Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1,916, Nathaniel Chick, Penn

SERVICE
Penn
Chick, Nathaniel
NUMBER
R. 1916
1812 War
CONTENTS
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State of New York / p Orange County
On this 2 nd day of November One thousand eight hundred and thirty nine personally appear - ed before the undersigned a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Orange Nathaniel Shick a resident of the town of Mount Hope in the County of Orange and State of New York aged Eighty years the twelfth day of October last who being first duly sworn according to to law doth on his oath make the following declarati - on in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June the 7 th 1832
That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the month of April Sixteen Hundred and Seventy Six for the term of two years under the following named officers
That he enlisted into a company of Pennsylvania regulars raised by Captain Azariah Drake and served in the said company from the time of his enlistment untill in the month of October Sixteen hundred and Seventy Eight and with the Regiment commanded by Col Anthony Wayne. That he enlisted in the town of Bedford in the County of Bedford and in the State of Pennsylvania and that a few days after he enlisted the company of Capt Drake was ordered to march to a place called Standing Stone about forty miles northwest from Bedford to guard against the Indians who then infested the frontiers of the state and were continually committing depredations on the person and property of the frontier inhabitants at this place we remained untill in December of the said year when we were ordered march to for Trenton near which place we arrived about the thirtieth of the said month and encamped near the River and remained encamped until the evening of the first day of January 1799

When we marched upon Trenton and attacked the Hessians at that place and had a pretty warm fight drove the Hessians some of them into the River and made a number of prisoners in this action which was fought on the second of January 1777 this deponent was wounded in the arm and belongs to Col Waynes Regiment That on the sixth day of the aforesaid month Captain Drakes company was ordered on what was called provost guard and was sent to a place called Battle Hill in the county of Morris in the State of New Jersey with the prisoners taken at Trenton and this deponent went with his company to the last mentioned place where they remained until the following spring and he thinks that it was in May when they were joined by a part of the seventh Regiment under Captains Gooch - St Clair and Hilles and under the command of Major Thomas Hunt when we were ordered to march towards Bennington in the State of Vermont we marched as far up the Hudson as the Highlands and crossed the Hudson over to the east side where we encamped for a short time and while here the express met us who informed us that the battle at Bennington had been fought and the enemy was defeated on hearing this news we were ordered to retrace our steps and march again for New Jersey when after marching and counter marching we took up our winter quarters at Morristown in November of the said year and remained there until the spring of eighteen hundred and seventy eight when we were again ordered to march and after marching through several places in New Jersey which from old age and loss of memory he cannot recollect they arrived at Trenton where on the twelfth day of October 1778 this deponent received a written discharge from the army written in the presence of this deponent and Lieutenant John Roleback and delivered to this deponent by Col Anthony Waynes own hand which this deponent has preserved and which

is now presented with this declaration as witness to establish the claim of this deponent and which discharge he does most solemnly declare is a true and genuine discharge given to this deponent by Col Wayne himself and written with his own hand and delivered to this deponent in the Colonel's own quarters in the presence of Lieutenant Holenbach as before stated who is now dead and which said discharge bears date October the twelfth day of October Seventeen hundred and twenty eight. He further declares that the reason why he was not discharged when his time was out was because at that time he had a very bad swelling on his left shoulder which was pronounced by the physicians to be a white swelling and through the advice of the physician whose name was John Melfore he remained with the army until his shoulder was cured. That after he got lame he did not do duty as a soldier but had a place in the provision department where his duty was to make out provision rolls and which duty he performed until he was discharged by Col Wayne as before stated.
That after his discharge he returned to his father in the town of Bedford in the County of Bedford and in the State of Pennsylvania where he remained about one month when he volunteered into a company commanded by Capt Harrison Poyntz Lieutenant Charles Bowyer for the term of six months and in the Regiment under Col Howell Lewis. This service commenced in November of the last mentioned year in the town and county above mentioned from Bedford we went to Carlisle where we remained at least two months when this deponent enlisted into the regular army for one year or during the war under Captain St Clair Lieutenant Lewis and in the Regiment under Col Lewis from Carlisle we marched to the Red banks on the Delaware River below Philadelphia where we remained sometime from the Red banks we marched to a place called Waterloo about

