Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,624, Samuel Blue, N. H.

SERVICE
N. H.
Blue, Samuel Hannah
NUMBER _____
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CONTENTS

Maine 4462
Hannah Blue, widow of Samuel Blue, deceased
She who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 2 nd of April, 1818 at Kennebec Co. in the State of Maine who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Burdett of the _____ commanded by _____ in the Mass. Vols. time for 6 mos. & 9 days private.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 21 Dollars _____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th day of October 1839 and sent to Geo. W. Thornton, Esq. Augusta, Maine
Arrears to the 4th of Sept r 1839 = $73.50 Semi-annual allowance ending 4. 6. 1840. 10.50
$84.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by S. A. Elliot Clerk. Book A Vol. 1 Page 3
Dead Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 th April 1838 from 4 March to 4. Sep 1840. age Modified 9. June 1841.

4462 469 B Kannah Blue.
Me
Act 7. July '38.
In 84 d 18-
adul 6 moq. d. /ri 21. $
no deduction
govm. ment Augusta Maine

DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th July, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."
STATE OF MAINE.
Hermon
County, ss.
On this eighth day of August A. D., 18 39 personally appeared before the Hon. Asa Prendergast  the sole Judge of the District Court of said State comprising the County of Lincoln Hermon and Somerset in Open Court now sitting at Augusta in said State at its regular term , Hannah Blue a resident of Monmouth in the County of Hermon and State of Maine, aged seventy seven 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 7th, 1838, enti- tled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;" That she is the widow of Samuel Blue , deceased late of said Monmouth , but formerly of Deerfield New Hampshire that she has reason to believe and also believes that her said husband, did serve in the Revolutionary war as follows viz. that he enlisted the first of December 1775 as a private and served two months, in Capt. Thos Babbett's company at Winter Hill in Mass- achusetts, and was discharged the first of February 1776, That the first of July 1776 he again enlisted as a private in Capt. Simon Easton's company and served five months, the service being principally at Saunderstown & was discharged in December of the same year. That in July 1777 he enlisted in Captain Isaac Packer's company for six months, & served out that period as a corporal at Rhode Island & was honorably discharged. That all the above services were performed in the New Hampshire line or troops & she refers to the annexed deposition for evidence of her said late husband's services.
She further declares, that she was married to the said Samuel Blue on the fifth day of February in the year seventeen hundred and eighty four ; that her husband, the aforesaid Samuel Blue died on the second day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, viz. at the time above stated, she also further declares, that she is a remnant unmarried ever since the death of her late husband the said Samuel Blue , that her maiden name was Hannah Easton and that she was married to the said Samuel Blue at Deerfield New Hampshire by the Rev. Mr. Upham
Hannah Blue Mark
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before
A. P. Asa Prendergast, Jus. Dis. Court. Middle District

Hannah Blue
STATE OF MAINE.
Kennebec ss.
I the subscriber Clerk of the Jud. Courts for said County hereby CERTIFY, That Asa Redington before whom the proceedings were had, is the Judge of the District Court for the Middle Dist. in said State. I also CERTIFY, That the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Judge in the matter of the application of Hannah Blue for a pension, I further certify that George W. Morton is a Justice of the Peace within & for the County of Kennebec & that the signature on the third page of this sheet purporting to be his is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this fifteenth day of August A. D., 1839.
L. A. Chandler

I Nathan Blue of Monmouth, in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine aged fifty four years as upon Oath say that my late father Samuel Blue died in said town of Monmouth in Month of April 1818, that I have frequently heard him mention of his being a soldier in the War of the Revolution and that I have no doubt he served as stated in the foregoing declaration sworn to by his widow Hannah Blue my mother, they lived together as husband and wife from my earliest recollection till the death of my late said father and brought up a large family of children that my mother is the identical person mentioned in the record of the town of Deerfield, a transcript of which record sworn to by the clerk of said town of Deerfield is herunto annexed. That my said Mother Hannah Blue has remained unmarried ever since the death of my late father the said Samuel Blue and that she now resides in said town of Monmouth
Nathan Blue
State of Maine
County of Kennebec
Sworn and subscribed this eighth day of August 1839. The deponent being to me well known as a credible witness.
Before me
George Morton
Justice of the Peace

