Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,921, John Chandler, Mass.

SERVICE
miss.
Chandler, John
NUMBER _____
S 30.921
CONTENTS

11.268 Maine
John Chandler
of Cumberland Co in the State of - Maine who was a Pr. in the Company commanded by Captain Bradford. of the Regt commanded by Col Cotton - in the Massachusetts State Troops.
19 Mo. Private - 53 33
Inscribed on the Roll of - Maine at the rate of 53. Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th day of April 1832 and sent to J r Bradford, Portland, Me
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 - 125.55 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept 1835. 31.66
$ 158.32
{ Revolutionary Clam, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by John D. Sprague Clerk, Book E. Vol. 1 Page 7

John Chandler -
10/1857.
Admitted
19 mo's
$ 63.33
F. Bradford
Portland Me

I Chandle Freeman of Minot in the county of Cumberland and State of Maine on oath depose and say that I am now seventy three years of age. that sometime in the autumn of 1777 I was called out in behalf of the State of Massachusetts to go to Rhode-Island in what was called the secret expedition in the company commanded by Capt Wace of Middlebury. that I know John Chandle of Minot in county and State aforesaid. that he was with me in the secret expedition to Rhode-Island and served one month in the company aforesaid in the regiment commanded by Col. Cotton of Plymouth. that he served said term of time as a private soldier. The native place of the said Chandle is Duxbury in the County of Plymouth in the State of Massachusetts. that I well knew him at the time he served with me in the expedition aforesaid as we were brought up within a short distance of each other. I further say that the said Chandle has resided in Minot aforesaid about forty years and that he the said Chandle is the identical person who served with me the said month.
Chandle Freeman
Cumberland ss. July 30th. 1832 Then personally appeared the above named Chandle Freeman and made solemn oath that the statement in the above affidavit is true. Before me.
Freeman Bradford Ju. of Peace

John L. Russell Esq. Aff. of Charles Freeman
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Charles Freeman who has signed the foregoing deposition and know him to be a man of truth and veracity. The signature purporting to be his is genuine -
Freeman Bradford for Paris

I Holmes Thomas of Hebron the County of Oxford of lawful age do testify and say that John Chandler of Minot in the County of Cumberland enlisted into the Company commanded by Capt Jesse Harlow of Plymouth Mass - which Company was enlisted for the defence of the harbour and in behalf of said State and said Chandler enlisted in said Company in the month of February A.D. one thousand seven hundred and seventy six and served in said Company in behalf of said State ten months.
Holmes Thomas
Oxford July 17 1832 Then personally appeared the above named Holmes Thomas and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him sub- scribed - before me
Simeon Perkins Just of Peace
I hereby certify that Holmes Thomas is well known to me as a man of truth and morality - The signature purporting to his I believe to be genuine
Freeman Bradford Just Peace

The said Chandler further declares that respecting the sworn testimony to by Holmes Thomas and also by the deposition of Isaiah Cushman, which he has lately obtained, that the company of Capt Harlowe was disbanded in the first of the winter of 1776, which made his term of service for that year ten months. Holmes Thomas who enlisted and served with him has left his place of residence and removed out of the county since he made his deposition. He has therefore obtained the deposition of Isaiah Cushman to prove the same service. The said Cushman states that he served with him for six months and left him in the service at the Connecticut.
Judge of the United States for the District of Maine
John Chandler
Sworn to and subscribed this 14 th day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty two -
Before me
Freeman Packard
Jus Pacis
not born see

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT SS.
At a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland, within and for said District, on the nineteenth day of July A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty-two before the Honorable ASHUR WARE, Judge of said Court.
On this nineteenth day of July aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge JOHN CHANDLER a resident of Maine aged Seventy five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832. That he the said John Chandler entered the service of the United States in the town of Duxbury sometime in the month of May A.D. 1775 for the term of eight months and served the whole time of said enlistment in the company commanded by Capt Samuel Bradford in the regiment commanded by Col Cotton in the Brigade of Gen. Thomas of Kingston in county aforesaid in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental establishment. Also that he the said Chandler again enlisted in the town of Duxbury in the month of February as a volunteer in the service of the State of Massachusetts A.D 1776 for ten months in the company commanded by Capt Jesse Harlowe of Plymouth aforesaid and served in defence of the harbor of Plymouth during the whole time for which he enlisted. Also that he the said Chandler was drafted at said Duxbury sometime in the latter part of the summer of 1777 and served one month in the company commanded by Capt Wade of Middlebury in the Regt. commanded by Col. Cotton That he has lost his discharges from the service - that he herewith transmits the evidence of his service in the affidavits herunto annexed. That the whole term of his service was one year and seven months .
he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on any pension roll of any agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency in the State of
John Chandler
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before,
Ashur Ware
U. S. Judge for the District of Maine.

The said John Chandler further states that he was born in the town of Duxbury A.D. 1758 that he has no record of his age except by tradition. That he was living in Duxbury in the county of Plymouth in the State of Massachusetts at the time he was called into service. That he now resides in Miramichi in the county of Cambridge State of Maine. That he does not know that any continental officers or regiments were stationed with him other than those which he has mentioned in his declaration. That he never received any written discharge from the service. That Peabody, Bradford can testify to his service in the first eight months and that Holmes Thomas can testify that he served during the ten months that he does not recollect of any who knew him to his service in the secret expedition to Rhode Island except Chandler Freeman of Miramichi.
John Chandler Signed in presence of us John W...
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatives prescribed by the War Department) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states
I, John Mufsey Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Chandler for a pension. and that Freeman Bradford & Simon Berhins Esquires who took the annexed depositions of Peabody Bradford, Chandler Freeman, & Holmes Thomas, are Justices of the Peace, duly qualified & that their official attestations are entitled to full faith & credit.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this sixteenth day of August A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two
John Mufsey
Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.

