Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 20604, Baptist Amelin, Continental (Canada)
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(3-1776)
SERVICE   NUMBER
Continental (Canada)  Amerlin. Baptist or Charles   W 20604
or Amlin Agatha
CONTENTS
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See letter, 5 Apr 1830 to Hon. J.D. Dickson & pension agent
[The following written vertically upward] July 3, 1829 AB 

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12.635
New York
Charles Amlin of Plattsbury in the state of N. York who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Hazen, & one of the Congress Regts. for the term of 5 years.  1778 NY
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 Inscribed o the Roll of N. York at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 31 of March 1818.
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Certificate of Pension issued 22 of July 1819 and sent to John Palmer, Esq. 
Plattsbury, N. York
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Arrears to 4th of March 1818  11 5/31   89:29
Semi-anl'ce ending 4 Sept 1819       48.00
[Total] $: 137:29

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
Continental
3 July 1829
Clinton County.
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Charles Amlin of Plattsburgh
[A number of words are crossed out.]
Col: [illegible]
1778 to '83
Enlisted Col. Hasen Reg.
in
Served to end of war

On roll by name of Baptist Amelin. See the within explanatory certificate of the [illegible]
Caleb Nichols Judge 

[There are three illegible crossed out lines]

Baptist Amlin [illegible]
June '78
[illegible] of
Admitted
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State of New York }
Clinton County }
I, Charles Amlin one of the Canadian Refuges now of the town of Plattsburgh in the County of Clinton & State of New York do solemnly & sincerely swear & declare that I was a private in the company commanded by Captain Oliver in the Regiment commanded by Col. Hasen called one of the Canada regiments in the service of the United States of America in the continental establishment in the war of the revolution that I enlisted at Montreal in the same regiment for the term of one year in the spring of the year 1776 when the army under the command of General Montgomery returned from Quebec and that at the end of the year I enlisted again for the war, at Albany and served in the whole about seven years. I was discharged at New Windsor in the State of New York in the spring of 1783. My discharge I lost about seven years since, and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life am in need of assistance from my country for support.
[signed with the note "His mark"" Charles Amlin

I Caleb Nichols a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in the County of Clinton & State of New York do certify that on the thirty first day of March one Thousand and eight hundred & eighteen the above named Charles Amlin made oath before me to the foregoing declaration & statement. [signed [ Caleb Nichols]

I Caleb Nichols a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the county & state aforesaid do certify  that Charles Amlin is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country's support.

[signed] Caleb Nichols
Judge
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State of New York }
County of Clinton } ss.
Charles Ambin the applicant within named being sworn says that his parents were Canadians, that he was the oldest sone, that it was then customary among the Canadian French to call the oldest son of the Family by the sir name [sic] or family name only designating younger sons by their Christian names, that he was accordingly while in Canada & during his youth called Amlin simply, that when abroad he this Deponent was occasionally called Batiste an appelation frequently given to persons who were in fact christened by a different name, what was the case with this Deponent, this Deponent was generally known while in the American service in the War of the Revolution by this adopted name of Baptiste; But as this deponent could not read he might not have known, of if he did has since forgotten whether he was enlisted & enrolled by that name or not; but supposes he was, but since that time living abroad & from his family & a Christian name being necessary, and this Deponent having been christened by the name of Charles Amlin he has considered Charles as his true Christian name, but that no Law has ever passed or been applied for to change his name from Baptiste to Charles, and he is now frequently & usually called Baptiste by his neighbors as formerly, that no person bearing the name of Amlin belonged to said Captain Oliver's Company during the Revolution was except he the deponent or to that Regiment within the knowledge of this deponent.
[signed with the note "His mark" and an "x"] Charles Amlin
Sworn this 3 day of June 1819 before me.[signed] R.H. Walworth
Commissioned to do certain duties of a Judge of the Sup Court
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STATE of New York}
Clinton County, ss }
On this [blank] day of [blank] 181 [blank], before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the county and state aforesaid: Personally appears Charles Amlin aged  [blank] years, resident in Plattsburgh in the said county and state, 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 ate act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the and and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war:" That the said Charles Amlin enlisted in Albany in the state of New York in the company commanded by Captain Oliver of the [illegible] Regiment of Benj Mooers that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States until the Spring or Summer 1783 when he was discharged from the service in New Windsor state of New York, that he was in the battles of [blank] and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.

