Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23,571, Dan Chapman, Conn. Continental Sea Service
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conn.
Continental
Sea Service

Chapman, Dan

NUMBER
S. 23,571

CONTENTS
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[page is torn, some parts missing, typed document completed in handwriting]

New York

Dan Chapman 
... County in the State of New York
... Sergeant in the Company commanded ...
... Captain Catlin of the Regiment command ...
... Deming in the Conn ---
26 mo
24606

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
... rate of 120 Dollars 00 Cents per annum,
... commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of June [strikethrough] ’34 [strikethrough] 1834 and sent to
Hon: A Mann Jr HR

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833     ---  $300.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March:34-60.00
                                                                    $360.00

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by W.L. Williams Clerk,
Book E Vol, 4 Page 130
[illegible faded ink]

[additional comment sideways on page]
Lett to [?] Fleming 23 December 1834
Sent to Hon: R H Gilles
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State of New York
County of Herkimer} ss

On this Seventeenth Day of April in the Year of Our Lord one Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighteen before me David Holt one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Herkimer and State aforesaid personally appeared Dan Chapman aged Sixty three years resident in the town of Herkimer County and State aforesaid the Said Dan Chapman being to me well known and to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Late 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. That he the Said Dan Chapman Enlisted in the month of April One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy-five for the term of Eight months. That he Enlisted at the Town of Killingworth in the State of Connecticut in the Company Commanded by Capt Samuel Gale of the Regiment of Connecticut Forces Commanded by Colonel Samuel H. Parsons that he continued to Serve in the Said Corps until the month of December one thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy five at which time he enlisted again for the term of Thirteen months at Roxbury in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the company Commanded by Capt. David S. Sill of the Regiment Commanded by Said Colonel Samuel H. Parsons. That he continued to Serve in the Said Corps and in the United States Service until the month of January in the Year one Thousand Seven hundred and Seventy Seven when he was discharged from Service at Peekskill in the State of New York. That he in the Course of the Said Thirteen months was in the Battle at Flatsbush on Long Island and State of New York and also in the Battle at Harlem Heights on York Island being in that area on attached to a company of Light Infantry Commanded by a Capt McGregor of Regiment Commanded by
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Colonel Nolton who fell in Said action that he the said Dan Chapman on the first day of may one thousand seven Hundred and Seventy-Seven again Enlisted at New Haven in the State of Connecticut for the Term of Three years in the company Commanded by Capt. Martin Catlin of the Sixth Connecticut Regiment of foot commanded by Colonel David Deming : that he continued to serve in the Regular Army of the United States until the Sixteenth day of April in the year one Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty when he was discharged from the service at Westfield in the State of New Jersey That in the course of those three years he was in the Battle at Kingsbridge in the State of New York and in the Battle at Bloomingdale York Island: That in the month of May in the Year one Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty-two he the Said Dan Chapman received a Captain Commission from Jonathan Trumbull Esquire then Governor of the State of Connecticut to the Command of an Armed Craft called the Success navigated and defended by Eight armed men and one [?] and employed in repelling the Enemys Vessels and Boats which infested Long Island Sound between Block Island and New York that he and his craft and Crew were under the command of Commandant Capt. Ebenezer Jones who commanded a Ron Valley the name of which he had forgotten That Said Capt Jones was a United States Officer that he continued in that Service untill about midsummer of Seventeen Hundred and Eighty two. When he received a Captains commission to the command of the Same Craft Success and navigated by the same number of armed men which commission was Signed by George Clinton Esq. then Governor of the State of New York that he the Said Dan Chapman with the armed Craft and Crew was put under the immediate direction
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of Major Davis of the New York Line of the United States Army and Employed in Guarding the Craft and the Said Sound and Employed in removing and Guarding United States Property from Long Island in the State of New York into the State of Connecticut, and he continued to Command the Said Craft armed as aforesaid and in the United States Service as aforesaid untill the close of the Revolutionary War when he was honorably Discharged from the Same

That he was one of those unfortunate men who thus served throughout the War and received no kind of compensation for his Service but his bare wages and that in much Depreciated Paper money, that he is in needy circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for Support and that he has no other Evidence now in his Power of his Services but what are herewith transmitted to the department of war. That owing to the Pass of times and his Itinerant Situation he cannot account for or Recollect what has become of the commission received from Governor Trumbull that the Commission received from Governor Clinton was to be returned into the office of the Secretary of that State at the close of the war or Sooner if required by legal authority that at the close of the war he then residing I the State of Connecticut handed the Said Commission to one Doctor Lawrence of the City of New York who Engaged to return the Same to the Proper Office but the Said Lawrence has lost or mislaid the Same which cannot be found.
Dan Chapman

Sworn to and Declared before me the Day and year aforesaid
David Holt
Judge of the Herkimer Comm. Pleas
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Dan Chapman papers
Copy
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State of New York
Herkimer County}ss

