Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 45322, Amos Camp, N.H.
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(8-1776)
SERVICE                                          NUMBER
N.H.              Camp, Amos              S. 45322
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CONTENTS
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Camp, Amos
His name appears on a list of applicants
for invalid pension returned by the District Court
for the District of New York, submitted to the
House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on April 25, 1794, and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 95.
Rank: Private
Regt: Colonel Hale's New Hampshire.
Disability: Wounded in the left arm and belly
by a musket ball.
When and where disabled: Sept. 19, 1777, Behmus's Heights
Residence; Columbia County.
Remarks: Enlisted April 14, 1777; discharged
May 1, 1780.
Evidence transmitted by the District Court complete.
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Aw
May 29, 1906.
NJF
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Let to B. M. Camp, Feb 27. 1837
same, March 22 1837
Feb 27 1837
Notification amt. to George Morell
Coopertown, New York
13 October 1820
16.749
New York
Amos Camp
of Westford in the State of New York
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Reed of the New Hampshire line, for the term of three years
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Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 20th of March 1819
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Certificate of Pension issued the 6th of Sep: 1819
and sent to Messrs Morse & Stewart
Cherry Valley  NY
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Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819      =      $44--
semi-anl all'ce ending 4 Mar. 1820   48.
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15 mo  15/30
$920
{Revolutionary claim,  }
{Act 18th March, 1818.}
Continued
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Ss. N. York Otsego County Ss. On this
20th March 1819 came before me Amos Camp a citizen of the town of Westford and
County of Otsego and State of New York and in order to obtain the benefit of the late act of Congress passed 18th March 1818 for the relief of revolutionary Soldiers makes the following declaration on oath,
That he the said Amos enlisted into the service of the United States against the common enemy
on the continental Establishment in the month of
April 1777 in Capt. Bell's company in Col. Haleses
Regt. in the New hampshire line for the term
of three years said Regt was afterward commanded by Col. George Reed which said
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term of three years he this deponent served
faithfully and was honorably discharged at
West Point in the St. N. York which discharge he has lost, and he this deponent was in the battle of Burgoyne besides many skirmishes, and he this deponent recieved a severe wound in the body in the battle of Burgoyne and in the arm of which wound he this deponent is now severely afflicted and for which wound he this deponent recieved a pension from the U. States under the act of Cong. passed 23d of March 1792.
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and the name of him this deponent now is on the Pension Roll at the rate of $64.00 per annum as will appear by the inspection of the said Pension Roll and this deponent further says that he collected this proof hereto subjoined previous
to his making this application and this deponent says he travelled 200 miles into the St. Vermont 
and State of New hampshire to collect the said proof And he this deponent further says that he is in reduced circumstances and is absolutely in need of assistance from his country
for support and he
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the said deponent further states that he resigns
the $64. pension as appears by the release hereunto annexed and on conditions he renews this pension for which he applied and further
that he is in the sixtieth year of his age and
further this deponent saith not
Amos Camp
Sworn & subscribed before me this 20th day March 1819
James S. Campbell
one of the Judges
of the Court of Common Pleas of the County
of Otsego and St. of N. York-
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SS.
District of New York} ss.
Otsego County,       }
On this 21stday of June1820 personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of record for the county aforesaid, Amos Camp 
aged 61 years, resident in Hardwick in the county of Otsego in said District, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his
oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war, in Captain Bills company, Colonel George Reed, regiment, belonging to the New Hampshire line: And the date of his original declaration was on the sixth day of September 1819 on which he has received a pension certificate, No. 14,749 And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March,
1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift or sale, or in any manner, disposed of my
property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an 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,” passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts
or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed, and by me subscribed.
ARTICLES OF REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE.