STATE OF NEW YORK}
Clinton County, ss. }  Benjamin Mooers of Plattsburgh in the county of Clinton aged sixty years, being duly sworn, says that he is acquainted with Charles Amlin in the preceeding [sic] declaration named and described, and know that he served in the Army of the Revolution that this deponent was adjutant of the said Regiment of Col Hasen at the time the said Amlin was discharged therefrom & knows the said Amlin in the Preceding declaration named to be the same person therein executed & who belonged to said Regiment & served there in the end of the wars that at that time he was known by the name of Baptiste Amlin.
[signed] Benj Mooers
Sworn the 22 Day of April 1818
Before me Caleb Nichols Judge of Clinton Common Pleas

I Caleb Nichols Judge of the court of Common Pleas of the county of Clinton and state aforesaid, DO CERTIFY, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Charles Amlin did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the secretary for the department of war pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
And I do further Certify that the above named Benjamin Mooers is in my opinion a credible witness. Dated the twenty second day of April 1818.
[signed] Caleb Nichols
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State of New York County of Clinton ss. Alexander Ferioll, of the Town of Chasy in the county aforesaid being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is acquainted with Charles Amlin of said Town of Chasy who is within named and knows that he served in the war of the Revolution in the Regiment commanded by the then Col. Hazen in the Company of Captain Oliver, that he belonged to the same company & served with this Deponent from the fall of the year 1776 to the month of June 1783 when he was discharged at the same time with this Deponent at Newburgh in the State of New York, that this Deponent has been acquainted with the said Amlin years since & know him to be the same person: that he was sometimes known in the company by the name of Baptiste Amlin, but whether he was mustered by the name of Charles or Baptiste he this Deponent does not know. That the said Amlin is not a cripple & very poor & stands in need of assistance of his country for support.
[singed] Axld Ferioll

Sworn before me Caleb Nichols a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County on the 10th Day of August 1818. And I do Certify that I am acquainted with the Said Alexander Ferrioll the above Deponent and give full faith and credit to the facts above testified to by him. [signed] Caleb Nichols
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Benjamin Mooers a witness named on the Paper to the application attached being sworn doth further depose & say that the applicant within named, who is now present & who is well known to this deponent, is a Canadian, that the Canadian common people are extremely loose and irregular in the appilations by which they are usually known, that the name Baptiste by which many of them are sometimes called is rather an adopted appilation, than a regular Christian name. That he knows the applicant, who is within called Charles (which this deponent understands is his true Christian name) to be the same person who served in the company of Captain Oliver in the said Regiment of Col. Hazen, and who was then while in service called Baptiste Amlin. That this Deponent has known the applicant since the year 1778 when this Deponent was appointed an officer in said Regiment in which the applicant was then serving & continued to serve to the end of the war. That he has known him ever since, lived much in the neighborhood with him & said Amlin has frequently worked for him, this Deponent, as a labourer [sic]. That there are no other persons of the name of Amlin except him in in said company or in that Regiment to the recollection or belief of this Deponent.
[signed] Benj Mooers
Sworn this 8 day of June 1819 before me & I certify that the deponent is a credible witness & is a senator of the state of New York.
[signed] Reuben H. Waldo a commissioner with powers to perform certain duties of a Judge of the Superior Court.
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State of New York Clinton County ss: I certify that Ruben H. Walworth before whom the within affidavit of Charles Amlin & Benjamin Mooers were taken at the time of taking thereof was a Commissioner to do the duties of a Judge of the Superior Court did that his name subscribed thereto is in his own proper hand writing.
Witness my hand & the County seal this 8th day of June 1819. 
[signed] Chas Platt Clerk of Clinton County.

State of New York}
County of Clinton }  Be it known and I do hereby certify that Caleb Nichols Esquire was on the Day of the date of Depositions & certificates here to attached a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, and that they are subscribed with his own proper signature.
Given under my hand and the seal of the said County this fourth Day of September 1818.
[signed] Chas. Platt Clerk of Clinton County
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Charles Amlin
Rev. Pensioner
Certified before of death & Inventory
12,625
Sept 1819

Statement about the service not [illegible] but the [illegible] be Continental.

John Palmer Esq.
Plattburgh
Nov 6th 1820
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At a Court of Common Pleas holden at the Court-House in Plattsburgh, in and for the County of Clinton and State of New York, on the third day of October 1820 Present: Elisha Arnold, Caleb Nichols, Nathan Carver and Allen R. Moore Judges of the said Court.

