Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2693, for Daniel Kemper, New Jersey
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SERVICE
Continental
New Jersey
New York

Kemper, Daniel

NUMBER
S 2693
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687.
Jersey
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Daniel Kemper
Middlesex Co in the State of New Jersey
who was a Colonel in the ______ commanded
by Captain _____ of the regt commanded
by himself in the New Jersey line for two years from 1776
New York and New Jersey [illegible]
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
the rate of 600 Dollars _____ Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day of October 1832 and sent to General J Morton, New York
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Arrears to 4th of September 1832 $900.
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 March 1833 300
$1200.
{Revolutionary Claim Act Jun 7, 1832}
Recorded by Wm S Allison Clerk
Book.2 Vol. 4 Page 158,

1873 April 19 L H Kemper history Prior
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Application
Colonel Daniel Kemper
of
New Jersey
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County  On this first day of August
in the year of our lord one thousand dight hundred and thirty two personally appeared Daniel Kemper in open court before the Inferior Court of Common pleas in & for the County of Middlesex State aforesaid now sitting he been a resident of the City of New Brunswick in the County & State aforesaid aged eighty three years of age on the twenty seventh day of August next, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his 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 stated-
That in the earliest period of the Revolutionary War he engaged in the service of his country and the summer of 1776 entered the company of Fusileers Col Lashers Regiment and attached to Genl Falls Brigade. This Brigade enlisted in the service of the United States for only six months by which he has been excluded from the benefit of the compensation allowed by
Congress to those who served nine months or longer. In this company he was promoted to a Lieutenancy by the Coloneld & acted also as Adjutant, but he never received his
commission and served with the Brigade until Hhe period of his enlistment expired
The went with a party from Elizabeth Town New Jersey in the night by  water having learned that a British transport was off Sandy Hook waiting for a pilot, the weather being very foggy. We boarded her at day light of brought her safe to Elizabeth Town point. The was a very large transport with a valuable cargo of Stores of provisions
He volunteered with Generals Sullivan & Sterling in their attack on Staten Island and took some prisoners
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...He assisted in capturing a company of German troops & took them to Morristown. He was sent with a flag to Elizabeth Town & was accused by [illegible] officer [illegible]  General Voight [illegible] Maxwell's guards. He had that night duty & he [illegible] party of thirty men from  General Taylor [illegible] presented to bounty of a [illegible] and they went in the brigade commanded by his commanding officer, a Major McConnell, his commanding officer, shoot prisoners and [illegible] taking out his witness situation. He prescribed me his sword & surrendered. His commander ordered to remain onboard [illegible] in the [illegible] and then sent the prisoners on shore under a guard. There were, the major or lieutenant & sergeant of 70 men onboard with a variable guard of officers & soldiers, baggage & other articles. The [illegible]  was taken up to Elizabeth Town Point & there discharged. He accompanied the major or lieutenant & presented them to General Maxwell & after a short coronation produced the sword of the major with his [illegible], which he had delivered [illegible] to his general that the major had a strong claim of retaining them as they belonged to his father & by his consent they should be returned to him. The general replied, "No, no, major. I present them to you as trophies for your good conduct this day." Your claimant now has them in possession.

Your claimant was at Fort Lee when he was evacuated; was at headquarters at Newark when Col. Johnson, an aid of Gen'l Washington, told him that after two days the army should move and not halt before they crossed the Delaware [River]...
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...[Delaware] River & there at home go & remain my finish & property from Elizabeth Town as quick as possible. I returned home been for make of teams. I could not meet them till [crossed out: after] he was carrying papers through Elizabeth Town. I then sent papers by family & what property two teams could take. Meares in that time was required not less that Three Thousand dollars [illegible] a considerable amount [illegible] Morristown Chatham & after a
fortnight to Morristown where he purchased a small house & small farm & there settled his family during the Revolutionary War. He then went & joined the militia in the same & his duty as assistant to Col. Bolls, the Attorney General for some time.

