Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,636, Amos Blanchard, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass
Blanchard, Amos Lavina
NUMBER
W 23,636
CONTENTS

Let to J. B. Shickney Jan 19. 1836. Same Feb 27. 1836. Same Man. 24. 1836.
Specification of Pension for Amos Blanchard Oct 18. 1820 to Feb 24. 1836
Massachusetts Roll
1076
Amos Blanchard, Musicians, Mass Line. War.
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 4 th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30. of June 1818, and sent to Sam l . Putnam, Esq r . Salem, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818.
Semi-annual  pay  ending
4 months 31/30 $ 40.26.
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
2 Years & upward,
Continued
Salem Essex County

Rep d ,
2533
Massachusetts
Lavina Blanchard
Mass
widow of Amos Blanchard who was a Musician
in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 88 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 31 st day of Oct. 1843 and sent to L. M. Stone Boston, Mass.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A, Vol. 1. Page 36.

Amos Blanchard
not on Rolls
correct

I, Amos Blanchard of Lynn in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on solemn oath declare, that I enlisted into the service of the late United Colonies, in the Revolutionary war, on the Continental establishment, in the month of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty one; that I was a musician in Capt: Nehemiah Emerson's company in the tenth Regiment of the Massachusetts line, commanded by Col: Tupper, and that I continued in the service of the said United Colonies, against the common enemy, until the month of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty three, when I was discharged by Gen: Henry Knox, at West Point - And I further declare as aforesaid that my warrant as musician, and my discharge are both lost by time and accident, and that from my reduced circumstances I need the assistance of my country for support -
Amos Blanchard
I, Amos Blanchard of Lynn in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby relinquish my claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States
Amos Blanchard
Commonwealth of Massachusetts -
Essex ss. On this fourth day of April A. D. 1818, Amos Blanchard, named in the foregoing declaration, personally appeared before me, Samuel Putnam, one of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth aforesaid, and made solemn oath to the truth of the said declaration, and subscribed the same, and also the above

written relinquishment — And it appearing to my satisfaction that the said Amos Blanchard served, as a musician, in the revolutionary war on the Continental establishment against the common enemy, for the term of nine months and more, I hereby certify and transmit the testimony in the case and the proceedings had thereon to the Secretary of the Department of War —
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court, at Salem, this fourth day of April A.D. 1818 —
S. Putnam Just. } S. J. Court of Mass ts . }
Additional Affidavit.
I Ebenezer Hart, Gentleman, of Lynnfield, in Massachusetts, do on oath testify that I know Amos Blanchard, now of Lynn, served in the Continental service as a Fifer in the Massachusetts line between one and two years; I was acquainted with him and know he served more than one year.
Ebenezer Hart
Ef ss : June. 10. 1818 Then the above named Capt. Ebenezer Hart subscribed and made Oath to the above written affidavit before me Benjamin Merrill Just. Pac.
I Ichabod Tucker, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts of said Commonwealth in said County certify that Benjamin Merrill Esq. ? whose Signature is above, is a Justice of the Peace for said County, duly commissioned and qualified to administer oaths —
Att.
Ichabod Tucker Clerk

I, Samuel Punchard of Salem in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, of lawful age, depose and say that I was a non commissioned officer  soldier in the Revolutionary war, and knew Mr Amos Blanchard, now of Lynn in said County, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty one, as a musician in Col: Tupper's Regiment, which was of the tenth Regiment of the Massachusetts line; and I further say that I continued to know Mr Blanchard as a musician in the army, for two years or more -
Samuel Punchard
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts -
Essex ss. On this fourth day of April A.D. 1818 personally appeared Samuel Punchard and made solemn oath to the truth of the above written affidavit by him subscribed - before me -
S. Putnam Just. } S. J. Court of Mass. }
Essex ss: June. 15. 1818 I Samuel Putnam, Judge as aforesaid further certify that Capt. Ebenezer Hart and Samuel Punchard aforesaid are credible and disinterested Witnesses, and that said Amos Blanchard is in very reduced circumstances and has recently by reason thereof been confined in the Poor Debtors' liberties of the prison.
[Handwritten mark or signature]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex Js. I. Ichabod Tucker, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth aforesaid in & for the County aforesaid, hereby certify to all whom these presents may concern that the aforesaid Hon: Samuel Putnam is a Judge of the Supreme Judicial Court as aforesaid, that the seal hereto affixed is the seal of the said Court, and the signature aforesaid is his proper hand.
Attest: Ichabod Tucker Clerk
Amos Blanchard
not on Rolls
Lowell

