Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28675, Taylor Chapman, Conn.
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SERVICE
Conn

Chapman, Taylor

NUMBER
S. 25675
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R 902 New York (Alb) 31,598 ┃ Taylor Chapman, of Lewis Co. in the State of New York. who was a private in the compy command by Captain Granger's Co. of the Regt. command by Col. Wills in the Conn. line for 10 months private. 
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day of March 1839 and sent to Jesse Charlton E. Windsor Hill, Conn.  
Arrears to the 4th of March, 1839 $266.64 Semi-an. allowance ending 4 Sept 39 16.66 
$283.30 ┃ 
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832 
Recorded by S. A. Elliot, Clerk 
Book E2 Vol. 4 Page 12
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July 4
[Illegible]

Jesse Charlton _ Esquire
East Windsor Hill
Hartford Co
Connecticut
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State of New York, Lewis County ss. On this 29th day of June 1837 personally appeared before Ziba Knox one of the Justices of the peace of the County of Lewis and State of New York Taylor Chapman aged seventy three years who being duly sworn according to law doth on this oath make the following declaration explanatory of his former declaration on file at the [illegible] office. 
Col. Wells Regiment was raised by the State of Connecticutt for nine months But was not filled up and in the Summer of 1780 a draft was made and Deponant was one of the men who were drafted and when I with others arrived at Camp we had the Privalage [Privilege] of choosing Such Companies as we liked and as I was acquainted with some persons from Suffield where Capt Granger & number of his men belonged I chose to join Company with which I faithfully served until the expiration of the time for which I was drafted I was at Crompond the day Andre was captured Captain Grangers Company never were dismissed and the very night after the drafted men were discharged in the forepart of November the house where they were then  quartered was surrounded by a Company of the Enemys cavalry and all of them were Taken prisoner this was at a place called Horseneck better known by the name of Greenwich and they were all carried to New York and were not exchanged until the Spring of 1781 the Lieut of Capt Samuel Granger Company was Alexander McDowall of Waterbury in Connecticut he deserted to the Enemy a little before this Period and it was fully believed that he commanded the force of the enemy that captured Granger Company and a short time after he McDowal was Taken & carried to Hartford in Conn and tried condemned and executed as a traitor he was hanged at Hartford in the Twenty first of March 1781 The following is an tract of Gen Washingtons Orders of the 17 of
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March 1781 Alexander McDowell late Lieut
and Adjutant of Colonel Wells Regiment of
the Sale Tree of Connecticut haven in by a general
lost martial of the line held at Hartford on the 4th
day of March 1781 whereof Colonel Herman Swift
was President found guilty of darken to the enemy
and by the said court marshal sentenced to suffer
death for the same agreeable to the 6th Section of
the first article of war which sentence is ordered ┃
to be put in Execution on Wednesday the 21st Just
at Hartford between the hours of Ten in the forenoon
and three in the afternoon of the same day
for this part of my service which was perform
in Capt Granger Company in the year 1784
Behold in my first Declaration sent the
Certificate of Jehiel Harman a Crille witness
who draws a pension for the same Corcil of
service in the same Company and at the same time ┃
The Comptrolers Certificate which will be sent and
which are court will I trust satisfy the Department
that I am entitled to the pension Claim for my
service
Taylor Chapman
Sworn & Subscribed the day year
first above written before me
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⎬
Knox Justice of the Peace
I Carle P. Scovill Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Ziba Know
Esquire before whom the foregoing declaration purports to have been taken was
on the day of the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in & for said County
and further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Justice
and verily believe his signation subscribed to the said declaration is
genuine. Given under my hand and seal of said County
this 31st day of June 1837
Carlos P. Seril Cark
State of New York
Clerks office Lewis County ss
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Sons Square NY
Jany 18th 383
-
M
East Windson Hill
Paid
18 3/4
Due 18
Mr. Jesse Charlton Esq.
East Windsor Hill
Hartford County
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State of New York
Lewis County ss.

On this second day of January 1838 personally appeared before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County office aforesaid at a Court of Common Pleas now telling.  Taylor Chapman of said county a credible (next word crossed out) person who being duly sworn appearing to law doth on his (unintelligible) make the following declarations explanatory of his former declarations he as do to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress passed the 7. June 1832. 
Viz. 

