Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1858, Charles Chapin, Mass.
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(3—1776)
SERVICE
Mass
Chapin, Charles
Mary
NUMBER
R. 1858
CONTENTS
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Berkshire County SS
On this sixth day of June A.D. 1854 Before me Daniel N. Dewey Judge of the Court of Probate within and for said County of Berkshire, being a court of record, in open Court holden at Sesson in and for said County Personally appeared John Merrill a resident of Hinsdale in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836 and the provisions made by any of the acts and Resolutions of Congress applicable to his case. Viz 7th July 1838, 3rd March 1843, 17th June 1844 Joint resolutions of 23rd January 1845 and 1st July 1848. Acts of 29th July 1848, 3rd February 1848 and 3rd March 1851 & 3rd February 1853, that he is the administrator of Mary Chapin late of Hinsdale deceased who was the widow of Charles Chapin late of South Hadley Massachusetts, deceased, who was a Sergeant and Lieutenant in the Revolutionary war with Great Brittain, that he believed that the said Charles Chapin entered the
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Service as a Sergeant in April 1775 in Captain Montague's company in Col Woodbridge's Regiment in Massachusetts line and served eight months and that on January 13th 1776 he was appointed first Lieutenant in Capt Hendricks' Company in Massachusetts line, and that he was probably at the crossing of the Delaware in December 1776 and subsequently at the battle of Trenton, and that he served one year as a Lieutenant as aforesaid, that your declarant believes that the said Charles Chapin served as an officer for a further service and would refer to the rolls and Military records at the Pension Office for proof of service, that he further declares that the said Mary Chapin was married to the said Charles Chapin in December in the year 1775 and died on the 20th day of October in the year 1841 and that the said Charles Chapin died on the 22 day of April 1813 and that Tryphena Merrill, Tirzah Mack, Electa Mills, Tamma Benson & Gordon Chapin are the only surviving children of said Mary Chapin deceased,
Witness John Merril
H.W. Neft
Rebecca Pierce
Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year first above written before me Daniel N. Dewey Judge Probate
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I further certify that I am not interested in the
result of this case, nor concerned in its prosecution
Daniel N. Dewey Judge of Probate
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Berkshire SS
I Henry W Treft Register of Probate in and for said County, do certify that Daniel N. Dewey before whom the foregoing proceedings were had, at the date of such proceedings was & now is Judge of Probate in aforesaid County duly commissioned and qualified and that full
faith & credit are & ought to be given to his acts as such accordingly, and I do further certify that the foregoing Signatures purporting to be his are genuine
Witness my hand and the seal of said Probate Court at Lenox this Sixth day of June in the year 1854
Henry W. Treft Regr
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I David Turner Town Clerk of South Hadley in the County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts on oath depose & say that I am the Clerk of said town of South Hadley and have in my custody & possession the Books of record of said town purporting to contain a record of births, Marriages, deaths & I find the following record
Viz Charles Chapins Family births & deaths
William Smith Son to Charles Chapin & Silence his wife was born December 7th 1767
Charles Son to the above said born April 22nd 1772 Silence daughter to the above said born March 27th 1775 Silence wife to the above Charles Chapin died August 18, 1775
Mary daughter to Charles & his 2d wife Mary January 11th 1777 Elam Son to Charles Chapin and his  2nd wife Mary born October 18, 1778
Electa daughter to the above said was born January 1st 1781. Tirzah daughter to the above said was born October 4th 1783
Gordin son to the above said born January
18, 1786
Benjamin to the above said born October
4th 1788
The foregoing is a true copy from said Original book of Records. There is no book of Marriages or intentions of Marriage on the town books of this town between the years 1757 & 1787
D. Turner Town Clerk
of South Hadley
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Hampshire County SS. December 19th 1851
Then personally appeared the above named David Turner and made oath that the foregoing record & statement by him Signed are true
Before me Edwin Dickinson Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire S.S.
I Samuel Wells Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth for the County of Hampshire do certify that Edwin Dickinson Esquire whose signature is affixed to the certificate hereto annexed was at the date thereof one of the Justices of the Peace within & for said County duly commissioned and acting under the authority of this commonwealth, and that full
