Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 18903, Sylvanus Chapin, Mass
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[column headings: SERVICE  NUMBER]
[entered by hand "Mass   Chapin, Sylvanus   W.18903]
[entered by hand "Martha"
[section heading: CONTENTS]
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1437
Vermont
Sylvanus Chapin
of Addison in the State of Vermont
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Cole of the Reg. commanded
by Col. Woodbridge in the Continental
line for 12 1/2 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont
at the rate of 41 Dollars 66 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of November
1832 and del to S. Haight Present

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1832             62.49
Semii=anl allowance ending 4th M'ch   20.83
                                                 1833     $83.32

(Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832)
Recorded by MCuffield  Clerk,
Book D   Vol. 4  Page 98
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5.706
Vermont Burlington
Martha Chapin
widow of Sylvanus
who serviced in the Revolutionary
was as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
41. Dollars 66
Cents per annum, to commence on the
4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the
29 day of July 1851
and sent to
Hm J. Meacham M.l.
Middlebury, VT
[entered by hand "She died Aug. 22-1853-A.B.]

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 46.  Vol. 3.
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Case of No 47287
Silvanus Chaplin
Decloration
P.O.
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I Jerushah Saxton, ^[illegible] of Salisbury in the county of Addison State of Vermont can testify that I lived in Belchertown county of Hampshire State of Massachusetts in the time of the revolutionary war I remember that my brother Sylvanus Chapin enlisted into the army in latter part of August 1775 and served in the army to the first day of January following and in the month of August 1776.  he [illegible] Sylvanus enlist for the northern army and served to the first of December following.  That he shored home sometime in the Said month of December. that he enlisted for the Southern army about the middle of the aforesaid Decem. for three months to attend from army the latter pary of March following.  That in the month of May 1777 aforedined Sylvanus enlisted for the northern army and returned the month of July following.
Jerusha "X" Saxton
Mark
State of Vermont
Addison County
Salisbury July 23 1832 personally approved Jerusha Saxton and made solemn oath to the truth of the above certification
Before Mr. Reuben Saxton Justice of the peace
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State of Vermont On this 24 day of July 1832 Addison County personally appeared before the Judges of the County Court, in open court Sylvanus Chapin resident in Addison in the County aforesaid, aged seventy five years who first being duly sworn, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by act of  Congress [illegible] the 7 June 1832,  that he the said Sylvanus Chapin enlisted in Belchertown, County of Hampshire, State of Massachusetts in the month of August 1775 and served in the Continental Army in the Revolutionary army and continued in that service at Cambridge near Boston, until the January following, being four months and five days over in the Regiment to which he belonged being then dismissed _ the above service was performed in Capt. Cole' company . Col. B. R. Woodbridge Regiment, 
And in the month of August 1776 he again enlisted at said Belchertown, the terms of the last enlistment, were to tern until the first of December following being about three months and a half, that this last mentioned service was performed at Ticonderoga, & elsewhere on Lake Champlain_ in Capt. B. Bonny, company, Col S. Brewer' Regiment. Genl. [name struck out] Brigadier and was discharged at Ticonderoga the first of Dec. 1776 & returned home to Belchertown and soon after, in the month of Dec. 1776 he again enlisted at said Belchertown, for the term