Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22,767, Thomas Chamberlain, N.H.
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(3--1776)

SERVICE
N. H. [New Hampshire]

Chamberlain, Thomas
or Chamberlain, Judith

NUMBER
W. 22.767

CONTENTS
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4737
New Hampshire Ports [Portsmouth]

Judith Chamberlain widow of Thomas Chamberlain NH wo served in the Revolutionary war, as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of April 1849 and sent to Pensioner Brookfield Carroll Co. [county] N. H.

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 63 Vol. 1.
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Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, of the 7th July 1838, entitled “An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows.”
State of New-Hampshire.
Strafford DD. - ON this fourteenth day of September 1838 personally appeared before the Hon. Daniel C Atkinson - Judge of the probate of wills Judith Chamberlin a resident of Brookfield in the county of Strafford, aged seventy five 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 7, 1838, entitled “An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;” that she is the widow of Thomas Chamberlin who was a private in the Army of Revolution that I have heard my husband Thomas Chamberlin say that he joined the army at Lyontarage in the Spring of the year 1777 and that he was with Gen. Sullivan in his Indian campaign and continued in the army till the year 1780.
She further declares that she was married to the said Thomas Chamberlin on the sixteenth day of February in the year seventeen hundred and eighty six that her husband the aforesaid Thomas Chamberlin died on the fourth day of April 1815 that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, viz: at the time above stated
Judith Chamberlin

Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written before me in open court.
Daniel C. Atkinson Judge of Probate
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State of New Hampshire
Strafford ss.

I Ira A. Eastman Register of Probate of said county hereby certify that the written named Daniel C. Atkinson is Judge of Probate of said county and that the within is his true and genuine signature.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Probate of said County this fourteenth day of September A. D. 1838.

Ira A. Eastman 
Register of Probate
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Marriages by the Rev. [Reverend] Nathaniel Ewer

Thomas Chamberlin to Judith Burleigh February Sixteenth, seventeen hundred and eighty six.  Recorded October twenty fifth seventeen  hundred and ninety two by Information of the Rev Nath Ewer

Josiah Adams Town Clerk

I Gilman Johnson Town Clerk of the town of  Newmarket New Hampshire hereby certify that the above is true extract from the record of said town of Newmarket with the exception of the date which is expressed on the Record in fair eligible figures follows.

Marriages by the Rev. Nathl Ewer

Thomas Chamberlain to Judith Burleigh Feby 16th 1786

I Gilman Johnson of Newmarket in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk of the Town of Newmarket aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said town with the exception of the dates as certified by me.

Gilman Johnson Town Clerk of Newmarket
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County ss.

On this twenty sixth day of September AD 1838, before the Subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Rockingham personally appeared the within named Gilman Johnson and made oath that the within affidavit by him subscribed is true; and I hereby certify that the said Gilman Johnsons statements are entitled to implicit credence

David Murray Justice of the Peace

State of New Hampshire
Rockingham ss

I J. B. Hoitt Clerk of the Judicial Courts within and for said County hereby certify that David Murray Esq who has subscribed the above certificate is a Justice of the Peace, within and for said County, and I believe the same to be his genuine signature

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of our Superior Court of Judicature this twenty eighth day of September Anno Domini 1838

J. B. Hoitt Clerk
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I Thomas Chamberlin of Brookfield in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire depose and say, that I am fifty four years of age and am a nephew of Thomas Chamberlin a Revolutionary soldier late of Brookfield deceased that I was present at the time the afore named Thomas Chamberlin died and attended his burial he died in fore part of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen. I have also seen his death registered in his family's Bible stating that he died the fourth day of April AD 1815. I also say that I am personally acquainted with his the afore named Thomas Chamberlin's widow ___ Judith Chamberlin that she has never been married to any person since the death of her husband the afore named Thomas Chamberlin I live and have ever lived within one half of a mile of her the whole time since the death of her husband
Thomas Chamberlin
State of New Hampshire
Strafford ss
Personally appeared the afore named Thomas Chamberlin on this twenty second day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him signed is true.
Before me Joshua N. Cate Jus. Peace
I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Chamberlin and that his statements are entitled to credit.
Joshua N. Cate Jus. Peace

State of New Hampshire
Strafford ss
I Francis Cogswell Clerk of the Superior Court of judicature for said County hereby certify that Joshua N. Cate is a Magistrate as above and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are in my belief genuine.