faith & credit is sought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity, and that I am acquainted with the hand writing
of the said Edwin Dickinson, and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine, also that the instrument hereto annexed, purports to be duly executed and acknowledged according to the laws of this Commonwealth
for the purposes therein inscribed. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said Commonwealth
this seventh day December in the year of our Lord 1854
Samuel Wills  Clerk
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Berkshire County SS.
I Daniel N. Dewey Judge of the Court of Probate within and for said County of Berkshire do hereby certify, that at a Court of Probate holden at Lenox in aforesaid County on the 4th day of May 1852 it was satisfactorily proved to me the said Judge that Charles Chapen, late of Hinsdale in said County of Berkshire was reported to have been a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary war, and that he died at Greenfield on a visit to that place on 22nd day of April A.D. 1813 leaving a widow Mary Chapin who
continued his widow & unmarried until the time of her death and that she died at said Hinsdale on the 20th day of October AD 1841, and that she left Tryphena Merrill, Tirza Mack, Electa Mills, Tamma Benson and Gordon Chapin the only surviving children of the said Mary Chapin deceased,
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court the 4th day of May 1852
Daniel N. Dewey
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Burkshire County SS
I John Branning Register of the Court of Probate in & for said County of Berkshire, do hereby certify that at a Court of Probate holden at Lenox in for said County on the 4th day of May AD. 1852 John Merrill of
Hinsdale in said County was duly appointed administrator on the estate of Mary Chapin late of Hinsdale in said County deceased and has accepted that trust and given bond according to law, which appointment remain in full force,
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court of Probate, this 4th day of May 1852
John Branning
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State of Vermont
Orleans County
At Troy in said County this 5 day of August AD 1850 personally appeared before me Silence Kendall & made solemn oath that the foregoing & within affidavit by her subscribed in my presence is true.
Norman Boardman J.P.
I certify that Silence Kendall the above affiant is a credible witness
Norman Boardman Justice Peace
State of Vermont  
Orleans County    
I Hubbard Hastings Clerk of Orleans County Court in the State of Vermont do certify that Norman Boardman was on the 5th day of August AD 1850 an acting Justice of the Peace within & for the County of Orleans aforesaid, duly commissioned, qualified & authorized by the laws of this State to administer oaths and full credit is to be given to his official acts & that his signature to the foregoing certificate is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County Court at Irasburgh in said County this 10th day of January 1852. Hubbard Hastings Clerk 
I hereby certify that Silence Kendall the above affiant is a credible witness
Hubbard Hastings Clerk of Orleans Co Court
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I Silence Kendall of Troy in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont of lawful age do depose & say that my father's name was Charles Chapin. I am now 75 years old, my last
birthday was 27th March 1850. My father was married the second time as I was informed when a child, when I was about nine
months old, at South Hadley in the State of Massachusetts. I suppose my father was married by the settled minister at South Hadley his name was Woodbridge & he died when I was a small child. I remember hearing my father tell about being in the service in the war of the Revolution. I recollect hearing him tell about being 
with the army at West Point, at Ticonderoga & at Trenton, I am not able to state with certainty how long he served, but I am very confident that it was over twelve months & think it was about 18 months. I do not know he entered the army, whether as a
private or a commissioned officer, but I am sure I have seen him
have two commissions, one as 2d Lieutenant & the other as first
Lieutenant. I remember that he did not train in the Militia
after the war was over. I recollect distinctly about his telling
us that he was drafted at the battle of Lexington but on the 
account of the situation of his family he could not well leave home
and that he hired a man to his place in the army
Silence Kendall
Attest N Boardman
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
AWF: MLB
October 3, 1930
Miss Jayne Esther Bromell
1815 N. W. 4th Avenue
Mineral Wells, Texas
Dear Madam:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 1858, that Charles Chapin was a native of South Hadley, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, date of birth not given.
He married Silence (Silance), her maiden name and date of their marriage are not shown. She died August 18, 1775.
