Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15,041, Jeffery Champlin, R.I.
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Service RI 
Champlin, Jeffery or Jeffrey 
Number S. 15,041 carded
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[illegible probably let for letter] to E R Potter,  Dec. 27. [1834?]
New certificate issues, [+ for etc.] sent to Hon. D.J. Pearce, H. of Reps. Jan. 31th. 1835.
[10991? or III GGl]
Rhode Island 
Jeffrey Champlin 
[illegible] in the State of R.I. 
who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Babcock of the Regt. commanded by [illegible, might be Co Sand] in the R Island line for 15 months 


Inscribed on the Roll of Rhode Island at the rate of 50 Dollars  __ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15th [possibly 11th?] of May 1833 and [sent?] Wm P Newell [illegible, ???plin] R Island 
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833       $100.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept   25.00
                                                               ______                                                                                                                
                                                             $125.00

{Revolutionary Claim, Act Jun 7, 1832.}

Recorded by D D Addison  Clerk 
Book [E?]    Vol. 2 [illegible]   Page 144
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DECLARATION
IN ORDER TO OBTAIN the benefit of THE ACT OF CONGRESS, PASSED JUNE 7, 1832.
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND, }
COUNTY OF Washington }  [23?]
On this sixth day of September 1832 personally appeared in open Court, before the judges or Justices of the Common Pleas now sitting, Jeffrey Champlin a resident of South Kingston in the County of Washington and State of Rhode-Island, aged seventy five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
[illegible] to say; that in the year 1775 in the month of July he thinks, he was detached from Capt. Stephen Babcock's company of the militia to which he then belonged in said South Washington to guard the shores of said town in the Narragansett Bay & was [marched?] to the station at the Smith house, so [illegible], where & in its vicinity he served three months when he was discharged & returned home. In the spring of 1776, he served, (he thinks under a draft from the militia) under Capt. Gideon Babcock three months at the station at the [illegible] plan on the margin of the bay in said town in [guarding?] along shore in that quarter. Col. Sands was [illegible] at this time.Sometime in June or July 1776, he volunteered for a period of 30 days & served under Capt Gideon Babcock in watching the [illegible] & guarding the shore [illegible] Boston Neck where he served out this [illegible] & was dismissed. In Sept. or Oct. 1777, he was drafted from Capt Samuel G. Potter's company of militia in said town of South Kingstown to which he [illegible] belonged & marched to [illegible] where he served one month, the period for which he was drafted. He was drafted [illegible]
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In the winter of 1778, from the company of militia to which he then belonged in said South Kingstown & marched to Town [illegible] in said [town?] under Capt. Samuel J. Potter where he served three months, [illegible] he thinks was [the Col.?] at this time. He was again drafted in the latter part of the Summer of 1778 according to his [illegible] in the month of August from Cap. Potter's company for a term of one month, which he [illegible] out at Point yard [illegible] under Capt. Potter. In the summer & fall of 1779,  he was drafted from Capt Gideon Babcock's company for a  [illegible] of three months which he [illegible] out at the John Robinson house in Point [illegible] in guarding the [house?] that quarter 

and the said Jeffrey Champlin [illegible] that he actually faithfully performed all the aforementioned period of service in defense of his country: and he [further?] [illegible] that he was born in the town of Charlestown in said County of Washington on the 10th day of March 1757 but has no  [illegible] of his age on birth.That during the whole of the revolution & where where he performed the aforesaid service  [illegible] he has resided in said South Kingstown. Since the revolution he   has resided in South Kingstown  [illegible] said Charleston. That he never had any certificate of discharge from any of his said services but was  [illegible] discharged by his officers that he has no  [illegible] said  [illegible]  of any of his said services,  [illegible]
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He has no documentary [illegible] of any of his service. That there is a clergyman in his neighbourhood but [he?] cannot [conveniently] attend the court when this declaration is made it being a distance from his place of residence & he therefore refers to William Peckham & Joseph P. Babcock [&] his townsmen & neighbours who testify to his character [illegible] & their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution & also to the accompanying [illegible] positions

He 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 State. 
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. 
in open court
[illegible] Sam Helme Clk  
Jeffery Champlin 

