Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 45674, Samuel Chase, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
6000
Chase Samuel
S. 45-674
CONTENTS

CHASE, SAMUEL (MASS.)
S-45674
Samuel
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559 upshire Concord Vermont
Samuel Chase
Ludlow (Windsor) in the state of Vermont who was a Private in the regiment command Colonel Sproat of the Mapachy line, for the term of Two years
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 21 st of April 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 th of Sept r and set to Ariel B Foster Cavendish Vermont
Arrears to 4 th of Sep 1819. 131.75 Semi-ann. all'ce ending Mar 1820. 48.00 10 Mo. 14 50 $179.75
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Transferred from N. Hampshire to Vermont, Dec. 2. 1829; and not sent to care of Mr. Goodale Bath, N.H. to take effect from 4 Sept. 1829.
See letter Dec. Nov. 12. 1836 to P. Agt. Windsor J.L. Foster
Order to pay 24 March 1838.
Order to Pen Agt 10. Aug 1839
To Concord N.H. from 4 March 1839. 14. Aug 1839 Notification to Messrs Goodale & Wood Bath N.H. 1819
Transferred from N. Hampshire to Vermont, Dec. 2. 1829; and not sent to care of Mr. Goodale Bath, N.H. to take effect from 4 Sept. 1829. See letter Dec. Nov. 12. 1836 to P. Agt. Windsor J.L. Foster. Order to pay 24 March 1838. Order to Pen Agt 10. Aug 1839. To Concord N.H. from 4 March 1839. 14. Aug 1839. Notification to Messrs Goodale & Wood Bath N.H. 1819

State of Vermont Windsor County ss.
Samuel Chase of Ludlow in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, a resident Citizen of the United States, aged fifty seven years, and an Applicant for a Pension from the United States under the Act entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" maketh Oath, that he served in the War of the Revolution, on the Continental establishment as a private soldier for two years and upwards, in the manner following, to wit, that he enlisted at Newbury, Massachusetts, the last of May or first of June in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and eighty one, for the term of three years, and served in Captain Simeon Lord's Company, in the Regiment, commanded by Colonel Sprout, being the second Regiment in the Massachusetts Line, from the time of his enlist

ment, until the fall of the year seventeen hundred and eighty three, and then received an honorable discharge from the service at West-Point in the State of New-York, and left the Army. And he further maketh Oath, that on the seventeenth day of January in the year eighteen hundred and seventeen, his house was burnt, and his Discharge and all his other papers, and all the property that he possessed, were consumed together with his house, and that he is in such reduced circumstances in life, as to be in need of assistance from his Country for support, and that he has no other evidence now in this power of his said services.
State of Vermont
James Chase
Windsor County ss.
Cavendish April 21 st A.D. 1818
Subscribed, Sworn to, and declared before me,
Isaac Hildreth One of the Judges of the County Court for the said County of Windsor.

I Amos Heald, one of the Judges of the County Court for the said County of Windsor, as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Samuel Chase, did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the Common Enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony, taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid Act of Congress.
Gavendish April 21. st 1818.
Certified By Amos Heald Assistant Judge of Windsor County Court.
I Amos Heald, Judge, as aforesaid, do further certify, that, from evidence to me adduced, it appears to my full satisfaction, that the said Samuel Chase is in indigent circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support —
Amos Heald Assistant Judge of Windsor County Court.

State of Vermont } Woodstock County Clerk's Office June 12 th A 1818 Windsor County } Benjamin Swan Clerk of the County Court written and for the County of Windsor, Do hereby Certify — that Amos Doolittle is one of the Assistant Judges of said County Court — and that the within Signatures are in the hand writing of said Judge —
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said Court the day above. — Benj Swan.
Samuel Chase 81 to 83 Opposite Mass. St.
Aug. 4.
Proofs of Service wanted
Admitted

Samuel Chase: application for transfer of Russian roll to N.H.C.

