Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20,860, Isaac Childs, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Childs, Isaac Sarah
No. 20,860
CONTENTS
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Rep.
5067
Albany, N. York
Sarah Child's Maz widow of Isaac Childs who was a Private in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13. day of March 1844 and sent to Hon. J. E. Carey House of Representatives
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A.
Vol. 1. Page 104

4828
Sarah Childs widow of Isaac
By March 1813 Husband died 13 May 1813
See Vol 14. page 12 12 - Capt Edmund Bemis - Isaac Childs Ent 25. Apr 1775
Hon. J. H. Preatlip

State of New York } Otsego County } 3 d
On this 19 th day of November 1839 personally appeared before me Seth Chase one of the judges of the court of Common Pleas of the said County of Otsego (it being a court of record) Solomon Hartwell a resident of the town of Worcester in the County aforesaid aged eighty-eight years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say that during the Revolutionary war he was a resident of the town of Fitchburgh in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts that in the year 1876 he the deponent was in service as a private soldier in the Revolutionary Army and a few days previous to the battle of White Plains the regiment to which he deponent belonged was encamped at or near Dobbs Ferry on the North river above the City of New York and while there so encamped a Regiment commanded by Col. Holman other passed along near said encampment on their march from New York to White Plains and pitched their tents near where this deponent was encamped as aforesaid that in said Holmans Regiment was a company commanded by Capt Joseph Flint of Westminster in the county of Worcester aforesaid that he deponent was well acquainted with said Capt Flint and many of the soldiers in his company before they entered the said service which facts and circumstances induced the deponent to call at the encampment of said Holmans Regiment that night there saw said Capt Flint and several others of his acquaintances and spent the evening with them that he at that time was not acquainted with Isaac Childs the late husband of Sarah Childs named in the declaration hereto annexed that he

deponent about forty years ago became well acquainted with said Isaac Childs and from that time deponent & said Childs were residents of the town of Worcester County of Ohio until the death of said Childs and saw him on the day he died which according to the best of his recollection and belief was near the time stated in the declaration of Sarah Childs hereto annexed that during his acquaintance with said Isaac Childs he had frequent conversations with said Childs in relation to the service of him (said Childs) in the army of the revolution and particularly in relation to facts and proceedings at the time above referred to near Dobbs ferry and in relation to his service in the company of Capt Flint and of his associates in said company which facts and circumstances so related by said Childs were known to this deponent and as deponent believes could not be related as they were by said Childs unless by any person unless present at the time they took place that said Childs in those several conversations stated to him deponent that he at the time above alluded to was a soldier then on duty in said Capt Flint's company and from the facts and circumstances above related he deponent has no doubt or hesitation in believing that he the said Isaac Childs was at the time referred to on duty as a soldier in the company under command of said Capt Flint as stated by him the said Isaac Childs -
Isaac Childs
Subscribed & sworn Nov 19th
1839 before me
Seth Chase a judge of the court of Common Pleas of Ohio County

I the said judge before whom the above affidavit was taken do certify that I am well acquaint- ed with the said Solomon Hartwell & do know him to be a person of good character for truth and veracity and his state- ment is entitled to credit.
Seth Chase judge of the court of Common Pleas of Otsego County.
State of New York } Otsego County ss } I George Wilson Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in said County it being a Court of Record. Do certify that Seth Chase Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavits purport to have been taken sworn was on the day of the date thereof a Judge of the Court aforesaid duly commissioned & sworn And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said judge & verily be- lieve that the signature to the same and to the foregoing certificate of credibility is his genuine signature. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court this 19 th day of November 1839
George Wilson Clerk

