
   The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State Troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State Troops of Virginia.
1.  Where and in what year were you born?
2.  Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3.  Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live?
4.  How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute?  And if a substitute, for whom?
5.  State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
6.  To a Soldier {  Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
To an Officer { Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
7.  State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.

   The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
   The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons---one of whom should be the nearest clergymen, if one lives in  the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion.  If one of these persons is a Clergymen, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
    The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party.  And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
   Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of the Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
   Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of Court or County, under his seal of office will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
   No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authorized before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.

  (a)  The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
   (b)  The declarant must make his declaration in the cpounty where he resides.  If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
   (c)  The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
   (d)  The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
   (e)  Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had.  Every claimant must state, 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.  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."
   It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each 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 [in italics:] about three or four months, [end italics] in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service.  This form of a declaration is highly objectionable.  It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
   (f)  The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
   (g)  The opinion of the Court is always required.
   (h)  The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
   (i)  The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

Mode of authenticating papers.
   In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends 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.

Proof of Service.
   (j)  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 claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and 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.
   [double brackets]  The notes from (a) to (i) are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers, and State Troops.  The proof required by rule [?] note (j) applies to continental troops only.
   (k)  This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
   (l)  If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
   (m)  The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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State of Maine
Cumberland County____Gorham  December 28, 1843.
I, Eben Preble Clerk of the Town of Gorham do certify, that in the record of Publishments as recorded in the records of said Town, the Publishment of Isaac Chase and Lois Smith, is recorded as follows:

Gorham September thirteenth Seventeen hundred and Eighty three, Issac Chase of Pearson Town, entered his name and purpose of marriage with Lois Smith of Gorham.
Att[est] [signed] Austin Alden  Town Clerk.

I, Eben Preble as above named Depose and say that I hold the Office of Town Clerk in the Town of Gorham, and that the above Publishment is a true extract from the Record of said Town now in my possession, with the exception of the dates which is expressed on the records of said Town in fair legible figures as follows (viz) (Septr 13th 1783)
And I further Depose and say that no record of the Marriage of said Isaac Chase and Lois Smith is to be found on the Records of said Town.
Attest  Eben Preble  Clerk of said Town of Gorham

State of Maine
Cumberland County S.S.
On this twenty eighth day of December Eighteen hundred and firty three, Personally appeared before me Job Prince - a Justice of the Peace in and for said County[,] Eben Preble above named Town Clerk of the Town of Gorham, a person by me well known and entitled to full credit as a witness and made oath that the above extracts by him subscribed are truly copied from the Records of said Town, the dates being written out in words, which are put down in figures only on the Record as before stated with no other alterations.
[signed] Job Prince  Justice of the Peace
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I Experience Higgins of Standish in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine aged sixty seven years, testify and say that I was well acquainted with Isaac Chase late of this town deceased, that I have resided in the same neighborhood with him, ever since my earliest recollections - that I was but about seven or eight years old when said Chase was married - as it was then reported.  I recollect very well the time when he moved his wife into the neighborhood - which is the same neighborhood in which he resided all the remainder of his life and that the place was then called Parsonstown.  And I further testify that I went to live with the said Isaac Chase some time in the later part of the year 1786 or first part of the year 1787 and that his wife then had two children and that I resided in his family between two and three years and was living in the family when their third child (Abigail) was born, that said Chase was reputed to have been a Revolutionary Soldier that he died the latter part of the year 1840, and that he left a widow by the name of Lois Chase who still remains a widow & unmarried and resides in said Standish
[signed] Experience Higgins

State of Maine, Cumberland County S.S.  December 28, 1843
Personally appeared Experience Higgins a credible witness and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by her subscribed  Before me [signed] Job Prince  Justice of Peace
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State of Maine
County of Oxford ss.
I the subscriber Clerk of the Judicial Courts within and for said County hereby certify that Job Prince whose genuine signature is annexed to the Deposition of Abigail Chase, Mary Tucker, Joseph Sanborn and Eben. P. Preble and Experience Higgins, hereunto attached, is a Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum throughout the State of Maine, duly commissioned and qualified as such, and full faith & credit is to be given to his acts in that capacity in each & every County in this State.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court and subscribed my name this second day of January 1844
[signed] Joseph G. Cole  Clerk as aforesaid
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I, Mary Tucker, of Standish in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine aged seventy four years, testify and say that my mother in whose family I then resided, moved into this Town (then called Parsonstown) sometime about the year seventeen hundred and eighty one, and on the farm adjoining the one on which Isaac Chase, late of this town deceased had commenced clearing.  That the said Chase boarded in the same family with me untill [until] he was married.  I recollect very well the time when he went to Gorham (as he said) to be married and prepared his wedding clothes, that he moved his wife into the same neighborhood the next week after & which, I think, was in the year 1783, but am not  positive as to the year but am certain it was as early as 1783 or 1784.  That the said Isaac Chase resided on the same farm untill the time of his decease which was in the latter part of the year 1840.  That he was reputed to have been a Revolutionary Soldier.  That he left a widow by the name of Lois Chase who still remains a widow and unmarried
[signed] Mary Tucker

