Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16710, Oliver Chase, Mass. R.I.

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SERVICE | [there is no title for the middle column] | NUMBER

[handwritten text starts] Mass. [Massachusetts] | Chase, Oliver | S. 16710

R. I. [Rhode Island] [R. I. written on a dotted line underneath Mass.] | [blank line] | [blank line]

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28.095
Connecticut
Oliver Chaser of Thomson [Thompson] in the State of Con [Connecticut] who was a private in the [line] commande [commanded][commande word is cut off by a fold in the paper] by Captain [line] of the Rept commanded by Col [Colonel] Crorey in the Con [Connecticut] [Con crossed out] ^Mass and R.I. [Mass and R.I. added underneath] Troop line for 10 mo [10 months]

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Inscribed on the Roll of Con [Connecticut] at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annu [annum] [annum is cut off] to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 

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Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of Feb. 1836 and [illegible]
Hon E Young - H. of R

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Arrears to the 4th of Seps [Sept] [September] 1833 $83.33
Semi-anl. allowance ending Mar [illegible] 1666
 $99.99

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by E D Bullock Cler [Clerk]
Book [illegible] Vol. 3 Page 7

Death not on [illegible] B [written vertically on opposite page]

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No 4344
Oliver Chase


[illegible] Return to be sent to
David Chase Esq
Killingly
Connecticut

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Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year aforesaid, before the County Court for the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut.

[handwritten] Attest Armin Bolles Clerk [end handwritten]
We [handwritten] Joseph, Adam, Ulysses, [illegible] [handwritten end] [crossed out "a clergyman"], residing in the town of [handwritten] Killingly [end handwritten] in said Windham County, ["and" crossed out] & residing in (the same,) [blank space] hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with [hand written] Olivia Chase [hand written end] who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, that we believe him to be [handwritten] 72 [handwritten end] 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.

[handwritten] Joseph Adam
Wm[William] Mitchell [end handwritten]

Sworn, and subscribed, on the day and year aforesaid, before the County Court for the County of Winham in the State of Connecticut. 

[handwritten] Attest Armin Bolles Clerk [end handwritten]

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 their that [handwritten] Joseph Adams Esq [Esquire] [end handwritten] who has signed the preceding certificate, is a ["clergyman" crossed out] resident in the said town of [handwritten] Killingly [end handwritten] and that [handwritten] William [illegible] [end handwritten] who signed the same is a resident in the said town of [handwritten] Killingly [end handwritten] and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 

[handwritten] Attest Armin Bolles Clerk [end handwritten]

[handwritten] I Armin Bolles [end handwritten] Clerk of the County Court for the County of Windham, in the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of  the said Court in the matter of the application of [hand written] Olivia Chase [hand written end] for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this [illegible] day of [handwritten] July [end handwritten A. D. 1832

[handwritten] Armin Bolles Clerk [end handwritten]

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At a Court of Probate holden at Killingly 
within and for the District of Killingly in the
County of Windham and State of Connecticut
on the eleventh day of January, AD 1834.

Probate Thomas Backus Judge

on the day and year aforesaid personally
appeared before said Court Oliver Chase of
said Killingly aged seventy three years who first being sworn according to law doth in
addition to a declaration made by him before
the Honorable County Court for the County of 
Windham on the seventeenth day of July AD
1832 in order to obtain the benefit of the
act of [illegible] [illegible] June 7th 1832, make
the following supplementary declaration under
oath [illegible]

That in the Spring of the year 1777 he
was drafted for one months military service at
Howland Ferry, and that according to said
draft he [illegible] in the month of June, as 
near as he can recollect, to the [illegible] aforesaid
in a company of militia commanded by Capt
Peleg Peck and that he served out the
time for which he was drafted as aforesaid
at said Howland ferry and returned one
time in the month of July following. Said applicant cannot recollect the names of any
officers belonging to said company if [illegible] that
of the Captain above given, and of one of the
sergeants, Viz. Lysander Arnold - neither can
he recollect the names of any general or field officer connected with said service, and the known