On the Seventh day of April one thousand eight hundred and twenty one personally appeared in our Court of common Pleas in and for said county, being a court of Record, by the laws and Statues of said State, Dan Chapman aged Sixty six years and resident in the Town of Danube and county of Herkimer aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows to wit: That he the said Dan Chapman Enlisted in the Month of April 1775 for the Term of Eight Months, that he enlisted in the Town of Killingsworth and State of Connecticut in Captain Samuel Gales company, Colonel Samuel H Parsons Regiment and Connecticut line - that, he continued to serve until December following when he again Enlisted at Roxbury, in Massachusetts for the Term of thirteen months in the company commanded by Captain David F Sill in Colonel Samuel H Parsons Regiment and continued to serve in the same until January 1777 when he was honorably discharged at Peeks Kill, in the State of New York - That in the course of the said thirteen months he was in the battle at Flatbush on Long Island State of New York and in the Battle of Harlaam Heights on York Island at which time he was attached to Capt McGregors company of Light Infantry and Colonel Noltons Regiment, - That he the said Dan Chapman again Enlisted on the First day of May 1777 at New Haven in the State of Connecticut for the Term of Three Years, in the company commanded by Captain Martin Catlin of the 6th Connecticut Regiment
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commanded by Colonel David Deming in the continental establishment that he continued to serve in the regular Army of the United States until the sixteenth day of April 1780 when he was again honorable discharged from the service at Westfield in the State of New Jersey - that during the said three years service he was in the Battles at Kings Bridge and Bloomingdale, both in the State of New York, besides sundry other skirmishes of less consequence - that my original declaration under the act of congress of 18th March 1818 was dated April 17th 1818 and that my Pension Certificate is numbered 2037 and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th March 1818. That I have not since that or at any other time by gift sale, or in any other manner disposed of my property in any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of the act of Congress Entitled “an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Forces of the United States in the Revolutionary war, passed 18th March 1818. and that I have not nor had any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other that what is contained in the Schedule hereunto annexed and by me Subscribed to wit I have no kind of Real Estate whatever either in possession, connection & remainder or expectancy excepting, a dwelling, house and five acres of Land on which I now reside and to which I have no Earthly title except that Set it of the Owner at about Forty Dollars per Annum
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My personal property is as follows
One wooden clock worth about $25
1 Silver Watch ---8.00
1 Cow and Calf ---20.00
2 Swine --- 6.00
1 Burea --- 12.00
1 Cherry Table ---6.00
2 Kitchen Co. --- 3.00
1 Candlestand ---1.50
2 Homespun carpets 20.00
4 Silver Table Spoons -- 6.--
5 Silver Tea Spoons --- 2.50
2 old Setts Lead & [?] ---4.00
4 Cream & sugar cups ---1.00
3 Tea pots ---1.00
18 Plates of Different sises   1.50
1 Sett Knives & Forks --- 1.00
6 Old candlestics --- 2.00
2 fat old fire dogs --- 0.75
1 Server ---1.00
2 Tin pans --- .50
2 Common Pitchers ---.37
2 Old tin pails --- .50
Hand & Tongs ---1.50
1 Crane --- 2.00
1 old chest ---0.75
18 Old chairs --- 8.00
4 Jugs --- 1.50
1 axs & Spade (old) --- 1.50
1 frying pan & [?] pan [?] ---.75
1 Pot & 3 Kettles --- 2.50
1 Tea Kettle Broken --- .50
1 Pr Bellows --- .50
1 [?] Rake fork & hoe ---.75
2 Hos & 1 old meat axe ---1.25
1 Grid Iron --- .25
2 Baskets & 2 [?] ---1.50
11 Pails & Barrels --- 1.50
1 Small grindstone ---.37
2 Looking Glasses --- 4.--
8 Tumblers & 11 Wines --- 3.--
3 Decanters ---  1.50
2 Tea canisters --- 1.50 
4 Pots--- 2.00
2 Earthen Jars --- .75
8 Barrels (old) --- 3.00
1 Soap Barrel --- .50
3 Bottles glass ---.70
3 Platters & 2 Dishes ---1.--
1 fine pan 1 [?] & 1 gill cup 1 funnel ---.50
1 Candle Boy & [?] --- .38
1 yr Bushel & 1 Peck measure --- .50
1 Hammer [?] & [?] 1.25
1 Hand Saw (old) --- 1.00
2 Coffee pots & server ---1.20
1 Book ends --- 3.00
2 Ink Stands --- .50
____________________
                           $

Books.
1 Large Bible ---4.00
2 (old) small [?]---1.50
1 Testament --- .50
2 Psalm Books --- 1.00
1 Hymn --- .50
The life of Jesus Christ --- 4.00
Dictionary of the Bible --- 5.00
4 Vol. Proudfits Sermons --- 4.00
Willsons Lectures --- 1.50
Memoirs of Pious Women --- .75
Compendium of the Bible --- 1.0
Mekiels Travels --- 1.50
Benders History of the Bible --- 5.00	
6 small religious Books --- 2.00
New York Statures --- 6.00
2 Vols. Tidds Practice --- 5.00
Caines Practice --- 3.00
Sheridand Practice --- 2.00

Am & Carr’d [?] $
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Amt ---$
1 Remington on Ejectment --- 2.50
4 Vol. Blackstones Comeatanes --- 6.00
Bullas Nige Points 1 Vol. --- 3.--
2 Vols Johnsons cases --- 5.00
2 Vols Johnsons Reports --- 6.00
Supreme Court Rules --- .50
4 Vol. Millats Elements of History --- 4.50
Watkins Dictionary --- 1.00
1 Vol. United States Laws --- 3.00
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                                                   $
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I have more clothing and Bedding, than what is is absolutely necessary for myself and family to make them barely comfortable, and the foregoing property every cent of it (Except the. articles which are exempt by Law) is now absolutely bound by executions against me, and for Rent which I owe for the peace I now live in fear.

Bad Debts due me
A Judgement against John Eisenlord late Sheriff of Montgomery County, who had been in Jail for more than two years for other debts and therefore very doubtful ----- $70.00
Daniel Fetterly moved away and therefore very doubtful -----$30.--
Theodore H Chapin moved away and therefore very doubtful ----- $50.--
Abraham M Van Alstine (Bankrupt) ----- 30.--
The estate of Sylvester Fuller (late of Point Oneida County) who died a Boatwright and whose estate had been settled as far as the same would go to pay his debts - So that it is impossible to get any part of my demand -----10,820.00
Henry Knapp (run away) ----- 110.--
Henry Ackler (Bankrupt) ----- 28.--
John Suiter in Judgement and very doubtful -----100.--

Good Debts
Nathaniel Norton ----- $25.--
Nicholas Ten Brook ----- 3.25
Abraham Cronkhite -----1.13
Andrew Finks Estate ----- 5.--
Godfrey Boyer ----- 2.--
Tunis Roorbach ----- 2.--
Dan’l Master Estate ----- 50.--
Aaron Van Antwerp ----- 4.--
Peter Dominick ----- $2.00
Nathaniel Walden ----- 3.00
Joseph Herkimer ----- 10.--
Nicholas Haider -----15.--
Elisha Lee ----- 16.--
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Debts that I owe are as follows
Henry Haydnock & son of New York now in Judgement against me as security for a Debt of Sylvester Fuller deceased. ---- $4600.--
Richard R Lawrence of New York now in Judgement against me as security for a Debt of Sylvester Fuller deceased. ----- 3680.--
Wm Shotwell now in Judgement against me as security for a Debt of Sylvester Fuller deceased. -----1840.--
Peter Ludlow now in Judgement against me as security for a Debt of Sylvester Fuller deceased. ----- 500.--

Debts of my own contracting which I now am owing, and due to Sundry Persons - Some of which are now in execution [strikethrough] against me [strikethrough] amount as near as I am as certain to ----- 610.--

I am by Profession a Lawyer, but owing to my advanced age, the low Ebb of Professional Business, in the situation my business is but a mere trifle, and Debts and without the least means of supporting myself and Family, and had I not been actually in jail for debt when I made my declaration in April 1818, I should not have troubled  my Government with putting me on their pension List nor should, I now make application but that I am wholly at the mercy of my Creditors, and if I may but succeed in obtaining a Pension they cannot ask me of that, which is the only hope now remaining of a support which will be wanted but a short time in all probability. I have a wife named Tamer aged sixty Five years in pretty good health for her age - I have no children or any other person on earth from whom I have a right to expect any assistance. I have a lad living with me by the name of Henry T Holmes
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That I have no further evidence of any services in the Revolutionary War than what was sent Declaration in the month of Apritl 1818.
Dan Chapman
Sworn to 7th April 1821 before me

