Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15374, Simeon Chace, Mass. R.I.

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Mass. R.I.
Chace, Simeon or Chase
S. 15374
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15347.
Massachusetts
Simeon Chase
Berkley, in the State of Mass
He was a Private in the company commanded by Captain [blank] of the [blank] commanded
by Lt. [blank] in the [blank] R.I.
was for 10 Days P. of Arty +
Mass.
State Arty + Milia
Entered on the Roll of [blank] at the rate of 51 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 th day of June 1833 and General S. Hodge Present. Arrears to the 14th of June 1833 $143.32. General allowance ending 1 Sept 25.83. Total $129.15
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. H. N. Main Clerk, Book [blank] Vol. 2 Page 12
Bristol
$96 comg 12 Mar 1819 26 May 1819 Dropped Not coml

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Bristol ss
At a Court of Probate held at Dighton in and for said County on the twentieth day of August — one Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty two, by me before the Hon. Koshijah Baglis Judge of the Probate Court for said County, personally appeared Simeon Chase of Berkley in the County and Commonwealth aforesaid Esquire aged twenty six years on the twenty second day of May now last past, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, in Order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June Seventh A.D. One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty two make the following declaration, that he entered the service of the United States, under the following named Officers and served as herein stated viz. That some time in the winter of 1776 and 1777 the said Chase then being a resident of Berkley aforesaid, was drafted, and soon after he was drafted, that he served as a private soldier in a company of Infantry, commanded by Captain Joseph Burt then a resident of said Berkley in Col. John Hathaway's Regiment, said Hathaway also belonged to said Berkley, that the said Chase served during the time of three months, that he marched with the company from Berkley aforesaid to Howlands Ferry. So called.

in Kingston Rhode Island where the Company guarded the shores of the mainland as the British were then in the possession of the Island of Rhode Island; that he has no recollection of any Continental troops being there at this period; that after he had served three months, as aforesaid he was discharged by Captain Burt at said Howlands Ferry, but received no written discharge. Captain Joseph Sanford now a resident of Berkley, was there and a member of the same Company with him the said Chase; that said Company was furnished by the State of Massachusetts the evidence of this Service will be found in the affidavit of Joseph Sanford hereunto annexed.
And the said Simon further declares, upon his oath as aforesaid, that he enlisted and said soldier in what was called the Rhode Island State fifteen months service in the war of the Revolution. at least eleven months, and he thinks longer That he enlisted in a Company of Artillery, commanded by Capt. Joshua Danger in the Regiment of Col. Robert Elliot; that he is now unable to say in what month he enlisted, when he enlisted in this Company he lived in said Town of Berkley and went from thence to Kingston R. I. where he enlisted in said Company. That he there joined the Company and assisted in guarding the shores of the mainland as the British were then in the possession of the Island of Rhode Island.

The Company was stationed at England Ferry so called. After remaining some months at England Ferry, the Company marched to Providence R.I. where after a few months, the Company was discharged by Capt. Sawyer about the 17th of March A.D. 1778. He received no written discharge. That he was at England Ferry at the time of Spencer's Expedition so called, and the Company to which he belong ed attempted to cross over to the Island but the wind blowing fresh from the Southward and one or two British frigates lying just below the attempt was given up. He has no recollection of any Continental troops being near the place where the Company was stationed. Capt. Joseph Sanford now a resident in said Berkley enlisted and joined said Company and was a private soldier in the same. Said Sanford did not join the Company until some months had elapsed after he the said Chase had enlisted, and after the Company had commenced its term of service. James Briggs now a resident in Dighton was also a member of said Company. The evidence of his service will be found in the affidavits of James Briggs and Joseph Sanford herunto annexed. That said Chase further declares in order more fully to answer the interrogatories propounded by the Secretary of War that he was born in Greenwich

in said County May 23. A.D. 1756. That he has a family record which his father left him and the record of his age was made by his father in said family record. Said record is in the said County possessing. His place of residence was in said Berkley at each time when he was called in to the Service. Once he was drafted and once he volunteered. The names of his officers and of other officers together with such regiments as he can recollect and the general circumstances of his service and the manner in which he was discharged, are before described in the this declaration. He was not a substitute. The names of the persons who can  can testify to his service and services as a soldier, are the same as that have subscribed the annexed affidavits; and in addition to these persons he has no doubt, but that the Rev Thomas Andrews and Barnillai Hathaway Esq. both residents of said Berkley can testify to his character for veracity and their belief that he rendered the aforementioned and described service as a soldier of the Revolution. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present and desires that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state, or if any only on that of the agency of the State of Massachusetts. Simon Gage

