Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15,038, Samuel Chipman, Vt.
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(8-1776)

SERVICE
Vt. 

Chipman, Samuel

NUMBER
S.15,038

carded 

CONTENTS
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New York 27744
27744
Samuel Chipman
of Lawrence Co in the State of New York
who was a private in the com commanded
by Captain Brooklin of the regt commanded
by Col Fletcher in the Vermont
line for 7 months & 15 days

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 23 Dollars __ Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the ___ day of Octob[er]
22, 1834 and Sent Allen
A Baldwin Potsdam

Arrears to the 4th of Sept   87.50
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March  12.50
100.00

[Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 183[?]}
Recorded by Dan Boyd  Clerk.
Book C2  Vol 4  Page 11

14610
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In the matter of 
Samuel Chipman
application for
a pension, under
the act of 7th June 1832
claims 7 1/2 mo pri

Hon. R. H. Gilles

[marked out:  Allen & Baldwin
agents
Potsdam St Lawrence County]
N. York
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832

State of New York}
St. Lawrence County} ss:
On this twentyth [sic] day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four, personally appeared in open court before the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Said County of St. Lawrence, now sitting Samuel Chipman a resident of Madrid in the County of St Lawrence and State of New York aforesaid, aged Seventy years in December last, 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 7, 1832.  That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated--
That early in the Spring of 1781, the particular month and day of the month this deponent cannot, from his old age and consequent loss of memory, precisely recollect, but he is quite sure it was as early as the last of March or the first of April because he remembers that his father had not commenced his spring work upon his farm.  This Deponent enlisted as a private soldier in a Regiment of Vermont Militia raised by the authority of the State of Vermont to guard
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the Northern Frontier.  This Deponent saith that he resided at the time of such enlistment and during the revolutionary War, in the town of Tinmouth in a section of country then called New Hampshire Grants, now in the County of Rutland in the State of Vermont, that he enlisted voluntarily and for the  period of nine months and stared off immediately after such enlistment and went to the Fort at Castleton in said State of Vermont a distance of about sixteen miles from his place of residence, and on arriving at the said Fort he found a company commanded by Capt James Brookins, Elias Hall and David Powers were the Lieutenant and Col. as Lieut. Col. Samuel Fletcher commanded the Regiment.  There were five companies stationed in the Fort at Castleton and two companies at Pittsford near by there as he understood under the command of Major [?]--The four other companies at Castleton were commanded by Captains Hutchins, Blakeley, Starks, & Fish.  Some time in the Summer of that year 1781 Briagadier [sic] General Roger Enos, formerly a Colonel in the Continental Army, came on and took the command of the military Forces in that vicinity and continued in the command until the end of the service--none of the Continental Troops were in that part of the country during that campaign--Capt Brookins Company, to which this deponent belonged never left the said Fort during the whole of the said period of enlistment and this deponent saith that he remained in the [?]
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the whole of his said period of enlistment doing duty as a soldier therein, except for a short time before the expiration  thereof when he received a furlough or discharge as hereinafter mentioned and except also a short time in the month of October, as this Deponent thinks, when the scouts brought information that there was a party of Indians encamped at More's Place in Shoreham about 30 miles north of the garrison, and a large scout of sixty men was ordered out under the command of Capt Fish to drive them off, and this Deponent volunteered as one of the party.  They marched from Castleton through Hubbardton (over the ground where the Hubbardton battle was fought) and through Sudbury into Shoreham, a country at that time totally destitute of inhabitants, when it was found that the Indians had gone away, and the party marched back by the same route and arrived at the Fort the fourth day from the time they started.  This Deponent further saith that soon after the news of the Capture of Cornwallis reached Castleton, and he thinks as late as  [marked out: the last day of October or first] middle of November, a day was fixed upon for public rejoicing and firing of arms, and just before the appointed day, this Deponent was sent home to give notice of the firing which was to commence in order to prevent any alarm among the people, and
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he immediately went home, being only one day in going from the Fort home, and that being the last of November or the first of December as he is quite sure from the fact that such has always been the impression upon his mind and he well recollects that when he reached home a pond near his fathers had been frozen over as he was informed for a week or more.  He thinks he was engaged in the service at this period eight months, but would state the same as the lowest estimation at seven months and a half.  The authority which he received for going home was in writing and was either a furlough to extend to the end of his said period of enlistment, or else it was a discharge and he cannot recollect which as the same was lost soon after.  He further saith that he received only forty five shillings towards his pay at the garrison and his father received the rest of it, so that he does not recollect whether pay was received for the full period of nine months or not.

