Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37848, Elijah Chapman, Conn.
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SERVICE
Conn   

Chapman, Elijah

NUMBER
S. 37848
B.L. Wt 375 _ 300 _ Capt.
Issued May 19. 1797 to
Elijah Chapman
no papers

CONTENTS
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Connecticut
4,2151

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[checkmark in black ink] Elijah Chapman
2d Conn Regt
Captain 
Connecticut line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 9 of May 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 7 of November
and sent Sylvester Gilbert
Hebron Connecticut

Arrears to 4th of Sep 1818 - - 23/31 4/30  77.49
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1819           120. -
                                                                  $197.49
died Dec. 17 - 1825.

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}

.86 War
3 years
[written in pencil] opinion of Atty Gen. sent
on May 1821
Tolland
Tolland, Ct

Stricken off under act of 1 May 1820 - Notification sent to
Elisha Stearns, Esq; Tolland, Cont. on 12th July 1820 -
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Elijah Chapman ^ Esq. of Tolland in the County of Tolland [crossed out illegible] in the State of Connecticut, now residing in sd Tolland, and a Citizen of the United States - Testifies & declares upon oath, that as the commencement of the revolutionary war in the year 1775 he enterd in to the service of his County as a soldier, and on the 10th day of June 1776 having been regularly appointd Second Lieutenant in the army of the United Colonies in the Company Commanded by Captain Prior in Coll Andrew Wards Regiment on the Continental establishment he received a Commission of 2nd Lieut as aforesd, Signed by John Hancock President [smudged and illegible]
Charles Thompson Secretary, bearing date of the day & year last aforesd; and under sd Commission he served in sd Compy as 2nd Lieut untill the first day of January A. D. 1777, where he received a Commission, signed & attested as the first, appointing him first Lieutenant in a Company commanded by Josiah Childs Captain, in a Regiment commanded by Coll Philip B. Bradley in teh army of the United States, which Commission bears date the say & year last aforesd, and under sd last mentioned Commission he served in sd Regiment untill the 20th day of July A. D. 1780 when he was appointed a Captain in the 2nd Connecticut Regiment on the Continental establishment, and from that time served & performed the Duty of a Captain in thh Regiment till the close of the revolutionary War, but received his Commission appointing him to be Captain as aforesd, bearing date the 10th day of Septemr A. D. 1781 giving him ranks from said 20th day of July 1780 ^ signed by Thomas McKean President and he says that he began with the war of the revolution and continued therein untill the end & close thereof, when he was regularly & honourably
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discharged at the highlands near West Point in the State of New York - He also says that he served the whole time faithfully against the Common Enemy & the three last years as a Captain on the Continental Establishment and hath his said three several Commissions, now here ready to be shewn, together with two other respectable commissions while in the sd army not now offered to be shewn believing it to be unnecessary to trouble the Honourable Secretary therewith. He was in the Battle of Trenton & assisted in taking the Hessians. He was also in ^the Battle of Germantown, and in the Battle of Monmouth, and was at the Siege of York Town, & before that, at the battle in James Town in Virginia and in each & every of those Battles Commanded a Company [crossed out my] the next Superior officer always being absent in those engagements - He also says that ^ he assisted in storming the Redoubt at Yorktown & lost nearly one third of his Company killed & wounded, & was in several toher hard skirmises unnecessary to mention. He further says that he is aged 65 years and has infirmaties of body, besides the decays of Constitution. That he is in reduced circumstances, involved by misfortune in debt, unable to perform but little manueal labour, & has one daughter in a confirmed state of mental derangement, entirely dependent on him for support, & that he stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support
Hebron May 9th. A. D. 1818
Elijah Chapman [signature]
Tolland County ss Hebron May 9th. 1818 personally appreared the above named Genl Elijah Chapman and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing Declaration by him subscribed. Before me
Sylvester Gilbert Judge of the County Court [signature]
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Hon John C Calhoun
Secretary at War
Washington

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Elijah Chapman
Tolland Cont
4251 -
not enlisted 
issd 17 Nov. 1818
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STATE OF CONNECTICUT, County of Tolland
ss. County Court or Court of Common Please June term, 1820
ON this 3d day of July 1820, personally appeared in open Court, the same Court being a Court of record for said County, having the power of fine and imprisonment, Gen. Elijah Chapman aged 67 years, resident in Tolland in the County of Tolland who being first duly sworn according to law doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: In 1775 served as a Sergeant about 8 months at Roxbury & near Boston - In 1776 entered the service as a 2d Leiut in Capt Abner Prior's company Col. Andrew Wards Regt. Con. line during the war - In 17777 was apointed 1t Lieut in Capt Josiah Childs Compy Col. Philip B Bradleys Regt Con line & served therein 3 or 4 years & afterwards was appointed Capt & served in Col. Herman Swift Regt Con line till the close of the war except two campaigns when he was detached into the Lt Infantry - his commissions being sent with his original declaration to the war office - was in the battle at Trenton and the battles at Germantown, Monmouth, & Jamestown & at the siege of Cornwallis & there assisted in taking a redoubt when of 24 rank & file under his command 3 were killed & 4 wounded & was in many skirmishes - Originals declaration dated 9th May 1818 No. of pension certificate 4251
And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on teh 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in amy 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, contract, or debt, due to me ; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed."
Schedule
225 acres military bounty land in the County Tuscarara State of Ohio titled in the books of the Register 2nd rate land was the only 50 cents per acre but will not present sell for any thing ---   100.00
103 acres & buildings house & barn ---2500.00
22 do outlands ---  220.00
2 horses --- 110.00
1 yoke of oxen --- 60.00
1 Do 2 year old --- 35.50
3 Cows --- 59.00
2 yearlings & one Calf --- 20.00
8 Sheep --- 6.67
1 Sow & pigs --- 18.00
1 Chaise & harness --- 30.00
2 Clocks --- 15.00
1 watch --- 3.00
household furnitures --- 102.97
fowling piece --- 5.00
saddle & bridle --- 3.50
farming Tools --- 35.11
other loose property --- 11.48
$3335.18
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The declarant is also indebted to sundry persons to the amount in the whole of - $ 1703.70 and the principal past of his real estate is now mortgaged & for some years has been for a considerable part of the above debts
Elijah Chapman [signature]
The declarant has o occupation - he was many years Sheriff of the County of Tolland but some years since being disabled in a measure by age & infirmity from performing its duties he assigned said officer - he has a rupture occasioned by service in the revolutionary war, and is now unable to labour, & has no adequate means of supporting himself and family  without spending upon or sacrificing a portion of his real estate which is now insufficient to afford a maintenance for his family & without the pension which he now receives his whole real estate must in all probability soon be swept from him for the payment of his debts & the support of his family. He has a wife 60 years of age of a feeble constitution & subject to apoleptic fits, & unable to manage the domestic concerns of the family, which renders it necessary to hire constantly female help - He had a daughter Polly who died in April last who had been for a number of years before her death deranged & needing constant attention & oversight - He has two twin sons Elijah & Reuben aged 30 years - The former being unfortunate in trades at the close of the late near has become largely indebted without any means of payment - the latter Reuben is now & ever since Sept last has been in a state of derangement & the burden of his support & oversight falls on the declarant, both are members of his family - he has a hired girl Abigail Stebbins in his family}
Sworn to and declared by said Elijah Chapman Esq on the 3d day of July 1820 before said Court, and it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is 3335 dollar and 18 cents. and in the sum of $1703.70 said Court also find that the declarant is indebted & ^that his circumstances & family are in all respect as ^is herein stated
I, Elisha Stearns Clerk of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Tolland aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the record of said Court. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 3d day of July 1820
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E Stearns [signature]
Clerk of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas in and for Said County of Tolland
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The Secretary will please direct to me at Tolland, Con,
Elisha Stearns
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February 24,1932.

Mrs. C. E. Buckbee,
117 Seventh Street, 
White Bear Lake, Minnesota.