We, Wm Peckham residing in So. Kingstown and Joseph P Babcock residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Jeffery Champlin who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy five years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion 
in open Court [illegible] 
Sam Helme Clk
William Peckham Joseph P Babcock

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatries prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that William Peckham and Joseph P Babcock who signed the preceeding certificate Joseph Champlin Ebenezer Smith are residents in the Town of South Kingstown and credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.  And the Court also certify that from their Examination and Knowledge of Joseph Champlin and Ebenezer Smith the preceeding Deponents the court consider their Testimony  contained on their preceeding Deposition entitled to credit

I Samuel Helme Clerk of the Court of Common pleas & Gen. Sessions of the Peace do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the applications of Jeffrey Champlin for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this Eighth day of September 1832
Sam Helme Clk
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Brief in the case of Jeffery Champlin of South Kingston in the State of  (Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a 
court or a Judge? open Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity

3. How old is he? 75 years

4. state his service, as directed in the form annexed. 

Period. |  Duration of Service. | Rank. | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
 
Years, Months, Days. | As a | Gen.

July In 1775 | 3 | Private | Capt Babcock 
[Spring 1776?]  | 3 | " | Capt Babcock Col [Lands?]
June 1776 |  1  | " | Capt Babcock
[illegible] 1777 | 1  | " | Capt Potter
Winter 1778  | 3 | " | Capt Potter
Summer 1778 | 1 | " | Capt Potter
Summer 1779 | 3 | " | Capt Babcock 

5. In what battles was he engaged? None

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? South Kingston {illegible]

7. Is his statement supported by  living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By living Witnesses

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? [illegible] 

Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidences in the case above mentioned

Richard Cutts
Examining Clerk
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15.041
INVALID.
File No. 15.041
Jeffrey Champlin
{Illegible}
Act: June 4th 1832
Index:-Vol. 1, Page 67
Arrangement of 1870
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Jeffrey Champlin
Per ann 15
-
Wm P Newell Es
Kingston, R I
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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
Jeffry Champlin South Kingston, Rd Island which require
further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes

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? Yes.

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? Yes

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? Yes

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of
June 7, 1832? Yes

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? Yes

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes

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? Yes
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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 revolu tionary service? No

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtain
ing it? Yes

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's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness
or witnesses as to his service? yes
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath,
certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? yes
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the
regulations direct? yes

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? Yes

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? Yes

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And,
if not, which of them is not so answered?

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 recol
lection 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 cases to determine with precision the period for which each 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 in
definite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions
merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the
officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objection
able. It must in every case be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration
of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the
applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either
in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not em
ployed in any civil pursuit.
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 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 magis
trate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not
written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the cer
tificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends 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.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of
office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the
certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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Supplementary
paper