Eighteen Miles from Battletown after being at Waterloo sometimes we were ordered back to Burlington in the New Jersey and from Burlington we went to Amboy in this service from Carlisle to Amboy we belonged to the army under the command of General Laffayette from Amboy we were ordered north and the company that this depon- ent belonged to was with Col Wayne at the taking of Stony Point after we had been at Stony Point about three days the regulars were ordered to New Jersey again while in this service this deponent a part of the time done quarter master sergeants duty and after he had been in his duty sometime he was appointed a Lieutenant in Capt St Clairs company and for at least three months done duty as sergeants duty for Col Lewis Regiment untill from ill health he was obliged to take a fur- lough and return home this he did and received a furlough for six month at the expiration of the six months his health not yet returning his furlough was renewed for six months more when on account of the continuation of ill health he sent his resignation to the commanding General which was accepted some time in the month of October 1780 in this service he had a Lieutenants Commission which he kept with him untill in October 1817 while residing quar- ter at Staten Island after a voyage from New Orleans to New York he had his trunk broken open and all his property that it contained taken therefrom together with his commission which he never afterwards found
The reason why he did not apply under the act of 1818 was because he was a man of property and was not entitled to the benefits of the said act and he does most solemnly declare that the reason why he has not applied under the act of June 4 th 1832 is that some years previous to 1817 he lived in Cincinnati in Ohio

and that in April of the said year he left Cincinnati for New Orleans and that from New Orleans he went to New York and never afterwards returned to Cincinnati. That previous to his leaving Cincinnati and under the expectation of returning to that place again he left his most valuable papers amongst which was the discharge now presented with his sister who then lived in Cincinnati but who is now dead. That he wrote several times to Cincinnati for his discharge but could not obtain it until in the summer of Eighteen hundred and thirty eight and the reason why he could not obtain his discharge was that his sister had removed from Cincinnati into the northern part of Ohio on this deponent learning where his sister had removed to he started from Milford in Pennsylvania where he then lived in the beginning of July Eighteen hundred and thirty eight and went to Ohio where he was able to find all his papers as he had left them together with this certificate which he again declares is the discharge that was written by Col. Wayne's own hand and which he received from the hand of Col. Wayne in the Col. own quarters. He thinks that at the time he received this discharge Wayne acted as Brigadier General by brevet but still signed his papers as a Col. of this fact however he will not be certain.
That the deponent was born in the town of Bradford, the County of Bradford and in the State of Pennsylvania on the twelfth day of October Seventeen hundred and fifty nine. That he knows of no record of his age as kept except a record now in his own possession as kept by his mother while living on a leaf of her hymn book.
That he is not sufficiently acquainted with any Clugyman in his neighbourhood who can testify to his general character or to his belief of his having been a soldier but that

John Wharton and William M Martin are sufficiently acquainted with to testify to his general character for truth and veracity and for his reputation to have been a soldier of the Revolution that since the Revolutionary war he has lived in Beaver in Penn- -sylvania in Cincinnati in Ohio from which place in the last war he went to the western frontier as a soldier as will more fully appear by the accompanying discharge received by the deponent from Col John Miller of the 19 th Ohio Regiment which I present in support of my claim for services done under Anthony Wayne since the last war he has resided in Cincinnati in Ohio in Sandusky in Lucas County New Jersey in Milford in Pennsylvania and now resides in Mt Hope in Orange County New York
That he does not know of any one living who can testify of his actual knowledge of his services but produces his discharge which he has before mentioned together with the discharge from Col John Miller of the 19 th Ohio Regiment bearing date Nov 21 st 1814 and knows of no other record to support his claim
He further declares that from old age and loss of memory he is unable to state all the particulars as they transpired while he was in the army but what he has herein stated is substantially true
That he now relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity whatever except the present and he declares that his name is not on any pension roll or agency in any state or territory in the union and further from ill health he is unfit to attend the sittings of the court of records of the said county
The words "seventeen, and eight," were written on erasures and the words "Stony, March," his court says, "remained there," were interlined before signing I own and subscribe the day and year above mentioned before me
Dwight Clark a judge of Orange County Nathaniel Chick