Witness my hand Seal of said Court this 23d October 1838
F Cogswell Clerk
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I Thomas Chamberlin of Brookfield in the county of Strafford and State of New Hampshire depose and say that I am fifty four years of age and am a nephew of Thomas Chamberlin a revolutionary solder late of Brookfield deceased that I was present at the time the afore named Thomas Chamberlin died and attended his burial he died in [illegible] of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen I have also seen his death registered in his family’s bible state that he died the forth day of April AD. 1815 I also say that I am personally acquainted with his the afore named Thomas Chamberlins widow viz. Judith Chamberlin that she has never been married to any person since the death of her husband the afore named Thomas Chamberlin I live and have ever lived within one half of a mile of her the whole time since the death of her husband
Thomas Chamberlin
State of New Hampshire
Strafford SS. Personally appeared the afore named Thomas Chamberlin on this twenty second day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him signed is true
Before me Joshua N Cate Jus. Peace
I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Chamberlin and that his statements are entitled to credit.
Joshua N Cate Jus. Peace

State of New Hampshire
Strafford SS. I Francis Cogswell Clerk of the sessions court of judicature for said county hereby certify that Joshua N Cate is a magistrate as above and that the foregoing signatures purporting to his are in my belief genuine.
[illegible] my hand seal of said court this 23d OCtober 1838
F Cogswell Clerk
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State of New Hampshire
Strafford County ss
I Francis Cogswell Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for said County hereby certify that Joshua N. Cate was an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County on the twenty second day of October A. D. 1838 the day the within affidavit was executed duly commissioned and qualified. That his commission was dated on the 17th day of June 1834 and expired on the 16th day of June 1839 and that the said Cate this day acknowledged to me that the within signature purporting to be his are his own proper signatures I therefore certify that the same are genuine.
Given under my hand and Seal of said Court this 19th day of July 1839.
F Cogswell Clerk
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I Joshua N. Cate of Brookfield in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire depose and sat that I am well acquainted with the widow Judith Chamberlin of the same Brookfield, having married one of her daughters, and been intimate in said family for about ten years and lived in the same house with her a considerable part of that time. That I always understood since my acquaintance in said family that Thomas Chamberlin, the husband of said Judith Chamberlin and the father of my wife, died in April 1815, and I understood on the fourth day of that month. That said Judith has never to my knowledge or belief since the death of said Thomas Chamberlin, her said husband, been married to any other man, but has continued to be and still is the widow of said Thomas Chamberlin
Joshua N. Cate
State of New Hampshire
Strafford County SS. October 22d. 1838. Then personally appeared the above named Joshua N. Cate who is known to me to be a man of truth, and made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true
Before me 
Nehemiah Eastman Jus. Peace
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State of New Hampshire

