Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17,615, Ezekiel Chase, Continental (Mass.)

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (Mass.)
Chase, Ezekiel Betsey
No. 17,615
CONTENTS

CHASE, EZEKIEL
(CONT. MSS) W-7615
TESTAMENT
OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR
JESUS CHRIST,
Translated out of the
ORIGINAL GREEK;
And with the former
TRANSLATIONS
DE ly ntly Compared and Revised,
By His MAJESTY's Special Command.
Appointed to be Read in Churches.
EDINBURGH:
Printed by MARK and CHARLES KERR, His Majesty's Printers.
MDCCXC.

Jonathan Chase was born the 11 of October 1786
Daniel Chase was born the 22 of October the 2 of November
1788 Sally Chase born the 11 28
Jonathan Chase was born September the 9 1786
Daniel Chase was born November the 2 1789
Sarah Chase was born November the 5 1791
Sally Chase was born September the 29 1795
Jonathan Chase was born

THE HOLY BIBLE,
Containing the OLD and NEW
TESTAMENTS:
Translated out of the
ORIGINAL TONGUES;
And with the former
TRANSLATIONS
Diligently Compared and Revised,
By His MAJESTY's Special Command.
Appointed to be Read in Churches.
EDINBURGH:
By MARK and CHARLES KERR, His Majesty's Printers.

Ezekiel Chase was b. July the 9 1761
Elizabeth Chase was b. April the 14 1767
Ezekiel Chase son was b. March the 4 1798
Caleb Chase was born March the 7, 1800
Ezekiel Chase was born July 13 1801
CHASE, EZEKIEL W 17615 (CONT. MASS)

11.379 Q
District of Maine
Ezekiel Chase
of Sibee in the state of  D. Maine who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Therburn of the R. Island line, for the term of Six Years .
scribed on the Roll of District Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 8 of January 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 nd of June 1819 and sent to M. Hinsley Esq r Hampden D. Maine.
Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819. 15.22 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep. 1819. 48.00 No. 28 / 31 $63.22
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Discontinued

bk Notification sent to Jacob M c Garv Esq. Bangor Me. July 14. 1820

Hon J Washburn Jan Aug 3 1852
4015
Name Betsey Chase widow of Ezekiel who served in the Revolution R.S. war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of Feb 1849 and sent to
Hon W. Belcher Hof R
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page Vol. 1

8. Jan y 1819
Ezekiel Chase. Libec. Penobscott Co.
Published in April or May 1778 in Col a Sherburnes Reg t  Connecticut Rhode Island And served till the Peace
Admitted
Case 3/69 Mr. Kingsley, Judge Wampden Heath the Maine Rec d 28. Jan 1819
Hamilton Jan y 11 th 1819
Hon ble Secretary
Washington
8 unof.

I Ezekiel Chase of Siblee in the County of Plymouth & Commonwealth of Massachusetts Gentleman on Oath on Oath do testify & say, that on or about the month of April or May in the year 1878, I enlisted into the Continental Army for the term of three years in Capt. Benjamin Burton's Company - Col. Hemenway's Regt. And Genl. Parsons Brigade - I joined my Regt. at West Point; I was transferred to Genl. Hemenway's Brigade: in June we marched for Rhode Island: was in the action at Newport Went into Winter quarters at Bristol: where we continued till the British evacuated the former place (say in Sept. or October) We went into winter quarters at Morristown in N. Jersey: We were then transferred into Col. H. Jackson's Regt. and I was in Capt. - Hastings' Company: We were soon transferred to Col. H. Adams Regt. (I being in Capt. Scott's Company) and we were stationed in N. Jersey, where we spent the summer: in the Autumn I was again transferred to Jackson's Regt. and went into winter quarters at West Point: at which time I enlisted for "During the war" and had a furlough for three months: On my return by water to join the Army I was taken by the British & put on board the Jersey Prison Ship where I continued almost two years; till the suspension of arms peace was declared; when I was discharged in the month

of April according to the best of my recollection: I was in Actual Service upwards of three years; & had not any opportunity to receive a regular discharge, having had the Yellow fever & small pox I was a long time confined, before I was able to return to Boston in a house-Cart.
I am now under reduced circumstances, & need the assistance of my Country for support. —
Ezekiel Chas
Jan y 8

Ezekiel Chase's Declaration &c.
copy
11,379
not entitled
2 Jany 20
[Handwritten signature]
[Handwritten signature]

STATE OF MAINE.
COUNTY OF PENOBSCOT, ss. A Circuit Court of Common Pleas, begun & held at Bangor in & for the County of Penobscot, on the fourth Tuesday of June A.D. 1820. ON this twenty seventh day of June in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty, personally appeared in open court, being a court of record within and for said County, and State of Maine, established by a law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, made and passed on the eleventh  twenty first day of June, A. D. 1811, and recognized by the Constitution of the State of Maine having power of fine and imprisonment . Ezekiel Chase aged, fifty nine years, resident in Sebec in said County of Penobscot, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows; in the Company commanded by Captain Benjamin Burton in Colonel Henry Sherburne's Reg't in the Rhode Island Line; and in the Company commanded by — Hastings in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Henry Jackson in the Massachusetts Line — and in the Company of Light Infantry commanded by Captain William Scott, in the Regiment, commanded by Colonel Henry Ogden. — All which will more fully appear by my original declaration made on the eighth day of January A.D. 1819; on which my my Certificate of Pension, numbered 11379, was granted.

AND I Ezekiel Chase 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.
(Signed) Ezekiel Chase Schedule of the property belonging to me the subscriber, necessary bedding and cloathing excepted. Real estate. One hundred acres of land in Sebec, together with house & barn. The right in equity to redeem 100 acres of land in Sebec, mortgaged for $20.
Personal estate. 3 Cows - 12 Sheep - 3 swine.
Debts Due to me, None.
Debts that I justly owe, $300.
Schedule of family residing with me the subscriber, who am by occupation a Husbandman, but am unable to pursue it by reason of infirm health; viz: My wife, aged 57 years - feeble - Daughter Abigail, aged 19 years - Son Caleb, aged 17 years - Son Charles, aged 14 years - Son Owen, aged 9 years. - (Signed) Ezekiel Chase
Sworn to and declared, on the twenty seventh day of June A. D. 1820, before the Court. Attest. Thos. Cobb Clerk
I, THOMAS COBB, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Third Eastern Circuit, in the County of Penobscot and State of Maine, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records 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 four hundred seventy dollars and . cents.
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IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty seventh day of June A. D. 1820.
Thos. Cobb Clerk
of the said Court for the County of Penobscot.