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to one Elijah Chapman, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The data contained herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, S.37848, based upon his military service in that war.
Elijah Chapman entered the service at the commencement of the Revolution in 1775 and served about eight months as a sergeant, names of officers not stated; on June 10,1776 he was commissioned second lieutenant in Captain Abner Prior's Company, Colonel Andrew Ward's Connecticut Regiment; on January 1, 1777 he was commissioned first lieutenant in Captain Josiah Childs' Company, Colonel Philip Burr Bradley's Connecticut Regiment; he was commissioned captain September 18, 1781, to rank as such from July 20,1780, in the Second Connecticut Regiment and served in Colonel Heman Swift's Regiment until the close of the war. He was in the battles of Trenton,Germantown,Monmouth, Jamestown, was at the siege of Yorktown and capture of Cornwallis and there assisted in taking a redoubt and he was also engaged in many skirmishes.
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 9, 1818 while a resident of Tolland,Tolland County, Connecticut, aged sixty-five years.
In 1820 soldier's wife, her name not stated, was aged sixty years and his twin sons Rueben and Elijah, Jr. were aged thirty years. His daughter, Polly, her
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age not given, died in April 1820.
Soldier died December 17,1825.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.
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State of Connecticut, County of Tolland SS Superior Court Dec Term 1823
On this 26 day of Dec AD: 1823 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of record for the County aforesaid having the powers of fine and imprisonment General Elijah Chapman resident in Tolland in the County of Tolland aged 70 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 help of the 18" of March 1818 the 1" of May 1820 and the 1" of March 1823 that he the said Elijah Chapman in 1775 serviced as a Sergeant ^in the militia about 8 months at Roxbury near Boston - & in 1776 he entered the service of the United States as a 2d Lieut in Capt Abner Priors company Col Andrew Wards Regiment Connecticut line. the war being continental establishment - In 1777 he was appointed first Lieut in Capt Josiah Childs company Col Philip B Bradleys Regiment Connecticut line Continental establishment  and served therein three or four years and afterward was appointed Captain and served in Col Heman Swifts Regiment Connecticut line Continental establishment till the close of the war except two campaigns when he was detached into the St Infantry his commissions were sent with his original declaration to the war office - The declarant was in the battles of Trenton, of Germantown, of Monmouth, of Jamestown, and at the siege and capture of Cornwallis where he assisted in storming a redoubt when about one third of the men under his command were either killed or wounded - he was also engaged in many skirmishes - original declaration was dated 9" May 1818 on which a pension was granted No 4251,-
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 16" of March
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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 myself within the provisions of an but 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 18 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 hereto annexed and by me subscribed -
103 acres of land home & barn under mortgages to the amount of 1400 dollars which would be the worth 
[illegible] incumbred about 2000 dollars - and a decree of foreclosure of my equity of redemption to said property has actually been passed by the Superior Court for this County and I have no means of redeeming the same - copies of the mortgage Deeds are here to annexed -
1 yearling heifer --- 7.00
8 Sheep --- 10.67
3 hogs - two of them to be killed for port and to be}
consumed in support of my family} --- 12.00
2 clocks --- 12.00
household furniture --- 80.00
fowling piece --- 5.00
old saddle and bridle --- 3.00
farming tools --- 5.00
8 old chestnut rider barrels --- 1.00
135.67
Elijah Chapman [signature]
certain property in my former schedule has since that time been disposed of as follows - 
my farm mortgaged as aforesd - to wit, to Solo L Fuller by deed dated 2d day of Oct 1818 - to Joseph Baker by deed dated 20 day of March 1820 and to Eleazer Pinney by deed dated the 20 day of Dec. 1823 for the debts therein respectfully named
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and a decree of foreclosure has been passed during the present term of this Court upon the petition of said Fuller of my equity of redemption in said farm whereby the same is rendered of as value to me 22 acres of land contained in my former schedule belonged to me only by virtue of a mortgage deed preciously assigned to me by Solomon L Fuller and which deed I have since assigned to Jonathan Barnes Esq for a debt I owed him about 200 dollars
2 horses one yoke of oxen, one yoke of two year old cattle, three cows, two yearlings and one calf one watch all sold and assigned to pay debts - one sow fatted consumed in my family - 
chaise & harness worn out -
225 acres of military bounty land in the County of Tuscarara State of Ohio called in the books of the Register 2d rate land has been abandoned for the taxes being of no value -
The declarant has no occupation he was many years Sheriff of the County of Tolland and some years since resigned said office - he is now by age and infirmity utterly disabled  for labour of any kind - he has a wife 64 years of age of a feeble constitution and subject to apoplectic fits and is unable to manage the domestic concerns of the family and he is obliged constantly to hire a girl in his family 0 he has a son Reuben about 34 years of age who for about four years past has been deranged in his mental faculties and is now supported by me at considerable expense in the family of a physician for the benefit of his health and reason and your declarant stand in need of assistance from his Country for support
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Sworn to and subscribed and declared by the said Elijah Chapman Esq this 26 day of Dec AD 1823 - And this Court do find that the facts herein stated are true and that the said Elijah Chapman Esquire is in such indigent circumstances as to stand in need of assistance from his country for support and it is the opinion of this Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is 135 dollars 67 cents and that the aforesd equity of redemption is of no value to him -
At time of Record Merle E Stearns Clerk [signature]

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And I hereby certify that Joseph Howard is Register of the town of Tolland and that his signature on the annexed copies of deed & in his proper hand writing
Merle E Stearns Clerk [signature]
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Tolland Ct, Dec 10th 1824

Sir
Having necessarily been absent from my fathers residence for several months past, I learn on my return that he has again renewed his application for a pension from government, and that some doubts appear to have arisen relation to the propriety of granting at, on the ground, that some unnecessary waste, most of his property & exhibited in the schedule forwarded to your office in 1820, and the one sent on his recent application. To remove these surmises what I presume are strengthened by the unjustifiable measures many applicants for pensions have adopted. I subjoin the following affidavit, and I trust Sir, from the disposition you have ever manifested to relieve the wants of the impoverished soldiers of the revolution you will in convixion with testimony already before you, give it the weight which in your opinion it justly merits -
I am Sir with much respect
your humble Servt
Elijah Chapman Jr [signature], son of Elijah Chapman applicant for a pension above alluded to - 
J. C. Calhoun Esq}
Secretary of War -}
Affidavit -
I Elijah Chapman Jr. being personally acquainted with the affairs of Elijah Chapman Sen / now an applicant for a pension from the government of our United States since AD 1820, do know, that his necessary expenditures since that time have annually amounted to more than one Hundered  has been absolutely necessary for the comfortable support of himself and family, and that repeated exertions have been made, to dispose of his farm at private
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sale for more than the amount for which it is was mortgaged without success, owing to the depreciation of landed property in this region, and that, without some pecuniary aid from abroad, he must very soon subsist to the degradation of asking relief from the overseers of the poor in the township where he resides in and that I have hitherto contributed to his support, and the support of his family, by my my labor, without which assistance he must before this time have applied to the town for aid - or have suffered for the want of the common conveniences of life. - and furthermore that I am now 34 years of age and destitute of property -
Elijah Chapman Jr [signature]

State of Connecticut Tolland County for Tolland November 15th AD 1824 - personally appeared before me the above name Elijah Chapman Jr & made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed contains the Truth, the whole [erased] truth & nothing but the Truth [erased] taken & sworn before me
Johnathan Barnes, Justice of Peace [signature]

[erased] I further [erased] verify that the above Deponent is a reputable & credible witness -
Jonan Barnes, Justice of peace [signature]

A certificate that Jonathan Barnes Esq is a Justice of the peace was forwarded with the application
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THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAN IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED
To Elijah Chapman Esquire -- Greeting. We, Reposing especial trust and confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct, and Fidelity, DO by these presents constitute and appoint you, to a Captain in the Second Connecticut Regiment. - 
in the Army of the United States, to take rank as such - from the 20 day of July. 1780 - You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of a Captain - by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging. And we do Strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your command, to be obedient to your orders, as Captain - And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time, as you shall receive from this, or a future Congress of the United States, or Committee of Congress for that purpose appointed, a Committee of the States or Commander in chief for the time being of the Army of the United States, or any other Superior Officer, according to the rules and discipline of War, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue inforce until revoked by this, or a future Congress, the Committee of Congress beforementioned, or a Committee of the States.