Strafford County SS. I Travis Cogswell Clerk of the superior court of judicature for said county hereby certify that Nehemiah Eastman is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified. That his commission was dated on the sixth day of august 1838 and will expire on the fifth day of august 1843 and that I have frequently seen him write and know his handwriting and have no doubt that the written signature purporting to be his is genuine. I therefore certify the said to be genuine.
Given under my hand + seal of said court this 19th day of July 1839
F Cogswell Clerk
State of New Hampshire
Strafford SS. I Francis Cogswell Clerk of the superior court of judicature for said county hereby certify that Nehemiah Eastman is a magistrate as within and that the written signature purporting to be his is in my belief genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my name and affixed the seal of said court this 23d. October 1838
F Cogswell Clerk
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I Lemuel B. Mason of Moultonborough in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire, depose and say that I am Seventy nine years of age. I enlisted under Capt [illegible] in the year seventeen hundred seventy five as soldier in a regiment commanded by Col Enoch Poor and served until the close of seventeen hundred seventy six. I then enlisted again during the war in a company commanded by Capt Wm Rowell in the 2nd New Hampshire Regiment commanded by Col Nathan Hale and marched to Ticonderoga in the Spring of seventeen hundred seventy seven and there Thomas Chamberlain of [illegible] in the State and County aforesaid joined the same company as a soldier. And on the night of the fifth of July we retreated from Ticonderoga and were pursued by the enemy to Hubbard town State of Vermont and there a battle ensued. Our Regiment was in the rear guard and was defeated and Col Hale was taken prisoner together with a number of other officers and soldiers. We then retreated to Fort Edward in the State of New York where Lieutenant Col Winborn Adams joined us and took the command of our Regiment, and were pursued by the enemy from there to Still water. There Gen Gates took the command with a considerable reinforcement. On the nineteenth of Sept we had a [illegible] battle [illegible - crossed out] with  Burgoynes army and lost one division. The British army remained on the field and the enemy refired into our encampment. Also, in the month of Oct we had a decisive battle win; the same place in which we were victorious. The large frequent skirmishes with the British from the [illegible] with [illegible] when Burgoyne surrendered his army as prisoners of war. After the surrender of Burgoynes army we marched down and joined Gen Washingtons company, we were in the winter quarters at Valley forge in Pensilvany. [Pennsylvania] the next spring the enemy left Philadelphia and Gen Washington pursued them to monmouth. In the month of June the general battle lost [illegible] in which the enemy was defeated. [illegible] deponents statements [illegible] at [illegible] in New York. The next spring of seventeen hundred seventy nine we went into the Indian Country
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Gen. Sullivan's army, We had a few skirmishes with the Indians and [illegible], We then marched back to Connecticut and there wintered. The next Spring we marched to west point where said Chamberlain was discharged. Said Chamberlain was acting as soldier with me in said company and Regiment during all the time that elapsed from the spring of the seventeen hundred seventy seven to seventeen hundred eighty  [illegible] the close of the war I saw said Chamberlain and he informed me that he resided in Brookfield in the State and County aforesaid.
[signed] Lemuel B Mason

State of New Hampshire
Strafford ss.
Personally appearing the above named Lemuel B Mason on this thirty first day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred 
[illegible rest of paragraph]
[signed] Enoch True Jus. Peace

I certify that I am personally acquainted with said Mason and that he is entitled to credit
[signed] Enoch True J. Peace

State of New Hampshire
Strafford SS. I Francis Cogswell Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for said County hereby certify that Enoch True is a Magistrate as above and that I believe the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine
Witness my name and Seal of said Court this 23d day of October 1838
F Cogswell Clerk
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State of New Hampshire
Strafford County SS. I Francis Cogswell Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for said County hereby certify that Enoch True was an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County on the thirty first day of August 1838, the day the within affidavit was executed duly commissioned and qualified, that his Commission was dated on the sixth day of December 1833 and expired on the fifth day of December 1838 and that I have seen said True write and am acquainted with his signature and have no doubt that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine. I therefore certify the same to be genuine.
Given under my hand and Seal of said Court this 19th day of July 1839
F Cogswell, Clerk
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Rev
Widow, &c.
File No. 22,767
Judith Chamberlain
Wid of
Thomas Chamberlain
Priv Rev War
Act: Feb 2d 1848
Index: - Vol A, Page 133
[Arrangement of 1870]

[illegible] [illegible] to Frederic W.  Soule c/o Mattapan Deposit & Trust Co., So. Boston, Mass. C