State of New York 38 County of Otsego 39
On this 7th day of November in the year Lord 1839 personally appeared before me Seth Chase one of the judges of the court of com- mon Pleas of the county of Otsego aforesaid (it being a court of record) Sarah Childs a widow of Worcester in the county aforesaid aged eighty 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 the act of congress passed July 4 th 1836.
that she is the widow of Isaac Childs who was a private in the Revolutionary Army that the said Isaac Childs her late husband was entered the service as a private soldier in War of the Revolution in the spring of the year 1775 as she was then inform- ed and believes and that he the said Isaac Childs then continued in service as aforesaid for the term of eight months that she the declarant at that time resided with her Father in the town of Wes- minster county of Worcester and State of Massa- chusetts at the house of one Solomon Garfield in the said town that she at the time aforesaid was well acquainted with said Isaac Childs that at the time he went into the service of the United States as aforesaid he the said Isaac Childs also resided at the house of said Solomon Garfield in the town of Westminster aforesaid that as she then understood and believed he the said Isaac Childs went to Cambridge in the State of Mas- sachusetts where he entered the service of the United States in the army of the Revolution as above stated and continued in said service for the term of eight months and at the expiration of said

of eight months he the said Isaac Childs re- turned home to the town of Westminster aforesaid that this term of service was under Captain Be- nis as she at that time understood. That shortly after the return of said Isaac Childs from his eight months service as aforesaid and in the month of March 1776 in the forepart of said according to the best of her recollection she was Marri- ed to him the said Isaac Childs the day of the month she cannot recollect that the marriage ceremony was performed by a Presbyterian Cler- gyman by the name of Rice his given name not recollected by her - that she the declarant has not any record of said marriage and that she has not any knowledge that any record thereof is in existence that her name before her mar- riage with said Isaac Childs was Sarah Stin- son - that soon after the marriage as above stated he the said Isaac Childs again left West- minster and returned to Cambridge or to some place in the vicinity of Boston where he again entered the United States Army as was then under- stood and believed and that he then continued in such service in the War of the revolution for the term of six months that he came home once during said term of service to the town of Westminster aforesaid and again returned to finish his said term of service that she the declarant was informed and believed the same true that during the last mentioned six months service he the said Isaac Childs went on duty as such soldier to New York and to White Plains that after the expiration of the six months service last men- tioned he the said Isaac Childs returned to his place of residence at Westminster aforesaid that she cannot state under what officers he served

during any time of the last mentioned term of service - That some two or three years after her marriage to said Isaac Childs she with her said husband removed from Westminster aforesaid to Pinninstown in the now state of Vermont where they continued to reside for several years and then they removed to the town of Worcester the present place of residence of this declarant where she continued to reside with her said husband the said Isaac Childs until the time of his death that he the said Isaac Childs died at Worcester aforesaid on the 13th day of May 18 1813 that she the declarant has not been married since the death of her husband as aforesaid but has ever since the death of him the said Isaac Childs remained and still does remain his widow
Subscribed and sworn Nov. 7th 1839 before me Seth Chase judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Rutsge County
Sarah X Childs Mark
I the said judge before whom the foregoing affidavit declaration was taken do certify that that I am well acquainted with the said Sarah Childs who has made said declaration and have been for more than twenty years last past and do know her to be a person of good character for truth and veracity and that her statement is entitled to credit and that by reason of old age and infirmity I believe that she is unable to appear in open court to make her declaration and the reason why she makes her mark is that she never learned to write
Seth Chase judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Rutsge County
of eight months and at the expiration of said

State of New York } County of Otsego } p
On this 18 day of November 1839 personally appeared before me Seth Chase one of the judges of the court of Common Pleas of the said County of Otsego (it being a court of record) William Stinson a resident of the town of Worcester in the county aforesaid aged seventytwo years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say that he is a brother of Sarah Childs the widow of Isaac Childs who has made her declaration for the purpose of obtaining a pension which said declaration is hereto annexed that in the year 1775 he the deponent resided in and was a member of the family of Solomon Garfield who then resided in the town of Westminster County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts that the wife of said Solomon Garfield was the mother of this deponent and the said Sarah Childs that in or about the spring of the year aforesaid Isaac Childs was a boarder in the family of said Solomon Garfield at Westminster aforesaid that in or about the spring of said year 1775 he the said Isaac Childs left the residence of said Solomon Garfield at Westminster as was then said and as the deponent understood and believed for the purpose of entering the service of the United States as a soldier in the army of the Revolution that in the summer of said year he the deponent went with said Solomon Garfield to the place where a portion of the army of the Revolution were encamped in the vicinity of Boston that he there saw the said Isaac Childs on duty as a soldier of said Army. That in the course of the winter following or in the early part of the spring the said Isaac Childs returned home from said army to the town of Westminster aforesaid and during his stay at home (for the term of two or three weeks according to his best recollection and belief) was married to Sarah Stinson the sister of this deponent as stated by her in her said declaration hereto of eight months and at the expiration of said