1076
Amos Blanchard
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[Faint mirrored text from the reverse side of the page]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A. D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice.
Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and
Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.
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, Amos Blanchard resident in Lynn in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 1076 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, Amos Blanchard late a musician 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 4th day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
***** * L. S. * *****
"Given at the War Office of the United States, this 30. day of June one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
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,
   12 chairs $ 6.00   1 maple bureau 5.00   1 chest drawers 3.00   1 mahogany table 4.00   1 birch table 3.00   2 small tables 4.00   crockery and glass ware 5.00   2 pots 1 baking kettle tea kettle 7.00   3 pair andirons 3.00   3 sets shovel & tongs 2.00   3 looking glasses 5.00   1 doz. tea spoons 1.50   1/2 doz. table spoons 1 block tin 1.50   maple desk and book case 5.00   watch 12.00   65.00  
The applicant is not possessed of any real estate and has no income - has a wife and one son aged 17 years who are invalids, besides one

daughter and three other sons from 8 to 15 years of age, and all dependent on him for support - He is fifty four years of age, a schoolmaster by occupation, but out of employ, on account of the bad state of his own health - He served as a musician in Capt Emerson's Company, 10th Massachusetts Regiment, commanded by Col Tupper - was transferred to the 5th and afterward to the 1st Regiment, and was in the service from March 1781 to December 1783 -
Amos Blanchard
Sworn to & declared before Wm Wetmore Judge within named

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Wm Wetmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, Amos 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.
Amos Blanchard
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed Amos Blanchard took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me
Wm Wetmore
Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, 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
Sixty five — dollars —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex, on this 17 th day of July — A. D.
1820
Attr.
Ichabod Tucker, Clerk

your Affe Amos Blanchard to J. G. Stickney

Power of Attorney.
KNOW ALL MEN, That I Amos Blanchard of Lynn in the county of Essex Commonwealth of Massachusetts Gentleman
have made, constituted, and appointed, and do hereby make, constitute, and appoint Jeremiah C. Stickney of said Lynn, Esquire
to be my true and lawful Attorney, for me and in my name and stead to
obtain from the War Department at Washington any Papers, documents or other evidence, or copies of the same, necessary to prove before the Agent of the Land Office in Massachusetts or any other Tribunal my claim to a Bounty under a Resolution of said Commonwealth for services rendered by me in the War of the Revolution
HEREBY GIVING AND GRANTING to my said Attorney, full power and authority to do, transact, and determine all matters, things and business relating to and touching the premises, as fully and effectually as I said Blanchard could or might do, if personally present; with power to substitute one Attorney, or more, under his said Stickney and the same at his pleasure to revoke.
HEREBY RATIFYING and CONFIRMING whatever my said Attorney or his substitute or substitutes shall and may, by virtue hereof, do in the premises.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this Seventh day of March - in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty six
SIGNED, SEALED AND DELIVERED IN PRESENCE OF Charles Merrill
Amos, Blanchard
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Essex County ss. 7 March 1836 Then the above named Amos Blanchard, personally appeared and acknowledged the above Power of Attorney to be his free act and deed before me Geo. D. Merrill Jus Pac

State of Massachusetts Suffolk County } ss.
On this Twentieth day of May A.D. 1822, personally appeared before me Rev. John Gray Rogers one of the Justices of the Police Court in the City of Boston, the same being a Court of Record Mrs. Lavinia Blanchard a resident of Lynn in the County of Essex and Commonwealth aforesaid seventy five aged 75 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 7. 1838. entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;" and also of the Act of 23 d . August 1842. and joint resolution of 16 th . August last, -
That she is the widow of Amos Blanchard deceased who was a Musician in the Army of the Revolution and served according to the best of her belief and recollection as follows. viz. - He was a native of Andover, Essex County, Mass, & enlisted she thinks sometime in the months of February 1781. under a Capt. Emerson of Haverhill & was in the service of the U.S. about three years. He was in New York at the time peace was declared and did not return home until January 1784. as she has heard him say. He was a Rife Major apart if not all the time he was in the service. She remembers hearing him say that his Commission was stolen from him a short time prior to his leaving the Army.
She further declares that her said husband was a pensioner under the law of 18 th March 1818. at $96.00 per annum, for a more particular statement of his services, would refer to his original declaration and the evidence accompanying the same now on file in the War Department.

