Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 530, Moses Chandler, N.H.

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(-1778)
Service
Number
N.H. Chandler Moses N.530
          Mary L.     B.L.H.27608-160-55

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[illegible] of [illegible] Land act of Maine June 28 1838.


6728.
District of Maine
Moses Chandler
of [illegible] Oxford  co in the state of [illegible] 
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Dearborn of the N.Hampshire line, for the term of [illegible]

Inscribed on the Roll of the D[illegible]
at the rate of 8~ Dollars per month, to commence o the 8 of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued by the 10 of Febr 1819 and sent to Lady Dana 
[illegible] Oxford co Maine
Arrears to the 4th of Sep 1818. 4 mon 27 30 39 20
Semi.anl. all'ce ending 4[illegible] 1819. 48~
& 87.20
{Revolutionary claim Act 18th March, 1818}

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Samuel L Chandler, Aug 21 1837

Reg 3m 55 106480

1948.[?]
[illegible]
Mary L. Chandler
widow of Moses Chandler
who served in the Revolutionary 
NH
war, as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 56 Dollars 66
cents per annum to commence on the 30, February 1833
Certificate of Pension issued the 15th day of Sept   53[?]
and sent to Pensioner 

Fryeburg Oxford Co,
Maine

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1 6, 480 [illegible]
[illegible] 28/55
Mary L. Chandler [illegible]
Moses, Chandler [illegible]
Revolutionary pensions
[watermark] 27608 of May 20/56
NH line C[illegible]
Me AO July 1948
AO 160 AO Ma 14/56
[illegible signature]

M
[illegible] 1248
th " "  " Feb, 5/56
" " " " May 10/56

Vol 10 106.

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Declaration of Moses Chandler
Private
Dearborn N.H. Regi
Jan 1702 18 months
April.8. 1818
[admiral?]

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Oxford
On this eighth day of April 1818, before me the subscriber, Judge of the Court of Probate in said County and first associate Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in the first Eastern Circuit in said Commonwealth, personally appeared Moses Chandler, aged fifty three years, a resident of Lymebury in said county, who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war; that he, the said Moses Chandler, served in the revolutionary war; as a Private Soldier on the continental establishment against the Common Enemy about eighteen month. I enlisted in New Hampshire for three years about June AD 1782 into the company commanded by Capt. Ebenezer Frye belonging to Col. Henry Dearborn’s Regiment in the New Hampshire Line and served in that company and in the companies commanded by Captains Isaac Frye & Daniel Livermore until November or December AD 1789 when he, the said Chandler, hired a soldier by the name of Jonathan Brown to take his place in the army and was discharged.

A wound was accepted in his, the said Chandler’s stead. That the said Chandler was regularly dismissed at Constitution Island opposite West Point, and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, he stands

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in need of assistance from his country for support; and that
if he had a discharge he has long since lost it.
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid
Judah Dana Judge 
I, Judah Dana Judge as aforesaid, do certify that from the foregoing declaration of the said Moses Chandler, and from the testimony of his other credible witnesses, it appears to my satisfaction that the said
Moses Chandler did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declarations against the common enemy for the term of nine months on
the continental establishment; and that from his reduced circumstances in life he stands in need of assistance from his country for support; and I do
transmit the preceding and testimony taken and had
before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court of Probate at Lymebury this fourteenth day of July AD 1818

Judah Dana Judge

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
County of Bristol
This subscription register of the court of probate in [illegible] County Dear
February in sand county on Wednesday this eighth day of April 1818 
ceritify of make known that the Hon Judah Dana who syned that forgory certifcate is judge of and court probate [illegible]
was member of the Bristol court of common [illegible] in the [illegible] Barten bristol in said commonwealth and that said [illegible]
ment is whover the seal [illegible] probate court

Mr. Jim Osgood Rep of Probate

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Declaration 
Mary Chandler
for Pension
Act 3rd Febr 1853

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State of Maine      )   S.S.
County of Oxford  )