COUNTY OF CLINTON ss: On this third day of October 1820 personally appeared in open Court, it being a Court of Record proceeding recording to the course of the common law, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, and keeping a record of their proceedings in and for the Court of Clinton, Charles Amlin aged sixty seven years resident in the town of Plattsburgh in the said County of Clinton, who being first duly sworn according to law; doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary was as follows: that he enlisted in the winter or spring of 1776 at Montreal in Captain Oliver's company of infantry in Col. Moses Hasen's Regiment called the [French words illegible] for during the war and served therein for seven years until the close of war when he was Honorably discharged in May of June 1783 at New Windsor or Princetown which place he does not now recollect. He was in the Battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Trenton, & on Long Island and the siege of York Town and some others.
that his original declaration to obtain a pension under the Act of Congress of the 13th of March 1818 was made the thirty first day of March 1818 that he he [sic] has received a pension certificate Numbered 12625 and dated the twenty second day of July 1819. And I do solemnly swear [blank] that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 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 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, contracts or debts, due to me, nor have I any income, other that what is contained in the schedule, hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
Real Estate none. Personal estate excepting necessary bedding and cloathing. [sic]
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one Dish Kittle & Frying pan   $1.5
Pine Chest && one flour Barrel .75
One Hog about a year old    4
One tea cup & 3 Bottles, & old knife  .50
Jack Knife & one bushel & a half of wheat 2.25
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$9.00

I am by occupation a shoe maker but am so decrepit as to be unable to labor and I have no family of any kind that live with me or assist in my support and without my Pension I should have to be supported by the Town.

[signed with the note "His mark" and an "X"] Charles Amlin

Sworn to and declared on the third day of October, 1820 before the above named Judges in open Court 
[signed] Chas Platt Clerk

I Charles Platt, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas held in and for the County of Clinton; do certify that foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is nine dollars and [blank] cents and I further certify that the last term of this Court closed on 11th of May last before the formulations of the act of Congress of the first of day of May 1820 and that there has been no Court held in said County until this present term at which the aforesaid schedule and the oath be received.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, on this third day of October 1820.
[signed] Chas Platt
Clerk of the Court for the County of Clinton.
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Albany 829
Agatha Amelin widow of Baptist Amelin N.Y. who was a pensioner under the Act of [blank] and who died on the 3 July 1829 of Clinton Co. in the State of N. York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Oliver of the Regt. commanded by Col. Hodges in the Revolution line for 2 years.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 80 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 31st day of Oct. 1838 and sent to Silas Hubbell, Champlain, N.Y.
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept. '38  200.00
Semi-annual allowance ending March '39  40.00

[Total] $240.00

{Act July 7, 1838.}
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk
Book A. Vol. 2  Page 66
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled "an at granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."
State of New York
Clinton County ss.  On the third day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand & eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before the undersigned one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Clinton aforesaid aged sixty eight years who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows". She is the widow of Baptist Amelin who was a soldier in the war of the American Revolution and served as a private in Captain Lorent Oliver's Company of infantry in Colonel Hodges Regiment as her husband the said Baptist often told her after her marriage with him. And further declares that she was married with said Baptist Amelin sometime in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight, but does [not] recollect exactly what month, at Chambly in Canada by a [illegible] named Minard. That her husband the said Baptist Amelin died on the third day of July 1829. That she [illegible] not married to him [illegible] this having
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the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz. at the time above stated; that she has never been married to any person since the death of her said husband the said Baptist Amelin but has ever since his death still is the widow of the said Baptist Amelin. And further she states that he husband the said Baptist Amelin was a pensioner of the United States at the time of his death and for several years as before, under the law passed of Congress of 1818 as she is informed & believes.
[Signed with the not "Her mark" and an "x"] Agatha Amelin
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above written before me. And I do further certify that the said Agatha Amelin by reason of bodily infirmity is unable to attend Court to make her Declaration. And that the said Agatha Amelin has remained a widow ever since the death of her husband Baptist Amelin as will now fully appear by reference to the proofs hereunto annexed. The said Agatha made her mark to her name above now having [illegible] to truth as she says.
[signed] William Hedding, a Judge of Clinton County Courts.
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State of New York
Clinton County ss: Alexander Feriol being duly sworn and maketh oath & saith that he enlisted into Captain Lorent Oliver's Company in Colonel Moriss Hasen's Regiment, of Canadian refugees at Albany in the late of the year 1776 & served during the war of the Revolution, that at the same time Deponent enlisted as aforesaid Baptist Amelin a Refuge from Canada also enlisted into the same company during the war, that the said Baptist Amelin served through the war with the Deponent until the American army was discharged in the summer 1783 and that Deponent and the said Baptist were discharged together on the same day near Newburgh in the State of New York, that after the war the said Baptist settled on a farm in what was then called Champlain now Chambly in the County of Clinton aforesaid and lived on the same farm to the day of his death which happened on the third day of July 1829, that the Deponent lived in the same town within one mile and a half of the said Baptist Amelin in the year 1795 and has ever since and lived on the same farm. And Deponent further saith that the said Baptist Amelin when he was a soldier above mentioned he was always mustered by the name of Baptist Amelin in his company although his Christian name in the  French language was Jean Baptist Amelin. That Deponent knows that the said Baptist Amelin was the identical person that served through the war and was discharged as aforesaid Deponent further saith that he knew
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Agatha Bureau before her marriage with the said Baptist Amelin, and has been acquainted with her ever since her marriage with the said Baptist Amelin, having lived a near neighbor to her since the year 1795 as aforesaid, that the said Agatha Amelin has never been married since the death of her husband and the said Baptist Amelin but ever since remained & still remains the widow of the said Baptist and Deponent says that he knows that the said Baptist Amelin was a pensioner of the United States before and at the time of his death and further Deponent saith not.
[Signed with the note "His mark" and an "X"] Alexander Feriol
Sworn and subscribed before me the 3rd day of September 1838.
The above named Alexandre Feriol made his mark being not able to write by reason of broken arm.
[signed] William Hedding a Judge of Clinton County Courts