Ezekiel Chase's Schedule —

State of Maine.
County of Penobscot Is.
On this twenty first day of June in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and twenty three, personally appeared in open court, viz, in the Supreme Judicial Court, holden at Bangor within and for said county, the same being a Court of Record, which proceeds according to the course of the Common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount. Ezekiel Chase now resident at a place called Sebois in said county, but late of Sebec in the same county aged sixty two years, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of 18 th March A.D. 1818, first of May A.D. 1820 and first of March 1823. — that he the said Ezekiel Chase enlisted in the State of Massachusetts in the year 1778 for the term of three years, and served as a private soldier in the company commanded by Captain Benjamin Burton in Col. Henry Sherburne's Regiment in the Rhode Island line, and in the company commanded by Captain Hastings in Col. Henry Jackson's Regiment in the Massachusetts line, and in Capt. William Scott's Light Infantry company in the Regiment commanded by Col. Henry Ogden all on the continental establishment, and was a prisoner on board the Jersey prison ships at the close of the Revolutionary War. All my said service was on the continental establishment.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March A.D. 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in manner 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 services of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18 th day of March A.D. 1818, and that I have not nor has any person 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.
Schedule of estate now in possession.
Real estate viz. 40 acres of unimproved land in Sebec, being part of the burnt land so called.
Personal estate — five sheep.
Ezekiel Chase.

An Account of the property exhibited in the first schedule, and not now owned by the applicant
   Real Estate Time of Sale Payment to me     100 Acres of Land in Sebec together with a house and barn, sold to John Currier. Feby 13. 1821. Executions against me to the amount of $400.-   Right in equity to redeem 100 Acres of Land in Sebec - Oliver Crosby Esq. Lost in 1821, by reason of my inability to redeem it   Personal Estate   3 Cows - Moses & Amos Patten March - 1821. Discharge in part an exn against me   12 Sheep - Killed & eaten by myself and family Not sold but consumed 1820, 21 & 22 Food for myself & family.   3 swine Not sold but consumed 1820 Food for myself & family.  
My family residing with me consists of my wife Elizabeth aged 60 years very feeble. Son Charles aged 17 " good health, Son Owen " 12 " Now is, and always has been a feeble, sickly child.
I am a farmer in part, and a hunter in part by occupation. My health and constitution are worn out, and I am now unable to work except a few hours at one time.
Ezekiel Chase.
Subscribed and sworn to
Before me Nathan Weston, Junr.
Just. J. J. B.
A true copy - Attest, Isaac Hodsdon Clerk
State of Maine Penobscot Co -
I Isaac Hodsdon, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts for the County aforesaid, do certify that Nathan Weston, Junior, before whom the above affidavit of Ezekiel Chase was made, is Judge as aforesaid, that the said schedule and oath have been admitted to the record of said Court, and that the same are truly copied therefrom

therefrom; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of said Court, that the total amounts in values of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is twenty dollars.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty first day of June, 1823.
Isaac Housdon Clerk of all the Jud l Courts in said County

996-1828 Const. Ind. File 37828
11828 Betsey Chase Mdm of Ezekiel March 27, 1845, had in P of her 27 March 1845 act 7 July 1838
Rejected hmb. and 1843 Mumford before 1794 Ezekiel Chase, enlists in Dec. 1776 Mar 7th Mass. Dept. deserts 4 Sept 1778 and joined 22 April 1779.
Pensioned upon the act 13 May 1828
No 1046
Geo W Morton Augusta Maine.

Declaration, In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th July 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" - And the Act approved August 23. 1842.
State of Maine.
Piscataquis County, S.S. On this second day of April 1844. personally appeared, before the Court of Probate for the said County of Piscataquis, in Open Court, being a court of records, Betsey Chase, a resident of Sebec in the County of Piscataquis and State of Maine, aged seventy seven 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 Congress, passed July 7. 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" and the Act approved August 23. 1842. That she is the widow of Ezekiel Chase who was a revolutionary pension of the United States, under the Act of Congress of June 7. 1832 at the rate of eighty dollars per annum, which was payable at the United States agency for paying pension in Portland, in the State of Maine, and that she refers to a declaration made by her said late husband of his services in the war of the Revolution in support of her claim. She further states, that she was married to the said Ezekiel Chase on the month day of August in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty four that her husband the said Ezekiel

Chase died in the town of Lobec, where she now resides, on the fourteenth day of September, One thousand eight hundred and forty three. Betsey her Chase mark.
Sworn to, and subscribed, on the day and year first within written. Viz April 2 1844.
E. W. Snow } Judge of Probate Court Piscataquis County, Maine.
State of Maine,
Piscataquis County S.S. I the subscriber, Register of the Court of Probate for the said County of Piscataquis, hereby certify, that the Hon. Eleazar W. Snow before whom the proceedings were had, is the Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Piscataquis, in the State of Maine. I also certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Judge, in the matter of the Application of Betsey Chase for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this Second day of April A.D. 1844.
E. S. Greeley Reg. of Probate Piscataquis Maine

I Abigail Wendell of Fairfield in the County of Somerset and State of Maine, do depose and say that I was well acquainted with Ezekiel Chase and his wife Betsey Chase, that I was present when their marriage was solemnized in an unincorporated place then called Hance's in the then District of Maine, now Fairfield in the State of Maine in the year 1784. I was well acquainted with both of them before their marriage her maiden name was Betsey Goodwin, after their marriage they lived together as husband and wife in the same neighborhood with me and had a number of children. Some years since they moved to Sebago now in the County of Piscataquis State of Maine where I understand the said Ezekiel Chase died in the month of September 1843 where his widow the said Betsey Chase is now living. I am enabled to state the year of their marriage from the fact that their marriage took place two years after my own which was in the year 1782.
Abigail Wendell
State of Maine
Somerset County S.S. On the 20 day of January, 1846 personally appeared me Abigail Wendell above named with whom I am well acquainted and who is entitled to full credit in belief and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by her subscribed before me David Pearson Justice of the Peace

State of Maine Pennebec County ss.
I, William M. Stratton, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts within said County of Pennebec, hereby certify that William Snow and David Pearson whose signatures are borne on the instruments hereto attached are Justices of the Peace as therein stated, and that their said signatures are genuine.
Witness my hand, and the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, for the State of Maine, this twenty second day of January, A. D. 1846.
Wm. M. Stratton

I Joseph Burgess do certify that I hold the Office of Clerk of the town of Fairfield in the County of Somerset and State of Maine, and have in my custody the records of said town, that the said town was incorporated in the year 1788 it having been before called Hancocks then unincorporated, that the marriage of Ezekiel and Betsey Chase nor the births of their children is found recorded, the said records are very imperfect as relate to marriages and births, & their marriages or births of their children not being recorded is not regarded as raising any doubt whatever of the truth of their marriages as alleged by the said Betsey Chase who I understand is now a widow,
Joseph Burgess Jr
State of Maine
Somerset County S.S. On this 20th day of January 1846 personally appeared Joseph Burgess Jr known to me to be the town clerk of Fairfield in the County of Somerset and State of Maine, and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed.
Before me
William Snow Justice of the Peace

