Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,045, Nathaniel Blanchard, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Blanchard, Nathaniel
S. 34,045
CONTENTS

11.869 R
Massachusetts
Nathaniel Blanchard
of Groton in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Wigglesworth of the Massachusetts line, for the term of 3 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 20 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 of June 1819 and sent to Samuel Dana Esq. Groton Mass.
Arrears to 4th of March 1819. 10m 21d 4/31 $83.96 Semi-annual all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819 — 48. $131.90
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
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[Faint vertical text on the left page, likely bleed-through from the reverse side:] Nathaniel Blanchard of Groton, Mass. private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Wigglesworth of the Massachusetts line, for the term of 3 years Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 20 of April 1818 Certificate of Pension issued the 12 of June 1819 and sent to Samuel Dana Esq. Groton Mass.

Nathaniel Blanchard

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Be it remembered that on this twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and eighteen before me Samuel Dana Chief justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the middle circuit comprising the Counties of Essex and Middlesex in the Commonwealth aforesaid comes Nathaniel Blanchard now resident at Groton in said County of Middlesex and on Oath declares that he served in the war of the Revolution against the Common Enemy, four years and three months - On the fourteenth day of March in the year of our Lord One Thousand seven hundred and Seventy seven at Dartford in Maine, he enlisted into the Army upon the Continental establishment for three years in the Company of Capt. Blazdell in Lieut. Meigs's Massachusetts Regiment in the Massachusetts line, with his Regiment he proceeded to Fort Constitution near Peckskill in New York in this Company and Regiment which was afterwards commanded by Lieut. Smith he did duty his whole term of three years and received a discharge at the Highlands in New York which he believes was signed by Capt. Fawle commanding the Regiment - In the year 1781 or 1782, he was procured by the Town of Groton to go into the Army for six months upon Continental establishment he was ordered to New Bedford in Massachusetts, from thence he was ordered to Boston Point, & joined Capt. Ware's Company in Lieut. Ware's Regiment in the Massachusetts line, but he was soon removed into Capt. Tuck's Company of Light Infantry in said Lieut. Ware's Regiment in the Massachusetts line, where he completed his six months and was discharged.
In the month of June or July Seventeen hundred and eighty one the Town of Brookline in Massachusetts procured him to go into the Army upon the Continental establishment for some months, he was mustered at Boston by Lt. Green he rendered service at Boston Point, thence proceeded to Boston Point and was ordered into Capt. Fawle's Company in Lieut. Ware's Regiment in this Company he remained for the space of ten months and was dismissed and returned to Groton, he has now two discharges which he delivered to Mrs. Bridget to procure some pence of same money, but he has never been able to get them again - He is fifty seven years old, destitute of property, and by reason of his reduced circumstances in life stands in need of assistance from his country for support -
Nathaniel Blanchard
Thus made, taken, subscribed and sworn to at Groton in said County of Middlesex the day and year aforesaid
Sam. Dana

105.
Nath l Blanchard
Resident
11869
June 1819
[Large cursive signature, likely "C. M."]

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, Nathaniel Blanchard resident in Dunstable in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 11.859 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, Nathaniel 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 twentieth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen —
“ Given at the War Office of the United States, this twelfth day of June one thousand eight hundred and nineteen  J. L. Edwards in the absence & on behalf of the  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,
“ Real estate — none Personal estate viz. 1 heifer of the value of 10.00 1 swine & pig 8.00 1 } $19.50 plough 1.50 — — — — — } 1 dung fork .50 pitchfork .50 old shovel .17 rake .8 1 hoe .25 1 .50 Butte & wedge .50 2 pieces of chain .50 gridiron 1.00 brass kettle 2.00 4 .00 Old pots & kettles 1.50 3 old pails .50 3 measures .30 Andirons 2.00 4 .40 Shovel & tongs .50 old iron 2.00 tongs .25 8 pewter plates 1.00 4 .75 Crockery glass, earthen & tin ware 4.20 1 Skimmer .4 4 .24 Knives & forks .75 bellows .34 Steelyards .75 — — — — — 1 .84 Chopping knife .13 hammer .10 mortar .25 2 candlesticks .10 .58 7 casks 1.50 1 table .50 4 old chairs .34 frying pan & spider .50 2 .84 Tub .50 2 wooden bottles .34 pork & tub 5.00 beef & tub 2.00 7 .84 Table cloth & towels .42 2 chests .75 2 bushel bags 1.67 } 4 .84 2 combs 1.50 — — — — — } 1 pair dogs .75 3 buckets .50 2 axes 1.00 soap & tub 2.50 — — — 4 .75 Total — — — — — $60.58 In presence of Caleb Butler. { Nathl. Blanchard. ”

"And the said Nathaniel Blanchard having been first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war under four different enlistments five years & three months. First three years in Capt. Blaisdell's company 13 th Regiment in the Massachusetts line commanded by Col. Wigglesworth all which services are more particularly set forth in his original declaration filed in the war office dated April 20 th 1818 was in the battles of Still water, Monmouth and Rhode Island wounded at Monmouth lost the sight of one eye by the small pox in 1778 at Valley Forge - that he is sixty years of age, by occupation a husbandman but unable to perform much labour by reason of a lameness and other bodily infirmities - that he has no family except his wife Anna aged fifty seven years and in poor health.
In presence of                      Nathaniel Blanchard Caleb Butler }
Sworn & declared to before me
Sam. Dana Judge &c. } "

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Samuel Dana a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
11 I, Nathaniel 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. Nathl. Blanchard.
In presence of Calvin Butler
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June - Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed Nathaniel Blanchard , took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me,
Samuel 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 sixty dollars & fifty eight
cents.
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

To whom it may concern
We the Subscribers, Selectmen & Overseers of the poor of the Town of Grafton in Ms v o Do Cuddy, that Nathaniel Blanchard, (who it is said) was a Soldier in the Army of the Revolution, is poor and in indigent circumstances. —
April 26. 1819
Noah Shattuck William Livermore Bulkeley Ames

34 045 Rev INVALID.
File No. 34, 045
Nathaniel Blanchard
Rev Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 43
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Nathaniel Blanchard
on rolls, 3yp. in Wigglesworth's regt.
Judge's certificate of indigence wanted Adm d
Sam l Dana Esq
Boston Mass

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 twentieth day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Personally appeared Nathaniel Blanchard -- and made and subscribed the declaration which is hereunto annexed.
from which it appears to me, that the said Nathaniel Blanchard did serve in the War of the REVOLUTION, against the common Enemy, upwards of 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 twentieth day of April -- in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen
Sam d Dana
And I do further certify that the above named Nathaniel Blanchard is in indigent circumstances & stands in need of relief for his support — April 26. 1819. —
Sam d Dana