She further declares that she was married to the said Amos Blanchard at Auburn N. H. on the twenty seventh day of January seventeen hundred & eighty nine; that her husband the aforesaid Amos Blanchard died at Lynn, Mass, on the twenty fifth day of May eighteen hundred and forty two; 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; was at the time above stated, and that since his decease she has not intermarried but now is the widow of said Amos Blanchard deceased.
[She avows "seventy five" on first page interlined her before signing]
Lavinia Blanchard mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me
John Gray Rogers. One of the Justices of the Police Court & of the Justice Court within & for the County of Suffolk
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Suffolk ss.
I Thomas Poir, Clerk of the Police Court of the City of Boston, within and for the County of Suffolk, do hereby certify that John Gray Rogers, Esquire, whose name is hereunto affixed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the said Court, and that the signature of his name herein is his proper handwriting; and that the said Court is a Court of Record in the said Commonwealth.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed, at Boston, the twentieth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three.
Thomas Poir, Clerk.

I M rs H. Blanchard of Lynn, in the County of Essex, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts on oath testify and say, that I am the son of Mrs. Lavinia Blanchard of said Lynn and am now thirty four years of age. My Father Amos Blanchard was, as I always have understood and heard him frequently say, a fifer, or fife major in the War of the Revolution and served about three years.
He was in receipt of a pension from the U.S. under the law of the 18 th of March 1818, for some years prior to his death which occurred on the twenty fifth day of May 1842, since which time my said Mother had continued a widow.
She was married as I nearly believe at Amherst M. H. (now called Milford) on the twenty seventh of January seventeen hundred & eighty nine, by the Rev. Mr. Bruce and in the Family Bible is so recorded which record is in the hand writing of my said Father made many years prior to his death. The leaf attached hereto is the record referred to and was this day cut out from the Bible aforesaid with my own hand and which record I believe to be genuine and true.
On another leaf of the Bible the following additional record of the births of children prior to 1794, appears, & of which the following is a true extract.

"The children of Amos & Lavinia Blanchard were born as follows, viz, Amos June the 30 th 1789. in Amherst New Hampshire,
Lavinia January the 11 th 1791. in the Milford New Hampshire. =
Levi, March the 4 th 1793. in Lynnfield Massachusetts."
All of the foregoing records are in the hand writing of my Father.
and further this deponent saith not,
William H Blanchard
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, County of Suffolk } S.S.
On this twentieth day of May, 1843. - personally came W. H. Blanchard, who is a credible witness and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true. And I further certify that the Record which is attached hereto was taken out of the Family Bible, late belonging to Amos Blanchard, dec d , and now in the possession of his widow, in my presence, and on examination I have no doubt that it is a genuine Record. I have also carefully compared the extracts of the births of the children above named with the original record and find them correctly transcribed.
Thomas Bulfinch, Justice of Peace.

Family Record.
S. Amos Blanchard Son of Daniel & Jerusha Blanchard was born in Andover Mass. Feb. 17th in the year of our Lord 1766 and married to Lavinia Hopkins Daughter of Benjamin & Anna Hopkins January the 27th 1789 who was born in Andover Feb. 17th 1767
Daniel Blanchard my Father died March 1776 Jerusha Blanchard my Mother died Nov 26th 1811 both in Andover Massachusetts
Joseph Blanchard my Grandfather lived in Andover with first Wife who was Sarah Abbott by whom he had several children he buried her in Andover & spent the last of his life in Wilmington with a second Wife
Thomas Blanchard my Great grandfather lived & died in Andover, Massachusetts
Samuel Blanchard my Great Grandfathers Father lived & died in Andover he was one of the first settlers in West part of Andover owned a quantity of Land called Blanchard's Plain he was buried in North burying ground in the South Parish & died in the 78th year of his age Feb. 22nd 1707 as may be seen in his grave stone