No personal property-- Iron Ware worth seven Dollars-- other household furniture worth ten Dollars-No debts due me I am indebted about fifty Dollars My family consists of three persons, myself a cripple by reason of wounds recd at the taking of Burgoyne - my wife aged
fifty nine much out of health-- my son Amos aged thirty four years Insane for Eleven years past---
Sworn to & declared on       Amos Camp
this 21t June 1820
Before the Court
G W. Morell Clk
Owes $50
Prop:   17
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          $33
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Amos Camp
Hartwick No 14,749
Otsego Cy
X
George Morell
Cooperstown, Agent
14749
6 Sept 1819
Con
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State of New York
Otsego County Clerks Office Ss: I George Morell
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the
County of Otsego & State of New York
do hereby certify that the foregoing
oath & the schedule thereto annexed and
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 Seventeen Dollars--
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said County this 24th June 1820
G W Morell Clk
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I Benjamin Kemp of Sullivan in the
County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire
of Lawfull age testify and say that in the
spring of the year 1777 I saw my brother
Amos Kemp set his hand to an Inlistment [sic]
to go into the Continental serves for the term of three years and in a short time after he marched to join his Regiment and sometime in the month of December of the same year my father received a letter from my Brother Amos that he was in the Hospital at Albany wounded and wished for his assistance my Father set out for his relief and brought him part of the way home but he not being able to proceed, my Father left him and returned home--not many days after I set out with my Father and one other man and
brought my brother home on a Merstitle
he lay about one year before he was able
to travel and then returned to the army
                                      Benjamin Kemp
State of New Hampshire
Chester Ss Feby 20th 1819
Then ? Benjn Kemp signer of the
above personally appeared and made
oath to the above declaration-
Before me Thomas M Hubbard Just Peace
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(upside down)
Feb 21 1837
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C865
Feby 21. 1837.
Bounty Land
and
Pension office
Answered in reference to
Bounty Land at the
Bounty Land Office
Feby 24th 1837
Amos Camp
Nyork 1818
6 Sept 19
Fort Plain N.Y.
FEB 16
To The Secretary at War,
Washington-
Fel
to
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Fort Plain Feb. 12, 1837---
Sir,
My father Amos Camp was a soldier in the
revolutionary war, he was a pentioner [sic]
from the time of the Bennington battle till he
died in Feb. 1822 - he acted under Stark at
Bennington, about in 1819 or 20 he applied for 
a pention [sic] under another law & relinquished his pention [sic] as an invalid & succeeded - his papers &c. must be on file probably in your office -
I want you to inform me whether he was not entitled to some land & whether he disposed of it, in his life time, & where it is located if he did not dispose of it in his life time &c, & whether his children are not entitled to the land & to
the pention [sic] which he drew in his life time.
I understand his widow would be entitled to
his pention [sic] if she were living but she
has been dead a few years, I want to know whether her heirs can draw his pention [sic] up to the time of her death, I have not seen the late pretion [sic] law. I wish you to send me if it if you 
can, any information which you can give me on this subject will be very thankfully received. 
Secretary at war-                 Yours &c.
                                            B. M. Camp
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45322
Revy INVALID.
File No. 45322
Amos Camp
Priv Rev War
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Act: 18 March 1818
Index: -- Vol. 3,  Page 74
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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A.
Amos Camp
Pensioner
Alvan Stewart
Agent.
Cherry Vally [sic]
St. N Y                 Adm-
The claim must annex his old Pension 
certificate to his declaration & send them
to the War Dept.
Com. of pen. 23d. Apl. 1818
The 1st 1/2 sheet is explanatory of the 
absence of the certificate of '92
Morse & Stewart
Cherry Valley
N.Y.-
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Know all men by these presents that I Amos
Camp Soldier of the Revolutionary war do hereby resign a pension of Sixty four dollars
? of the U. States for a wound in the  Revolutionary War and placed on the Pension list by the act the 23d of March 1792 provided
he the said Amos Receives a pension under the act of March 1818
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 20th March 1819
in presence of
[signed]  Alvan Stewart [signed] Amos Camp

of
---
in
of
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State of NewYork, ⎬ ss.
Otsego County,    }
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twentieth day of March 1819 the above named Amos Camp
came before me, James S. Campbell one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas
of the County of Otsego and State of New York, and made oath that the facts stated
in the foregoing Petition and Declaration are true: - And I the said Judge, pursuant to the directions of the Act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, during the Revolutionary War," do certify to the Secretary of War, that it has appeared to
my satisfaction that the said Amos served in the Revolutionary War against the common enemy, for the term mentioned in the said
Petition and Declaration hereunto annexed:--And in pursuance of the directions of said Act, I do hereby certify to the Hon. the Secretary of War, that the testimony of Samuel Davis and B. Kemp as detailed in their affidavits hereunto annexed, appeared before me, and that I am satisfied that the application of the said Amos
is fair and bona fide in all respects, and that he, by reason of his reduced circumstances, is absolutely in need of assistance from his country for support.