County of Grafton ss
On this fifth day of March AD 1839 before me the subscribers justice of the Peace for the county of Grafton sponsored personally appeared Samuel Chase late of Jay in the state of Vermont now of Bath in the state of New- Hampshire who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Simon Gould in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Sprout along the R. Maf. line in the service of the United States - That his name was placed on the Pension roll of the state of Vermont from which he has lately removed; that he now resides in the state of New Hampshire where he intends to remain and desires his pension to be there payable in future The following are his reasons for removing from Vermont to New Hampshire viz He wishes to live with his son Moses Chase who lives in Bath in Grafton County in New Hampshire has removed from Jay to Bath to his son's house to live with him the rest of his days as he now capts.
Sworn & subscribed to before me the day & year above said J. N. Goodell Justice of the Peace
Samuel Chase

Grafton County SS March 5 1839 I Chester C. Hutchins of Butte in Grafton County affirmed deposed & say that I have long known the within named Samuel Chase who appeared this day & signed & made oath to the within declaration - I have often got his pension money for him on the pension he speaks of I know him to be the identical person who has a pension granted to him for his services in the revolutionary war.
Chester C. Hutchins
Sworn & subscribed to before me the day before mentioned
Israel Goodall Justice of the Peace
I certify that Major Chester C. Hutchins the person who has signed & sworn to the above affidavit of identity is a person of respectability & veracity & that full credit should be given to his statements of fact. I further certify that I have known said Chase over thirty years & formerly arrested him to be transported to New Hampshire & know him to be the person as he states.
Israel Goodall Justice of the Peace

State of New Hampshire Grafton County ss.
I Nathan B. Felton clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, of the County & State aforesaid do hereby certify that Ira Goodall is an acting Justice of the Peace, in & for said County, duly commissioned & qualified; that his commission was dated on the 11 th day of June 1836, & will expire on the 11 th day of June 1841, and that his three signatures above written are genuine
Given under my hand with the seal of said County, this first day of August A.D. 1839
N. B. Felton clerk

St. Charles
Persimmon

List of Edmund Carltons demands lodged with us for collection October 1829

State of New Hampshire
Country of Grafton, S.S.
 On this 15th day of October 1829 he gave me the subscribers a question of the Pension for the said County of Grafton personally appeared Samuel Chase who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Captain Simon Dole in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Sprout & Masta in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of Vermont from which in the year 1820 he removed to the state of New Hampshire & remained there until lately. That he was transferred from Vermont roll to New Hampshire in 1820 That he has removed from the state of New Hampshire lately to Jay in the state of Vermont where he intends to remain & wishes his pension to be then payable in future. - And that his reasons for removing to the state of Vermont were because he is a father to several boys who went land his Jay is a large tract of new land & he has gone on to a lot his there making a farm & does not intend to leave it. His told that he cannot be paid in New Hampshire anymore as he has removed to Vermont. Further he is a joiner by trade & has heretofore gone round to work where he could get employment but now by age & infirmity he is compelled to give up the trade & expects to live & die in Jay in Vermont. Therefore he wishes to be returned to the pension roll of Vermont, as he was trans- ferred from that roll to New Hampshire in Sept 1820 to take effect as soon as advised in March 1820 Samuel Chase subscribed to before me this day by me a joiner with an attestation of record and line of his being transferred from Vermont to New Hampshire in 1820.  Samuel Chase In presence of Justice of the Peace 
James James E. Hall
Ingraham Island } Part of the } same in some } country

I Samuel Hutchins aged sixty years do hereby say that I am well acquainted with Samuel Chase within named who signed the within affidavit in my presence & that I have known him for forty years last past that I well know him to be the same person described in the within affidavit who is a pensioner & holds the certificate thereof for nine years past since his pay yearly in New Hampshire since as I have had the care of his property most of the time I do know he has now removed to in the state of Vermont as he states in the enclosed affidavit that he is the identical Samuel Chase named in said certificate of pension since the transfer therein
Sam Hutchins
Grafton/ps October 15 1829 Then personally came Samuel Hutchins Esquire of Mathews New Hampshire who being the signer of the above affidavit declared on oath that the same is true before me, and I do certify that he is a respectable citizen & a person of veracity I trust attest Frederick Gull Justice of the Peace
Grafton/ps