Andr. 21/94
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3636
New Hampshire
Judith Chamberlain
Widow of Thomas Chamberlain
decd
who was a pensioner under the act of [blank]
and who died on the 4 April 1815
Of Strafford in the state of N. H.
who was a private in the co. commanded by Captain Bell of the regt commanded by Col Reed in the N. H. line for 2 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Portsmouth at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of July 1839 sent to Joshua N. Cate Brookfield N. Hampshire.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1839 $240.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sep ‘39 40.00
[total] $280.00
{Act July 7, 1838}

Recorded by D.Mc Curdy Clerk, Book A. Vol 1. Page 37.
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Rep 111
New Hampshire S.
Judith Chamberlain
widow of Thomas Chamberlain
who was a private
in the New Hampshire live
for 2. years.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11. day of May 1843 and sent to Richard Russell
Rochester N. H. 
[Act of March 3, 1843.}
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1. Page 15.
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MATTAPAN DEPOSIT AND TRUST CO.
RICHARD J. MONKS, President.
WM H. HIDDEN JR., Actuary.

South Boston, Mar. 6 1894

Commissioner of Pensions.
Pension Department.
Washington D.C.

Sir-

Will you inform me what services were performed by Thomas Chamberlain who died in Brookfield N.H in the early part of 1800, and for which his widow Judith Burleigh Chamberlain received a pension of ($96) ninety-six dollars per annum - and whether said services were in
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The Revolution or the war of 1812 or both.
Any information or reference will be greatly appreciated as it is in regard to eligibility to membership in the “Sons of the Revolution”
Yours Respectfully
Frederic W. Soule
c/o Mattapan Deposit + Trust Co
So. Boston.
Mass.
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C. W22767
Mattapan Deposit and Trust Co.
Richard J. Monks President
W H Hidden Jr. Actuary
South Boston, March 26, 1894
File
Sir.
Yours of the 21st inst. containing a statement of the military history of Thomas Chamberlain a soldier in the Revolutionary War is received.
Please to accept my cordial thanks for this valuable information
Respectfully yours
Wm. Lochren Esq. Frederic W. Soule
Commissioner
Bureau of Pensions Washington D.C.
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State of New Hampshire
Carroll County SS. On the seventeenth day of April 1849 personally appeared before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Carroll aforesaid Judith Chamberlin a resident of Brookfield in the county of Carroll and State of New Hampshire aged eighty six years. Who being first 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 pass'd on the 2d day of February 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons, who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Thomas Chamberlin of Brookfield in the county of Carroll aforesaid who was a private in the Army of the Revolution but she is unable to state in whose Company or what Regiment her Husband served in and must refer to her original papers in the pension office and that she received under the act of 17th June 1844 Eighty dollars per annum. She further declares that she is still a widow, having never married since the death of her husband (Thomas Chamberlin)
[signed] Judith Chamberlin
Signed in presence of as
Joshua N. Cate
Amasa Copp
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written April 17 1849
Amasa Copp Jus. Peace
I certify that the declarent is personally known to me and that she is the same individual who drew a pension as stated by her in the foregoing affidavit
Amasa Copp
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July 25
NH
Judith Chamberlin
Act 7 July 1838

Hon James L Edwards
Comr of Pensions
Washington City
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Brookfield N. Hampshire
19 July 1839
Hon James L Edwards,
I again forward the papers of Mrs Judith Chamberlin of said Brookfield authenticated agreeably to the recent rule of the Department.
Please communicate the result to me directed to Brookfield N.H.
Resply Yours
Joshua N. Cate
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Ephraim Ham's
Affidavit