State of Maine
Cumberland County } SS  December 28, 1843
Personally appeared Mary Tucker a credible witness and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by her subscribed
Before me {signed] Job Prince  Justice of the Peace
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I, Joseph Sanborn of Standish in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine aged forty two years, testify and say that I was well acquainted with Isaac Chase late of this town deceased, that he was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the U.S. that he died on the twelfth day of November 1840, that he left a widow by the name of Lois Chase who still remains a widow and unmarried and now resides in Standish
[signed] Joseph Sanborn

State of Maine
County of Cumberland} SS.  December 28, 1843
Personally appeared Joseph Sanborn and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed
Before me  [signed] Job Prince  Justice of the Peace
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I Abigail Chase of Standish in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine aged fifty five years, testify and say that I am the Daughter of Isaac Chase late of this town, deceased, that I have even resided in my Father's family to the time of his decease, that he was a Pensioner of the U.S. that he died on the twelfth day of November 1840 and that he left a widow by the name of Lois Chase who still remains a widow and now resides in Standish
[signed] Abigail [ written shakily] Chase

State of Maine
Cumberland County} SS.  December 28, 1943
Personally appeared Abagail [sic] Chase a credible witness and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by her subscribed  
Before me  [signed] Job Prince Justice of the Peace
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I Samuel Files of Gorham in the County of Cumberland & State of Maine, do testify and say that I was a private in the Company of Infantry commanded by Capt. Alexander McLellan of said Gorham in the Regiment commanded by Col Mitchell at North Yarmouth in said State in the Massachusetts State troops and was at Castine, then called Bagaduce in the year A.D. 1779 - and that I was there in the Revolutionary army at that time two months and that I then knew Isaac Chase, of Gorham aforesaid, but now resident in Standish in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine - that said Chase was a private in the same company at the same time & was in that service two months - that the said Isaac Chase was enlisted & discharged at the same time I was - and I further testify & say that I have this day seen the said Isaac Chase & know him to be the same Isaac Chase that was with me in Capt. Mclellan's company in 1779 -
Gorham  July 26, 1832.
[signed] Samuel Files

Cumberland SS - July 26, 1832 -- then personally appeared the above named Samuel Files and made solemn oath that the deposition by him above subscribed was true - before me - 
[signed] Josiah Pierce, Justice of the Peace
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Samuel Files
Deposition
Cumberland SS Oct 25 1833  I hereby certify that the within named Samuel Files is personally known to me to be a credible person & his statements entitled to credit
[signed] Toppan Robie  Justice of the Peace
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Cumberland SS  July 26, 1832
I hereby certify that the within named Deponent Samuel Files is, according to my best knowledge & belief, a man of truth & veracity
[signed] Josiah Pierce  Justice of the Peace
Gorham Maine
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I Zebulon Whitney of Gorham in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine aged eighty four years testify and say that I was a private in the Company commanded at first by Capt Parker afterwards by Capt Lemont in the Regiment of Massachusetts State troops commanded by Col. Wade in the year A.D. 1778 - that I was in said Company six months & discharged in January A.D. 1779 - that we were marched to Rhode Island - and I further testify & say that I was there well acquainted with Isaac Chase, then of Gorham in the County & State aforesaid - and that he was in the service in said Massachusetts State troops six months & was discharged at the same time I was - and I further say that I now know said Issac Chase, & that he lives in the town of Standish & County of Cumberland and  State of Maine aforesaid, & that he is the same Isaac Chase that was with me in the army in the year A.D. 1778
[signed] Zebulon Whitney
Gorham  July 26, 1832

State of Maine
Cumberland SS  July 26, 1832
then personally appeared the above named Zebulon Whitney & made oath to the truth of the Deposition by him subscribed before me
[signed] Josiah Pierce, Justice of the Peace
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Cumberland SS.  July 26, 1832
I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted within named deponent, Zebulon Whitney, & that he sustains the character of a man of truth and veracity -
[signed] Josiah L. Pierce  Justice of the Peace
Gorham  Maine


Cumberland SS  October 25, 1833  I hereby certify that the within named Zebulon Whitney was personally known to me to be a credible person & his statements entitled to credit - that he has deceased since giving the within deposition
[signed] Toppan Robie  Justice of the Peace