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of no person living and believes there are none who were with him during his said service or who can testify to the same 
said applicant afterwards viz in the month of June 1778 enlisted for nine months in Capt Thomas Allen's company of R.I. State troops - He enlisted of R.I. at Warren and joined said company at Bristol, was in Sullivans expedition on Rhode Island was Little Compton through the winter and was discharged in March 1779 having served served [sic] the full period of nine months for which he enlisted as aforesaid. The only officers of said company now recollected by him except that of the Capt given above are John Humphrey Lieutenant James Humphry ordered by sergeant William Young corporal - Col. Archibald Crary commanded the regiment to which said Company was attached. William Williams was the Lieut. Col and Man chester was Major and said applicant cannot recollect the names of any other officers of said regiment. General Ezekiel Cornell commanded the brigade to which said regiment was attached who is the only General officer that said applicant can now recollect connected with said service. said applicant well recollects that lot Topper’s regiment was associated with the said Cornells regiment in said service and he cannot recollect any other – He has given above the names of all the officers recollected by him. He has no documentary evidence to prove any part

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of his said service and [crossed out: there is] ^he knows of no person living who was with him in said service and can testify to the same – 
Attest David Chase                   
 his
                		           
Oliver X Chase
		                                  
mark

His mark X
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written before the Court of Probate for the District of Killingly 
Attest- David Chas Clerk 
We Calvin Cooper clergyman residing in the town of Killingly in the County of Windham and Jeremiah Field residing in the same do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Oliver Chase who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be seventy three 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. And we do moreover certify that the said Chase maintains a fair and in unimpeachable character for truth and veracity and that his word is entitled to full credit Calvin Cooper 
Jeremiah Field 
Sworn to and subscribed before said Probate Court the day and year first above written
Attest. David Chase Clerk 
and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states- and that Calvin Cooper

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who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in said town of Killingly and that Jeremiah Field who signed the same is a resident in said town of Killingly and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to full credit 
Attest – 
I David Chase Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Killingly in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Oliver Chase for a pension 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 11th day of January 1834 
David Chase Clerk
[left side vertical, turn clockwise]
Oliver Chase’s
Supplementary Declaration.

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David Chase Esq
Killingly
Ct
on Crary's Roll

10 mo private
$33.33

Hon E. Young
HR[illegible]

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WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Pension office, 
17 April - 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 complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim. 
A Statement, shewing the service of 
[column headers] |Period when the service was rendered |Duration of the claimant’s service Years |Months | Days | Rank of the claimant. | Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. | Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service. | Proof by which the declaration is supported. |
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I am, respectfully, 
Your obedient servant 
J. L. EDWARDS, Commissioner of Pensions.
Mr Oliver Chase

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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, mucicians 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 of County of }ss. On this day of personally appeared (a) before A. in the county of and State, Territory or District of 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 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) with served in the (e) regiment of the line, under the following named officers: and 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. 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. 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 in the State of Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. A. B. 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. 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 hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with and C.D. residing in (the same) 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 and subscribed the days and year aforesaid. 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 clergyman, resident in the and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. , 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 alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person

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(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? (6.) {To and Officer {Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what one 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 clergyman, 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 Clergyman, 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 enquiry 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 a 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 the 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 authenticated 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 county 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 find. 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 ___; 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 requires the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years 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 pub 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.) 
}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 is 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. 
Certificate credibly in interlined by another hand

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Hannah Walker
affidavit

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I Hannah Walker of Killingly in Windham County of the State of Connecticutt [Connecticut] being Seventy five years of age and engaged according to law do testify and say that I am sister to Oliver Case of sd Killingly and resided in my fathers family with him untill the spring of the year 1777 when the sd Oliver was drafted for one month to do military service and left home and March to howlands Ferry so called ^some time in the month of June or July summer[written above] at the Expiration of sd term for which the sd Oliver was drafted he returned to Fathers house and continued at home through the summer following and [crossed out: illegible] the sd Oliver at the time he was Drafted belonged to a Company of Militia commanded by Captin Peleg Peck of Swanzey State of Masachusetts and that some time of the fore part of the Summer AD 1778, according to my best recollection the sd Olive Enlisted for nine months into what was then called the Rhodeisland State troops and that I and my sister Pheba Chase (since Pheba Talbut) went to the Town of Bristol and married our Brother the sd Oliver some clothing while he was in sd Service and that some time in the month of March following the sd Oliver was discharged and returned home and further the deponant saith not 
Dated at Killingly the 11 day of                      
                                           