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153 3/4 INVALID.
File No. 153 3/4
Simon Chase
Br Rev War
Act: June 7 th 82
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 67
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Massachusetts
Simeon Chase
of Berkley in the state of Massachusetts who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Elliott of the R. Island line, for the term of Ten Months
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Dollars per month, to commence on the 12 th of March 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 th of May 1819 and sent to Abraham Mitchell Esq. East Bridgewater Mass
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819 46.22
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 5 Mo \frac{20}{37}  \frac{4}{30} $46.22
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
1606. J. L. Hodge
Taunton. 20 March
1857

Simeon Chase Berkley - Private Effects RE Hist 77 - 10 Months due 12 Mar 1819.
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Admitted

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
On this ss. 12 th day of March A D 1819, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared Simeon Gull of Berkeley Mass aged - - - - - years, resident in the said Circuit, who being by me first duly cautioned according to law, on his oath made the following declaration, by him signed, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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."
— See his declaration enclosed —

And I, the said Judge, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Simeon Chase did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress, and that he needs the assistance of his country for support.
Nahum Mitchell.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
ss.
1818.
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That is one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, consisting of the Counties of Plymouth, Norfolk, Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket in said Commonwealth—that the same Circuit Court of Common Pleas is a Court of record—that the signature to the above certificate is the true signature of the said Judge, and that the seal thereunto affixed is the seal of the said Court.
} Clerk of the Judicial Court for the County of

I Simeon Chase of Berkeley in the County of Bristol and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do testify and say and set forth and declare that on the first part of the month of May one thousand Seven hundred and seventy seven I enlisted into a company of Artillery commanded by Joshua Sayer in Col. Robert Elliot's Regiment in the Rhode Island line that I served in said Company from the time I enlisted until the seventeenth day of March one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy eight being over ten months all which time I served and did faithful duty against the Common Enemy and was then regularly discharged by my commanding Officer as my term of enlistment had expired. And I do further testify that I am now reduced circumstances and need the Assistance of my country for support and that I am desirous of Obtaining a pension under the act of the eighteenth of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I do hereby relinquish all claims to any former pension which may in any way be allowed me by any act or Law of the United States
Simeon Chase
Declared on oath & sworn to March 12. 1819.

We Joseph Sanford and Ezra Chase Both of Berkeley and James Richmond of Newton - in the County of Bristol and Commonwealth of Mass- chusetts do testify and say that in the first part of the month of May one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy seven the above named Simeon Chase together with us the deponents enlisted into Capt. Joshua Sayen Company of Artillery and that he served with us against the common enemy in said Sayen's Company & Col. Robert Eliot's Regiment in the Rhode Island line from the time of our enlist- -ment until the seventeenth of March one thousand Seven hundred and Sixty Eight being over ten months at which time he was regularly discharged. Dated at Berkeley this fourth day of March one thousand eight hundred and nineteen -
Joseph Sanford Ezra Chase James Richmond
Bristol ss. Commonwealth of Massachusetts
On this fourth day of March one thousand eight hundred and nineteen the aforesaid deponents were examined cautioned and sworn agreeable to Law to the deposition aforesaid by them
Subscribed
Before me Levi French
Justice of the Peace for said County

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Plymouth ss. I do certify that the within named Joseph Sanford Ezra Chase and James Richmond are credible and disinterested witnesses and the within named Levi French is a Magistrate of the County of Bristol and authorised to take depositions and that the within is his genuine signature
March 12 1819.
Nahum Mitchell Judge of the C. C. C. Pleas for the southern Circuit of Mass and Justice of the peace thro' the State. —

Plincheon Chase
Berkley -
Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of September next, in Boston Mass at the U S Branch Bank
Edward