Upon Mr. James Meares appointment as Chatham Gen'l of the U.S. Army, your claimant received an appointment and was an Assistant Chatham General in the month of February 1777. The agreement was that he was to receive pay as a colonel & have six months with a horse & forage. That he drew his orders regularly but as the continental money was generally confiscated & as he share his funds of his own, he would draw his pay. Sometime in the year 1782, as your claimant claims, he returned a title paper written informing of the resignation of that general. Maylan was appointed captain himself. That was [illegible] with an assistant Chatham and should come to fill the place of your claimant, he should remove to Philadelphia to settle his accounts with Two
Thousand dollars with his [illegible], Mr. Miner & then claimant made a statement of his account by which it appeared there was a balance due your claimant  for his pay advances owed by him to the amount of Six Thousand dollars & upwards. In consequence of the illness of one of his daughters (whom he lost & has returned home in haste) leaving his books & papers in the office of [illegible], expecting to return in a short time & complete the settlement of his accounts. Mr. Meares advanced him Two Thousand dollars in Pennsylvania Agency (then...
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...[illegible] for one and assured him if he would command the cash he would pay him his due. Soon after this Mr. Meares during [illegible] of a working [illegible] a hearing of which your claimant was [illegible] city of Philadelphia & applied to the persons having charge of Mr. Meares' affairs for his books & papers but in the [illegible] of Mr. Meares affairs some underwent to the [illegible]. Your claimant [illegible] afterwards applied to Mr. [crossed out: Meares] Caldwell [illegible] claims.

[illegible] any officers of their belief in his uprightness & integrity. Your claimant wanting further by [illegible] to [illegible] to the officers & soldiers of the [illegible] & drawing his rations as such and so subscribed [illegible] his & the officers of his again to that [illegible].

The claimant aided in the City and State of New York a [illegible] entered the service. He served as a regular soldier and was the company. There was none other than [illegible] Burgoine in war at the time & place mentioned by the [illegible] and another one he was in the service. The claimant was well acquainted with all the general officers with...
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... General Sullivan, [illegible] & all the capt(ains).

The papers of the claimant were all lost after the death of General [illegible] (other general) in the hands of his executors.

There is no one living who can testify to the services of the claimant.

Among other actions in which he was engaged, the claimant acted as assistant [illegible] at the Battles of Germantown & Monmouth in company with Colonel Laurence. He has no documentary evidence to support his claim & all that he did, papers having been in the hands of General [illegible] & lost or mislaid
by his executors.

The claimant was in the service of his country during the whole war in various capacities except when confined by sickness up till the death of General [illegible].

He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any State or the Agency of any State.
s/ Daniel Kemper

Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
s/ N. Booraem, Judge

We, Samuel B. How, a Clergyman residing in the City of New Brunswick, County of Middlesex & State of New Jersey and James Dunham residing in the same [crossed out: place] in the County of Somerset, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Colonel Daniel Kemper, who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration. That we believe him to be Eighty three years of age on the Twenty seventh day of August [crossed out: instant] next and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been Soldier of the Revolution...
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...[duplicate: Revolution] & that we concur in that opinion
s/ Samuel B. How
s/ James Dunham

Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
s/ N. Booraem, Judge

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 & served as he states.

And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Samuel B. How, who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman resident in the city of New Brunswick, County of Middlesex & State of New Jersey and [crossed out: (illegible)] and that James Dunham, who has also [crossed out: has] signed the same is a resident in the same place & is a credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit.
Judges:
s/ N. Booraem
s/ Joseph McChesney
s/ Jos. Ford

I, Ferdinand Van Arsdalen, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Middlesex, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Colonel Daniel Kemper for a pension.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal of Office this first day...
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...of [crossed out: July] August in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty three.
s/ F.S. Van Arsdalen, Clerk
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Interrogatories propounded by the Court to Colonel Daniel Kemper, an applicant under the act entitled, "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," passed June 7th 1832.

1. Where and in what year were you born? (blank)
2. Have you any record of your age and if so where and what is it? (blank)
3. Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live? (blank)
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom? (blank)
5. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops when you served; such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect & the general circumstances of your service? (blank)
6. Did you ever receive a commission & if so, by whom was it signed and what has become of it; or did you ever receive a discharge from the service? (blank)
7. State the names of the persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity & their belief as to your services as a soldier of the Revolution? (blank)

Answers to the foregoing interrogatories:
To Inter(rogatory) 1: I was born on the Twenty seventh day of August in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred & Forty nine in the City of New
Brunswick in the State of New Jersey.
To Inter(rogatory) 2: My birth is recorded in my father's family Bible, now in possession of my son...
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...To Inter(rogatory) 3: My parents left New Brunswick before I was five years old and removed to the City of New York, where I continued until the Revolution when I entered the service and after the peace in the month of June 17, I returned to the city again and continued there afterward as before the war, another enlistment and soon after [illegible]. I was compelled to leave [illegible] and was [illegible] to New Brunswick where I now reside.