I Taylor Chapman was born in Windsor, Hartford County, State of Connecticutt (Connecticut) and served in the Revelutionaery (Revolutionary) War.  I served as soldier in a gard (guard) in s'd Windsor for over 
publick stoar (public store).  Deported there for safe keeping under the (unintelligible) of James Hacker who oned (owned) the biling (building).  The gard (guard) was composed prinsibly (principally) of young men in the neighborrhood (neighborhood) and as the able bodied young men were abroad in service of there (their) country, boys were Imployed (employed) in the yard as it is an inland town there was no danger of an enemy. The duty was easy when our tour of duty came in the foarpart (forepart) of the (unintelligible) we went home. Our turn to serve by day came about once a fortunate Daniel Thayton one of the officers I served under was neibour (neighbor) to my father and was acquiaintor (acquainted)  with my capability to serve in this yeard I served six months, as any (unintelligible) who was older than my self and more likely to have according to the best of my remembrance it must have bin (been) in the winter of 1779 - 80 but serely (surely) be under a mistake but I think not.
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In the other term of service I performed
as a drafted man as boys were obliged to
do military duty at sixteen years of age. I was
sixteen in April and was drafted the fore part of the summer we were mustered at Hartford and marched to Greenwich or Hornacek where we joined a regiment commanded by Colonal Levi Wells we had the privilege of choosing our Captain and I entered Capt Granger Company where I served at Delarant Station Shear months according with my Voucher McKin
I think for this service must have bin (been) in the summer of 1780 as I was on duty at the time that Arnald the Trayton went in Bond of
the Luther and hard the foreing and was
Inquired of by the officers to know in what
direction the fireing was the Drafted man were the dismised in the four part of winter or late in the fall
we had no written discharge and of Comp Cannet Sell Capt Grange return me for  Wethenfield where I received my wages of Willard who paid me in Connecticut State Bills at Forty Hollings for month  Lawful money Other Services I performed which I have no Record of the most dangerous of any I performed Sir you must make allowance for Old age the mind 
becomes Enfeebled and morbid But the service was performed this I Declare and my country has allowed me a little pittance to came down the Declare of Life I tell Rec it with gratitude I am Two hundred and forty miles from my Native home which makes it difficult to get testimony
Subscribed & Sworn before the said Court Taylor Chapman
this 2d day of January 1838
Carle Scovil
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In testimony whereof I do hereunto Lot
my hand and affix the seal of the
said Court & do hereby declare that the
foregoing is the original proceeding
before said Court this day in the matter
of the application of Taylor Chapman
aforesaid for a pension
Carlos P. Scovil Clerk
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5
1598
13.296
Taylor Chapman
under 16
P.359
rejected
Albany Agency

