Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1,616, John Camp, Conn.
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Conn.  Camp, John  Number R. 1616
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At a Court of Common Pleas held at the court house in the Village of Ellicottville in and for the County of Cattaraugus in the State of New York on the 28th day of January of January Term in the year of our Lord 1829 being a court of Record in pursuance of the constitution of the State of New York which has unlimited Jurisdiction and keeps records of its proceedings and exercises the powers of fine and Imprisonment. Present the Honorable Alson Leavenworth, Dan Allen.
and Henry Day Judges-
Cattaraugus County ss
On this 28th day of October 1829 personally
appeared in open Court (being a court of record, John Camp resident in said County aged seventy five years who being first duly
sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress
of the 18th of March 1818 and the 1st of May 1820, that he the said John Camp enlisted for the term of three years in the month of May 1777 in the State of Connecticut in the company commanded by Capt. Elijah Humphrey in the regiment commanded by Colonel Return I. Meigs in the line of the State of Connecticut in the continental Establishment, that he enlisted as a sergeant and that he continued to serve in that capacity
until December 1780 when he was discharged at New[illegible]ford in the State of Connecticut- That he hereby relinquished
every claim whatever to a pension except the present And in pursuance of the act of the 1st of May 1820, he this deponent does solemnly swear that he was a resident citizen of the United States on the Eighteenth day of March 1818 and that he has not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of his 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 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 or any personal property whatever except wearing apparel and bidding who do not exceed in value 75 Dollars-
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The deponent further says that in consequence of his advanced age and infirmities he is able to perform but little labour of any kind for the last five years, that he has a wife named Eunice aged sixty four years who is in feeble health and is able to perform but little labour, and this deponent further says that for the last four or five years he and his wife has been entirely depend on his son Asahil Camp for support that his son Asahil Camp has a family and is himself a poor man.
Sworn to and declared on the 28th day of  January A.D. 1829 before me John Camp John W Stauton Clk.

Cattaraugus C. S.
On the examination of the
within named John Camp
in open court it appears
that the said John Camp
is possessed of no property
except as sworn to in the
within affidavit Jany 28th 1829.
Alson Leavenworth
Henry Day
Dan Allen

Cattaraugus County
Clerk's Office as I John W. Staunton Clerk of the court of
Common Pleas in and for the County Cattaraugus
do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule hereto annexed are truly copied from the record of said court and I do further certify
that it is the opinion of the court that the total
amount of property in value, exhibited in the aforesaid schedule does not exceed the sum of seventy five dollars.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this tenth day of February 1829
John W. Staunton Clerk
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John Camps
Declaration