CHICK, NATHANIEL (PA.) R-1916

Be it hereby certified that Nathaniel Clarke enlisted the 2nd day of April 1776 for the term of 2 years in company with said Clarke has served since his enlistment to an honorable discharge. Said Clarke was taken prisoner in the battle of Trenton and where got a flesh wound in his right arm on the 2nd day of January 1777 therefore he shall be discharged and paid up in full.
This given under my hand this 12th day of October 1777.
Anthony Wayne

It is hereby certifyed that Nathaniel Chick is entitled to an honorable discharge agreeable to the Surgeon's certificate given by W.R. Chapman and George Wheeler Surgeons in the the Western Army. Said Chick is hereby discharged by inability occasioned by wounds he received in the battle of Fort Niagara the Nineteenth day of December in the year 1813. Said Chick was enlisted the 4 th day of May 1812 for during the war in the artillery was attached to Capt. Dan C. Cushing's Company of heavy Artillery and said Chick has not been legally returned in any Company by being on Extra duty nor has not drawn pay regular. Agreeable to the Company return there is thirteen Months and twenty seven days pay due to the said Chick and Clothes as follows: One Coat, One vest, two Pair of overalls, two Pair of Shoes, two Pair of Socks, one Hat, one Stock, and two Shirts. Said Chick has been much less - extra for his service in the Western part in Subduing the Indians. Said Chick served under General Anthony Wayne so that I testify this to be the fact. This discharge given under my hand this 11 th day of March 1814
Frederickville State of Ohio
John Miller Col in the 19 th Regt Ohio Troops
CHICK, NATHANIEL PA. R1916

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
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1916
P. O.
Nathaniel Chick
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Resides: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Nathaniel Chick (29)
See letter to Hon. J. Q. Adams
H. R. July 15. 1846-
to Mr. Readin 11. Nov. 1846.
do to Hon. J. Q. Adams Mar. 31. 1847.
Set. to Richard McAlister
Nov. 4 th '47
let. to Hon. P. Cameron
August 7 th '48

W N. York (24) Nathaniel Chick let. to Hon. N. Jones 17. Dec. 1839
Rejected
let. to Arad Jay Oct. 1 st 1844 " to Samuel Nov 29. 44, " to H. B. Wright June 9. 1845. [See his in- sup d papers also.] do. to Hon. J. Q. Adams H. R. July, 9. 1846
See old wrapper inside
Act June 7. 1832

Harrisburg, October 23 rd 1847
J. L. Edwards Esq r
Dr r Sir,
Will you have the goodness to inform me what further evidence is necessary to substantiate the claim of Nathaniel Chick of this State to a pension for services rendered during the revolutionary war? I have the pension laws and other accompanying documents. Mr Chick has left his papers with me and I am desirous of proceeding understandingly in this matter. I have the honor to refer you to Hon: Jas. Buchanan W m E. L. Hutter & Genl Cameron.
Faithfully
Yours
Richard M c Allister Deputy Atty Genl e

List of papers in the case of Nathaniel Chick, which were sent to the Hon J. Q. Adams, March 31. 1847,
 N Chick's affidavit sworn to Oct 21. 1844  John Van Sice's " " " Aug 9. 1845.  N Chick's declr. act 7 June 1832 ... .. Oct 6. 1846.  do " act not stated " .. May 18. 1844  Jere. French's afft. " .. " 22 "  Asa Camp's " " ... July 10 " 

Act Nathl Chick

(25) Certificate of Miller Secy of Comth of Penna. under seal of the state, dated 5 th Oct. 1846, appended to an extract a copy of the 3 d sect n of the act of Penn a approved 5 th Ap l 1842, granting a pension of $40 per annum to Vash t Chick and others.
Received the above referred to paper from the Com t of Pensions - for Vash t Chick.
W. Kedon
Dec. 10 - 1846.

