Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13,129, Amos Galpin, Conn. Continentel
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SERVICE
Conn
Continental

Galpin, Amos

NUMBER
S 13,129

carded
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217
Connecticut

Amos Galpin of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut who was an Ensign in the company commanded by Captain Savage of the regiment commanded by Colonel Sherburne in the *Connecticut line, for the term of 3 years from March 1777 to ____ 17 ___
*Continental and Conn. Records completed Feb 19, 1906

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 240 Dollars per month, to commence on the 4th day of Mar 1831 and

Certificate of Pension issued the 9th of August 1832 and sent to Frederick Wolcott Litchfield Conn.

_______ the Roll on _____ day of ____ 182__ and notification sent to ____ at _____ Pension commencing on the ____ of _____ 182___

Amount due on 4th of Mar 1832 $240
Semi-annual allo 4 Sept " $120
_______
$360

{Revolutionary Claim, Act 7 June 1832}
Recorded Book D Vol 3 Page 43
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22 Cong 1 Sep}
Petition of Amos Galpin for pension on account of Revolutionary services &c.

1832, April 23d referred to committee on Pensions
" May 22 discharged & leave to withdraw

Amos Galpin of Litchfield
Connecticut Petition


Mr. Foot
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To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled: - 
The Petition of Amos Galpin of Litchfield in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut, respectfully showeth that your petitioner served in the Army of the Revolution from May AD 1775 to May AD 1780 as follows (viz):
Your petitioner enlisted in May AD 1775 as a private soldier in a company raised in Hartford in said State and other towns adjoining for the period of eight months, which was commanded by Col. Samuel Wyllys and immediately thereafter your petitioner joined the American Army with said company near Boston when your petitioner remained in active service till the expiration of said period of enlistment.
Your petitioner in May 1776 enlisted for the period of six months as a corporal in a company raised in and near said Hartford commanded by Capt. Gad Stanley of Col. Gays Regiment and soon after your petitioner was promoted to the post of a Sargent in said company and immediately marched to New York and from thence to Long Island and was present with the Army under the command of General Washington engaged in active service untill the retreat from said Island, and was with the Army at all the
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subsequent movements of that campaign untill the Battle of White Plains at which your petitioner was present and continued to do his duty as a good soldier untill the expiration of said period of six months.
Your petitioner in March AD 1777 was commissioned as an Ensign in the Company of Capt Abijah Savage & of Col. Henry Sherburnes Regiment and from thence forth faithfully served in said capacity in the different campaigns of each year until April or May AD 1780 when your petitioner was honorably discharged by the Commander in Chief.
It is believed by your petitioner that it will be trespassing too much upon the time of your Honorable body to give a particular detail of the services and sufferings of your petitioner during the foregoing periods and it will probably be sufficient to state generally that your petitioner devoted using of four years of the best period of his life to the services of his country (viz): eight months as a private soldier; six months as an [illegible]commission officer; and three years  two months as an Ensign; - which was in fact equivalent to five years active services, as the intervals during which your petitioner was unemployed were winter months when hostile forces were not in the field.
And your petitioner says that the only compensation which he received for this long period of service was pay in Continental money the nature of
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which is well understood by your Honorable body an which for the time being was scarcely sufficient to supply your petitioner with the necessaries of life and your petitioner having in the spring of AD 1780 retired from the Army with the consciousness of having deserved well of his country found himself in the condition of most of the American Officers when they laid aside their arms, that is entirely destitute of property; and from thenceforth your petitioner has devoted himself to the arts of Peace rejoining in those liberties in achieving which he contributed all in his power, and now at the advanced age of seventy seven years he finds himself in the possession of a small estate which is not sufficient to furnish him with a support, yet the same had had the effect to exclude him by a rigid construction from the benefits of those acts of Congress passed in favor of the officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary Army in destitute circumstances. - The claims of your petitioner to a pension having been allowed under the act of 18th March AD 1818 but by virtue of the modification of a subsequent act the name of your petitioner was stricken from the Pension Roll.
And your petitioner says that his claims to a pension were under the act of 1818 allowed by the proper officers of the Government and having received for only one year the benefint compensation provided by Congress the name of your
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petitioner was stricken from the pension list by virtue of a subsequent act on account of the small property owned by your petitioner as aforesaid.
And your petitioner says that he has been advised that his case does not come within the provisions of the act entitled an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution passed by Congress in 1828 as your petitioner had been discharged a short time before the 21 Oct AD 1780 - but your petitioner cannot believe that it was the intention of Congress to decide that the long and faithful services of your petitioner should receive no other compensation than pay in depreciated Continental money - and therefore he takes the liberty to appeal to that sense of justice in your Honorable Body in which he reposes the highest confidence and respectfully prays that his name may be restored to the Pension List under & by virtue of the acts of 1818 & 1819 - and that your petitioner may receive the amount thereby allowed from the time of the discontinuance of his pension as aforesaid; or that the name of your petitioner may be enrolled under the act of 1828 and that he be entitled to the compensation provided for in the first section of said act from the 3d day of March AD 1826
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or that Congress would grant to your petitioner such other relief as may to your Honorable Body deem just & reasonable as in duty bound your petitioner will ever pray. Dated at Litchfield April 4th 1821.
Amos Galpin
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State of Connecticut Ss. Litchfield
April 5th 1821
I Benjamin Tallmadge of Litchfield aforesaid who served in the Army of the Revolution from the year 1776 to the close of the war, & having resided in the same town with Mr. Galpin during almost the whole period since the close of said revolutionary war to the present day; & having been well acquainted with the Petitioner (Mr. Amos Galpin) I do hereby express my entire confidence in the facts set forth by the Petitioner & hope he may succeed in his application to Congress.
Benjamin Tallmadge
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I Thomas Trowbridge of Litchfield in the county of Litchfield of Lawful age do depose and say that I live a near neighbor to Amos Galpin of said Litchfield that I have been well acquainted with said Amos forty six years that he is a man of good character for integrity & truth and is reputed to have been an officer in the revolutionary war and to have served a considerable part of the period of that contest - that the property of said Amos consists of a dwelling house & homestead in the village of Litchfield of about one & one half acres of land and of a tract of land one half mile west of this village continuing not far from thirty acres. That I am well acquainted with said property and I am of the opinion that the anual income or value of all his property (with the exception of his dwelling & garden spot) is one hundred dollars & no more & that he to the knowledge of this deponent derives no income from his said dwelling house except as a residence for himself & family.
Litchfield Appril 10th AD 1832
Thomas Trowbridge