On this ["fourth" stricken out] Twenty second day of ["March" stricken out] June A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty three personally appeared before me ["a Justice of the Peace" stricken out] Timothy Ludden Judge of Probate ["for the County aforesaid" stricken out] within and for the County aforesaid in open Court Mrs Mary L Chandler a resident of Fryeburg in the County of Oxford and State of Maine Aged Seventy two 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 Law of the United States pafsed on the third day of February A.D. 1853:  That she is the widow of Moses Chandler late deceased who was a private in the Army of the Revolutionm and inscribed on the Pension Roll at Washington at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to be paid at the Cumberland Bank in Portland in the district of Maine, and that previous to his deceased he resided at Fryeburgm in the county and State aforesaid, That the Said Moses Chandler was pensioned in conformity with the Law of the United States  of the 18th of March 1818 to commence on the eighth day of April of the same year, as appears by his certificate No. 6728

She further declares that she was married to the Said Moses Chandler at Fryeburg in County and State aforesaid on the fourth day of July A.D. eighteen hundred and two, that her husband, the aforesaid Moses Chandler

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died at Fryeburg aforesaid on the tenth day of September A.D. eighteen hundred and twenty two

She further declares that she was a widow at the pafsage of the Act, and is Still a widow, and that she has never before applied for a pension, and that previous to her said marriage her name was Mary Langdon.
Mary L. Chandler

Sworn to and Subscribed before me the day and year first above written in open Court

Timothy Ludden Judge of Probate
for the County of Oxford

["Robinson Parlin, Justice of the Peace" stricken out]

Probate Court
Oxford fs   June 22, 1833

Be it known that ["Timothy Ludden" stricken out] the signature of Timothy Ludden affixed to this paper is his own proper signature and that said Timothy Ludden is Judge of Probate within and for the County of Oxford acting as such and entitled to full faith & credit as such

In testimony whereof I have as Register of said Court affixed my name & the seal of said Probate Court this day
Geo. K. Shaw Register of Probate
for said County

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I hereby certify that all the erasures and alterations in the foregoing declaration were made by me before the same was signed
Timothy Ludden  Judge of Probate

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[left side of page]
106480

[right side of page]
Application
Mary L. Chandler
for 
Bounty Land
Act
Mar 3 1855

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State of Maine      )  SS.
County of Oxford  )

On this twentieth day of March A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace within and for the County and State aforesaid Mary L. Chandler aged Seventy four years a resident of Fryeburg in the County of Oxford and State of Maine who being duly Sworn according to Law declares that she is the widow of Moses Chandler deceased who was a Soldier private in the Army of the Revolution and inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the District of Maine Agency at the rate of Eight Dollars per month to commence on the eighth day of April 1818 and Given at the War Office of the United States the tenth day of February 1819, and that she the said Mary L. Chandler is now inscribed on the Pension List at the rate of Fifty-Six dollars and sixty-six cents per annum commencing on the 3d of February 1853 and continuing for life unlefs she should again marry; which Certificate was given at the Department of the Interior the fifteenth day of September 1853, and respectfully refers the Pension Department to her papers already on file at Washington when and before her said described Certificate was in her possession was granted

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which Said Certificate if Recorded in the Pension Office on the Roll of Pensions under Act of February 3d 1853  Page 2, Vol. A.

She makes this Declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the Act granting Bounty Land to certain officers and Soldiers who have been engaged in the military Service of the United States since 1790, also to Revolutionary Soldiers and their widows pafsed March 3d A.D. 1855, and that she never before applied for, nor received Bounty Land under any other Act of Congrefs.
Mary L. Chandler
Attest--Moses Chandler

Subscribed and Sworn to before me the day and year first within written; and I certify I believe the above Signed Mary L. Chandler to be the identical widow of Moses Chandler as within represented by herself ["within" stricken out] and that her signature above is her true Signature and that I have no interest in any case to which the above may relate.
Samuel L. Chandler ) Justice of the Peace

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I Moses Chandler and Judith Chandler of Fryeburg in the County of Oxford and State of Maine depose testify and say we are acquainted with Mary L. Chandler of Said Fryeburg that she is the identical Widow of Moses Chandler deceased as represented by herself and has never intermarried but continues, and now is his widow that the Said Mary Chandler Signed and acknowledged her foregoing application in our presence and that we are disinterested.
Moses Chandler
Judith Chandler

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year within written, and I certify I believe the above signed Moses Chandler and Judith Chandler to be credible witnefses that their Signature above is true and genuine and that I am disinterested
Samuel L. Chandler  )  Justice of the Peace

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STATE OF MAINE.

