Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 46,426, Murdock Cameron, New York.
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Service
New York
Cameron, Murdock or
Campbell, Burdie

Number S 46426
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[3-230.]
Cert.
No. 950
46.426
Re-Issues.
Revy.
[Written above name] or Burdie Campbell
Name: Murdock Cameron
Rank: Pri. | Comp'y: Gregg.
Reg't: 1st N.Y.Line
Agency. _
RATE PER MONTH, AND DATE OF COMMENCEMENT.
1st Issue. _ Comm'g _
2d Issue. _ Comm'g _
3d Issue _ Comm'g _
DATE OF CERTIFICATE, AND TO WHOM SENT.
1st Issue _ Sent to _
2d Issue _ Sent to _ 
3d Issue. _ Sent to _
Allowed. Act 1828.
Act 14th July, 1862. Bk. G., Vol. _, Page _
Registering Clerk: _
Disability. _
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State of New York
Secretary's Office

I certify that Henry Lovett before whom the within statement was sworn to by Henry G Ohlen is a Justice of the Peace in and for the town of Glenville in the County of Schenectady in this State duly commissioned and sworn and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to his official acts
And I further certify that after taking the affidavit of Murdoch Cameron on the 27th of April last hereunto annexed marked No 4 the said Cameron was informed by Daniel Shields of this City that Henry G Ohlen orderly Sergeant of Captain Gregg's company in the first New York Regiment commanded by Col. Goose Van Schaick resided in the town of Glenville in the County of Schenectady. That in consequence of the said information Cameron went to the residence of the said Ohlen and obtained from him the certificate hereunto annexed No. 3. That I advised Cameron to return to Mr Ohlen and get from him a more particular statement under oath and at the same time I addressed a letter to Mr Ohlen on the subject and that in answer he wrote the within statement and made oath to the same.
And I do further certify that in the militia register in this Office lately purchased pursuant to an act of the Legislature (which Register was copied at the Treasury Department of the United States) is the following entry under the head of 1st Regiment at the letter C - viz "Campbell Bardie Mus. Cols. Mus'd Jan 79 Mustd to end of War" That in the printed balloting book (a copy of which is also in the Treasury Department of the United States) page 82 "Burdie Campbell" is returned as a private in Captain Gregg's Company being the fourth company of the first Regiment according to Connolly's original return. That at page 27 of the said balloting book it appears that a lot of 500 acres of land was ballotted to Burdice Campbell a private in the
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Glen Ville Schenectady County April 20 1827

Dear Sir
You have called on me to give you an account of any former knowledge of Mr Cameron according to the best of my remembrance he acted in the capacity of a drummer in the regiment commanded by Goose Van Schaick Colonel of the New York Regiment in Cap James Greggs Company according to the best of my remembrance he was very short in stature which incapacitated him from carrying the drum. I remember he was put in the employ in the army during the remainder of the war he was very young when he enlisted and being of highland descent the Gaelick language being his mother tongue has been the reason of his true name not being particularly known to us as english and our having his uncle in the same corps by the name of Kenneth Campbell here I expect indeed as to think his name was Campbell which is all the name I can avouch for in his favour as we called him so at that time. But the best evidence in his favor let him be musted [mustered] by Campbell or Cameron I know him to be the same person who served at that time under my command as orderly sergeant of Greggs Company. Dear Sir I have every reason to be thankful when I find the bleeding cause our Country is yet remembered by men of feeling who wishes those who suffered in its cause should made redress according to their Deserts
Yours
Henry G Ohlen
To the Honorable Archibald Campbell
Sworn before me this 
30th day of April 1829

Henry Lovett Justice of the Peace
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first new York Regiment which lot was granted accordingly as appears by the record of the patent in this office.
From the facts stated by the said Murdoch Cameron at the time I took his affidavit I was satisfied that he served in the army of the Revolution and in the first New York Regiment and that he was known by the name of Murdie or Burdie Campbell but the affidavit of Henry G Ohlen leaves no doubt on the subject because he recognized Cameron the moment he saw him. It will be seen by reference to the manuscript register at Washington that Ohlen was a sergeant in Capt. Greggs Company.
Given under my hand and the seal of this office at the City of Albany the first day of May one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine
Arch.d Campbell
Dep Secretary
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Kenneth Campbell
Affidavit
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Montgomery County Ss
Personally came before me Asa Fitch Kenneth Campbell being duly sworn saith that Murdoch Cameron was in the same regiment with him the said Campbell under Capt Craig in the revolution and knows that said Murdoch Cameron is the same man that is mentioned here further knows him to be his sisters son and saith that he is the identical man here alluded to 
Kenneth Campbell his x mark
In presence of
Jane McFarlane
Sworn and Subscribed
this 25th day of April 1829
before me Asa Fitch Justice

I certify that Kenneth Campbell who made his mark to the above affidavit was in the same company with me during the war of the Revolution
Daniel Shields
26th of April 1829