[the following is marked out]
This Deponent further saith that in the year [in margin: 1780] previous to that in which his services above mentioned were performed, he was engaged another short period as a soldier in the War as follows.  In the fall of 1780, orders were issued to have some companies raised and go and man the garrison at Pittsford, principally for the purpose
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This Deponent further saith that the above is a full Statement of his said service in the Revolutionary War in the year 1781, and is correct to the best of his recollection and belief, and embraces an amount of all his services in the War except a short period of service in the year 1780 which he omits to state and for which he waives all claims to a pension on account of the shortness of the term and the doubtful character of the authority under which he served.
He further saith that he has no written discharge from the service and never had any other than the one above mentioned.  He has no documentary evidence of his said services, and he knows no person whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service, except Daniel Chipman, his brother, whose affidavit is hereunto annexed.  He hereby relinquished every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
He further saith in answer to interrogatories propounded to him by the said court, That he was born in Salisbury in the then Colony now State of Connecticut on the 10th day of December 1763.  He has a record of his age in his bible at home, which he took before he left his fathers family, and with which the above statement corresponds.  He lived at the time of being called into the service as aforesaid in the town of Tin-
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[Tin]mouth in the County of [marked out: Addison] Rutland, in the state of Vermont.  He lived at Tinmouth until the year 1786 when he moved to Addison in [marked out; the same] Addison County and in the same year he moved to Vergennes in the same County where he lived till 1803 when he moved to [marked out: Waddington in] Madrid in the County of St. Lawrence and State of New York, where he has ever since lived and now lives.
He further saith that he entered the service as a volunteer.  The names of the officers who were with the troops when he served he has stated in his preceding declaration as fully as he can now recollect as well as the general circumstances of his services--that there were no continental troops in the section of country where he served and he received no other discharge than that above mentioned.  He is acquainted with James Redington of Madrid aforesaid, and Charles G. Myers recently removed from Madrid to Ogdensburgh in the said County of Sr. Lawrence who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution.
No clergyman lives within several miles of the residence of this deponent except one who has been there but a short time and who does not know any thing about the reputation of the deponent as a soldier of the revolution.
Saml. Chipman

Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid}
A C. Low clk
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scribed, the day and ⎬ 
year aforesaid  
A.C.Low Clerk


We James Redington of Madrid in the County of St. Lawrence and State of New York residing in Madrid aforesaid and Charles G. Myers recently removed from Madrid aforesaid and now residing in Ogdensburgh in said County of St Lawrence hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Samuel Chipman, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 70 years of age, and that he is reputed ("and believed" is inserted as text, written above the line)in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. 

Sworn and subscribed} 
the day and year aforesaid} Charles G Myers 
A.C. Low    Clerk         James Redington
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after an investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed 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 James Redington who has signed the preceding certificate is a resident of the town of Madrid aforesaid and that Charles G. Myers who also signed the same certificate was within the year part a resident of Madrid aforesaid but now lives in Ogdensburgh in said County of St. Lawrence, and that said Redington and Myers are both credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit.

I Alvin C. Low Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of St Lawrence and state New York do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Chipman for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this twentieth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four. 
A.C. Low  Clerk
[illegible seal stamped on page]
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I Daniel Chipman of Ripton in the County of Addison and State of Vermont, aged 68 years testify and say that my Brother Samuel Chipman now of Madrid in the County of St Lawrence in the State of New York, in the Spring of the year 1781, then residing with our Father in the Town of Tinmouth in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont, enlisted as a private in a Company raised by the state for the term of nine months, for the defense of the Northern frontier that soon after his enlistment he was stationed at the fort in Castleton where he continued through the summer and where he continued in the service until late in the fall of the same year. When the Militia were called out to aid in the defense of the fort and having been called on as one of the Militia of said Town of Tinmonth regard to the fort at Castleton, when my said Brother Samuel Chipman was doing duty at the fort, living in the family of Elias Hall his lieutenant, and there continued until after returned home. This must have been late in the fall for swill rather that when he was out on patrol one night while at the fort, the ground was covered with snow. And I always supposed that he served the full term of nine months but cannot now testify to the fact. 

I also further testify that my said Brother Samuel Chipman served as a private soldier at the fort at Pitsford stand in the County of Rutland, either the year before of the year after he served at Castleton, but I cannot recall the time he served. 