COUNTY OF OXFORD, SS.
Clerk's Office, Supreme Judicial Court.

I, ELISHA WINTER, Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of Main, within and for the COUNTY OF OXFORD, and Keeper of the Seal thereof, hereby certify that Samuel L. Chandler Esquire, whose genuine signature appears to the Certificates hereunto annexed, was at the respective dates thereof, a JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, within and for the County and State aforesaid, duly authorized to administer OATHS, and take acknowledgment of DEEDS and other Instruments; and that the Court aforesaid is a Court of Record, having general jurisdiction.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of our said Court this Seventeenth day of April 1855.
Elisha Winter  Clerk.

[illegible seal affixed to the top left corner of page]

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The under named persons were joined in Marriage by the Subscriber Pastor of the Church in Fryeburg
July the fourth eighteen hundred and two  Doctor Moses Chandler & Mary Langdon both of Fryeburg
Wm Fesenden

I hereby certify that it is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows:  July 4th 1802.
Joseph Chandler, Town Clerk

I Joseph Chandler above named, depose and say that I hold the office of town Clerk in the Town of Fryeburg, County of Oxford and State of Maine, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town, with the exceptions above named, as certified by me.
Joseph Chandler  )  Clerk of the Town of Fryeburg

Sworn before me this fourth day of March A.D. 1853
Robinson Parlin,  Justice of the Peace

I Joseph Chandler depose and say, that I hold the Office of town Clerk in the town of Fryeburg, County of Oxford, and State of Maine, and that the following is a true extract from the records of said Town.
"Doct. Moses Chandler departed this life Sept. 10th 1822  
Joseph Chandler  )  Town Clerk

Sworn before me this 4th day of March 1853
Robinson Parlin;  Justice of the Peace

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27,608

160 Acres

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[stamp in upper left corner of page]
AUGUSTA
Me.
24
JAN

[stamp reading "FREE" on upper right corner of page]

Hon.  J  Minot.
Comm'r. of Pensions
Washington
D.C.

[written vertically on page from right side to left]

Moses Chandler
wid
Mary L.

Boynton

Additional evidence

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July 9, 1853.
No 2480

Appl. of Mary L.
Chandler, widow
of Moses Chandler.

Oxford Ct., Maine.

17 mos.' Service
from 82 to 3d Nov. 83.
["Act 1828 18th Novr"  stricken out]

Act 3d Feby. 1853.

$56.66/100  per An

Com.  Feb. 3d, 1853
Rev.

Mrs. Mary L. Chandler
Fryeburg,
Oxford Ct.,
Me.

[printed vertically on right side of page]
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Pension Office, Official Business

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106480
Mary L. Chandler
wid.
Moses

27608

160 acres

27,608
160

[written upside down]
Boynton

Additional Evidence

[written vertically on page from left side to right side]

N. Fryburg  Me   May  27   Free.

Hon. J. Minot
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C.

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Bryantville, Mass., Jan. 10th, 1901.

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

I send herewith application for information concerning the services of two of my ancestors, who were in the war of the American Revolution.  I am a lineal descendant.*  I inclose one dollar.  Will you inform me if more is needed for the research?  I should esteem an early answer a great favor.