No 2
I certify that Murdoch Campbell as so called in the Army of the United Stated has been at my house in the town of Glen Ville I know him to be the same person which served in Capt James Greggs Company of which I was serjeant [sergeant] at the same time
Henry G Ohlen
April 28 1829
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No 3
State of New York
Secretary's Office
I certify that Asa Fitch before whom the annexed affidavit of Kenneth Campbell was taken was on the 25th day of April 1829 a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Montgomery in this State duly commissioned and sworn and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to his official acts. A I further certify that the said Kenneth Campbell who made the said affidavit resides in the Town of Broadalbin in the said County of Montgomery. That his name appears on the books in this office as a soldier in the first New York Regiment at the close of the revolutionary war and is returned in Captain Sytez's Company together with David Shields whose certificate is added to the aforesaid affidavit.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of this office at the City of Albany the twenty seventh day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine
Arch. Campbell
Dep Secretary

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State of New York
City of Albany Ss
Personally appeared before me Archibald Campbell a commissioner to take affidavits &c, Murdoch Cameron, who being by me duly sworn deposes and says that he is the person named in the annexed affidavit of Kenneth Campbell and the said Campbell is his uncle as stated in the said affidavit. The deponent further says that he is now about sixty three or sixty four years of age. That
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he enlisted in the army of the United States as a soldier during the Revolutionary War and served therein until the close thereof. That the period he served was about four years. That he does not remember the month or year in which he enlisted but he verily believes is was in the latter end of the year 1778 or the beginning of 1779. That he enlisted in the City of Albany and was then very young perhaps about fourteen years of age. That after his enlistment he was sent to Fort Stanwix where the regiment or part of it was then stationed and was put under Keyser the Drum Major to learn to be a drummer. That he continued at Fort Stanwix for nearly two years or until the regiment was ordered to the south. That before leaving Fort Stanwix the drum major deserted and went towards Canada. That a party was sent after the said Keyser and overtook him at Lake Champlain where he was shot while crossing said lake on a raft. That the deponent was one of the said party. That after the desertion of the said Keyser the deponent well remembers that the name of the drum major who taught him was Loudon. And the deponent further says he served for two years as nearly as he can remember as a drummer and was then reduced to the ranks. That after leaving Fort Stanwix he marched with the Army to Virginia and was at the siege of York Town and the capture of the British Army under Lord Cornwallis. That at the close of the war he was honorably discharged. That his discharge was signed by General Washington he believes but that he lost the same or delivered it to some person shortly after leaving the Army who name he has forgotten. And the said deonent further says he well remembers that Goose Van Schaick was his colonel and Cornelius Vandyck the Lieutenant Colonel. That he thinks Greig was the name of his captain though he might have been under more than one captain.
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during his service. The deponent further says that he was born in the highlands of Scotland that he came to New York with his parents in the year 1775 that at the time he enlisted in the army he could speak but few words of English (the Gaelic being his native language). That owing to his broken English he is not sure but he might have been mustered by the name of Campbell. He is led to believe that this is the fact from the circumstances that his real name Murdoch Cameron is not found among the revolutionary soldiers of the New York line, but the name of "Burdie Campbell" is found in Captain Gregg's Company first New York Regiment who enlisted on the first of January 1779 and served to the end of the war. It appears also that he was entered as a musician. Whether there was a person of the name Burdie Campbell or whether the deponent was mustered by that name he is unable to say positively but he thinks from the fact of his being unable to read or write and his ignorance of the English language that the name of his the deponent might have been so entered on the muster rolls. At all events the deponent solemnly swears and declares that he enlisted as before stated and served to the close of the war and was honorably discharged.
Murdoch Cameron  his x mark

Sworn before me this 27th day of April 1829
Arch.d Campbell
Commissioner &c
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Owd
#46.426
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New York May 5th, 1829
My Dear Brother,
The bearer of this is Mr. Murdoch Cameron. the Same individual in whose behalf I addressed you some time ago. He visits Washington now with a view of Substantiating his claim to a Pension. He brings with him documents of so imposing a character that I think he cannot fail of success, these documents he will exhibit to you; and I have given this letter of introduction to you under the assured conviction that you are ever ready to facilitate an aged Veteran and respectable man in his assertions for his rights. By so doing you will add more favor to the list of those you have already rendered to your only surviving brother.
Affectionately Your
N. Hutton J.
[To]
M. James Hutton
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[Printed form with handwritten entries]

1646
No of Original Payment 950
Revolutionary Claims
Allowed Act 1828

Treasury Department
20 May 1829

Murdoch Cameron of Chatham in the county of Barnstable in the State of Massachusetts has applied .....he was a private in Captain Gregg's company in the first regiment of the New York line.....he has received as a pensioner since the 3rd of March 1826 nothing. The claimant states that he was called Bardie Campbell in the revolution.......

By order of the Secretary
F.A. Dickens

Treasury Department
Third Auditor's Office
May 20 1829

It doesn't appear by the records in this office that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Murdoch or Murdie Campbell or Cameron in the New York Line [printed text crossed out]. There is a "Burdie Campbell" in the 1st New York Regiment to whom a certificate of eighty dollars for gratuity was paid.
Peter [Hagner?]
65175

Found NY Balloting book pages 27-82 &155
FAD.
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[Printed form with handwritten entries]

Bounty Land Warrant Record Card

Camm, William Grade private Line Maryland

Warrant Number 11101
November 29 1790 
to Bazil Shaw, admr.