[upside down at bottom of page]  Zebulon Whitney's
Deposition
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Isaac Chase
No. 1669.
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Maine District SS
District Clerk's Office  November 19, 1833
In testimony that Josiah Pierce and Toppan Robie are Magistrates as above and that the signatures thereto purporting to be theirs are genuine I have hereto set my hand and seal of Office the day and year last above written.
[signed] John Mussey  Clerk of U. S. Courts
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Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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House of Repr [representatives]  Jan 13, 1844
Dear Sir
Herewith you will receive the Declarations of Lois Chase & the heirs of Elizabeth Pompiley  May I venture to ask for them an early attention  If anything is wanting to make out their case please inform me.
Respect[fully]  Your Obedt Servant
[signed] F. H. Morse  H.R.

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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No 5436

Maine
Mar 3 1843
Lois Chase,

$26.66 per a[nnum]

Hon. F. H. Morse
HR [House of Representatives]
Mar 7 '44
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State of Maine
Cumberland County } SS.
On this twenty sixth day of February 1844 personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, Lois Chase, a resident of Standish in the County of Cumberland, aged eighty three years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of  Congress, passed on the third of March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.  That she is the widow of Isaac Chase, who was a Private in the army of the Revolution, and for proof necessary to entitle her to the benefit of the provisions of said Act, she would refer the Department to the evidence accompanying her declaration and application on which she was granted a pension of twenty six dollars and sixty six cents per annum under the act of July 7 1838, the Certificate of which was  numbered 8086, and payable at Portland Maine.  She further declares that she is still a widow and unmarried.
[signed] Lois Chase
Witness} [signed] Julia A Harmon

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written before the subscriber, who hereby certifies that the Declarant is personally known to him as the same person above represented
[signed] Job Prince  Justice of the Peace
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I hereby certify that Job Prince Esquire is a Magistrate duly authorized and commissioned to act within the County of Cumberland in said District: - That the within signature is his genuine signature and that full faith and credit are due his official attestations.
In testimony of which I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court this twenty seventh day of February A.D. Eighteen hundred and forty four.
[signed] John Mussey  Clerk
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State of Maine
Standish  Oct. 1st 1846
Hon. Sir:  I have just Recd [received] a Certificate from the Sec. of Mass. setting forth the service of Isaac Chase who was a private in the Army of the Revolution and a Pensioner from June 7th 1832, to the time of his death Nov. 12th 1840. at the rate of $26.66 per annum = also the further service which he could not prove during his life, and for which service he made application for an increase of Pension, and was not granted on account of his being unable to prove more than 6 months  = But the Rolls containing 17 months and 21 days service are here exhibited as per Certificate of the Sec. of Massachusetts = 2 of these Rolls having recently been found and deposited in the Sec. of Mass' Office at Boston Mass.  They prove now what he formerly alleged before his death and that for a number of years and at different times, and for said service would have Recd the just quota of Pension in his lifetime if he could have shown to the Country's the the [sic] then acting Commissioner of Pensions and to the Secretary of War = the proof of said service, = Now the facts being here exhibited by Positive Proof, they the undersigned Isaac Chase, Gideon Chase, Abigail Chase, David Chase, Jane Harmon, Mary F, Chase and James Chase, Children of said Isaac Chase and Lois Chase formerly wife of said Issac and latterly widow of said Isaac Chase, claim and humbly ask of you to enable them to receive the ballance [balance] of Pension which
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[page 2 of letter of Oct 1st 1846]

their Father Isaac Chase during his lifetime was fully entitled to, and without doubt would have Received if the within expressed service had been made to appro[val?]  = You will perceive that they have constituted me their attorney to prosecute their Claim, and as such I, in June last made application to the Hon. Secy of Massachusetts for search of Records, Rolls, Books and Military documents relating to service in the Army of the Revolution, and he made the search in June last, and furnished a Certificate and Mailed it directed to me at West=Buxton but by some cause to me unknown it miscarried and was left back in some Post Office for almost 3 months as you will readily perceive by the date of the Certificate viz June 30th 1846 = hence the reason I have not heretofore made application to you for the allowance of the Claim = = I procured a duplicate and was just about enclosing it to you when " Lo and behold! the original came to hand which I now hasten to send you, believing that no ambiguity rests in regard to the justness of the claim, and no want of proof but what is here lucidly set forth and fixedly certain = You will be enabled to give the subject a fair and speedy consideration and report accordingly = The difference in the time of service which he and the widow have been paid for is [ink smudge, illegible] Months and twenty one days, 11Mo 21 days he served 17 months and 21 days, and allowed but 6 months = = The widow deceased December 28th 1845,  Proof of which you have on file among her Pension Papers.  So that you being possessed of the old Pension Papers =
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[Letter of Oct 1st 1846, page 3]

of Isaac Chase under act of June 7 1832,  and also his Certificate returned 1841, for $26.66 - and also the Proof of the death of the widow Lois Chase.  You are in possession of all the material facts, and have the whole case before you  Be pleased Hon, Sir to act on this case as soon as your duty and convenience will allow and report to me at West=Buxton Post Office York Co. Maine 
I am dear Sir Your very humble and obt svt [obedient servant]
[signed] Philbrick B. Abbott.