And further the Deponent saith not 
Daniel Chipman 

April 24 AD 1834.  Then personally
appeared Daniel Chipman, and made solemn oath that the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed contains the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Before me
James Kirby. Justice of the Peace


State of Vermont ⎬ 
Addison County SS }.  
The above deponent is a credible witness 
James Kirby Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont 
Addison County SS }.    I Samuel Swift Clerk of the County Court for the said County of Addison do hereby certify that James Kirby before whom the within affidavit of Daniel Chipman was made was at the time a Justice of the peace for said County and his name subscribed thereto in his own signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 25th day of April 1834 

Samuel Swift Clerk-
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No 14610
Saml Chipman
{Illegible] { Possibly Lawnace ) Co
N,Y.

ei

M Odgen'Waddington
N.Y.
A.C. Low Clk
N.Y.
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Sir
WAR DEPARTMENT.
Pension Office,
183
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has
been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of
your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and
the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed,
before a pension can be allowed. the notes and the regulations will shew what is
necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed,
you will find marked in the margin with a brace, thus. You will, when
you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and
you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your
claim.
Period when the
service was
rendered.
Lied but
still his
enlistment for
month
a statement, shewing the service of Samuel Chipman Co NY
Duration of the
claimant's service. and Rank of the
claimant.
Names and Rank
of the Company
officers under
whom he served.
Names and Rank
of the General
and Field officers
Battles in which
the applicant was
private Capt. Brock Colo
Lee
Fletcher Marr
 by Gen Enos 
of engaged.
Country through
 which he marched
Castleton
Pittsford
Place of abode
when he entered
the service, and age
at the present
period-
68 years
Reliant Herman
County Rutland
York
respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
Evidence by
which the declaration
is supported
Traditional
only
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army,
and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all
persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who
were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to
Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are
also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged
in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming
the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance
, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of
Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is
considered a Court of Record.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
of
On this
DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
Serity of
County of
day of
A. B. a resident (b) of
personally appeared (a) before
in the county of
and State, Territory or District
years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the
following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provion made by the act of Congress, passed
June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)
and
served in the
(e) regiment of the
(Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served
under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the
town or county and State in which he resided when he enered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged,
and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons
who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he
declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of
the Agency in the State of
A. B.
And then will follow the certificate of the Court.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary
soldier, and served as he states.
of the Court of
do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of
the application of
for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this
day of
&c.
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be
found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia,
except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and
subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A.B., a Clergyman, residing in the
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with
and C. D. residing in (the same)
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be
who has
years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier
of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
And then will follow the certificate of the Court.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after
putting the interrogatories prescribed 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 A. B.
who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the
and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the
