Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 9155, John Campbell, Penn.
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SERVICE   Penn.
Campbell, John
NUMBER  S. 9155
Carded
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31.575 
Pennsylvania 
John Campbell 
of Union Co in the State of Pennsylvania who was a private - in the compy commanded by Captain McKee  of the Regt commanded by Col. Lowry in the Pennsylvania ma [militia] line for six months – 
Inscribed on the Roll of Philadelphia agy - at the rate of 20 Dollars - Cents per annum, commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 day of January 1839 and sent to Hon R. H. Hammond Ho. of Reps. – 
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1838 - $150.00 
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar. ‘39. 10.00
$160.00 
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Wm M. Stuart Clerk 
Book E - 2  Vol. 5 Page 10
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34.605 
John Campbell 
Penn’a
Declaration of John Campbell  
under act of Congress of June 7th 1832  
admitted 
Pa 6 m  $20 
six month service set forth 
Hon  R. H. Hammond H. R. 
140
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Declaration   
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th A.D. 1832 – 
State of Pennsylvania  
County of Union } SS. 
On the sixteenth day of May Anno Domini eighteen hundred and thirty eight, personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the court of Common Pleas of in and for the County of Union, now sitting at New Berlin, John Campbell, a resident of West Buffalo Township, in the County of Misson and State of Pennsylvania, aged eighty three years who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his solemn oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 – 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein after stated 
1st In the latter part of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six, he was drafted in the Pennsylvania militia and in the month of December of the same year, he marched from the house of Captain Robert McKee in Deving Township  Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, under the command of Captain Robert McKee Hugh Hard was first Lieutenant, James Laird was second Lieutenant or Ensign, (he cannot recollect which) to Lancaster in Pennsylvania, and from thence, with other companies under the command Colonel Lowry and Major Stewart (cannot recollect the other officers names) to Trenton in New Jersey – We got to Trenton the day after the Hessians were taken. He saw the Hessians before he got to Trenton going into Pennsylvania as prisoners - He then marched through different towns to Morristown in New Jersey – He got new field officers at Trenton, and being strangers
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to him he cannot recollect their names. He recollects General Washington at the Camp near Morristown. Among the towns he was in during this town, in New Jersey, he recollects, besides those mentioned, Princeton, Maidenhead and Cecil town - When his tour of two months was expired he was discharged at the Camp of General Washington near Morristown New Jersey - After his discharge he and his company returned together, crossed the Delaware river above Trenton, and came home through Philadelphia - The company had a general discharge, but he had none individually, that he recollects of.  We got home about the first of March Anno Domini seventeen hundred and seventy seven, having been absent better than two months – 
2d during the next summon in the latter part of it being in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven, he was drafted for another tour of two months and marched, under the command of Captain Hugh Paydon, from Derry Township, Lancaster County Pennsylvania, to Lancaster in the State of Pennsylvania, and from thence to Trenton in New Jersey, and from thence down the Jersey shore of the Delaware river, and then out through New Jersey - We Marched through a number of towns in New Jersey the names of which he does not now recollect, it being a long time ago, and his memory, by age and infirmity, having considerably failed.  There was a battle between the Americans and British during the time he was out this tour.  He remembers seeing British horses wagons and guns & brought into the camp and sold at vendue - He was discharged when his two months tour had expired, in New Jersey, and on his way home crossed the Delaware river above Philadelphia - His company received a general discharge as was the case in his former tour and he returned home, having been absent better than two months- 
3d The third tour which he served was near the close of the war, cannot recollect with certainty the year - He was drafted for a two months tour, and marched from Derry township, Lancaster County Pennsylvania to Chestnut Hill near German Town, Pennsylvania, where he lay encamped, during the time of his tour. He was under officers who were strangers to him (except James Laird who was his Lieutenant and he cannot recollect their names - He cannot recollect any
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thing of importance to relate, that the place during the time he lay at Chestnut Hill - He recollects seeing at Chestnut Hill, General Potter (who afterwards lived in Centre County Pennsylvania),  General Bull and Mayor Stewart - General Potter and Mayor Stewart were near fighting, with swords, one day, on account of a dispute that arose between them about the treatment of the militia - His company was discharged at the expiration of the tour, and they returned have having been absent again better than two months.
That the whole term of his service was six months, which was in the Pennsylvania militia as a private, being drafted and service rendered as above stated – 
To the interrogatories propounded by the court, he makes the following answers – 
1st Where, and in what year were you born?  