[signed] James S. Campbell
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State of New York } 
Rensselaer County}  I Josiah Masters first Judge of Rensselaer Common Pleas do certify
that on the 23d day of April 1818 Amos Camp
of the Newhamshire line made application to me
for the new Pension yr. I made out his papers
transmitted the same to the War Department
& were rejected for further evidence
                     [signed] Josiah Masters
Livingted August 2d, 1819
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         Explanatory proofs
Ss. N. Y. Otsego County Ss.  Amos Camp being
duly sworn says, that his papers have been returned to him and it is stated by the War department that he must annex his old pension certificate to his papers; But this deponent says that under the act of 1792 when he was placed on the pension list he received no certificate, & further that the public notice given of his being on the pension list was through the medium of the Newspapers after he had made his proof before the commissioners and he further says that he has drawn his pension for about twenty six years, by making out a power of attorney without ever giving the copy of any certificate whatever.
And this deponent further says that he made an
application for a pension
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under the act of the 18th March 1818 on the 4th day of April 1818 before Judge Masters
of Rensalear Co. St. N. Y. which was returned by the War Dept for the want of additional
proof and this deponent having since
removed to the County of Ostsego when this last application was made at about the distance of ninety miles; he therefore prays that it may seem right to the Hon. Secretary to
place him on as of the time of his original application.
Sworn before             [signed] Amos Camp
me [signed] James S. Campbell one of the
Judges of the Court of Common pleas in & for the County of Otsego on the 17th day
of June 1819---
I certify that from Credible testimony taken by me in respect to the Credibility of Amos Camp that I am satisfied and have no doubt of his being a man of truth and credibility and is therefore to be believed on Oath
[signed] James S. Campbell
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Samuel Davises
Deposition
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I Samuel Davis of Lawfull [sic] age do testify and say that I was acquainted with Amos Camp of Cambridge State of New York and that said Camp and my self both Inlisted [sic] at the same time meaning the month of April in the year 1777 and placed our selves under the command of Capt M. Bell belonging to Coln. Hales Regiment belonging to the Continental Troops Said Regiment was afterwards commanded by Col George Reed Hale being taken by the Enemy at Hubbardton in the State of Vermont and that Camp and myself marched to gather to Ticonderoga and messd. to gather untill we Retreated from Ticonderoga untill the taking of Burguyn
at which time said Camp was wounded and was conveyed to Albany and put into the hospittle [sic] after that I had no personal knowledge of him & untill he had recovered of his wound and returned to and joined Army after which he was my messmate during the three years for which we both enlisted at the Expiration of which time I obtained my discharge which was in the year 1780 and in about two weeks after I arrived at home said Camp came home also at the time we enlisted we both belonged to Pelham in the
County of Rockingham and State of Newhampshire and further the Deponant saith not
[signed] Saml Davis
State of Vermont     }Londonderry Feb 27 1819
Windham County Ss} then Samuel Davis of Londonderry in the County of Windham and State of Vermont--Personally appeared and after being carefully Examined made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him
Subscribed contains the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth-
Before me [signed] Luther Stowel Jus. of the Peace
I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with Samuel Davis for eight or ten years and he sustains a good moral character in this Town
[signed] John Wakefield Justice of the Peace
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FREE
J.L. Edwards
Commr. of Pensions
Washington
Mar 17
Amos Camp
NY Vol
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Fort Plain March 10th 1837--
Sir,  Some time in the year 1820 or short time before or after my father Amos Camp relinquished his pention [sic] as an invalid & applied for & obtained a pention [sic], as a soldier of the Revolutionary War---
His affidavit & papers upon which his application
was founded are probably on file in your office-
I wish you would take the trouble to refer to those papers (viz: his affidavit &c.) and let me know under whom he listed & in what line-- when & where, how long he served, & under whom & where he was wounded & when-- I suppose the above facts can easily be found in & answered from his papers upon which his claim to a pention [sic] as an invalid or as a revolutionary soldier was founded-- I should
prefer to have you send me the papers, but probably that you could not do,-- I want the information above requested, to enable me to settle the question, whether his heirs are entitled to bounty lands & how much & where they
would be located &c, perhaps after seeing the papers above mentioned, you could give me some instruction on this subject that might be of use, if you could it would be gratefully received-- it seems that his name is not returned on any of the records of the Eastern Continental lines, on file in the Bounty land office, among those entitled to Bounty lands from the U. States, from an examination made by Mr. Wm. Gordon 24th Feb. 1837 - But I have been told that some of the States gave bounty land to the Soldiers who
were enlisted in such States during the Revolution war, by, an arrangement with the General Government--
Very respectfully yours
B. M. Camp
J.L. Edwards
Washington