February AD 1834                                                                                     
Hanna Walker
Her mark + [signature]
Test David Chase
Oliver Chase the 3
Windham County ss. Killingly February 11 AD1834 
be it remembered that on the day aforesaid Hannah Walker who hath subscribed the foregoing Deposition appeared before me and after being Examined and cautioned to speak the whole truth made solemn oath to the same deposition which is taken at the request of Oliver Chase to be used in a Court of Probate to be holden in Willingly aforesaid within and for the District of Killingly on the 3rd day of February AD 1834 wherein the sd Oliver is applicant for a pension in conformity to an act of Congress Past June the 7th AD 1832 the Reason of taking sd Deposition is that the Deponent is lame and infirm and unable to attend sd Court sd Deposition drawn up and sworn to before me the subscriber 
 Signed Thomas Durfee Justice of the Peace
 I do also hereby, ^ certify [written above] that I am well acquainted with Hannah Walker the above named deponant and that she sustains a fair character for truth and veracity 
certified by Thomas Durfee Justice of Peace

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I David Chase Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Killingly in Windham County and State of Connecticut --- do hereby certify that Thomas Durfee Esqr before whom the within affidavit was made is duly enrolled as a Justice of the Peace in and for said Windham County that the foregoing signatures of his name is in his hand writing, and that full faith and credit ought to be given to his acts as such 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at Killingly in said District this 3rd day of February AD 1834 
David Chase Clerk

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October 26, 1937 
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Oliver Chase, S.16710
BA-J/MCS
Mrs. Glenn C. Chase		
713 Yuba Street
Janesville, Wisconsin

Dear Madam: Reference is made to your request for information relative to Revolutionary War soldiers, Abner and Oliver Chase.
A careful search of the Revolutionary War records of this office fails to show any information relative to an Abner Chase who was born October 7, 1745, at Westerly, Rhode Island, and died at Delhi, New York.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, S.16720, based upon the military service of the only Oliver Chase, searched under all spellings, that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office. 
Oliver Chase was born in 1760 in Swansea, Massachusetts. The names of his parents were not given.
While living in Swansea, he enlisted about June, 1777, and served one month as private in Captain Peleg Peck's Massachusetts company. He enlisted in June, 1778, and served nine months in Captain Thomas Allen's company in Colonel Archibald Crary's Rhode Island regiment and was in Sullivan's Rhode Island Expedition. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 17, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut where he had lived since the Revolutionary War. 
In 1834 the soldier's sister, Hannah Walker of Killingly, Connecticut, aged seventy-five years, stated that she and her sister, Pheba, who later became Pheba Talbut, carried clothing to their brother, Oliver Chase, during his service in the Revolution. In 1832 one Edward Chase of

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Killingly, Connecticut, stated that he knew the soldier in childhood and that he lived about two miles from him during the Revolution, said Edward Chase had a son, David Chase, who was Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Killingly, Connecticut, in 1834, but their relationship to the soldier was not shown. Giles and Lewis Chase were living in 1832 and Oliver Chase, 3rd, was living in 1834 but their relationship to the soldier was not given. There are no further data relative to soldier's family. 
Very truly yours 
A. D. HILLER 
Executive Assistant to the Administrator

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Rev. & 1812 War Section  [top right] M.C.S
March 4, 1927
Mrs. Henry M. Blanchard
Killingly, R.F.D. #2
Conn.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.16710, it appears that OLIVER CHASE was born in 1760 in Swansea, Massachusetts. 
While a resident of said place he enlisted in the spring of 1777 ^about June [written above] and served one month as a private in Captain Peleg Peck's Massachusetts Company. 
He enlisted in June, 1778, and served nine months in Captain Thomas Allen's Company in Colonel Archibald Crary's Rhode Island Regiment; he was in Sullivan's Rhode Island Expedition. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 17, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut, where he since Res 
There is no data on file relative to his family. The above noted to the only Oliver Chase that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau. 
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner

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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section 
December 4, 1924

Miss Nellie M. Chase 
East Killingly, Box 25 
Conn
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.16710, it appears that Oliver Chase was born in 1760 in Swansea, Massachusetts. 
While a resident of said place he enlisted in the spring of 1777 and served one month as private in Captain Peleg Peck's Massachusetts Company. 
He enlisted in June, 1778, and served nine months in Captain Thomas Allen's Company, Colonel Archibald Crary's Rhode Island Regiment; he was in Sullivan's Rhode Island Expedition. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 17, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut. 
There is no data on file relative to his family 
The above noted is the only Oliver Chase found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.
 Respectfully, 
Commissioner

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From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 16710, it appears that Oliver Chase was born in 1760 at Swansea, Massachusetts. 
While residing at said Swansea, he enlisted in the spring of 1777 and served one month as a private in Captain Peleg Peck's Massachusetts Company.
He enlisted in June 1778 and served nine months in Captain Thomas Allen's Company, Colonel Archibald Crary's Rhode Island Regiment; he was in Sullivan's Rhode Island Expedition. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 17, 1832, while a resident of Killingly, Connecticut. 
Respectfully, 
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.

