Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22,769, Jeremiah Chandler, Mass

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Chandler, Jeremiah Judith
W. 22,769
CONTENTS

6937 Maine
Judith Chandler decd widow of Jeremiah N.H. who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Pirate
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
8 Cents 2 1/2 Fils 18 51 Certificate of Pension issued the 28 th day of June 1850 and sent to
J. G. Coombs Esq. Present
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 42 Vol. 1.

State of Maine Cumberland County ss. On this fifteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty two personally appeared before the Hon: Josiah Pierce Judge of Probate in and for the County and State aforesaid John C. Chandler a resident of Gorham in the County afore- said aged 57 years who being duly sworn, on oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the pension that was due his mother under the acts of 1838, 1843, 1844 & 1848.
Your declarant states that he is one of the children of Jeremiah & Judith Chandler both deceased, that his said father was a native of Concord New Hampshire & resided in said town for the most of the time during the Revolution. The tradition in the family has always been, & he has heard his father say that he was a soldier in the revolution and that he served in Bethel Maine and in N o 4 now Charles- town New Hampshire for the defence of the frontier of those States. He has heard his father name some of the Officers and soldiers he served under & with, in his several campaigns, to wit: Capt. Farrington, in whose company Hugh Gordon was clerk and Moses Hutch- ins & Levi Dresser soldiers at Bethel Maine. He has heard his father say that he served in Capt. Head's company in N o 4. M o B. and that one Nathan C...

her late of Boscawen N.H. was a soldier with him. The manner in which his father happened to be in the service in Maine was thus as he has heard him say. That sometime near the latter part of the revolutionary war, the year not known by your declarant, his father who up to that period had resided with his parents in Concord N.H. was sent early in the spring to drive some cattle from Concord to Fryeburg in order to stock a farm that this declarant's grandfather owned in Fryeburg. That when his father the said Jeremiah Chandler arrived in Fryeburg he enlisted or volunteered for the defence of the frontier. His belief is that his father's services in N.H. was the last year of the war. Your declarant believes that the services of his father were such as justly entitle his mother to a pension in her life time and he believes that she would have asserted her claim in her life time had not the Pensions that had been granted to many of the fellow soldiers of his father in Bethel been suspended. He believes that the principal part of his father's service in the

revolution was at Bethel. His service in A. H. his father always said was three months.
His father intermarried with Judith Fannum of Concord N. H. June 2 d 1791. After his marriage he moved to Lowell where he lived till 1828 when he died. His mother survived him and remained a widow to the time of her death which occurred on the 21 st Feby 1851 and John C. Chandler of Gorham Me. and Mary K Johnson Washington D.C. are the only surviving children of the said Judith Chandler deceased. He therefore claims a pension and adduces the following proof in support thereof.
John C. Chandler
Signed & sworn before me on the day and year first above written
Josiah Pierce Judge of Probate.

State of Maine County of Cumberland ss.
Probate Office March 16, 1852
I Freeman Bradford, Register of Probate hereby certify, that Hon. Josiah Pierce before whom the foregoing declaration was made, is Judge of Probate within and for said County, duly Commissioned and qualified agreeably to the Constitution and Laws of the State, that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine, and that full faith and credit should be given to his official attestations.
In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court of Probate the day and year first above written.
Freeman Bradford Register

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Secretary of State's Office.
I, JOHN L. HADLEY, Secretary of State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Asa A. Gove is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Merrimack duly commissioned and qualified, and duly authorized by the Laws of said State to administer Oaths, take the acknowledgment of Deeds, &c. His Commission was dated on the first day of Novr. 1850, and will expire on the first day of November 1853.
Given under my hand and the Seal of the State, this 20th day of February 1852.
John L. Hadley Secretary of State.

State of New Hampshire County of Merrimack Town of Concord,
(a) Jeremiah Chandler, and Judith Farnum, both of Concord, } Married June Second Seventeen Hundred and Ninety One,
I CERTIFY that the above is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures, as follows:— (b)
( 2, June 1791. )
RECORDED
Wm. D. Robinson Clerk.
I, Wm. D. Robinson, above named, depose and say, that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the town, county and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true copy from the records of said town, with the exception above named, as certified by me.
Wm. D. Robinson Clerk of said Town.
Subscribed and duly sworn to before me, this Nineteenth day of February A. D. 1852:—
Jesse A. Clapp Justice of the Peace.
(a) Here fill in an exact transcript of the record, except that, instead of copying the figures, the date must be written out in full, the date exactly as it is in the record.

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 22.167
Judith Chandler Wid of Jeremiah Chandler Rev Rev was
Act: Feb 2d  1848
Index:—Vol. A , Page 133
[Arrangement of 1870.]