State of New Hampshire
Grafton
Court of Common Pleas Clerks Office
This certifies that Ira Goodale Esq. whose name appears to the preceding certificate under his own proper hand with which I am well acquainted is a Justice of the peace within and for the county of Grafton duly qualified to take affidavits
Witness my hand & the seal of said Court hereunto affixed this 22 nd day of November anno Domini 1829
Abel Woodworth Clerk

Samuel Chase
14.559.
Mar 1820
Low
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Transfer See Vermont
Make transfer in rolls
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Application for a transfer
State of New Hampshire
County of Grafton S c . On this eighth day of August A D 1820 before me, the subscriber a justice of the Peace for the said county of Grafton personally appeared Samuel Chase who on his Oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Simeon Lord Company in the regiment commanded by Col o Sprout in the Massachusetts line in the service of the United States that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of Vermont from whence he has lately removed that he now resides in the State of New Hampshire where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future —
S amuel Chase
Sworn & Subscribed to before me the day & year aforesaid — }
Geo. Woodward Jus. peace & Public Notary with my seal of office affixed

State of New Hampshire
Grafton ss At the Court of Common Pleas being a court of record by law established holden at Haverhill within and for said county of Grafton on the second Tuesday of Aug t in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty by adjournment from the first Tuesday of August last past.
Present the Hon ble
Ezra Bartlett } Esquires Justices — Daniel Blaisdell }
Personally appeared in Open Court Samuel Chase aged fifty nine years resident in Bath in said county of Grafton who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows viz a private soldier in Capt Simeon Leards Company in Colonel Sprouts regiment Massachusetts line. That he on or about the ninth day of April A D 1818 made his Original declaration which was dated at or about that time before the Hon ble Judge Heath at Cavendish in the State of Vermont where he then lived That he received a pension payable at the Vermont agency. The certificate of which being in the hands of Judge Heath. the exact date of declaration or number of certificate is not recollected. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th 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 18 th 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. My occupation is that of a joiner I am of sufficient ability to pursue it generally My wife is aged 41 years weakly of late years and unable to work but little not of ability to support herself. I have eight children which are aged & named as follows viz Rhoda Chase aged 19 years some subject to the Phthisis but generally able to support herself Jonathan Chase aged 17 years subject to fits from his birth & wholly unable to support himself & probably always will be Catherine Chase aged 15 healthy & nearly able now to maintain herself Joseph Chase aged 13 years generally well nearly able to support himself Moses Chase aged 11 years healthy but too young to do much but Elias Hezekiah Chase aged 9 years sickly most of the time Anna Chase aged 6 years very subject to the Phthisis Christopher Chase aged 3 years middling healthy. I have received help of the town the three years before I received my pension & must again if it should cease As I was burnt out my folks sick & I poor & owing much as I still do & cannot pay Sam d Chase
Schedule containing the whole estate and income of Sam d Chase (his necessary clothing & bedding excepted) by him subscribed, exhibited to the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Grafton in the State of New Hampshire on the 2 d Tuesday of August 1820, And annexed to his oath viz One Set of Joiner's tools same worn all mortgaged for nearly their value to Ira Goodall viz being set of planes chisel gauges saws square & compass, hammers Hatchet moulding planes Shave jointers bit stock &c all which cost me when new 23.50 now worth 16.50 Chest & lock to hold them 1.50 1 Two year Old heifer 9.50 1 Sow small size 3.50

