Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1841, Elisha Champlin, New York
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SERVICE
New York

Champlin, Elisha
or Champlain

NUMBER
R 1841

CONTENTS
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State of New York
Dutchess County

On this twenty fifth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Common Pleas in the County of Dutchess now setting Elisha Champlain a resident of the town of Beekman in said County and State aged Eighty years on the 14th day of July last past who being first duly sworn  according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 That this deponent was born in the town of Beekman on the 14th of July in the year 1752.  That this deponent has a record of his age in his family Bible.
That this deponent has always resided in the town of Beekman aforesaid and enter the service of the United States in the year 1776 under the following Officer and served as herein stated, that he enlisted in the State Troops under Capt William Clark of the Minute Service sometimes called the Ranging Service and served under him in this capacity for Four Months.
In the year 1778 this deponent enlisted in the Company of Capt Francis West of the Untied States Troops and marched to Fishkill and from thence saw ordered to West Point and served to the pest of deponent recollection for about three months.  Capt West company belonged to the Regiment commanded by Col James Vanderburgh but Col Benjamin Birdsell was the officer at West Point.  
The same year this deponent went to Fishkill as a volunteer and served one Month under Capt Thomas See performing Guard Duty
In the year 1789 this deponent was place as a guard over the Military Stores in the town of Beekman under the command of Major Tucker and served from about the 10th of March until near the last of September.
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of the same year.
In the year 1778 this department was drafted out of the Regiment commanded by Col. James Van Der burgh of said  County for Nine Months, and this deponent employed a substitute by the name of Thomas Champlain and paid him thirty dollars in Specie
And this department says that Isaac Simpson of the town of Union Vale in stated County is the only witness who can testify to deponents service in the Revolutionary War whose affadavit is hereto annexed. that this deponent has no documentary evidence of his services that this deponent hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any date. 
Deponent further says that Ludlow Van Derburgh Esq. Doct Wheeler Gilbert, Doct. Egbert Cary and Gilbert Knox of the town of Beekman can testify to deponents character for truth and veracity. Deponent says that there is no clergyman in his vicinity and that he is obliged to obtain the certificates of other respectable gentleman in his neighborhood. This deponent further says that he never received any written discharge from the service that he has always resided in the town of Beekman and now resides there. 
[signed] Elisha Champlin
Sworn to & subscribed in open Court the day & year above mentioned
[signed]  Henry J Traver Clerk
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State of New York
Dutchess County ss }  Isaac Simpson of the town of Union Vale in the County of Dutchess & State aforesaid being duly sworn says that he is well acquainted with Elisha Champlain who has subscribed and sworn to the declaration affixed, that he well recollects serving with him in the war of the Revolution in behalf of the United States, that this deponent and the said Elisha Champlain served together in the year 1776 in what was called the Ranging Service under the command of Capt William Clark and was engaged in this service at and about Beekman for Four Months. This deponent says that this is all the service he performed with said Champlain but that he has heard & verily believes that he performed further services in the Revolutionary War 
[signed] Isaac Simpson 
Sworn to and subscribed September 25 1832 
[signed] Henry J. Traver Clerk

State of New York 
Dutchess County ss } We Gabriel Van Derburgh and James De Long, Justices of the peace of the town of Beekman being sworn say that we are well acquainted with Elisha Champlain who has sworn to & subscribed the above declaration that he resides in the town of Beekman that we believe him to be Eighty years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Ameri [American, continued on next page]
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[Ameri]can Revolution and that we concur in that opinion and that he is a man of truth & veracity 
[signed] Gabriel L. Vanderburgh  James Delong
Sworn & Subscribed before me this 25th Sept 1832 
[signed] Robt. S. Livingston 

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Gabriel L Van Derburgh and James DeLong who have signed the preceding certificate are Justices of the Peace of the town of Beekman in the County of Dutchess and are credible persons and entitled to cred it
State of New York 
Dutchess County } ss I Henry J Traver Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Elisha Champlin for a pension – 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office the twenty fifth day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty two 
[signed] Henry J. Traver Clerk

Fees $ .98

11255
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Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace of the Town of Beekman in and for the County of Dutchess in the State of New York Elisha Champlain of the Town County and State aforesaid who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades. For four months I served as a private in the Company of Captain William Clark in the year 1776. For four months I served as a private in the Company of Captain Malandon Smith which lay in the vicinity of Peekskill and was engaged in guarding the lines this service was performed in the year 1777. For two and a half months at least and I believe three months  I served as a private in the Company of Captain Francis West in 1778, That in 1777 I also served as a private for two months and fifteen days under Captain Cornelius Van Wyck. In 1778 I served one month under Captain Thomas Lee and one month under Captain Israel Vail - For six months in the year 1779 I served as a private under Major Tucker - that he was engaged in all his [illegible, personal?] services as a soldier under the foregoing named Capts not less than Twenty one months & for such service I claim a pension. this deponent further says that in consequence of the crowd of business at Court, and by some oversight of the person drafting his declaration above material & important services was not inserted as he intended to have them in his declaration and that being unable to read from defect of eye-sight & from his sense of hearing being materially reduced he did not discover that all his services as a 

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der the command of Major Tucker and served from about the 10th of March until near the last of September
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[from earlier page: can Revolution and that we concur in that opin]

Soldier was not mentioned in his declaration until the papers of this deponent was returned to him from the War Department – 
[signed] Elisha Champlain
Subscribed & Sworn before me this twelfth day of February 1833 
[signed] Gabriel L. Vanderburgh Justice of the Peace 

I Gabriel L Vanderburgh one of the Justices of the Peace in the Town of Beekman in and for Dutchess County do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Isaac Simpson of the Town of Union Vale a witness in behalf of the above named Elisha Champlain that his character for truth and veracity is good and his statement is entitled to credit 
[signed] Gabriel L. Vanderburg Justice of the Peace 

State of New York
Dutchess County } ss  I Henry J. Traver Clerk of the County of Dutchess do hereby certify that Gabriel Van Denburgh Esquire before whom the preceeding examination was taken was at the time a Justice of the Peace of said County and further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Justice and that the signatures affixed to said examination and the above certificate purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office the 19th February AD 1833 – 
[signed] Henry J. Traver Clerk
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New York
Revo:
Elisha Champlain
Suspended
Ret to J.L. Delony
Beekman, NY 29
June 1833
1841
Act of June 32
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11.255
NY
Returned
Elisha Champlin

Beekman NY
Feb. 21st
Hon
J.L. Edwards Esq.
War Department
Washington D.C.
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Elisha Champlin which require further proof or explanation. 
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? It does 
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? He did 
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? 
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? He has 
V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout of pension he is entitled? No 
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? He has 
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? He has 
VII. Has the Court given their opinion? Has 
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? He has 
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? It is & is so distinguishable
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? He has
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? There is
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? 
XIV. If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? No
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office? 
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? It does
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?  They are
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?  They are
EXPLANATORY NOTES. 
*QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For--- year --- months, and --- days, I served as a --- For --- months and ---- days, I served as a --- and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cased to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. 
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in the their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. 
QUERE XVL. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Please Direct to John L Delong Beekman
Dutchess County N York
[signed] John L Delong
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
Rejected
1841
P.O. Elisha Champlain
Service
Enlisted, 18
Discharged, 18
Application filed, 18
Alleges
Re-enlisted
Attorney
P.O.
Recognized
Contra
Cert of Dis.
Searched for, 18