CHASE, EZEKIEL (CONT. MASS.)
W-17615
CHASE, EZEKIEL

1000 of wood, barn 1000 acres 20,000 1300 acres, 447
June 27 June 1820 - Sept: file 1819 -
Copy of a letter to the Gondola
his letter of April 7. 1825, to: 1825. Houston to Gen. Eng. Bengal My dear Sir, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 17th Feb. 1825,

li in of war, barn - in 100 acres 20. - 12 swine, 407.
27 June 1820. - Sept: file 1819 - 1st Sched, 15 June 1820, 100 acres unimproved land 5 sheep valued at £30. 100 acres of land with house & barn To S. Barron 13 Feb. 1821, together with 95 acres of land to which claim states he acquired an interest after giving in his 1st schedule, (the whole amount to £400) went by way of securities & notes against the said nominal value of £400 The deed £800 copy of deed exhibit the right in equity to redeem 100 acres of land forfeited to Crown Lands, in 1821 by reason of claimant's inability to redeem the same given in 1821 the discharge in full of all claims against him in favor of the Crown. 12 sheep consumed in family. Bradbury affidavit as to his title to the land that claimant became indebted to him in 1819, 20 & 21 the sum of £150. - for which he purchased from his estate for family use, that he recd payment by S. Barron obligation in Oct 1821. Affidavit of Barron that he is still alive and well
2 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 sum of £250, of which £180 was to be paid to him by his son, interest due to a friend of Barron also from his estate at different times for family use and payments in Feb 1820 by S. Barron in cash & securities. Among them a receipt states that he became indebted to him in 1819 and by him same to his son for the sum of £250 & 30 recd payment by sale of claimant's cattle & sheep to S. Barron, who paid the amount of £100. John Barron deceased, states that claimant became indebted to him in Feb 1820 the sum of £400, for which he gave his securities and obligation to pay. All interest £150, less all due & paid and owing - that claimant is still owing to him the sum of £275 acres
not aged 60 former const much in debt wife aged 60 W. ... certify that I have examined and am of the opinion according to the principles on government services etc. that claimant is entitled to be admitted his letter April 7. 1825, 1825. Houston M c Lean Esq Bonyon ... explanation wanted; see the other side June 17 Feb. 1825
Copy of the original

Geo W. Morton Augusta Maine,

I Nathaniel Spaulding of Sebec in the County of Piscat- -aquia and State of Maine, do depose and say that for fifty years previous to the death of Ezekiel Chase I lived in the same neighborhood with him and was intimately ac- -quainted with him, and also well acquainted with his wife Betsey Chase now his widow and likewise with the chil- -dren of the said Ezekiel and Betsey, the said Ezekiel Chase was to my knowledge a revolutionary pensioner of the United States and died in said town of Sebec in the month of September 1843. The annexed leaves from the family bible of the said Ezekiel is the only family record of the time of the births of the said Ezekiel & Betsey and also that of their children, and was used to my knowledge in his family to ascertain the ages of himself wife and children and that his children named Jonathan, Daniel, Sarah, Polly, Ezekiel Jr and Caleb were severally born at the time stated in said annexed record, there can be no rea- -sonable doubt. The said Ezekiel and Betsey even after their separated marriage lived together as hus- -band and wife until his death and that their marriage took place in the year 1784 I have no doubt whatever. I have been a near and inti- -mate neighbor of the said Chase and have seen his family record while in his bible. Nathaniel Spaulding State of Maine
Piscataquia County S.S. On this Fifteenth day of September 1845 personally appeared Nathaniel Spaulding above named, with whom I am personally ac- -quainted & who is entitled to full credit & belief and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed. Vix Sept. 15 th 1845
Before me
Elisha L. Hammond Justice of the Peace

I Francis Chase of Atherton in the County of Piscataquis and State of Maine do depose and say that I am the oldest son of Ezekiel Chase late of said County deceased a revolution- ary pensioner - That Betsy Chase wife of the said Ezekiel Chase and my Mother is still living in said County - I am seventy Sixty years old and have examined the records of the family that are attached to the deposition of Nathaniel Spaulding and know them to be the family records kept by the said Ezekiel Chase. My name and others of the family were once on the record but were worn off or torn off - My father and Mother always lived together as husband and wife from my earliest recollection to the time of his death and I always lived with them during my minority - I have no doubts - whatever of their marriage - Francis Chase
Piscataquis County SS
On this fifteenth day of Sep- tember AD 1845 Personally appeared Francis Chase above named with whom I am well and per- sonally acquainted and whose character stands fair as good for truth and veracity - and made oath to the above affidavit by him subscribed before me Elisha L. Hammond 3 yrs of age

I Byley Lyford of Atkinson in the County of Piscataquis and State of Maine do affirm and say that I have known Ezekiel Chase late of Sebec deceased a revolutionary pensioner and Betsy Chase wife of said Ezekiel for forty one years - am acquainted with their children named in the record which is attached to the Affidavit of Nathaniel Spaulding - during the time of my first acquaintance with them till the death of the said Ezekiel he and the said Betsy always lived together as husband and wife and I have no reason to doubt that they were lawfully mar- ried. I am well acquainted with Nathaniel Spaulding of Sebec and his character for truth veracity and piety is good Byley Lyford
Piscataquis County ss
On this fifteenth day of September AD 1845 Personally appeared and made oath to Byley Lyford above named with whom I am personally acquainted, and who is entitled to full credit. and made oath to the above affi- davit by him subscribed before - Elisha L Hammond 3 Jrs of the peace

State of Maine.
County of Kennebec ss-
I the subscriber clerk of all the Judicial courts held within and for the county of Kennebec, do hereby certify that Elisha L. Hammond Esq. is a justice of the Peace within & for our County of Kennebec Piscataquis, duly commissioned and qualified, and that the signatures hereto affixed purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of the Sup. Jud. Court - the twenty second day of September A. D. 1845
W. M. Stratton

Ref.
Maine 7552
Betsey Chase
widow of Ezekiel Chase
who was a Private
in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March , 1843. September
Certificate of Pension issued the 4. day of February 1846 and sent to Hon Luther Severance House of Representatives
[Acts of March 3, 1843.]
& June 17. 1844
Recorded in Book A. Vol. 2. Page 2.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
PENOBSLOT, ss.
ON the Eighth day of January A. D. 1818 before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Third Eastern Circuit, of the Court of Common Pleas, in said Commonwealth, including the Counties of Hancock, Washington and Penobscot : Personally appeared Ezekiel Chase of Siblee in S. County Esq who, being by me first duly sworn according to law, on his oath made the statement and declaration by him subscribed, and hereto annexed, 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."
And thereupon, I the said Judge do certify that I am satisfied the said Ezekiel Chase did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in his said decla- ration, against the common enemy, and that he has made it appear to me, that he is in re- duced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.
Which proceedings and the testimony annexed, being all he has been able to produce, I now transmit to the Secretary, for the department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my name and caused the seal of said Court to be hereto affixed M. Mansley Esquire, Judge of the Court as aforesaid.