To Inter(rogatory) 4: I enlisted in July on hearing the news of the Battle of Lexington at New York a guard was [illegible] in assembly. Officers were chosen according [illegible] companies formed [illegible] to was called the [illegible].

To Inter(rogatory) 5: The Brigadier General John Scott commanded his brigade. Colonel John Fisher, First Regiment Adolphus [illegible] was captain, Harry [illegible] the First Lieutenant and a [illegible] Scott, Second Lieutenant. I was soon after appointed lieutenant and acting adjutant by my colonel but never received my commission as one of the lieutenants bar in the company. General Lee removed sometime afterwards and took command of the city. There were also Generals Greene, Knox, Putnam, Sullivan and others. After our army retreated from Long Island, they were divided; one division took post at Hightstown. There was some other military. Afterwards the second part of the army fell back to White Plains, where was considerable fighting and then General Washington crossed the North River into New Jersey with the remains of the army and halted at Newark a few days before he retreated through New Jersey. At that period my...
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...time of service for five months was expired and I returned with my family to Morristown, where they continued during the whole war. After a few days I went down to the lines and found the militia and did duty with them as assistant to Colonel Bill Swan, Adjutant General. I was engaged in ground actions at Springfield, Scotch Plains in capturing a company of German troops and several other skirmishes. I captured with a few men a large schooner, which had grounded in the river going from Elizabeth Town to New Brunswick. Three were onboard, a [illegible] Lieutenant and Seventy privates with sixteen women. I had them all landed & put away under guard and then given to with the major and lieutenant and presented them to General Maxwell at Elizabeth Town when he presented me with the major's [illegible] and [illegible] as trophies for my good conduct and I have them still in my possession.

I was compelled to go home by illness and laid two months confined with an inflammation of my breast. Soon as I became convalescent, I was appointed Assistant Clothier General by Mr. James Mease, the Clothier General then at headquarters at Morristown. I continued in that office, having charge of all the clothing and distributing the same according to order from headquarters until the year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty two (1782) at which time Mr. (James) Mease died of an apoplectic fit. I could enumerate several actions I was in and acted as assistant and to one of the generals, particularly the battles of Germantown and Monmouth and others...
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...but I trust this will suffice.

I never received any discharge from the service.

To Inter(rogatory) 7: As to naming any particular persons to whom I am known and to whom I can appeal to testify to my character during my service with them and who believes in the truth of my statement and also that I have been always regarded as a Soldier of the Revolution. I can with confidence appeal to the greater portion of the city, both clergy & other citizens, to who I am known and particularly I would refer to the Right Reverend Bishop Cross & the Reverend John Cross. The Reverend Doctors will declare I am Cannon of the Theological Seminary established here. To Dr. Augustus H Taylor, Dr. Charles Smith, Colonel Joseph N. Scott & Colonel John Wilson.
s/ Daniel Kemper

Sworn and subscribed in Open Court August 1. 1832.
s/ N. Booraem, Judge
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February 27, 1935

DANIEL KEMPER
S.2693
BA-J/MLB

Fredericka B. Peters
85 Beech Street
East Orange, New Jersey

Dear Madam:

The data herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S.2693, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Daniel Kemper.

Daniel Kemper was born August 27, 1749, in New Brunswick, New Jersey; the names of his parents are not given. Before he was five years of age, his parents moved to New York City.