My grandfather, Dr. Moses Chandler, [name underlined] was born in concord, N.H.  He practiced medicine in New Market and Lee N.H. and afterwards in Fryeburg, Maine, where he died in 1822.  He was a soldier in the American Revolution, probably enlisting in a New Hampshire Regiment.  The Chandler Genealogy says he was a pensioner.  Certainly his wife, Mary Langdon, [name underlined] of Fryeburg Maine received a land bounty and a pension.  He was young when he entered the service.  I have consulted records in Boston but am confused by the fact that several Moses Chandlers went from N.H.  Can you furnish from the pension xxxxx records the dates of enlistment, discharge and the regiment and company?

My great grandfather, Paul Langdon, [name underlined] was born in Portsmouth N.H. in 1752, lived in Fryeburg, Maine in 1781 and died in N.Y. in 1834.  He was in the War of the Revolution, probably enlisting in a Massachusetts regiment, as he was a graduate of Harvard and his father, Rev. Samuel L. Langdon, was president of the College in 1774 - 1780.

Paul Langdon was a pensioner of the U.S. Government.  Can you furnish dates of enlistment and discharge, also regiment and company?

["Probably" stricken out] Perhaps he went from Cambridge.

May E. Charles.

* $1.00 returned to May E. Charles--Bryantville, Mass.

[illegible seal affixed to the right of the above asterisked note]

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Augusta  Feb. 1, 1856.

Hon. J. Minot
Commr. of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Inclosed please find Certificate of Services of Moses Chandler in War of the Revolution as found on on the Records in N. Hampshire

Please return warrants addressed herein together with those of Widow Ann Evans Widow Thomas whose Applications for Bounty Land were filed by myself in the Pension Department to myself at Augusta--where I shall remain till the rising of this Legislative Session 
I am Sir with respect
Your Obt &c
Samuel L. Chandler
Ho. Reps.
Augusta Maine

The persons for whom I applied, for Bounty Land are feeling anxious relating to their Warrants, and I hope their Cases will soon be considered
S.L. Chandler

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State of New Hampshire  
Secretary of State's Office

I do 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 office, it appears that the name of Moses Chandler is borne up the    Pay Roll of Capt. William Walker's Company, as a Private in Company, Vol. 8. Page 6.--

"Pay Roll of Capt. William Walker's Company in  Colo James Reeds regiment to the 1 of August 1775 6th Co.  "Names" 27" "Moses Chandler" "Rank" "Private" "Time of Entry" 1775 May 2nd Time in Service" 3 mo 7 dys

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said State, this Twentyninth day of January 1856 

Lemuel N. Pattee Secretary of State

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Pension Office,
May 10 1856.

Sir:

The certificate of the Secretary of State of New Hampshire filed in this Office to establish the claim of Mary L. Chandler for bounty land, does not relate to the Service of her husband.  The service Certificate was rendered in the Years 1775 & 6, whereas the husband of the Applicant, alleged his service from June 1782, to Nov'r. 1783, under Capt. Frey & Col. Dearborn of the New Hampshire Continental line.

Yours Respectfully,
C.H. Rhett.
for Commifsioner.

Sam'l. S. Chandler, Esqr.
North Fryeburg, Me.

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State of New Hampshire
Secretary of State's Office
==========================
I do 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 office, it appears that the name of Moses Chandler is borne upon Vol. 4 Page 58 "Derryfield" xxxx"1782 Moses Chandler July 15"

Also is borne upon Vol 4 Page 147 "Derryfield"  "John Hanson"  1781 July 22"  "Mark Duty 1782 April 19th"  Moses Chandler"   .   .  July 15"
1787 Feby. 21  Rec'd an order on the Treasurer for sixty pounds"         "John Gofse"

Also is borne upon Vol 4, Pages 639 & 641  "Account of State Bounties for Continental Soldiers who Inlisted in the year 1782 for three years or during the war"  180 "July 15"  "Moses Chandler"

Also is borne upon Vol. 8 Page 6  Pay Roll of Capt. William Walker's Company in

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in Colo James Reed's regiment to the 1 of August 1775.  6th Co.  "Names"  27  "Moses Chandler"  "Rank"  Private"  "Time of Entry"  1775"  May 2" Time in service 3 mo 7 dys"