and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I,
Clerk of the Court of
contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of that the foregoing
for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal
of office, this day of
& c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission
; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if
possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services
of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light
upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will
also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful
in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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WILL BE INDISPENSABLE TO A FAVORABLE ACTION UPON HIS CASE. THE FACTS STATED WILL AFFORD ONE OF THE PRINCIPAL MEANS OF CORROBORATING THE DECLARATION OF THE APPLICANT, IF TRUE, OR OF DETECTING THE IMPOSITION, IF ONE BE ATTEMPTED; AND UNLESS, THEREFORE, THESE ARE AMPLY AND CLEARLY SET FORTH, NO FAVORABLE DECISION CAN BE EXPECTED. ALL APPLICANTS WILL APPEAR BEFORE SOME COURT OF RECORD IN THE COUNTY, IN WHICH THEY RESIDE, AND THERE SUBSCRIBE AND BE SWORN TO, ONE OF THE DECLARATIONS ABOVE PROVIDED, ACCORDING TO THE NATURE OF HIS CASE.
     THE COURT PROPOUND THE FOLLOWING (M) INTERROGATORIES TO ALL APPLICANTS FOR A PENSION, ON ACCOUNT OF SERVICE IN THE MILITIA, STATE TROOPS, OR VOLUNTEERS, EXCEPT THE MILITIA OF NEW HAMPSHIRE AND THE STAT TROOPS OF VIRGINIA.
     1. WHERE AND IN WHAT YEAR WERE YOU BORN?
     2. HAVE YOU ANY RECORD OF YOUR AGE, AND IF SO, WHERE IT IS?
     3. WHERE WERE YOU LIVING WHEN CALLED INTO SERVICE; WHERE HAVE YOU LIVED SINCE THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR, AND WHERE DO YOU LIVE NOW?
     4. HOW WERE YOU CALLED INTO SERVICE; WERE YOU DRAFTER, DID YOU VOLUNTEER, OR WERE YOU A SUBSTITUTE? AND IF A SUBSTITUTE, FOR WHOM:
     5. 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 SERVICES.
      6. TO A SOLDIER: DID YOU EVER RECEIVE A DISCHARGE FROM THE SERVICE, AND IF SO, BY WHOM WAS IT GIVEN AND WHAT HABE BECOME OF IT?
       TO AN OFFICER: DID YOU EVER RECEIVE A COMMISSION, AND IF SO, BY WHO WAS IT SIGNED, AND WHAT HAS BECOME OF IT?
       7. STATE THE NAMES OF PERSON TO WHOM YOU ARE KNOWN IN YOUR PRESENT NEIGHBORHOOD, AND WHO CAN TESTIFY AS TO YOUR CHARACTER FOR VERACITY, AND THEIR BELIEF OF YOUR SERVICES AS A SOLDIER OF THE REVOLUTION.
     THE COURT WILL SEE THAT HE ANSWERS TO THESE QUESTIONS ARE EMBODIED IN THE DECLARATIONS, AND THEY ARE REQUESTED TO ANNEX THEIR OPINIONS OF THE TRUTH OF THE STATEMENT OF THE APPLICANT.
     THE APPLICANT WILL FURTHER PRODUCE IN COURT, IF THE SAME CAN BE DONE, IN THE OPINION OF THE COURT, WITHOUT TOO MUCH EXPENSE AND INCONVENIENCE TO HIM, TWO RESPECTABLE PERSONS-ONE WHOM SHOULD BE THE NEAREST CLERGYMAN, IF ONE LIVES IN THE IMMEDIATE CIVINITY OF SUCH APPLICAN, WHO CAN TESTIFY, FROM THEIR ACQUAINTANCE WITH HIM, THAT THEY BELIEVE HE IS OF THE AGE HE REPRESENTS, AND THAT HE IS REPUTED AND BELIEVED IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD TO HAVE BEEN A REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER, AND THAT THEY CONCUR IN THAT OPINION. IF ONE OF THESE PERSONS IS A CLERGYMAN, THE COURT WILL SO CERTIFY, AND THEY WILL ALSO CERTIFY, TO THE CHARACTER AND STANDING OF OTHER PERSONS, GIVING SUCH CERTIFICATES.
     THE TRADITIONARY EVIDENCE OF SERVICE IS DEEMED VERY IMPORTANT, IN THE ABSENCE OF ANY DIRECT PROOF, EXCEPT THE DECLARATION OF THE PARTY. AND THE COURTS ARE REQUESTED TO BE VERY PARTICULAR IN THE ENQUIRY WHETHER THE BELIEF IS GENERAL, AND WHETHER ANY DOUBTS HAVE EVER EXISTED UPON THE SUBJECT.
     APPLICANTS UNABLE TO APPEAR IN COURT BY REASON OF BODILY INFIRMITY, MAY MAKE THE DECLARATION BEFORE REQUIRED, AND SUBMIT TO THE EXAMINATION, BEFORE A JUDGE OR JUSTICE OF A COURT OF RECORD OF THE PROPER COUNTY, AND THE JUDGE OR JUSTIE WILL EXECUTE THE DUTIES, WHICH THE COURT IS HEREIN REQUESTED TO PERFORM, AND WILL ALSO CERTIFY THAT THE APPLICNT CANNOT, FROM BODILY INFIRMITY, ATTEND THE COURT.
     WHENEVER ANY OFFICIAL ACT IS REQUIRED TO BE DONE BY A JUDGE OR JUSTICE OF A COURT OF RECORD, OR BY A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. THE CERTIFICATE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE OF TERRITORY, OR OF THE PROPER CLERK OF THE COURT OR COUNTY, UNDER HIS SEAL OF OFFICE, WILL BE ANNERED, STATING THAT SUCH PERSON IS A JUDGE OR JUSTICE OF A COURT OF RECORD, OR A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, AND THAT THE SIGNATURE ANNEXED IS HIS GENUINE SIGNATURE.
     NO PAYMENTS CAN BE MADE ON  ACCOUNT OF THE SERVICES OF ANY PERSON, WHO MAY HAVE DIED BEFORE THE TAKING EFFECT OF THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832; AND IN CASE OF DEATH SUBSEQUENT THERETO, AND BEFORE THE DECLARATION HEREIN REQUIRED IS MADE, THE PARTIES INTERESTED WILL TRANSMIT SUCH EVIDENCE AS THEY CAN PROCURE, TAKEN AND AUTHENICATED BEFORE A COURT OF RECORD, SHOWING THE SERVICES OF THE DECEASED, THE PERIOD OF HIS DEATH, THE OPINION OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD RESPECTING SUCH SERVICES, THE TITLE OF THE CLAIMANT, AND THE OPINION OF THE COURT UPON THE WHOLE MATTER.