notes against him.
The right in equity to redeem $100. Lost in 1821 by reason of inability to redeem it — 3 Cows sold in 1821 to discharge in part, an execution against him — 12 Sheep & 3 Swine consumed in family in 1820. 21 & 22.
aged 62 yrs Farmer Health & Constitution worn out" Wife 60 yrs. very feeble 2 Sons 17 & 12 yrs.
(see letter Oct. 24. 1823, to Jacob McCann Esq Bangor Me)
Sep 19
Maine
Ezekiel Chase, prw. Served 6 years.
1 st Sched. made June 1820. 100 acres of Land & the Right in equity to redeem 100 more, mortgaged for $20 — 3 Cows. 12 sheep & 3 Swine. Total amt. as valued by Court: $417 — In debt (to whom not stated) $300.
Sched. under act Mar 1823. 21 June 1823 Personal property } $20. — 40 acres of unimproved land & 5 sheep } accounts for the decrease of property &c By sale of 100 acres of land, as appears by a certified deed for $800, but in Sched. he says 100 acres for $400, applied it towards executions

Betsey Chase
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7557
Geo W. Morton Augusta Maine

DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of February 2, 1848, entitled "An Act Making further provisions for the Surviving Widows of the Soldiers of the Revolution."
STATE OF MAINE, } ss. COUNTY OF Piscataquis }
On this twentieth day of September A. D. 1848 personally appeared, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in the County of Piscataquis and State of Maine, Betsy Chase a resident of Sebec in the County of Piscataquis aged Eighty one years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the second of February, 1848, granting Pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Ezekiel Chase who was a Private during the Revolutionary War; that she was pensioned as the widow of the said Ezekiel Chase at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum per annum, under the Act of June 17, 1844, which was paid to her at the Agency in Portland, in the State of Maine. She further declares that she is still a widow.
WITNESS:
E. S. Morrill Caleb D. Dorr
Betsy Chase mark
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written,
BEFORE ME,
E. S. Morrill Justice of the Peace.
I certify that the declarant is personally known to me, and that she is the same individual who drew a pension as stated by her in the foregoing declaration.
E. S. Morrill Justice of the Peace.
STATE OF MAINE, } ss. KENNEBEC COUNTY, }
I, William M. Stratton Clerk in the Courts of Kennebec County, certify that E. S. Morrill is a Magistrate as above, and that the above signatures, purporting to be his, are genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, and subscribed my name this 27th day of September in the year 1848
W. M. Stratton
Clerk of the Courts of Kennebec County.

House of Representatives, July 29. 1884
Sir,
I have the honor to enclose to you a letter rec d . from Hon. J. S. Wiley, formerly M.C. from Maine, & will thank you to give me the information therein requested -
Very respectfully Yours, J. Washburn,
Hon. L. P. Waldo, Comm. Pensions.

Augusta, Maine
March 21. 1845
Sir
I herewith enclose papers to have Mrs. Betsey Chase' claim to a pension allowed) Her declaration as will be noticed was made in Open Court last April, and has not been presented before for allowance in consequence of waiting for additional evidence to substantiate but have been unable to obtain any, her marriage having been solemnized in an unincorporated place where no records were kept. Her late husband was a pensioner and died in the town of Sebec in this State. She was undoubtedly married in the year 1784 as she states in her decla- ration - If the papers are satisfactory I would respectfully request you to allow her claim and transmit me for her as entitled.
Very respectfully Yours Our Servt Geo. Winthrop
James H. Edwards Esq Commr of Pensions City of Washington D.C.

I Sarah Noble of Fairfield in the County of Somerset & State of Maine do depose & say that I was well acquainted with Ezekiel Chase & his wife Betsey Chase and that I am was present when their marriage was solemnized at a place then called Hancock, now an incorporated town named Fairfield in Maine. Said marriage took place at my house, (the same where I now reside) in the year Seventeen hundred & Eighty four. After their marriage they lived together in the same neighborhood with me for many years & then moved to the town of Hobbs  Sabec in Maine where I understand the said Ezekiel died in Sept. 1843 & where his widow the said Betsey Chase now resides
Sarah Noble
Somerset, ss. Fairfield March 22, 1844
Then the above named Sarah Noble personally appeared & made oath that the above statement, by her subscribed is true.
Before me Rufus M. Chase, Justice of Peace
I certify that the said Sarah Noble is a credible person and entitled to full credit & belief
R. M. Chase, Justice of the Peace
me R. M. Chase

40
S. Morton Esq
Augusta Main

I Nathaniel Spaulding of Aroostook County of Piscataquis and State of Maine do depose and say that I was well acquainted with the late Ezekiel Chase who died in the said town of Aroostook on the fourteenth day of September 1843 for many years previous to his decease. He was to my knowledge a pensioner of the United States. His reputed widow Betsey Chase is now living in the said town of Aroostook I was acquainted with the said Ezekiel upwards of thirty five years previous to his death and from my earliest acquaintance with him he and the said Betsey lived together as husband and wife. They brought up a family of children five of whom survive him. The said Betsey Chase is now remarried and a widow. They lived together respectably sustained good characters in the neighbourhood and no doubt were legally married; Nathaniel Spaulding
State of Maine County of Piscataquis ss — On this six- teenth day of April 1844 personally appeared Nathaniel Spaulding to me well known as a reputable witness and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed Before me E. L. Hammond } Jurs of the Peace

State of Maine County of Kennebec ss
I the undersigned, Clerk of the Judicial Court, held within & for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that Rufus M. Chase and E. L. Hammond are magistrates as within said, and that the within signatures purporting to be theirs are genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court this 18th day of March Anno Domini 1845
Wm. M. Stratton

Augusta Maine
Sept. 22. 1845
Sir
Your letter of 13 th of February last relating to Mrs. Betsey Chase's claim for pension was duly rec d . and you inform me that she is not entitled under the Act of July 7. 1838. The books herewith enclosed are transmitted for the purpose of satisfactorily establishing the relationship of husband & wife between her and her late husband Ezekiel Chase, in order that her claim to the benefits of the Acts of March 3. 1843 & June 17. 1844 may be allowed and if so I respectfully request you to allow her claim & send me a certificate for her
Very respectfully
Your obed Servt
Geo. Wm. Norton
James L. Edwards Esq Governor of Pennsylvania City of Washington
D. L.

11828
Betsy Chase Mrs
Rejected
Letter to G. W. Marton May 15 1845.
" to Same Oct. 29. '45
2017 July 1838

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 17615
Betsey Chase Widow of Ezekiel Chase Pr. New Mar
Act: Feb 29 48
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 131
[Arrangement of 1870.]

