Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29,209, Chapman Hawley, N.Y. Vt.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE                               NUMBER
N.Y.         Hawley, Chapman.  S 29.209
Vt.

CONTENTS
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20.916 Michigan
New York [deleted]
Chapman Hawley
St. Lawrence in the State of New York
who was a Private in the Comp commanded 
[illegible] Captain -- of the Regt. commanded 
by Col. Warner in the [illegible] Vt.
[illegible] for 18 months

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
the rate of 60 Dollars ___ Cents per annum
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of Oct
1833 _____ and sent to Claimant
Lewiston
Arrears to the 4th of Sep '33  [space] $150
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 [illegible] [space] 30
[space] ____
[space] $180
____
{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by W.L. Williams
Geo C. Stiles Clerk
Book E Vol. 4 Page 91
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Letter to J. Goodwin 18 Sep 1839
Cin to Pa Agt 20 Nov 1839.
To Michigan from 4 March 1839 - 11. Jany 1840. Notification to J. Goodwin Union City - Michigan
Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 March to 23 June 1840.  Agt Notified 11. Nov. 1841
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State of New York
Niagara Conty ss} On this 15th day fo February in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty three personally appeared before me Robert Fleming Esquire first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the said county of Niagara Chapman Hawley a resident of the town of Lewiston in the said county of Niagara, aged Seventy three years, who being first duly affirmed according to law doth make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of an "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 after stated   
He first Enlisted the service as a volunteer sometime in the month of January in the Year 1776, the day he cannot specify, in a company under the command of one Potter as Captain whose first name he has forgotten, Joseph Rutes as first Leiutenant and Palsy Sunderland as second Liutenant the names of the other officers of the company he does not now recollect - The Regiment to which the company was attached was a Regiment of Vermont Volunteers commanded by Colonel Seth Warner - That he entered the service at Rutland in the county of Benenngton and State of Vermont, where he then resided
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2  Immediately after he enlisted the company marched to Quebec to a [illegible] General Arnold, At Quebec he remained until the fifth or sixth day of May, when General Burgoyne came up the St. Lawrence and entered Quebec He then together with the whole of the American forces [illegible] up as far as the river Sorel after remaining there a few days he together with what these [illegible] left returned home to Rutland aforesaid, about the last of May; during this campaign he was engaged in no battle, and did not become acquainted with any officers of the Regular Army, that he did not receive any regular discharge, his Captain and first Leiutenant having died of disease at Quebec.
That he again entered the service as a volunteer in January 1777, the he cannot specify as a volunteer in a company commanded by one Sawyer (whose first name he does not recollect) as Captain, one Barnabas Burnam as first Leutenant; the names of the other officers he does not recollect - The company was attached to Colonel Seth Warner's Regiment of Vermont Volunteers; at this time he resided in Rutland aforesaid - Immediately after this Enlistment he together with the Company was ordered to the town of Shelby in the said county of Bennington where
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he remained until about the first of April following; while he was there the company was attacked by a party of the enemy who were principally taken prisoner - In this skirmish the first Liutenant Barnum was killed. About the first of April aforesaid the company was dismissed when he returned home - During this service he did not become acquatined with any officers of the regular Army, there were no regular soldiers at any place where he was - He did not receive any discharge
That he again entered the service as a volunteer in April 1778, the day he cannot specify in a company commanded by Ebenezer Allen as Capttain - The other officers names he does not recollect - The company was also attached to Colonel Seth Warners Regiment of Vermont Volunteers - At this time he resided at Rutland aforesaid - Immediately after he went with the company to Pittsford in the county aforesaid where he remained until October following when the company was disbanded and he returned home During this service he did not become acquainted with any officer of the regular Army neither was he in any engagement nor did he recive any regular discharge-  
That he again entered the service sometime in the month of April 1779; the
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day he cannot specify as a volunteer for four months in a company of New York State Militia commanded by Guy Young, as Captain, the names of the other officers he does not recollect. The company was attached to a Regiment commanded by one Willett as Colonel whose first name he has forgotten. He volunteered at Phillipstown in the county of Rensselear and State of New York were he then resided - Immediately after the company was ordered up the Mohawk River to Fort Plank where he went and remained until his time of service expired, when he was dismissed but received no discharge - During this service he did not become acquainted with any officers of the regular Army, neither was he in any engagements - And further he the said Chapman Hawley says that he has not documentary evidence of the services above specified
An in answer to the direct questions put to him by the said Judge he says that he was born at New Millford in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut - on the 5th day of December 1759. That he has no record of his age - That he was living at Rutland in Vermont when he first entered into service and when he afterwards entered he was living at the places above specified - That he cannot
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state the names of any of the regular officers who were with the troops at Quebec when he was there except General Arnold, and that there were no regulars were he was afterwards stationed - That he cannot specify the Continential and Militia Regiments with whom he served. That immediately after the Revolution he went to Morristown in the State of New Jersey where he resided about six years; when he removed to the town of LeRoy Genesee County and State of New York, there he remained for five or six years and then removed to the Town of Lewistown Niagara County where he now resides - That he volunteered his services, and that he never received a discharge That he is well known to Matthias Kline and Wade Richardson, who can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution
Chapman Hawley
Affirmed to, and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me}
R. Fleming
First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Niagara
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We Wade Richardson + Matthias Kline residing in the town of Lewiston Niagara County and State of New York hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Chapman Hawley who has subscribed and affirmed to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy three years of age; that he is respected and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution; and that we concur in that opinion
Wade Richardson
Matthias Kline
Sworn + subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me }
R. Fleming
First Judge of the Com. Pleas of Niagara County