29 Ap 33
Admd
10 mo fri
$33 33/100
out 7 June
Charlton
E. Windsor Hill
F. Knox Con.
Lowville U.S.
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Brief in the cast of
in the case of Taylor Chapman
of Lowville in the State of N. York
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity
3. How old is he? 68 years
4.  State his (unable to read due to tear) in teh form annexed.┃
1833
68
1765
14
Period
Fall or autumn In 1779
Summer of 1780
1781
Duration of Service.
Years, Months, Days.
he believes 6
not clearly specified
about 1 month
As a
substitute
private
33
Rank.
As a
1764
substitute
Private
Names of General and Field Officers
under whom he served.
Gen.
Capt Jas Hooker - Connect.
Capt Saml Granger  
Colo. Levi Wells do
Capt McKenney do
5. In what battles was he engaged? none stated
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? not stated
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence,
incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary evidence alone
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect they are duly
authenticated
Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above
mentioned.
Wm Gordon Examining Clerk
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Revy INVALID
File No. 28675
INVALID.
Taylor Chapman
Sir Rev War
Act: June 7th 32
Index
Vol. 2,
Page 70
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Reed Regd
see let to Jesse Charlton,
do to same
Nov. 18, 1837
Nov. 28, 1837
go to Hon H.L. Ellsworth,
January 27, 1838.
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E. Windsor Hill CT
Nov 15
Free
M ab Nov 18
James L.  Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington D.C.
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East Windsor Hill
Hartford County
County
Nov 14 1837
The application of Taylor Chapman, under the act of June 7th 1832 was made some those years since, and decision on it was deferred for further explanation:
That I trust I furnished from the Comptrollers office in Hartford some months since, in a manner which will be satisfactory:  As I have
heard nothing from it since, I am apprehensive that the letter may have not reached
you.  As it is an application which
has been so long in the office excuse me
Sir for asking that it may be taken up
& decided on in a few days & returns made 
to me.
Your Obedt Servant
J. L. Edwards Esq 
Comes 
Jesse Charlton
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E. Windsor Ct.
Nov 23
Free
Taylor Chapman
James L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pension
City of Washington D.C.
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East Windsor Hill,
Hartford County
Connecticut St 
Nov 21 1837
Sir
Yours of the 18th inst, in relation to the application of Taylor Chapman formerly of Windsor in Connect, now of Livingston County State of New York, is received.
I wish Sir to be heard in few words
in regard to this claim.
In regard to the service performed
to in Capt Grangers Company, in Colo Wells Reg as far as that goes, I do not understand you have any serious objection to it except that it appears to be less than five  months.
In relation to the other period of alleged
service, I beg leave to offer a few words.
I have received communications from about ten men who served in the Hospital guard at Windsor from 1778 till 1781, & they all told the same Story that they engaged or enlisted with Capt James Hooker. You will see by examining the Copy sent from the Comptroller that the guard was ordered to be raised on the application of James & Horace Hooker
by Colo Roger Newberry & in a manner that should be most convenient to said Hookers.
Capt Hooker furnished them their rations & paid them their wages. Tho the Sergeants handed in the Bills & drew the
money as you will see by their accts and
cred allowed & paid was it therefore strange
that the men who had so much connescion with Capt Hooker in this business should name himas Capt of the Guard. I think not.

I cannot myself see any thing that discredits
the statement of Mr Chapman, & I think if you
will carefully review the documents sent you
will not feel as the it was right to reject.
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the claim of Mr Chapman, when he has supported his claim, in each instance, by the Certificate of a person who was with him & each receiving a pension for the services they then & there performed: And furthermore, when I have furnished from the
Comptroller so much evidence respecting the
nature of each of these services.
Mr Chapman I understand is quite a
respectible (respectable) man. I never saw him nor did I see his original declaration; I know not therefore what small discrepancies there may be between his recollections & the proof; but if there is any new declaration necessary I will send him word that he may reconcile all to your satisfaction.
In your letter you speak of his youth at that time but other persons were admitted into the guard who were then but sixteen years old
Elijah Denslow was but of that age in his declaration he stated the reason of his being received at that aged you & granted his application without making any objections.
It seems to me Sir, that on a little
more reflection & a reexamination of this case, you will think it hard to reject Mr Chapman
claim in the face of uncontracted evidence and
of documents which throw so much light in
the subject.
If Sir you should think it incumbent on Mr Chapman to explain & reconcile an
thing more between his declaration & his proof you inform me precisely what is further required I will send him notice.
I am Sir your Obt Servant
J. L. Edwards Esquire
Col Jesse Charlton
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S
Patent Office
Son 25
By request I have to state that
many years ago I was appointed
with Taylor a townsman of mine
he then passed a good character &
I never have heard anything
against him since his removal
from Windsor Conn. to N York
State
John Respey
H.L. Ellsworth
L Edwards
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Envelope front:

Return Address:
E. Windsor Hill, Ct. 
Oct 3

Written left crossways:
Oct. 6
Taylor Chapman (unintelligible)

Addressee:
James L. Edwards Esq. 
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington 
D-C.

Stamp position:
Free
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East Windsor Hill
Hartford County Conn
Sept 27th 1837
Sir
Taylor Chapman's application has
been long in the office suspended for
proof & explanation.
That I sent from the Comptrollers office in this State some months ago, with a request that if the proof was satisfactory, the certificate might
be sent to me.
Permit me Sir to ask whether its turn has not come for reexamination; and if any
further evidence is necessary we will endeavor to supply it.
And as it is an application under the
act of 1832, and has been for years in the pension office, owing to the difficulty which
the applicant found in reaching the necessary
proof owing to his great distance from it
and not knowing before how he might come
at it; this has been the cause of the delay
you will therefore, not think me too importunate, I trust, in asking that it may be
examined again before the lapse of much time

most respectfully yours
J L Edwards Esq 
Commission of Pensions
Jesse Charlton
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New York
Revol.
Taylor Chapman
Rejected
See letter to
L. Knox
9 Augt '33
Let to Philo A. Goodwin
July 8, 1836
Letter Jesse Charlton Apr 10, 1837
Act 7 June 1832
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East Windsor Hill Hartford County
Conn
July 10th A1837
Sir
The different items of proof
you required in the case of Taylor Chapman; I think are furnished in the document now sent

