Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29078, Paul Clapp, Mass.
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(8-1776)
service   number
Mass. Clapp, Paul  S. 29078
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No: - 32.436.
New York
Paul Clapp, deceased, of Onondaga in the State of N. York who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Allen of the Regt. commanded by Col. Fellows in the Massachusetts line for 2 years -
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 80 Dollars    Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. & Ending 24th April, 1845, when he died
Certificate of Pension issued the 31st day of March, 1846 and sent to Hon. J. DeMott, H. R.
Arrears to the 4th of --------
Semi-annual allowance ending 

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$1151.10

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by MM Stewart Clerk, 
Book E. 2  Vol. 4. Page 13

Rep'd to agent 20 April, 1846. -
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State of New York Onondaga County ss}
On this 11th day of Sept'r 1832 before personally appeared before Daniel Moseley Vice Chancellor at a Court of Chancery now sitting at Onondaga - Paul Clapp aged Seventy Seven a resident of the town of Pompey County of Onondaga and State of New York who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7 1832 That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1775 with Captain Jonathan Allen in Col. Fellows Regiment Major Shepherd, in the Massachusetts Line under the following named officers That in the month of April 1775 he enlisted with the said Captain Allen for eight months and was during that summer stationed in the vicinity of Boston in the State of Massachusetts In the month of September of that year, he enlisted or volunteered in Captain Hubbard's Company Col Arnold's Regiment and very soon started for Quebeck through the district of Maine, after a very fatiguing march through the Wilderness and in ascending Rivers arrived at Quebeck in the early part of November having been on the march reduced almost to a state of Starvation subsisting part of the time on the flesh of Dogs. On the last day of December of that year he was engaged with the army under General Montgomery in an attempt to take Quebeck which proved unsuccessful. Genl Montgomery was killed and this applicant was taken prisoner was detained a prisoner about nine months and was discharged as he thinks on parole, returned to his home in Massachusetts
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In the month of April 1777 this applicant again enlisted in the regular service for three years in Captain Jonathan Allen's Company under Col Rufus Putnam's Regiment Massachusetts line  was ordered to Rendezvous at Worcester State of Massachusetts from thence went to Fort Edward on the Hudson River State of New York was at different forts in that Region of Country untill the taking of the British army under General Burgoyne was engaged in that Battle at Stillwater afterwards went into winter quarters at Albany, In the month of March went with the troops at that place down the Hudson River to West Point was at that place and at Whiteplains Tarrytown & Sing Sing during the Summer in the winter of 1779 went into Winter Quarters in the Highlands a little below West Point was at different points on the Hudson River and in New Jersey during the following summer and in the winter of 1780 went into quarters with a part of the army at or near Morristown, New Jersey about the first of January of that year went to his home and returned again to the service in the month of June and joined the Regiment at Fishkill on the Hudson River and was discharged in October of that year Lieutenant Colonel Newell, then in command refused him a written discharge in consequence of his having left the service the previous winter afterwards Received his pay in Boston in the State of Massachusetts This applicant states that he lived in the town of North Hampton County of Hampshire in the State of Massachusetts at the times in which he entered the service & that this applicant is Seventy Seven years of age. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present
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O. W. and N. Division  3-525.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C. ..., 190...
In reply to your request of ..., received ... for a statement of the military history of Paul Clapp a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.  S. 29,078
Dates of Enlistment or Appointment | Length of service. | Rank. | Officers under whom service was rendered. Captain. Colonel. | State.
April, 1775 | to Sept. '75 | Pvt. | Jonathan Allen. John Fellows. | Mass.
Sepr 1775 {taken prisoner at assault on Quebec and detained nine months. | | Hubbard. Arnold. |
April 1777 to Jan 1780 | | Jonathan Allen. Rufus Putnam. |
July 1780 | 3 mos. | |   . Rufus Putnam. |
Battles engaged in, Quebec & Stillwater
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Northampton, Hampshire Co. Mass.
Date of application for pension, Sepr 11, 1832 - Cl. al.
Age at date of application, 77 yrs.
Remarks: He died April 24, 1845 leaving no widow, but the following children: - Paul [Clapp] of Huntsburgh, Grange Co. O., Chester and Carlton of Pompey, N. Y., Electa Patchin of Middlefield, Grange Co., O. and Sally Healy of Marcellus, Onondaga Co. NY. No further family data.
Very respectfully, Commissioner.
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