And the said Judge do hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states - And I further certify that the persons who have subscribed the foregoing certificate to their belief of the said Hawleys services as a soldier of the revolution are entitled to credit, and their statements are entitled to credit - And I further certify that the said Chapman Hawley cannot from bodily infirmity leave home, and attend Court
R. Fleming
First Judge in Comm Pleas
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State of New York
Niagara County
Clerks Office 
[unreadable] Richardson & the duty soon to was in the All of the same That Judge of Niagara  County [unreadable] And further that I am well acquainted with his signature line and do know that the name as upon [unreadable] and the above declaration and also to the two preceding Certificate is his handwriting and signature.
In  Witness [unreadable] my hand and the seal of Office at Lockport 1 this 18th of February 1833 Henry Calton  Clerk
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State of New York
Niagara County ss
On the twenty fifth day of June in the Year of our Lord Eighteen hundred + thirty three personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace of the town of Lewiston and county aforesaid one Chapman Hawley who being duly affirmed deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and consequences loss of memory he can not swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following [illegible] At the first time of service mentioned in the annexed affidavit
4.15 1st Term For Four months and fifteen days
3- 2d " For Three months
6.15 3d "" Six months + fifteen days
4- 4th "" Four months
I served as a Private and for such service I claim a pension
Chapman Hawley
Affirmed and subscribed to the day and year above mentioned before me}
Reuben Reynolds Justice of the peace
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State of New York
Niagara County (Clerks Office)
I Henry Calton Clerk of said County Do [illegible] Certify that Reuben Reynolds Esquire before [illegible] the preceding affidavit purport to have been sworn [illegible] the [illegible] of the same one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County
An that I am acquainted with his handwriting and hereby believe his name subscribed to the said to be his proper handwriting and signature 
Witness my hand and seal of office at Lockport this twenty seventh day of June AD 1833
Henry Calton Clerk
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September 20, 1937
Chapman Hawley
S. 29209 our
BA-J/AWF

Mr. Richard P. Hawley
667 Spruce Street
Aurora, Illinois
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Chapman Hawley, born December 5, 1759, served from Vermont, and died in Michigan.
The data furnished herein were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, S. 29209, based upon the military service of Chapman Hawley in the Revolutionary War.
Chapman Hawley was born December 5, 1759 in New Milford, Litchfield County, Connecticut. The names of his parents were not stated. 
While a resident of Rutland, Bennington County, Vermont, he volunteered sometime in January, 1776, served in Captain Potter's company, Colonel Seth Warner's regiment, marched to Quebec to assist General Arnold, returned home about the last of May, 1776. He volunteered sometime in January, 1777, served about three months in Captain Thomas Sawyer's company, and was in a skirmish at Shelburne, Vermont. He volunteered in thr month of April or May, 1778, served until October following in Captain Ebeneser Allen's company. He moved to Phillipstown, Renseelaer County, New York, and enlisted sometime in April, 1779, served four months in Captain Guy Young's company in Colonel Willett's New York regiment, and was stationed at Fort
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Plank "up the Mohawk River".
Chapman Hawley moved, immediately after the Revolution, to Morristown, New Jersey, lived there about six years, then moved to LeRoy, Genesee County, New York, there five or six years, and moved to Lewistown, Niagara County, New York.
He was allowed pension on his application executed February 15, 1833, then living in Lewistown, New York.
He was residing in Union City, Branch County, Michigan, in 1839, where he had lately moved from New York, "to be with and near his children". Names of children not designated.
One Lewis Hawley made affidavit in 1839 in Branch County, Michigan; his relationship to the soldier, Chapman Hawley, was not stated. The soldier died June 23, 1840, leaving a widow, her name not given.
In order to obtain the name and address of the person paid the last payment of this pension, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C., and furnish the following data:
Chapman Hawley
Certificate #20916
Issued October 21, 1833,
Rate $60.00 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
Michigan Agency.