While residing in New York City, upon receiving news of the battle of Lexington, Daniel Kemper joined a company of fusileers [fusiliers] and in the summer of 1776 was called into service and served in Captain Rudolphus Ritzema's Company, Colonel John Lasher's New York Regiment, General Scott's Brigade, was promoted to lieutenant, also acted as adjutant, length of this tour six months; during his service he moved his family to Elizabeth Town, New Jersey; from there, to Chatham for a few days, thence to Morristown, New Jersey, where they remained during his service. He then joined the New Jersey militia on the lines and for a while did duty as Assistant to Adjutant General Botts. In February, 1777, he was appointed assistant clothier (with rank of colonel) under James Mease, Clothier General of the Army, and served as such until General Mease left the service; during his service he aided in capturing a British transport off Sandy Hook, a schooner belonging to a refugee and a company of German troops; he was in Generals Sullivan's and Stirling's defense of Staten Island, in the retreat from Long Island, at the evacuation of Fort Lee, at the battles of Springfield, Scotch Plains, also at Germantown and Monmouth, in which two he was assistant aide to General Washington, and in several other actions, names of which were not stated.

He was an original member of the New York State Society of the Cincinnati...
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...Daniel Kemper was allowed pension on his application executed August 1, 1832, while a resident of New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey.

No reference was made to soldier's wife.

In 1832, reference was made to one of soldier's daughters who died in 1782, also to a son then living and to a son deceased, but date of son's death was not given, nor were any names of children stated.

In 1832, one J. Morton, of New York City, stated that soldier was his mother's brother, but did not give the names of his parents.

Very truly yours
A.D. HILLER, Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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New York, Aug. 15th 1832

Dear Sir,

I take the liberty to enclose to you some papers which may, I think, be of advantage to Mr. Kemper in the enquiry respecting his petition to be placed on the Pension List as an Office of the Revolution.

Her(ewith) great respect,
s/ J. Morton

The Honorable Lewis Cass, Secretary of War.
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New York, Aug. 7th 1832

Dear Sir,

Mr. Van Plerck had promised Col. Kemper to transmit his papers to you. But as is at present absent from this city, I take the liberty of forwarding them to you. These are explanatory documents which accompanied Col. Kemper's petition to Congress last winter & on file in the Office of the Clerk of the Ho(use) of Representatives, to which you are personally informed. They are certificates from Col. Willett, Col. Varick, Col. Fish & Gen'l Lewis of his serving in the Clothier Department during the war and also of having been [illegible] & named by his brother officers as a member of the Cincinnati.

I would be obliged to you the commitments to him the assistance of your judgment on the case.

Yours w(ith) respect & esteem,
s/ J. Morton
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Forthill Landing
August 12th 1832

Dear Sir,

Amongst my papers returned to me from the Clerk of the House of Representatives, I find Mr. Kemper's papers, which in they may be of in to him in his application under the new law. I return to you.

Very respectfully your friend & obed(ient) ser(vant),
s/ C.G. Verplanck

[illegible] Morton
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Capitol, Washington, Oct. 6, 1832

Sir,

In answer to yours of the 4th instant asking to have the papers of Col. Daniel Kemper forwarded to me, I have to state that the papers of Colonel Kemper were withdrawn from this office by Mr. Jonh G. Verplanck on the 30th of June last.

With great respect, I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
s/ S. Norch

James L. Edwards, Esq.
Pension Office
War Department
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February 27, 1935
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Daniel Kemper, S. 2693
John Kemper, S. 13621
BA-J/MLB

Fredericka B. Peters
85 Beech Street
East Orange, New Jersey

Dear Madam: 

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of John, Jacob and Daniel Kemper, brothers, variously described.
Because of the great demand for Revolutionary War data, and the limited clerical force available for furnishing such information, it has not been possible to make a series of investigations and reports pertaining to soldiers of the Revolutionary War for one person.
The records of Daniel Kemper and John Kemper are furnished herewith.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Rev. War Section,

March 26, 1917
Mr. Francis K. Adams,
Box 233, Punta Gorda, Fla.
Sir:

In reply to your letter of the 17th instant, you are advised that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 2893, it appears that Daniel Kemper was born in New
Brunswick, N.J., August 27, 1749 and while living in New York City, upon receiving news  a British transport ofof the battle of Lexington, joined a company
of Fusileers and in the summer of 1776 was called into service for six months with said company in Col. Lach[illegible Regiment of Militia in Genl Scott's Brigade, he was promoted to a Lieutenancy [illegible] acted as Adjutant [illegible] joined the New Jersey Militia on the lines and for a while did duty as
Adjutant to Adjutant General Botts.  In [illegible] was appointed Assistant Clother, with rank of Colonel under James [illegible] General of the Army and served a [illegible] until Genl 
the date not stated. He aided in capturing a British transport off Sandy Hook, a schooner [illegible] and a Company of German troops. He was in attack on Staten Island at the evacuation of Fort [illegible] and at the battles of Springfield and Scotch Plains, also at Germantown and Monmouth, in which two cases as assistant aide to General Washington, and was in several other action, the names of which are not stated. He was an original member of the New York State Society of the Cincinnati
He was allowed pension on an application executed August 1, 1832, at which time he lived in New Brunswick, N.J. He refers to his sons and daughters, but their names and that of his wife are not stated.
Very respectfully,
G M Saltzgaber
Commissioner.
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Feb 18