9234
J. Moore
Judith Chandler de widow of Jeremiah who was a Private in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 50 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 th day of June 1852 and sent to
J. J. Coombs Esq. Plaintiff
[Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 2, Page 10

11. 344 of Ward Judith Chandler decd widow of Jeremiah who died on the same Co. in the State of Maine who was a Private in the Regt commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt commanded by _____ in the Revolution for 15 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Portland at the rate of 50 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 th day of June 1852 and sent to J. J. Coombs Esq Annuity to the 4th of Present Semi-annual allowance ending
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act July 7, 1838. } Recorded by J. H. Wightman Clerk Book _____ Vol. 1 Page 23

Judith Chandler dec d wife of Jeremiah Maine
Aet 57 July 38 Yrs.
adm o
15 mo. perate $50. per ann: to 21 st Feby 1851. when she died, except 2 years.
Payable to
John C. Chandler & Mary K. Johnson only surviving children
Cumb o County
J. J. Coombs Present,

Brief in the case of Judith Chandler, widow of Jeremiah Cumberland County and State of Maine act 7 July 38 Supplementals
Claim, ("original," or " for increase. ")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditional, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Evidence of service - Pensioner for the same service - of marriage: Record.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Name and residence of Agent
J. J. Coombs. Present,
Kiby Examining Clerk.

✓ Mar. 24/52
Judith Chandler, do widow of Jeremiah
acts of 1838 &c No 14,612
March 20 th /52
J. Howland

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERLAND, ss.
Probate Office,
PORTLAND,
March 16th, A. D. 1852
I, — Freeman Bradford —————
REGISTER OF PROBATE,
In and for said COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND, certify that
— Moses Hutchins Jr. Esq. is an —————
ACTING JUSTICE OF THE PEACE,
within and for the County of Oxford ————— as appears by the paper hereto annexed, that he is ————— DULY QUALIFIED TO ACT as such; that the COMMISSION of the said Hutchins — is dated Nov. 21, — A. D. 1846 and will expire Nov. 21 ————— A. D. 1853.
and that the following SIGNATURES, purporting to be his are ————— GENUINE.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the SEAL OFFICIAL of said Court, the day and year first above written.
Freeman Bradford
Register.

STATE OF MAINE.
PROBATE COURT, Cumberland County, ss.
Be it Known, That on this Eighteenth day of February 18 52 it has been satisfactorily proved in open Court, being a Court of Record, That Jeremiah Chandler late of Scoll  was a  Pensioner
of the United States, and that he died at  said Scoll on the  day of  in 18 28
And that Judith Chandler , was is the widow of said Jeremiah Chandler deceased. and that said Judith died at Scoll on the 21 st day Feb. A.D. 18 52 , and that Johanna C. Chandler and Mary N. Johnson are the children and only surviving children of said Jeremiah & Judith Chandler deceased .
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court, and subscribed my name, this eighteenth day of February in the year 18 52
Josiah Pierce Judge Registrar of Probate for Cumberland County.

I Moses Hutchins of Lowell in the County of Oxford and State of Maine on oath depose and say that I am Eighty five years of age and a pensioner of the United States my service in the war as follows as near as I can recollect them having a distinct recollection of them and of many incidents relating thereto In the Spring of 1781 a man by the name of Grown came from Bethel to Fryeburg and requested the inhabitants of Fryeburg to turn out for their assistance to repel Indian aggression on the frontiers as the settlement of Bethel had been hostile Indians lurking about in the neighbourhood Stephen Harrington raised a company of about twenty men and I was one of the number who volunteered and marched them immediately to Bethel and were under said Harrington some eight or ten days and then enlisted under Capt John Eames who had new orders to raise a company for the defence of the frontier to be stationed in Bethel I enlisted for eight months and was discharged in the month of December Snow had come and was very deep on our return to Fryeburg
In 1782 I performed another term of service at said Bethel and vicinity of about 8 months I enlisted under Lieutenant Harrington in the first place for three months which time of service expired in the month of July and our company consisted of about twenty men

at the expiration of the three months Lieut Farington recd orders to increase his company to about thirty men which company was made up by reenlistments from the former company and some additional men to make up the required number I reenlisted and served over 4 months in this last enlistment
I was well acquainted with Jeremiah Chandler who served with me all the time that I served in Bethel and vicinity, in 1861 & 1862 Jeremiah Chandler was a native of Concord N.H. and at the time of his enlistment for the campaign at Bethel had come to Faringburg to attend to some business for his father who owned land in said town I know that said Chandler served the whole of the time each year was told eight months each year after the campaign said Chandler returned home to N Hampshire 1862 while we were under Lieut Farington and well I mean our services were under three enlistments of about 4 each Jeremiah Chandler after was removed to Lowell and lived there till his death which took place about twenty three or four years ago his his widow survived him and died last year Attest Joseph Pitheas Moses Hutchinson
Welford Vs March 9th 1862 Then personally appeared the above named Moses Hutchinson whom I know to be a man of truth and made oath to the foregoing affidavit By him signed before me Moses Hutchinson justice of the peace