July 9. 1846
Octavo case
Nathaniel Bliss
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M rs M c apes.
Hon. J. Q. Adams
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State of Pennsylvania } Bradford County }
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Before me Daniel Vandercook a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared John Van Lieve late of Masonville, Delaware County, State of New York, who being sworn according to law, doth on his oath depose and say that he is a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States that he enlisted and served during the war, was discharged at New York in 1783 by Genl Washington and has received his Land Bounty as a "Widow's man". That during the Revolutionary war, when at the battle of Trenton, he remembers seeing on several occasions Nathaniel Chick, in that battle; on one occasion he saw him forcing the river on the march to Trenton. That Nathaniel Chick who requested this deponent to make an affidavit of the above facts, is the same person whom he saw at Trenton; and that he understands from said Nathaniel Chick, that he now lives in Pike Susquehanna County, State of Pennsylvania, and is making application for a pension. This deponent does not now know how long or in what capacity said Nathaniel Chick served. That Known & subscribed to the 1st of August 1845

he, this claimant is now eighty eight years of age. That he receives his pension under the act of 1828. That his pension was granted him about the 22 nd of August 1828.
Sworn & subscribed this John C. Van Sike 9 th day of August 1845 before me
D. Vandercook J.P.
State of Pennsylvania } Bradford County } I
Aaron Chubbuck Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Bradford County do hereby certify that D. Vandercook Esq before whom the foregoing Affidavit was taken and whose name is attached to the certificate thereof is & was at the time of taking a Justice of the peace in and for said County Commission and qualified & that full faith & credit are given to his acts as such - That I am acquainted with his signature & believe the above purporting to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I have set my hand and the seal of the Court at Towanda the 14 th day of August A D 1845
Aaron Chubbuck Prothonotary

(12) Wilkes Barre' May 22 d 1845
My dear Sir
Mr Nathaniel Chick, a soldier of the late and Revolutionary war, formerly of New York but now of Penn a called on me for information relative to an application for a pension. He informs me that his application was drawn up and forwarded to the pension office by one Arad Loye and mailed at Ovid, a town of the state of New York some time he thinks in the Mo. of October, 1844. That he has not heard the result of his application & he has good reason to believe there is something wrong about it - Will you therefore inform me as soon as practicable what condition the matter is in, and what proof if any is wanted in addition to that on file in your department. And if the pension is granted to him? send me the Certificate.
He has exhibited to me some duplicate papers in his case, which shows beyond the pale of doubt, that his claim is meritorious - and establishes the fact of his services. And if the proof be not sufficient, he thinks he can get more. He now resides in Penn a is in his 86 th year and what is done should be done speedily - Any communication to me will reach him very soon. & I

entertain the hope it may meet with very prompt attention. If three years & ten months service in the Revolution and for a part of the time as a commissioned officer, does not present claims - it is difficult to conceive of a case that does. He mostly fears that his Certificate may have issued and been withheld from him by some person professing to be his agent. Will you be good enough to write me soon -
I have the Honor to be Sirin very Respectfully
Hendrick B. Wright
Hon. J. L. Edwards Com. of Pensions

over Mr. Morgan
Nathl Chick
About his pension claim.
Cotes Rec Nov 23/
Minonoffin
Hon William Wilkins
Secretary of War
Washington
D. C.
Nathl Chick NY

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Ovid N.Y. Nov. 19th 1844.
Hon William Wilkins
Dear Sir
I have been very much perplexed concerning my application for a pension. and will it be asking too much of you, to examine the proof I have made touching my application. which are now in the hands of the Commissioner of Pensions. And if you should come to the conclusion that the proofs are insufficient, will you be good enough to let me know, and oblige your Old Friend & Obt Servant Nathaniel Chick

Nov 23 rd 2004
Hatfield Chick New York
Get Jake Morgan's Pants
John Dum Com. of Pension Washington D.C.

Overd Nov 19th, 44
Hon J. L. Edwards
Court of Pensions
Dear Sir
I write you on the 30th Oct, relating to Nathaniel Chick, the old man has been long about my office in waiting your answer ever since, to gratify him I write, for doing it I pray you will pardon me — I may say that my letter of 30th Oct, may lead to a more certain charge or proof against him, or it may lead to proof which may exonerate him, I gave it to you, or I gave you the history that you may compare notes & see how it is, & be the better enabled to judge for or against him — for myself I cannot judge, I see nothing against him, & how he could know so much about the Revolution & Wayne's expedition, without having been in them, I am unable to judge, it would certa- -inly appear as if he must have witnessed both, he has cited me to another witness, who he claims served with him in the Revolution , viz, Jesse Morgan of Pa, who he says is a pensioner.
Respectfully Your Obdt Servt Israel Jay

11/10/18 FREE OV 11 30 32
Hon. A. L. Edwards Court of Pensions Washington D. C.