Milwaukee Wis
Feb 7. 1893
Col. Daniel Kemper
N.Y. or N.J. Vols
Revolutionary War
Record of service
Filed by Lewis Hoffman Kemper
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Record and Pension
Washington, D.C.

Milwaukee, Wis.
Feb. 7 1893

Sec(retary) of War
Washington, D.C.

My dear Sir,

Having made application for membership to the Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, it becomes necessary that I should have record of the service rendered by Colonel Daniel Kemper...
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...during the Revolutionary War.

We have the badge worn by him as a member of the Society of the Cincinnatis formed by the officers surviving the Revolution, but have no particulars of his service during the war.

He lived in New York City, I believe, when the war broke out and afterward at Morristown & New Brunswick N.J...
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...Trusting I may hear from you in regard to this matter at your leisure.

I am respectfully yours,
s/ Lewis Hoffman Kemper
447 Oakland Ave.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

The Sec(retary) of War
Washington, D.C.
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Milwaukee, Wis.
#447 Oakland Ave.

Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Washington, D.C.

My dear Sir,

Will you kindly furnish me with the record of Deputy Clothier General Daniel Kemper during the Revolutionary War.

He enlisted at the beginning of the war in Col. Jasper's Regiment and Gen'l Scott's Brigade of New York City, I believe, which engaged to serve six months. At the end of six months he did duty on the lines as a volunteer and was at times with Genl. Maxwell, & again...
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...with Gen.l Dayton when stationed near Elizabeth Town, N.J. He captured a schooner a mile below the town and received the surrender of Major McDallard & his troops, who were onboard. He presented the major with his sword to Gen'l Dayton. The latter wishing "Col." Kemper to keep the sword as a trophy. Subsequently, he received the position of Deputy Clothier General and was stationed in New York.

Can you tell me what money he sent the government and to what extent he was recompensated & how...
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...The record of his brother, Jacob Kemper, I should like. He was Capt. Lieut. 3rd Artillery, Massachusetts, in the Revolutionary War.

Trusting I may hear from you in regard to this matter, I am sincerely yours,
s/ Lewis Hoffman Kemper
Feb. 14, 1893
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(P.O.) B(o)x 223, Punta Gorda, Fla., DeSoto Co.
9th Mar. '17 to Co

Dear Sir,

Will you kindly send me copy of the service record of my great grandfather, Col, Daniel Kemper, who died New Brunswick, N.J., August 1847 at 98. I have only a partial record but understand the Pension Office is perfect.

Yours very truly,
s/ Francis Kemper Adams

Pension Dept
Washington, D.C.
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Rev(olutionary) War

2693
INVALID.

File No. 293
Daniel Kemper
Col(onel), Rev(olutionary) War

Act: June 7, 1832
Index: -; Vol. A; Page 201
{Arrangement of 1870.}
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Oct. 21/'96 - Letter to James H. Kemper, Milwaukee, Wis. [illegible]
1917 Mar. 26 - Hist(ory sent) to Francis K. Adams. A.W.
1935 Feb. 27 - Hist(ory sent) to Frederica B. Peters (See let(ter) in claim S.13621 - Jno. Kemper.)
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New York, April 5th 1832.

I, Oliver Wolcott, late of Connecticut but present residing in the City of New York, do hereby certify to all persons whom these presents may concern. That I first became acquainted with Mr. Daniel Kemper, who was then a styled Col. Kemper immediately after the organization of the present government of the United States in the year 1789, at which time I was appointed Auditor of the Treasury Department by President Washington. By virtue of this appointment, the settlement of all claims and demands against the United States appertained to my office. During my intercourse with him, I found him in constant society with the officers of the Revolutionary Army. I even understood that he was constantly esteemed to have been a brave and enterprising partisan of the American Cause but of the particulars of his military services, I have no knowledge.

