Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34188, John Chadwick, Navy

SERVICE
Navy
Chadwick, John
NUMBER
S 34188
Mass. agency and residence.
CONTENTS

10.601.
Massachusetts.
John Chadwick. (Mass)
of Hamilton in the State of Massachusetts on board the Brigade Boston who was a seaman in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Cap: McNeil of the U.S. Navy for the term of one year.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 19 th of March 1822.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 th of May 1822. and sent to Ichabod Tucker, Esq. Palmer, Mass.
Amount of Pension Portion of Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept: 1822. 41.06
$41.06
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
Essex County.

Invalid
Resy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 34188 Navy
John Chadwick Seaman Frigate Boston Rev War
Act March 18. 1818
Index: Vol. _____, Page _____
[Arrangement of 1870.]

John Chadwick, Seaman
Frigate Boston - Capt. M c Neil.
Oct. 1776 - 1 year -
19 March 1822 -
Admitted
Hamilton,
Efsex Co.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Essex ss. On this nineteenth day of March A.D. 1822, personally appeared in open Court, being the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, a Court of Record, John Chadwick of Hamilton in said County, aged 65 years, who being first sworn, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18 th March 1818. and the 1 st May 1820. That he the said Chadwick enlisted for the term of one year on the first of October A.D. 1776. in the Harbor of Boston in Massachusetts in the Continental Frigate Boston, commanded by H. Macneil Esq. and he continued to serve on board said Frigate until Oct. 1. 1777. when he was discharged from said service at Boston aforesaid. That he has no other evidence than that annexed, And in pursuance of the act of the 1 st May 1820. I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th 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 18 th March 1818. and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. My occupation is that of a day-labourer; my family consists of my wife only, aged 64. We are both infirm by age.
The following is a Schedule of all my effects; No real estate, a pot, kettle, 3 chairs, a straw bed, of the value of four dollars. He has received alms for his support from the town of Hamilton, is in indigent circumstances, and stands in need of assistance from his Country for support.
John his X mark Chadwick
Sworn to and declared on the nineteenth day of March above said, before Samuel Howe, one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas.

I, Ichabod Tucker, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule are truly copied from the records of the said Court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the said Chadwick's property is four dollars.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court on this nineteenth day of March A.D. 1822.
Ichabod Tucker, Clerk
We Benjamin Henderson, and William Mugford both of Salem in Massachusetts, mariners, on oath depose, That we both served as seamen on board the Con- tinental Frigate Boston, Hector M c Neil commander, from Oct. 1776. to Oct. 1777, and know that John Chadwick, now of Ham- ilton in Massachusetts, served as a seaman during that year with us on board the same vessel. The Boston sailed from the harbor of Boston in the Spring of 1777. on a cruise with the Frig: Hancock, Capt. Manley, when the British Frig. Fox was captured by us, & afterwards retaken.
W m Mugford
Benj t Henderson
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Essex Js - Jan y 9. 1822. Then said William Mugford

Mugford and Benjamin Anderson, two credible & disinterested witnesses, subscribed & made oath to the above written, before
Benj Merrill Jus. Pac. s
A true copy from the record
Atty. Ichabod Tucker, Clerk
I further certify that Benjamin Merrill Esq. r aforementioned is a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Essex qualified to administer oaths, and that he duly signed the original deposition.
Ichabod Tucker, Clerk