Also is borne upon Vol. 8 Page 20  "1775 Oct'r. 13  Rec'd of Timo Walker Jr. Nineteen Pounds four Shillings Lvny for Regimental Coats for the sixteen following Persons viz"
x            x             x              x                x
x            x
"Mofes Chandler"

Also is borne upon vol 8, Page 164  "We the subscribers officers and soldiers belonging to Cap Eben'r Green's Company in Col. Timothy Bedel's Regiment hereby acknowledge that we have received of Israel Morey Esqr. the following Fire Armes with the several accoutrements thereto belonging as prefixed to our names in the following colums for the service of the United Colonies in the northern Continental Army and for the use of said Fire Arms and Accoutrements we the subscribers agree to allow the sum of six shillings Lawful Money to be deducted out of our wages for the use of each Fire Arm &c
Head Quarters Oxford  March 5th 1776
x  x  x  x  x  x   "Moses X Chandler"

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Also is borne upon Vol 8. 183 " A Pay Roll of Captain Ebenezer Green's Company in Colonel Bedels Regiment raised by the Continental Congress in the Colony of New Hampshire in the defence (defense) of the Liberties of America & joined the Northern Continental Army under General Washington.

We the subscribers officers and soldiers do acknowledge to have received of Israel Morey, Esq., one of the Pay Masters of said Regiment, the several sums preferred to our names including one penny per mile computed to Oxford Head Quarters.

"Names" "Moses Chandler" "Quality" "Private"   "Time of Engagement" 1776 Feby. 1 Reate p 16 40/-  "Wages" 2"0"0" "Bounty 2"0"0" "Blankets" 0"1.5. 0" "Miles Travel" "53" Billeting  "0"4"5" Sum total "4"19"5" "Moses + Chandler's mark"
" A list of the men in Capt. Ebenezer Greens Compy (Company) in Col (Colonel) Timoth (Timothy) Bedels Regiment Moses Chandler"


In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said state this twenty second day of January 1856.
Lemuel N. Pattee Secretary of State

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additional evidence
for Widow Mary L.
Chandler for Bounty
Land

Mary L. Chandler
wid
Moses

Boynton

Saml L. Chandler
North Fryeburgh
Maine

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State of New Hampshire
Secretary of States Office
I do hereby certify that from our examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the war of the Revolution which remains in this office it appears that the name of Moses Chandler is based upon Vol 8 Page 6 " Pay Roll of Capt William Walkers Company in Col. James Reeds Regiment to the 1 of August 1775. 6th Col "Nanes" 27 "Moses Chandler " "Rank" "Private" "Service of duty" "1775 May 2d" "time in service" "3 Months" "7 Days"
As is above upon Vol 8 Page No 1775 "Oct 13th Recd of Timothy Walker Jr. for Nineteen Pounds four shillings L may for Regimental coats for the sixteen following persons vis"

Moses Chandler

* Interlined before signing and sealing

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also is borne upon Vol 8 Page 164
"We the subscribers officers and Soldiers belonging to Capt. Ebenezer Greens Company in Col Timothy Beedles Regiment hereby acknowledge that we have received of Isreal Morey Esqr. the following Fire Armes with the several accoutrements thereto belonging as prefixed to our names in the following colums for the service of the United Colonies in the Northern **[illegible--stricken out] Continental Army and for the use of Said Fire Armes and accoutrements we the Subscribers agree to allow the Sum of Six Shillings Lawful Money to be deducted out of our wages for the use of each "Fire Arm &c"
"Head Quarters Oxford  March 5th 1776"
xxxxxxxxxxx " Moses X  Chandler"

Also is born upon Vol 8.0.183  "A Pay Roll of Capt. "Ebenezer Greens Company in Col Beedles Regiment raised by the Continental Congrefs in the Colony of New Hampshire in the defence of the Liberties of America---Joined the Northern Continental Army under General Washington"