Answer - I was born in Derry Township Lancaster County, in the State of Pennsylvania, in the year Anno Domini Seventeen hundred and fifty four - 1754.
2d  Have you any record of your age and if so, where is it?   
Answer - I have a record of my age in my Bible, which I have in my possession
3d Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live?  
A -  I lived in Derry township Lancaster when called into service; and lived there until the year Anno Dominu seventeen hundred and eighty seven, when moved to Buffalo Valley, Northumberland (now Union) County, Pennsylvania.   I lived on Esquire Gray's farm one mile above Lewisburg in said County, one year; the next year he moved to another farm of Esquire Grays on Buffalo Creek in the same valley and County, near Samuel
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Dale’s Esqr where he lived seven years.  We then moved to near Buffalo mountain where he lived a number of years, can not tell exactly how long. I then moved to where I now live - I have lived within five or six miles off where I now live ever since - I now live in West Buffalo township, in County Pennsylvania 
4th How were you called into service; were you draughted did you volunteer, or were you a substitute; and, if a substitute, for whom?  
Answer – I was draughted in the militia as stated in my declaration
5th State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served;  such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service. 
Answer – This is stated in my general declaration as near as I can recollect.
6th Did you an receive a discharge from the service; and if so, by whom was it given; and what has become of it?   
Answer – I have stated in my declaration that the company received a general discharge – If I received an individual discharge, I have no recollection of it.
7th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the revolution. 
Answer - I am known to John McGee, Jeremiah Anderson, Henry Zellers who live in my present neighbourhood and who can testify as to my character for veracity, and their belief of my services as a soldier of the revolution 
That he hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or an ity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the
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pension roll of the agency of any State 
That there is no clergyman resident in his immediate neighbourhood, whose attendance he could procure in court to certify for him on the present occasion 
John Campbell
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court
R P Maclay Prot 
We John Magee of West Buffalo Township and Jeremiah Anderson of Buffalo Township Union County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Campbell who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be eighty three years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion 
John Magee
Jeremiah Anderson
Sworn and subscribed before me in open Court the day and year aforesaid to wit September 18. 1838 
R P Maclay  
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories presented by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that John Magee and Jeremiah Anderson  who have signed the preceding certificate, are residents in West Buffalo and Buffalo Union County in the State of Pennsylvania and that they are credible persons, and that their statements
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section. 
February 25, 1927.
Mrs. H. Y. Clark, 
405 E. First St. 
McCook, Nebr. 
Madam: 
I have to advise you, that from the papers in the pension claim, S. 9155, it appears that John Campbell was born in 1754, in Derry Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and while living there he enlisted and served as a private in the Pennsylvania Militia as follows: 
In 1776, for two months in Captain Robert McKee's Company, Colonel Lowry's Regiment. 
In the summer of 1777, for two months in Captain Hugh Paydon's Company. 
Later, date not stated, for the months under Lieutenant James Laird. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 16, 1838, while living in West Buffalo Township, Union County, Pennsylvania. There is no information on file as to family. 
Owing to the lack of a clerical force available for the purpose, not more than two such reports are made for each inquirer. 
Respectfully, 
WINFIELD SCOTT, Commissioner.
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Rev War
9155  
INVALID. 
John Campbell 
Priv. Penn. Ma [Militia] Rev War 
Act: June 7 / 32 
Index:-Vol. 1 N Page 59 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1916, Mch 28. History to Mrs. Annie Campbell FW
1917, Apr 26 To [unreadable] Gen. U.S.A. for tombstone.  FW
1927 Feb 28 Hist to H. Y. Clark  AW
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John Campbell
Pennsylvania
Suspended
See let. 8th Nov. 1838 James F. Linn
Act of June 1832
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J L Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Lewisburg Dec 24th 1838 
Dear Sir
On the other half sheet you have the affidavit of John Campbell stating the reasons why he did not make an earlier application for a pension  - I did not understand by your note of the 9th Nov that it was necessary to make it in open court - Then get him to go before a justice of the peace and make it -  I hope it will be sufficient - Let me hear the rest as soon as possible - if he do not get it soon it will be of but little use to him as his days are rapidly coming to a close, which his [unreadable]
Yours – 
James F. Linn
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State of Pennsylvania, 
Union County} Sct, 
Be it remembered that on the 15th day of December A.D. 1838 the subscriber a justice of the peace for said County personally appeared John Campbell of West Buffalo Township Union County Pennsylvania, who hath lately applied for a pension under the act of  Congress of June the 7th 1832, who on his solemn oath administered according to law declared that the reason why he did not apply for a pension under the act of June 7 1832, sooner than he did is that for some years after the passage of the act he thought that he was able to live without it and since that he has become very infirm, and being poor he was unable to procure the services of any person to take the necessary steps to get the pension and had it not been for the kind services of two of his neighbours gratuitously [unreadable], he would not have made his application 
John Campbell
Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year above written 
Robt G. H. Hayes Jr. 