1” of this letter is Shubael Hutchins W. 214 28  & Seth Short S.17673 
Tombstone data only

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Box 25 East Killingly Conn 
Nov 15 1924. 
Department of the Interior 
Burean of Pensions 
Washington, D.C. 
Gentlemen: 
I am looking for information concerning Othenial Young who was a Revolutionary soldier. I find that on June 1st 1840, at the age of 82 years. he was living in the Town of Burrillville, R.I. I have not been able to find any record of his death, neither where he is buried.
Can you give me the following information? if you cannot answer all of the questions please answer as many as you can.
Date of birth 
Date of death
Name of Father & mother 
Place of birth 
Place of death 
Date of Marriage 
His wife’s maiden name 
(Jemima Blackman)?

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any information you can give me concerning him would be greatly appreciated. Mr. Young is my great-great grandfather.
Could you also answer same questions about Oliver Chase who lived in Killingly, Connecticut at the time he enlisted. The information I particularly desire concerning him are 
Place of birth 
Name of Father and mother 
Date of marriage 
His wife’s maiden name
Yours very truly 
(Miss) Nellie M. Chase 
Box 25 East Killingly 
Conn

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Rec
Killingly, Conn. Oct. 10, 1921. 
Pension department: 
Washington, D.C. 
I am asking for information about my paternal ancestor Oliver Chase who was a Revolutionary soldier and served at Tiverton, R.I. I find his name in the Connecticut list of pensioners and he and wife are burned at East Killingly, Conn. On her head stone is Pheobe wife of Oliver Chase. Now I am very anxious to know what her last name was so am writing to you thinking

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that her full name must be on the pension records. I am also very anxious to know who his father and mother were. 
Any information I can get from the government records in regard to this Oliver Chase will be greatly appreciated by me as I am getting it for D. A.R. and Genealogical purposes 
Sincerely Yours, 
Mrs. Henry N. Blanchard 
Killingly, 
R.F.D.#1 Conn.
[ink stamp]
U.S. PENSION OFFICE
OCT 11 1924

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Janesville Wis
Oct. 14, 1937- 
Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C. 
Dear Sirs: 
In your Revolutionary Records do you have a record of Oliver ^only one [written above] Chase^SN born ^(Freetown) Sept. 22, 1709 married ^ Portsmouth R.Is. Elizabeth Cleaveland and on Jan 22, 1735 died at Westerly R.Is. on Nov. 14, 1786. He was called Captain Oliver. (His son Oliver, we know was in the Revolution, but we are to trace Oliver, Senior)
^ only 1917 H.  Do you have a record of Abner born Oct. 7, 1745 at Westerly R. Is. He married Sarah Elliot died at Delhi, N. F. as early as 1772 he lived at Quaker Hill, so he may not have been the Revolution. (He also was a son of Oliver, Senior)
I’ll be very glad for any information you may give me.

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It might interest you to know that Abner’s son David, was killed in war of 1812. 
David’s Grandson fought in the civil war.
My husband the who is the 9th generation of this family in America  was in the world war from Dec. 8, 1917 to July 1919. (Serial No.2395756) (Wm, chase came C. Roxbury 1630) 
Very Sincerely 
Ruth K. Chase (Mrs. Glenn C.)
713 Yuba St.
Janesville, Wis.
1. William Chase (1630 came to America.
2. Benjamin “ (born – 1639
3. Benjamin “ (born – 1682
4. Oliver “ ( “ Sept. 22.1709)
5. Abner “ ( October 7, 1745)
6. David “ (married 1800)
7. Henry “ (born 1801)
8. James “ (B. 1823)
9. George W “ (B. 1851)
10. Glenn C. “ (b. 1891)