Wid Oct 30th 1844 (19)
Dear J. L. Edwards,
Court of Persons
order when I mailed to you yesterday Nathaniel Chick's deposition relating to his new discharge; I intended to have mentioned, & I respectfully ask leave to do it at this time, that Mr C. insists upon it; that at the time he took the new discharge in 1793 which he claims was written by Genl. Wm. H. Harrison, that there were present & saw the do original discharge & knew of the other having been given in place of it, Genl. Preston - Col Porter - Capt Howell Lewis Capt. Wm Lewis & Capt. Thomas Lewis all of near Chil- Maj Siglar - Maj Durbanke, Col Hamtramck Capt Isaac Kingsbury, Genl. J. L. Wilkinson, Maj Thomas Hewes - Capt. Campbell - Maj Rudolph - and that an old soldier George Summers exchanged discharge at the same time, & that he may have been a pursuer, & the discharge could be compared - I give this history as I have it from Mr Chick, I know not a thing about it, but submit it as it is, please place this letter with Mr Chick's papers of 29th Inst
Your Ob t Serv t Abad Joy

Nov 1. 44
Miss Addie Nath Chick.
1400 S. E. Church
Concord Nashville Tenn. at 6.

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Ovid Oct 29th, 44
Hon J. L. Edwards
Com d of Pensions
Dear Sir
I beg leave
to inclose a deposition of Nathaniel Chick, it may have a tendency to remove the objection to the discharge, as the hand writing of Genl. Harrisons can easily be compared with it, I do not pretend to know one circumstance about it, I submit the papers as they are & for what they are worth - I mailed to you Sept. 25th the deposition of Asa Camp - the inclosed & that can be examined at same time
I am Respectfully
Your Ob d Serv t
Abad Joy

J. D. Brum
Oct 11. 1844
Hon. S. L. Edwards Comm. of Pensions Washington D. C.
Send over for inuendo of our being at the boundary.
Chas. R.

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Ovid Oct 7 th 1844
Hon J. L. Edwards
Comm ee of Pensions
Dear Sir
I have rec d .
your report in the case of Nathaniel Chick, I beg leave respectfully to say that on the 25 th Sept I mailed to you a deposition in this case of Asa Camp, I beg leave to judge that you had not examined this deposition at the date of yours, & I respectfully ask the case of N. Chick re-examined with the deposition of Asa Camp, with the benefit of that deposition, provided it seems to apply to the case.
Respectfully Yours M c V. D. L ee Isaac Joy

Sept 30 44
Mr.
Adolf Hoff Natalie Chick
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4 sw of S.
Schwartz
Band of Prison
Washington
D. C.

Ovid Sept 2 5th 1844
Hon D. L. Edwards,
Board of Pensions
Dear Sir
On the 22 d
June I mailed to your address Nathaniel Chick's papers, I now inclose a deposition in the same case, I beg leave to ask this deposition placed with the other papers, that in the examination you would have before you all the papers that I had sent in this case - I gave no opinion of the case when I wrote in June, I have none to give, as all I know of the case is what has within a short time come to me, if a pension is justly & honestly due the old man I want it, if not I am sure I do not want it -
I am Respectfully Your Ob. t Servt Abad Joy
I have said, I have no opinion to give in this case, I may be allowed however to say, that the old man appears to be of sound mind & good memory, and from his minute recollection of his service, it does appear that he must have done the service as set forth by him

Hon William Wilkins Secy of War Washington D.C.