No 11828
Betsy Chase Maw of Ezekiel
Mr
8429
436
Act 7 July 1838
Rejected husband dial 14 th September 1843
Adm? act March 1843
and 13 June 1844
2 years in
$80 00 per
from 14 Sept. 1843
Hon Luther Severance House of Reps

Honble S. D. Ingham + Treasurer of the Secretary of State of the United States of America
Washington

15 March 1850. Taken July 23. 1850.
Honble. Treasurer of the Secretary of State of the United States of America.
Sir, After much inquiry & labor I have succeeded in proving such testimony as I presume will satisfy you that I am entitled to be placed on the pension list & to share with my brother suffer the bounty of my country. I can prove more testimony of the same nature of that included but my case admits of no other kind. If this should not be sufficient I must be prepared of producing corroboration of the facts which I know to be true.
Yours most respectfully, Ezekiel Chase

John Burrell now of Dover in the County of Penobscott in the State of Maine aged seventy seven years depose & say that in the year 1701 some time in summer or quite late in the spring I removed with my family from the Town of Bath on the Kennebec river back into the country about forty five miles to what is now the Town of Clinton in said State of Maine That Daniel Chase now of the Town of Siler in the County of Penobscott assisted me in removing my family as aforesaid That said Chase's father then lived in Hallowell on said Kennebec river, and that a brother & sister of said Chase then lived in what is now said Town of Clinton. That said Chase then informed me that he had been in the service as a soldier in the united states army under an enlistment for three years and that he had then enlisted during the war and was then at home on a furlough. I further say that I was at that time acquainted with a number of other soldiers who had returned from the service after serving the term of three years for which they enlisted, as they told me, who all confirmed said Chase's statement of his having enlisted during the war. I further state that I always understood that said Chase when his furlough expired set out on his return to the army of the united states & was taken prisoner by the enemy & that he so remained a prisoner until the conclusion of the war. It was a subject frequently talked of at the time and I presume that I heard more on the subject in consequence of living at the time on a farm belonging to an uncle of the said Chase. I will recollect that I heard at the time that the father of said Chase had received a letter from him giving information of his imprisonment as aforesaid. I am certain as I can be of any circumstance of the kind that said Chase did not return to his family or connections until after the close of the war and that if he had so done I think from my acquaintance & connection with his relations I must have heard of it which I did not. I have always been acquainted with said Chase since he returned from the service and have uniformly heard the same story and I believe there is no person of his acquaintance who has any doubt of the truth of it
John Burrell
State of Maine - Penobscott ss. Feb. 22 nd A.D. 1830 Then personally appeared the above named John Burrell & made oath that the above affidavit by him signed is wholly true Before me Charles P. Chandler Justice of the Peace

State of Maine
Penobscot ss.
I, Isaac Hodsdon clerk of all the judicial courts held within and for the county of Penobscot, Do hereby certify, that Chandler S. Chandler is a Justice of the Peace within and for said county of Penobscot, duly qualified to act as such, and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done as aforesaid, and that the within signature is his proper hand writing
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our Supreme Judicial Court the eighth day of March Anno Domini 1830
Isaac Hodsdon clerk

Honble S. D. Lingham Secretary of Treasury of the United States of America —

Revolutionary Claims.
Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 10 June 1829
The annexed paper, relating to the claim of Ezekiel Chase under the abovementioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with a request that he will be pleased to cause me to be informed whether a discharge, and, if so, what discharge, or other evidence was received at the War Department, from the claimant, on an application stated to have been heretofore made by him for a pension.
D. W. Crawford Secretary of the Treasury
The Hon. the SECRETARY OF WAR.
Letter from War Department 12 June 1829.

To the Honble J. D. Lingham Secretary of Treasury of the United States of America

Act 1828 Settled at Treasury Cond. with Invalid file 37.828

Revolutionary Claims.
Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
15 April 1829.
The annexed paper, relating to the claim of Ezekiel Chase under the abovementioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with a request that he will be pleased to cause me to be informed whether it appears, by any records in the War Department, that the claimant has received, or is entitled to receive, the bounty in land granted by Congress for service in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution.
J. D. Engle
The Hon. the SECRETARY OF WAR.
War Dept:
Bounty land office
The Records of this office do not show that Ezekiel Chase ever received or is entitled to bounty land of the United States.
Robert Taylor April 17. 1829.
By. d. Office 17 April, 1829.

For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers & soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved on the 15 th of May 1828. I Ezekiel Chase of Sebec in the County of Penobscot in the State of Maine, do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution, for & during the war, and continued in its service until its termination; at which period I was a private in Captain Hastings
Company in Col. Henry Jackson's Regiment of the Massachusetts line. And I also declare that I afterwards received a certificate for the reward of eighty Dollars, to which I was entitled, under a resolve of Congress passed the 15 th of May 1778.
And I further declare that I was not, on the 15 th day of March 1828, on the Pension list of the United States.
Ezekiel Chase
Before me Ebenzer Greenleaf Esquire one of the Justices of the Peace in the County of Penobscot in the State of Maine personally appeared this day Moses Greenleaf and Nath l Shaw who did severally make oath that Ezekiel Chase, by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed & believed to have been a Soldier in the Army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated.
Witness my hand this 19 th day of July in the year 1828.
Eben r Greenleaf Justice of Peace for the county of Penobscot.
I Isaac Hodsdon, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the County of Penobscot in the State of Maine, do certify, that Ebenzer Greenleaf before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was at the time a Justice of the Peace, & duly empowered to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Courts. This twentieth day of August in the year 1828.
Isaac Hodsdon Clerk of the Judicial Courts aforesaid
that he joined the Reg t again, on the 22 nd of April 1776. W. H. Wagner

Ezekiel Chases
Declaration sent to a Ogden
Presented 6 Sep. 1828.
ask 6
City of Washington
John L. Brown Ogden

I which I was of the Town of Salem in the County of Bristol before that I enlisted in the continental service of the United States of America in the month of April Anno Domini 1770 in the company of Capt. Benjamin Burton who was then recruiting at Hallowell then in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts now in the State of Maine. That I passed muster at Cambridge Massachusetts. That in the month of June there next I marched under said Burton to West Point in the State of New York where we joined the regiment commanded by Col. Henry Sherburne who was from the State of Rhode Island. The Regiment was composed of six companies commanded by Captains (viz) said Burton & Capt. Grafton of Massachusetts. Capt. Savage & Capt. Webb from Rhode Island & Capt. Stanton & Capt. Blackman of Connecticut. A short time after our arrival at West Point we marched to Rhode Island & under the command of General Sullivan were in the action & retreat from the Island. We then marched to Bristol and took up winter quarters & remained there the following summer which was the summer of 1779. In the fall of the same year the British troops having evacuated Rhode Island we marched out & took possession of it where we remained but a short time I think not more than a week. Then we marched to the State of New Jersey & had our quarters the first part of the winter at New Brunswick & the latter part at Morristown and were in the action the next spring at a place then called Springfield in said State of New Jersey. Previous to this time the above named Capt. Burton had resigned and I had been transferred to the company commanded by the above named Capt. Grafton & said Grafton's company had been transferred to the Regiment commanded by Col. Henry Jackson of the Massachusetts line. About the month of June following the time of the above mentioned action at Springfield I was transferred to a light infantry company commanded by Capt. Scott in Col. Ogden's regiment and & Genl. Harn's brigade & the Marquis De la Fayette's Division in which company I served that campaign & at the close thereof returned to the regiment commanded by said Col. Jackson. In the Autumn of the same year the term of my enlistment which was for three years not having expired I enlisted during the war in the company of Capt. Hastings of the Massachusetts line in said Col. Jackson's regiment & quartered the following winter at West Point
That he joined The Reg t again, on the 22 nd April 1776
Abel Hagner