  Dec 75. Tho: Bartlett -  Cambridge  - 2 mo -    76. Simon Marston  Notov N.Y.  - 5    77. Ench Page on R.R.  R.I.  - 6 - 4 - 9     Samuel Blue -   

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
June 1 st , 1841.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The adm rs of Hannah Blue Rec d a Pensioner on the Roll of the Maine Agency, at the rate of Twenty one Dollars and  Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th July 1838, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March, to the 8 th Sept. 1840.
Respectfully yours,
William B. Parris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

Augusta, Maine
August 15 1839.
Sir
I herewith enclose the application of Mrs Hannah Blue, to be pensioned under the Act of July 7. 1838. A former declaration made by her before Chief Justice Cushing on the 5th of February 1839 was returned to me, accompanied by your letter dated July 13 1839, in order to have her declaration made in Open Court, which has been done.
As respects the services of her late husband during the Revolutionary War, it will appear by the accompanying affidavits that he served,
  From Decr 1775 to February 1776 in  } 2 months    Capt Buel's company -    July 1. 1776 to Decr 1. 1776 in  } 5 -"    Capt Manton's company  
July 1777 to January 1778 as a Corporal in Capt Page's company the Western State Ohio Service to have been 6 months. The affidavits of Simon Batchelder in support of the alleged service, says the service was from sometime in the month of July 1777 to the 1st of January 1778. If the rolls are in your possession perhaps they will show fully six months service, if not and you are satisfied the service can be computed at 5\frac{1}{2} months.
Should the case be satisfactorily proved, I respectfully request you to send me a certificate for her.
I am respectfully
Your obed Servt.
Geo. W. Morton
James L. Edwards Esq. Commr of Pensions Washington City D.C.

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
I JOSIAH STEVENS, JR. Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Andrew Page is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Rockingham duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the 30 th day of June 1837 and will expire on the 30 th day of June 1842 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this 12 th day of August 1839
Josiah Stevens
Secretary of State.

I, Edmund Rand of Deerfield in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire, do hereby certify that I am the Town Clerk of said Deerfield, and have the records of said town in custody; and that the following is a true extract from said records, to wit:
"A Record of Marriages Returned by the Rev. Timothy Upham of Deerfield."
"Samuel Blue to Hannah Marston both of Deerfield" February the fifth in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty four.
I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in full legible figures, as follows "Feb r 5: 1784."
Edmund Rand.
I, Edmund Rand above named, depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the town of Deerfield, County and State of aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town of Deerfield with the exceptions above named, as certified by me.
Edmund Rand, Clerk of the town of Deerfield
State of New Hampshire Rockingham ss } Sworn to this 22 nd day of October A. D. 1838.
Before me. Arnold Page Justice Peace

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 23624
Hannah Blue Widow of Samuel Blue Brin Mass live
Act: July 7th 1838
Index:—Vol. A , Page 69
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I, James Brown of Deerfield in the County of Rodingham and State of Northumberland, of eighty six years of age depose and say that sometime about the first of December in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five, I enlisted as a volunteer and private soldier in Captain Thomas Boddett's company of Infantry in the Army of the Revolution and served in said Company the term of one month and a half when the time of said enlistment expired, at which time I again enlisted in said Company for the term of one half month more and served the same term in said Company making the whole time I served in said Company the term of two months, and was discharged about the first of February in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six - that during said term of two months said Company was stationed at a place called Winter Hill, near the then town of Boston in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts - I further depose and say that Samuel Blue, then of said Deerfield, enlisted as a private soldier and volunteer in said Boddett's Company at the same time I did, and went to said Winter Hill with me and served in said Company, as a private soldier, the whole of said term of two months, and was discharged at the same time I was and returned to said Deerfield with me - I further depose and say that neither of us ever received any written discharge from said service to my knowledge -
I further depose and say that about the first of July in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six, I again enlisted as a volunteer and private soldier, at said Deerfield, in Captain Simon Norton's Company of Infantry in the Army of the Revolution for the term of five months, and served in said Company the whole of said five months - that during said term of five months, said Norton's Company was stationed at and near Ticonderoga in the State of New York where I was discharged from said service at the expiration of said term of five months, sometime about the first of December in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six - I further depose and say that the aforesaid Samuel Blue enlisted as a volunteer and private soldier in said Norton's Company at the same time and place I did, and served with me as a private soldier in said Company the whole of said term of five months and was discharged at the same time and place I was, and returned to said Deerfield about the same time with me - and that neither of us ever received any written discharge from said service to my knowledge -