  10 Sucking pigs 40.00   1 hoe 1 axe both old 2.00   1 Pot & 1 Kettle 1.50   1 broken 5 pair Kettle .50   1 broken Tea Kettle .30   2 Knives & 2 Cups & Saucers cracked .25   1 Broken Chair 4 pans .45   2 Pails both worn .50   Sam d Chase 40.00 
Sworn to and declared before the justices of said Court on this eighth day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred & twenty Ad o Woodworth Clerk
State of New Hampshire
Grafton I George Woodward Clerk of the court of common Pleas for said county of Grafton do hereby certify that the foregoing list & schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of said court. I further certify that it is the opinion of said court that the total amount in value of property exhibited in said schedule is forty dollars fifty cents
In testimony whereof I have here- unto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court on this eighth day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred & twenty Ad o Woodworth Clerk

Rev. War War Section.
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May 12, 1924.
Jennie Chapin, Syracuse, N. Y.
Madam;
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 45874, it appears that Samuel Chase enlisted at Newberry, Essex County, Massachusetts, the last of May or first of June 1781 and served as private in Captain Simeon Lord's Company, Colonel Sprout's Massachusetts Regiment until the fall of 1783.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 21, 1818 at which time he was a resident of Ludlow, Windsor County, Vermont.
In 1820, soldier stated that he was fifty nine years old and was living in Bath, Grafton County, New Hampshire, and referred to his wife, aged forty one years old, her

1872
is not on record; and the children, Rhoda aged nineteen years; Jonathan aged seventeen years; Catherine aged fifteen years; Joseph aged thirteen years; Moses aged eleven years; Hezekiah aged nine years; Anna aged six years; Christopher aged three years.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

Syracuse, N.Y. April, 9, 1924.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:-
In the New Hampshire State Papers of Batchellor, Vol. 30, I find the name of Samuel Chase, pensioner, living with Moses Chase in Bath, N.H. Will you kindly give me a certificate of same?.
Respectfully yours,
Jenni Chapin

45 674 Rev  INVALID.
File No. 45 674
Samuel Chase Rev Rev War
Act: 18 March 1818
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 85
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1924 May 12 - Hist. to Jeanne Chapin aut.

Bath August 11 1839
Dear Sir Edmund
Sir Samuel Chase
who has been a racing man sometimes in Vermont & sometimes in Canada I am in this state has now come to reside with a son of his in Lynd in Gloucester County in New Hampshire for life as he now expects his son to be transferred to St. John's - all which will oblige him much -
Mrs Betsey Lowell has just learned by your letter to us that her papers have never been one for a pension - She fears they are not there now which if they are not that you would inform us - certain speculative offers have been made her & she fears they are withheld until a bargain can be made - with respect as ever Old Senate Goodall & Head

Pension Agency Vermont Montpelier 14 August 1839
Sir
Samuel Chase a prisoner on the roll of this agency under the Act of 18 March 1818 at eight dollars per month was last paid to 4 March 1839
Very respectfully
Yours &
A. Clarke
Mr. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
DC

Windsor November 1 st 1836
Sir
Upon request to forward the Pension Certificate of Samuel Chase or his widow was rec yesterday the name in question is Samuel Chase and I now forward you his widow likewise that of Thomas French and Samuel Smith who are in somewhat of a similar situation that the two last mentioned are and I believe have for some time have been residents in the state of New Hampshire the Western part of it yet have been permitted to receive their pay from the Vermont Agency. if they must be removed to the New Hampshire Agency it will subject them to much inconvenience and expense I mention the circumstance not knowing but you may deem it proper to exempt them from the general rule of being paid by the Agency established for the County where they reside in the case of Chase you will see that he is a resident of Sutton - Town Canada has been waiting several weeks at Bath New Hampshire in hopes that he might be permitted to receive his pay at the Windsor Agency. and I cannot but hope you will think it best to make an exception in his favor from the general rule
Very Respectfully
Honble J. S. Schraff Commissioner of Pensions Washington City
Yours Sincerely Levi Root

Hosp. No. 28
Free
Pension Office Dec. 152
Pension Office
Hon John H. Eaton
Secretary of War Washington City