The claim which he most ungently made was for a considerable balance, which he stated to be due to him as an assistant to James Man, Esq., who was at the head of the Clothing Department of the army and he was styled Clothier General. This department...
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...was a branch of the general staff of the army and as its transactions had become enterprise [crossed out: (illegible)] and diversified, [crossed out: (its)] concerns had been at the close of the war transferred to Col. Benjamin Walker as a commissioner by an ordinance of Congress under the consideration to be started and methodized.

Col Walker made a report, which came into my office. Whether it embraced the claims of Col. Daniel Kemper, I do not recollect. But when it was advanced to the Office of Comptroller of the [illegible] in the summer of 1791, this document with other papers was by me transferred to my [illegible] Richard Harrison, Esq.

I remember the merits and services of Col. Daniel Kemper as such [crossed out: and] as duty entitled him to the attention and protection of his country. Though from the lapse of time, he may not be [crossed out: (illegible)] able to produce precise proofs in support of his demands.
s/ Oliv(er) Wolcott
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Certificates of Col. Fish, Col. Wilcott & Gen'l Lewis in behalf of Col. Kemper. 1827.
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I do certify that I have for many years been well acquainted with Mr. Daniel Kemper, at present an inhabitant of New Brunswick in the State of New Jersey. That during the Revolutionary War in the campaign of 1776, he served in the Fusileer [Fusilier] Company of Colonel Lasher's Regiment in General Scott's Brigade of Militia, then in the service of the United States. That the troops composing said brigade were engaged for six months and having completed their term of service, were regularly discharged. That at a subsequent period of the war, Mr. Kemper was employed in the Clothier Department as Assistant Clothier to the army, which office to the best of my recollection and belief, he faithfully & diligently executed.

New York December 20th 1827

s/ Nicho(las) Fish, Brigade Major of Scott's Brigade at the time alluded to and afterwards; Major of the 2nd New York Regiment of the line of the Army of the
United States.
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I do hereby certify that I have been perfectly well acquainted with Mr. Daniel Kemper previous to and during the Revolutionary War and that I have every reason to believe his statements set forth in his memorial, as well as the testimony given by Col. Fish and others, to be just and correct. And I further declare that I think him deserving of his country's particular attention.
s/ Marinus Willett

New York, Dec. 21st 1827

I was a member of the Fusileer [Fusilier] Company in its first organization in the spring of 1775, previous to its being annexed to Scott's Brigade. Mr. D. Kemper was at that early period also a member of said company. During the war I did not serve in the same quarter with him but know him to have been uniformly a very deserving and...
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...meritorious person.

Morgan Lewis, Co. Col. in the Army of the Revolution and now [illegible] of the New York State Society of the Cincinnati.
s/ [illegible]

The signature of Col. [illegible] are well known to me.
s/ C.G. Verplanck
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Certificate of Col. Varick in behalf of Col. Kemper.
Dec. 1827.
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I do certify that I am well acquainted with Daniel Kemper, Esquire, now of the city of New Brunswick in the State of New Jersey. That the said Daniel Kemper was during the late Revolutionary War an Assistant Clothier in the Army of the United States; and that holding such office in the Revolutionary Army, he was admitted and now is a member of the, "New York State Society of the Cincinnati."

New York, 20th December 1827
s/ Rich(ar)d Varick, Second Colonel in the Army of the Revolution & Dep(uty) Comm(anding) General of [illegible] & now President of the, "New York State Society of the Cincinnati."
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Daniel Kemper

April 9th 1832
Ref(erred) to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions.

No. 5057

Allowed. L.C.

Mr.  Verplanck
Husband die & to lie.
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To the Honorable The Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled.:
The Memorial of Daniel Kemper at present a resident of the City of New Brunswick in the State of New Jersey.