I further depose and say that the aforesaid Samuel Blue was born brought up in said Deerfield - that I lived near him and was well acquainted with him from the time he was a small boy till about thirty years since when he left said Deerfield, and it was reported and believed, that he married himself and family to the town of Monmouth in the County of Franklin and now State of Maine - and it is reported and believed that he died at said Monmouth about twenty years since - that said Samuel Blue was married at said Deerfield, as near as I can now recollect, upwards of fifty years ago, to Hannah Morton, a daughter of the aforesaid Captain Simon Morton, and that she left said Deerfield with him when he married his family into the State of Maine as aforesaid -
Deerfield, Vt. January 5. 1839
James Brown
State of - Vermont -
Rockingham - January 5. 1839 - She personally appearing the above named James Brown, made voluntary oath that the above affidavit, by him subscribed, is true -
Before me,
Ira H. Clark, Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum -
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named James Brown, that his character for truth and veracity is good, and his statements entitled to full credit -
Ira H. Clark, Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum -
Deerfield, Vt. January 5. 1839

I, Simon Batchelder of Northwood in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire, of right years of age, depose and say that sometime in the month of July in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy, I enlisted as a volunteer and private soldier, at said Northwood, in Captain Noah Page's Company of Infantry in the Army of the Revolution, to serve until the first day of January in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight, and actually served in said Company from the time I enlisted until said first day of January, when I was discharged from said service - Soon after I enlisted I marched with said Company to Haverhill and Cambridge in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts - thence to Providence in the State of Rhode Island - thence to Warwick where we staid sometime - thence to Little Compton in said State of Rhode Island - then returned to said Warwick in said State of Rhode Island, where I was discharged as aforesaid on the said first day of January -
I further depose and say that I was well acquainted with Samuel Blue, then of Deerfield in said County of Rockingham, that said Blue was a member of said Company, and a Corporal therein, and marched with said Company, to which we both belonged, through the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to the State of Rhode Island, and continued with said Company, as a Corporal, until the first day of January aforesaid, when he was discharged at the same time I was - that neither of us ever had any written discharge from said service to my knowledge -
I further depose and say that some twenty five, or thirty years ago, according to the best of my recollection, said Samuel Blue removed, with his family, as I understood, to the town of Monmouth in the County of Hampshire and State of Maine, and has since deceased - I understand that said Samuel Blue married Hannah Morton, a daughter of Captain Simon Morton, late of said Deerfield, deceased -
Northwood, N.H. January 5 th 1839
Simon Batchelder
State of New Hampshire -
Rockingham ss. Northwood, January 5 th 1839 - Personally appearing the above named Simon Batchelder, made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed, is true -
Before me,
Ira Atkinson, Justice of the Peace and of the Inferior

I hereby certify that I am acquainted with the within Reverend Simon Boltselder, and that his character for truth and veracity is good, and his statements entitled to full credit.
Ira H. Dorr, Justice of the Peace Dutchess Co. January 5. 1839 - and of the Summons.

State of New Hampshire Office of Secretary of State
Concord Jan'y 8-1839
I hereby certify that from the records in this office it appears that on the fifth day of January 1839, Ira A. Clark was duly in Commission as a Justice of the Peace of the Grafton Wiltshire & for the County of Rockingham & that his signature as such to the annexed Instrument is true & genuine In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said State Given thereunder this 8th day of March

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Blue, William GRADE Drummer LINE New Jersey
WARRANT NUMBER 8088 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Date not shown to Charles Ellis, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.