[to] Hon. J. L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions

N.B.  If any informality in the application on any thing to be further done by way of substantiating the Heir's and Children's Claim, please in your Answer direct the manner of procedure - & I will comply with your instructions, in the meantime as I have had the ill luck to be left back from the miscarriage of the Certificate of Service so long, I wish you to inform me of the result as soon as you consistently can --
Yours &c P B Abbott.
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[letter of Oct 1 1846, page 4]

N.B. To prove the official character of the acting Justice of the Peace who executed the enclosed papers affidavits &c. I have sent his Commission [underlined]  The Clerk of the Court being absent -- The Commission appearing you will be perfectly warranted in allowing the excuse to be proper, &c.
Very Respectfully Your humble and Obt Svt.
[signed] Philbrick B. Abbott

[to] Col. J. L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions}

Please return the Commission in your first address to me, as soon as duty and convenience allow - direct to West=Buxton Post Office
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State of Maine  Cumberland Cty
Standish   Nov 23 1846.
Hon. Sir,
Your letter of the 14th inst in case of the heirs of Isaac Chase a Revolutionary soldier dec'd [deceased] came safely at hand (as by me requested forwarded to West Buxton P. Office) =  You state "The application for increase in the case of Lucy Chase dec d., widow of Isaac Chase has been examined and disallowed" = Now you are labouring under some misapprehension in regard to the Application of the heirs of Isaac Chase,  "  at least it seems to me and them, by the import of your letter, = The Applicants ask nothing by way of increase of Lucy Chase  Widow of Isaac Chase, as there seems by you quoted such an one, or was such a persons They know of no such person = They ask of you the arrearage due them according to several Acts of Congress of June 7, 1832, and others; " for amount of what Isaac Chase and Lois Chase were entitled to during their lives = (ie) the ballance [balance] they never Recd [received], but $26.66 per annum for 17 months 21 days Service performed by applicants Father, Isaac Chase, and husband of Lois Chase (not Lucy Chase) whom you make mention of = By reexamining the old Pension papers of said Isaac & Lois, you will at once see the correct position of the subject matter under consideration ---
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[image of pointing finger.  See the Postscript.]

*  This Issac Chase, Father of applicants, was formerly a Resident of Massachusetts, residing at Cape Cod & removed to "Gorham" then district of Maine and enlisted in Company of William Lithgow and served in that Company from March 11th to November 23rd 1776, "Eight months and fourteen days"  8 months & 14 days, ,, Also the same Isaac performed service in the Company of Capt. Benjamin Zemont in Rhode Island as a private from "Gorham" from June 25th 1778, including allowance of twelve days to return home, "six months and nineteen days"  6 months & 19 days.  Also in Company of Capt Alexander McLellan, a Gorham man he served in the land forces in the Penobscot Expedition two months and eighteen days; viz from July 7th to September 25th 1779. and this appears by the Records of Massachusetts, and also is confirmed by his associates, and is the same which is now substantiated by Nathaniel Chase, (in part) by his affidavit accompanying the Certificate of Secretary of Mass. and the application you have now before you on file - - Again your objection -- You say that "The service credited to Isaac Chase " of Gorham" was not performed or rendered by applicants Father, (and I use your own language) there is a manifest impropriety in appropriating that service to their use, =
Here you leave the subject - 
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But I would wish to be heard a little further in regard to this part of your objection for allowance. = The applicants Father has always claimed that service, has always related his story in regard to that service performed in Rhode Island; his associates have always related the same, and he is the identical man who appears on the Record as having in Capt Lemont's Company in Wade's Regiment performed the aforesaid "six Months and nineteen days service ["] ; however there may have been another Isaac Chase serving somewhere but no other in Capt Lemont's Company is to be found recorded in most Records and that the Isaac Chase now alluded to in the Certificate of Sec. of Mass, and by applicants, is the Isaac who ought to have in his lifetime Rec'd the amount now claimed by them, = However there may have been an Isaac Chase, who may have left a widow by the name of Lucy, yet nothing ought to be so construed, and nothing ought to confound and to blend the case of Isaac, husband of Lois with some other Isaac, who may have been the husband of Lucy Chase = As I said before, we know nothing of any such Issac nor never did we know nothing of such Lucy nor never did, all we ask for is the ballance [balance] of pay due the heirs of Isaac Chase formerly Husband 
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of Lois Chase, and by examination you I think will come to the conclusion that bone other than [the] applicants Father can claim any service performed in Captains Lithgow, Lemont's and McLellan's Companies . = The very fact as presented by all the evidence offered, the very appearance of all the evidence, both the several dates, in regard to time, and the affidavits of Chase and lastly the undeniable  proof of the Records of the aforesaid Companies and Regiments now in the archives of the Commonwealth of Mass. & certified copy of which you now have plainly exhibited = in the Certificate - all, we say, and think we are justly warranted in saying, go to prove the fact, that the applicants Father is the person, who ought to have Rec'd the Ballance [balance] from $26.66 per annum allowed, (ie) $26.66 has been paid them for 17 months and 21 days service - and that only  and they humbly and Respectfully ask of the Constituted Authorities of the United States the just and full recompense they are entitled to and nothing more. - This they expect, and said authorities will we think upon a careful examination of the whole, after correcting the mistake (if any has been made) in regard to the
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[page 5]