Very truly yours
A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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September 12, 1935
Chapman Hawley-S. 29209 
BA-J/AWF

Miss Frances Culp
87 Marshall Street
Coldwater, Michigan 

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Chapman Hawley, born December 5, 1759 in New Milford, Connecticut.
The record of Chapman Hawley furnished herein was obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 29209, based upon his services in the War of the Revolution.
Chapman Hawley was born December 5, 1759 in New Milford, Litchfield County, Conn., the names of his parents not shown.
While a resident of Rutland, Bennington County, Vermont, he volunteered sometime in January, 1776, served in Captain Potter's company, Colonel Seth Warner's regiment, marched to Quebec to assist General Arnold, returned home about the last of May, 1776. He volunteered sometime in January, 1777, served about three months in Captain Thomas Sawyer's Vermont company, and was in a skirmish at Shelburne, Vermont. He volunteered in April or May, 1778, served until the October following in Captain Ebenezer Allen's Vermont company. He moved to Phillipstown, Rensselaer County, New York, and enlisted sometime in April, 1779, served four months in Captain Guy Young's company in Colonel Willett's New York regiment, and was stationed at Fort Plank "up the Mohawk River".
He moved, immediately after the Revolution, to Mor-
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ristown, New Jersey, lived there about six years, then to LeRoy, Genesee County, New York, was there five or six years, when he moved to Lewistown, Niagara County, New York.
The soldier, Chapman Hawley, was allowed pension on his application executed February 15, 1833, then living in Lewistown, New York.
He was residing in 1839 in Union City, Branch County, Michigan, where he had lately moved from New York, "to be with and near his children". Children's names not designated.
One Lewis Hawley made affidavit in 1839 in Branch County, Michigan, but it is not stated that he was rrlated to the family. 
The soldier died June 23, 1840, leaving a widow, her name is not given.

Very truly yours
A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
AWF/ccl
February 14, 1929
L.W. Burch
202 E. Washington Avenue
Madison, Wisconsin
Sir: 
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 29209, it appears that Chapman Hawley was born, December 5, 1759, at New Milford, Litchfield County, Connecticut.
While residing at Rutland, Bennington County, Vermont, he enlisted and served as a private with the Vermont Troops as follows: 
From January, 1776, four month and fifteen days in Captain Noel Potter's Company, Colone Seth Warner's Regiment; from January, 1777 or 1778, three months in Captain Thomas Sawyer's Company, Colonel Seth Warner's Regiment and was in a skirmish at Shelburn; from April or May, 1778, six months and fifteen days in Captain Ebenezer Allen's Company, Colonel Seth Warner's Regiment.
While residing at Phillipstown, Rensselaer County, New York, he enlisted in April, 1779 and served four
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months in Captain Guy Young's Company, Colonel Willett's New York Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed February 15, 1833, at which time he was living at Lewiston, Niagara County, New York.
In 1839, the soldier had moved from New York State to Michigan to be near his children, names not given.
He died, June 23, 1840, leaving a widow, her name is not given.
Lewis Hawley testified in the case in 1839, in Branch County, Michigan, relationship not stated.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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this Bureau. Chapman Hawley S.F. 29209

Jany 1776  LENGTH OF SERVICE. To Quebec  4 mos 15 days   RANK.  Pvt.     OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.  CAPTAIN   Noel Potter   COLONEL   Seth Warner   STATE  Reg. Vt. Vol.