Sworn before me Litchfield April 10th 1832
Truman Smith Justice of Peace
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I Oliver Goodwin of Litchfield in the county of Litchfield of lawful age do depose and say that I have been well acquainted with Amos Galpin of said Litchfield for the period of twenty four years last past and that all the other facts stated in the deposition of Thomas Trowbridge are true as this deponent verily believes. Litchfield April 10th AD 1832.
Oliver Goodwin

Sworn before me Litchfield April 10th AD 1832
Truman Smith Justice of Peace
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Litchfield County Ss. April 10th AD 1832 - 
This may certify that Thomas Trowbridge & Oliver Goodwin are to me well known that they are gentlemen of respectability & of good character for integrity & truth.
Truman Smith Just of Peace

I Frederick Wolcott Clerk of the County Court within & for the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut certify that Truman Smith Esq is a Justice of the Peace within & for said County & as such hath a right by law to administer oaths &c. - And that the preceding signatures which purport to be his are genuine and his proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & affix the seal of said Court at Litchfield in said county this tenth day of April AD 1832.
Frederick Wolcott, Clk
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10.702
Connecticut
Amos Galpin in the state of ____ who was an Ensign in the regiment commanded by Colonel Sherburne of the R. Island line, for the term of 3 years.

Inscribed on the roll of Connecticut at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 of Nov. 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 17 of May 19 and sent to Frederick Wolcott Litchfield Cont.

Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1819 75.91
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 19  120.
________
$195.91

3 20/30  4/31

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

*Continental and Conn.
Records completed Feb 19, 1906

See letter A Gal/
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REJECTED
3881
P.O. Amos Galpin
Service: 
Enlisted: , 18 .
Discharged:  , 18 .
Application filed:  , 18 .
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$240 recd ann.
Act 7 June 1832
and
J L Edwards
Esqr
Revolutionary Pension Office
11
Washington City
D C
Recd. Aug. 4
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 Litchfield (Conn) july 31st 1832
Sir
Enclosed you have a Statement of the facts in my case with regard to time of service & indentity of Person, agreeable to instructions from your Department of the 21st instant. I suppose under the law of 7th June 1832 I am entitled to a Pension as an Ensign rated at twenty Dollars the month; if any further proof is necessary, upon information I will endeavor to furnish it.
Yours Respectfully
Amos Galpin
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Act 7 June 1832,
Amos Galpin of
Connecticut
Suspended
The Secretary of the Treasury
3881
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Senate Chamber 16th June 1832
Sir
I enclose the Petition Documents of Amos Galpin to be placed on the Pension Roll under the act of 7th June 1832 altho this petition is for the act of 1828, I take leave to place this, which I presume will be sufficient to draw him the benefits of this act.
Very Respectfully
Yours Obedt Servt
Saml. A. Foot
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Rev War

13129
INVALID.
File No 13,129
Amos Galpin
Ensign Rev War

Act June 7th 32
Index: - Vol. 1, Page 138
(Arrangement of 1870.)
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IN CONGRESS.
The DELEGATES of the UNITED STATES of New Hampshire, Massachusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Counties of New-Castle, Kent and Suffex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina and Georgia, TO
Amos Galpin Gent
WE, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Velour, Conduct and Fidelity, DO, by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be an Ensign in a Regt commanded by Col. Henry Sherburne in the army of the United States, raised by the Defence of American Liberty and for repelling every hostile invasion thereof. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of an Ensign by doing and performing all Manner of Things therunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as An Ensign. 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 - the third day of March 1777 Seventy Seven.
By Order of Congress,
John Hancock PRESIDENT.