Case of Lucy Chase quoted by you, of which we are totally ignorant of any thing appertaining to her on her claim.  we say we think you will come to the conclusion that no ambiguity rests or appears in the case, and you will give them the Ballance [balance] asked for =  =  In the application you will see it stated that said Isaac in his lifetime claimed more pay than he received and for the record he could not or did not avail himself of the proof  = The Records now of Boston show this service, as they do in many other cases, I know much more fully the Massachusetts service of the War of the Revolution by reason of many Books Rolls &c being found in & among the several officer's papers and have within a few years been deposited with the Sec of State = of this fact you are fully acquainted, and I know full well that this is the fact, having had several ocasions [occasions] to call for Records, and found none in certain cases = and afterward found the Records "required" they being subsequent to the first search deposited in Secretary's Office " all of which you in your long experience in the Pension department know oft times has been the case = = Therefore I rest satisfied you will discover your first error in regard to the this (Lucy you mention) and also in regard to this Isaac of "Gorham" = I will just add that I have made [strict?] enquiring
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of the oldest persons in the Towns of Standish, Gorham, Buxton  &c in regard to the service of Isaac Chase = and also whether even another Isaac Chase than applicants Father went from Gorham into the service of the Revolutionary War = I can find no trace of any other Isaac Chase = they all well knew the Isaac in question and all of his family & many people knowing him to have been engaged in the service of the Revolution but no other man of that name = I think there can be no doubt of this, at least it does so appear, He must be the man who is quoted on the Rolls, he always  states that he served in said Companies  and it all, I think, goes fully to show that he was the man who was entitled and now by the existing Laws of the United States the applicant, his children, are justly entitled to the ballance [balance] - of this I submit the whole subject matter to the adjudication of the proper constituted authorities believing upon a full and proper investigation you will do justice to the case -
I am dr Sir Your very humble  and obt Svt [signed] P. B. Abbott} Atty for applicants

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions}
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[page 7]

NB.  Please attend to this reexamination as soon as your duty will allow and answer the same.  Please direct as latterly to West Buxton  Maine.
Yours &c [signed] P.B.Abbott.

Standish Nov. 24th 1846
*Postscript .  Since writing the above I have learned by enquiry of the Family and by citizens of Gorham that the aforesaid Isaac Chase was born in "Gorham" brought up in "Gorham" lived in Gorham at the time of his enlistment into Lithgow's Company also returned to Gorham, after his term expired and reinlisted [reenlisted] at "Gorham" for the Rhode Island Service, and then again returned to "Gorham and joined the company of Capt Alexander McLellan, in the Penobscot Expedition, and Capt McLellan was a citizen of Gorham at the time and a neighbor of Chase, = Chase afterwards moved to Standish where he died only about 8 miles from where he was born, and no other Isaac Chase can by them be now recollected, = Lois Chase and not Isaac was a former Resident of Cape Cod Mass  and I am pleased to correct my first error here = as regards his birth 
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but it is quite a matter of surprise to all that you state that the service of Isaac Chase "of Gorham" was not rendered by the Father of the applicant.  There seems some mistake here, however I think now you will on mature consideration and investigation find no difficulty in solving the true merits of the case and will allow the claim - 