**Erased before signing & Sealing

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We the Subscribers Officers and Soldiers do acknowledge to have received of Israel Morey Esquire one of the PayMasters of said Regiment the Several Sums prefixed to our names including one penny per mile computed to Oxford Head Quarters "names" "Moses Chandler" "Quality Private" "Line of engagement" 1776" "Feb 1" "Rate per mo" "40/" "Wages 2.0.0" "Bounty" 2.0.0  "Blankets 0. "15.0"  Miles travel"  "53"  "Billeting 0.4.5"  Sum Total "4.19.5"
x  x x x x x x  x x x x "MosesXChandler"s Mark"

Vol 8.  Page 239.  "A List of the men in Capt. Ebenezer Greens Compy in Col Timoth Bedel Regiment" & "Moses Chandler."

In testimony whereof I have herein to Set my hand and affixed the Seal of Said State this nineteenth day of April A.D. 1856.
Lemuel N. Pattee  )  Secretary of State.

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N. Fryeburg Me.    May 28/56

Hon. J. Minot

Dear Sir   Inclosed please find the Record of Moses Chandlers Services in the War of the Revolution and found on the Records in New Hampshire.

There may be little discrepancies between the evidence filed ["in" stricken out] when pension was granted him and the record at Concord but no doubt Moses Chandler by virtue of whose Services Wid Mary Chandler claims Bounty Land under act of March 3d 1856 is the same person named in the accompanying Copy of Record

His widow says She has heard him say he ran away from his parents at the age of 15 and joined the Revolutionary army serving more or lefs during the whole time of the War.  Being young and frequent transfers he probably did not remember the name of the Officers distinctly

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Instead of Capt. Ebenezer Frye probably it was intended Capt Ebenezer Greene as the Records demonstrate.  Was there a Capt Ebenezer Frye Commanding a Company in the War of the Revolution?

It would appear quite evident to my mind if Bounty Land is not due the Widow Justly the pension which she is now receiving is not Justly due her.

Moses Chandler lived in Concord N.H. at the time of Joining the Army after the close of the War moved to Fryeburg where he died Sept. 10th 1822 and no one ever doubted but he was in the Rev Service and there was never any other Moses Chandler in Said war except the one alluded to

I hope the Widows case will be favorably considered as She is poor and helplefs and needs help of those gratuities so liberally bestowed on Widows of like Condition

May I hear from you in the widows behalf at

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your earliest convenience by which you will bestow a favor on her and oblige
Very truly
& Respectully yours
Samuel L. Chandler

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530
Revy Widow, etc.

File No. 50
Mary L. Chandler
Widow.
Moses Chandler.
Priv. Rev. War.
Act:  Feb. 3. 1858
Index:  Vol. A  Page 124

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Jany 19 1900
Miss May E Charles
Bryantville Mass

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Brief in the case of Mary L. Chandler, widow of Moses, Oxford County and State of Maine. act 3d February 1853
Claim ("original")
Proof exhibited. (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was a pensioner under the Act of 18 March 1818 and [could not figure out word] too much property
Record evidence of marriage, 
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim?  If so what?

Mrs. Mary L. Chandler,
Fryeburg, Oxford Co. Me
Name and residence of Agent

S. C. Boynton
Examining Clerk

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530
Moses Chandler
Apl 8th 1878 - 53
Fryeburg Me.

Jan 82              NH
Capt Ebenezer Frye
Col. Nany Dearborn
Pvt - 6 mos
N R Bat.

Married Mary Langdon
July 4, 1802 Fryeburg Me
Died Sept. 10, 1822

Wid Act 1945
Act Feby 3, 1853 Maine Agency
Iss. Sept. 15 1853

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State of Maine.   }  SS
County of Oxford}
[seal]   Clerk's Office, Supreme Judicial Court.
Alvah Black, Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, within and the County of Oxford, the same being a Court of Record, hereby certify,
that Samuel L. Chandler was at the dates of the certificates hereunto annexed, ever since has been and now is, a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, duly authorized to administer Oaths, and take the acknowledgement of Deeds and other Instruments; and that I believe that the signature to the Instrument hereunto annexed, purporting to be his, is his genuine official signature.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of our said Court, at Paris, in said County, the First day of August 1857
Alvah Black, Clerk.

