Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 46351, John Chipman, Continental (Conn.)
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SERVICE
Continental (Conn.)
Chipman, John

NUMBER
S. 46351
{B. L. W. 376_300 Capt Issued Mar 3, 1797 to Samuel Fitch assignee No papers
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(3-230.)
Cert No 127

46.351

Revy.

Name: John Chipman
Rank: Capt
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Regt Col. Warner Ct. Line
Continental

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RATE PER MONTH, AND DATE OF COMMENCEMENT.
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Allowed Act 1828
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See the best account of service of this Capt. John Chipman in Conn. records page 257.
He is there reported as an officer of Seth Warners regt from Salisbury Conn.
The County land warrant was allowed to him as a Conn. Officer.
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John Chipman
Declaration &c.
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#46.351
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For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of an act entitled "an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th day of May 1828. I John Chipman of Middlebury in the County of Addison and State of Vermont do hereby declare that I was an officer in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution and served as such to the end of the war, at which period I was a Captain of a company in a regiment commanded by Col. Seth Warner in the Continental Line.
I also declare that I afterwards received certificates, commonly called commutation certificates, for a sum equal to the amount of five years full pay, which sum was offered by the Resolve of Congress of the 22d March 1783 instead of the half pay for life, to which I was entitled under the Resolve of the 21st of October 1780.
Witness my hand this 12th day of June 1828.
John Chipman

Before me Joel Doolittle Justice Peace duly empowered to administer oaths - Samuel Beach in the County of Addison & State of Vermont, personally appeared this 12th day of June 1828, who did make oath
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that John Chipman by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, was a Captain in the regiment of Col. Seth Warner, in the army of the Revolution, in the manner therein stated, and that the said Samuel Beach was a Lieutenant in the same company and regiment.
Saml Beach
Subscribed and sworn this 12th day of June 1828.
Before me Joel Doolittle Justice Peace

Before me Joel Doolittle Justice Peace duly empowered to administer oaths, William Brewster in the County of Addison & State of Vermont, personally appeared this 12th day of June 1828, who did make oath, that John Chipman by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been an officer in the Arm of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated.
William Brewster

Witness my hand this 12th day of June 1828.
Joel Doolittle Justice Peace
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State of Vermont
Addison County Ss.} I, Samuel Swift Clerk of the County Court of the said County of Addison in the State of Vermont do hereby certify that Joel Doolittle, before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn was at the time a Justice of the Peace for said County, and duly empowered to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court this 13th day of June in the year 1828.
Saml. Swift Clerk
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No of orig Pay 127

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
allowed Act 1828

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
7 July 1828.
John Chipman of Middlebury in the County of Addison in the State of Vermont has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he was as an officer on the Continental line, and served as such to the end of the war,
at which period he was a Captain in Col. Warner's regiment of the Connecticut line; and that he received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the resolve of 22 March, 1783; and, further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, Nothing
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated  by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary
A. Dickins

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
8th July 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for the commutation of five years full pay to John Chipman Captain in the Connecticut line, amounting to twenty four hundred dollars.
It further appears that John Chipman is not now on the pension list of any agency, and has not been since the 3d March 1826.
Peter Hagner Aud.

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