State of New York } ss:
Seneca County } ss:
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the Peace in and for said County and being duly sworn says: that Nathaniel Chick, employed deponent, to make an application to the Commissioner of Pensions of the United States some time in the month of 1844. and that said deponent sent to John S. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions the following affidavit of Asa Camp which is a copy of the original as near as deponent recollects - And which reads in these words, viz -
" State of New York } ss:
Tompkins County } ss:
Personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the Peace in and for said County Asa Camp now of Owego in Tioga County aged 84, years Oct. next. after being duly sworn according to law deponeth and saith that he was during the war of the revolution personally acquainted with Nathaniel Chick who is applying for a pension. This deponent deponeth and saith that the said Nathaniel Chick the said applicant for a pension, is to the personal knowledge of this deponent is the identical person and soldier and officer who served under that name, in the war of the revolution as an orderly sergeant, as a lieutenant, and as a adjutant. That this deponent saw him in service, and was therefore an eye witness to the fact of the said Nathaniel Chick's serving as orderly sergeant and as lieutenant, and that he served one and a half year as lieutenant in the war of the revolution. This deponent has within a day or two, of the date of this deposition, seen the said Nathaniel Chick and he knows him to be the identical person above set forth as having served in the war of the revolution as above set forth. That he is eighty four years of age. Asa Camp.
Subscribed and sworn before me } ss:
This 10th day of July 1844. } ss:
Arthur Johnson -

I certify that the above named Asa Lamp is a highly respectable person and of apparent good memory Remained Arthur Johnson
And this deponent further says, That one Jeremiah French of the County of the made an affidavit somewhat similar to the one made by Asa Lamp, duly signed by said French, and sworn then  to  be  fore  me Justice of the peace in & for the County of and duly authenticated by Moses Stevens, Clerk of The County of Tioga. which said two affidavits (Touching the application of Nathaniel Chick, for a pension were mailed, in letter form (addressed to John L. Edmonds, Comr. of Pensions, Washington) on the 1844.
Sworn & subscribed before me this day of November 1844.

June 25: 1844
MS Add declaration Nathaniel Chick 7 June 1832
Hon. J. A. Edwards Com. of Pensions Washington D. C.

Ovid June 22 d 1844
Hon J L Edwards
Comm te of Pensions
Dear Sir
I inclose a new & formal history and the proof following it up, of an application made by Nathaniel Chick under the Law of 1832. application made in, 39. a 40
I am Respectfully Your obed t serv t
Abad Loyo
Application made through his then agent Mr Martin of Orange Co N.Y.

Edward L. Joy Ovid New York

State of New York
County of Tioga SS. Personally appeared before the Subscribers Justice of the Peace in and for said County, Jeremiah French of Owego in said County aged eighty four years and upwards, and a pensioner of the United States, after being duly sworn according to law, deponeth and saith, that he was personally acquainted with Nathaniel Chick, who is applying for a pension, during the war of the Revolution that this deponent was in the service in the war of the Revolution with the said Nathaniel Chick; that this deponent was in the battle at Trenton on the 2 nd or 3 rd January 1777, in which battle was the said Nathaniel Chick; that this deponent saw him after the battle and talked with him; that they crossed the Delaware river, and their companies kept along together some distance; that this deponent was at Carlisle and there again saw the said Nathaniel Chick, in the fall of 1778, he also saw and knew his capt which was Capt Azariah Drake; that this deponent at that time talked with the said Capt Drake, and heard him speak of the said Nathaniel Chick's service, of his having served as an orderly Sergeant, and of his being an active soldier and a good orderly Sergeant; and that he had served as such under him more than two years; that this deponent has within ten days been and conversed with the said Nathaniel Chick; that he knew him when he saw him and knows him to be the identical person and soldier who had served more than two years under Capt Azariah Drake above named, as an orderly Sergeant; that the said Nathaniel Chick is over eighty four years of age, and within one month of the age of this deponent - this deponent further deponeth and saith, that in some recollections of seeing the said Nathaniel Chick in the battle of Red- Bank; that he acted as a Adjutant in that battle; that he well recollects of his giving orders to the Company of Capt Hellmuth which, this deponent belonged in that battle - Jeremiah French Subscribed and sworn before me this 22 nd day of May 1844
Erastus Goodrich Esq r Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above named Jeremiah French a respectable person and apparently of sound mind and memory, and full cred- it is due to his deposition - Erastus Goodrich
State of New York } ss. I Moses Stevens Clerk of the said County of Tioga Certify County of Tioga } that Erastus Goodrich Esquire whose name is subscribed to the above deposition was at the time of taking such deposition a Justice of the Peace in and for said County dwelling in the said County Commissioned and sworn and duly authorized to take the same And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such Erastus Goodrich Esquire and verily believe the signature to the said deposition is genuine In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County at Owego this 23 rd day of May 1844
Moses Stevens Clerk