Witness this Excellency Thomas McKean Esq President of the Congress of the United States of America, at Philadelphia - the 18- day of September - 1781, and in the Sixth Year of our Independenc.
Tho M:Kean President [signature]

Entered in the War Office and examined by the Board
Attest
Jos Carleton [signature] Secretary of the Board of War
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IN CONGRESS.
The DELGATES of the UNITED STATES of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Counties of New-Castle, Kent and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, TO Elijah Chapman Genl. Greeting
WE, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, DO by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be first Lieutenant of a Company in a Regiment commanded by Col. Philp Burr Bradley in the Army of the United States, raised for the Defence of American Liberty, and for repelling every hostile Invasion thereof. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of a first Lieutenant by doing and performing all manner of Things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officer and Soldiers under you Command, to be obedient to your Orders, as their first Lieutenant - And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from Time to Time, as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United States, or Committee of Congress, for that Purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the Time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in Force until revoked by this or a future Congress, Dated at Hartford in the State of Connecticut, the first Day of January AD 1777 -
By Order of the Congress,
John Hancock [signature] PRESIDENT.

ATTEST. Cha Thomson Secy
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IN CONGRESS.
The DELGATES of the UNITED STATES of New-Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Counties of New-Castle, Kent and Sussex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, TO Elijah Chapman Junr. Esq. Greeting
WE, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity, DO by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be second Lieutenant of a Company in the Army of the United Colonies, raised for the Defence of American Liberty, and for repelling every hostile Invasion thereof. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of a first Lieutenant by doing and performing all manner of Things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officer and Soldiers under you Command, to be obedient to your Orders, as their first Lieutenant - And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from Time to Time, as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United Colonies, or Committee of Congress, for that Purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the Time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the Trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in Force until revoked by this or a future Congress, Dated at Hartford in the State of Connecticut, the 10th Day of June 1776 -
By Order of the Congress,
John Hancock [signature] PRESIDENT.

ATTEST. Cha Thomson Secy
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37848
INVALID.
Revy
File No. S7.848
Elijah Chapman
Capt Rev War
Act: 18" March 18"
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 482
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1932 Feb. 24. Hist to Mrs. C. E. Buckbee. A. D. Y.
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[stamp RECEIVED JAN 30 1932 [illegible] PENSION FILES SUB-DIVISION [**border of stamp looks like a clock]**]

MRS. C. E. BUCKBEE
117 SEVENTH STREET
WHITE BEAR LAKE MINNESOTA

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C. 
Dear Sir,
What would be the expense to me of getting the war record of Captain Elijah Chapman of Tolland. He served in the "Relief of Boston" 1775; was a corporal in Capt. Solomon Welles company from Tolland; was in the fifth company of Colonel Joseph Spencer's Regiment from May 3rd to Dec. 17,1775;
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was in the fifth Regiment of the Conn Line, Capt. Philip Burr Bradley commanding.  He was commissioned lieutenant Jan 1, 1777, captain July 1780 of the Conn. Light Infantry Co. He was present at the siege of Yorktown. He was a captain of St. John's Co. that marched South 1780 under command of General Lafayette, second regiment Conn. Line formation of Jan. to June 1783 Herman Swift commanding. He was retired as a captain in 1783. Conn. Revolutionary Pensioners. granted a pension in 1819.

Sincerely
Sue Buckbee
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Elijah Chapman, of Connecticut, Officer from 1776 to the end of the war now 71 years of age.
Schedule in 1830 exhibits property in the amount of $3335.18, viz. 22_ acres of military lands, in Ohio, valued at $100. House and land in Connecticut at $2720. Horses, oxen cows, sheep, household furniture $515.18. It is certiified by the Clerk that the court also find that the claimant is indebted to the amount of $1703.70. Schedule in 1823 exhibits personal property to the amount of $135.67 only. He states that his land & property would be worth $2000, if not encumbered by mortgages (which amount to $1400 only). On a mortgage of $500 a decree of foreclosure of the equity of redemption has been passed by the Court. He accounts for the reduction in the value of his property by the depreciation in real estate since 1820. It is stated that a part of his stock has been disposed of to pay his debts and support his family. the military land in Ohio has been abandoned for taxes. The account of the reduction of his property was not affected(?) satisfactory. Although it is held that he will soon be obliged to ask relief from the overseers of the poor, it appears that he is still in posession of the home and land. He has no occupation was once a Sheriff, and resigned. Not now able to labor. Wife 54, feeble. Son 34 deranged in mind.

See letter 28 Jan 1825 to Hon. W. A. Edwards & G. Tomlinson of Feb. 18 18__ to Hon. S.A. Foot & E. Stoddard, H.R.
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Elijah Chapman Capt.

Suspended for formal authentication of 3 deeds which have been returned for that purpose.
See letter to Hon. Ebent Stoddard
H. Rep.
10th Feby 1824

Suspended see 
letter 7 May 1826
to Hon. E. Stoddard
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Restore

Hon. Dtr Foot
(of Con.) H.R.

Restored 2 March 1825

Mar 19
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Tolland Count Feb 19 1825

Hon Sam'l A Foot
Dear Sir 
Your letter with its enclosures was duly rec'd I have waited all this time in answering it in consequence of the absence of Gen Chapman's son hoping he would return and assent in furnishing the regarded proof but he has returned & in consequence of the inability of Gen Chapman I have been obliged to attend to it myself I now enclose evidence which I hope will be satisfactory & may procure the opportunity the kind offer of your further services in presenting it to the Secretary. Gen Chapman is also indebted to the Hon. Mr. Calhoun for his kindness in again examining the claim at your request. More particular evidence would have been furnished at first expecting the value of the real estate but the home was placed on the foreclosure & the finding of the Court that the equity of redemption was of no value to Gen. Chapman. Some of these deponents you know, all of them ae respectable men. If you can under Gen'l Chapman auspices on this subject you will lay us all under obligation to you.
I wish also you press a decision upon the application of Joseph Snell of Union
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in this County which has been pending ever since Sept 1823

I am [illegible] L. Respect
[illegible] Obed Servt

Elisha Stearns
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Objections as detailed in the letters of the department of the 8 Feb 1825.

"The Objections you will perceive to the admission of the claim are as follows.
The debts on account of which the property has been encumbered by mortgages have accrued since the Act of March 1818 passed and were not contracted in order to support his family they do not contracted in order to support his family they do not amount to a sufficient sum to absorb all his real property and therefore even if they had been so contracted do not form a sufficient basis upon which he can rest his claim."

Answer
1 "That they have accrued since the Act of March 1818
1st  As to the debt due Solo L. Fuller.
This debt did not go at all to diminish the property of the claimant but rather as he might fairly calculate to enhance it, as the Security he received as the consideration of it was at the time of greater value than the debt.  It may no more than a purchase of property by the claimant on very advantageous terms.  This is provided by the affidavits of Elijah Smith and & Eliakim Paulk.

2d As to the other two debts for which the farm was mortgaged are due to Eleazer Pinney by note dated in Dec 1818 for 494 dollars 202 dollars of which had been paid, and one due to Joseph Baker by note dated in 1819 for 350 dollars of which had been paid, and one due to Joseph Baker by note dated in 1819 for 350 dollars it will appear by the depositions of the said Pinney and Baker now in the pension office that although the notes bare date and
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were executed as aforesaid the debts for which they were given were both contracted before the passage of said Act of March 18, 1818, and if the evidence contained in their said depositions is not satisfactory on this point abundant proof will be furnished of this fact.

2d  That they do not amount to enough to absorb all his real property.