Dear Sir
Samuel Chase formerly of Vermont placed on the Pension roll of that state was some 9 or 10 years ago placed on the Pension list roll of New Hampshire by transfer - He has now returned to Vermont to end his days on earth there he says I expect he will she wants to be transferred to Vermont roll - He cannot draw here any longer It would concern him to be changed back to the Green mountains state where he lives - If any difficulty occurs please write to me did he is transferred to Vermont it will oblige him as he lives in a town having no post office since come here for his papers - I wish sir for elevation in another case Aaron Hillbrand late of Brattle died before the 4th March last - He was a Pension left several children in different states but no widows - His son who had the care of him for several years before his death advertised & sent for the money as was used to but before he sent the new law was passed giving it to the children at large - He then proved that this child was to have it for taking care of him & the other children lived in four or five different states but the law says if any Pension shall still be due if any has died or shall die

thought this a case where this son would desire to have the money - but Mr Mason the sum off- refused to pay it without direction from the Pension office I advised me to write to get directions as I now do - unless he is allowed to draw it it will be lost as the children are so scattered it would cost more than its worth to obtain this power of attorney
And this son ought to receive it as he has supported the old gentleman for his pension some years his poor himself -
It is submitted whether this new law can attach to a case like this where the court administration having the Power by adv. was under the old law before this was passed This only speaks of those Pensioners who shall die - on annuities claimed to
In regard to Butts N 16 would oblige the persons concerned In your humble servt
Trasgoodall

State of New Hampshire — County of Grafton — Hanover August 3 d 1819 —
I Daniel Barr of lawful age depose and say that several years ago & during the revolutionary War I lived in the town of Newbury, County of Essex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts & was well acquainted with Samuel Chase then of that place, am knowing that the said Chase did enlist into the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War & was in the service for a considerable time, but how long I cannot state. I also testify that the said Samuel Chase who is now before me, is the same person who enlisted as above stated. Daniel Barr.
Grafton ss. August 3 d 1819. —
Daniel Barr a man well known to me, of good character & undoubted veracity made oath that the above affidavit by him signed contains the truth & nothing but the truth. before me S. P. Webster Just. Peace
Grafton ss. Superior Court Cleric's Office August 3 d 1819
I Stephen P. Webster Clerk of said Court for said County of Grafton do certify that I am & have been an acting Justice of the peace & Treasurer for said County of Grafton for many years — witness my hand & the seal of said Court the day & year last above written. S. P. Webster Clerk

State of New Hampshire Grafton county. — I Stephen Morse of lawful age depose & say that until the year 1796 I lived in Newbury County of Essex a Common- wealth of Massachusetts & was well acquainted with Samuel Chase who is now before me; am well knowing that the said Chase went into the Continental service from said Newbury in the Revolutionary War, & received pay there from the Class who lived him; after he re- turned from the service of the United States at the close of the War, he entered with me as an apprentice to the trade of house joiner, & served with me. I think, I have seen his discharge in due form. Said Chase was out in the service of the United States between two & three years. — August 3 d 1819 — Stephen Morse.
Grafton ss. Haverhill August 3 d 1819 — Stephen Morse a gentleman well known to me, of undoubted veracity made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him sub- scribed contains the truth & nothing but the truth — before me S. P. Webster Jus. Peace
I Nathaniel Rix of lawful age depose & say, that I have examined the above deposition and am well acquainted with Samuel Chase above named who is now present & know him to be the same Samuel Chase who I knew in the service of the

United States in the Revolutionary War, and in the second Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Spratt. I belonged to the 8 th Massachusetts Regiment & was acquainted with said Chase in the service from the part of the year 1781 to the summer of 1783 -
Nath l Pix
Grafton Jan. Haverhill August 3 d 1819 -
Nathaniel Pix a man of truth & veracity made solemn oath that the above & foregoing affidavit by him subscribed contains the truth & nothing but the truth. -
before me J. P. Webster Jus. Peace