He married in December, 1775, in South Hadley, Massachusetts, Mary whose maiden name is not given.
Charles Chapin died April 22, 1813, in Greenfield (state not given), while on a visit there.
His widow Mary died October 20, 1841, in Hinsdale, Massachusetts.
The following is a record from the town of South Hadley,
Massachusetts:
"Charles Chapin's Famile Births & Deths"
William Smith son to Charles Chapin and Silence his wife was born December ye 7th, 1767.
Charles son to above sd., born April 22, 1772.
Silance daughter to the above sd., born March 27, 1775.
Silance wife to the above Charles Chapin died August 18, 1775.
Mary daughter to Charles and his 2d wife Mary born January 11, 1777.
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Elam son to Charles Chapin & his 2d wife Mary born October 18, 1778.
Electia daughter to the above sd. was born January 1, 1781.
Tirzah daughter to the above sd. was born October 4, 1783.
Gorden son to the above said born January 18, 1786.
Benjamin son to the above sd. was born October 4, 1788."
In 1850, Charles Chapin's daughter, Silence signed "Silence Kendall" at that time was a resident of Troy, Orleans County, Vermont.
Mary, the widow of Charles Chapin, left the following children: Triphena Merrill, Tirza Mack, Electa Mills, Tamma Benson and Gorden Chapin.
John Merrill, administrator of the estate of said widow, Mary Chapin, applied for pension in behalf of the above mentioned surviving children, and alleged that Charles Chapin served from April, 1775, eight months as sergeant in Captain Montague's company,
Colonel Woolbridge's Massachusetts regiment, and was appointed January 13, 1776, first lieutenant, and served one year in Captain Hendrick's company; was probably at the Crossing of the Delaware and in the battle of Trenton.
The claim was not allowed as it was not proven that he rendered six months service as required by the pension laws.
Very truly yours
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner
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1858  Rejected [stamped]  Mary Chapin
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Mineral Wells, Texas  September 5, 1930
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
Will you please send to me all the available information from your files of Charles Chapin, who served in the Revolutionary War. (Born 1720; died in 1813.)
I have been recommended for membership in Daughters of the American Revolution, and I am inclosing a list of my direct line of descent.
Thanking you for your early attention, I am, Very truly yours, Jayne Esther Bromell
1815 N.W. 4th Ave
Mineral Wells, Tex
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copied from two volumes of "The Chapin Genealogical Data of the descendants of Deacon Samuel Chapin" which was published and copyrighted by The Chapin Family association, Hartford, Conn.
(My direct line of descent from Deacon Samuel Chapin who was the first to come to America).
1. Deacon Samuel Chapin Bap. Oct 8, 1598
M. Cecily Penny
2. Japhet Chapin, son of Deacon Samuel Chapin. m. Abilenah Cooley; Born Oct 15, 1642
3. Ebenezer Chapin, son of Japhet Chapin, Born June 26, 1676
Married: Ruth Jones
4. Charles Chapin, son of Ebenezer Chapin. Born: 1720; Died 1813
Married: Anna Camp
5. Herman Chapin, son Charles Chapin, B. 1776. m. Electa Humphrey
6. Charles Herman Chapin, son of Herman Chapin. Born: 1822
7. Mary Chapin Bromell, Daughter of Charles Heman Chapin
Born Aug 10, 1872 Springdale, Kansas
Married Sydney Bromell Jan. 10, 1906
8. Jane Esther Bromell, daughter of Mary Chapin Bromell
Born July 18, 1908 at Springdale, Kans.
[stamped] PENSION D OFFICE US SEP 9, 1930
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Hon ?.P. Fessenden
M?. 12.
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Pension Office, March 12, 1856
Sir: In compliance with the request contained in your letter of the 10th instant, I have the honor to enclose you, herewith, a copy of the declaration and proofs in support of the claim of the children of Mary Chapin, deceased, widow of Charles, of Mass. for arrears of pension under the act of July 4th, 1836, together with a copy of the letter of my immediate predecessor to Arthur McArthur, Esq. of December 16th, 1854, which exhibits the grounds upon which the claim was disallowed.
Hon. Wm. P. Fessenden
U.S. Senate
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A. McArthur
Feb. 8/35
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Pension Office  Feby 8 1855
Sir
If I were to admit that the Record from the Books of the Town Clerk of South Hadley was conclusive as far as i was intended, viz: to show that the officer Charles Chapin mentioned in the certificate of the Secretary of Mass was the father of the applicants in the case of Mary Chapin decd, the proof in the case is still deficient in a most material point. In my letter of the 16th of Dec. you were informed that the above mentioned certificate does not show a service of six months.
Arthur McArthur Esq
Limington Maine
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185