As to this military County land in the States of Ohio- It was stated in his schedule of 1820 that it would not sell for any thing then he now states that he has abandoned it for the taxes- a fact extremely difficult of proof, but perhaps the deposition of Elijah Chapman [illegible] now in possession the department may furnish some evidence on this subject.

The presumption is that in the Claimants embarrassed circumstances if he could have realized any thing from this land he would have done it.  But at any rates if he cannot convert it into the means of sustenance for his family, if it will neither feed nor clothe them, if it will not save them from being dependent on public or private charity, will it constitute any bar to his claim for a pension?

The farm though estimated by claimant in 1820 at 2500 and 1823 at 2000 dollars is proved by the disintercepted[?} testimony of Elijah Smith William Eldridge and Ariel Ladd not to have
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been worth so much at either period and that it is not now and was not at this date of his last application in [illegible] 1823 worth more than the amount of the mortgages upon it, to wit, the sum of 1400 dollars.  This fact is further corroborated by the certificates of the depreciation of real estate in this town since the late war.  The claimant, in common with most men, in estimating his own property, has not kept pace in diminution of price with its actual depreciation in value.

As to the 22 acres of outland the evidence now in the possession of the department contained it is believed  in the deposition contained it is believed in the deposition of Jonathan Barnes Esq proved that all the claimants title to said land was by virtue of a mortgage deed which was assigned to him by Solomon L. Fuller, the same fact appears from the affidavits therewith enclosed of Elijah Smith & Eliakim Paulk and also that said deed was assigned to said Barnes by the claimant for a debt of a [illegible] 200 dollars as appears from said Barnes, deposition due to him.

As to the disposition of his personal property, reliance is placed upon the evidence in the position of the department and the general statement contained in the affidavits herewith enclosed respecting the general characters of the claimant & his son Elijah Chapman [illegible] whose deposition
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contains, if rightly recollected, the most particular amount of the manner in which the property has been disposed of or consumed and also on the fact stated in said affidavits that he is actually poor & in need of support.  The claimant is unable to give a more particular statement.  The deposition, of Eliakim Chapman  E Stearns & regarding the personal property are now in possession of this department.
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Washington City 7 Feb 1825.

Sir,
Several letters have been addressed to me concerning the application of Gen. Elijah Chapman of Talland Connecticut to be restored to the Pension List.  I am not personally acquainted with the circumstances of General Chapman.  But the strong assurances that have been made me of his indigence and absolute need of the pension by the Hon. Calvin Willey & Elijah Stearns Esq. both of Talland, & both of high standing and gentlemen of the first respectability in that part of the State, has fully satisfied my mind that the General is a just and worthy applicant.  If his case can be brought within the rule it would I believe be satisfactory to all who know him.

I am, Sir, very respectfully 
Your Obd  Servt

Eben Stoddard

To the Hon John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
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[illegible]

Capitol 8th Feby, 1825

Sir

I enclose another letter from Elisha Stearns Esqr the same Gent from whom a letter was received & communicated to the department, a few days since as its thrown some new light on the subject by the particular explanations of the circumstances of the applicant.

Very respectfully
Your Obedt Servant
Saml A. Foot
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Tolland Conn, Jany 3d 1825

Hon John C Calhoun

Secretary of War, Sir as additional evidence on the application of General Elijah Chapman for a Pension I now enclose the certificate of the Selectmen of the town and request as speedy a decision as may be consistent with the business of the department.

With very great Respect
Your Obed Servt
Elisha Stearns
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Tolland Ct
Feb 1st

Free

Hon Samuel A. Foot
Rep. in Congress
Washington
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Tolland Conn Jan'y 31 1825
Hon Samuel A Foot
Sir General Elijah Chapman of this town has an application pending in the pension office of Washington for a pension, which was presented more than a year since. Additional evidence has been several times furnished at the suggestion of the department, but it is now several months since any notice has been taken of it - General Chapman's situation is distressing; his family must fall on the town unless he obtains immediate relief, & he has been kept from the town for some time by the actions[?] of a Son who is himself a bankrupt - In his behalf I have to request your assistance & influence  with the secretary to obtain the grant for him if possible and I will see that that you are satisfied for your trouble.
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If you will take the trouble to examine the case I think you will find it a meritorius one. The witnesses are all credible & respectable - Some of them [?] know. Two of our Selectmen, Messrs. Hyde & Newcomb, have been representatives in the General Assembly - They certified to the paucity of Gen Chapman & his need of assistance for support - there is other accordance of the faith - It is important that a decision should be had immediately that he may draw, if it is granted, in March next. - I hope Sir, it may be in your graces to render him immediate assistance expecting his application & whatever trouble you owe at, shall be [remunecated?]
There is at another application there pending & which has been there absent the same time in [fanam?] of
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Joseph Snell of Union in this County, which [Chelices?] stands perfectfully fair. Mr Snell is certainly poor & in great want of the pension - Mr Stoddard is acquainted with Mr Snell and knows something of his application - I wish you want to call the attention of the Secretary to his case also, & perhaps if necessary, Mr Stoddard might say something to aid the application
Very Respectfully
Your Obed. Svt.
Elisha Sterns
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House of Reps 5th Feby 1825
Sir Permit me to call your attention to the enclosed letter in relation to a Pension from my personal acquaintance with the writer of this letter, I can state without hesitation, that the statement made by him are entitled to full credit- & I hope that the urgency of the case, as expressed by the writer, will ensure the immediate attention of the Department 
Very respectfully yours
[illegible] A Foot

James L. Edwards Esq.
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Brother Stoddard
I take this method to elicit a less
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Subject or I should not trouble you with it, nothing of importance has
[illegible] in this hand of [illegible] since you [illegible] Connecticut
should he [illegible] to him [illegible] may be convenient,
[illegible] my attention to the case of Gen Elijah Chapman will
[illegible] on him a great favor and will much oblige
Yours very respectfully.
Calvin Willey.
[illegible] January 10th 1895.
[illegible] Should the office [illegible] his [illegible]will in my belief will be highly esteemed and thereto in [illegible] present should his
[illegible],  Yours [illegible]
C.W.
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Tolland Ct.
Feb 5
Free
Hon. Samuel A Foot
Rep. in Congress
Washington
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Tolland, Conn. Feb. 4, 1825

Hon. Samuel A. Foot 
Sir, I yesterday rec'd a communication from the pension office through the medium of Mr. Edwards of the Senate  informing that General Chapman application was negated Still I request your attention to it to the wherein proof was wanting and if there has not been same mistake [reputery] if & to  procure if possible a reconsideration. There is but one opinion here or the [July if], and there is a deep public sympathy for the General & a very strong opinion in [service] of his claim. An attention to his case as stated in his application will satisfy you, that whether on the grand of revolutionary services, or present [punniary] wants, poverty, & family suffering , few cases can exceed his. He served the first campaign at Boston, & enlisted the next spring with the first continental troops, which
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were raised and served during the war. He has no property except same [haunrbald] good, & a  cow which he can call his own  unless it is same  of small [nature] which one example from execution and he now owes some hundred dollars for which he is liable any moneity to be committed to goal. He is  himself come down with age & indefinitely& incapable of earning anything, his wife weakly & subject to epileptic fits , a son about 34 years of age dependent upon him & in a state of mental derangement his only dependence is an another son of the same age, a twins, who has failed in trade, has no property, or means of earning money last day his labour, and is himself if saddled with a large amount of debts, the he has not the withstanding try extraordinary executions kept his father, family for two or three years from earning from upon the town- all there facts & think are substantially proved by documents in the pension office, what more is wanted I can not tell with [apart] to the disposal of the property contained
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in his schedule made out in 1820 id it is possible that every article may not be particularly warranted for in the present schedule though I think there not many exceptions, but is proved generally. That they have gave for the payment of his debt,& the support of his family- it is possible that the Secretary had not all the evidence before him when he decided on the claim asi t has been [of] awarded or different period , since the application was made in Dec. 1823- The application of the documents accompanying it was or on time, about a year ago, [mistake] in the pension office and it was same months before they are found. Same personal property was assigned to Johnathan Barnes Esq. as appears from his deposition & which he , out of pity to Gen. chapman, differed him to retain the use of - this fact & should not & think could operate against him- but whats the ever the ground of rejection is  will you be so good as to afford him your assistance if anything can be done for him & I will see your paid- He will be so disheartened with this failure that it will be difficult to persuade him to make another application.
Very respectfully, 
Your Obed. Serv. 
Elisha Stearns
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Washington Jan 14th 1825
Sire,
In a letter recently received from the Hon Calvin Willey of Connecticut, he remarks that "Elijah Chapman made a regular application for a pension about a year since, to which application he has had no answer", and he adds that "he was a commissioned officer and served" as Mr. willey believes "during the whole of the revolutionary war, was a good officer and is now old and very poor and stands in immediate need of assistance" and asks my attention to the matter.
Will you state to me what is the situation of that application? If it have been suspended for what
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[illegible]
With sentiments of regard
I am, Sir, 
Your obdt Sevt
Gideon Tomlinson
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The subscribing inhabitants of the town of Tolland in the County of Tolland and State of Connecticut certify on oath that real estate generally in this town has depreciated in value since the late war from 33 1/3 to 50 percent/  Feby 19 1825