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
Simeon Chase 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 com- mence on the Twelfth day of March one thousand eight hundred and Nineteen
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this Twenty sixth day of May one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
J. L. Carrand, in the absence and on behalf of the Secretary of War.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid H. Baylies, Judge of Probate
We Thomas Andrews all of Hathaway residing in the said Town of Berkeley and Bergillai being residing in the said Berkeley hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Gissum Chase who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be lately six years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood, which he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Thomas Andrews Bergillai Hathaway
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid H. Baylies, Judge of Probate
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after passing the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states, — And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Thomas Andrews who has signed the foregoing certificate is a Clergyman resident in the said Town of Berkeley, and that Bergillai Hathaway Town, Esq., who has also signed the same is

residence in the Second District, and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
H. Daylies, Judge of Probate
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Bristol
I Anselm Bassett, Register of the Court of Probate in and for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Simon Chase for a Pension —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court the day and year first written in this application Anselm Bassett

I James Briggs of Dighton in the County of Bristol & Commonwealth of Massachusetts do testify and say that I served as a private soldier in what was called the Rhode Island State fifteen months service of the war of the Revolution - That Simeon Chase Esquire of Berklee in the County of Bristol and State of Massachusetts Esquire served as a private soldier in the said Rhode Island state fifteen months service which according to the best of my recollection commenced in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy seven and terminated some time in the year seventeen hundred and seventy eight and that the said Chase served as the a private soldier in the artillery company commanded by Capt. Joshua Sawyer in the Regiment under the Command of Col. Robert Eliot, the precise time when said Chase enlisted I do not recollect.
James Briggs
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bristol ss. July 3 d 1832 Then personally appeared the above named James Briggs who signed the foregoing declaration & affidavit and made solemn oath to the truth of the same
Before me Barzillai Greene Justice of the Peace

I Joseph Sanford of Berkley in the County of Bristol of lawful age to give evidence do testify and say that I was a private soldier in the company of Infantry commanded by Capt. Joseph Root, in the Regiment of Col. John Hathaway, that said company marched from Berkley aforesaid in Winter of 1776 and 77 to Howland's ferry, so called, in R.I. where the company guarded the shore of the mainland, as the British were in the possession of the Island of Rhode Island. The company were engaged in this service for and during the period of three months When the soldiers were discharged at Howland's Ferry - We had no written discharges given us - We were  were discharged by Capt. Root as the term of our service had expired - Since then Bqr. of said Berkley I have doubt whatever was a soldier in said company and served as such during the term of three months and was discharged with the company. -
And the said Joseph further says, that he enlisted and served as a private soldier about ten months, in what was called the Rhode Island State fifteen months service, in the revolutionary war - That he enlisted in a company of artillery commanded by Capt. John Sawyers in Col. Robert Elliot's Regiment; that he the said Sanford did not enlist until about five months after the company was first raised; that he joined the company in Kingston or in Little Compton R.I. - That when he the said Sanford joined the company he found there  there Simon Chase Esqr. a member of said private in said company; how long the said Chase had served in said company before the said Sanford joined the same, I am unable to say, he the said Chase however served in said company, from the time I joined it, until we were marched to Providence R.I. where we were discharged, as the term of the enlistment of said company had expired - We were discharged on the 17th of March A.D. 1778 by Capt. Sawyers - The discharge was by the word of mouth. This company was also engaged in guarding the shore of the mainland, the British being in the possession of the Island of Rhode Island -
Joseph Sanford

Bristol ss. June 10 th 1832 Then personally appeared the within named Joseph Kenford who made oath to the truth of the within declaration by him subscribed - Before me -
Chatham P. Hathaway Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Bristol ss.
I, James Sprout, clerk of the court of common
Pleas for said county of Bristol, do hereby certify
that Chatham P. Hathaway & Barrillai
Crane Esqrs. whose signatures are affixed to the
within and annexed certificates, are Justices of the peace in and for said county of Bristol, and duly qualified to administer oaths -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said court, this twenty fourth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two -
James Sprout

Simeon Chase - Simeon Chase
# Paid City 10 Mths by \frac{3}{13}
The interest since the date of the last payment due to Simeon Chase
$57.66
L. Woods
Taunton Mass

Conmencement of Affairs,
Bristol B. Saturday March 29 th 1833.
I hereby certify that full credit may be owed to the testimony of the within named witness as to his disinterested and credible views, to wit - Joseph Safford age James Briggs. James L. Floweres Jas. Paris
Witnesses present