I remained in said Hastings company & said Jackson Regiment through the following summer and autumn, spent in the State of New Jersey near the city of New York. The latter part of this year or at the beginning the next I obtained a furlough for three months. After visiting my com- panions at Hallowell I joined Lt Colbury a Swede who was recruit- ing at Boston and after staying with him about two months, as near as I can recollect, I set out to join my regiment. When I arrived at Providence I fell in with Adjutant Russell who had belonged to Col. Sherburnes Regiment when I belonged to it. He informed me that my Regiment had marched for the Southward but could not inform me where it was but ad- vised me to get on board some vessel if I could & in that way save a fatiguing march & said that if I could go in that way as far as Philadelphia he did not think that would be too far. In pursuance of this advice I got on board a vessel called the Seamwell armed with eight guns bound to New London. This vessel was taken then between Block Island & Long Island by the Pennsylvania a British fifty gun ship commanded by Sir William Henry and I continued a prisoner on board said British ship until the month of December preceding the declaration of peace between the United States and the King of Great Britain when I was put on board the British prison ship called the Jersey then lying in Brooklyn harbor on Long Island and remained a prisoner on board said prison ship until the end of the war. On the 19th day of April 1783 the proclamation of peace was read on board said prison ship & on the following day I with the rest of prisoners was set on shore at the city of New York & suffered to go where I could I then went on board a cartel bound to New- port in the State of Rhode Island & then went on board a packet bound to Providence. Being extremely debilitated by my sufferings on board the prison ship I was unable to travel and was carried in, horse cart from Providence to Boston by a traveler who commiserating my condition gave me a passage in that way. I remained at Boston until the above named Col. Jackson arrived there who paid my wages from the time gave me an order on the paymaster for my wages during my absence from his regiment as above stated and

The sum of eighty dollars granted to all who enlisted during the war & served to the end of it. I further state that I know of no person living who was on board said prison ship with me & that I do not believe that I can furnish any evidence of my having been in said prison ship to the end of the war.
Ezekiel Chase
In presence of John Appleton Henry T. Morrill
Penobscot ss 14th May 1829 Then the abovenamed Ezekiel Chase appeared before me and made oath to the truth of the above statement by him subscribed.
Before me John Appleton Justice of the Peace for the County of Penobscot
State of Maine.
Penobscot ss.
I, Isaac Woodson, clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Penobscot, and State aforesaid, do hereby certify, that John Appleton whose signature is above affixed to this paper, is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County of Penobscot, duly qualified to act as such, and that full faith and credit is, and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done as aforesaid; and that the above is his signature by him subscribed.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our Supreme Judicial Court the twentieth day of May Anno Domini 1829, and in the fifty third year of the Independence of the United States of America.
Isaac Woodson Clerk
Hon. Mr. James P. Langdon Secretary of the Treasury of the United States Washington Chesapeake
That he joined the Regt. again, on the 22. April 1779.
Abel Hagner

Siber 60. Anobroto - State of Maine
Jany 13. 1829 -
Honble Richard Rush - Secretary, of the treasury of State of the United States of America - Sir -
I Received your communication of the 6th Sept 1820 informing me that my claim under the act entitled an act for the relief of certain officers & soldiers of the revolution had been received & would be examined with all convenient dispatch & the result communicated. In view the promptitude of your answer to my application, from the uniform attention which has been uniformly paid to my former applications to your department & the length of time since the date of your communication I am induced to apprehend that the information of the result of the examination of my claim has miscarried. This induces me to address you again & request you to inform whether an examination has taken place & what the result is; and if unfavorable what further evidence is required -
By Chas Chase
Yours most respectfully -
That he joined the Regt again, on the 22 nd April 1777 - Peter H. Hughes

958
Chase
Rec d 22 Jany 1829.
Washington D.C.
From Mr. Richard Russell Secretary of the Navy to the United States of America
W. J. [illegible]
John Quincy Adams

Seber March 20. 1824
The Honble The Secretary of the Treasury of the United States of America - I received from the department of State a communication informing me that my application to be placed on the pension list as a revolutionary soldier under the act of May 18 th 1820 was received since that time I have addressed one letter to your department but have received no answer. The object of this is to request the favor of an answer. I have suspicions that the letter from the department has been taken from the post office in this town improperly I therefore request an answer as soon as may be directed to the post office in Athens, Maine . I wish for reasons stated why I am not placed on the pension list (should that be the case) that I may be able to apply my evidence to the weak point. I have been formerly on the pension list and then you will find the evidence of my having been a soldier during the revolutionary war by having served the river of it and was a prisoner at New York at the close of the war. Yours respectfully, Eschill Chase
That he joined the Reg t again, on the 22 nd April 1776 Peter Hagues

The Treasury of the United States of America
Washington City

December 17 th May 1829
Sir I duly Recd your communication of the 17 th Ult. by which it appears that in order to my being placed on the pension list it is deemed necessary that I should produce further evidence that I served to the end of the war. In order to obviate as much as possible the difficulty I have made a more particular affidavit than that in your possession. I warn the person you will find that my case is a very peculiar one. Being a prisoner at the time of the termination of the war I never obtained a formal discharge. If I had this the date might be deemed sufficient evidence of this fact. But I had no opportunity to obtain it. My venerated & beloved commander in chief then being at a great distance from me & I sick & worn down & emaciated with the sufferings of a prison ship having had the small-pox and a very severe succeeding fever which for four days bereaved me of all sense & recollection & very nearly of life, thought of little else than of getting home to friends from whom I hoped and a comfort at the time I was on board the prison ship there were very few north men on board, I think not more than four or five, & they were much older than myself & it is long since I heard from any one of them & do not expect that it will be in my power to obtain testimony from any of them for I do not think they are in the land of the living. Under these peculiar circumstances I hope that the new affidavit will be received as sufficient evidence of my having served to the end of the war & that the term of my enlistment was during the war. If in this I should be disappointed I will thank you to send me a list of names & residence of the surviving officers in the line in which I served. I think that by going to my native place I could find aged people who would testify that I was absent from the year 1770 intill the end of the war (excepting the short time I was at home on furlough) and that it was then uniformly understood that I was in the army or in the prison ship above mentioned. But this would be attended with an expense which I am little able to bear and the result uncertain in consequence of there being very few if any now living who were on the stage of action at that time, for there were but few there at that time the place then being in its infancy. I think & indeed am confident
that he deserted on the 3 rd February 1778 - and that he joined the Reg t again, on the 22 nd April 1779 - Peter Hagner

That I can produce the affidavits of all who are acquainted with me that my reputation for veracity is unimpeached and unimpeachable.
What renders my case peculiarly hard is that I was on the pension list under the first act but struck off under the second it being deemed that I was the owner of too much property to be retained; but had I have known my own circumstances I should have undoubtedly been retained on the list. The fact is that I was at the time of making out my schedule surety for two demands which I did not consider my own debts & therefore did not so represent them & have since been compelled to pay them. If I had deducted these debts from the amount of my inventory it would have brought it sufficiently low to have entitled me to the benefit of the act. But I think it would be hard for me at this time to be put on under the former act because I should then lose that pension awarded under the act of 1820. I hope you will have the goodness to inform me as early as may be whether the evidence herewith transmitted is deemed sufficient and if not whether any mode of proof which I have mentioned as possibly within my power to obtain will be so deemed.
Ezekiel Chase
E Chase

free
Hon ble Samuel D. Ingham Secretary of the Treasury of the United States American Washington
ms. 1829 1.2726 958