Calvin Willey
Elijah Smith
Wm Eldredge
Ariel Ladd

The subscribers inhabitants of the town of Tolland aforesaid certify on oath that we are acquainted with the farm which General Elijah Chapman has owned in Tolland aforesaid & which is the only farm he has owned as possessed in said town for more than ten years past and that said farm was not worth 2500 dollars in 1820 and that it i not worth 2500 dollars in 1820 and that is not now & has not been for 14 months worth more than the amount of the mortgages upon it being about the sum of 1400 dollars
Feb 19 1825

Elijah Smith
Wm Eldredge
Ariel Ladd

State of Connecticut ss  Tolland County Feb. 19 1825 personally appeared all the signers to the above certificates and made solemn oath to the truth of the certificates by them respectively subscribed & I certify that they are all respectable & credible witnesses before me.

George M. Hyde Justice of Peace
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The subscribers inhabitants of the town of Tolland in the County of Tolland & State of Connecticut certify on oath that at the time General Elijah Chapman assumed the debt of his son Elijah Chapman [illegible] due to  Solomon L. Fuller to wit in 1818 which debt was about the sum of 500 dollars the said Fuller assigned to the said Elijah Chapman as the consideration of his assuming said debt the property which he held in his the said Fuller hands as security for the same and which property was particularly appraised by us at the time at more than 600 dollars and consisted of a mortgage of 22 acres of land which this said Elijah Chapman [illegible] had mortgaged to said Fuller as part security & which land was then valued by us at about the sum of 330 dollars & other property estimated by us at about the sum of 300 dollars and it was considered by us at the time that the property received by said Elijah Chapman from said Fuller as security of aforesaid more than indemnified him for assuming said debt.  Said mortgage deed of said 22 acres of land was afterwards assigned to Jonathan Barnes Esq to secure a debt to him from the said Elijah Chapman and said land in our opinion is not now worth more than 220 dollars.
Elijah Smith
Eliakim Paulk

State of Connecticut SS County of Tolland
Feb 19 1825 Personally appeared the signers to the above certificate & made solemn oath to the truth of the same And I certify that thing are respectable & credible witnesses.
Geo. M. Hyde  Justice of Peace
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The subscribers inhabitants of the town of Tolland in the County of Tolland and State of Connecticut certify an oath that we are well acquainted with General Chapman and his son Elijah Chapman [illegible] both of this town and that they both sustain the most irreproachable characters as men of honor & integrity and in our opinion are the last men that would be engaged in any attempt to practice a fraud upon the public as an individual, and we do believe that the said Elijah Chapman is without fraud or [illegible] really poor & from the distressed condition of this family peculiarly in need of support from his country & from his long & meritorious revolutionary services a fit object of the public county.
February 19 1825

Calvin Willey
Elijah Smith
Wm Eldredge
Eliakim Paulk
Ariel Ladd
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Tolland County Connt
SS Clerks Office

I Jeremiah Parish Clerk of the County Court in & for Tolland County do hereby Certify that George M. Hyde Esqr before whom the foregoing Certificates or affidavits were authenticated is a Justice of Peace within and for the County of Tolland legally appointed & authorized to discharge all the duties appertaining to said office & that the signatures to the foregoing Certificates is in his own proper  hand writing

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Tolland this 19th day of February A.D. 1825

Jeremiah Parish Clerk
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Tolland Ct                             Free
July 31. 

Hon John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington

Pension office

1 March 1823
Elijah Chapman


[illegible] 3 Aug 1824
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I Elijah Chapman of the town & County of Tolland of lawful [illegible] depose & say that that date & which was stated in my declaration for a pension to be due to Solomon L. Fuller and for which I mortgaged my farm to him was originally the debt of my son Elijah Chapman [illegible] that on the 2 day of Oct 1818 I assumed said debt and gave my note to said Fuller for the same in consideration of said Fuller, having discounted one hundred dollars from the amount then due him from the said Elijah [illegible] and also in consideration of said Father, assigning to me the security he held for the payment of said debt being a mortgage of twenty two acres of land which mortgage I afterward assigned to Jonathan James Esq to secure a debt I owed him as stated in his deposition & which debt originated as stated therein the said Elijah [illegible] being then and was since a bankrupt.  

The debt I owe to Joseph Baker as stated in his deposition was originally for borrowed money & labor as he carried on my farm a number of years.  The money was one hundred dollars and was borrowed of him seventeen or eighteen years since and I can not now recollect the particular manner in which I appropriated the money.  The note I gave him for it was renewed from time to time and the amount for  services he had rendered added to it till the debt amounted to the sum of 354 dollars 20 cents for which a note was given the 12th of Aug  1819.
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and a mortgage of my farm to secure said note on the 20th day of March 1820.

The debt to Eleazar Pinney mentioned in my declaration and his deposition originated in the following manner.  My son Elijah Chapman Junior about the year 181[illegible] being in want of money to establish himself in business I procured the sum of four hundred ninety four dollars fifty cents from the Phoenix Bank at Hartford and let him have it, I gave my note to the Bank which was [illegible] by said Pinney and having failed to meet the payments the said Pinney paid said note and I gave my note to him for the same sum and on the 29 of March 1819 paid said Pinney in part the sum of 202 dollars 50 cents & that the remainder of said last mentioned note sale remains due to him and is the debt for which I gave him a mortgage of my farm.
Elijah Chapman


Tolland County SS Tolland July 30th A.D. 1824 personally appeared Elijah Chapman Esqr & made sworn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains the truth, the whole truth & nothing but the Truth.

Before me Jonathan Barnes Justice of Peace
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Tolland, Conn, July 30 1824

Hon. John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.  Sir  Annexed in the deposition of Genl Elijah Chapman regarding the debts for which his property was mortgaged as stated in his application for a pension.  Documents I [illegible] that Johnathan Barnes Esq is a Justice of the peace have been lately forwarded in this application.  May I request your early attention to this case of Genl Chapman who from the unfortunate distressed & helpless situation of his family is rendered peculiarly in need of assistance from his country for support.

Very Respectfully
Your Obed Servt
Elisha Stearns
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Tolland, Conn June 30 1824

Hon John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.  Sir, I enclose the evidence required on the application of Genl Elijah Chapman of this town for a pension.  The [illegible] of Genl Chapman is such as to have [illegible] the delay in procuring the evidence [illegible] would perhaps have been more [illegible] had it not been that his son Elijah Chapman [illegible], who for three or four years past has had the management and control of his father, business, is now absent in the western country as will appear from the depositions.  It is believed, however, that saith respect to the real estate, and most articles of the personal property contained in [illegible] former schedule the proof will be found [illegible] and sufficiently particular. Genl Chapman requests that the enclosed letters from Walter R. Kibbe Esq. may be shown to the Secretary, [illegible] as it is understood personally acquainted with Mr. Kibbe the Secretary may be satisfied [illegible] in that the case of Genl Chapman is what [illegible] purports to be.

