Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,050, Lysias Blanchard, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Blanchard, Lysias
S. 34,050
CONTENTS

Notification sent October 26 1820 to Abraham Hughes, Cambridge, Mass.
14. 714  Massachusetts
Issias Blanchard of Groton in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Jackson of the Massachusetts line, for the term of 9 months
Inscribed on the roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 24 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th of Sep: 1819 and sent to Hon. S. Dana. Groton, Massachusetts
  Arrears to 4th of Sep: 1819 =  $130.93    Semi-ann. all'ce ending Oct: 1820  48.    16 mo 11/30  $178.93  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

Lysias Blanchard -

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
April
Be it remembered, that on this twenty fourth day of March April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, before me Samuel Dana Clerk justice of the Superior Court of Common Pleas for the middle Circuit Court of Common Pleas, in the middle Circuit comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex in the Commonwealth aforesaid comes Levi S. Blanchard of Groton in said County of Middlesex and Commonwealth aforesaid and on Oath declares that he served in the war of the Revolution against the common Enemy about fifteen months, he served at Cambridge in Massachusetts six weeks, at the commencement of the war under Capt. Dana's Regiment of which Duffer was Major in the Middlesex line — In the summer of Seventeen hundred and Seventy six he went into the Army under Capt. John Munt in a Regiment commanded by Col. Nicholas Dyer of which Henry Haskell was Lt. Col. and served at Rochester Heights in Massachusetts four months and one week, when he discharged and returned to his then residence. In the month of May one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine, the Town of Harvard in Massachusetts procured him to go into the Army upon the continental establishment, he proceeded to Worcester and was then mustered by Col. Titcomb, and proceeded to Freshkill in New York and was placed in Capt. Cleveland's Company commanded by Ensign Benjamin or Col. Michael Jackson's Regiment in this Company he remained until he completed his term of nine months, when Col. Jackson gave him his discharge which he produced several years, but having often with his family removed he has by accident lost it several years since —
He is now Seventy years of age destitute of property & has his subsistence in part from the Charity of a daughter who imparts some of her earnings to his support and by reason of his medical circumstances in life he stands in need of a pension from his country, for support. —
WILLIAM BLANCHARD
Thurs made, taken, subscribed, and sworn to at Groton in said County of Middlesex, the day and year aforesaid.
Sam l Dana
(Handwritten flourish)

Lysias Blanchard -
(motion of Jackson & Clegg) upon same uncontradicted evidence.
Referred
Adm.
(on the Capt. Ms testimony.)

To the Honorable JOHN C. CALHOUN, Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I, the undersigned Samuel Dana , Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being a Court of Record, duly established by Law, Do hereby certify, That on the twenty fourth day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Personally appeared Lysias Blanchard and made and subscribed the declaration which is hereunto annexed.
from which it appears to me, that the said Lysias Blanchard did serve in the War of the REVOLUTION, against the common Enemy, . . . . . nine months.
Wherefore, in pursuance of the directions of an Act of Congress, made and passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," I have transmitted the said Declaration to you the said Secretary, that such further proceedings may be had in the premises, as the said Act may require.
In testimony of all which, I have caused the Seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand within the said Circuit, the twenty fourth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen .
Sam d Dana
I Samuel Dana Chief justice above described - Do further certify that the above named Lysias Blanchard is wholly destitute of property and in the most indigent circumstances - Aug t 1819 Sam d Dana

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Lysias Blanchard
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A. D. 1820
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice, and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Lysias Blanchard resident in Waltham in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 14,714 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
“WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.”
“I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the “18th March, 1818, Lysias Blanchard  late a “ Private in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the “Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight “dollars per month, to commence on the 24 th day of “ April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
“Given at the War Office of the United States, this 17 th “day of September one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,”
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
y Real Estate - none
Personal Estate none.
Lysias Blanchard.
And the said Lysias Blanchard having been first duly sworn according to law does on his oath declare that he served nine months in the Revolutionary war as a Private viz in the years 1778 & 1779 in Capt Ebenezer Blanchard's company of the Regiment commanded by Col Michael Jackson Massachusetts line and some time in other's corps, all which is set forth in his original declaration on file in the war office dated April 24 th 1818 that he is seventy three years of age a common laborer,

by occupation but unable to labour through infirmity of age - that his family consists of his wife Esther only aged 74 years who has been sick for three years past. Lysias Blanchard.
Sworn & declared to before me.
L. Darr. Judge.