E Chase 958. 1454.2726 Rec 9 June. 1829 52
Washington
of the Treasury of the United States and J. D. Engstrom
See

Re. 15 March 1830.
8.
I Alexander McCausland of Penobscot in the County of Hancock and State of Maine of the age of sixty six years do testify and say that about the beginning of the year 1778 I enlisted with Ezekiel Chase in to the army of the Revolution into the company of Capt. Benjamin Barton Company in Henry Sherburne's Regiment - after serving together in that Regiment, so far as can recollect, about two years, when we were transferred into Henry Jackson's Regiment - and from thence said Chase was detached to a corps of Infantry under the command of the Marquess De La Fayette - where he served sometime and then returned, and just before the expiration of the three years for which we had enlisted he enlisted into the service during the war, and when my term was out, I returned home, to the town of Pittston on the river Kennebec; and I understood at the time that said Chase served until the end of the war, when I know he returned to Hallowell where I had known him before our enlistment.
Witnesses to signature Wm Abbot
Alexander J. McCausland's mark
Daniel Chase
Hancock ss. Cassine Feb. 17. 1830 The above named Alexander McCausland appears and makes oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed.
Wm Abbot Just Pac.

I John Hastings of Eastport in the County of Hancock State of Maine testify and say that I well remember that there was a man belonging to my company in Henry Jackson's regiment by the name of Ezekiel Chase and having conversed with him this day I have no doubt that the person present is the same man. He has related such facts as satisfy me that he was a soldier of the revolution as above.
J. H. Hastings
Hancock ss. Eastport Feb. 17. 1830 The above named John Hastings appears and makes oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed is true.
Wm Abbot Just Pac.
State of Maine.
Hancock ss. I Thomas Cobb Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the said County of Hancock, do hereby certify, that William Abbot Esq. whose name appears to the preceding certificates, is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County of Hancock, duly commissioned and qualified to act as such.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas within & for said County, this seventeenth day of February Anno Domini eighteen hundred & thirty.
Tho. Cobb

No. of Orig l pay ment 1046
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Sept. 6. 1828
Ezekiel Chase , of Sebec , in the County of Penobscot , in the State of Maine , has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private in captain Hastings 's company, in Col. H. Jackson's regiment of the Massachusetts line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing ->
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary H. D. Perkins
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
11. September 1828.
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Ezekiel Chase in the
It further appears that Ezekiel Chase - not - is now on the pension list of any - any - agency, and has been so since the 3 d March 1826  at the rate of  dollars per month.
The name of Ezekiel Chase cannot be found among those of the Massachusetts line, to whom Certificates for the gratuity of Eighty Dollars, were issued -
It appears from the Master Rolls of the Massachusetts line, that a man by the name of Ezekiel Chase enlisted in the 7 th Reg t of that line, on the 3 d of December 1776 - for the war - that he deserted on the 3 d February 1778 - and that he joined the Reg t again, on the 22 nd April 1779 - W. H. Hagner

Revolutionary Claims.
Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 15 April 1829.
The annexed paper, relating to the claim of Ezekiel Chase under the abovementioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with a request that he will be pleased to cause me to be informed whether it appears, by any records in the War Department, that the claimant has received, or is entitled to receive, the bounty in land granted by Congress for service in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution.
J. D. Engle
The Hon. the SECRETARY OF WAR.
War Dept: Bounty land office
The Records of this office do not show that Ezekiel Chase ever received or is entitled to bounty land of the United States.
Robert Taylor April 17. 1829.
By. d. Office 17 April, 1829.

A. Patten Affidavit

I Amos Patten of Bangor in the County of Penobscot & State of Maine make oath & say that Ezekiel Chase of Bangor in said County became indebted to the firm of M c A Patten sometime in the year 1819 or 1820 by becoming surety for his son Francis for the payment of between Twenty & Thirty Dollars and that I received payment for the same sometime in the year 1820 or 1821 by means of the sale of said Ezekiel Chases cattle I think three cows which said Ezekiel sold to D r Chase & John Currier who paid me for the same
Amos Patten
Penobscot Feb y 17. 1825 Then the above named Amos Patten Subscribed & sworn to the above affidavit before me Thornton M c Graw Justice of the Peace

J. Burniers Affidavit

State of Maine
Penobscot
I James B. Fiske of Bangor in said County make oath & say that Ezekiel Chase of Sebec became indebted to me in the years 1811-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-20 & 21 in the sum of Two Hundred & Fifty Dollars - One Hundred & Eighty Dollars of which was for debts contracted by him being surety on notes due to me & the remainder was for articles which he from time to time had out of my store for family use - And that I received pay of said Chase to the amount of said sum of Two Hundred & Fifty Dollars on or about the Thirteenth day of February in the year Eighteen Hundred & Twentyone by John Currier causing said amounts to be paid to me in money & lumber - And that I believe said articles have been applied to the exclusive use and benefit of said Chase & his family
James B. Fiske
Subscribed & sworn to on this Twenty first day of September A.D. 1824. Before me Thornton M'Gaw Justice of the Peace

State of Maine
Penobscot ss
I Nathaniel Bradbury of Foxcroft in Said County make oath & say that Ezekiel Chase of Sebec became indebted to me in the years eighteen hundred nineteen, Eighteen Hundred & Twenty & Eighteen hundred & Twentyone in the sum of one Hundred & Fifty Dollars for articles which he purchased out of my store consisting of Nails, Glass, Corn & grain tea sugar rum coffee & other articles of family use & that I received payment for the same of Said Chase by John Curriers obligation in the month of February in the year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred & Twentyone. And I further make oath & say that I believe Said articles were applied to the exclusive use & benefit of Said Chase. Subscribed & sworn to before me on this eighteenth day of September A.D. 1824.
Nath l Bradbury Justice of the Peace
State of Maine
Penobscot ss
I Isaac Hodsdon Clerk of the Judicial Court within Said County do hereby certify that Messrs Lowney & Joshua Carpenter are Justices of the Peace duly Commissioned & that they have respectively signed the certificate of the oath as appears for each of these two annexed affidavits. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the Seal of my Said office on this 17th Day of February A.D. 1825.
Isaac Hodsdon

Penobscot Co
State of Maine
I John Currier of Sebec in said County make oath and say that Ezekiel Chase of said Sebec became indebted to me on the thirteenth thirteenth day of February in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & seventyone for the sum of four hundred Dollars for paying to James B. Fiske Two Hundred & fifty dollars & for paying to becoming bound to pay to Nathaniel Bradbury one Hundred & fifty Dollars - debts due from said Chase to said Fiske & Bradbury - And that the said Chase paid to me said debt of four hundred Dollars on said Thirteenth day of February by giving to me a deed of one Hundred & ninety five Acres of land in said Sebec - Subscribed & sworn to before me this day of September A.D. 1824 before me -
John Currier Justice of the Peace
Subscribed & sworn to before me this twentieth day of September A.D. 1824 Before me
Wm. H. Lovejoy Justice of the Peace
N. Bradbury's Affidavit

Pangor Feby 17. 1825
Hon D. C. Calhoun Enclosed are affidavits to substantiate the claim of Ezekiel Chase for a Pension. The Certificate of the County Clerk in Silas Winchester's case will apply equally as well to this. The right in Equity you perceive by the declaration was lost by inability to redeem. If any affidavit to support this fact is necessary it can be obtained. Mr Chase is really a deserving applicant & I am happy to say I think able to procure the best of evidence to confirm his declaration.
Respectfully Yr M c Ob t
Thornton McLean

See Letter to Thornton M c Lean Esq r Bangor. Me. Augt. 20 th , 1824.