State of New York
Clinton County ss: Alexander Feriol of Chambly in said County having being duly sworn maketh oath and saith that Baptist Amelin named in the foregoing affidavit of Deponent was a pensioner of the United States for a long period further and at the time of his death under the act of Congress of 1818 and further Deponent saith not.
[signed with the note "His mark" and an "X"] Alexander Feriol
Sworn and subscribed before me the 3rd day of September 1838
The above named Alexander Feriol made his mark not being able to write by reason of broken arm.
[signed] William Hedding a Judge of Clinton County Courts
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State of New York
Clinton County ss: I hereby certify that Alexander Feriol who has sworn  to the above affidavits hereunto annexed is a credible person and sworn the above Sept 3rd 1838.
[signed] William Hedding a Judge of Clinton Courts

State of New York}
County of Clinton } ss. I Thomas Crook Clerk of the County of Clinton do hereby certify that William Hedding Esq. is a Judge of Clinton County Courts in & for the said county duly commissioned & qualified that his commission is Dated on the 23rd day of February 1838 & that his term of service of office wi expire on the 23rd day of February 1843 & that his signature to the above and annexed affidavits & certificates are genuine.
Given under my hand and official seal of said county this 5th day of September 1838.
[signed] Thomas Crook Clerk
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[Left side of image]
829  1395
Agatha Amilins
Champlain N. Y.

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Le 11 jour de Amt. 1788
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Extrait de Marriage
Bte. Amelin
& Agatha Bureau
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See [illegible] certificate
no 36.579
36.579
Admitted 
Private 2 years

Silas Hubble Esq.
Champlain 
N.Y.
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[No English translation available]
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PROVINCE DU BAS-CANADA,}
DISTRICT DE MONTREAL,}
L'Honorable James Reid, [illegible] de la Cour du Banc du Roi du District de Montreal, dans la Province du Bas-Canada.

A tous ceux qui ces presentes berront.

CERTIFIONS quc Samuel Wentworth Monk et Robert Lester Morrogh Ecuiers, sont Protonotaries de la Cour du Banc du Roi, du District de Montreal, dans le Province du Bas-Canada, -Que la Signature " Monk & Morrogh, P.R.B. " souscrite au bas du Certificat des autres parts, est la Signature des dits Protonotaries: Et que foi doit etre ajoutee a toutes Copies de Papiers, Extraits et autres Actes quelconques, par eux signes et certifies en cette qualite.

En foi de quoi nous avons signe ces presentes et y avons fait apposer le Sceau de la dite Cour.
A Montreal, ce [illegible] jour d Aont Mil huit cent tronte [illegible]

[signed] J. Reid Jurge [illegible]
B. R
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Rev WIDOW. &c.
File No. 20604
Agatha Amelin Wid. of Baptist Ameline Pri. Rev. War
Act: July 7th '/38
Index:-Vol. A, Page 12
[The following is in brackets in the original document.]
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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45209
Rev INVALID.
File No. 45209
Charles Amlin
Priv. Rev. War
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Act: 18 March 1818
Index:-Vol. 3, Page 11

[The following is contained in brackets in the original.]
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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1394
1395 Sept 11
NY 7 July 1838
[The following is a postmark.]
KEESVILLE  
Sep 3
N.Y.


[The following is written vertically downward.]
Free
J. L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
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Champlain New York Sept 5th 1838

J.L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions,
Sir, I enclose the papers in two cases for a pension under that law of July 7 1838. Mrs. Amelin is the widow of a pensioner of the United States, in the other case of we [illegible] I send proof of the service of her husband & I trust the evidence is sufficient in both cases. I shall carry the papers to Plattsburgh to obtain the Clerks certificate as required by law and shall probably have this at Keesville. I am very respectfully your obt servt.
[signed] Silas Hubbell