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Saml Dana a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
4 I, Lysias Blanchard do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an 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," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. So help me GOD.
Lysias Blanchard.
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Lysias Blanchard took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me,
Saml Dana, Judge of said Court.
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW , Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is
nothing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20 th day of July 1820.
Attr.
Abraham Biglow 30

34 050 Rev INVALID.
File No. 34,050
Lysias Blanchard Rev. Rev. D.D.
Act: 16 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 43
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Ms. Edwards
Pension Office

Mr. Edwards I again return  send the Papers of Thos Peabody which were endorsed at the Pension Office "suspended" — And those of Lysias Blanchard endorsed rejected, & that he did not serve on Continental establishment, fully satisfied myself, that he did serve 9 mos. in Jackson's Regt. — I have appointed three old men to go to Gloucester 70 miles & show them- selves to Capt. Cleveland, who has given each of them his Deposition. I hope the bonds may be deemed satisfactory, & that they may be placed on the list before the 4. Sept. as they may not be very likely to see the 4. March next - and are both of them very poor & indigent —
Respectful assurance of my esteem
Lam. Dana
Augt. 26.

I Ebenezer Cleaveland of Gloucester in the County of Essex and State of Massachusetts, gentleman, do on oath testify and say, that in the Revolutionary War I held the Commission of Captain in Col d . Michael Jackson's Regiment in the Massachusetts line on the continental establishment; and that according to the best of my knowledge and belief, Sysias Blanchard who has made the within declaration, served as a private in my company on the continental establishment from the first part of May A. D. 1778 to the first part of February, A. D. 1779 being the full term of nine months, and was then regularly discharged. And I further testify, that Sysias Blanchard, the person now present, is the identical person who served as aforesaid. Eben r Cleaveland - Capt.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss } Be it known, that on this twenty fifth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, Before me John Rogers Notary Public by legal authority admitted to Juris, and dwelling in Gloucester in the County and Commonwealth aforesaid; personally came and appeared Ebenezer Cleaveland, abovenamed, well known to me, and a person of credibility, and veracity - and entirely disinterested as I believe - and made solemn Oath to the truth of the above declaration by him subscribed.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my Notarial Seal the day & year last above written.
John Rogers. N y Public

I William Park of Harvard in Mas. a Do depose and say that the Town of Harvard aforesaid procured me to go into the Army upon the Continental establishment, for nine months In May in the year of our Lord One Thousand, seven hundred and Seventy eight. I marched from Harvard to Fishkill in New-york under Capt. Andrew Haskell, we remained under him a few days, from thence we were marched to White Plains, and were ordered into Capt. Cleveland's Company in Col. o Michael Jackson's Regt. in which Company we remained until we completed our term of nine months, and were discharged —
I well knew, that Lysias Blanchard, who then lived in Harvard, was engaged for the same time, in the same service, he marched with me, from Harvard was with me in Capt. Cleveland's Company during all the time I was in service, returned with me as far as Stockbridge Connecticut, where I proceeded home, and left him to tarry at Hartford, therefor, I well know the said Blanchard and myself had always lived, in the same Town with one, and during said period of service a large part of the time, with me —
William Park
I Thomas Peabody, now of Shirley in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Do depose and say that I was hired by the said Town of Shirley to go into the Continental Army for nine months and I well knew that the above named Lysias Blanchard was a Soldier at the same time, I lived in the next Town to him & had known him before the year Seventeen hundred and seventy eight, in the month of May of that year, we both joined Capt. Cleveland's Company in Col. o Michael Jackson's Regiment in the Massachusetts line, at White Plains in New York, before him at Fishkill & we proceeded to East Point & from thence to White Plains aforesaid I constantly saw him, doing duty in said Company until the next March following, when the said Blanchard about the middle of that month was in due course discharged, having completed the May 7.

complained the term of his engagement, being full nine months I remember he was in service about one week before I was and I served full nine months, & was discharged about the twentieth day of March as well as I can recollect, but which will ap- pear among the Papers on file with my declaration in the Pension Office. —
Thomas Peabody
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
On the seventh day of May in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and nineteen, before me Samuel Dana Chief justice of the Circuit Court; of Common Pleas for the middle Circuit, and a justice of the Peace, throughout the said Common Wealth, personally appeared William Park and Thomas Peabody and each for himself, severally made solemn Oath, that the foregoing depositions, by them respectively subscribed are just, and true in all their particulars. —
And I certify that the said William Park and Thomas Peabody are known to me to be men of veracity entitled to full faith and credit before all tribunals & in all places, and that they are disinterested in the application of Lydia H. Blanchard to be placed on the Pension list. —
Given under my hand, the day and year aforesaid
Sam. Dana