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Killingly, Conn. Jan. 17, 1927, 
Commissioner of Pensions:
Dear Sir 
In the History of Swansea Mass. I found the names of Oliver Chase and Oliver Chase Jr. in the list of those who served in the Revolutionary war. The names were in the muster roll. as I am working on the Genealogy of these two men, any information you can give me will be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely yours 
Mrs. Henry N. Blanchard 
Killingly 
R.F.D. 2. Conn
[note on left side]
Only one on file
[stamp] 
U. S. PENSIONS OFFICE
JAN 18
1927

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[left side]
16710
INVALID
File No. 16710
Oliver Chase
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7 32
Index: vol 1, Page 427
[arrangement of 1870]

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1921, Oct. 28 hist. to Mrs. Henry M Blanchard. Ens
1924. Dec. 3. Hist to Miss Nellie M Chase, MCS
1927 Mar 4 hist to Mrs. Henry M Blanchard, MCS
1927 June 28 – Tombstone data to Chas R Hale see letter in John Day W.17694 GCF
1937 Oct. 26. Hist to Mrs Glenn C. Chase M.C.S.

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Washington Feby 11 1834 
Sir
The accompanying application & papers of Oliver Chase have been sent to me that I might satisfy you as to an objection made to the affidavit of Edward Chase. that the certificate of his credibility was not in the hand writing of the Justice before whom the affiant was taken. I am perfectly familiar with David Chase's hand writing, who is assistant Judge of our Ct. of C. Pleas, as well as Justice of the peace, and have examined the certificate and have not the least doubt of its being his hand writing, including the clause as to credibility, thought it appears as if it was omited at first and then inserted with rather crowded room. there could be no motive for

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Judge Chase to omit that part of the certificate, (unless ^ from delicacy as the deponent is his father) for few men probably have a better character for [illegible] integrity than the Deponent ^within his sphere. I am well acquainted also with the applicant & consider him a very honest man.
with much respect 
Your very obedient Servant
Ebenezer Young


 J L. Edward Esqr 
Comm Pensions

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I Edward Chase of Killingly in the County of Windham of Lawfull age and engaged according to law do testify and say – that I have been acquainted with Oliver Chase of said Killingly from his Childhood to this present time. That some time in the spring [crossed out: of the year] the or the fore part of the summer of AD 1778 the said Oliver Enlisted into (what was then called the Rhode Island Service) for nine months (as he informed me) and that during  1st tour of nine months I [illegible] saw him at Howland Ferry so called. Immediately after he came off of Rhodisland in Sullivan Expedition [crossed out: illegible] and that he informed me he was in said petition and that I saw said Oliver no other time during the aforesaid time of nine months but that the latter part of the winter or five part of the spring following the said Oliver came to my house (a distance of about two miles from his place of residence and informed me that his ^time of enlistment was out. and that I was a [illegible] of times at the residence of the said Oliver, when at house, in the Town of Swanzey State of Massachusetts during said nine months and that I never saw said Oliver during said time his 2nd place of residence and further the Deponent saith not -  

Dated at Killingly by July 16th 1832
Edward Chase
His mark X [signature]
Giles Chase 
Lewis Chase

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Windham County ss Killingly July the 16th 1839 
Be it remembered that on the day aforesaid Edward Chase who hath Subscribed the foregoing deposition appeared before me, and after being examined and cautioned to speak the whole truth made solemn oath to the same deposition which is taken at the request of Oliver Chase to be used in a Court of Inquiry to be [illegible] in this Town of Thompson in said County on the 17th day of July  AD 1838 wherein the said Oliver is applicant for a pension in conformity to an act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832 - The reason of taking said disposition is that the Deponent is sick and unable to travel to Court. Said deposition drawn up (and the deponent will be known to the subscriber and is a credible witness) of Certified by David Chase Justice of Peace
I Armin Bolles Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut do hereby certify that David Chase Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit was made is duly enrolled as a Justice of the Peace in and for said Windham County that the foregoing signature of his name is in his hand writing and that full faith and credit ought to be given to his acts as such 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Brooklyn in said County this 23d day of August A.D 1832 
Armin Bolles Clerk

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Edward Chase’s 
Affidavit 
To the Honourable Court of injury to be hold [illegible] Thompson within and for the County of Windham on the 17th day of July AD 1832 the deposition of Edward Chase taken and sealed up as directed at Killingly in the County sd of this 17th day of July 1832 
By me David Chase Justice of Peace