(12) State of New York } Seneca County } ss;
Nathaniel Schick now of Ovid being duly sworn deposes and says. That he served as a soldier and officer in the war of the Revolution between the United States and Great Britain. That he served one and a half years as a Lieutenant in said Revolutionary war. That he received a regular discharge from General Anthony Wayne at Trenton in the month of November 1778. The said discharge was regularly identified by James Williams and John Cale to the handwriting of Genl. Anthony Wayne, before Samuel S. Shultz a justice of the Peace in and for the County of Pike, Pennsylvania and that the said affidavit taken by said Samuel S. Shultz, was genuine, said Shultz, being a justice of the Peace in & for the County of Pike, Pennsylvania as certified by Henry G. Mott, County Clerk of Pike County, Pennsylvania, which said certificate was duly attached to said affidavit. And further this deponent says, that some four or five years ago he sent said discharge to John L. Edwards, Comr. of Pensions, Washington, in letter form, & deposited the same in the Post office.

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Dec 6.
Nathl Chick ab 32 for the J. P. Edwards Owner of Frisco Am. Natl Inns NR War Dept

House of Reps.
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Decr. 6 th 1839
Hon. J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
Sir.
I send herewith the Declaration and Proofs of Nathaniel Chick now a Resident of Orange County N.Y. a Soldier of the Revolutionary War - and would respectfully ask for his case a favorable consideration
Very Respectfully Your Old Servant Nath. Jones

I Hulet Clark a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Orange County do certify that Nathaniel Chick who made and subscribed the foregoing declaration is a man of truth and veracity and from personal knowledge he is entitled to full credit and belief.
And from personal examination believe that he should be excused from attending Court.
Hulet Clark
State of New York } John W Martin and William M Orange County } Martin of the town of Mount Hope in the County of Orange upon oath say that they are acquainted with Nathaniel Chick who made and subscribed the foregoing declaration and believe him to be Eighty years of age that he is a man of truth and veracity that he is reputed and believed in his neighbourhood to have been a soldier of the War of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
John W Martin William M Martin
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 2 nd day of Dec r 1839 and also certify that the above witnesses are creditable & their statements herein made are entitled to full credit & belief.
Judge Finch } Justice

State of New York Orange County p: { I Albert S. Benton Clerk of the County of Orange do hereby Certify that Hontel Clark before whom the foregoing declaration of Nathaniel Chick was subscribed and sworn, was at the time of taking the same a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County; and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and verily believe that the Signature to the said affidavit and to the Certifi- cate following the same, purporting to be the Signature of the said Judge is genuine - In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County the 2 d day of December 1839
A. S. Benton Clerk
State of New York Orange County p: { I Albert S. Benton Clerk of the County of Orange do hereby Certify that Jesse Finch before whom the within affidavit of John M. Martin and William M. Martin was subscribed and sworn was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County - and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe that the Signature to the said affidavit is genuine - In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and af- fixed the Seal of the said County the 2 d day of December 1839
A. S. Benton Clerk

State of Pennsylvania ss Isaac P Williams of the town of Milford in the said County of Pike County witnesseth and saith that he is in his forty fifth year and that he is well acquainted with Nathaniel Chick who is now an applicant for a pension from the United States for services done in the Revolutionary war and has been acquainted with him for about seventeen years and knows him to be a man of truth and veracity and has no doubt of his having been a soldier in the war of the Revolution as he has stated in his declaration and he has no doubt of the genuineness of the discharge which he produced as witness in his case bearing date the 12 th day of October 1778 and signed Anthony Wayne Col
That in the spring of 1838 the said Nathaniel Chick hired a house of this deponent for one year and that about the first of July of the said year the said Nathaniel Chick left home for the west and about four weeks after he returned again to Milford where he then lived, that a few days after he returned the said Nathaniel Chick informed this deponent that he had been to the State of Ohio after his papers which he had left with his sister when he left the State of Ohio and which papers he had been able to find with his sister's daughter who he found living in Trumbull County in Ohio but his sister was dead. That at the same time he asked this deponent to walk into his room with him when he produced the above discharge which this deponent read and which