I am with sincere respect 
Your Obd Servant
Jesse Charlton
AD 1837
James L Edwards Esq
Commisioner of Pensions
Washington
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East Windsor Connecticut
Feby 28th 1837
Sir
On the application of Taylor
Chapman, of the State of New York I obtain
& forward the accompanying document,
his application is in your office and
your letter to Philo A Goodwin Esq of
Hartford in relation to this claim
shows the kind of proof you required
in relation to the nature of the service
& the officers under whom the service
was performed.
It is requested by Judge Till who has acted as agent for Mr Chapman, that when you should
have decided this case you forward
the certificate to me of your decision
in his favor.
I am Sir respectfully
Yours
Jesse Charlton
J. L Edwards Esq Com. Pensions
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James L Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
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East Windsor Hill
Hartford County Con. 
January 22 1838

Sir
In the application of Taylor Chapman of Lewis County, N.Y.  He applied to me by letter (for I never saw the man,) to procure for him such proof as the Comptroller's office at Harford might afford relative to the service of Capt. Grangers Company, in Col. Levi Wells Reg't (regiment); And of the appointment of the continental guard at the Windsor Hartf. (Hartford) County Con. 

I procured from that source all, I supposed, would be required.  Mr. Chapman wrote me that he had procured and sent the certificate of one credible witness to each town, and that each of these witnesses had received a pension for the same service. 

I wrote you respecting the guard in my last letter concerning this application; and that its (it's) military character had been recognized, in the case of Ens'n. Daniel Hayden in the application of his widow Zerviah Hayden of East Windsor March 4th, 1837 & several others, that I mentioned as many I think as ten persons had been pensioned for that service. 

Mr. Chapman has now made an explanatory declaration in his own handwriting & has stated that Ens, Daniel Hayden was an officer of the guard a part of the time that he was there; permit me to refer you to the Comptrollers certificate relative ....
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To the said Daniel Hayden being
an officer of the guard at that time
It is with Zerviah Hayden's application sent by me to your office in January 1837 & granted March 1837, I confess I do not see where the case labors,
The original declaration I
never saw: it may have been indefinitely drawn, but the explanatory proof which
I have sent of the service of Capt
Granger in Col Levi Wells Reg; and the Military organization & of the Hospital guard at Windsor, and why Capt James Hooker is mentioned by the applicants, it seems to me I have set forth in such a manner as has never failed to satisfy the department in similar cases.
Mr. Taylor Chapman is known
I understand by the Commissioner of Patents he being formerly from 
Windsor, Conn
I will request Mr Ellsworth
hether Mr Chapman is a man
character who is not endeavoring
the department.
I will request Mr. Ellsworth to state whether Mr.  Chapman is a man of good character who is not enreasoning to deceive the department. 
I am Sir, most respectfully,
Your Obt Servt.
Jesse Charlton
James L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D C
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Ros. Miller
Comptroller Miller
Certificate
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At a meeting of the Governor & Council of Safety holden at Hartford on the 28th day of February 1778, Present
His Excellency the His Governor
Honor the Deputy Governor,
Jabez Huntington Esq
William Pitkin Esq
Abraham Davenport Esq
William Williams Esq
William Hilhouse Esq
Benjamin Payne Esq
Andrew Adams Esq
upon the application of James and Horace Hooker, showing to this Board, that they have been appointed by Isaac Foster Esq Director General to receive and Store
a large quantity of Hospital Stores, for the use of the United States, part of which have already arrived at Windsor
and the rest daily expected, and that they had orders from said Foster to apply to his Excellency for a Guard,
and praying for a proper Guard, as per application on file.
.
Resolved by this Board, That Coll Roger Newberry be, and he is hereby directed to furnish and Supply from the Regiment under his command in such manner 
as he shall judge most convenient to said James Hooker and Horace Hooker a proper Guard of one Sergeant and twelve men for the present, and in case he shall Judge
it necessary that he increase said Guard to the number of Eighteen men, to guard said Stores till further orders and
&
that proper pay Rolls be made up and presented to the
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Committee of Pay Table for payment who are hereby directed to liquidate the same, and draw on the Treasurer for the sum that shall appear to be due thereon and charge 
the same to the act of the United States.
Comptrollers Office
I Elisha Phelps Comptrollor of Public Accounts
for the State of Connecticut do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true Copy from the Journal of the Governor & Council of Safety for the State of Connecticut now remaining in this office