ATTEST. Chas Thomson Secy
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I hereby certify that Ensign Amos Galpin of Col Sherburne's Regiment is discharged from [illegible] service in the Army of the United States at his own [illegible] & solicitation.
Given by his Excellency's command at Headqtr Morris Town this 30 day of April 1780.
Ros H. Harrison Secy

S. File 13129
Amos Galpin
Continental and Conn.

[stamped]
NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES
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Amos Galpin
Ensign Col. Shereburn
R. I Line - 3 years

On Rolls

Free

The Hon. John C. Calhoun, Esq.
Secretary of War
Washington

Dec 11 AD 1818

1 Card 2728
Hon. Wolcott
Judge
Litchfield, Connt.
Recd Nov 20, 1818
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District of Connecticut Ss. town and county of Litchfield on this eleventh day of November AD 1818 before me the subscriber Frederick Wolcott a Judge of the court of Probate for the district of Litchfield in said county of Litchfield.
Personally appeared Amos Galpin aged sixty four years now and for more than thirty years last past an inhabitant of and resident in said town of Litchfield who being by me first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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."
That he the said Amos Galpin on the third day of March AD 1777 or about that time he agreed to serve the United States, as an Ensign in the Regiment commanded by Colo. Henry Sherburne on the Continental Establishment in the Revolutionary War against the Common Enemy. That he at that time and at all times belonged to the state of Connecticut. That the said Colo. Sherburne belonged to the state of Rhode Island. That his Regiment was composed of three companies raised in the state of Connecticut the other companies of the Regiment were raised in Rhode Island & Massachusetts. That he the said Galpin received an Ensigns commission signed by John Hancock, then President of Congress. That he accepted said commission and served the United States in said corps as an Ensign from
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said 3rd day of March 1777 until the 30th day of April AD 1780. When he was regularly and honourably discharged at Morristown New Jersey.
That his said Commission and certificate of Discharge endorsed thereon are herewith presented.
That he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support. That he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Amos Galpin

Personally appears Doctor Samuel Buell & Sylvester Galpin both of said Litchfield
To me personally known as credible witnesses and respectable gentlemen and being duly sworn testify and say that for many years last past they have been personally acquainted with the above named Amos Galpin. That his character for truth and in all respects is good. That he is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.
Sworn before me the day and date first above written.
Frederick Wolcott Judge of Probate
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I Frederick Wolcott Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the aforesaid Amos Galpin of said Litchfield did serve the United States against the Common Enemy in the Revolutionary War, on the Continental Establishment as stated in his preceding declaration. That his character for truth and in all respects is good. And I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the aforesaid act of Congress. I also certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Galpin is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court in which I preside this 11th day of November AD 1818.
Frederick Wolcott, Judge of Probate
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Amos Galpin
Statement
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I Amos Galpin of Litchfield in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut aged seventy seven years do depose and say that my name was inscribed on the Pension Roll by the government of the U. S. under the Act of Congress 18th March 1818 as by the Pension certificate hereunto annexed marked A will appear and that my name was a few months thereafter stricken from said Pension Roll by reason of the fact that I have been for some years past & am now the owner of a small estate which was supposed disqualify me from receiving the bounty of the government. I do further say that the place of my residence at the time of my past application where I have in fact resided more than fifty years last past - and that in 1775 I served in the army of the U. S. for the period of eight months as a private soldier in the vicinity of Boston in the State of Massachusetts in a company that went from Hartford & its vicinity commanded by Lt Ezekiel Scott, Col. Sherburnes Regt. That in 1776 I served the
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period of six months as a Sergeant in Capt. Gad Stanley's company, Col Gays Regt at N. York & its vicinity. That in the forepart of the year 1777 I was commissioned as an Ensign and continued to serve from that time until not far from the first of May AD 1780 when I was honorably discharged. The company in which I served as an Ensign was commanded by Capt. Abijah Savage and the Regt by Col. Henry Sherburne. I beg leave to which the Hon. Secretary of War to my commission & discharge now on file in his department for confirmation of the facts herein stated & further the deponent saith not.
Litchfield July 31st AD 1832.
Amos Galpin

State of Connecticut Ss. Litchfield July 31st AD 1832
Then personally appeared before me the subscriber authority Amos Galpin the signer of the foregoing statement who is a credible witness and made oath to the truth of the same in due form of Law.
Geo. c. Woodruff
Justice of the Peace
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WAR DEPARTMENT
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY That, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
Amos Galpin late an Ensign in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Connecticut Agency, at the rate of Twenty dollars per month, to commence on the Eleventh day of November one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
GIVEN  at the War Office of the United States, this 17th day of May one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
J. L. Edwards,
the absence and on behalf of the Secretary of War
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Payable semi-annually...the first payment on this certificate will be made on the 4th of September next, in Middletown at the Branch Bank of the U. States.


allowed
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I Frederick Wolcott Clerk of the County Court within & for the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut certify to whom it may concern that George C. Woodruff Esq is a Justice of the Peace within & for said County legally commissioned & qualified & that the signature to the preceding certificate which purports to be his is genuine & his proper hand writing.
Witness my hand & the seal of said Court at Litchfield in said County this 31st day of July AD 1832.
Frederick Wolcott Clerk
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Amos Galpin
Statement