The court is of opinion that the property in possession of the applicant is worth two hundred and fifty seven dollars and eighty seven cents. But that the property of said applicant not bound by and Subject to execution does not exceed Fifty Dollars in Value.
David Holt
Sanders Landing
Rufus Crain } Judges

State of New York
Clerks office
Herkimer County }ss

I John Mahon Clerk of the Court off Common pleas in and for the County of Herkimer do certify the affidavit, Inventory & hereunto annexed to be a true copy of the original, subscribed by Dan Chapman and filed in the clerks office of the County aforesaid. Given under my hand and official Seal of the County of Herkimer the Second day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand
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David Holt
Sanders Landing
Rufus Crain } Judges

State of New York
Clerks office
Herkimer County }ss

I John Mahon Clerk of the Court off Common pleas in and for the County of Herkimer do certify the affidavit, Inventory & hereunto annexed to be a true copy of the original, subscribed by Dan Chapman and filed in the clerks office of the County aforesaid. Given under my hand and official Seal of the County of Herkimer the Second day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred & twenty one
John Mahon Clk
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April 2, 1937

Mrs. P. T. Chapman, Sr.
Vienna
Illinois

Dan Chapman 
S.23571
Joseph Dameron
S.8310
BA-J/AWF

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Daniel Chapman, who served in the Revolutionary War under Captain Samuel Gale and was pensioned in 1818 in Herkimer County, New York: John Dameron, a Revolutionary War soldier from Virginia, buried in Williamson County, Illinois: and Joseph Dameron, who served from Amelia County, Virginia and pensioned in Caswell County, North Carolina.

The Revolutionary War records of this office have been searched and no claim for pension found, based on the service of John Dameron, under any spelling of that surname.

The Revolutionary War records of Daniel Chapman and Joseph Dameron are furnished herein, as found in pension claims.

Dan Chapman - S. 23571

The data pertaining to Dan (as he signed) Chapman furnished you were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, S. 23571, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

Dan Chapman was born in the month of April, 1756, place not stated, nor were the names of his parents given.

While a resident of the State of Connecticut,

{There is a note on the side of the letter}
Dan Chapman date of death [?] sent in his discharge for [?] Pension office - It was not in [?] claim when examined by CWT
April 2-1937
CWT
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2--

Dan Chapman enlisted in Ellingworth, Connecticut, in the month of April, 1775, served eight months as a private in Captain Samuel Gale’s company, Colonel Samuel H. Parsons’ Connecticut regiment. He enlisted at Roxbury, Massachusetts, in the month of December 1775, served about thirteen months in Captain David F. Sill’s company, Colonel Samuel H. Parsons’ regiment, and was in the battles of Flat Bush and Harlem Heights. He enlisted in Captains Martin Kirtland’s David Humphrey’s, Elazerr Clanghorn’s, Asa Lay’s companies, Colonel Return Jonathan Meig’s Sixth Connecticut Regiment; he was appointed April 11, 1779, 1st sergeant, was in an engagment at Bloomingdale, and several skirmishes, and was discharged April 16, 1780. He was appointed sometime in May, 1782, Captain of an “armed craft called the Success” and was employed in guarding the coast of Long Island Sound, and continued in the service until the close of the war.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 17, 1818, at which time he was living in Herkimer County, New York. He was living in 1821 in Danube, Herkimer County, New York, and referred to, his wife, Tamer, aged sixty-five years, and stated that there was “a lad” living with him named Henry T. Holmes, then aged sixteen years, no relationship claim

Dan Chapman was living in 1833 in Oswego, New York, and was allowed pension under the Act of June 7, 1832.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C., and give the following data:

Dan Chapman, certificate #24606, issued January 21, 1834, rate $120.00 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, New York Agency.

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Chapman, Dan
S.F. 23.571
A roll of Capt. David Humphrey’s Co, Col. Return J, Meigs’ Co “Comm. Battes for January 1779 signed Jacob J,. Lansing, Commissary of Master, and dated Camp near Reading, Feb. 2, 1779, has been removed from this case in order that it may be sent to the War Dept.
Oct. 12, 1910
F.W.
Sent to War Dept
Jan. 16, 1913.c
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Hon Pension Commissioner

Dear Sir, I am writing to find if Capt. Daniel Chapman who served under Samuel Gale in Rev. War and was placed on Pension Roll of New York Herkimer Co. - N. Y. -1818 had any family if so I would like the names - dates of birth given.

Also would like the same information about Joseph Damson {Damron?} 1763-1833 served under Capt. Munford & Col. W. M. Dawson Va. Militia. Amelia Co-Va: pensioned Caswell co. N.C.

There is a John Dawson whose Tomb Stone says he was a Rev. Soldier he is buried in Williamson. Co adjoining Johnson. & I would like to know the regiment in which he served & Officers, that he also served from Va.

Any information will be gratefully received

Respectfully,
Mrs. P. T. Chapman Sr .

Vienna Ill
3-11-37

There is a stamp
RECEIVED
MAR 13 1937
MAIL SUB DIV
VTTS ADV
[?] 31
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Ebenezer Gray Esq. I Col. Comdt, of the 6th Connect Reg’t of foot Rais’d, in Defence of the Unit’d States of America

To Dan Chapman Greeting Reparing Special Confidence in your coverage Tkill and good Conduct I do by these Presents Constitute and Appoint you the Said Dan Chapman to Be 1st Serj”t of the 8th Compy In Said Reg’g you are therefoer faithfully and Diligently to Exercise the several laws and Duties of [?] office in a [?] and Carefull Discharged of the same and you are to observe and obey all Such orders of you May from time to time Receive from Me or other your Superior Officers and to Intrust them the and Compy In the use of Arms and All Necessary Duties Commanding them to obey you as their Serj for which this shall Be your Sufficient Warrant

Given Under My hand
No.’er 11th 1779
Eben: Gray L’t Col. Com
6th Comd Reg.
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Hon J L Edwards

HR Jany 6

Suppor--{tear in paper} to Solict
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State of New York
Oswego County} ss

Dan Chapman of the Town and County of Oswego, being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is now a resident of said town of Oswego. that he is now in the receipt of a pension of ninety six dollars per annum under the Laws of the United States - That the pension certificate herewith presented is the Idenical One by which he has heretofore drawn his pension, and that he this deponent is the identical person, named in the said certificate, and further this deponent saith, that he served as a Sergeant about three Years in the Company raised and commanded by Captain Martin Catlin and Colonel David Demings Reg’t afterwards commanded by Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs being the 6th Connecticut Regiment of the Continental Line of Said State and General Samuel Parsons brigade - that he was honorably discharged (as he believed) on the sixteenth day of April 1780 at Westfield, in New Jersey - That his sergeant warrant and discharge were both forwarded to the Secretary of the War Department Some time in the Summer of 1818 and that at present, he is not Entitled to nor does he receive any other compensation for his services, than those mentioned in the Certificate herewith presented in order to entitle him (this deponent) to a Pension of Ten per month in lieu of Eight dollars per month as specified in said Certificate and further this deponent Saith not
Dan Chapman

Sworn before me this 26th day of December 1833
D B Brewster Judg of Oswego County [?]

