Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,040, Thomas Campbell, Continental (Md.)
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Continental (Md)
Campbell, Thomas
NUMBER 
S.45,040
CONTENTS
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14.294
Virginia

Thomas Campbell
OF Augusta in the State of Virginia who 
was a private in the regiment commanded by
Hooker of the Maryland Line  &
for the term of 3  years
subscribed on the Roll of Virginia
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 31 of August 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 Sept 1819 and sent to Arch Stuart Esq Stanton, Va.
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819 
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4 Mar 1820
 $97.31
   48.00
$145.31 Dollars
12 mo/31 4/30

{Revolutionary claim,   }
{Act 18th March, 1818  }
Continental
Notification sent October 30 1820 to
Erasmus Stribling, Augusta, Virginia
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Thomas Campbell
Decd & Cert
14.294
Conta
March 1820
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State of Virginia
Augusta County to wit
On this 29 day of August 1890, personally appeared in open Court (being
Court of record, in which proceedings are had according to the cause of the Common Law having the power of fine and imprisonment
with unlimited jurisdiction in civil actions in point of amount and having all its proceedings duly registered Thomas Campbell aged
about seventy nine years resident in the said County, who being first &  duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath declared that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows. that he enlisted with Capt Philip Grabel at Baltimore in the State of Maryland and continued with the same until he joined the German Battallion, with which he marched to Philadelphia, from thence he marched to
York Island, afterwards to Morristown Penn from whence he was sent under Capt Bustard to Grubbs furnace to make Cannon Balls &
from thence to Pattens furnace afterwards to Maryland. where he was discharged three months after the war. He is now so infirm
from age that he is able to do but very little work. He has already made a declaration under the act of Congress passed the 18th of March
1818 the date of which declaration he does not recollect; his pension certificate is dated the 20th day of September 1829. He further swears that he was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that he has not since that time, by gift sale or in any other manner disposed of his property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring himself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to proves for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United
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United States in the Revolutionary war"" passed on the 18 day of March 1818 and that he has not, nor has any person in Trust for him any property or securities, contracts or debts due to him, nor has he any property
or income whatever and therefore can give no schedule.  He further swears that he has no family and that he is dependent on common charity for his support.
Thomas W Campbell  his mark

Sworn to and declared in open Court the 29 August 1820
Teste
Erasmus Stribling Cal

I James Stirling Clark of the County Court of Augusts do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule annexed are truly copied 
from the Record of said Court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court and I do further certify that  it is the opinion of the said Campbell  has no property as is stated in the foregoing declaration

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 1st day of September in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight Hundred & Twenty
James Stirling   cas
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Personally appeared before me Arch Stuart one of the Judges of the Genl Court for the State of Virginia Thomas Campbell who being first duly sworn made the following declaration for the purpose of obtaining a pension from the U. States under the late act of Congress---
That he enlisted as a soldier in the revolutionary Army of the U. States he thinks in the year 1776 with Capt Philip Graybill in Baltimore for the Term of three years. That Capt Graybill he believes belonged to the 18th Regt of the Maryland line commanded by Col. Hoosaker-That he served out his time faithfully and at the expiration thereof went into the service of the United States as a founder & continued in that employment untill the close of the War- That during his service he was in the battles of Long Island under Lord
Sterling at the battle at Trenton, at
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at the Battles of Princeton,  Strawberry
Hill & Ash swamp besides a number of
Skermises that he was wounded in the
am &  in the leg is now in the 77th
year of his age that he is disabled from
his wounds & has no means of supporting
himself but by labour which he is no
longer able to perform
The foregoing declaration was sworn to before me In Aug. 1818
Arch Stuart
I do certify that the above Thomas
Campbell is an Inhabitant of Augusta
County is known to me, appears to
be of the age described has shown me
his wounds which prevent him from
labour in a great degree that he is
poor & requires the aid of his country
for his support
Arch Stuart
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This declaration was made out in Aug. 18
& forwarded to Washington not having heard
from the sec at war it is now renewed
as
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40.040
INVALID
  Revy
File No. 40,040


Thomas Campbell
Pri Rev War
Act: 18 March 1818
Index:--Vol. 3 Page 72
[Arrangement of 1872.]


Jacket corrected March 17, 1936
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