Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8598, Robert Chandler, Va.

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SERVICE   Va.	                                                                  NUMBER  W.8598
	Chandler, Robert                       
             Susannah

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                                                      3.112
 Kentucky
      Susannah Chandler
widow of   Robert Chandler     dead 
who died in the  year  1802
of Marion Co. in the State of KY
who was a Private  in the Company commanded by Captain  Taylor of the Reg’t commanded by Col Spotsworth in the  Va.
line for  1 year
     
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Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky
at the rate of    40   dollars    --- cents per annum to commence on the    4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension is issued on the 12th  day of Nov      1839        and sent to
Chinn  Harrodsbourgh Ky
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1839          
 340.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 March 40    20.00
				                   $360.00
                                     Revolutionary Claim
			Act July 4, 1836
			Section the 3rd 
Recorded by  D D Addison   Clerk
Book  A    Vol  2    Page   178

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(written sideways on the left:   4731
Susannah Chandler
Ken)


State of Kentucky. 
County of Marion
                    On the 3rd day of June in the year 1839,, 
Before the Justices of the Marion County Court, being a court of record now in Session, personally appeared Susannah Chandler of said County of Marion and State aforesaid, aged Ninety five 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4the 1836 that she is the widow of Robert Chandler, deceased, and that she was lawfully married to the said Robert Chandler in the County of Orange at the Courthouse in the State of Virginia on the twenty fifth day of February two or three years prior to the declaration of independence that her husband, the aforesaid Robert Chandler died in the year of eighteen hundred and two or three (1802 /03), and that she knows of no record of her marriage or records of the age of her children; that she remained a widow ever since the death of her husband, the aforesaid Robert Chandler, as will more fully appear by references to the proof hereto annexed.  She further declares that her husband, the aforesaid Robert Chandler, did volunteer in the service of his Country in the County of Orange in the State of Virginia under Captain Frank Taylor, whose company belonged to Col. Spottswood’s or Spencer Regiment for the term of two years, which term of service the said Chandler faithfully performed and received a regular discharge for the service, this company of Cap’t. Taylors must have been raised and marched from the County of Orange in the summer or fall of seventeen hundred and seventy six.  She knows and states that her husband, the said Rob’t. Chandler, marched with the first volunteer company that was raised in the County of Orange after the declaration of independence, after the expiration of the two years which the said Chandler had volunteered for.  he, the said Chandler, returned home and was not at home but a few weeks before he was again called into service.  The declarant thinks by a draft. How long the said Chandler was out on this tour, she does not now recollect, but she will recollect that

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when he again returned home that he staid but a very short time before he again joined the army and march to the south when he was gone, she thinks about eighteen months, he, the said Robert Chandler was also in service at the time Cornwallis was besieged at little York for the declarant well recollects hearing the said Chandler tell that while he was standing in a trench, that one of the enemies Bombshells fell in the trench near him and he, in a hurry, pushed out the plug of the Bombshell to keep it from bursting which had the desired effect.  The said Chandler, after the surrender of the said Cornwallis, was detached as one of the guard to march the prisoners up to Ablemarle where he was detained as guard for two months after the surrender of Cornwallis.  She further States that her husband was at the Battle of Guilford Courthouse and at the burning of Williamsburg and she thinks in many other battles, but length of time have so impaired her memory that she cannot now recollect the many Battles and Skirmishes which the said Chandler was in, nor can she recollect the officers which he served under except those named in the first instance, but she will recollects that her husband, the said Chandler, got a regular discharge for each and every tour of duty which he performed, which discharges was carefully taken care of by the said Chandler as long as he lived and was carefully taken care of by the declarant for many years after the death of her said husband, but what has become of the said discharges she does not know as she has made a search for them and they cannot be found.  She further declares that if she was to sum up the whole service of her husband, the said Robert Chandler, which he performed, she would think that he was more than four fifths of his time in the service of his Country from the declaration of independence to the first of January, Seventeen hundred and Eighty two, but she has it not now in her power to prove his service for those that were familiar with the service of the said Robert Chandler that she was acquainted with is now dead.  She further states that the British at one time while her husband was in the army burned up all her fencing and robed her house of every article except