State of New York
Oswego County Set}

I certify that on this 26th day of December personally appeared before me Dan Chapman the person
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described in and who signed the within deposition to me known who Being by me duly sworn. did depose and say that he had made the written deposition & Knows the contents thereof and that the same is true of his own Knowledge & Belief and these matters he believed to be true.
D B Brewster Judge of Oswego County Courts
[?]

I am personally acquainted with Dan Chapman & DB Brewster Esq first Judge of Oswego Conty & the foregoing papers are genuine papers.
A. Mann Jr. MC.
6 Jany 1833
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There are two stamps
OSWEGO NY
DEC [?]
and
FREE

Abijah Mann Json. Esq
H of Representatives
M.C.
in Washington

on Rolls
1 May 77 Sergt. 3 years 1 May 80 - 
adm’d
24. mo Sergt
____
120 -
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Oswego December 27 1833

Dear Sir
you will see by the foregoing, affidavit - my object , and if you will have the goodness to attend to the benefits for me it shall be appreciated by me most greatfully if ever opportunity presents - I cannot think that there can be any difficulty in the business as my discharge and Sergeants warrant are both in the [?] office and my name will be found on the muster rolls in the Company in which I served as set forth in my affidavit accompanying this and I think that I have otherwise complyed with the act of Congress of the & June 1832 which you will see requires me to return my pension Certificate to me heretofore granted, and which also accompanies this - beside I have preceded exactly as others have who have served in the Continental Line. {Blot out on the document} my and have preceded in obtaining an addition to [?] should any thing further be required please inform me as soon as convenient and I will attend to it --

Please direct to me at Oswego west Village County of [?] I [?] I should within further to draw my pension at the nearest to this place of paying pensioners. please call on the Secy of war as soon as you business will permit and let me hear from you - it seems that Hon. Clay and Co Have opened northern a furious campaign rather early in the session but I give myself no trouble about it well knowing that the President single handed is match for the whole host of opposition and were it not so he nead only Call on the potant arm of the People 

The [?] as may sustain him have done in all his just and Equitable measures - I Glory in such a government as this when Executed by such a Champion as Andrew Jackson.
Your repectfully
Dan Chapman

Abijah Mann Esq
Washington
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23571
INVALID

File No. 23571
Dan Chapman
Ser Rev War

Act: June 7th 32
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 69

[Arrangement of 1870]

1937 April 2 [unk] Mrs P. J. Chapman-Sr-ans
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Suspension removed, and continued under the act of May 1820, and notification of continuance sent to the Hon John Herkimer, H. R. Jan 1824
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3037
New York Roll
Dan Chapman, private, Connecticut line in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence the 17th of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 28th of Sept 1818 and sent to David Holt Esq Herkinier New York

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 36.80
Semi-anl. all'ee ending 4 Mar 1819 48
$84.80
arrears 4 mo 18/30

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}

3 years Leming
continued
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I hereby certify that I was well acquainted with Dan Chapman in his lifetime and who was a Revolutionary pensioner. That the said Dan was a man of strict truth and veracity and entitled to full credit under oath or otherwise. [unk] August 27, 1847

Archibald Bull
Geo R David


I am not personally acquainted with Dan Chapman but Judge Bull & Geo.. Davis who have signed the above are well known to me and I have entire confidence in their statement.

Wm C Bonck

Oct 12th 1847
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N.Y.
Dan Chapman


Hon J. L  Edwards
Pension Office
Washington

Hon A. Main Jr
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giving favorable (illegible) consideration of the enclosed application from Dan Chapman Esqr. Counsellor at Law pensioner &c.
With Grant Respect &c
A Mann Jr.
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City and County of New York

Be it known that before me Sylvester Spencer a Notary Public in and for the city and county aforesaid personally appeared John Fagan a clerk in the Pension Office attached to the Mechanin Bank in the city of New York and made oath in due form of law, that on or about the twenty third day of January 1834 a letter was received from J. L. Edwards Esq commissioner of Pensions at Washington directing the name of Dan Chapman a Sergeant at $120 per annum to ne inscribed upon the Roll of the Pension agency and to deduct any amount which he might have received since 4th March 1831 under the act of 18th of March 1818, that in pursuance of such direction he the deponent applied at the Pension Office of the United States Branch Bank in this city to ascertain the amount which said Chapman might have been paid under the said act of 18th March 1818, when he was informed that no payment had been made to said Chapman under the said act of 18th March 1818.

John Fagan

Sworn and subscribed before me this thirteenth day of October 1835

Sylvester Spencer
Notary Public
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Mechanics Bank
New York October 13th 1835

Sir

I have received your letter of 9th Inst and enclose  herewith a copy of your letter of 21st January 1834 authorizing the inscription of Dan Chapman's name on the roll of this agency, together with copies of other letters relating to the case, with the original letter of said Chapman in reply to mine addressed to him.

You will perceive by the affidavit of one of the Clerks of this Bank also enclosed, that due care was taken to ascertain of possible the amount which Chapman might have received under the act of 18th of March 1818, and being then inexperienced in the pension business, it was not known to me that payments under that act were made at any other place than the US Branch Bank in this City.

On or about 6th December 1834 the date of my Letter to Mr Poor I received intimation thro a private channel that Dan Chapman had actually received payments under the act of 18 March 1818, at the present moment I have no official information of the fact.

Actuated by a decision to promote the vision of Interests of the War Department, at the not official
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officially advised as before mentioned, I made every [unk] to convince Mr Chapman that overpayments had been made to him, and to persuade him to refund; from his not having denied the fact, I am of opinion that the amount stated in my letter is most probably correct.

My correspondence with him having failed to effect the object intended, I finally deemed it proper to request the agent at Albany to withhold future payments until the supposed over payment was refunded, and the whole matter properly investigated.