N.B. Please in your return to enclose the Commission [underlined] of Joseph Sanborn Esq.  You will recollect it was sent with the application = and is among the papers.
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to J. L. Edwards Esq
Com. of Pensions
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State of Maine
West Buxton  January 5th 1847
Hon. Sir,
I received your letter of data December 14th sometime since, in regard to the Claim of the Heirs of Issac Chase of "Gorham" in which you have so fully set forth the services of said Isaac and also services of Isaac Chase of "Brunswick" = Since the reception of yours of the 14th (alluded to), I have made, have by reference to paper's and by the family, and also by other investigation made such enquiring as I think sufficient to warrant you in the conclusion you have arrived at, = viz "That Isaac Chase, Father of applicant, did not perform the 8 months & 14 days service alluded to in the Sec. of Massachusetts' Certificate of June 30th /46 in Capt Lithgows Company" = and am pleased to also state that the claimants are convinced of the fact = However they and I, myself, have been misled, by claiming said service, you will at once perceive, that it was no mistake made by me, as I only followed what is the legal and proper way of proving a claim, viz, "by Record" proof and that the Sec of Mass has blundered in copying the service, by blending the services of both soldiers [underlined], and Certifying to me, and hence to you that it might all be understood to apply to Isaac Chase of Gorham.  Upon the whole "We are disappointed from our first expectations" but coincide with your decision, and are of the belief, that the 6 months and 19 days service in Wades Regt in Rhode Island and the 2 months & 18 days service in Capt. McLellan's Company are the only 2 terms of service they ought to be allowed for = and that Issac Chase of "Gorham" and subsequently of his Widow Lois Chase had ought to have been paid for 9 months & 7 days service and have received pay for 8 months only, leaving a deficit of 37 days pay = In taking this view of the case which seems to be correct for [ought?]  I can see this deficit  of
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37 days will amount to $60.87 according to my understanding in making up the amount = Thus he was paid for 8 months or 240 days reckoning 30 days for a month = Then if 240 days gave $26.66 per annum 37 days pay would have been $4.11[?] in each year = the time = his pension being granted under act of June 7 1832, and pay commencing March 4 to 1831, and the widow deceased December 26th 1845. - Making the term of time 14 years 9 months and 22 days = = 14 years = $57.54  9 mo. $3.08 - 22 days 25 [cents] added make the aforesaid sum $60.87. = I may not understand your rule in computing such like claims, and if I have made the amount too much , or less  than what you deem correct, I rest satisfied you will make up pay according to the Pension Rules & regulations in such cases made and provided = Enclosed I send you the Certificate of the Court in regard to the deaths of Isaac & Lois Chase, also the names of the surviving Children agreeable to your instructions of Dec. 14th /46 = You will please make the Certificates and forward them as soon as your convenience will allow.
N.B. = When I sent you the application, I enclosed to you among the Papers the Commission of Justice of the Peace of Joseph Sanborn Esq  = Please enclose the same with the Certificates.
I am Dr Sir Your very respectful and humble Svt
[signed]  Philbrick B. Abbott.

Col J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

Please direct to West Buxton.
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Pension Office,
March 30th 1847.
Sir,
In answer to your letter of the 23rd [inst?], I have to inform you that the only evidence that Joseph Sanborn, at the time of the depositions of the heirs of Isaac and Lois Chase were taken, was a Justice of the Peace, is his commission.  It will be necessary, therefore, before that paper can be withdrawn from our files, that his official character be certified by the Secretary of State of Maine, or the clerk of a court of record, under his seal of office.
Very Respectfully,
Your Obedient Servant, 
[no signature]

Stop the [person?] in this case.  Send back the papers to the person who sent them here, in order that they may be duly authenticated.  The proper officer must certify under his seal of office as to the official character and signature of the magistrate.


[to] Philbrick B. Abbott Esqr.
West Buxton, Maine.
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Increase
Isaac Chase, decd [deceased]
Me {Maine]
Act 7 June 1832
Admo 9 mo 7 days Pri[vate]
$30.77 per annum from 4 March 1831 to 12 Nov. 1840 the day of his death payable to Gideon, Abigail, Daniel, Isaac, Mary F, and James Chase and Jane Harmon, only surviving children of Isaac Chase decd. deducting what has been paid for the same time at the rate odf $26.66 per annum

