Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1634, John Campbell, S.C.
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SERVICE S.C. Campbell, John NUMBER R.1634
CONTENTS
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Original Claim
State of Ohio, Pike County ss.
 On this 14th day of November AD 1826 personally appeared in open Court the same Court being the court of Common pleas for the county of Pike, being a court of record for the county aforesaid John Campbell resident in said County, aged sixty seven years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and of the 1st May 1820. That he the said John Campbell Enlisted for the Term of Eighteen Months on or about the 12th day March in the year AD 1778 as well as he can remember in the State of South Carolina in the Company commanded by Captain Tilfort in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Nelson in the line of the State of South Carolina on the Continental Establishment that he continued to serve in the said Corps until the expiration of said Eighteen months, when he was discharged from the said service, at Campden in the State of South Carolina. That he was in the Battle of Guilford Court House and that he has no other Evidence now in his power of his said serving. His discharge having been consumed by fire in his house which was burnt down in 1823. And in pursuance of the act of the 1st May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th March 1818 - And that I have not since that time, by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby, so to diminish it as to bring myselfe within the provisions of an act of Congress Entitled “An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Navel service of the United States in the revolutionary war, passed on the 18th March 1818 - And that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or
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securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any Income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed -
[signed] John Campbell his x mark
Sworn to and declared on the 14th Novr. 1826 Before me the subscriber, in open Court
[signed] Hallam Hempstead Clk
[signed] John Campbell his X mark

Schedule
The following is a true and correct list of all my property of every description towit -
Eight geese worth about $1.25
1 old Bed 6.00
1 Iron skillet & pot 1.50
3 old cups 3 plates & 2 Iron spoons 50
$9.25
Given under my hand this 14th day of November 1826
[signed] John Campbell his x mark

State of Ohio
Pike County ss I Hallam Hempstead Clark of the Court of Common pleas for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears, to the satisfaction of the Court, that the said John Campbell did serve in the Revolutionary war, as stated in the preceeding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, under one engagement, on the continental establishment. I also certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is nine dollars & twenty five cents.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court ^at Piketon on this 21st day of November 1826.
[signed] Hallam Hempstead Clk
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.

Feb. 17, 1925.

Honorable Lee S. Overman,
United States Senate.

My dear Senator:
In response to your letter of the fourteenth instant,and the enclosed letter of Mr. James E. Henderson of Cherokee, N.C., I have the honor to advise you that if Mr. Henderson desires photostat copies of the original declaration of John Campbell of the South Carolina Troops, War of the Revolution, who applied for pension from Pike County (not Warren) Ohio, Rejected File 1634, the same will be furnished him under the provisions of the Act of August 24, 1912, at the rate of fifteen cents a page, with twenty-five cents extra for certification, if that is desired. The number of pages to be copied is two. 
The proper amount should be forwarded to this Bureau by money order drawn to the order of the Secretary of the Interior. 

Very truly yours, 
[signed] Washington Gardner
Commissioner.
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[left side of page]
Miss Mary W. Kellum 419 Chestnut Steet Lansing, Michigan. June 11, 1897
Apr. 2 -1923. Photostat copies mailed to Mrs. Claude C. Stanley
1925 Feb. 17. Hon L.S. Overman refd of cost of copies

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1,634
John Campbell
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20,150
John Campbell
Pike Co. Ohio
1634
Hon. J. Thompson
H.R.
Recd. 7 Dec. 1826

Rejected - See letter 49
Dec. 1826.

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Hon. J. Bartow
Sec. war
City
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M 233
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division
[stamp]MAR 16 1923
Chief of Rev. War Section
Sir:
I have this day received from Mrs. Claude C Stanley 
Cash $1.75/100
requesting copy as per letter herewith.
Very respectfully, 
O. J. RANDALL
Chief of Division.
JJC

[handwritten across text] Copies mailed & Law Division notified April 2-'20 AWF
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(MF 42)
Date March 20-1923
Name John Campbell No. R. 1634
Rev. War Section
Photographic copies wanted of 9 pieces, consisting of 10 pages. 
Remarks: 
Exr. MMHF
MMHF
Rev. War Sec. 
Serial No. 8949

[handwritten right side] I was away when this was done and am afraid that all the modern letters and trash not a part of the claim were photoed -
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Cash 1.75 $ from 
Address:
Mrs. Claude C. Stanley
1323 No. Emporia Ave.
Wichita Kansas -

