Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34201, Stephen Chaffin, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Chaffin, Stephen
NUMBER
S. 34201
CONTENTS

Worcester stock 20th 1820 Thomas Biglow Cambridge Mass
9295 R
Massachusetts
Stephen Chaffin
of Acton in the state of Mass. who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Greaton of the Mass. U.S. line, for the term of ten months
Subscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 th of April , 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th of Apr. 1819 and sent to Sam d Dana Esq.  Groton, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819 . 10 mos. 18/10/11 85.83 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 11 th Sept 1819 48.00
$133.83
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Concurred

Stephen Chaffin
Adm.
10 mo. Greaton's Regt.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Be it remembered, that on this Thirteenth day of April in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen before me Samuel Dana Esq. Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the middle Circuit, comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex, being a Court of Record duly established by law within the Commonwealth aforesaid
Comes Stephen Chaplin of Acton in said County of
and on Oath declares that he served in the War of the Revolution, against the Common Enemy for the space of three years and nine months. He enlisted upon the Continental establishment
On the first of January in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and seventy six for one year in the Company of Col. Farley in Col. James Wilson's Regiment, in the Massachusetts line he proceeded by the way of New London to New York and there completed his year's service and returned home. He was hired by the Town of Acton to go into the Continental Army for nine months as Capt. Stephen Chaplin, in Col. Wilson's Regiment, this service he performed at Eastport, and was there discharged and returned home. In the month of May he was hired by the Town of Acton to go into the Continental Army as directed by Col. Badlam on the seventeenth of May in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven hundred and eighty two, he proceeded to Boston, and was ordered to proceed to West Point under the command of two Lieutenants XXXXX , where he was placed in the Company of Capt. Noble in the Third Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Grayson in the Company and in this Regiment afterwards commanded by Col. Hull, he did duty until the Spring of 1783, when he hired a man to complete his term of three years who was accepted, & he was discharged by Col. Hull, and Genl. Knox. This discharge he delivered to Capt. Joseph Brown, & has never had it since.
He is fifty five years old wholly destitute of property is blind, and
By reason of his reduced circumstances in life stands in need of assistance from his Country for support in presence of Joseph Hojes Stephen Chaplin in This made, taken, subscribed and sworn to the day and year aforesaid at Acton in said County of Middlesex
Sam: Dana

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 thirteenth day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Personally appeared Stephen Chafin and made and subscribed the declaration which is hereunto annexed. and at the same time he exhibited to me a certain Certificate signed Ezra Bass Muster Master. - - -
from which it appears to me, that the said Stephen Chafin 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 & the Certificate aforesaid 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 thirteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen . - - -
Sam d Dana

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Stephen Chaffin
W. H. W. M. 9295 April 19

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, Stephen Chaffin — resident Acton — in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 9295 — 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, Stephen Chaffin — 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 thirteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ” “ Given at the War Office of the United States, this fifteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and nineteen ”
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 none
In presence of Stephen Chaffin's mark X Caleb Butler
And the said Stephen Chaffin having been first duly sworn according to law does on his oath declare that he served as a private three years & nine months in the Revolutionary war three of said years in capt. Hobbys company of the 3 d Regiment commanded by col. Grayton Massachusetts line - was in the battles previous to the surrender of General Burgoyne, at White Plains as is more particularly set forth in his original

declaration on file in the war office - that he is sixty one years of age a husbandman by occu- pation but has been totally blind for more than fifteen years, and during that time has been supported by the town of Acton.
In presence of                      Stephen Chaffin's mark & Caleb Butler. }
Sworn & declared to before me
L. Dana judge

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,
4 I, Stephen Chaffin 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.
Stephen Chaffin's mark X
In presence of Caleb Butler
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Stephen Chaffin took and subscribed the aforesaid 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
nothing
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

BOSTON, May 17 th 1782
M USTERED and received of M r Thomas Hovey Chairman of Class No. 2 for the Town of Newton a certain Stephen Chaffin — a Recruit, enlisted for the Term of Three years
Ebenezer Badlam Muster-Master. E. B.

34 201 INVALID.
File No. 34,201
Stephen Chaffin Rev. Rev. Rev.
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 481
[Arrangement of 1870.]