Respectfully Sheweth:
That in the earliest period of the Revolutionary War, he engaged in the service of his country. That in the summer of 1776, he entered the Company of Fusileers [Fusiliers], Colonel Lashers Regiment, and attached to General Scott's Brigade. This Brigade enlisted in the service of the United States for only six months, by which he has been excluded from all the compensations allowed by Congress to those who served for nine months and longer. He removed his family & property to Eliz(abeth) Town, N.J. He was promoted to a lieutenancy in the company and acted also as adjutant and served with the brigade until the period of its enlistment expired. He was at Fort Lee when it was evacuated and at headquarters at Newark when being advised by Col. Johnson, aid to General Washington, to go and remove his family & property immediately as our army would move in two days and not halt until they had crossed the Delaware River. He accordingly went but not being able to procure teams, he could not remove them before the morning our army passed thro(ugh) and of all his property, he saved only what two teams could load. His loss was great as he had a considerable store of goods on hand. He believes that Three Thousand
dollars would scarcely cover his loss. He conveyed his family to Chatham and after a few days removed them to Morristown, where he purchased a house & lot and there settled his family during the Revolution. He performed military duty on various occasions. He first went and joined the Jersey Militia on the lines; did duty as Assistant to Clothier Adjutant Gen'l for some time. He volunteered with Generals Sullivan & Sterling in their attempt on Staten Island. We captured a few prisoners. He went with a party from E(lizabeth) Town by night in several small crafts & a schooner having been informed that a transport ship was off (the coast of) Sandy Hook waiting for a pilot, the weather having been very foggy for several days. We boarded her with the schooner first at daylight, got possession of her and took her safe to Eliz(abeth) Town Point. She proved to be a British transport with a valuable cargo of stores and provisions. He assisted in capturing a company of German troops and conducted them to Morristown. He was sent with a flag to Eliz(abeth) Town. Was received by [illegible] James Beard, being officer of the day. Gen'l Vaughn had the command; did not return before night fall & remained at General Maxwell's quarters that night, being on the lines near Springfield...
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...early the next morning, were informed by several of the inhabitants that the British had left E(lizabeth) Town. The gen(eral) permitted the officers to go and reconnoiter, the found then gone. One of the citizens informed him that a schooner (belonging to a notorious refugee) was aground a mile below the town laden with baggage &c. and full of troops. He procured a party of thirty men from Gen'l Dayton and proceeded to the vessel; placed them behind a rising ground at 60 or 70 yards distant; went with a flag and demanded of the commanding officer, Major McDonnell, his surrender and after a little parlay, he presented his sword and gave up the vessel & there were onboard the major, lieut. sergeant and 70 men with 16 women. He then ordered ten of his men onboard secured the arms and then sent them ashore under guard. He then landed with the major & lieut. and presented them to Gen'l Maxwell and then handed him the sword and fusee of the major, observing that the major had expressed a desire to retain them as they had belonged to his father. The gen(eral) replied, "No, No, I present them you major. Keep them as trophies for your good conduct this day." He has them still in possession. He was also in the action at Springfield, the Scotch Plains &c. but he declines saying more than that. He has endeavored to do his duty on all occasions and hopes has done as much active duty as many who served [crossed out: who served] a longer period in the army. Besides his long services as Assist(ant) Cloth(ier) Gen'l to the Army.

In the year of 1777, Mr. James Mease was appointed Clothier General and in March he appointed him his assistant to have charge of the department with the army. The agreement that he was to receive pay as a colonel; have six rations with a horse & forage. That he drew his rations regularly but as the continental money was generally deprecated and as he then had funds of his own, he never drew his pay but left it in the hands of Mr. Mease until his services should end. If his memory is correct, in the year 1781 he received a letter informing him that he, Mr. Mease, had resigned and that Gen'l Maylan was appointed Clothier General. That as soon as another assistant was sent to fill his place and had delivered the stores to him, I should return to Phila(delphia) with my books & papers to settle my accounts, which I accordingly I did. That Mr. Mease, his Clerk and himself made a statement of his accounts with full satisfaction, by which it appeared there was a balance due to memorialist for his pay and advances made by him to the amount of Six Thousand Six Hundred and odd dollars. And that Mr. Mease assured him he would pay him soon as he could have in his power. A few days after he was called home by a very pressed letter from his wife on account of sickness in his family. That he applied to Mr. Mease for what was necessary for him to return home. Mr. Mease...
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...requested him to call the next day when he gave Two Thousand dollars (Pennsylvania currency then 10 for £) and assured him that at his return he would pay him the whole of his due. He hastened home and was so unfortunate as to loose one of his daughters. A few days after, he received a letter from Mr C. Young, First Clerk, informing him that Mr. Mease had died very suddenly by a stroke of apoplexy and that his executors had taken possession of all the books and papers and urged my return to Phil(adelphia) soon as possible. On his return he found that his books & papers were taken also. He applied for them then and has at several other periods but has never been able to recover any of them from the persons having charge of Mr Mease's concerns, which has deprived him of producing any proof of substantiating his claims. Thus situated, he could only apply to the generosity of the public, trusting they would receive as evidence of his claim (all that under the circumstances he could possibly produce). Given his own solemn declaration under oath of its truth and the certificate of the most respectable of the Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army of their belief in his uprightness and integrity. Your memorialist would further beg leave to represent that he thinks that he is is entitled to relief under the law granting pensions to the officers and soldiers of the Revolution. Tho(ugh) by various removals and casualties, he has lost the commission of his appointment as Assistant Clothier General, yet he acted during a long period of the war with the, "Title of Colonel" and drawing his rations as such. And so satisfied were his brother officers of his right to that rank, that he was received as an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati and in his present depressed circumstances is now receiving occasional pecuniary aid from the society's funds.