Jany 1777 or 1778    LENGTH OF SERVICE. 3 mos.   RANK.   OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.  CAPTAIN   Thomas Sawyer   COLONEL   Seth Warner   STATE  

April or May 1778   LENGTH OF SERVICE.  6 mos 15 days     RANK.    OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.   CAPTAIN   Ebenezer Allen    COLONEL   Seth Warner   STATE

Apr.  1779   LENGTH OF SERVICE.   4 mos.    RANK.    OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.  CAPTAIN    Guy Young  COLONEL   Willett   STATE    New York Militia
     
Battles engaged in,     skir. at Shelburn, Vt     
Residence of soldier at enlistment,    Rutland Bennington Co. Vt     Phillipstown Renser Co.  NY      
Date of application for pension, Feb'y 15, 1833    His cl. was al. [allowed]   
Residence at date of application, Lewistown Niagara County N.Y.     
Age at date of application, b. [born] at New Milford Litchfield Co. Conn.  5 1759     Dec. 2 1839 Soldier had moved from N. Y. State to Mich to be near his children names not stated and was living in Union City   Branch Co. Mich.  d. [died] June 23 1840   Lewis Hawley was in 1839 in Branch Mich.
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Aurora, Illinois
667 Spruce Street,
Sept. 13, 1937.
From: Richard Parker Hawley, World War Veteran,
Indentification Number 465223 - Sgt 1cl - MD USA & AEF Buchanan Co. Missouri Enlistment - 4/11/17 to 7/12/19

To: Veterans Administration - Washington, D.C.
Subject: Information on Revolutionary War Enlistments
CHAPMAN HAWLEY 1759-1840

Redently contacted the AGO office, Washington, D.C., concerning the Revolutionary War Record of my Great Great Grandfather Chapman Hawley, and they in turn referred me to your offices for detailed information, as they stated you had charge of the old Pension records.

Chapman Hawley's enlistments according to information I can gather were in the State of Vermont, centering mostly around Rutland. Shall appreciate any detailed information you can furnish me, especially, if procurable, the name of the parents of Chapman Hawley. It occured to me that possibly they gave the name of the parents in those days as was the practice during the enlistments of the World War.

Chapman Hawley, according to information I gathered was born either at New Milford, Litchfield County, Conn., or Rutland, Vt. He died in the State of Michigan, near Union City in 1840. His date of birth was Dec 5, 1759.

Any informatoin you can furnish shall be appreciated.

Richard Parker Hawley
RICHARD PARKER HAWLEY
Member Big Rock Post No. 529,
Membership Card No. 63337
Big Rock, Kane County, Illinois.
RPH

[circle stamp]
RECEIVED
SEP 15 1937
MAIL SUB. DIV.
VETS. ADM.
READER#21
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87 Marshall Street
Coldwater, Mich.
August 28, 1935

Bureaus of Pensions
(Revolutionary War)
Department of Interior
Washington D.C.

[circle stamp]
RECEIVED 
Aug 31 1935
Mail [illegible]
Vets Adm
[illegible] 20

Gentlemen: -
Please send to me the official record of my great great grandfather (Chapman Hawley) born December fifth 1759 at New Milford Connecticut. It is said his claim for pension was allowed, so I am hoping a copy of said record will not be difficult to obtain.
Thanking You
I am
(Miss) Frances Culp
87 Marshall Street
Coldwater, Michigan
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L. W. BURCH, PRESIDENT  A. L. PAYNE, SEC'Y AND TREASURER

Electrical Supply Company
CONTRACTORS AND ILLUMINATING ENGINEERS
Lighting Fixtures, Motors 
Domestic Appliances
202 W. WASHINGTON AVE.  PHONE BADGER 1741
Madison, Wisconsin

MEMBERS OF WISCONSIN STATE ASSOCIATION OF ELECTRAGISTS
WHOLESALE SUPPLIES
RITTER PATENT
SOLDERING IRONS 

May 25, 1928.

Dept. of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen: - 
The writer being interested in the geanology of his family desires to secure all the information possible and would like to know if the department could furnish him with the military history of Chapman Hawley, a soldier of the Revolutionary War enlisted Jan. 1776, in Vermont.
Mrs. Burch is a direct descendant from the Hawley family and this information is very interesting to her and will be very much appreciated.
Very truly yours, 
L. W. Burch
P. S. Any expense attached to the above if you will please let us know what it is we will be please to reimburse. L. W. B.