I am respectfully Sir your Obt Sert

Jno Heming Presd of Pension Ag
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House of Reps
Dec 17. / 34

Sir,
I enclose you a letter from John C. Bush Esq relating to drawing the pay of Daniel Chapman who now resides at Ogdensburgh N York. Be do good as to apprise me of the difficulty if any remains now to prevent his drawing his pay.
If there is a difficulty, about which you wish to consult me & Mr. D, we will come to your office.
Your Obt. sevt.
R. H. Gillet
J.L. Edwards Esq
Com Pension
Please return Mr. Bush's letter to me
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No 4 copy

Mechanics bank
New York December 23rd 1834

Sir

You have been apprized thro Mr Poor that an error occurred in making payments to your attorney for the first three years of your pension under the act of 7th June 1832 and I learn from a letter just received from Mr Poor that you are under the impression that there is no mistake, and that you are entitled to all you have received, this impression is wholly erroneous as you will find by refering to the Law.

The 2nd Section of the Act of 7th June 1832 provides that in all payments under this act, the amount which may have been received under any other act since the date at which the payments under this act commence shall first be deducted from such payment.

Be so good as to have the Law examined for you own satisfaction, the question however is decided in your particular case by the inscribing your name on the Roll, the Letter is in these words,

War Department
Pension Office January 21st 1834

Sir

Be pleased to inscribe upon your roll under the act of 7th June 1832, the name of Dan Chapman as Sergeant at one hundred & twenty dollars per annum commencing 4th March 1831

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and deduct any amount which he may have received under the act of March 18th 1818 since 4th March 1831.

I am respectfully your obt servant

signed  J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

It appears that the amount you have received under the act of 18th March 1818 since the 4th March 1831 is $240 that is ninety six dollars received at Albany to the 4th of March 1832, and $144 received at Utica to the 4th of Sept 1833, these sums tho inadvertence were not deducted (as they should have been) from the first payment made to you under the act of 7th June 1832.

It is however confidently hoped that you will willingly and promptly rectify the error by refunding the amount, as you must readily perceive that the law has not given it to you and that in Justice to this agency it should be returned with as little delay as possible, otherwise a total suspension of your payment take place, you will please write me immediately on the receipt of this and in the mean time I remain with due respect. 

signed  John Fleming
President & Pension agent

Mr Dan Chapman
Oswego
Oswego County
N.Y.
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Dec 18

James L Edwards Esq
Comm Pensions
Washington D. C.
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House of Reps
Dec 17 / 34

Sir,

I send you all my pension cases with written notes & desire like replies. I take this course in preference to visiting the office personally, because I have him informed that you preferred that course in as much as it places the whole upon paper so as to be afterward easily understood by both parties & also another gave to examine the cases more of gain [unk]. If I am in on [unk] in this respect, you will please advise me.

Your obt svt

R H Gillett

J L Edwards 
Comm Pensions
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No 2 copy

Mechanics Bank
New York 6th December 1834

Sir

It has just been discovered that an error occurred in paying the pension of Dan Chapman to his attorney William Emerson Esq who informs me that the Power under which he acted came to him through your hands. I therefore take the earliest opportunity to apprise you that he was over paid to a considerable amount, and to request you if the money on any part of it be still un your hands not to pay it over but cause it to be returned to this Bank. It appears that Mr Chapman formally a Pensioner under the act of 18th March 1818 at $8 per month and whatever amount he has received under that act subsequently to the 4th of March 1831 when his new pension commenced, should have been deducted from the payment made to his attorney Mr Emerson, what that amount is I have not yet fully ascertained.

It appears he received one year up to the 4th of March 1832 at Albany and was then transferred to Utica when he probably continued to receive until he obtained his new pension but this I have not yet ascertained to be the fact, in the mean time I hasten to apprise you of the circumstances and will thank you for a reply stating the evidence or address of Me Chapman with such other information as you may be in possession of that may assist me in recovering the 

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amount over paid, your immediate attention to this matter will be esteemed a favor.

I am respectfully your obt servt

signed  John Fleming
President & Pension Agent
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No 3 copy

Oswego December 15th 1834

Sir

Yours of the xth Inst duly came to hand I have delayed answering it a few days in order to have an interview with Me Chapman respecting his pension.

I saw Mr Chapman yesterday and he says there is no mistake about it and he is perfectly willing to abide the decision of the Secretary of War.

Mr Chapman has lived in this Village about a year, and is reputed to be a honest man.

I was not aware that he had been formerly a pensioner when I received his papers. I have no funds of his in my hands.

Respectfully yours

signed Erin Poor
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No 1 copy

War Department
Pension Office
January 21 1834

Sir

Be pleased to inscribe upon your roll under the act of 7th June 1832, the name of Dan Chapman as Sergeant, at the rate of one hundred & twenty dollars per annum commencing 4th March 1831, and deduct any amount which he may have received under the act of March 18th 1818 since 4th March 1831.

I am respectfully your obt serant

signed  J L Edwards
Commission of Pensions
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To what time ws Dan Chapman was paid under the act of 1818 at the Utica agency also as the New York agency under act 7 June 1832 under the latter act his pension was 120$ pr ann as sergt.

GWC
15 Oct 1835

paid at Utica to the 4th March 1833
paid at New York to the 4th Sept 1834
The amount [unk] at Utica does not appear to have been deducted
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Oct 8
force

Lewis Cass Secy of War on

J L Edwards Commissioner of Pensions

Washington
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Oswego October 2, 1835