[side]
Ephraim Ham of Dover in the County
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I Ephraim Ham of Dover in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire depose and say that I am eighty one years of age and served as a soldier during the whole of the Revolutionary War from one enlistment to another. That I enlisted at Rochester in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and seventy seven under Lieu Merrow and that at the same time Thomas Chamberlin of Rochester also enlisted under said Merrow as a soldier in said War. That I marched in company with said Chamberlin and other soldiers from said Rochester in the County aforesaid to Ticonderoga when I joined the Company of Capt Bell. I do not recollect whose Company said Chamberlin joined but it was a Company in the same Regiment with myself to with the Second New Hampshire Regiment commanded by Col. Hale. Said Chamberlin served with said Regiment as a soldier for three years from his said enlistment when he returned to
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Rochester aforesaid about the time I did. When I went into the privateer service till the war closed. When I returned to Dover aforesaid where I have ever since lived. I knew said Chamberlin before and ever after his enlistment till his death. Soon after the war said Chamberlin removed to Brookfield in said County.
From Ticonderoga our Regiment retreats to Mohawk River. Then about the first of September in the same year we marched back to Stillwater and on the 19th of September we had a battle with Burgoynes army. Said Chamberlin was acting as a soldier in said Battle and in all the other battles of said Regiment. At the capture of Burgoyne & at the Battle of Monmouth - in the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine we marched into the Indian Counrty under eGn. Sullivan - after that we wintered in Connecticut -from thence marched to West Point where we were discharged. I think said Chamberlin was about my age. Ephraim Ham
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State of New Hampshire
Strafford SS. Personally appeared the aforesaid Ephraim Ham on this twenty fourth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him signed is true before me.
C W Woodman
Jus Peace

I certify that I am personally acquainted with said Ham and that his statements are entitled to credit.
Chs. W. Woodman
Jus. Peace

State of New Hampshire
Strafford SS. I Francis Cogswell Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for said county hereby certify that Charles W. Woodman is a Magistrate as above and that I believe the foregoing signature purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony where of I have hereto set my name and seal of said Court this 23d day of October 1838
F Cogswell Clerk
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State of New Hampshire
Strafford County SS.
I Francis Cogswell Clerk of the Superior Court of judicature for said county hereby certify that Charles W. Woodman, Esquire is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly Commissioned and qualified, that his Commission was dated on the twenty fourth day of November 1834 and will expire on the 23d day of November 1839. That I have frequently seen him write and am acquainted with his signature and have no doubt the within signature purporting to be his are genuine. I therefore certify the same to be genuine.
Given under my hand and seal of said court this 19th day of July 1839.
F Cogswell Clerk
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County SS.
I Ira B. Hoitt Clerk of the Judicial Courts within, and for the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that David Murray Esq. is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County and duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the Seventh of June AD 1837. And will expire on the seventh day of June AD 1842. And that his signature before written is genuine,
Given under my hand and the seal of our Superior Court of Judicature this 12th day of July Anno Domini 1839
J. B. Hoitt Clerk
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547
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State of New Hampshire
Strafford ss
I Winthrop A. Marston Register of the Court of Probate within and for said county of Strafford, certify that the within names Richard Russell is a Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum throughout said State of New Hampshire, duly commissioned and Sworn, that his said commission bears date May 21st. A. D. 1839 and will expire on the 21st day of May A. D. 1844 - I further certify that the two signatures within, purporting to be his, are genuine
In testimony whereof I have herewith Set my hand and affixed the Seal of Said Court of Probate this 18th day of April A. D. 1843
W. A. Marston, Register of said Court of Probate
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 3rd of March 1843 granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the act of July 7th 1838
State of New Hampshire
Carroll County ss
On this eleventh day of April eighteen hundred and forty three personally appeared before me Richard Russell one of the Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Strafford Judith Chamberlin a resident of Brookfield in the county of Carroll aged eighty 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 on the 3rd of March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War that she is the widow of Thomas Chamberlin who was a private in the second New Hampshire Regiment and that she received eighty dollars pension per annum for five years under the act of July 7th 1838
She further declares that she is still the widow of the said Thomas Chamberlin
[signed] Judith Chamberlin
Attest,
Joshua N. Cate
Jeremiah Chamberlin
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written.
Before me [signed] Richard Russell Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that I have been personally acquainted with the above named Judith Chamberlin for thirty years past and to the truth of the above declaration by her signed I am fully satisfied.
[signed] Richard Russell Justice of the Peace