at that time was not attached to the paper now on the back of it that he observed to the said Chick that it was pretty well worn and that he should be very careful of the same that he has seen it several times since the paper has been pasted on the back of the said discharge and knows it to be the same that was shown to him by the said Chick soon after his return from Ohio and from what he has often heard the said Chick tell of his Revolutionary services he has not the least doubt that the said Chick served under Col Anthony Wayne and was discharged by the said Wayne at the time that the discharge bears date He further deposes and saith that at the same time that the said Chick showed him the above mentioned discharge he also showed him one as a discharge from the war of 1812 from under the hand of Col John Miller of the 19 th Regiment of Ohio troops which is dated at Steubenville 21 st day of Nov- ember 1814 and which is now before this depo- nent That he has no doubt that if the said Chick could have obtained those discharges from Ohio sooner that he would have before this applied for a pension That he believes the said Nathaniel Chick is Eighty years of age sworn and subscribed before me this 6 th day of November 1839 the word "year" interlined before signing and I certify that Isaac P Williams is a creditable witness
Isaac P Williams
Sam l S. Small J.P.

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Nathaniel Chubb Declaration
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Hon. Nath d Jones H 2

State of Pennsylvania
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Pike County ss I Henry S Mott Recorder of Deeds
Commissions to in and for said County of Pike Do Certify that Samuel J Small before whom the foregoing Affidavit purports to have been taken
was at the time and still is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County and that full faith and Credit is and ought to be given to his acts as such and further that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Small and believe the signature purporting to be his is genuine In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Office at Milford this 8 th day of November AD 1839
H S Mott Recorder

State of Pennsylvania County of Dauphin } s
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On this sixth day of October 1866 Nathaniel Chick of the County of Bedford and State aforesaid, Aged 88 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 7 th 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States, in the year 1776, under Capt. S. Drake of the 4 th Regiment commanded by Colonel J. H. Broadhead, for two years, and was orderly Sergeant, and was discharged by order of Col Anthony Wayne at Trenton in the State of New Jersey, then returned home to Bedford, and soon after, substituted in place of my Uncle Sam l Davis, a drafted man, under Capt. Scott of Bedford, who marched me to Carlisle Penn a where I enlisted a second time for one year or during the war, under Capt n Sinclair of the 7 th Regiment, Penn a Vols. commanded by Col Lewis During this enlistment I served one year and ten months, and performed the Adjutant's duty by order of Gen l Washington, after which I received a furlough from Gen l Greene for six months. I was, in the whole, in actual service three years and ten months. I was in the battles of Trenton and Red Bank. I wintered the winter of 1777 at Valley Forge, and the Second winter at Morris Town. During my second enlistment, Capt n Sinclair was attached to Gen l Hand's Brigade of Gen l Sullivan's Army, and we acted as Rangers, and on the right of the Army, during which time we ascended the Susque- hanna River from or by Sunbury, to the Big Flats in the State of N. York, and there the Army broke up, going home in companies and parties.
The claimant adds, that if it shall be found that this statement differs from any other declaration or statement made by him or purporting to have been

made by him, that is not his fault, but the fault of the writer, who failed to read and explain sufficiently the matter which he has drawn up.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any state, or only on that of Agency of Pennsylvania, where as a donation for said State, he received forty dollars per Annum, his services.
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year above Before me President Judge of the 12 th Judicial District or Circuit in the State of Nathaniel B. Eldridge Pa.
N. B. Eldridge President Judge
State of Pennsylvania Dauphin County
I, W m D. Boas Proth y of the court of Common Pleas of the County of State aforesaid hereby certify that Nathaniel B. Eldridge Esq. whose name is subscribed to the above is the President Judge of the 12 th Judicial District of Penn a . Composed of the Counties of Dauphin &c. in and for the County of State aforesaid duly ap- pointed and commissioned and that full faith & credit is and to be given to all such his Official acts Accordingly and that his signature purporting to be his is genuine.
Given under my hand & the seal of said Court at Harrisburg the Seven day of October A.D. 1846.
William D. Boas
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