W.C.S.
March 9, 1926.
Honorable Charles E. Winter, House of Representatives, Washington, D. C.
My dear Mr. Winter:
In response to your letter of March 6, I have the honor to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 30921, it appears that John Chandler was born in 1758 in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.
While living in that place he enlisted and served as a private with the Massachusetts troops as follows:
From sometime in May, 1775, served eight months in Captain Samuel Bradford's Company, in Colonel Cotton's Regiment.
From sometime in February, 1776, served ten months in Captain Jesse Harlow's Company.
In the autumn of 1777 he served one month in Captain Wade's Company, in Colonel Cotton's Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 19, 1832, at which time he was living in Minot,

Cumberland County, Maine.
There are no data on file relative to his family.
Very truly yours,
WINFIELD SCOTT, Commissioner.

30921 Key INVALID.
1928 Mar 9 list to Hon. Chas. E. Winter U.S.
File No. 30,921
John Chandler In Rev War
Act: June 7 1823
Index: —Vol. 8 , Page 70
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Hon. Lewis Cass. Secretary of War Washington D.C.

Portland November 14. 1832
Sir I herewith transmit the papers of John Chandler of the State of Maine, with an additional deposition respecting the service in the first part of the year 1776. Mr Thomas' deposition would have been again taken if he had been in Holbrook his former place of residence as stated in the further declaration of the applicant. The deposition of Mr Cushman therefore is taken instead of Mr Thomas, to prove the same service. Mr Chandler states positively that he served one year and seven months and his declaration is corroborated by the proof that he was adduced if that of Holmes Thomas is admitted. I then for return the declaration with the corrections suggested by the Chief Clerk in the Department, hoping that they may prove satisfactory.
The pension certificate if awarded may be returned to me -
Hon Lewis Cass Secretary of War
I am most respectfully Your Obt Servt Freeman Bradford Portland Maine

Marie
Nov. 20.
Revolutionary claim
FREE
Hon. Lewis Cass Secretary of War Washington D.C.

The Pension certificate of the applicant John Chandler may be returned to the Subscribers.
Freeman Bradford Portland Maine

CHARLES E. WINTER WYOMING
Congress of the United States House of Representatives Washington, D. C.
COMMITTEES: PUBLIC LANDS IRRIGATION AND RECLAMATION MINES AND MINING WAR CLAIMS COMMITTEE ON COMMITTEES SPECIAL JOINT COMMITTEE ON LAND GRANTS
March 6, 1928.
Honorable Winfield Scott, Commissioner, Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
My dear Commissioner:
Will you kindly furnish me with the service record of John or Jonathan Chandler of Minot, Maine. I understand he has been listed as a Revolutionary Pensioner. I will appreciate it if I might have all the data on the family that it will be possible for you to furnish from your records.
Thanking you, I am
Very truly yours,
Charles E. Winter

We the undersigned hereby certify that we are neighbors to Mr. John Chandler of Minot and are well acquainted with him - and we would cheerfully state that he is a person of the strictest morality and highly esteemed for his virtues, and as to his word for truth is not questioned
Minot County of Cumberland State of Maine Nov. 6. 1872.
Joshua Parsons Justice of the Peace Calvin Bridgham Wm Sowell Justice of the Peace

I Isaiah Cushman of the town of Sumner in the County of Oxford & State of Maine, aged seventy five years, last and say that I was a soldier in the American army, during the revolutionary war with Great Britain, for several periods, in one of which, I enlisted at Plymouth (I think) in the County of Plymouth Massachusetts, into a company commanded by Captain Jesse Hailow, of Massachusetts, for one year. I do not recollect that the company was then attached to any particular Regiment for I do not recollect any Colonel's having command of our company. We were stationed for most of the time, on the Gunnet, in Plymouth harbor. Our duty was to guard the ships in that vicinity. I served six months in said company and then, by leave of the Captain, left it & entered into Capt. Nelson's company, to go to the north and went to the northward. I further say that John Chandler, who now lives in Minot, in the County of Cumberland & State of Maine, did enlist into the same company commanded by Capt. Hailow with me, at Plymouth, about the same time & served there faithfully while I continued a member thereof & when I left it as aforesaid, I left him in said company, a member of the same, but how long he served I cannot tell. The above service was done in the first part of the year 1776. My impression is that the company of Captain Hailow was wholly disbanded before the termination of their enlistment the men chiefly enlisting into other companies as I did. My further impression is that said Chandler served while said company continued in existence.
County of Oxford ss. State of Maine
Isaiah Cushman
November 8. 1832. Then the abovenamed Isaiah Cushman, who is to me well known as a man of respectable character for truth, personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit, by him subscribed, before me.
Samuel H. Bone justice of the Peace

Maine District
District Clerk's Office Nov. 15, 1832
In testimony that the within named Samuel F. Brown Esquire is a Justice of the Peace duly qualified that his official attestations are entitled to full faith & credit I have hereto set my hand & seal of office the day & year last above written.
John Mussey Clerk U.S. Courts