1 March 1824
Mr. Dunn
Dunn Chase, Crekic
Recd 1824
John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington City
Mr. Calhoun De

Dangor (Me.) June 23. 1824
Enclosed is the declaration of Ezekiel Chase explaining the apparent disagreement between his former declaration  Schedule & the deed which was produced to support it & is now on file in the Pension Office. He has no property & can prove that what he now declares is not formally correct but is substantially & really so.
Thornton McGaw

Copy. Deed E. Chase to Glance Feb. 1, 60

I know all Men by these presents that I Ezekiel Chase of Sebec in the County of Penobscot & State of Maine Esquire in consideration of the sum of eight hun- dred dollars paid me by John Covier of Atkinson in said County, Yeoman, the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowlege do hereby give grant bargain sell and convey and confirm unto the said John, and his heirs and assigns forever a certain tract of land situated in said Sebec in the County & State aforesaid, being a part of lot number three in the first range of lots in said Sebec, bounded as follows viz t beginning at Bank of the River Piscataquis near the North end of Bridge called the Union Bridge running North on the east side of the County road untill it intersects the North line of said lot, thence east on said line to the Northeast corner of said lot, thence south by lot numbered two to the Southeast cor- ner of said lot N o three, thence west to the first mentioned bounds, containing one hundred & fifty acres be the same more or less. Also one other tract of land situated in Sebec in said County, & State, being all that part of lot numbered ten in the twelfth range of lots in Township number two in the fifth sixth range of Townships North of the Waldo Patent in said County, that lies North of the River Piscataquis that I bot of William K. Atkinson and Oliver Crosby Esquires containing forty five acres be the same more or less.
To have and to hold the same with all the privileges and appurtenances to the same belonging to the said John & his heirs and assigns to his & their sole use and behoof forever. And I do hereby for myself my heirs executors and administrators, covenant and engage to & with the said John his heirs and assigns, that I am lawfully seized in fee of the premises; that they are free of all encum- brances; that I have good right to sell & convey the same in manner aforesaid: And that I and my heirs will warrant and defend the same to the said John his heirs & assigns for

forever, against the lawful claims and demands of all persons In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this thirteenth day of February, in the year of our LORD one thousand eight hundred & twenty one.
Signed Sealed & Delivered in presence of George Sherburne Sally Sherburne } Ezekiel Chase (S.S.)
Penobscot ss. February 13 th 1821 Then the afore- named Ezekiel Chase personally acknowledged the afore written instrument by him sealed to be his free act & deed, before me, - George Sherburne Justice of the Peace
Received March 22 nd 1821 & entered by John Wilkins Regt.
A true copy as of record Attest John Wilkins Regt
State of Maine Penobscot ss
I Isaac Hoason, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in the County of Penobscot, do hereby Certify, that John Wilkins, Esquire has been duly elected and qualified as Register of Deeds in and for the County aforesaid, and that the above is his Sign Manual.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our Supreme Judicial Court, this Ninth day of September A.D. 1823.
Isaac Hoason Clerk

Hon. J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War
Washington City
John Quincy Adams March 1848 Cornhill Street
Ms. A. 9. 2. 11

Bangor Sept. 11. 1823
Hon. J. C. Calhoun
Enclosed is an attested & Certified copy of the deed conveying all the real property mentioned in Ezekiel Chase's former schedule.
Jacob M'Gaw

State of Maine Penobscot ss
At the Supreme Judicial Court began and holden at Bangor within and for the County of Penobscot on the third Tuesday of June A.D. 1824 on the first day of the Term personally appeared Ezekiel Chase and in open court made solemn Oath that the above written schedule by him subscribed is true and just and also made oath to the above statement
Before me Prentiss Mellen Chief Justice of s d Court
A true copy Attest Isaac Woodson Clerk
State of Maine Penobscot ss
Supreme Judicial Court at Bangor June Term A.D. 1824
And now after Mature consideration the court are of opinion that the total value of the property contained in the forgoing schedule is thirty Dollars,
Attest Isaac Woodson Clerk A true copy of record Attest Isaac Woodson Clerk

State of Maine
Penobscot ss
On this Fifteenth day of June in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and Twenty four personally appeared in Open Court to wit, in the Supreme Judicial Court, held at Bangor within and for said County, the same being a Court of record which proceeds according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount. Ezekiel Chase now resident at a place called Sebois in said County, but late of Sebec in the same County aged Sixty three years being first sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of the 18 th of March A.D. 1818 of the first of May A.D. 1820 and of the first of March A.D. 1823 - that he the said Ezekiel Chase enlisted in the State of Massachusetts in the year 1778 for the term of Three years and served as a private soldier in the Company commanded by Captain Benjamin Burton in Col Henry, Shaburns Regiment in the Rhode-Island line and in the company commanded by Capt - Hastings in Col. Henry Jackson's Regiment in the Massachusetts line and in Capt William Scotts light Infantry company in the Regiment commanded by Col Henry Ogden all on the continental establishment - and was a prisoner on board the Jersey Prison. Ship - at the close of the revolutionary war. All my said service was on the continental establishment
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, A.D. 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner 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 A.D. 1818 and that I have not nor has any person for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than that which is contained in this schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed
Schedule of Estate now in my possession
Real Estate viz. Forty acres of unimproved land in Sebec being part of the burnt land so called Personal Estate - Five Sheep
An account of property exhibited in my first schedule and not now by the applicant
Real Estate 100 Acres of land in Sebec together with a house and barn } Sold to John Currier by deed dated Feby 13. 1821 in which deed is included 95 more acres of land to which I acquired an incipient title after the time of giving in my first schedule Right in equity to redeem 100 acres of land in Sebec } Forfeited to Oliver Crosby Esquire in 1821 by reason of my inability to redeem it Payment to my Executions & notes against me to the amount of 400 dollars Nominal consideration expressed in the deed $8.00.
Personal Estate Three Cows March 1821 which I gave to discharge in part an execution against me in favor of Moses and Amos Patten Twelve Sheep Killed and eaten by myself and family Three Swine Killed and eaten by myself and family
My family residing with me consists of my wife Elizabeth aged 61 years very feeble Son Charles " 18 " good health " Owen " 13 " now is and always has been a feeble child
I am a farmer in part and a hunter in part by occupation. My health and constitution are worn out & I am now unable to work more than a few hours in a day
Ezekiel Chase