(A) THE DECLARANT MUST APPEAR IN COURT, UNLESS PRESENTED FROM DOING SO BY REASON OF BODILY INFIRMITY; IN WHICH CASE THE DECLARANT WILL FOLLOW THE RULE LAID DOWN FOR HIS GUIDANCE.
(B) THE DECLARANT MUST MAKE HIS DECLARATION IN THE COUNTY WHERE HE RESIDES. IF HE SHOULD FAIL TO DO SO, HE MUST (ILLEGIBLE) A SUFFICIENT REASON FOR NOT CONFORMING TO THE RULE.
(C) THE AGE OF THE CLAIMANT MUST (ILLEGIBLE) BE MENTIONED
(D) THE DECLARANT MUST MENTION THE PERIOD OR PERIODS OF THE WAR WHEN HE SERVED.
(E) EVERY CONTINENTAL OFFICER OR SOLDIER MUST GIVE THE NAME OF THE COLONEL UNDER WHOM HE SERVED; OTHERWISE A SATISFACTORY EXAMINATION OF THE CLAIM CANNOT BE HAD. EVERY CLAIMANT MUST STATE, WITH PRECISION THE LENGTH OF HIS SERVICE AND TH DIFFERENT GRADES IN WHICH HE SERVED, IS LANGUAGE SO DEFINITE AS TO ENABLE THE DEPARTMENT TO DETERMINE TO WHAT AMOUNT OF PENSION HE IS ENTITLED. IN A CASE WHERE THE APPLICANT CANNOT, BY REASON OF THE LOSS OF MEMORY, STATE PRECISELY HOWL ONG HE SERVED, HE SHOULD AMEND HIS DECLARATION BY MAKING AN AFFIDAVIT IN THE FOLLOWING WORDS: "PERSONALLY APPEARED BEFORE ME, THE UNDERSIGNED, A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, & A. H. WHO, BEING DULE SWORN, DEPOSETH AND SAITH, THAT, BY RESON OF OLD AGE, AND THE CONSEQUENT LOSS OF MEMORY, HE CANNOT SWEAR POSITIVELY AS TO THE PRECISE LENGTH OF HIS SERVICE; BUT,  ACCORDING TO THE BEST OF HIS RECOLLECTION, HE SERVED NO T LESS THATN THE PERIODS MENTIONED BELOW, AND IN THE FOLLOWING GRADES: FOR---YEAR---MONTHS, AND ___DAYS, I SERVED AS A  -----, FOR ______MONTHS AND ____DAYS, I SERVED AS A  ----; AND FOR SUCH SERVICES I CLAIM A PENSION."
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February 3, 1931. 

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section 
ILL

Sarah L. Sherman 
175 Alexander Street 
Rochester, New York. 

 Dear Madam: 
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the War pension claim, S. 15038, that Samuel Chipman was born December 10, 1783 in Salisbury, Connecticut and moved with his father and his family in the year 1775 to Tinmouth, that section then called New Hampshire grants and later became Rutland County,  Vermont. 

While a resident of Tinmouth, Vermont, he served in the fall of 1780 a short tour on an alarm against the Indians. He enlisted in the spring, 1781, served as a private in Captain James Brookins' Company, Colonel Samuel Fletcher's Vermont Regiment and a short time on an expedition under Captain Fish against the Indians, length of service seven and one half months. 

In 1786, soldier moved with his father from Tinmouth, Vermont , to Addison, Addison County, Vermont, and in December of that year moved to Vergennes, same county. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 24, 1832, while a resident of Madrid, St. Lawrence County, New York, where he had moved from Vermont in 1803. 

Soldier referred to a son but his name is not given. 

Soldier's brother, Daniel Chipman, was a resident of Addison County, Vermont, aged sixty-five years in 1834. He referred to a brother, Silas or Cyrus. 

Very truly yours, 

E. W. MORGAN, 
Acting Commissioner.
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15.038
INVALID.
N. Y.  W. E. L.
File No. 15.038
Samuel Chipman
Priv Rev War

Act: June 7th 1832

Index:-- Vol. 1, Page 66

[Arrangement of 1870]

Aug. 13/95 Hist to Mrs. Mary B. Sherman, 64
Elizabeth Dr. Ogdensburg
1931 - Feb 3 - Hist. to Sarah L. Sherman     ILL
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Jan 11 - 1931 
United States 
Department of the Interior 
Bureau of Pensions 

Dear Sir 
Please sed me a copy of - or date concerning the pension allowed Sergeant Samuel Chipman who served until the battle of Yorktown 1781. 

He was born in Salisbury Conn. Dec. 10 - 1763. died in Madrid N.Y. March 24 - 1839. Married Hannah Spafford also of Salisbury Nov. 10, 1785.