Before CHRIST 397.
Or, defraud.
b Zech. 1. 3.
Gen. 1. 11.
† Heb. empty out.
† Heb. corrupt.
1 Job 11. 14. Chap. 1. 17.
† Heb. is observation.
† Heb. n-back.
Before CHRIST 397.
† Heb. are built e Psalm 95. 9.
† Or, special treasures.
a Luke 1. 78.
b Exod. 20. 3.
c Matth. 11. 14. Mark 9. 11. Luke 1. 17.
5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
6 For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
7 ¶ Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?
8 ¶ Will a man rob God? yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
10 Bring ye all the tithes into the store-house, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.
12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD of hosts.
13 ¶ Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD: yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?
15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they
that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
16 ¶ Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another; and the LORD hearkened and heard it: and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.
17 And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God, and him that serveth him not.
CHAP. IV.
1 God's judgment on the wicked, 2 and his blessing on the good. 4 He exhorteth to the study of the law, 5 and telleth of Elijah's coming and office.
FOR, behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
2 ¶ But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet, in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.
4 ¶ Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
5 ¶ Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.

Rev WIDOW, &c.
own
File No. 23636
Lemina Blanchard wid of Amos Blanchard Musician New-York
Act March 3 d 48
Index: Vol A , Page 69
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Massachusetts-7405-
Refo 13 the  the
Lavinia Blanchard widow of Moses Blanchard — who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 25 th : May 1842 of Suffolk Co in the State of Mass ts : who was a Musician in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the _____ commanded by _____ in the Massachusetts — line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 88 — Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th : — day of July, 1843 — and sent to Hon Wm Parminter, East-Cambridge, Mass.
Whole amount due . . . . . $440.00
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by William _____ Clerk.
Book A — Vol. 1 — Page 73

S176
16 Jan'y 1836
Pension Office
Jas Marshall 2671 153
Amos Blanchard 187
30 June 1818
FREE
Hon. Lewis Cass,
Secretary of War.
Washington D.C.

Lynn Mass. 9 Jan. 1836
Hon Lewis Cass, Sec of War, U.S.
Sir Will you have the goodness to direct that a copy of the discharge of James Kuehall of Lynn Mass, a Pensioner under the Act of 1832, filed among the papers & proofs to substantiate Mr Kuehall's claim in the archives of the Department - be furnished me, as attorney for Mr Kuehall, - to be used as evidence in obtaining the bounty of $50, provided by the Legis- lature of this State, for certain Revolutionary soldiers who served 30 months.
Also a copy of the discharge of Amos Blanch- -ard of Lynn a Pensioner under the Statute of 1818, if any such there be among the papers filed in the office of the War Department, - to be used for the same purpose as Mr Kuehall's
I have the honor to be very respectfully your obedt servt, J. C. Stickney

ADDITIONAL
PROOF.
I, Nehemiah Emerson of Haverhill in the County of ESSEX, in the COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHU- SETTS, gentleman do on solemn oath testify and depose, as follows:—
That I was captain of a company in the then tenth Regiment, commanded by Col. Bangs Jr. from 1781 to 1783 in the Massachusetts line, in the Continental establishment. That according to my discharge but now before me, it appears that Amos Blanchard, then of Andover in said county, but now of Lynn, enlisted in my company as a fifer, or musician on the 16 th of March 1782 for three years, and faithfully served in said com- pany till Jan y 1783 when I left the company. I have understood, & believe that said Blanchard served till the close of the war. I recollect that said Amos Blanchard joined my company at West Point.
Nehemiah Emerson

Essex ss Haverhill June 13 th 1818 Then Capt. Ebenezer Emerson, in my presence, subscribed his name to the foregoing deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same. I also certify that said Ebenezer Emerson is personally known to me, & is a credible and disinterested witness.
John Warren Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
I, SAMUEL PUTNAM, a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth aforesaid, hereby certify, that the aforesnamed Deponents, Samuel Pynchard, Ebenezer Hart, Nehemiah Emerson ~
are credible and disinterested witnesses ; and that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Declarant served in the Revolutionary Army on the continental establishment against the common enemy more than nine months at one period of continued service ; and I further certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Declarant is in reduced circumstances in life, and stands in need of assistance from his country for support.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this fifteenth day of June Anno Domini 1818.
I, Ichabod Tucker , Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court aforesaid, do certify, that the Hon. Samuel Putnam is a Judge of said Court, that the above is his signature, that the seal affixed is the seal of said Court, that the within named Hon. John Varnum Esq. who has certified the aforewritten depositions, is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Essex, duly empowered and qualified to administer oaths.
Ichabod Tucker , Clerk.