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Application the
Mary L. Chandler
for increase of pension
under "Act Feb. 3d 1853"
1948

Samuel L. Chandler Agt
N Fryeburg Maine

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State of Maine } S.S.
County of Oxford}

On this twenty seventh day of July A. D. One thousand eight hundred and fifty seven personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace on and for the County of Oxford, in the State of Maine Mary L. Chandler aged seventy five years and a resident of Fryeburg in the County of Oxford, in the State of Maine  who being duly Sworn according to law declares that she is the identical Mary L. Chandler widow of Moses Chandler deceased who was a private in the war of the Revolution and was inscribed on the Pension Roll at the rate of ninety six dollars per annum is over due and in virtue of "Act April 8th 1818 that she the said Mary L. Chandler was inscribed on the Pension roll in virtue of her said husband services under " Act February 3rd 1853" at the rate of Fifty six dollars and sixty six cents per annum of which seem she is now in yearly receipt and prays the pension Department may grant and allow her the same annual pension in amount that was

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["that said" stricken out] granted and allowed her said husband, Moses Chandler in his life time, agreeably with Said Act of February 3d A.D. 1853, and she respectfully refers the New Commissioner of Pensions to her papers on file in the Pension Office where her said pension was allowed, also those of her said husband when his pension was granted, and makes this Declaration for the purpose of obtaining and receiving the same amount annually granted her said husband, Moses Chandler, as contemplated, under Said, "Act February 3d 1853" that the said Mary L. Chandler is still a widow and has never again intermarried.
Mary L.  X her mark  Chandler

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We Joseph Chandler and we Moses Chandler of Fryeburg in the County of Oxford and State of Maine upon our oaths declare we were present and saw Mary L. Chandler ["sign" stricken out] make her mark the foregoing declaration that we know her to be the identical Mary L. Chandler widow of Moses Chandler late of Fryeburg deceased, that since his decease she has never intermarried, but is still a widow.
Joseph Chandler
Moses Chandler

State of Maine        )
Oxford County        ) S.S.

The foregoing Declaration and Affidavit were Sworn to and Subscribed, before me the day and year first within written and I certify the deponents are reputable witnefses and the applicant the person represented by herself.
Samuel L. Chandler
Justice of the Peace

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We Joseph Chandler and Moses Chandler both of Fryburg in the County of Oxford and State of Maine on oath depose and say that we of Lawful age, and have been well acquainted with Mary Chandler, who is the widow of Moses Chandler late of Fryburg deceased, said Moses Chandler was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, at the rate of ninety six dollars per annum and was dropped under act of May 1st 1820, said Moses Chandler died on the tenth day of September A.D. 1822, that Mary Chandler who has made application for a pension on account of the revolutionary Services of her late husband, is now living in the town of Fryburg Me and is still the widow of the said Moses Chandler the Revolutionary Soldier aforesaid that I have lived a near neighbor and in house with the said Mary Chandler and Moses Chandler for forty years or more last past, and that we are disinterested
Joseph Chandler
Moses Chandler

Oxford Ss.   June 23d 1853

Then personally appeared the above named Joseph Chandler and Moses Chandler (who are known to me as persons of truth and verasity) and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by them signed.  Before me
Robinson Parlin  )  Justice of the Peace

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STATE OF MAINE.

OXFORD COUNTY, SS.
Clerk's Office of the Supreme Judical Court.

I Hereby Certify, That Robinson Parlin, Esq. was at the date of the annexed attestation, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the COUNTY OF OXFORD, in said State, duly commissioned and qualified to administer oaths, and take acknowledgements of deeds, and other instruments in writing, and that the signature to the certificate annexed, purporting to be his, is genuine, and that to his acts and attestations as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixed the Official Seal of said Court, and subscribed my name the Twenty ninth day of June A.D., 1853

Elisha Winter  Clerk of said Court.

[illegible seal affixed to the left of the above signature]