Pension office,
Dec. 16, 1854.

Sir,
I have examined and filed the application of the administrator on the estate of Mary Chapin decd. who was the widow of Charles, under the Act of July 4, 1836, and deem the evidence of marriage in 1776 satisfactory.  But there is no reliable evidence whatever, among the papers that her husband ever served in the Revolutionary War; for the affiants were
not as a such as to have had said knowledge
of the service claimed to have been rendered by him as would make them competent witnesses. Yet, even if one were willing to admit which one or not, that the husband of Mary Chapin was the soldier referred to in the certificate of the Secretary of Massachusetts, that certificate does not show an amount of service which held any the claim within the provisions of the pension laws. He is not, however, or rated in anyway identified as that soldier; and it is utterly unpredicable (unpredictable?) to determine, from the exhibits, whether he rendered an amount of service which
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would any his orders claim within the provision
of the Person Laws. In my opinion it is a very
doubtful case, and will not be allowed unless at least six months service is established by the next [illegible] testimony

(Written sideways in left margin:)
Arthur McArthur
Dec 16/54


Arthur McArthur Esq.
Limington,
Maine
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8.102
Mary Chapin
decd. Widow of
Charles
Mass

(A. McArthur Dec 16 1854-
Same Feby 8 1855 - Same) crossed out
not found
Feby 26 1856 - (Hon  W.P. Fessenden 
March 12 1856 -) crossed out


1858

July 4 1836
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Senate
Dec. 22, 1856.

Sir -

I wish to procure copies of the application of the Administrator of Mary Chapin, widow of Charles Chapin, under act of July 7, 1838, with the
accompanying proofs, for the purpose of presenting them as proofs to the Commer. of Pensions-

Also, copies of the application & accompany
proofs, of Joseph Colby, Admr. of Ebenr. Colby, under act of June 7, 1832. - for the same purpose 

By providing these, you
will obige Yr obt Servt

WP Feesenden
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Limington Jan. 29 1855.

Sir,
Your letter of 16th last in the case of Admr. of Mary Chapin was received. Therein you say that the evidence of the marriage is sufficient but the identity is not established. To prove the latter I send the enclosed certificate of the Town Clerk of South Hadley and would also call your attention again to the affidavit of Silence Kendell among the original papers who says that she distinctly having her father speak of his service in the Revolutionary war that she has seen his commission as Lieutenant and that he did not train in the Militia after the war, which these facts pretty well prove the identity of her father with the Lieutenant Chapin from South Hadley; at least this will be deemed sufficient I suppose, when taken with the Certificate I send enclosed.