Gentleman

In Feby 1834 I received my pension certificate dated Jany 21 1834 certifying that I was entitled $120 per annum as a Sergeant in the Revolutionary war commencing on the 4th month 1831, which was duly examined and countersigned by J.L. Edwards Esquire Commissioner of Pensions and that I was to receive my money at the City of New York Machernies Bank that in March 1834 I had my papers made out sent them to New York and [unk] my money accordingly, that in Sept [unk] being in New York, personally drew myself $60 which due me, and in March following on learning my papers duly made out to the Bank in Oswego they recounted me my $60 the papers were sent by the Bank to the Attorney may well refused to pay the money stating that I had or is known already, upon which the Bank very justly held me [unk], that on the first or rather 6th of Sept last past I went to Albany to see the agent who informed me that he would not pay me or do anything in the [unk] unless procured an order, or directions from Mr Edwards the Commissioner of pensions writing him so to [unk] to obtain which is the object of this and the following facts [unk] it, the agent then read to me a letter from the New York agent stating that I had over drawn $240 and that the Albany agent shouldn't pay me nothing until that sum was taken out of my pension in it  balance, I then observed that I have over drawn it was neither my making or fault and that a misfortune [unk] and my control had taken the whole and more than the whole and left me now in [unk] I further [unkl] that I must doubted his authority to refuse paying me without orders from much higher authority then the New York agent and that if U did give the United States Museum claimed on any other term that it would not warrant him in referring to obey the demands of my certificate than laying before him still if I was an honest man I should and intended to pay last as I possibly could, but the first was that if I [unk] every until of [unk] which I was received from my seven year hard services and all the pension money I ever have drawn they would not amount to four dollars for month for the time I served or my services were all in the Connecticut Line and that state had no banks to grant to her soldiers or anything else but soon [unk] papers which I rec'd for my services believe what miserable poor continental paper that I rec'd while in the army but the agent still persisted in refusing to do anything unless I wrote to the Sec of War and the commission of Pensions.
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yet if you should decline to comply with my request I might have got alon but for the following misfortuneto wit, that last fall being in New York & shiped on board the steam boat Albany to be landed at the City of Albany property to rather more time I was actually than worth which was wholly lost by the ship wreck of the steam boat in the Hudson river which bankrupt me [unk] reducedme to [unk] and helpless condition and I am now in great want of means to procure my daily food and to [unk] my witness I have not a child on Earth or any other being who can be made [unk] for a [unk] must and if I am alive next April that will find me eighty years of age and tho in health an quite unable to earn anything to help support myself and unless helped by my pension must continue to pay out a life of pain of mind and [unk] of body all the [unk] he said to be well enough for me if I was had or now do in the least live [unk] on in any degree on extravagant life this can not be vessel for at the close of the sum I returned to my natural place command the Study of Law ad finalized it until old age drove me from its pursuits and I have seen much better days to me than these but [unk] a;; these privations and wants it yeilds me much satisfaction to reflect that my time of life fell in gloryous [unk] and that is in my country was strugling against tyrony and oppression and labouring for independance I took in full I have in those memorable events and now [unk] to me and live under the best government now on Earth and to see that government administrated in all it departments in the best possible manner and may these blessings be perpetuated until Earthly government shall be no more gentlemen I fear that I have to for intruded upon your time and patience for which please pardon me and suffer me to beg and pray that one of you will have the goodness as soon as possible to write me directed to Oswego in the county of Oswego State of New York and inform me if anything can and will be done to help me or not that I may be relieved from this state of suspense so painfull to rev old soldier and returning to childhood again I am gentleman with the greatest respect your humble servant.

Dan Chapman

L Crass Sec of War
J. L. Edwards commissioner of pensions
Washington
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18 3/4

John Fleming Esq
Pres Mechanics Bank
New York
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Oswego Jany 6, 1835

Sir

Yours of the 23d Deck was duly received but I have been unavoidably presented answering you until now, and the fact is that I can see no reason why you and I should undertake to correspond respecting my pension, for I have yet to learn that you are authorized to settle any mistake or alleged mistake of any department of out Government which may have happened wholly without any imputable wrong or misconduct of yours and that is there is any thing wrong, that must be set right by that Department or the Government and myself and not by you and me, you very gravely advise me to have the Law examined on the subject of pensions but you must permit me to believe that I understand that Law on that subject as well as you or any other man for the Law was my profession until old age drew me from practice, you next with no little appearance of human feeling vauntingly threaten me that if I do not refund you $240 that my pension must be wholly suspended, but I am happy that you are authorized to say who shall have the payment of their pension suspended and I am as happy that the War department have that power which I am persuaded will not be abused, but that the right of every unfortunate poor man who myself will be regarded, and the truth is that one hundred dollars is not only actually more than I am worth on Earth, but I am not yet convinced that I am by any nor and indebted to my Country, for take every shilling that I ever received for seven years services and papers as much hard fighting as any other man in the Revolutionary Army and add to that which I have ever received by pension and the whole will not allow me enough to amount to five dollars per month for the seven years faithful services which I rendered my country, under these circumstances I do not believe that my pension pay will be suspended be it so, and yet two things will remain to me, first-I do and will gratefully rejoice in the triumphant and glorious administration of our general Government and of that  of the State of New York, second
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That shortly I shall be removed beyond the reach of all Earthly Government

I am with respect yours

Dan Chapman

To John Fleming Esq
Pension Agent
Amt Merchant Bank
N York
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Dan Chapman, I have not the least doubt, served in Capt. Kirtland's Company- the name is frequently pronounced Catlin- and so has has written it in his letter to me. If his name should appear on Kirtland's rolls, I should think the proof sifficient.

John Herkimer
Member of Congress
Jany 2d 1824
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D. Chapman No 2
Free

Hon John Herkimer
member of Congress
Washington

Little Falls, N.Y.
Dec 26 AD 1823
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Danube Sem 25 1823
Sir after calling at our post office again & again for letters and receiving the answer of none here I have to day found yours of the 11th and 15th instant which I hasten to answer and must (illegible) that I do not see why the muster toll and my discharge (both of which are at the seat of government) nodo not furnish all the evidence required I will now proceed to make my statement as far as I can reclect having nothing but my memory to rely on in all my papers are some from me. When I entered into the 3 years armies I enlisted into Capt. Martin Collins Company and Colonal Deming, Regt. of the Connecticut Life of the Continental Army. Col. Deming soon died and Col. D.J. Miegs the commanded the Regt untill I was dicsharged I think it was the sixth Connecticut Regt. after Capt. Cottin had left the service I Recolect that Capt. Eleazer Cleghorn Capt. Asa Lay and Capt. David Hunphreys and one Smith each had the command of the company tho I am not certain that Lay and Smith were only Lieutenants and have the immediate (illegible) ommand of the company and still Humphrey as the capt as he was the of the time when in Generaal Washington or Gen.l Putnam's family as an aid. I do not recolect any other Capts under whom I served tho there may well be if any thhing further be cecessary for (illegible) please inform me for I am really in want
I saw your letter to Das. Homes mentioning the death of poor Grant and have fully attended to his (illegible) Cummings your friends made well in this quarter. your folkls have read your letter stating in what manner you disposed of Mr. Grant. I would that I could think of something further in order to satisfy Mr. Edwards but I cannot at present. I confess that knowing as I do my claim to be just and my wants being so grate that it makes me feel unpleasantly (illegible) gave others who have imposed on the (illegible) enjoying a much larger sum that I will. I am in the (illegible) hurry to may therefore please excuse me, shoule I at last be obliged to make further affidavits before (illegible) count it will have risen before I even hear from you and will not set again until
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next spring which would quite (illegible) if I should live to see that time. I hope therefore that Mr. Edwards may be satisfied short of that. I think that in both my declarations in 1818 and 1830 I agree as to the Companies in which I served thos it is probable that through mistake they do not pray let me hear from you as soon as possible.
Yours respectfully
Dan Champan
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D Chapman
Free
Little Falls, NY
Dec 2 AD 1823
Hon'l John Herkimer
member of Congress
Washington City
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Memoranda for the Hon John Herkimer Esquire