 U. S. PENSION OFFICE F MAY 18 1928
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443 Tonawanda Drive
Des Moines Iowa
Aug. 24 - 1923

Pension Bureau:
Washington D.C.
If Chapman Hawley serving in the Revolutionary War from Vermont received a pension, will you please send me a copy of his record.
Sincerely
Mrs. F. C. Wright.
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Rev Svc

Goldsboro, NC.
Aug 8 1920

Bureau of Pensions
Department of Interior
Washington D.C.
U. S. PENSION OFFICE. O AUG 10 1920

Gentlemen: - 
Kindly send me the service of record of Chapman  Hawley born Dec. 5, 1759 at New Milford, Conn. He served our country during the American Revolution and I desire this information to file with my application
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2.
for membership in the Daughters of American Revolution
Yours truly
Mrs. E. F. Ramey
Goldsboro, N.C.
Box 1.
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Rev.

Union City Mich.
July 19, '20
recd July 22 -

Dept of Interior
Washington DC.

Dear Sirs:
Will you kindly mail me the War Record of Chapman Hawley, (American Revolutionary Soldier, enlisted from Union township, Branch Co., Michigan.
Gratefully  yours,
(Mrs) Ethel K. Howard
Union City, Mich.
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Buffalo Feb 1st. 1911

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C. 

Dear Sir.
Will you kindly give me the Pension Record of Chapman Hawley whose name I find on the Pension list of 1830 credited to Niagara Co
Very truly yours
(Miss) Carrie Chapman
c/o Mrs Hagerer
520 Spring St 
Buffalo N. Y.
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114 E. Arch Street,
Marquette, Mich.,
Jan. 24, 1903.

Clerk of Pension Dept,
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir:
My maternal great-great-grandfather, Chapman Hawley, was a soldier in the Revolution, and drew a pension while living in Lewiston, N. Y. I have not the necessary documentary evidence for the matter and write to ask if
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if you will kindly send me a department certificate to the fact of his having served as a Revolutionary soldier with what particulars you can give. 
Thanking you in advance, I am
Yours very truly,
Sereno Burton Clark.

U. S. PENSION OFFICE. JAN 27 1903
U.S.P.B. OLD WAR & NAVY FILES. JAN 31 1903
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29209
Revy INVALID. Inv. 29.209
File No. 29,209
Chapman Hawley
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7" 32"
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 171
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Feby 2, 1903
Sereno. Burton Clark
Marquette Mich
1911 Feb'y 8 Hist. to Carrie Chapman V.L.M.
1920, Aug 16 Hist to Mrs. Ethel K. Howard. EW
1920, Sept. 10 Hist to Mrs E. F. Ramey - EW - 
1923 Oct. 9. Hist. to Mrs. F. C. Wright. AW.
1929, Feb. 14 - Hist to L. W. Burch awf.
1935 - Sept. 12 - hist to Frances Culp awf
1937 - Sept 20  "   "  Richard P. Hawley
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Chapman Hawley N. Y. $60. 7. June
To What time last paid

Pension Office
18 Sept 1839
To 4 March 1839.
S.K.K.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 
Second Comptroller's Office,
November 5th, 1841.

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States." The widow of Chapman Hawley, dec'd a Pensioner on the roll of the Michigan Agency, at the rate of Sixty Dollars ['and Cents' crossed out] per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March, to the 23d June 1840 - 
Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.
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Nov 26
Mrs. Evans
free

James L Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
War Dept
City of Washington
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MECHANICS' & FARMERS' BANK,
Albany Pension Agency,
Nov'r 23d 1839

JAMES L. EDWARDS, Esquire,
Commissioner of Pensions.

Sir, 
In reply to your letter of the 20th inst.
I have to state, that Chapman Hawley a Pensioner under the Act of 7 June 1832 at sixty Dollars per annum was last paid to the 4th day of March 1839 - 
I am, Sir,
Very respectfully, Your ob't serv't,
Thos. W. Olcott
PRES'T AND PENSION AGENT.
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Tekonsha
Nov 8} 
Nov 18. 1839

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Pension Office
Washington D.C.
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Union City Nov. 6. 1839

Dear Sir
I enclose you the papers of Chapman Hawley for a transfer from N. Y. to this State. I hope they are right - Mr. Crary is dangerously ill and cannot reach Washington, if at all, by the opening of the Session.
I suppose the Semiannual papers will be delivered to the pension agent in this State. Mr. Hawley is quite feeble and feels much anxiety about his pay. 
Respectfully Yr. Obdt. Servt.
J. Goodwin

Hon. J. L. Edwards
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Goodwinsville Mich
Sept. 5  
Free

Sept 16
Mr Evans

Hon. Secretary of War
Pension Office
Washington D. C.
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Union City Branch County
Michigan Sept. 5 1839