As regards the evidence of service although the Rolls of Massachusetts being defective do not furnish evidence of all the service declared yet they show portions of it, and those portions are such as make it probable all was rendered; that corroborative evidence only ought, as it seems to me, to be required. This is furnished you in the affidavit among the original papers.
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Reference also will be had to the Rolls & other military records in the pensions office or any other department where the service may be found at Washington.
I am very respectfully your obt servant Arthur McArthur
Loren P. Waldo Esqr Court of Pensions Washington D.C.
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Limington Dec. 11 1854
Sir,
I herewith forward you the declaration & annexed documents in the application of John Merrill Admin. of Mary Chapin dec'd. widow of Charles Chapin for a pension.
I am very respectfully your obt. servant Arthur McArthur
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Limington Feb. 16 1855
Sir
In a letter dated January 29th I sent you as evidence in the case of Admr of Mary Chapin the certificate of the Town Clerk of South Hadley that there was but one resident of that town between the years 1770 and 1790 of the name of Charles Chapin, who was the Lieutenant and father of the children applying in the case. This certificate you acknowledge the receipt of in your letter of 8th inst. which is now before me. You also therein inform me that the certificate of Massachusetts previously sent in is not evidence of six months service. In answer to this I will say, that for evidence of service reliance was had by us on the certificate of the secretary of Massachusetts supported by the affidavit of Silence Kendall and on the Rolls and other Revolutionary documents in the Pension & other offices at Washington. The first one of these you speak
of as deficient in itself to prove the service but forbear to comment on the last. Will you please to inform us of the name of Charles Chapin is or is not borne on Rolls or other Revolutionary documents to which you have access.
I am very respectfully your obt. servt. Arthur McArthur
Loren P. Waldo, Esquire, Comm.of Pensions
Washington DC
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I David Turner do certify and say that I am clerk of the town of South Hadley in the County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and that I have in my possession the ancient books of Record of said town and I further certify that from an examination of said books it appears that there was between the years seventeen hundred and seventy and seventeen hundred and ninety but
two individual residents in said town of the name of Charles Chapin and that the said two individuals were Father and son as appears from the said Books and that the older of these two Charles Chapin has recorded in said books his "family birth and death" and in the said record is first mentioned the name of Charles Chapin the younger who is recorded as having been born on the twenty second day of April in the year seventeen hundred and seventy two, and I further certify that the name of Charles Chapin the older and the one whose family birth and deaths are recorded, is when the same ones in the town books, after the year seventeen hundred and seventy eight written with Lt. prefixed to the same.
January 16 1859
David Turner
Town Clerk of South Hadley
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
HAMPSHIRE ss.
I, Samuel Wells, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth for the County of Hampshire, do certify that Gilbert A. Smith Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned and
acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his acts and attestations, done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said Gilbert A. Smith and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine: also that the instrument hereto annexed, purports to be duly executed and acknowledged, according to the laws of this Commonwealth, for the purposes therein expressed. 
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said Commonwealth this twentieth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty five.
Samuel Wells Clerk
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire SS
On this sixteenth day of January AD 1855 personally appeared the within named David Turner and whom I certify to be the Town Clerk of South Hadley and made oath that the within certificate is true.
Gilbert A Smith Justice of the Peace
I further certify that I am not interested in the pension claim for which this is taken nor am I concerned in its prosecution
Gilbert A Smith
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I David Turner Town Clerk of South Hadley in the County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on oath depose and say that I
am the Clerk of said town of South Hadley and have in my custody and possession the Books of Record belonging to said town in one of the ancient Books of Record of said town purporting to contain a record Births Marriages deaths &c. I find the following Record viz
Charles Chapin's Famile Births & Deths" William Smith son to Charles Chapin & Silence his wife was born December ye 7th 1767. Charles son to above sd Born April 22d 1772. Silance Daughter to the above sd Born March 27th 1775. Silance Wife to the above Charles Chapin died August 18, 1775. Mary Daughter to Charles & his 2d wife Mary Born January 11th 1777. Elam Son to Charles Chapin & his 2d wife Mary Born October 18, 1778.  
Electia daughter to the above sd was born January 1st 1781
Tirzah daughter to the above sd was born October 4, 1783
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"Gorden son to the above said Born January 18th 1786. 
Benjamin son to the above sd was born October 4th, 1788"

The foregoing is a true copy from said original Book of Records. There is no record of Marriages or intentions of Marriage on the town Books of this town between the years 1757 and 1787.