{stamped "U.S. Pension Office Jan 13 1931"]
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Very Truly
Sarah L. Sherman
175 Alexander St.
Rochester, New York
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64 Elizabeth Street, 
Ogdensburg, N. Y. 

Commissioner of Pension 
Dear Sir: 
Can you tell me if Samuel Chipman received a pension for service in the revolutionary war? He was born in Salisbury Conn. and lived in Tinmouth and Vergennes VT. so I do not know from which place he enlisted or
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in what company.  He was very young when he first entered the army.  I shall be most gratified if you can tell me if there is any record of his having received a pension, and as a member of what company or regiment.
Yours truly
Mary B. Sherman
August 6th 1895.
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New York
Revo.
admd
Saml Chipman
Suspended
let to Mogden
17 Augt '33
letter 21 Jany '34 to Hn R Gillett
"  1st Apr '34 "   "   "
"  20 May '34 "   "   

Act 7 June '32
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J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions.
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Sir
You will see by looking at that I have now stated that I served as a private seven & a half months I had always been my impression that I actually served eight months and my son who wrote that part wrote it so I kept it some time before I compleated [completed] it and endeavored to recollect all the circumstances that had any bearing on the question and satisfied myself that I served at least seven and a half months but could not satisfy myself that could not be less than eight months and therefore altered it so as to read to which you will see is done in my hand writing, you will see I have added like [illegible] a tour duty in a large scouting party.  I did mient [mention] it before because nothing transpired to keep up the remembrance of it only only [sic] with those active in it and therefore could be of no use that is the only service I performed but what was strictly years of duty, the officers name as I stated then, there was no such officer as Col Lee  Col. Fletcher was the only officer that was call Col. and he I apprehend was Lieut. Col. command and of there regiment.  As to traditionall testimony very few in this Country can obtain any that is really traditionall, thirty years ago I moved into this town at that time there was very inhabitants in the county, and has since been filled up by people from all parts of the country and europe so that if any thing is known of his revolutionary service it must have come from himself.  there is but one man in this town that ever lived in Tinmouth and did not live there till several years after I left there. - no tradition of my being a revolutionary soldier has obtained here.  I did not suppose it could be necessary where there was direct and positive proof of the service, as I have in my case, and from a man who was in the right situation to know and whose caracter [character] is above suspicion
Saml Chipman
J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
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In the matter of the application of Saml. Chipman
under the act of 7 June 1832
amended papers.
admd
7 ½ mo. pri
25$
Allen & Baldwin
agents
Potsdam, St. Law- Co. N. Y.
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State of New York}
St Lawrence county}  ss:
Samuel Chipman of Madrid in said County being duly sworn saith that he is the person named in the annexed papers as an applicant for a pension.  that said papers were returned from the Pension Office on the 30th May last to Hon. R. H. Gillet of the Ho. of Representatives as his agent with a letter directed to Mr. Gillet and of which the following is a copy.
"War Department Pension Office
May 30, 1834.
Sir, I have the honor to return herewith the supplemental papers in support of the claim of Samuel Chipman for the purpose of having the credibility of the witness duly certified.  Some explanation should be given by the witness of the phrase that he found Claimant living in the family of his Lieut. Elias Hall.
I have the honor to be
Very Respectfully Your Obdt Servt
J. L. Edwards."
Hon. R. H. Gillett
House Representatives.
With respect to the first objection, the credibility of the witness not being certified, this deponent saith that the credibility of the witness was certified, but the certificate being written down in the corner of the page at the left hand of the jurat, was not probably perceived by the Department, but
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another affidavit is hereunto annexed upon that subject.
With respect to the expression of the witness that "he found Claimant living in the family of his Lieut. Elias Hall".  This deponent saith that immediately after the receipt of the papers from Mr. Gillet, he wrote to his brother the said witness, in Vermont, requesting an explanation upon that subject if he could give any.  He is unable to give any explanation except what he states in his letter that he used that expression "as corroborating the fact that this deponent was there in the service".  Said witness was at the Fort with this deponent only once during said time of service and then staid [stayed] but a day or two, and cannot know anything about the service of this deponent except what he saw then.  For the want of an explanation from said witness, this deponent states the fact & circumstances in respect to his living in the family of his Lieut. as follows:  When he first joined Capt. Brookins Company, the soldiers used huts (there being no barracks) built the year before with small poles being about 10 feet square, calculated for a mess of six men each.  He remained in one of them with five others for several weeks,  he does not recollect exactly how long, and performed duty with the other soldiers.  about that time the waiter of Lieut. Hall, a young man with whom this deponent was acquainted came to this Deponent and informed him
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[Copyist note:  First few lines were previously transcribed in transcript just before this one]