As to the case of Thomas Weaver which was forwarded with Genl Chapman, and in which further evidence also was required as to the disposal of his property, I have reason to believe from information lately received, that he never was in the United States service in the Revolutionary war.  A further communication on that subject may
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be expected [illegible]  Weaver has brought the required evidence regarding his property but it is detained till the others point is clear[truncated] up.

A speedy answer in Gen Chapmans case will relieve him from a state of suspense is extremely painful to him.

With great Res[cut off]
Your Obed. [illegible]
Elisha Stearns
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I Joseph Baker of Windsor in the county of Hartford of [illegible] depose and say that Genl Elijah Chapman of Tolland in the county of Tolland is justly indebted to me the deponent in and by a promissory note dated the 12 day of August A.D. 1819 for the sum of Three Hundred and fifty four dollars and twenty cents and interest for money loaned and services rendered him previous to that time and the said Elijah Chapman to resume the payment of said note on the 20th day of March 1820 [illegible] to me his farm in Tolland which before that time had been mortgaged to Solomon L. Fuller and said debt with the interest thereon remains wholly due and unpaid at this time.
Dated at Windsor June 12 1824
Joseph Baker

Hartford County SS Windsor June 12 1824
There personally appeared Joseph Baker the above named Deponent and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition and subscribed the same before
James Loomis  Just of Peace
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I Thomas Chester Clerk of the County Court of the County of Hartford in Connecticut do certify that on the twelfth day of June 1824 James Loomis Esqr. as a Justice of peace in & for said County & I believe the within Signature of his name is his signature.

In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court at Hartford this 20th day of June 1824

Thomas Chester Clerk
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I Thomas Chester Clerk of the County Court of the County of Hartford in Connecticut do certify that on the twelfth day of June 1824 James Loomis Esqr. as a Justice of peace in & for said County & I believe the within Signature of his name is his signature.

In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court at Hartford this 20th day of June 1824

Thomas Chester Clerk
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The subscribers hereby certify that in their
opinion had it not been for assistance which General Elijah Chapman of Tolland  has received for
several years part from his son Elijah
Chapman Sun towards his support and
that of his family he must have been dependent
on charity for the public for his support
That the said Elijah Chapman Jun is
about 34 years of age, destitute of property and 
embarrassed with debt that in this opinion Gen. Champand stands in need of assistance fro this cuntry for support. 
Tolland Jany 3d 1825
Selectmen of Tolland
Geo. M. Hyde
Cordia Newcomb
William Sumner
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Tolland Conn, Dec 15 1824
Hon. Henry W. Edwards
Sir Genl Eijah Chapman of this town has an application
for a pension which has been pending for
some time in the pension offering and now
enclose the affidavit of his son Elijah
Chapman Jun & request that you make to 
present it to the Secretary-- The situation of
Gen. Chapman & family is dependent and 
distressing the [illegible] of the young
man has kept them falling in the town.
The General & his son sustain characters
of the first respectability. If you could say any thing to aid the application you would render them a great favour.
Very Respectfully
Your Obd Servant
Elisha Stearns
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I certify that I am acquainted with
Elisha Chapman, Sgt L. Fuller, & Elisha Stearns Esquire
whose depositions were taken before me in the application of Gen. Elijah Chapman for a Pension;
and also with Eleazer Pinney & Joseph Baker &
consider them as person of truth & gravity. 
Tolland July 24, 1824. George Barnes Justice of Peace
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Eleason Pinney of Ellington in the County of
Tolland & State of Connecticut of lawfull age depose
& say that General Elijah Chapman of Tolland
in sd County of Tolland is Justly incumbed to me
in & by a promissory note dated the 29th day
of Decr 1818 for the sum of four Hundred & ninety four
dollars & fifty payable on demand with interest on
which note is enclosed March 29th 1819 Two hundred
& Two dollars fifty cents which debt originated
in consequence of my endorsing a note for said
Elijah Chapman at the Phoenix Bank in the
which not the said Elijah neglected to pay & on
such neglect the payment of sd note [illegible]
on me which note I have paid at said
and took the sd Elijah note above specified and
on the 26th day of December 1823 the said Elijah
gave me a mortgage deed of his home farm
June 3d
note under the incumbrance of a man
to Solomon L Fully & also a Mortgage to Joseph Baker
which note excepting sd Two Hundred & Two dollars &
fifty cents still remains unpaid & justly due to me
further the deponent saith not
Eleazer Tinney
Tolland County ss Ellington June 12th 1824
Personally appeared Eleason Pinney Signer of the
above and made solemn Oath that the facts
Stated in the above apposition were true before me
Benjamin Tinney Justice of Peace
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Solomon L Fuller of Lamar in
the County of Tolland of lawful
age depose & say that Elijah Chapman Esquire
is justly indebted to me in and
by a promissory note dated Oct 1818
for the sum of five hundred sixteen
dollars fifty seven which note the said
Elijah Chapman gave me at that
time to secure a debt which his son
Elijah Chapman [illegible] then owed me
for money loaned him and to secure
the payment of said note & the interest
thereon the said Elijah Chapman on
the same day give me a mortgage
of his farm in Tolland and at the
Superior Court held in Rutland on
the 4th Sunday of Dec last said note
being unpaid I obtained a decree of
of frame on said mortgage and of
his equity of redemption in said farm
Solomon L. Fuller
Tolland County ss Tolland June 28. AD 1824 personally appeared Solomon L. Fuller Esq & made solemn oath that the
foregoing Deposition be his
the said contains the truth the
whole truth & nothing but the truth by me
Jonathan Barnes Justice of Peace
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Eliakim Chapman of Holland in the
County of Tolland of lawful age depose
& say that same time in October or November
last there was an execution in favour of
Levi Wells Esq. against Gen. Elijah Chapman
of Tolland
by
for about the sum of fifty dollars in
the hand of Samuel Kent Dep Sheriff
for collections and Gen. Chapman being
pressed for the money and unable to pay
it requested me to be some obligated
with him for the debt and to receive
some personal property for security
this I declined but finally agreed with
him to buy a yoke [illegible] of him and
pay the execution to said Wells & give the
said Elijah two dollars besides paying the
[illegible] which I accordingly did do
at that time-
I also know that Genl
Chapman fatted and killed a steer for
beef two or three years since Eliakin Chapman
and County ss Tolland J June 29, 1824 personally
appeared Eliakin Chapman & made solemn oath
that the above Deposition by him subscribed, [illegible]
the truth, the whole truth & nothing but the truth
[illegible] Jonathan Barns Justice of Peace
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Jonathan Barnes of Tolland in the County of Tolland of  [ ]  age depose & say that Elijah Chapman Esq. of said Town is justly indebted to me in & by a promissory note dated the 27th Day of June A.D. 1820 for the sum of one hundred & Eighty Dollars & Thirty cents to be paid on demand with Interest annually; [ ] [ ]  the said Elijah gave me at that time upon the settlement & adjustment of our book accounts & notes by hand, bring the balance found  due to me; I find an refference to that settlement, that about one hundred & Sixtynine Dollars front thereof, as was the amount of a note & interest then due, which was given me by said Elijah in the year 1804 for Debt he had in collections as Sheriff, under my care as an attorney, belonging to one Mrs. Hall & which I [?] to her or [?] & took by said Elijah, note to myself. Afterwards about the 22nd day of December 1823 the said Elijah gave to me the following writing on assignment viz: "Whereas I am indebrted to Jonathan Barnes Esq. in a promissory note dated June 27, 1820 for the sume of one hundred eighty dollars thirty cents and interest; more therefore I to secure him therefor, I hereby assign over to Reuben Chapman obtained as the [ ] neither mentioned note & the money due him as aforesaid; and also to secure said Barnes the payment of the money due him as aforesaid; I hereby mortgage my horse, my two cows & my [ ] in the barn estimated at Eight [ ] sale of the value of [ ] dollars to be forfeited, if not redeemed
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by me in fourth months from this time. Elijah Chapman"
Elisha Stearns
Oliver H. King