D. Turner Town Clerk of South Hadley


Hampshire County ss. December 19th 1851. 
Then personally appeared the above named David Turner and made oath that the
foregoing Record & statement by him signed are true
Before me Edwin Dickinson Justice of the Peace
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
HAMPSHIRE SS.
I, Samuel Wells, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth for the County of Hampshire, do certify, that Edwin Dickinson 
Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the
certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit is, and ought to be given, to his acts and attestations, done in that capacity; and
that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said Edwin Dickinson and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine; also that the instrument hereto annexed, purports to be duly executed and acknowledged, according to the laws of this Commonwealth, for the purposes therein expressed.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said Commonwealth, this Seventh 
day of December in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and fifty five.
Samuel Wells Clerk.
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I Silene Kendall of Jay in the County of Orleans
State of Vermont of lawful age do depose & say that my fathers name was Charles Chapin. I am now 75 years old - my last birth day was the 27th March 1850 - my father was Married the second time, as I was informed when a
child, when I was about nine months old at South Hadly in the State of Massachusetts. I suppose my father was married by the Settler Minister at South Hadly. his name was Woodbridge & he died when I was a small
child - I remember hearing my father tell about being in the Service in the war of the Revolution - I recollect hearing him tell about being with the army at West Point at Ticonderoga & at Trenton - I am not able to
State with certainty how long he served but I am very confident that it was or 12 months & think it was about 18 months - I do not know how he entered the army whether as a private or a commissioned officer but I am sure I have seen him have two commissions one as 2d Lieutenant & the other as first Lieutenant - I remember that he did not train in the Militia after the war was over I recollect distinctly about his telling us that he was drafted at the Battle of Lexington but on the account of the Situation of his family he could not well leave home & that he hired a man to his place
in the army
Silence Kendall

Attest N. Boardman
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State of Vermont}
Orleans County ss} at Jay in said County this 5th day of August AD 1850 Personally appeared before me Silence Kendall & made solemn oath that the within & foregoing affidavit by her Subscribed in my presence is true
Norman Boardman Justice Peace

I hereby certify that Silence Kendall the above affiant is a credible witness
Norman Boardman Justice Peace

State of Vermont}
Orleans County ss.}  I, Hubbard Hastings of
Orleans County Court in the State of
Vermont do hereby certify, that Norman Boardman was on the 5th day of August A.D. 1850. was acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Orleans aforesd., duly commissioned and qualified, authorized by the laws of this State to administer oaths and full credit is to be given to his official acts, and that his signature to the foregoing certificate is genuine -

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said County Court at Irasburgh in said County, this Tenth day of January A.D. 1855
Hubbard Hastings Clerk as afsd.

I hereby certify that Silence Kendall the above affiant a credible witness - Hubbard Hastings Clerk of Orleans Co. Court
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450) Sec of War Certificate
Charles Chapin
Feb 10 1892
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Secretary's Office, Boston:

February 10th 1852.

I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Charles Chapin is borne on a muster roll of Capt. Moses Montagues Co. Col.
Ruggles Woodbridge's Regt, as a Sergt. of So. Hadley, from Apr 30, 1775. 15 2/3 days. -

On a roll travel of Capt. James Hendricks
Co. dated at Charlestown Camp No. 3. Jan. 13, 1776," as 1st Lt. of So. Hadley: - Regiment and service not stated. -

Also on a pay roll of Lt. Martin Waits Co. Col.
R. Woodbridge's Regt, from Hampshire Co. as a private, 4 days, - the date of the Service, date of the return of the roll Jany 6, 1778. -

The name of Charles Chapen is not found for any other service than the foregoing. -
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And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.

Amasa Walker
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is requested to furnish evidence;
from the rolls, in his office, of the services, of Charles Chapin my late father, in the war of
the Revolution-

Charles Chapin my late father was a native of
now called South Hadley - Massachusetts -
He enlisted as a private & was afterwards first & second Lieutenant in Col Woodbridge's ┃
Regiment in Massachusetts line - I am not certain of the length of time he served but have always understood, for over two years. Dated at
Hinsdale, Massachusetts December 15 1851

Tryphena Merrill

Subscribed in my presence
Oliver P. Colt Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Berkshire County ss.