Lois Chase decd
Issue Certificate at $30.77 under Act 7 July 1838, and also under act 3 March 1843 to the day of her death, 26 Dec 1845, payable to the Children named above, deducting what has been paid at the rate of $26.66 per annum
[signed] P. B. Abbott
West Buxton [Standish, crossed out]  Me.
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State of Maine  Cumb. Co.
Standish    March 23 1847
Dear Sir,
I have to acknowledge your [sic] of the 15th in regard to the case of Isaac York, and in return, will only for the present say, that I do not know that he ever served in the Revolutionary War in any other grade [underlined] than a Private, (if such appears on the War Record [underlined] , I presume you would cheerfully allow his widow any and all amount he was entitled to (if such service) can be exhibited to you. for the present I leave the subject matter ------
I wrote to you twice, requesting you to return me the Commission of Joseph Sanborn Esq., the same I sent among the papers of Isaac Chase.  You have not made mention of it in any communication I have recd [received] from you, = You will recollect, that I have frequently sent you Commissions of Justices of the Peace [underlined] and you have always before this promptly returned them, = If you think it improper to return the same, please so state to me, that I may inform him of the loss of his Commission and he will know then, he will have to procure another, (if not) Please return it by first opportunity. 
 I am Dr, Sir, Yours very respectfully
[signed] Phibrick B. Abbott

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions
N.B. Please direct to West Buxton
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Isaac Chase, Me   Act 7 June 1832  $26.66 per a[nnum]
To what time was he last paid?
[signed] G C A

Pension Office
January 18th 1847}  Died 12th Nov. 1840
Paid to his death [signed] B [S?] B

Sirs  Chase [Mr, crossed out] widow of Isaac Chase} Wi.  Act 3 March 1843 $26.66

To what time was she last paid? [signed] G C A

Pension Office
January 18th 1847

Died 26th Dec. 1845
Paid to her death [signed] [WSM?]
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STATE OF MAINE.

Cumberland, SS.  April 14 1845
Personally appeared Joseph Sanborn Esquire, and took and subscribed the oaths prescribed by the Constitution of State and a law of the United States. to qualify him to execute the trust reposed in him by the within Constitution.
BEFORE ME, [signed] Horatio J. Swasey } Authorized by Dedimus Protestatem.
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STATE OF MAINE.
To all who shall see these Presents, GREETING.

Know Ye, That HUGH J. ANDERSON. our Governor, reposing special trust and confidence in the integrity, ability, and discretion of Joseph Sanborn of Standish Esquire, hath nominated, and by and with the advice and consent of said Council, appointed the said Joseph Sanborn Esquire, to be one of our JUSTICES OF THE PEACE, for the County of Cumberland
[signed] Hugh J. Anderson

We therefore do hereby authorize and empower him to fulfill the duties of that Office according to law; to cause to be kept the Laws and Ordinances made for the good of the peace and for the conservation of the same; and to have and to hold the said Office, together with all the powers, privileges and emoluments thereto of right appertaining, unto him the said Joseph Sanborn Esquire, for the sum of Seven Years, if he shall so long behave himself well in said Office.

In testimony whereof, We have caused these Letters to be made Patent, and our Seal to be hereunto affixed.
WITNESS, our Governor, at the Council Chamber, in AUGUSTA, the thirteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-five and of the Independence of the United States the sixty-ninth.
By the Governor.
[signed] Philip C. Johnson, Secretary of State.

[written on the left side]
Payment of Duty entered Vol. 3, No. 2586
Commission Recorded Vol. 15, Page 293
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STATE OF MAINE.
Supreme Judicial Court Nov. Term, 1846.
Cumberland COUNTY, SS.

Be it Known, That on this fifth day of January 1847 it has been satisfactorily proved in open Court, being a Court of Record, That Isaac Chase, late of Standish was a Revolutionary PENSIONER of the United States, and that he died at Standish aforesaid on the twelfth day of November 1840.  

And that Gideon Chase, Abigail Chase, David Chase, Jane Harmon, Isaac Chase, Mary F Chase, and James Chase are the children and the only children of the said Isaac Chase deceased, and that he left a widow, viz: Lois Chase who died December 26th A.D. 1845.

In TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said Court, and subscribed my name this fifth day of January in the year 1847
[signed] Chas. C. Harmon } Clerk Pro Tem of the Courts of Cumberland County.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Secretary's Office, November 7th 1833.

I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Service in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Issac Chase is borne on a Pay Abstract of Capt Benjamin Lemont's Company in Col. Wade's Regiment, of the Massachusetts State's Troops, in the service of the United States, made from the time of their engaging up to the 1st of Jan. 1779, according to an act of the General Court, the 10th of June 1778 with an addition of days to go home in, at 20 miles per day the distance of 233 Miles having served from June 25th 1778 to Jan 1st 1779 and was allowed six months and nineteen days.      6-19

The name of Isaac Chase is also borne on a Pay roll for Capt Nehemiah Curtis' Company in Col Jonathan Mitchels Regt in the service of the United States, in the Expedition at Penobscot, from the 7th June to the 25th of September inclusive, 1779, and is allowed Two months & eighteen days.   2 - 18      [total] 9 - 7
[signed] Edward Bangs [Sec?]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Secretary's Office, Boston;
June 30 1846.