This deed in which the [ ] assignment was made is a Quit claim deed executed by Elijah Chapman Jr. son of [ ] Elijah

[the rest is illegible -- needs to be rescanned]
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June 27, 1820 having [ ] & in court, the sum of Eighty three dollars & ninety cents & no part of which has since been paid; the measure why collection of my own debt to the last mentioned [ ] have not been enforced before this time has been an unwillingness to distress the Debtor & his family and further I say not.
Jonathan Barnes

Tolland County [ ] June 29th 1824 Personally appeared Jonathan Barnes Esquire the abovementioned deponent and under solemn oath that the forgoing deposition by him subscribed contains the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Before me
Calvin Willey, Justice of the Peace
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Elihu Stearns of Tolland in the County of Tolland depose and say that some time about September 1820 I bought a horse of Elijah Chapman [ ] son of Gen'l. Elijah Chapman of this town and paid him therefore principally in promissory notes against other persons the sum of 130 dollars & that said horse was one of the horses included in the former schddule of Gen'l. Chapman, that as this deponent always understood & verily believes that said Elijah Chapman  [ ] returned with said horse from the Western States in the spring of that year having purchased him in Cincinnati. That the said Elijah Chapman being indebted to his father meant that the  [ ] of said horse should go toward the payment of his father's debts & this deponent verily believes that the said Elijah [ ], who has returned to the Western country did appropriate what he received of me for said horse in that way. As to the execution mentioned in this deposition to Col. Eliakim Chapman which was in [ ] of Levi Wells against Gen'l Chapman it was issued on a judgment rendered on as noted which had executed to the dec'd Wells in my office the 31 July 1823 and was the amount of secured small notes against Gen'l Chapman  put into my hand by said Wells for collection. I further say that the state of Gen'l Chapman
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family is still afflictive and distressing. It consists of himself, wife & one son Reuben -- himself decrepit with age & infirmity -- his wife sickly and subject to fits -- his son in a state of mental derangement.
Elisha Stearns

Tolland County Tolland June 29 A. D. 1824. Personally appeared Elisha Stearns Esq. the deponent & made solemn oath that the above deposition by him subscribed contains the truth the whole truth & nothing but the truth. Before me,
Jonathan Barnes Justice of Peace

Tolland County Court
S.S. Clerks Office
I Jeremiah Parish Clerk, of said County do hereby certify that Jonathan Barnes, Calvin Willey & Benjamin Pinney Esq. Before whom the foregoing Depositions of Eleazer Pinney, Eliakim Chapman, Jonathan Barnes, Solomon L. Fuller and Elisha Stearns Esq. were taken are enrolled in this office as Justices of the Peace within & for Tolland County duly appointed and legally authorized to do the duties of said office. That the signatures to the several certificates accompanying said Deposition are in their own proper handwriting. In testimony whereof I have herunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said County this 30th Day of June A.D. 1824
Jeremiah Parish Clerk
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Gen. Elijah Chapman
March 1829
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To all People to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting.
KNOW ye, That I Elijah Chapman of Tolland in the County of Tolland
For the Consideration of five hundred dollars received to my full satisfaction of Eleazer Pinney of Ellington in said County
Do give, grant, bargain, sell and confirm unto the said Eleazer a certain [ ] situated in said town of Tolland and described as follows 
bounding South on land of Jabez Kingsbury [ ] & the lines of Joseph Baker and west of land of the said Kingsbury [ ] North on line of Aaron Chapman and the lines of Solo. Chapman dec'd. [ ] on land of the aforesaid Solo. and also on land of Ashbel Chapman and Aaron Chapman with the buildings thereon standing being my home from which I now [ ] and occupy [ ] the Hartford Tolland Turnpike [ ] and deed the highway [ ] through the same counting one hundred and four acres, be the same more or less.

To have and to hold the above granted and bargained Premises, with the Appurtenances thereof, unto him the said Eleazer his Heirs and assigns, forever, to his and their own proper use and behoof. And also I the said Elijah Do for myself & my Heirs, Executors, and Administrators, covenant with the said Eleazer and until the ensealing of these presents, I am well seized of the Premises, as a good indefeasible estate in Fee Simple; and have a good right to bargain and sell the same, in manner and for as is above written; and that the same is free from all incumbrances whasoever except a mortage to Solo. L. Fuller and the mortgage to Joseph Baker.
And further the said Elijah Do by these Presents bind myself and my Heirs forever, to WARRANT and defend the above bargained Premises to him the said Eleazer his Heirs and Assigns, against all claims and demands whatsoverver. The condition, of this deed is such that whereas I am indebted to the said Eleazer by notes dated the 29th day of Dec. 1818 for the sum of four hundred and ninety four dollars & fifty cents payable on demand with interest on which said note is endoresed March 29th 1819 two hundred two dollars fifty cents now therefore if I the said Elijah Chapman should pay the sum [ ... ] said notes with the interest in one year from this time then this deed is to be null & void; otherwise to remain in full force. 
In witness where of, I have herunto set my Hand and Seal the 26th day of Dec. Anno Domini, 1823 Elijah Chapman
Signed, Sealed and Delivered in presence of Jeremiah Parish
Rosewell Stanley

Tolland County, ss. Ttolland Dec. 21, 11823
Personaly appearred Elijah Chapman Esq.
Signer and Sealer of the foregoing Instrument, and acknowledged the same to be his free act and deed before me.
Jeremial Parish Justice of Peace
Red'd. Dec. 26th 1823 and recorded by Joseph Howard, Register
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The subscribers certify that they are acquainted with General Elijah Chapman of this town, his family and circumstances. That he is himself disabled for labour by reason of age & infirmity and that his wife is very feeble & infirm & subject to fits-- that he has one son who has been in a state of mental derangement for more than a year past who lives with him and is dependent on him for support, and at times so deranged as to render it necessary to confine him with a chain. That the said Elijah Chapman is incumbered with debts, as stated in his schedule of property now on file in the War Department to about half the amount of his property, and that his real estate is mortgaged for the payments of the same, and that he has no resource or assistance to rely on but the gratuitous and afforded by another son who has been unfortunate in trade & who is now destitute of property, and whose [ ] all needed for his own support and the benefit of his creditors; and the subscribers do verily believe that the income of the property of the said Elijah Chapman is insufficient for the support of his
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family and that without some other resource than what is now in his power of some heritable or gratuitous aid his property must soon by swept from him for the support of his famly and the payment of his debts. Tolland March 29 1821
Ephraim West
Stephen Griggs
John Kingsbury
Selectmen of the Town of Tolland

Tolland County Tolland January 29th A.D. 1825--
Personally appeared Ephraim West & Stephen Griggs Selectmen of the Town of Tolland & made solemn oath that the foregoing Deposition by them subscribed contains the truth the whole truth & nothing but the truth before me
Jon. Barnes Justice of Peace

Tolland County Tolland January 31, AD 1826 personally appeared Col. John Kingsbury one of the Selectmen of the Town of Tolland & made solumn oath that the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed contains the truth the whole truth & nothing but the truth.
Before me
Jonahtan Barnes Justice of Peace
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I Benjamin Potwine of the town of Tolland being a regular practicing physician certify that I have attended upon &  [ ] for Reuben Chapman son of Gen. Elijah Chapman of this town occasionally for more than a year past as his physician and that the said Reuben has all that time been in a state of mental derangement and that he is at times so frantic & raving as to be dangerous to go at large. He is at present & for some past has been confined by chaining -- that General Chapman & his wfie are old and decrepit and & that she is subject to fits.
Benjamin Potwine
June 30 1821

Tolland Conty Tolland January 30 AD 1821
Personally appeared Benjamin Potwine & made solemn oath that the aforementioned Deposition by him subscribed contains the truth the whole truth & nothing but the truth.
Before me
Jonathan Barnes Justice of Peace
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State of Connecticut SS County of Tolland

I am 4 30 1821 Elisha Stearns

The County Court in & for said County certify that the within named Jonathan Daines Esq is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County and that the within, purporting to be his signature is his proper handwriting.