10,027
Lavinia Blanchard
Mass-
at 7. July 3 R
m 89. d 42
adm.
2 yrs Musician
88 $
For Wm Farment E. Cambridge Mass-

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston May 20 th 1843
I hereby Certify, That Thomas Bulfinch is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Suffolk.
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned; 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 Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
No. A. Dole
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Milford inn Apr 19
Paid 10
Mr William H. Blanchard Lynn; Mass.
Blanchard

Milford April 18 1843
Mr Blanchard
Sir, You may think that I have delayed answering your letter an in- proper time, but when I tell you that I have been sick a part of the time since I received your letter I think it will be something of an apology. I have spared no pains in search- ing the Records for the marriage of your father and I can find no record of it any where.
I searched the records of this town; and could find none. I went to Trumbull and searched the records there and found no record there.
I thought you would like to have me ascertain whether there was any record of his marriage in Mount Vernon. I thought it possible that a record might be found among some of Mr Bruce's papers, or on the town record at Mount Vernon
I employed a son of the Rev Mr Bruce to examine the record of Mount Vernon and to examine his father's papers and he has not been able to find any record any where.
I received in your letter $2.00. I have expended the money without your receiving the benefit of it as you expected. I am very sorry a record cannot be found. { Town Clerk Yours &c David Russell } of Milford

2906
Lavinia Blanchard
$88 per ann
L. M. Stone Boston Mass.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Essex County, 3/2.
Be it known that on this seventeenth - day of July 1843, personally appeared before me the Subscriber a justice of the Peace in and for said County and Commonwealth, Mrs. Lavinia Blanchard a resident of Lynn in the County of Essex aged seventy six 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 provisions made by the Act of Congress passed on the 3 d day of March 1842. granting pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she is the Widow of Amos Blanchard who was a Musician in the Revolutionary War and served as she verily believes as stated by her in her original declaration for a pension under the Act of the 4 th of July 1838. to which declaration and the papers accompanying the same now on file in the War Department she would refer for a more particular statement of his services for the proof of her marriage, identity and the time of her husband's death.
She further declares that she was pensioned under said Act at the rate of Eighty Eight Dollars per annum which amount she is about receiving from the 4 th of March 1836 to the 4 th March 1841. at the Agency in Boston
Massachusetts and at the time of her receiving said amt. will surrender the Pension Certificate granted to her under said act to the Pension Agent at the said City of Boston agreeably to the rules of the Department.
And this declarant further alleges that she has not intermarried since the decease of her said Husband but is now and ever since has been the Widow of said Amos Blanchard deceased as will more fully appear by the proof hereto annexed.
And further she saith not
Witness Aaron Lummus L. M. Stone
Lavinia
her X Blanchard

Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year first within written and I certify that the applicant is personally known to me to be the person within described.
Before me
Aaron Lummus Justice of the Peace.
To Mrs H. Blanchard Lynn in the county of Essex summoned of lawful age on oath testify and say that I have been well acquainted with Lavina Blanchard the applicant named in the within declaration for many years last past. I know that she was the wife and is now the Widow of Amos Blanchard deceased who was reputed to have been a musician in the Revolutionary War. and that she was a pensioner under the law of 7th July 1838 as stated by her.
William H. Blanchard
Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Essex County } July 17 — B45
Then came Mrs H. Blanchard who is known to me to be a credible witness and made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is fully true
Before me
Aaron Lummus Justice of the Peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, July 18 th 1843
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the attestation hereto affixed. Aaron Sumner was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Essex
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned; 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 Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Wm. A. Dole Secretary of the Commonwealth.

East Cambridge May 22. 1847
Miss
Madam Mrs Laurence Blanchard's Application for benefit of Act of July 1838
Respg
Yr Obedient Servt
Wm Pawneetes
James L Edwards Esqr