March 12-1923
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[illegible initials]
O. W. & N. Div. 
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D.C. Mar 19, 1897
Respectfully returned to the writer, who is requested to furnish, for purposes of identification, as much as possible of the information called for below.
D. L. Murphy

Full name of solider:
John Campbell
Place of residence before service:
(Town, county, and State, if possible.)
South Carolina
Place of residence after service: 
(Town, county, and State, if possible.)
S Carolina untill 1809
Warren Co Ohio Waynesville
Date of death (as near as possible):
untill death Mar 18th 1824
Christian name of widow:
Hester Campbell
Did either he or his widow receive a pension?
neither one received pension
Remarks:
were married at Bush River S Carolina in 1765
Your name and address:
Mary W Rillum
419 Chestnut St.
Lansing Michigan
2338b2m
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[stamp]U.S. PENSION OFFICE F APR 6 1897

Lansing Michigan April 2nd 1897
Dear Sir
Your letter duly received I may be mistaken about John Campbells not being in the Armey after he was home near the 1st of May 1782 for in a Geneology that was gotten up some 40 years ago I find this that John Campbell was first in the British Armey and became convinced that the Americans were right and would win so he deserted the British Armey and came over to the American side and fought untill the war closed
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2nd
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE F APR 6 1897

Now I will give a little history of this John Campbell showing why he was in the British Armey
He was living in South Carolina some 20 miles from Charleston I cant find the name of the county or nearest town unless it was Charleston when the Revolutionary War broke out And he and 2 other men were standing together near his home when a squad of British soldiers rode up and asked them who they were for one said America and they shot him dead they then asked the other 2
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3rd
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE F APR 6 1897

they said for King George so they took them right past there own homes and never stopped untill they were sworn in to the B Armey But John Campbell became convinced that the Americans were right and would win
so he deserted the British Armey and came over to the American side
And for this reason he never went back to claim his inheritance (he was of English decent) And was an American soldier when the Rev war closed And he lived in South Carolina untill 1809
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4th
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE F APR 6 1897

Then moved to Warren Co Ohio near Waynesville perhaps Lebanon is the County seat
He left South Carolina in 1809 and lived in Warren Co Ohio untill March 18th 1824 date of his death he nor his Widow ever received any pension I could give a geneology of his descendants if nessary hoping to hear from you soon I remain your well wisher
Mary W. Rellum
419 Chestnut St Lansing Mich
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5th P.S.
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE F APR 6 1897

There is a little history came under my notice a few days ago that may help to tell what county John Campbell lived in S Carolina as he was married to Hester Clark at Bush River at a quaker church and Meedlie was the name of a Post Office near Bush River settlement and another at a place called Pominick And that there were still some Campbells near that place now but we don't know whether they are decendants of John Campbell or not if so we never heard of them before
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[list of committee members in header]
United States Senate
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
[stamp]THE OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER FEB 16 1925 U.S. BUREAU OF PENSIONS

Feb. 14th, 1925.

Hon. Washington Gardner,
Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Mr. Commissioner:
Attached hereto I send you a self-explanatory letter received today from Mr. James E. Henderson, of Cherokee, N.C., and I will appreciate it if you will furnish me, for Mr. Henderson, the information requested in his letter.
Please return my correspondent's letter with your reply, and oblige.

Sincerely yours,
[signed] Lee S. Overman
U.S.S.

[handwritten left margin] letter returned to Senator
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Copy
Hon. John Thompson, of Ohio
H.R.

War Dept. Pension Office
Dec. 19, 1826.

Sir:
Your letter of the 16 instant, stating that your enclosed certificate to advance the pay of an Invalid, has been received but without containing any Document relating to an Invalid Pensioner. On the 7 inst. the declaration of John Campbell of Pike Co., Ohio was received at this office in a blank envelope and would have been immediately acted on, could I have ascertained to whom to address an answer. On comparing he superscription on your letter of the 16 inst. with that on the envelope containing Campbell's declaration, I find so great a similarity that I presume you must have forwarded the declaration. I therefore now report to you in Campbell's case. His claim to a pension cannot be allowed, as the service set forth in his declaration was not on the Continental Establishment. He states that he served in a regiment commanded by Col. Nelson of the South Carolina line. No Colonel of that name belonged to the Continental troops and the law of Mch. 18, 1818 under which he claims, provides for those only who served on the Continental establishment. His declaration will remain on our files agreeably to the regulations of this Department.
J.L.E.