I do certify that I know the above named R G. H. Hayes to be a justice of the peace & believe the above to be his signature 
R H Hammond 
Mr. H. of Reps 28th Dec 1838
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Dec 28
John Campbell
Pa 
Mr. Hon Robert H. Hammond
Washington City
District of Columbia
FREE
Hn. R. H. Hammond
H. R.
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Lewisburg Dec 24th 1838 
Dear Sir
Enclosed I send you a communication for Mr. Edwards the Commission of Pensions. It relates to the application of John Campbell which I forwarded to Mr Edwards just after our September Court - I rec’d a line from Mr Edwards in last month stating that the application had been filed with suspended pensions and thus before any further action would be had I must forward the old man's reasons under oath why he did not apply sooner for the pension.  I have procured that and is contained in the enclosed letter to Mr Edwards.  Would you be so kind as to hand it to Mr Edwards personally and if there be any thing he wanting in from me of it - I do not know whether you are acquainted with the old man or not, if you are I would ask you to use your influence in favor of the old man - he is very poor, old, and infirm – if you could procure a speedy issue of his case, and that a favourable one, you would subserve the cause of humanity in so doing.  Any thing that you could do to further a favorable decision is his case will be reciprocated when an opportunity offers.  
Hon R H. Hammond 
Yours James F. Linn
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4  Penn'a  Sept 28
John Campbell
Act 1832
Sept 25
FREE
James L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City 
D. of Columbia
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Lewisburg, Union County Penna Ap. 24. 1838 
Dr. Sir
Enclosed I send you the declaration of John Campbell an old soldier under the act of June 7th 1832.  - You will observe that he made his declaration in court in May last and his sponsors were sworn at September Term.   This was occasioned by a misunderstanding between him and his sponsors they thought it was not necessary to come court to make the oath, and consequently and after last May Term  - 
The old man is very poor, and getting very infirm - I hope that any inaccuracy that may appear on his paper, may not prevent a favorable action in his case 
Yours James F. Linn
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Milton Pa March 17 1916   1812 Revo Sect.
Secretary Pension Department 
Dear Sir
Did John Campbell who was a Revolutionary Soldier, and lived in West Buffalo township Union County Pennsylvania draw a Pension, his address was Either Buffalo & Roads or Farmersvill or Forest Hill or Mifflinburg. one of the four places all in Union Co Pa - he died in 1838 or 1839 
He was drafted into the militia, from Derry township Lancaster County Pa in 1776 served under Captain Robert McKee arrived at Trenton the day after the capture of the Hessians, and went thence to Morristown, took Oath of allegiance before Jacob Cooke Esquire August the 2 1777 in the latter part of 1777 was again drafted and went to Trenton, his third tour was at the close of the war in a company commanded by Lieutenant James Laird.
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Mrs. Annie Campbell
Milton Pa
U.S. PENSION OFFICE O MAR 18 1916
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No 2
this John Campbell came from Lancaster Pa to Buffalo Valey in 1777 
I got this data from the History of Buffalo Valey. I have now located his grave and trying to secure a government head stone for him. that is why & ask these questions 
Yours Respectfully 
Mrs. Annie Campbell 
339 Center St 
Milton Northumberland County Pennsylvaina
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McCook, Nebraska Jan. 6, 1927, 
The Commissioner of Pensions, 
Washington, D.C. 
Dear Sir:- 
Please send me the Pension Record of John Campbell drafted from Derry Township Lancaster County in 1776, served under Captain Robert McKee. He removed to Buffalo Valley (Union County, then Northumberland) in 1777, living on Captain Gray's farm one year, there moved to to another farm of the Captain's, near James Dales. He lived there seven years, then moved to Buffalo Mountain, then into West Buffalo Township, where he died. Living in 1838, 83 years old. Thanking
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you for the help you have given me, I remain 
Very Respectfully  
Mrs. Hattie Yarger Clark 
405 East First Street 
McCook, Nebraska