I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Isaac Chase is borne upon several Pay Rolls of Capt William Lithgow's Company stationed at Falmouth in the County of Cumberland, as a private from March 11 to November 23 1776.  8 months and 14 days.  Upon a Pay Abstract of Capt Benjamin Lemont's Company in Col Nathaniel Wade's Regt, for service at Rhode Island, as a private of Gorham, from June 25 1778, including allowance of 12 days to return home, 6 months & 19 days.  Upon a Pay Roll of Capt Alexander McLellan's Companyin Col Jonathan Mitchell's Regt for service in Penobscot Expedition, as a private from July 7 to September 25 1779, 2 months & 18 days.  Said Capt McLellan's roll is dated "Gorham November 27 1779."

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6 -19
2 - 18
[total] 9 -7

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And I further Certify, that, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
[signed]  John G. Parfrey,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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I, Nathaniel Chase, of Buckfield in the County of Oxford and State of Maine, aged eighty five years, testify and say that I served one Campaign during the Revolutionary war as a private Soldier under Capt Nathan Merrill in Col. Mitchell's Regt in the State (then District) of Maine.  That I was a resident of Windham in said State and was drafted on the first of June 1779 and marched immediately to Portland (then Falmouth) where I found Isaac Chase of Gorham with whom I was well acquainted and who resided within five or six miles of my place of residence acting and serving as a private Soldier in the same Regt, and I think in Capt McLellans Company.  We were stationed in Portland about one week then went on board a vessel and sailed to Townsend and from thence to Bagaduce Harbor where we landed and marched home by land, where we remained a few days and were then ordered and marched again to Portland where we remained untill [until] the first of October as near as I can recollect, where the Regt was disbanded and we were were [sic] discharged.  That I was drafted for two months, but served about
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four months.  And I well recollect that the aforesaid Isaac Chase served as a private soldier in the same Regt during the whole of said period of time that I did  [signed]  Nath Chase

State of Maine
Oxford County SS  February 16th 1846
Then personally appeared Nathaniel Chase, a credible witness and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed
Before me  [signed]  Job Prince} Justice of the Peace throughout the State

In answer Please direct to West Buxton P. Office
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Lois Chase dec'd [deceased]
Me

Act. 7 July '38

husband died 12 Nov. 1840
[wIdw?] died 24 Dec. 1845
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Payable to children
Rev.

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8086
Maine.

Lois Chase,  deceased
widow of Issac Chase who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 12 Nov. 1840 of Cum[berland] Co. in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Compy  commanded by Captain Parker of the Reg. commanded by Col Wade in the Mass line for 9 mos. 7 d.

Inscribed on the Roll of Portland at the rate of 30 Dollars 77 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Inc. [increased] from $26.66

Certificate of Pension issued the 23rd day of Jan 1867 and sent to P. B. Abbott  
West Buxton, Me.

Total amount [blank]

[in brackets]  Act July 7, 1838.

Recorded by D. W. Wood   Clerk,
Book D   Vol. 1  Page 3.
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Let [letter?] to P. B. Abbott
Dec 14th '46

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Maine 5073
Lois Chase
widow of Isaac Chase who was a Private in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of March 1844 and sent to Hon. F. H. Morse  
House of Representatives 

[in brackets] Act of March 3, 1843.

Recorded in Book A. Vol. 1,  Page 254.
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Maine,

Lois Chase
widow of Isaac Chase who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 12 Nov. 1840 of Cumberland Co. in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Compy  commanded by Captain Parker of the Regt. commanded by Col Wade in the Mass line for 8 mos.

Inscribed on the Roll of Portland Me at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day of Feb 1844 and sent to Hon. F. H. MorseH. R. [House of Representatives]

Total amount, $133.30

[in brackets]  Act July 7, 1838.

Recorded by F. L. Swann   Clerk,
Book J   Vol. 1  Page 3.

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Maine, No. 26,038

Isaac Chase
of Cumberland Co. in the State of Maine who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Parker of the Regt. commanded by Col. Wade in the Mass Troops line for 8 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of Dec. 1833 and sent to John Murphy  Portland Maine

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1833. . . . . . . . . 66.66
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 March 34 . ..13.33
[Total] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $80.00


{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by D. Brown  Clerk,
Book E  Vol. 1  Page 9
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WIDOW, &c.

File No. 23784
Lois Chase
Widow of Isaac Chase
Pri [private] Mass Line

Act: Mar 3rd 1843
June 27th 1844

Index: - Vol. A, Page 133

[in brackets]  Arrangement of 1870.