please address
Hon Mr Pierce
of R. I.
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State of Rhode Island
County of Washington ⎬
On this Nineth - day of January 1835 before me
the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County
of Washington personally appeared Jeffery Champlin
who on his oath declares that he is the same person
who formerly belonged to the company commanded
by Capt. Stephen Babcock, Samuel J Potter and Gideon Babcock
in the Regiment commanded by Col Ray Sands
in the State of Rhode Island
that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State
of Rhode Island & he received a certificate of that fact under
the signature and seal of the Secretary of war which
certificate in the month of August 1834 he the
said applicant lost the said certificate. The last
he recollects of it is having delivered it as he is
confident he did, to Perry Tucker Esquire for the
purpose of drawing his pension for him from the
agency at Providence
Jeffery Champlin
Sworn and subscribed the
day and year above mentioned
before me John Segar Justices of the Peace
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The Deposition of Perry Tucker of South Kingstown
Rhode Island of lawful age who being duly sworn
poses and says that he is well acquainted with
Jeffry Champlin now applying for a new certificate
and knows him to be the same person described
in the within affidavit and is knowing to the fact
of said Jeffry having often drawn money from the
agency in this State on the certificate he formerly
had. That on the 7th day of August 1834 said
Jeffry executed before the deponent who is a Justice 
of the peace a power of attorney to Joseph P Potter
to receive the arrears, that said deponent undertook
to deliver the same with the original certificate to
said Potter but that said certificate is now
lost and said deponent has searched for
the same among his own papers as well as
by inquiries of others and that it cannot be
found. Jan 9th 1835.
Perry Tucker
Jan 9th 1835. The above named. Perry Tucker
made oath to the truth of the above [named- crossed out]
written statement before me - and I certify that
said Perry's character for veracity is good and his
statement entitled to credit
John Leger Justices of the Peace
Justice of Peace for said town
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State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations
Washington County ss
I Thomas P. Wells Clerk of the Supreme
Judicial Court within and for the
County of Washington and State aforesaid
do hereby certify that John Segan is a
Justice of the peace of the town of South
Kingstown in said County duly elected
and qualified and that I believe his signature to the
foregoing acknowledgement to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my
hand and affixed the seal of said Court
this 19th day of January 1835
Thos. P. Wells Clerk
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10.166
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I Joseph Champlin of South Kingstown in the County of Washington & State of R. Island aged seventy three years on oath do depose & say, that Jeffrey Champlin of South Kingstown & this deponent served to either in guarding the [illegible] of [illegible] or Boston Neck in the Summer of 1775, three months in Capt. Stephen Babcock's company of the militia. 
This deponent further says, that he & the said Jeffrey served together in the guard service against the enemy at different [periods?] during the revolution, other than the aforementioned on the shores of said town he [should?] think seven or eight months. [whole line illegible] This deponent says that the said Jeffery as he the understood & now recollects served a number
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of times when this deponent was not with him This deponent remembers also that the said Jeffery served under the Capt. Babcock three months at the John Robinson house in Point Judith he thinks in the summer & fall 1979
witness Sam. Helme clk
subscribed taken & sworn to in open court Sept. 6 1832 Witness Sam. Helme Clk
Joseph  Champlin
his X mark

I Ebenezer Smith of South Kingston in the County of Washington, aged seventy five years on oath do depose & say, that in the revolution 1775, from some time in July to some time in October Jeffery Champlin the n & now of said South Kingston & myself served together in Boston Neck in said town in guarding the shore against the enemy near the South ferry. During this period of service we were stationed at the Smith house: This deponent further says that in the spring & summer of 1776, the said Champlin served on Boston Neck in guarding the shore three months; in this
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period of service he was stationed at the Jureks house; This deponent served at Sharp's expedition in Sept. or Oct. 1777. He knows that the said Champlin served there at the same time

Ebenezer Smith his X mark
Witn.
Sam. Helme Clk
Taken Subscribed & Sworn to in Open Court
Sept. 6, 1832 Wit. Sam Helme Clk
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Know all Men by these Presents,
THAT I, Jeffrey Champlin of South Kingstown Rhode Island Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, for paying pensions in Providence, State of Rhode-Island, my pension from the fourth day of September 1833 to the fourth day of March 1834
Witness my hand and seal, the 7th day of August 1834
Sealed and delivered 
in presence of                       Jeffrey Champlin

Thomas Potter
Nathan Webster

State of Rhode-Island
County of Washington County
BE IT KNOWN, That, on the 7th day of August 1834 before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, personally appeared Jeffrey Champlin above named, and acknowledged the foregoing power of Attorney to be his act and deed. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, the day and year last above mentioned.
Perry Tucker, Justice Peace.

State of Rhode-Island,
County of
BE IT KNOWN, That on the              day of
183 before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, personally appeared the Attorney named in the foregoing power of Attorney, and made oath, that the same was not given him by reason of any sale, transfer, or mortgage of the pension, or arrears of pension therein authorized to be received by him.
Sworn and subscribed the day
and year last above mentioned, before me
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STATE OF RHODE-ISLAND            No. 10991
County of Washington

BE IT KNOWN, That, before me Perry Tucker a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, personally appeared Jeffrey Champlin and made oath in due form of law, that he is the identical person named in an original certificate in his possession, of which (I certify) the following is a true copy:

"War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I CERTIFY, that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th of June, 1832, Jeffrey Champlain of the state of Rhode-Island, who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is entitled to receive fifty dollars and - cents per annum during his natural life, commencing on the fourth of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.