that he had a furlough to be absent a fortnight and requested this deponent to take his place.  This deponent was an entire stranger to all the officers when he came to the Fort, but the Lieut. accepted him in the room of his other waiter until he should return.  This deponent further saith that when he entered [crossed out] became waiter to his Lieut. the wife of the Lieut. soon ascertained that she was well acquainted with this deponents fathers family having previously lived near them, which circumstance probably increased the attachment of the Lieut. & his family for this Deponent, so that when his former waiter returned he chose to retain this deponent in his room.  about this time Thomas Tolman Esq the muster master came on and mustered the troops.  and this deponents name was on the muster roll and he well recollects of passing muster with the rest of the troops.  He has made considerable inquiry for the works and papers of the Regt. but they cannot be found.  He remained with Lieut. Hall as his waiter until Genl. Enos came on and took the command when Lieut. Hall was arrested for some disobedience of orders and cashiered.  After that, this deponent performed duty with the rest of the soldiers.  the Lieut. & his family remaining there in the Fort.  This Deponent would further say that after said Hall was cashiered he proposed to this Deponent to take his rations and bring them to his family and board there doing some chores, when not on duty, which
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offer he very gladly accepted, and he was probably [crossed out] boarding with said Hall in that way when his brother, the said witness came to the Fort.  He saith that he performed full his share of duty as ever has any other soldier which he was thus boarding with said Hall, at our time going off on a scout for several days as mentioned in his declaration.  and he further saith that while he acted as waiter being for several weeks [crossed out] probably from one to three months.  the exact time he does not recollect.  he regularly answered to his name on the role and occasionally attended duties as he believes.  He saith that during the whole of his said period of enlistment he was as much bound to do military service as any soldier and did as much as any one except the few times [crossed out] when he was waiter as aforesaid
Saml. Chapman
Sworn this 12th day}
of September 1834}
Before me}
Jabez Willes, Justice Peace.}
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State of New York}
St Lawrence County}  ss:
Silas Wright, Jr of the town of Canton in the County & State aforesaid, being sworn, saith that he is acquainted with Daniel Chipman, the Deponent named in one of the foregoing affidavits, and that the said Daniel Chipman is a credible person
Silas Wright Jr.
Sworn this 17 day of September 1834,} 
before me Horan Allen, Justice Peace}
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State of New York}
St Lawrence County}  ss.
I, Alvin C. Low clerk of said County hereby certify that Jabez Willes and Horan Allen before whom the foregoing affidavits of Samuel Chipman & Silas Wright Jun were taken were respectively, at the respective dates of such affidavits, Justices of the Peace in & for said County duly qualified and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of each of them,  and believe their respective signatures to such affidavits are genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of my office this 17th day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty four -
A C Low Clk
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Saml. Chipman's 
application for a Pension
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State of New York
St. Lawrence County
On the 24th day of September in the year of our Lord 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the court of common pleas for the said County of St Lawrence now sitting, Samuel Chipman a resident of Madrid in the County of St Lawrence and State of New York aged 64 years 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 the 7th 1832 - That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated - Early in the spring of the year 1781 I inlisted as a Soldier for nine months in a regiment raised by the authority of the State of Vermont for the protection of the northern frontier and immediately repaired to Castleton when the greatest part of said Regiment was stationed  the remainder of said Regiment was stationed at Pitsford both in the County of Rutland and found Capt James Brockins Company under the command of Samuel Fletcher Colonel or Lieut Colonel of said Regiment and Major Ormsby or Ormsbury commanded at Pitsford sd Fletcher commander in Chief till some time in the summer when Brigadier general Thayer Eno arrived and took the command and continued in command until the Regiment was disbanded  there was none of the Continental army in that part of the country while I was in the service and as the fort was never attacked I was in no battle.  I continued in said service untill within about a month of the expiration of my term of service, my memory does not enable me to more particular as to dates than as I have above stated, when news arrived of the capture of Cornwallis and his army at York Town arrived at the garrison, and a day being appointed for rejoicing, I was sent home to give notice on the way so that no alarm should be activated by the firing.  Whither I had a furlow or a discharge in writing I cannot now recollect, if I had then I have no recollection what I did with it and have no recollection of [illegible] any time.  and as I was then a boy in my eighteenth year my father received the pay all but 45 shillings which I recd while in the service so that I have no recollection that I ever knew how much pay was [illegible].  
I was born at Salisbury in the then Colony of Connecticut in the year 1763 my father had a record of my birth in his family bible and I have entered the same in my family record, in the year 1775 my father moved with his family to Tinmouth in the Newhampshire Grants now in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont where I lived when I performed the above mentioned service and continued there in my fathers family untill the year 1786 I moved to Addison in Addison County in the State of Vermont in December of the same year removed to Vergennes in the same County where I resided untill the year 1808 when I removed to Madrid aforesaid where I have resided ever since
Saml. Chipman
[the next 2 lines are largely illegible and smeared]
I Daniel Chipman of Kepton in the County of Addison and State of Vermont, aged sixty six years testify and say that my Father removed with his family from Salisbury in the then Colony of Connecticut in the year 1775 to farm  [blurred words] the Newhampshire Grants now in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont where  [the last 3 lines are smeared and illegible]
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Testify and say that my father removed with his family from Salisbury in the then Colony of Connecticut in the year 1775 to Tinmouth with the Newhampshire Grants, now in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont where he resided during the Revolutionary War excepting that in the summer of 1777 he was obliged to remove in consequence ot the capture of [illegible] but returned again in the fall of the same year - I further testify that my Brother Samuel Chipman about two years older than myself and who now resides in Madrid and in the County of St Lawrence and State of New York, some time in the spring of the year 1781 enlisted as a soldier in a Company raised by the State of Vermont for the term of nine months for the Defense of the Frontiers - Capt James Brockins commanded the Company in which he served and Elias Hall was one of the Lieuts - both of whom were well known to me at the time and during their lives afterwards - said Company was during their whole term of service stationed at Castleton in sd County of Rutland - and I always supposed that the said Samuel served his time out and was regularly Discharged - I am certain that I never heard anything to the contrary although I resided in my Fathers Family during the above period and long afterwards.  The said Samuel also returned and resided with me in the family for several years afterwards -
The above facts which I have not shd are probably more than in my recollection from the following circumstance - in consequence of some movement of the Enemy.  there was a call for a part of the Militia in the County of Rutland to repairs to the fort at Castleton - and my brother Cyrus Chipman was drafted and repaired to Castleton, and served there about time when I took his place and served at the fort about ten days - during this time my Brother Samuel was there in the Family at the sd Sernt Elias Hall - This must have been late in the fall, as I will recollect, that when I went as a [illegible] North of the Fort one night the ground was covered with snow - And further say not
Daniel Chipman
I Stillman Foot Esqr of Canton County of St Lawrence NY - says that he has known Samuel Chipman about forty five years that he the sd Chipman when I first knew him lived in Addison County in Vermont from thence he moved to Madrid in the County of St Lawrence N. Y. where he has ever since lived & has always sustained a good caracter [character] & is to be believed as a man of truth a
& varasity [veracity]
Stillman foot
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Madrid in the County of St lawrence N. Y. where he has ever since lived & has always sustained a good caracter [character] & is to be believed as a man of truth & varasity [veracity]
Stillman Foot
Sept 24th 1832
Sworn this 24th day of September 1832 in Open
Court
A C Low Clk