deposed that he the said deponent well recollects of being present at the marriage of said Isaac Childs to the said Sarah Stinson and witnessed the marriage ceremony which was performed by a clergyman by the name of Rice at the house of Solomon Garfield at Westminster aforesaid that soon after said marriage he the said Isaac Childs left home as was said and believed for the purpose of again entering into service as a soldier of the revolution and was thus absent from his place of residence at Westminster aforesaid for several months after which he returned thereto and informed the deponent and others that during said term of service he the said Isaac Childs had been to the City of New York in service as a soldier as aforesaid and also that he had been in the battle at White Plains.
He the deponent further deponeth and saith that he in the month of October last past went to the town of Westminster aforesaid for the purpose of obtaining evidence to aid the said Sarah Childs in obtaining a pension that he went to the office of the town clerk and there with the aid and assistence of Edward Kendall the town clerk of said town made diligent and careful search of the records of said town of Westminster to find a record of the marriage of said Isaac Childs to the said Sarah Stinson and that no record thereof was to be found upon said record and that he the deponent verily believes that no record of said marriage can be found.
That deponent further saith that the said Sarah Childs resides about eighteen miles from where any court of record is held and from the advanced age consequent infirmities thereof he believes it would be very difficult and inconvenient for the said Sarah Childs to attend such court.
Subscribed and sworn the 18th day of November 1839 before me
William Stinson
Seth Chase judge of the court of Com. Pleas of Otsego County
I the said judge before whom the above affidavit was taken do certify that I am well acquainted with the said William Stinson and do know him to be a person of good character for truth and veracity and his statement is entitled to credit.
Seth Chase judge of the court of Com. Pleas of Otsego County

N. York Sarah Childs let. to Hon. J. H. (Priority) 5. Dec. 1839 to same 18. Dec. 1839 to same 11. March 1840
Act July 1836

5349
Feb 15. 1844
NY.
Mar 3. 1843,
Sarah Childs
Blank
$26:66 per share
J. T. Edwards
Devonian Offspring
Hon J. E. Cady H.R.

Mrs. Sarah Childs - Mother of Govt Child.
Worcester.
Oct 2/60.
Mr. for Pension.

Mar. 9. 1840
My
Child
Mr. H. P. [?] Mr. G. [?] I. H. [?] Bank of [?] The [?]

House of Reps.
March 9, 1840.
J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Sir:
The Hon. Mr. Chase, of Norristown, Pa. N.Y. who is the Agent of Mrs. Sarah Childs, (widow of Genl. Childs) on application for a Pension, writes me under date of the 2d inst. that "it is concluded, upon consultation with Mrs. Childs and her friends, to take a certificate under the law of 1838; you will therefore please make out and transmit one to me for her benefit."
Very respectfully,
Your ob. Servt.
Mrs. H. P. Camp.

6873
apl 15. 1840
My
July 7. 1838
Sarah Childers
Mrs. H. Prentiss No. 6 Edinburgh, Ky. Bout. of Person Am. H. Prentiss HQ

Washington, April 14, 1840.
J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Sir:
I enclose you the papers respecting the will of Mrs. Sarah Child to a son in the law of July, 1838.
Very respectfully, Your Svc. &c.
Mrs. H. Martin.