Place of Seal
        of
War Office

Given at the War Office of the United States, this Fifteenth Day of May one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three
Examined and countersigned,         Lewis Cass
J. L. Edwards                           Secretary of War."
that he now resides in South Kingstown and has resided there for the space of Eight years past, and that previous thereto he resided in Charlestown.
Jeffery Champlain
Perry Tucker Justice of the Peace
Sworn and subscribed this
7th day of August 1834
before me.


State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation:
Washington County Sc.
I, Thomas P. Wells, Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court, within and for the County of Washington and state aforesaid; do hereby certify that I believe the signature to the papers hereto attached which purports to be Perry Tucker's, Esq. to be in his own proper hand writing; and I further certify that the said Perry Tucker is a duly commissioned and qualified Justice of the Peace of the town of South Kingstown in said County.
In testimony whereof, I have hereto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this 11th day of August in the year 1834.
Thomas P. Wells Clerk
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The deposition of Perry Tucker of South Kingstown Rhode Island of lawful age who being duly engaged according to law deposes and says that to his knowledge Jeffrey Champlin of said town who is now applying for a new certificate, is entitled to a pension under the Act of June 1832 for which he had a certificate and has often drawn the same from the Pension agency and that on the seventh day of August last the said Jeffrey appeared before the said deponent who is a Justice of the Peace for said town and exhibited a pension certificate and made oath to the same and signed a power of attorney to Joseph P Potter to receive the same money due thereon from the pension agent; that the power of attorney hereto annexed is the same which was then executed: that the said Jeffrey delivered the power of attorney with the original certificate to the said deponent to deliver to the said Potter who was to go to the pension agency to get the money: that said deponent not having an opportunity of seeing said Joseph P Potter, sent the power of attorney (and he confidently believes that he sent the original certificate with it) to ER Potter Jr requesting him to hand the same to the said Joseph P Potter; that said certificate is now lost, neither the deponent the said Champlin, Joseph P Potter or ER Potter Jr having it or knowing where it is.

Perry Tucker
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South Kingstown October 18th 1834
Before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in said town this day appeared Perry Tucker.  He within deponent and made oath that the said deposition was true according to the best of his understanding and belief and I further certify that the said Tucker's character for veracity is good and that his statement is entitled to credit
John Segar Justice of the Peace
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To James L Edwards Commissioner of Pensions, War Department of the United States

Jeffrey Champlin of South Kingstown Rhode Island represents that he is now 76 years of age and is a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States under the Act of June 1832 to the amount of fifty dollars per annum for which he had a pension certificate in the usual form which is now lost,  That on the seventh day of August 1834 he before Perry Tucker a Justice of the Peace made oath to his pension certificate and signed a power of attorney to Joseph P Potter to receive the amount due thereon and delivered the power of original certificate to the said Justice to deliver to the said Joseph P Potter since which he has never seen said original certificate nor can it be found but he understands it is lost.  That your petitioner has received no pension money since September 1833 and being very feeble in health and in much want of the same, hopes for your early attention to this application and further says that the power of attorney herewith sent is the same which he executed on the said seventh of August and contains a true copy of his original certificate.

Jeffery Champlin
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Washington County Rhode Island
South Kingstown October 18th 1834
This day before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the town aforesaid appeared Jeffrey Champlin the signer of the within written application and made oath in due form of law that the statement therein contained was true in all it s parts and I further certify that the character of said Champlin for truth and veracity is good and that this statement is entitled to credit

John Segar Justice of the Peace
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The deposition of Elisha R Potter Junior of South Kingstown Rhode Island who being of lawful age and duly sworn according to law deposes and says that to his knowledge Jeffrey Champlin the present applicant for a new certificate, has had a pension certificate granted to him under the Act of 1832, that about a year ago the said Champlin appeared before the deponent who is and was then a Justice of the Peace to acknowledge a Pension power of attorney and to make oath as required by the regulations.  The deponent believes this was in September 1833.  The said Champlin then received his money as deponent well knows, having seen it in the hands of the attorney who drew it for him.  
October 25, 1834
Elisha R Potter Jr

South Kingstown Oct 25 1834

Before me personally appeared the above E R Potter Jr and made oath in due form of law to the truth of the preceding statements and I certify that said deponents character for veracity is good and his statement entitled to credit

Elisha Potter
Justice of the Peace