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 Stillman Foot who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Creditable person and that his Statement in entitled to Credit—
State of New York}
St Lawrence County}
I Alvin C Low Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the aforesaid County of St. Lawrence do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Chipman for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 29th day of September 1832
A C Low Clk
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14610
In the matter of the application of 
Samuel Chipman for a Pension

St Lawrence County ss:  Samuel Chipman the above named applicant being sworn saith by way of amending his above declaration that he served as a private in the Revolutionary War in the year Seventeen hundred eighty one as above stated for a term not less than eight[crossed out] seven months and a half
And he further saith that some time in the fall he thinks in October the Scouts reported, that a party of indians was camped at a place in Shoreham called Morse place, and a party of sixty men of which he was one was
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State of New York
St. Lawrence county ss
Be it known that on the Eighteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred & thirty three before me the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid appear[ed] Samuel Chipman to me known & made solemn oath that the facts contained in the above amendment to his declaration by him subscribed are true
Silas Baldwin Jr}  Justice of the Peace

State of New York}
St Lawrence County} ss
I Alvin C Low Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that Silas Baldwin Junior before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the time of taking the said affidavit a Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly elected & sworn and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice of the Peace and verily belive [sic] that his name subscribed to the preceding certificate is his proper hand writing & signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 18th day of June 1833
A C Low Clk
And I the said Clerk do further certify that the annexed paper contains the original proceedings of the Court of Common of the County aforesaid in the matter of the application of Samuel Chipman for a Pension
Witness my hand & seal of office June 18th 1833
A C Low Clk