Respecting my claim to a pension for mu Revolutionary services agreeably to the act of Congress of March 1818 and the subsequent act respecting the same. My declaration under the act of March 18, 1818 was made 17th April 1818 before David Holt one of the Judges of Herkimer Common please as said act then required- said declaration was immediately forwarded to the Secy at War together with a sergeants warrant given me when in actual service as well as my honorable discharge from the United States service- together with applicant of one Joseph Young respecting my serving and I think that I forwarded no other evidence at that time- upon which I received a pension certificate No 3037 and drew $96 per year until the passing the act of Congress requiring further proof which I think was in 1820 at said town of Herkimer Conn [unk] I made out another declaration in order to obtain a pension under the last mentioned act of Congress which I sent to the Secretary at War at Washington with another sergeants warrant and a muster roll made out in actual service and also signed by the proper officers containing my name as sergeant in the Regt which I had mentioned in my sworn declaration said muster roll also mentioned the term for which I enlisted and how long I had served & in Nov 1821 I recd from Mr Edwards his letter [unk] in which I realize informing me that my name was suspended from the pension list because it did not appear tat I had served as I have stated but that when that appeared I should be restored.
It may be possible that I might have committed some mistake, but as both of my declarations together with every scrap of writing which I have respecting my services are now in possession of the Secretary at War I think it a hard case to require me to rectify mistakes without informing me what the mistake or [unk] is having nothing to rely on but a broken memory, yet I think that I have discovered the mistake in my declaration I say that I enlisted for 3 years in Capt Martain Catlins company & Col Darning Regt and I suppose that my sergts warrant and perhaps the muster roll to say Capt Claghorn Lay or Humphries
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company all three of which in their term had the command of Catlins Company after he left it, and that Colonel Miegs commanded said Regt after the death of Colonel Deming circumstances that did not occur to me is here I made the application but which may be proved by searching the returns and papers of the 6th Connecticut Regt now in the Secretaries office.
Sometime in 1822 I recd Mr Edwards letter to Mr Hubbard (herewith restored) marked No 2 in which to him he claims in some manner to [unk] the mistake if I understood him and out of which he might have been easily led had he looked at the returns of the 6th Connecticut Regt- Besides my evidence forwarded with my first application were deemed sufficient under the act of Congress of March 18, 1818, and why not under the subsequent act- Mr Edwards finds no fault with the evidence rejecting my indigent situation but says I do not prove my actual service, the act of 1820 does not require (as I understand) for the proof of actual service but of poverty which he admits is more useful in my second declaration or says that when my service is satisfactorily make out that then I shall be entered the fact is that I have not mistaken one fact but may not have been quite explanatery enough, Mr Edwards says that I d not prove that I am the identical person whom name appears on the muster roll, or that I am the same person who drew a pension under the act of 1818 or at least I take that to be his meaning pray how come I but that muster roll [unk] being an orderly sergt of that company how would I know the [unk] of the certificate in which was read by Dan Chapman under the act of 1818 unless it was granted to me.
There are only 2 facts necessary in general required in order to entitle a person to a pension under either or both the aforesaid list, towit, did he actually service as required by Law, second is he actually read both of which I think I have made out. Now Deorder so the best you possibly can and as quick as you can as I am actually in distress or way near it, you shall be remuniated by yours respectfully.

D Chapman

Dec 1 1823
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Sir
I have nothing of moment to inform you of but what you must have seen in the papers. Our members for assembly elected one C.P. Bellinger Caleb Bunlory and John Graves of Onessia tho the democarts had a second ticket to wit, (illegible) Gideon Johnson of Whigton and Esqr Dygert of Frankfort. It come of late or I think it might have been in
Hon. D. Ford run against hers, event uncertain your friends here are all in good health and wish much to hear from you. Please let me hear from you as soon as possible
Dun 1th 1823
Hon.le John Herkimer
Washington
P.S. Cold as you please but ho slighing yet
Poor Judge Brown failed to get on the assembly ticket after every effort of Benton and on part of our new made Republicans I opposed with all my might and pushed Schuyler but in vain. They would give us no (illegible) we would have Brown (illegible) were (illegible) T. Hall and myself Hall (illegible) Brown to the last which has made a (illegible) in our town
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Hechimez D7
Aug 3 
662
Recd. 8 Augt 1821 
Free
Hon John C. Calhoun
Sect of the War Department
Washington
Get orig.l papers
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Sir

Please direct your answer to Dan Chapman in Danube, Herkimer County, State of New York

For Dan Chapman

Honor H Maynard
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Little Falls, N.Y.
December 6th

John C Calhoun Esquire
Secy of War
Washington
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Danube Dec 5th 1821

Sir

I haste to rectify a mistake which I made in not enclosing the muster roll and warrant which I mentioned in my letter of the last of Nov 1821 in haste and with respect yours,

Dan Chapman

J. C. Calhoun Esq
Washington
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Little Falls N.Y.
December 20nd

J. C. Calhoun Esquire
Secy of War
City Washington
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Danube November 28th 1821

Sir

You oblidging letter of the 8th intant is this moment received to which I haste to answer that I think that on examination I have been fortunate enough to find all the further evidence which your department will require in order to place me on the revolutionary pension list agreeably to the act of March 18th 1818 & first I herewith enclosed you an original muster Roll subscribed and certified by the propper officer that I among others enlisted in the 6 Connecticut Regt in the service of the United States on the 7 day of May 1777 for the term of three years past as I stated in my application this muster roll dated February 1779 at which time I had him in the Continental service one year and nine months and one day (if I am right) of which I think the enclosed muster roll the highest possible evidence second I enclose you a sergant warrant signed by the Lt Col commandment may in the absence of my Colonel J R Miggs, this warrant is dated April 11th 1779 showing that I still continued to service in two years saving 19 days, It will no doubt be found on examination that J J Lansing was [unk] of muster at the time the enclosed roll was certified as was E Gray Lt Col of the 6th Connecticut Regt at the time he signed the enclosed warrant and my discharge dated (I think) on the 16th day of April 1780 while I sent on to the Secy of War when I sent my declaration in the first place if I am right in the month of April 1818  will show that I actually served in the said 6th regt in the Continental establishment up to that time, then I flatter myself that the enclosed papers together with my discharge which is already in your hands may prve fully satisfactory if in my declaration, this should become l said unimportant mistakes (tho I think there is more)
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It could not be strange as most of the evidence in my power (except my [unk]) was sent to your department in April 1818 and at my advanced age my memory is not to be fully trusted, in matters of this kind in my declaration I stated that in May 1777 I enlisted in Col D Denings Regt did so [unk] the dying soon the command of the 6th Connecticut Regt to both return J Miggs who commanded it until I was discharged whether he was in camp or that Lt Col Gray then commanded it as [unk] while I much  admire the vigilance of your department last the secretary should be imposed on I am still indeed fully to believe that the object is obtained when the truth is made manifest in the way while the Law has proscribed, this I hope and trust is my case in the business before me, I beg of you Sir that as soon as may possably meet your [unk] that you will please write me again directed to Danube County of Harkiner and State of NY and you will confer a great favor on a truly unfortunate man whose little property has suffered much by the violence of his credit on  as much made his declaration in April last, please excuse my troubling you with so lengthy a letter, it seemed to me necessary. I am your most respectfully your obedient servant.

