Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6658, William Chamberlin, New Jersey
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Declaration of Mrs, Mary Chamberlin
Widow of Col William Chamberlin under
act of Congress 29th July 1848.

State of Pennsylvania
Union County [??]

On this Thirtieth day of May Eigh-
teen hundred and forty-nine Personally appeared before me
the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court in for Union
County (late Northumberland) and state aforesaid Mary
Chamberlin a resident of Kelly Township in the County
and State aforesaid in the eightieth year of her age, who
being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath
make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit
of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 29th
1848. That She is the widow of William Chamberlin who was
a Major and Lieutenant Colonel in the Malitia [sic] of Hunterdon
County New Jersey in the Service of the United States in the
War of the Revolution in Amwell Hunterdon County State
of New Jersey. Some time in the year 1775 or 1776 her said
husband was a commissioned Major was she has heard him
say and believes that in 1776 he was a out in the Malitia a
number of times. that some time in September 1777 he was elected and commissioned Lieut. Col. in the 2nd Regiment
of Hunterdon Malitia commanded by Col David Chambers
under which commission he served to the close of the
Revolution. __ Declaimant has no personal Knowledge of her
 husbands services being his fourth wife and married to him
after the Revolution. She has heard him say that he was in
the Battle of Germantown when his Son was killed near him
receiving a wound from which he bled to death before a surg-
=eon could be procured. her said Husband sold his farm and
Mill in Amwell Hunterdon County New Jersey some time
in the year 1792 or 3 and removed to Whitedeer Township
(now Kelly) in the State of Pena.
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His papers has become destroyed his widow says [scratched through] she
recollects distinctly of his remarking at a time when he was
looking over his old papers he remarked that those Continen
=tal papers were of no use and with many other useless papers
he threw them into the fire. She therefore has ^little^ no documentary
evidence to produce and depends upon such proof as can be
obtained from living witnesses and asa such may be on the files
of the War department and respectfully asks such allowance
as her case justly merits.
She further declares that she was married to the said William
Chamberlin on the sixteenth day of August AD seventeen
hundred and ninety four. She has no certificate of Marriage
nor can she obtain any other than the record of the family Bible
which is correct and attached to this declaration and is
in the hand writing of her said husband. ThAt her said husband
the aforesaid Wm Chamberlin died on the seventeenth day
of August eighteen hundred and seventeen, that she was
not Married to him prior to his leaving the service but the
Marriage took place previous to the second of January eigh
=teen hundred Viz at the time above stated. She further
swears that she is now a widow, and that she has never
before made application for a pension.