Dear Sir
Mr. Chapman Hawley desires me to transmit to your office the enclosed evidence of his identity, &c.
He wishes me to say that the draft for his pay may be sent to him personally and that a draft on any depository in N. Y. or Michigan will be alike convenient for him. The Post Office name if Goodwinsville - but the above is the present name of the village where Mr. Hawley resides
Respectfully Yrs. &c.
J. Goodwin
Post Master - 

Hon. Secy. of War
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State of New York
Niagara County ss Aaron Beach, of the town of Cambria, State & County aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth and saith that the your deponent is well acquainted with Chapman Hawley of the town of Lewiston State and County aforesaid and was well acquainted with the said Chapman when he and your deponent resided in Rutland in the State of Vermont during the Revolutionary War - that your deponent well recollects that the said Chapman entered the service of the United States at Rutland aforesaid, as a volunteer sometime in January 1776 in a company under the command of one Noel Potter a Captain & one Joseph Keeler as first Lieutenant - that the said Company was attached to a Regiment of Vermont Volunteers commanded by Colonel Seth Warner that the said Company & which said Chapman belonged marched to Quebec to aid General Arnold & that after General Burgoyne came up the St. Lawrence & entered Quebec, the remaining part of the said Company returned home to Rutland aforesaid about the last of May following - 
And your deponent further says that the said Chapman again entered the service of the [illegible] Hales at Rutland aforesaid as a volunteer in the month of January 1778 the day he does not recollect, in a company commanded by one Thomas Sawyer as Captain and one Barnaby Barnum as first Lieutenant & he thinks one Samuel Daniels as Ensign - that the said Company was not attached to any Regiment as he recollects but
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was considered as a volunteer Corps - that after the inlistment the said Company was ordered to the town of Shelburn where the company remained stationed until the first of April following when they were dismissed & the said Chapman returned home to Rutland aforesaid where he, the said Chapman & your deponent still resided - that your deponent will remember of hearing at the time of a skirmish between the company aforesaid & the enemy at Shelburn and that the said Barnum and Daniels, officers of the Company were killed - 
And your deponent further saith that about the first day of May following 1778, the said Chapman at Rutland aforesaid again volunteered in a Company commanded by one Ebenezer Allen as Captain & as he thinks one Samuel Smith as first Lieutenant and one William Cox as Ensign that the said Company to which the said Chapman belonged, repaired to Pittsford where the Company was stationed - and the said Chapman there remained till about the first day of November, when he was discharged and returned to Rutland aforesaid - Your deponent further saith that he your deponent in the Spring of 1779 following entered the service of Vermont State was taken prisoner - remained a prisoner of war until the close of the Revolutionary war and therefore, knows nothing of the further services rendered the United States, ny the said Chapman - And further your deponent saith not.
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Sworn to and subscribed this 8th day of February 1833
Before me Stephen Barnes J. P. [illegible]
Justice of the Peace Niagara County

State of New York
Niagara County Clerks office - } I James Allen Clerk of the Court do certify that Stephen Barnes before whom the previous affidavit purports to have been sworn to was on the date of the same one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County And that I am acquainted with his hand writing and duly believe his name subscribed to the said Affidavit is his proper hand written 
signature  
[seal] Witness my hand & seal of office at Lockport this 22nd day of February 1833
James Allen Clerk
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State of Michigan 
Branch County} ss On this Seventeenth day of October 1839 before me the Subscriber associate Circuit Judge for the said County personally appeared Chapman Hawley who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Captain Potter and others in the regiment commanded by Colonel Seth Warner in the service of the United States, that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of New York from whence he has lately removed to the State of Michigan where he now resides and intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable in future, The principal reason for his removal from New York to Michigan was that his children had removed to Michigan, and he wishes to reside within or near there. 
Chapman Hawley
Subscribed & Sworn to before me the day & year aforesaid}
Chester Hammond Associate Circuit Judge Branch County 

State of Michigan 
Branch County} ss Lewis Hawley upon his solemn oath doth depose and say that Chapman Hawley the person who has taken and subscribed the above oath is the person therein described
Lewis Hawley
Sworn & subscribed this 17. day of October A.D. 1839. before me}
Chester Hammond Associate Circuit Judge Branch County
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State of Michigan
Branch County } ss. I Chester Hamman associate circuit Judge of the County of Branch hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Chapman Hawley and Lewis Hawley, the persons who subscribed & made the within Affidavits, and that they are men of perfect truth and veracity & high respectability.
Chester Hammond Associate cir Judge