Washington February 15 th 1846
Hon J. L. Edwards Comr of Pensions -
Sir -
I enclose the declaration of Mrs. Sarah Childs - if sufficient please enclose to me the necessary certificate for her pension -
Yours respectfully
V. C. Cary

Westminster, October 13 th 1839 —
I, Ahijah Wood of Westminster, in the County of Worcester, & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged eighty five years, Do. testify and say, that I belonged to the minute Company in said Westminster, and marched, in said company, on the nineteenth Day of April, 1775, for Cambridge, in Mass s & there I enlisted into the revolutionary army, for eight months, and served that time of time, & I further testify that Isaac Child, then of said Westminster, & in said Company of minute men, and marched, with me to said Cambridge, and there we both enlisted as soldiers into the company commanded by Capt Edmund Bennis, of said Westminster, in the Regiment commanded by Col. Asa Whitcomb of Sterling. In said County of Worcester, & that he continued in said Company til the close of the said eight months —
Worcester, ss. Then Ahijah Wood, above named, personally appeared, and was sworn to the truth of the above certificate by him subscribed; and I hereby certify, that I consider him as a man of strict veracity for truth before me —
Ahijah Wood
Heel Wood, Justice of Peace

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 20860
Sarah Childs Widow of Isaac Childs Pin. Nov. 1882
Act March 3 rd 43.
Index: Vol. 21 , Page 132
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Albany 5285
Sarah Childs
widow of Isaac Childs
who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 13 th May 1813 of Otsego Co. in the State of New York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Hoar of the regt. commanded by in the Mass. line for 8 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 th day of April 1840 and sent to Hon. J. H. Prentiss, M.P.
Arrears to the 4 th of March 1840 106.64 Semi-annual allowance ending Sept. " 13.33 $119.97
{ Act July 7, } 1838.
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book A. Vol. 2. Page 73

Dec 16
John N. Childs
Mr. att
M c : H. Prentiss,
M c
H. H. Prentiss
H.R.
Crum,
Atty. cont. of Division,
Washington

H. of Reps. Jan. 16, 1829.
Sir: The enclosed papers are connected with the application of Mrs. Sarah Blidds for a pension, a portion of her widow, &c. having been sent to your office some days since by me. Very respectfully, Yours Sincerely, Thos: H. Perkins.
Mr. Grant, Asst. Comd. of Pensions.

State of New York 38 Otsego County 38 On this thirty first day of January 1844 personally appeared before me Seth Chase a justice of the peace in and for said County of Otsego Sarah Childs a resident of the town of Worcester in the County of Otsego aforesaid aged eightyfour 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 provisions made by the act of Congress passed on the 3rd of March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Isaac Childs who was a private in the Army of the Revolution. That she has received five years pension under the act of the 7th of July 1838 that the annual amount of the pension so received by her under the provision of said act is twentysix dollars and sixty six cents for proof of the foregoing facts reference may be had to the paper on file at the War depart- ment which were forwarded by her on her appli- cation for pension under the aforesaid act of July 7th 1838. And she further declares that she is still a widow
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written before me
Her Sarah H. Childs Mark
Seth Chase justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that the above named Sarah Childs who subscribed her name to the foregoing declaration in my presence is personal known to me and has been so known for more than thirty years now last passed and that I know her to be the widow of Isaac Childs deceased that she is unable to write her name for the reason that she never learned to write
Seth Chase justice of the Peace

State of New York County of Ulster ss 3 I George B. Nelson Clerk, of said County do hereby certify that John Chase Esq. before whom the within affidavit purports to have been Sworn was on the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly elected and sworn and further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Justice and verily believe his signature to the within Just and annexed Certificate to be genuine.
Witness my hand & seal of office this 7 th February A.D. 1844
Geo. B. Nelson Clerk

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Sarah Childs
Oct. 1838
Marr'd March 1776 Husband died 12 May 1813
Capt John Hoar
Vol 14. p 12 Massachusett Militia 1775—
Admitted Private 8 months
Wm A. Burleigh HR

State of New York County of Otsego
On this 26 th day of March 1840 personally appeared before Seth Chase one of the judges of the court of common pleas in and for said county of Otsego (it being a court of record) Sarah Childs a resident of Worcester in the said county of Otsego aged eighty 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 provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" That she is the widow of Isaac Childs who was a private in the army of the Revolution and for proof of the services of him the said Isaac Childs as such soldier in the War of the Revolution reference may be had to the declaration and affidavits heretofore forwarded to the War department in support of the application of this declarant for a pension under the act of Congress passed in 1836 together with such record or documentary evidence to which reference has been had on said former application as proof of said services of said Isaac Childs the late husband of this declarant. She further declares that she was married to the said Isaac Childs in the month of March in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six the day of said month she cannot recollect that the marriage ceremony was performed by a clergyman by the name of Rice and in the town of Westminster State of Massachusetts where she the declarant and the said Isaac Childs both then resided. That her husband the aforesaid Isaac Childs died in the month of May 1813 at Worcester county of Otsego and State of New York.