To the truth of his services in Gen'l Scott's Brigade and as Assistant Clothier Gen'l and of his being a Member of the Cincinnati, the accompanying certificates of Generals Lewis Fish; the late Col. Varick, President of the Society and the late venerable Colonel Willett will certify.

Your memorialist is now at the close of life, being four score and three years of age and very much afflicted with gout and rheumatism. He would therefore most respectfully solicit such aid in this hour of infirmity and pecuniary distress, either by a pecuniary compensation or by placing him on the Pension List of the Revolution Officers as to you shall seem just and proper...
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...And your memorialist will as in duty bound ever pray.
s/ Daniel Kemper

State of New Jersey

Middlesex Township//

Before me, Josiah Ford, one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the said County, personally appeared Daniel Kemper, the above named petitioner, who being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that all matters and things set within the written condition is just and true to the best of the recollection and belief of this deponent.
s/ Daniel Kemper

Sworn & subscribed to before me the 29th of March A.D. 1832.
s/ J. Ford, Judge Com. Pleas

There is one circumstance your memorialist has omitted, which he wishes to mention. Viz.: That in the battles of Germantown and Monmouth he did actual service as an Assistant Aid to Gen'l Washington.
s/ Daniel Kemper
April 9th 1832

Ref'd to the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions

No. 5057

Allowed. L.C.

Mr.  Verplanck
Husband die & to lie.
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New York, April 6th 1832.

Dear Sir,

I take the liberty of enclosing to you a petition from Mr. Daniel Kemper for relief.

His petition is as you will perceive for allowance of a demand for his pay during the Revolutionary War as Assistant to the Clothier General of the Army or to be placed upon the list as an officer of the Revolutionary Army upon the first. Under the circumstances of the case, he can produce no proof but his own oath, his books and papers having been left with Mr. Mease, whose accounts I believe were never settled with the public.

Mr. Kemper is a relation of mine (my mother's brother) and I know him intimately and saw him constantly during the Revolution. He was constantly at headquarters where ever the army lay. I considered him as much to be Assistant Clothier as I did General Knox to be at the head of the Artillery. The statement that he makes in his petition respecting his accounts being left with...
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...Mr. Mease, I heard him make fifty years ago & he has uniformly continued to make it and for myself, I give it my most entire belief. As to his claim as an officer, the certificate of Colonel Varick & General Lewis will show that he has been recognized & [crossed out: served] received as such by the Society of the Cincinnati. At one period of his life he was in independent circumstances and did not press his claims but from losses by endorsements for one of his sons who is deceased, he is now in his old age reduced to the necessity of applying to the Cincinnati for pecuniary assistance, who have several times contributed to his wants.

I should feel greatly obliged to you if you would take his case under your consideration and if possible, procure him some aid. If you can suggest only this & gather that can be done to substantiate his claim, I would thank you to suggest it to me. And I would be obliged to you for a line informing me what prospect there is for him.

I am with esteem yours,
s/ J. Morton

The Honorable Gulian C. Verplank
House of Representatives, Washington