In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand and affixed the seal of said County Court the day & year above mentioned.

E Stearns Clerk
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Hebron Feby 1st 1821

Sir,

Inclosed I transmit to you affidavits of three Salees-Men, in the care of Gen. Elijah Chapman of Tolland an applicant for Pension.

The long and meretorious services of this revolutionary officer entitles him under his embarrassments and present infirmaties to the gratitude, if not, the aid, of his Country, and his case I hope & trust will be candidly reviewed.

I have the honour to be with great respect Your most obedient. s,

Sylvester Gibbons
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Deed
Elijah Chapman to 
Joseph Baker
Copy

The within is a true Copy of more
attest
Jos. Howard Register
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To all people to Whom these Presents Shall Come
KNOW YE, THAT I Elijah Chapman of Holland
in Tolland County
for the consideration of three hundred & Sixty Dollars
to my full satisfaction of Joseph Baker of wind
Do give, grant, bargain, sell, and confirm unto the said Baker and to his heirs forever
the whole of the farm of land on which I now live in said Tolland
lying in five separate pieces being separated by rolls only containing
about one hundred and three was Bounding North on lands of
the heirs of Solomon Chapman & Ann Chapman, East on the
him of 8 Sold Chapman the land of Ashbel Chapman & Aaron Chap
man, South on Jabez Kingsbury, Roswell Stanley & the heirs of John
Baker deceased - Weston Jabez Kingsbery, Roswell Stanly
Horkan river & the heirs of John Baker deceased, being
the whole of said home for and the buildings thereon (resising
 the highways passing through said farm, being made
the incumbrancer of a mortgage to Solomon L. Fuller
of about five hundred dollars unto
him the said Baker
to have and to hold the above granted and bargained premises, with the appurtenances thereof
to his heirs and assigns forever, to his and their own
proper use and behoof. And also the said Elijah
do for
myself my heirs, executors and administrators, covenant with the said
unsealing of these presents I am well seized of the premises, as a good indefeasible estate in
his heirs and assigns, that at and until the
fee-simple, and have good right to bargain and sell the same in manner and form as is above written
And furthermore,
and that the same is free of all incumbrances whatsoever, Joseph Mortgage
the said Chapman
do by these presents, bind myself and my heirs forever to warrant and defend the
above granted and bargained promises to him the said Baker his
heirs and assigns, against all claims and demands whatsoever, except mortgage The
condition of this deed is such that whereas the said Elijah Chapman is indeed
to the said Baker by note, dated August 12, 1819 for the sum of three hundred fifty
four dollars & twenty cents on demand with interest to Now if sd Chapman
pay sd Note according to the tenor thereof with the annual interest
two years then this deed is to be void, otherwise to remain in full force
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the twentieth
day of March Anno Domini 1820
Signed, sealed, and delivered,
In presence of
Auge Land
Elijah Chapman L. S.
Ken
by
William Barnes
Tolland County SS. Tolland March 20th 1820
PERSONALLY APPEARED P. Elijah Chapman
and deed before me.
sine and sealer of the forgoing instrument, and acknowledged the same to be his free act
Jonathan Barnes Justice of Peace
March 24th 1820 & recorded
L. Eaton Register
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To all People to Whom these Presents Shall Come, GREETING
KNOW YE, THAT I Elijah Chapman of Tolland in the County of Tolland
for the consideration of Five hundred Sixteen dollars fifty seven cents received to my full satisfaction of Solomon L. Fuller of Somers in this county
Do give, grant, bargain, sell, and confirm unto the said Solomon a certain tract or farm
of land in said town of Tollard containing one hundred & four acres
he the same more or less bounding South on land of Jabez Kingsbery
Levi Stanley & the heirs of John Baker and Weston late of said Kings
Stanley & on Hokkanen, North on land of Aaron
& the heirs of Sold Chapman & Easton, land of the heirs
also in land of Ashbel Chapman & Aaron Chapman
the buildings thereon standing being my home farm
I now improve & occupy excepting the Hartford Roland
Turnpike road & the highway running through the same
to have and to hold the above granted and bargained premises, with the appurtenances thereof
unto to the said Polo L. Fuller
his heirs and assigns forever, to his and their own
proper use and behoof. And also I
the said Elijah Chapman
do for
Fuller
my self & my
heirs, executors and administrators, covenant with the said
unsealing of these presents I am
his heirs and assigns, that at and until the
well seized of the premises, as a good indefeasible estate in
fee-simple, and have good right to bargain and sell the same in manner and form as is above written,
and that the same is free of all incumbrances whatsoever.
At Furthermore,
the said Elijah Chapa
do by these presents, bind myself and my heirs forever to warrant and defend the
above granted and bargained premises to him the said Solomon L. Fuller his
heirs and assigns, against all claims and demands whatsoever. Provided nevertheless that if
said Elijah shall pay said Fuller, his heirs executors or assigns a certain
so to he holds against me of even date herewith for the sum
hundred sixteen dollars fifty seven cents payable in five years
is date with interest annually according to the tenor of said note
&
Deed shall be resell & void otherwise remain in full for
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the 2d
day of October, Anno Domini 1888
Signed, sealed, and delivered,
In presence of
Elisha Steams
Rowland Lothrop
Elijah Chapman
L
Tolland County at Tolland Oct 2d 1818
FERSONALLY APPEARED Elijah Chapman
sign and sealer of the foreign and as a
and deed before me.
Elisha Stearns Justice of Peace
and June 16th 1849 recorded L. Eaton Regr
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The within is a true Copy of Record
attest Jos. Howard R Register
Tolland County ss Tolland February 16th 1824
I Jeremiah Parish Clerk of the County Court for
Tolland County do hereby Certify that Jas Howard
is Register for the Town of Tolland in Sd County
and that his signature on the within copies as in
his proper hand writing
In testimony whereof I have subscribed
my name and affixed the public seal
of said Court at Tolland in said County
this 16th day of February 1824
Jeremiah Prish Clerk
of court
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Elijah Chapman
Esq. Declaration
Elijah Chapman
Captain
2nd Regiment [illegible]
the Connecticut line
Enlisted in July
1780 and served
until the end of the war.
Date of Declaration
the 9th of May 1818
Admitted
b for Sylvester
Gilbert Esq.
Hebron
Con.
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We the Subscriber being Inhabitants of the
Town of Tolland & will acquainted with
Elijah Chapman of sd Town & with
his family
& circumstances & do certify
that by reason of age & bodily infirmities
he is unable
to labour on his farm but
partially, & can do but little towards carning or
acquiring a support & that his wife is feeble, &
one of his daughters is deranged, & desendent on
him for a support & that by misfortune he has
become involved in debt, & is unable to pay
without selling his farm on which he lives,
and his means of subsistance have for some years
last past been diminishing his reduced in
his circumstances in life & in our opinion
stands in need of assistance from his Country
for support may
20th A.D. 1818
Geo. V. Gilbert
Jonathan Barnes
Calvin Willey
Elisha Stearns
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Tolland County ss May 20th 1818
Personally appeared George O. Gilbert Jonathan
Barns Calvin Willey & Elisha Stearns Esquires
and being duly sworn, made solemn oath that the
preceding affidavit by them subscribed is true
according to their best knowledge & belief
Before me Sylvester Gilbert Judge of County Court
I certify that the above named persons are
neighbor to the aforesaid Genl Elijah Chapman
and are gentlemen of respectability
Sylvester Gilbert Judge as aforesaid
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I Sylvester Gilburt residing Judge of the County Court within & for the County of Tolland in the State of Connecticut do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Elijah CHapman did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceeding Declaration against the com- [illegible sentence] transmit proceedings & testimony taken & had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War persuant to an act of COngress in this behalf made & provided ~ Hebron May 9th A.D. 1818
Sylvester Gilbert Judge as aforesaid

N.B. Three Commissions are herewith transmitted   S.G.