Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,961, John Chaney, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Chaney, John or Cheney.
NUMBER
S. 36.961
CONTENTS
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Head
6715
Maine
John Chaney Private. 3 rd  or 4 th  Company Capt Turner Mass t Line.
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 of Jan y 1819 and sent to Jer o Bailey Esq r Wiscasset, Lincoln.
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818 4 mos 30 days 37.00 Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 March 1819  48.
$ 85.00
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Dresden, Lincoln Maine.
Application for Pension to Jer o Bailey Esq r July 6. 1820 No. 6900 on the roll of Maine by my father

John Chaney - the Maine 9th - act 1878 -
Ino Chaney do do -
Please say to what time payment was made in each case.
Pension office Jan 10. 1838. }
One residing in Chesterville, Kennebec Co - one due 11 th Sep 1827 / p st to that period -
The other was paid to 4 March 1827
JN

36961 INVALID.
Rev
File No. 36,961
John Chaney Rev Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 381
[Arrangement of 1870.]

John Cheney Private H. Jacksons. Mass. Regt Nov. 1777 3 yrs
Admiral
April 13. 1818

John Cheney Private H. Jacksons. Mass. Regt Nov. 1777 3 yrs
Admiral
April 13. 1818

State of Massachusetts,
I John Cheney a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Dresden in the County of Lincoln in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on November 1777
I entered and was engaged in the Land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the month of December 1780 or the last of November, being three years oblige the time for which I enlisted -
as a private soldier - against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged at first to Capt. Brown's Company, Col. Jackson's Regiment in the Massachusetts line - afterwards Brown left the Army & Capt. Turner commanded the same company - said Turner has previously been a Lieutenant in said company and that I left the service on the last of November or the first of December 1780 at West Point where I received a regular discharge which I have lost - and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of sixty years.
I think the above named Col. Jackson's christian name was Henry. -
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Jeremiah G. Commonwealth of Massachusetts John Cheney
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this thirteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me Jeremiah Bailey Judge of the Court of Probate within for the County of Lincoln in the Commonwealth aforesaid, the same being a Court of records
the abovenamed John Cheney and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
Jeremiah Bailey John H. Sheppard Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Lincoln hereby certify that the aforesaid Jeremiah Bailey is Judge of said Court above named & that his signature to this caption is genuine & that the seal aforesaid is the seal of said Court John H. Sheppard

STATE OF MAINE.
LINCOLN, ss.... At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, begun and holden at Wiscasset, within and for the County of Lincoln, on the third Tuesday, being the twentieth day of June, and by adjournment from day to day, on the twenty first day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable JOSIAH STEBBINS & EBENEZER THATCHER, Judges of said Court.
ON this twenty first day of June in the year 1820, personally appeared in open court
the same proceeding according to the course of the common law, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Circuit, John Chaney aged sixty two years, resident in Dresden in said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a private in the company commanded by Capt. Turner in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Jackson in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the thirteenth day of April A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 6715 was granted. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 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 18th day of March, 1818: 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; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me.
John Chaney
Sworn to and declared, on the 21 st day of June A. D. 1820. }
BEFORE
Ebenezer Thatcher
{ One of the Judges of the said Court.

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz :
Real estate - none
Personal estate - none
No income except my pension and other means of support
John Chaney
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me who, by occupation am a laborer reason of great debility from old age
John Chaney which I am not able to pursue by
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     I have no wife or family John Chaney  
Attest Nat. Coffin Clerk
STATE OF MAINE.
LINCOLN, ss.
I, NATHANIEL COFFIN, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said Circuit, within the county of Lincoln, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court ; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is nothing dollars and cents.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty first day of June A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Nat. Coffin
{ Clerk of the said Circuit Court for the County of Lincoln.