I, Daniel N. Dewey Judge of the Court of Probate within and for said County of Berkshire do hereby certify, that at a Court of Probate holden  at Lenox in and for said County, on the fourth day of May, eighteen hundred and fifty two, it was satisfactorily proved to me the said Judge that Charles Chapin, late of Hinsdale, in said County of Berkshire, was reported to have been
Lieutenant in the Revolutionary war, and that he died at Greenfield on a visit to that place on the twenty second day of April A.D. 1813, leaving a widow, Mary Chapin who continued his widow and unmarried until the time of her death, and that she died at said Hinsdale on the twentieth day of October A.D. 1841. and that she left Triphena Merrill, Tirza Mack, Electa Mills, Tamma Benson, and Gordon Chapin the only surviving children of the said Mary Chapin deceased.

In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and
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and the seal of said Court, this fourth day of May
eighteen hundred and fifty two.
Daniel N Dewey


Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Berkshire County ss.
I, John Branning Register of the Court of Probate in and for said County of Berkshire, do hereby certify that at a Court of Probate holden at Lenox in and for said County on the fourth day of May
eighteen hundred and fifty two, John Merrill of Hinsdale in said County was duly appointed, administrator on the Estate of Mary Chapin late
of Hinsdale in said County deceased and has accepted that trust and given bond according to law - which appointment remains in full force

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court of Probate
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this fourth day of May eighteen hundred and fifty two

Jno., Branning
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No 8,102

Mary Chapin dd.
wid of Charles,
Mass.
July 4, 1836,



Arthur McArthur,
Limington,
Maine.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Berkshire County SS: on this sixth day of June
A.D. 1854, before me Daniel N. Dewey Judge of the Court of Probate within and for said County of Berkshire, being a Court of Record, in open Court holden at Lenox in and for said County, personally appeared John Merrill, a resident of Hinsdale in said County who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his
oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836 and the provisions made by any of the acts and resolutions of Congress applicable to his case. Viz: 7 July 1838, 3d March 1843, 17 June 1844,Jjoint resolution of 23d January 1845 and 1st July 1848, acts of 29 July 1848, 3d February 1848 and 3d of March 1851 and 3d February 1853; that he is the administrator of Mary Chapin late of Hinsdale deceased who was the widow of Charles Chapin late of South Hadley, Massachusetts deceased who was a sergeant and Lieutenant in the Revolutionary war with Great Brittain; that he believes that the said Charles
Chapin entered the service as a sergeant in April 1775 in Capt Montagues Company
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in Col Woodbridges Regiment in Massachusetts line and served eight months and that on January 13, 1776 he was appointed first Lieutenant in Capt Hendricks
Company in Massachusetts line; and
that he was probably at the crossing of the
Delaware in December 1776 and subsequently at the battle of Trenton and that he served one year as a Lieutenant as aforesaid; that your declarant believes that the said Charles Chapin Served as an officer for a further service and
would refer to the rolls and military records at Pension Office for proff (proof)of Service. That he further declares that the said Mary Chapin was married to the said Charles Chapin in Dec
ember in the year seventeen hundred and seventy five and died on the twentieth day of October in the year eighteen hundred and forty one and that said Charles Chapin died on the twenty-second day of April eighteen hundred and thirteen and that Triphena Merrill, Tirza Mack, Electa Mills, Tamma Benson, & Gordon Chapin are the only surviving children of said Mary Chapin deceased
John Merrill

Witnesses H.W. Neft
Reuben Peirce

Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year first above written
Before me
Daniel N. Dewey Judge of Probate.
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I further certify that I am not interested in the
result of this case nor concerned in its prosecution
Daniel N Dewey Judge
of Probate


Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Berkshire ss. I Henry W. Neft Register of Probate in and for said County do certify that Daniel N. Dewey Esq. before whom the foregoing proceedings were had, at the date of said proceedings was and now is Judge of Probate in & for said County, duly commissioned and
qualified, and that full faith and credit are sought or given to his acts as such accordingly. And I do further certify that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
Witness my hand and the seal of said Probate Court at Lenox this sixth day of June in
the year 1834.
Henry W. Neft Regr.