State of Maine
Before me On this sixteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty two personally appeared before me Moses Hutchinson a justice of the peace in and for said County and State. Isaac Abbott resident of Fryeburg, said County and State of Maine,
Who being duly sworn made the following Declaration relative to the Revolutionary services of Jeremiah Chandler Lowell said County and State, formerly of Concord New Hampshire.
We received news in Fryeburg in the Spring of 1781 by a man by the name of Guver who came from Bethel to Fryeburg and requested the aid of the inhabitants. Stephen Farrington raised a company of twenty or more men as volunteers. Jeremiah Chandler was one of those who volunteered. We marched immediately to Bethel and remained there some eight or ten days under said Farrington and then enlisted Capt John Evans who had received orders to raise a company for the defence of the Frontiers. In this enlistment we served eight months and were discharged in the month of Dec. The snow was deep when we returned home.
The next Spring in 1782 we again enlisted under Lieut S. Farrington for the same kind of service on the Androscoggin River and made our head quarters at Bethel. The term of enlistment was for three months and we had in our company twenty men. At the expiration of the three months which was in the latter part of July, Lieut Farrington received orders to increase his company to thirty men and the said Chandler and myself again enlisted for four months. we served four months and returned home through the snow which was quite deep but were not discharged. In 1781 Capt Evans with his company went to Lake Umbagog and built a log canoe or boat, in which Capt Evans and a part of the men searched the Lake for Indians, while remainder of the men searched the woods on the shore of the Lake.

In returning the boat upset and we lost our provisions and were compelled to subsist on fish and wild game. Jeremiah Chandler was with us during this excursion. There was one Thompson who got his leg cut in building the boat; so bad that he could not walk a step and we had to bring him home on our backs except what he could in the boat. We were permitted to return in the winter of 1782. The snow was deep and the ponds were frozen over at the time of our return home. We were not discharged in 1782.
Isaac Abbot
Officer 83 Jan'y 16, 1852.
Personally appeared before me Isaac Abbot Levi Fosses above named Isaac Abbot and made oath that the above declaration by him signed is true. Before me Muns Hutchinson Justice of the peace
This may certify that I have known Isaac Abbot fifty years and he is a man of truth whose word may be relied upon when under oath
Muns Hutchinson Justice of the peace
Redrafted & sent to Col. H. J. Eddy March 5/52

State of Maine.
Oxford ss On this ninth day of Jany in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty two personally appeared before me Moses Hutchinson J. a Justice of the peace in and for said County and State. Levi Dresser resident of Fryeburg, said County and State, who being duly sworn made the following declaration relative to the Revolutionary services of Jeremiah Chandler deceased. In the Spring of 1782, Jeremiah Chandler and myself enlisted under Lieut. Farrington, on Ezeberiel Walker's point, in said Fryeburg, mustered before the old Meeting house, and then marched immediately to Bethel on the Androscoggin River, we enlisted for the term of three months, as nigh as I can recollect. At the expiration of which time said Lieut. Farrington said he had received orders to increase his company to thirty men, said Chandler and myself then again enlisted for an indefinite period, or until discharged, our last services were under Lieut. Farrington, Our services in 1782 consisted in scouting and ranging about the first part of the season. The latter part Lieut. Farrington took fifteen men and went to Lake Umbagog and searched for Indians awhile then we returned to Bethel on the Androscoggin River where we made our head quarters Jeremiah was with us at Lake Umbagog, was with us when we were discharged in Dec. The snow was deep when we returned home. I am now ninety one years old, I believe. I served in 1781 at Saratoga under Gen. Starkes, and knew nothing of the Bethel service that year. I have heard a number of the soldiers who enlisted under Capt. John Evans.

say that they were at Bethel in 1781. That they went to Lake Umbagog. That they lost their provisions by the upsetting of the Log Boat, and they were compelled to subsist on fish and game. One Thompson cut his leg in helping to build the Boat, and had to be brought home by some of the soldiers then under Capt John Evans, witness Moses Hutchinson } Levi Dresher John C. Palmer.
Mcford Is January 9th 1852 Personally appeared Levi Dresher the above named and made oath, that the above affidavit by him signed is true Before me Moses Hutchinson } justice of the peace
I Moses Hutchinson a justice of the peace do hereby certify that I have known Levi Dresher for fifty years, and he is a man of truth, whose word may be relied upon when under oath. Moses Hutchinson } justice of the peace