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      two bedsteds and stole the ropes out of them,  in the mean time, she lay in the swamps in the alderbushes with her children stored away in some tobacco hogsheads in said swamp with the end where they were put in filled with straw to keep their noise from being heard, in this swamp, she continued for several days and nights as the enemy were still in the neighborhood.

			her
		Susannah   Chandler
                                          mark		

At a court held for Marion County at the Courthouse in Lebanon, on Monday 3rd day of June 1839, being a court of record on this day, Susannah Chandler, the applicant for a pension herein came into court open court and subscribed and swore to her declaration for the same and the court do hereby declare their opinion after the interrogatories of the matter, that said applicant is the widow of Robert Chandler, who was a soldier in the revolution. –

State of Kentucky,   Marion County (illegible)
		I, R.H. Rowntree, clerk of the court for the County of Marion and State aforesaid, do certify that the above order of court is truly issued from the records in my office.
										
		                  In testimony whereof, I have
			hereunto  set my hand and seal of the
			office this 6th day of June, 1839
		                          R.H. Rowntree, clerk

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The deposition of Richard Chandler of Marion County Ky taken this the 22nd day of August 1839 to be used as evidence in favour of the application of Mrs. Susannah Chandler for a pension under the act of Congress passed July 4, 1836.  
Deponent being Sixty three years old in December last, Deposeth and Saith that he is the son of Robert Chandler and Susannah Chandler whose name as he has always understood before marriage was Susannah Edmundson. He further States that his father, the said Robert Chandler, has evidence his earliest recollection been spoken of and considered a revolutionary soldier and one who had performed much service.  That the said Robert Chandler died in the year of Eighteen Hundred and Six or Seven    and that his mother, the aforesaid Susannah Chandler, has remained single and unmarried ever since to the present period. And further saith not.

                                                                  Rich. Chandler					
State of Kentucky
Marion County:   Sct.
  The above declaration was this day sworn to and subscribed by Richard Chandler before me,  J.G. Parsons, Justice of the peace for the county of Marion and State aforesaid, I certify the said Chandler
is a man of truth and veracity.   Given from under my hand, this 22nd day of Augt. 1839
					J. G. Persons  JPMC



State of Kentucky  Marion County   (Illegible)

I Rutherford H  Rowntree, Clerk of the Court of Marion County, certify that J.G. Parsons is a Magistrate as above and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his, is genuine

						
		                  In testimony whereof, I have
		 	   hereunto  affixed seal of  
			office and subscribed my name
                                             23rd day of August, 1839
		                          R.H. Rowntree,

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Revolution,
               Virginia
File No.  8598
   Susannah Chandler
      Wid. of
Peter Chandler
      Pvt. Va. Line
Act  July 4th ’36 Sec. 3rd

Index:- Vol A  Page 128

 (arrangement of 1870)

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4731
Susannah Chandler
Ken
Admitted
Ps 1 year   $40.-
Cap Taylor Col.
Spottswood, Va. Line
died 1802
on roll
Act 4  July 1836

C. Chinn
Harrodsburgh
Ken.

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The deposition of Sally Evans of Nelson County, taken at her son Isaac G. Evans house this 20th of December, 1838, who being first duly Sworn according to law, Doth on her Oath State that She was well acquainted with Robert Chandler, deceased, who was a Soldier from Orange County in the State of Virginia, during the revolution. The deponent knows of her own knowledge, that the aforesaid Robert Chandler was married to his now widow, Susannah before the declaration of independence as she lived a great portion of her time with the wife of the aforesaid Robert while he was out in the army and the deponent further States that the aforesaid Robert Chandler was out, to the best of her recollection, nearly during the whole time of the revolution, but what officers he served under or what engagements the said Robert Chandler was in, she, the deponent, cannot now recollect.  She recollects perfectly well that the said Robert Chandler, was in the army at the time the British entered Orange County and destroyed much property in said County and the aforesaid Chandler’s, with the rest while the aforesaid Susannah and the deponent with many other women and Children hid out in the alder swamp for several days.  The deponent also recollects the aforesaid Robert Chandler was out in the service of his Country at the time Cornwallis and his army was taken at little York.  The deponents acquaintance was still continued with the said Robert Chandler and Susannah, his wife, until the death of the said Robert Chandler which took place in Washington County, now Marion County, in the State of Kentucky more than thirty years past.  And the deponent knows the aforesaid Susannah Chandler has remained a widow ever since the death of her husband, the aforesaid Robert Chandler to the present period.  The deponent further sayeth not.

         Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above written

                           Salley Evans.

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State of Kentucky
Marion County:   Sct.

       The foregoing deposition of Sally Evens of the County of Nelson and State aforesaid and aged woman was this day taken Subscribed and sworn to by her before me at her Son’s Isaac G Evens house.  And I Certify She is known to me to be a person of good moral character and a woman of truth and veracity.
			Given under my hand as a Justice of the peace for the County of Nelson and State aforesaid this 20th day of December, 1838.  Jesse McDonnall, Justice of the peace for Nelson County.
The interlocation of the words by her before me were inserted before the signing and acknowledgement of the foregoing Deposition.

		Jess McDonall, a Justice of the peace for Nelson County, Ky.


Commonwealth of Kentucky, Towit

      I Nathaniel Wickliffe, clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid do certify that Jesse McDonnall whose name is signed to the above Certificate is now and was at the time of signing the same, a Justice of the Peace, and a member of the County Court, for the County of Nelson, and State of Kentucky which is a Court of Record, and that the signature of said Jesse McDonnall is known to me to be genuine, and as such, due faith and full credit is due and ought to be given to all his official acts.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of
    Office this 22nd day of December 1838
	Nathaniel Wickliffe, clerk.

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 The deposition of Sally McNeal of Fayette County, aged eighty eight year in May next, taken at her own house on the 30th of November, 1838, who being duly sworn upon oath states that she has a clear and distinct recollection of being present and witnessing the marriage between Robert Chandler, dead, formerly of Washington County Kentucky  and Susannah Chandler, whose maiden name is Edmonson. The marriage took place at Orange Courthouse in the State of Virginia in the winter, but what time in the winter, she does not now recollect, nor does she recollect what year.  She knows however that they were married by Parson Wingate, and that she waited upon said Susannah at her marriage when she was not entirely grown, and when she must have been about fifteen or sixteen years old; and she knows it was before the declaration of independence.  She recollects also that said Susannah and Robert Chandler had one child before said Robert went into the service in the revolution, and that said Robert volunteered and went out with one of the first companies from Orange County, commanded by Capt. Francis Taylor, and was in the service for twelve months at that time, and during the absence of Robert Chandler in the service as aforesaid, deponent spent much of her time with his wife, Susannah.  Deponent recollects that said Robert Chandler was drafted, and was out again in service during the war of the revolution, but under what officers or for what length of time, she does not now recollect.

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She further states that the erasure in the second line of her deposition, changing last to next, took place by mistake made by her as to her age, which upon reference to the family record, was corrected.

           Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above written
                                                                                 her
					Sally  Mc Neal
					      mark
                                 
State of Ky’ Fayette County  (illegible)
                   The foregoing deposition of Sally McNeal of the county and state aforesaid, an aged woman, was this day taken, subscribed and sworn to before me at her own house.  And I certify that she is known to me to be a credible person – Given under my and as the Justice of the peace in and for the county and state aforesaid this 30th day of November, 1838.  John Shrock  JPFC


Commonwealth of Kentucky, Fayette County Court
                I, James C. Rodes, clerk of the County Court for the County aforesaid, do certify
that John Shrock, whose name is signed to the above certificate is now and was at the Signing the same,
a Justice of the Peace and a member of the Court for the County of Fayette aforesaid 
and that the signature of said John Shrock is known to me to be genuine and as such  aforesaid, due
faith and full credence are and ought to be given to all his official acts.

		In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand
		and affixed my seal of officer this 30 day of November, 1838
			Ste. J C Rodes clerk.
                                  75 cents paid.