Dan Chapman
P.S. I should have made my declaration now on the receipt of your letter, but it would have [unk]  delay neither did I understand your letter to require it, and beside quite reduced circumstances render me in the small expense of doing it again and by it with me.

DC

(no muster roll was received with this letter)
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Lyttle Falls
November 5th
Free
J.C. Calhoun Esquire
Sect at War
City Washington 
Rec.d 9 Nov 1821 
Mr. Edwards
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State of New York Herkimer County Danube Oct 29 1821
Sir
Imperious necessity compels me to (illegible) of you on a subject of vital importance to me. About the 17 April 1818 in was dated my declaration for a pension amongst the other unfortunate fellow sho served in the Revolutionary War. I drew my pension until the law was altered requiring additional proof of being entitled to a pension for the country after which I made up my mind to try to suffer through the little remains of life wihtout making any further application and was dissuaded from that resolution by nothing but stern necessity, I therefore made another declaration I think in April 1821 if I am not mistaken my papers were then left with a Mr. May ad to be forewarded to your office but by his negligence they were not sent on untill sometime afterwards and directed to Mr. Edwards one of the clks in your office or Maynard informs me. my wish Therefore is to be informed why I do not hear any thing from my application. If on the receipt of this you will have the goodness to direct an answer to be sent me you will very much oblige an old unfortunate Revolutionary Soldier with much esteem your very humble servt. Dan Chapman
L.C. Calhoun Esquire
Secy at War Washington
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Payable on the 4th of Mar and 4th of September of each year at the Branch Ba(obsured) of the United States in the City of New York.

Capt. Elezer Claghorn
in 6th Connectiut Regt of Infantry

Recorded.
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WAR DEPARTMENT.

Revolutionary Claim

I CERTIFY, That in comformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March 1818 Dan Chapman late a private in the Army of the Revolution is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New York Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars cents per month, to commence on the seventeenth day of April on thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty eighth day of September one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
J.C. Calhoun
Secy. of War
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Dan Chapman 
Herkimer County 
N. York

Not on Rolls
Admitted.
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State of New York
Herkimer County}Ss on the 17th day of April in the year one thousand Eight hundred and eighteen before me David Holt one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Herkimer and State of New York personally appeared Joseph Young of the Town of Fairfield in said County of Herkimer the said Joseph Young being first by me dul swarn according to Law doth o his oath declare and say that he is personally acquainted with Dan Chapman the person in the foregoing oath and declaration mentioned the he is still knowing to him the said Danl Chapmans being in the Revolutionary army of the United States in the land service and that the said Joseph Young was on of the hands belonging to the armed craft called the (illegible) during the whole of the time mentioned in the oath and declaration of the said Dan Chapman and in the service as stated in the foregoing declaration of the said Dan Chapman and that the said Dan Chapman was duly Commissioned to the Command of the said Craft (illegible) as set forth by the said Dan Chapman in this the said Dan Chapman's foregoing affidavit and declareth on and that the said Dan Chapman still continue his said service as Commander of said Craft until the Close of the said Revolutionary War
Joseph Young
Swarn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid before me David Holt
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I David Holt, a judge of the County Common Plus, in and for the County of Herkimer, in the State of New York, do certify- that is appears to my satisfaction, as much from the Declaration of Dan Chapman, which is hereunto annexed, as from the affidavit of Joseph Youngs, whom I know, that who said Dan Chapman did serve in the Revolutionary war, as stated in his said Declaration, against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and ### my taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, permeant to the directions of the Act of Congress in said Declaration mentioned.

Given under my hand at Herkimer, New York this  17th day of April,1818
David Holt

State of New York Herkimer County [Seal impression outline on bottom left]

I Walter Fish Clark,
of the Court of Common plus in & for the County of Herkimer, do certify that the # court is  # of the Court of # in said State, that David Holt bfy is in who signed the foregoing Certificate is one of the judges of the # Court

Given under my hands & the seal of the said Court at Herkimer this 20th Day of May 1818
Walter Fish Clark


[any # are undecipherable words in this document]
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Joseph Dameron-S. 8310

The data which follow were obtained from papers of file in pension claim, S. 8310, based upon the service of Joseph Dameron in the Revolutionary War.

Joseph Dameron was born February 2, 1763 in Northumberland County, Virginia. The names of his parents were not given.

While managing his father's plantation in Amelia County, Virginia, Joseph Dameron enlisted in the month of September, 1780, and served three months as private in Captain Mumford's company, Colonel William Downman's Virginia regiment. He enlisted the following January, and served about three weeks in Captain Robert Bolling's company, stationed in Petersburg, Virginia.

While living with his father in Brunswick County, Virginia, Joseph Dameron volunteered sometime in February, 1781 and served in Captain William Harrison's company, Colonel Robert Mumford's Virginia regiment, marched to High Rock, North Carolina, where his colonel was taken sick, and he was transferred to Colonel Holcombe's regiment, was in the battle of Guilford Court House, and continued in the service until May, 1781.

He was allowed pension on his application executed January 7 1833, then a resident of Caswell County, North Carolina, having moved there from Halifax County, Virginia.

It was not stated that Joseph Dameron was ever married. George B. Dameron of Caswell County, North Carolina in 1833, stated that he was acquainted with the soldier during the Revolution, but that he was too young to be in the service; it was not shown that he was related to the soldier.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of
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pension, name and address of the person paid, and possibly the date of this pensioner, should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C., and give the following data:

Joseph Dameron
Certificate # 7129
Issued March, 5 1833
Rate $23.33 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
AoO of June 7, 1832
North Carolina Agency.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator