Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15616, for Chauncey Rice, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn. Mass.
Rice, Chauncy
S. 15616
CONTENTS
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28.002 Connecticut
M r . Dodge
Chauncy Rice
30-1854
of Meriden in the State of Conn who was a Pirate in the Conn command by Captain Newton of the Rept commanded by Col — in the Conn Hoop line for Smo — & Mass.
John C. Rayed 21 st Sept. 1853.
Inscribed on the Roll of Conn at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum commences on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 day of Jan y 1884 and Serv. No. 8 A Foot. No. of Re
Arrears to the 4th of Febr 1853 $ 66.66
Remnant allowance ending March 4, 1831
Certificate - now in - $ 26.66 instead of $ 26.66 - a new one sent to M r . Dood, Apr 30-34 { Revolutionary Claim, } Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by C. D. M c Lean Clerk Book E Vol. 3 Page 38

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832.
State of Connecticut } County of New Britain } Probate district of Wallingford
In this 9 th day of August 1832 personally appeared in the Court of Probate for the district of Wallingford in open court Chauncy Rice of Meriden in the county of New Britain and State of Connecticut aged seventy five years the seventh day of September 1832. Who first being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832 That he entered the service of the United States under the following officers and served as herein stated That in the year 1776 sometime in the latter part of winter applicant enlisted in a company commanded by Captain Joseph Newton of Chelsea in New Britain County to go to Boston that they proceeded on from town to town until they arrived at Boston that after they arrived at Boston they were employed a part of the time in digging entrenchments as applicant thinks on Dorchester Heights that the company in which applicant was left Boston at the time the British evacuated the city That he never received any discharge but was dismissed by the Captain after he arrived home applicant is not able to tell the length of time for which he enlisted but he thinks he was in the service more than two months Applicant does not know of any person living who was in said company with him and the names of the commanding officers of the Regiment

he has forgotten but he saw General Washington and understood General Putnam was there. Applicant further says that he was a member of the militia of this state in the town of Wallingford in the year 1776 that he was in a company commanded by Captain Hale of said Wallingford Abraham Stanley was Lieutenant that the whole company were called for and applicant together with the other members of the company left Wallingford and proceeded to New Haven from which place they set sail for the city of New York that they had a long tedious passage down being on the water near a sick wind bound & becalmed that after their arrival the company to which applicant belonged were stationed in a street then called Queen St and paraded in Broadway while they were posted there that they were there when the Americans left Long Island that afterwards they left the city & proceeded to Cobleskill and encamped that while at this place the British troops bombarded and finally took Fort Gate that a few days after the Americans troops carried three long eighteen into a field & fired upon a British ship then lying in the East River that the first ball went on the Island the second struck the boom ship the third went astern and struck the Island as applicant supposes that a few days after a South wind blew and they

British ships came and anchored by the side of the one that was there before that. They kept music playing nearly or quite all night. That early in the morning a white flag was sent on shore from one of the ships that he understood the object was to demand a place for the troops to land that applicant saw General Putnam a short time after that he appeared to be in a rage about the British that the British troops were lying in their boats when the flag went on board the reflection of their Red Coats made the water look bloody that the enemy began firing on the city as soon as the flag returned and the boats proceeded to the shore and landed under cover of their guns that part of the British troops went immediately into the city and a part proceeded up towards Kings Bridge that the shipping continued to fire upon the city for several hours that applicant together with the others went over Kings Bridge that they came together some distance from Kings Bridge that applicant was immediately taken sick with the camp distemper and was unable to perform any service that the troops left him at Horse Neck he being unable to proceed that he was there when the battle of White Plains was fought that he should not have been able to have got home had not one of his friends come after him that the Captain got home some time before applicant that applicant was gone from home more than three months but he was unable to do any labour or perform any service for more than six months that applicant does not know of any person living

who was in the said company with him Applicant further says that in the spring of the year 1777 he went to Lansb- =rough in the state of Massachusetts to work for an acquaintance of his that soon after he volunteered to go with a number of the militia of that place to watch the movements of enemy - that they marched through the towns of New Ashford Pound- =well Bennington Allington and a number of others which applicant has forgotten that he was gone a while and returned that soon after he returned he volunteered again to go in a company commanded Capt. Barnes and Lieutenant Fisher and proce- =eded to Bennington that there he saw General Stark, that they arrived on the 16 th and joined the army the day that Colonel Bacon was killed and the British surrendered that on that day applicant fired his gun as he thinks nearly twenty times that his gun got so hot he was obliged to stop firing a while that on that day applicant was wound- =ed twice once on the side of the neck and the second is to be seen to this day one on the right side the ball passing through his clothes and glancing off that the lieutenant was kill- =ed and buried at the foot of a tree the term of service which he performed during this time was as near as applicant can reck- =on it was about four months that part of the prisoners were conveyed down to Lansborough and applicant assisted and to guard them to that place applicant received none but a rabad discharged applicant does not know

of any person living who was in this service with him Applicant thinks he is entitled to pay for service for two months on the first tour and the five months which he lost by sickness contracted in the service of the United States three months of which he did duty and at the four months at the North making in all twelve months cutting the tour to New York five months or nine months calling that three.
In answer to the queries of the department Applicant says 1 st that he was born in the society of Meriden a part of the town of Wallingford in the year 1757 To the second that his name is recorded in the records of the town of Wall- ingford To the 3 rd that he was told in the body of his declaration where he was when called into service that he lived forty years in Smithtown on Long Island that he now lives in the town of Meriden To the 4 th that he has answered it to the best of his knowledge in the body of his declaration To the 5 th that he has answered it to the best of his knowledge in the body of his declaration To the 6 th that he has also answered it to the best of recollection in his declaration To the 7 th he refers to the Rev. Lucius Baldwin, Isaac Hough, M. D. Major Elisha A. Cookes, all of Meriden.
Sworn & Subscribed this 5 th day of June day & year aforesaid } Charles Rice

Mr Isaac J. Hough M.D. residing residing in the town of Mendon and Elisha A. Bowles merchant residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Chamney Rice who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy four years of age - that he is respected & beloved in the neighborhood where he resides & have known a soldier of the revolution - and that we concur in that opinion subscribed & sworn to This day & year aforesaid Isaac J. Hough Elisha A. Bowles
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Dep- artment - that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states - And the Court further certify that Isaac J. Hough M.D. and Elisha A. Bowles, who have signed the foregoing certificate are respectable inhabitants of said town of Mendon, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Mr D. Shepard's Judge of Probate for the District of Wallingford

I Randall book clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Wallingford do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Chauncy Price for a pension —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said office this 9th. day of August 18. 1832 —
Randall book clerk —

State of Connecticut } County of New Haven } } Wallingford Nov. 30. 1832
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the Peace for said New Haven County Charny Price — of Meriden — who being duly sworn — deposes & says that owing to his old age & consequent loss of memory he is unable to state with precision the precise time — he was in the service of the United States nor the officers under whom he served — but he says that in the year 1776 he served not less than two months as a private in Captain Newton's Company — Connecticut line — in the year 1776 in Captain Dales Company in the Connecticut line he was on duty in service of the United States not less than three months — and that while in this service he continued took the camp distress — and was unable to perform any labor or business of any kind for more than three months after that time — That in the year 1777 he served not less than four months as a private in a company commanded by Capt. Barons in the Massachusetts line — making in all twelve months for which I claim a pension —
Charny Price
Subscribed & sworn to this day & year aforesaid before me A. B. Chaplin Just. of the Peace

Chauncy Rice 22 52
8 th pirata $26.66
Hen S A Foot Hq R.

H. Charles J. Hinsdale of Meriden in the County of New Haven - Pastor of the Congrega- tional Church in said Meriden hereby certify that I have had some opportunity of becoming acquainted with Chauncy Rice of said Meriden & from all that I know & can learn of him I have no hesitation of saying that I believe the said Chauncy Rice was a soldier of the Revolution & that he is a credible person & his statement is entitled belief -
Charles J. Hinsdale
County of New Haven Meriden p. Meriden 12 th Dec 1832
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the Peace for County of New Haven Charles J. Hinsdale signee of the foregoing certificate & made solemn oath to the truth of the same before me - and thereby certify that the said Charles J. Hinsdale is a clergyman in regular standing in the Congre- gational Church in this place -
Asahel Merriam Justice of the Peace

Franklin County ss Meriden 4 th day of December 1832. This may certify That we the undersigned - are personally acquainted with Chauncy Pier of said Meriden - That he is a man of unimpeachable character - and we certify that we believe him to have been a soldier of the revolution - and to have served as he states
Patrick Lewis Town Clerk & Postmaster - Asahel Merriam Justice of the Peace Benjamin Joseph his wife Asaph Merriam Moses Andrews William Merriam
Franklin County ss Meriden 4 th day of December 1832. Personally appeared before me the undersigned Patrick Lewis, Asahel Merriam, Joseph his wife, Asaph Merriam, Moses Andrews, and William Merriam - signers of the foregoing certificate & made solemn oath to the truth of the facts therein stated - I hereby certify that the said persons are credible persons & their statement is entitled to belief.
Benjamin Andrews Justice of the Peace

Chauncy Rice 2252
Sw final 26.66
Wm S. Cook H. J. R.
I Randall Cook Clerk of the Probate District of Wallingford hereby certify that A. B. Chapin whose name is within written to the deposition of Chauncy Rice. & Asahel Merriam and Benajah Andrews whose names are within written to the depositions of Charles Hinsdale Patrick Lewis & others, are Justices of the Peace duly qualified to administer oaths and that the same is their hand writing In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of said Office this 15 th day of December. A 1832.
Randall Cook Clerk JB

15.616 INVALID.
File No. 15.616
Chauncy Rice
Pr. Rev. Me.
Act: June 7 th 32
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 312
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Chauncy Rice
Payments to be made at Hartford
by Thos. of Farmers & Mechanics Bank
Agent for paying Pension-
ers, in the Agency of
Certificates 136 66
Returns 26 66
Connecticut
Canceled
White Oak Mountain at
Union rate
Recorded in the Pension Of- fice, in Book E Vol. 3
Page 38 by E. D. Bullock Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Chuncey Rice of the State of Connecticut who was a Private during the Revolutionary War
is entitled to receive Thirty Six dollars and Sixty Six  + cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 8 th day of January one thousand eight hundred and thirty- four
John B. Lothrop Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }
J. L. Edward Commissioner of Pensions.
Returned $26.66
should be $26.66 - a new one made out of sent to Mr. Wood ap. 30 - 1834

no 28002

Plainville Cont Sept th 19/53
Hon L. P. Waldo Sir will you please allow Mr H. G. Ward to examine my Father's Papers Chauncy Royce who was a Revolutionary Pensioner I think his Name may be wrote Chauncy Rice if you will allow him to do so please write me yours Respectfully John C. Royce by Adna Whiting
Mr Waldo Sir I am well acquainted with John C. Royce as I also was with his Father and knew him to be  have been a Revolutionary Pensioner yours Resp ly Adna Whiting