that the services for which she claims to re- ceive a pension pursuant to this application were rendered by him the said Isaac Childs in the year seventeen hundred and seventyfive and five years to the marriage aforesaid that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service aforesaid but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four was at the time above stated-
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me
Her Sarah S Childs Mark
Seth Chase Judge of Otsego Common Pleas
I the said judge before whom the above declara- tion was taken do certify that I am well acquaint- ed with the said Sarah Childs and have been for twenty years last past and do know her to be a person of good character for truth and veras- ity and her statement is entitled to credit - and by reason of old age and infirmity I believe that she is unable to appear in open court to make her declaration - and the reason of her making her mark is that she never learned to write
Seth Chase Judge of Otsego common Pleas
State of New York } Otsego County ss }
I Jesse Rose Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in said County it being a Court of record Do certify that Seth Chase Esquire
before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been sworn was on the day of the date thereof a Judge of the Court aforesaid duly Commissioned & Sworn And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and verily believe his signature affixed thereto and to the foregoing Certificate of credibility is genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court this 2 d day of April 1840 Jesse Rose Clerk

I Edward Kendall Town Clerk of the Town of Westminster, County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, do hereby certify that I have made diligent and careful search of the Records of the said Town of Westminster and I do not find any record of the marriage of Mr Israel Child to Miss Sarah Stimpson.
Edward Kendall Town Clerk of West r .
I Edward Kendall above named depose and say that I hold the office of Clerk in the Town of Westminster County and State aforesaid and that the above certificate is true.
Edward Kendall Town Clerk of West r .
October 12 th 1839
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester ss. October 12 th 1839
Then personally appeared the above named Edward Kendall Esquire known to me to be the person described in and who executed the above certificate and acknowledged that the same is true.
Simon Sanderson Justice of the Peace I also hereby certify that the above certificate of Edward Kendall Esquire is a true and correct copy.
Simon Sanderson Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Worcester, ss. I certify that Simon Danderson and Abel Wood, Esquires, are justices of the peace, in and for said County of Worcester, and that their signatures to the certificates attached to the depositions of Edward Kendall and Elijah Wood, hereto annexed, appear to be in their own proper hand writing. In testimony whereof, I hereto set my name, and affix the seal of the Court of Common Pleas, for said County, at Worcester, this sixteenth day of October, in the year 1839.
William Jennings, Assistant Clerk.

Boston October 8th 1831.
Mr W m Stimpson,
Sir,
I find the name of Isaac Childs on a list of Officers & Men under Edmund Bems of Westminster as captain, John Hoover 1 st Lieut, and David Foster 2 d Lieutent, with four Sergeants, viz; Jediaiah Tucker, Jacob Walton, Ephraim Hall and Isaac Williams, and four corporals, Abraham Stone, Thomas Knowles, Ebenezer Bolton and William Houghton, all from Westminster, William Dimer of Lexington Drum r , Asa Adams of Lincoln Fifer; and Forty-three Privates, viz; one from Newtown, one from Reading, one from Mendon, and all the rest from Westminster; Who appear in a file of Papers enveloped with Col Isaac Whitcomb's Regiment, that contains some enlistments of the Eight Months Service in 1775, The Pay Rolls of which service up to the first day of August 1775, are at Washington, Pension Office, loaned and delivered to James L. Edwards Esq.

commissioner of Pensions, by the Hon d John P. Bigelow, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Respectfully,
Yrs &c
Ebenezer Dyer.
N o . 80. Hanover
- Start - Boston -
W m M c William Thompson
Worcester Orange County New York
at Worcester, this sixteenth day of October in the year 1839.
William Garrison, Assistant Clerk.