And and I further Certify, that upon the
Journal of the late pay Fortell office also remaining in this office under date of the 9th day of July 1779 There was charged to the United States an order on the treasurer
in the words and figures of
United States D
To an order on the Treasurer by Sergeant Denslow for Guarding Continental Stores at Windsor £1004, 16, 10
Also under date  of the 5th day of April 1780 is another charge to the United States in the words and figures following

United States

viz
To an order on Treasurer by Capt Elisha
Hinman
for his Company
Court D Eslang - L1415 12 6


To do by Sergant E. Stoughton for amount of
his pay roll guarding Continental
Stores at Windsor 4040 12 6
L5456  5 0
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And that the above items of account for guarding Continental Stores at Windsor were charged upon a list of the Claims in favor of this State against the United States and that there remains in this office the receipt of E. Haskell Corn for vouchers for the above and other charges
E. Phelps
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Bissell
Chapman
Miller 
Mitchell
Dennison

WRITTEN UPSIDE DOWN:
Return Address area:

E. Windsor Hart. Ct

Addressed to:
J. L. Edwards Esq. 
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
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East Windsor Hill
Hartford County
Connecticut
Feb 3d 1838
Sir,
I received, yesterday, from the Commissioner 
of Patent your letter respecting

aylor Chapman
And Sir, if I am not greatly
mistaken you have misapprehended the
of
manner in which the Hospital guard was
furnished. you judge that they were
detached from the Militia & the business
so arranged that the different persons
served but occasionally one day night ┃
in a week or fortnight & that the proper ┃
tion of time served by each man in the ┃
course of six months
would make but ┃
about one months service. This could
not have been the case, If any rance
is to be placed on the testimony of evry
man belonging to that guard, who ever
told me the story. Jerijah Bissell of East
Windsor testified that Capt James Hooker
of Windsor enlisted him to serve for one
year in that guard he produced the testimony
of Frederic Chapman to his serving that length
of time & for this & other services was pensioned
Frederic Chapman & Roswell Miller & Elijah
Denslow & Oliver Mitchel and several
other persons in Windsor
told the same
story: supported their declarations by cred
testimony, & are now receiving for
sions for the same service in Hartford
County under act 1832. Is it so that
soldiers
ible
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employed as a guard of this kind are
not entitled to pay except on those
days when their turn comes to stand sentry.
If these men enlisted some for six Months
& some for twelve, as they testify they
& did all the duty they were called upon
to do, and did not grumble or meeting
are they not entitled to the wages promised
them; these men received the pay
without any abatement for lazy days:
I suppose in the life of a soldier there
may be many such.  I think it must
be allowed from the United testimony of those
pensioners I have named, that they enlisted, 
that Capt Hooker was appointed by Colo
Newbury to procure the guard in this
way, and that the Sergeants of the guard
had a right to keep them on duty as much
of the time as the services required, that
it was not an occasional but permanent
engagement.

In regard to Taylor Chapman's age the he was tho he was not old enough to be
subject to be drafted; yet Captain Hooker
had a right to enlist him.
Elijah Benslow stated that he was
but 14 years old when he enlisted, and you
granted his application, & that justly, from
the evidence Taylor Chapman saw
fit to state how easy the service was,
if in this he has been a simpleton
would it not be rewarding such ingenuous
frankness with too much severity to say he
should not have what had been granted
to others of the same class for a like
Service
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Dear Sir
Please to take a leisure
hour and reconsider Mr Chapman's case
it seems to me you can hardly be
satisfied to throw the case under the
table.

I am Sir with great resp
your Obedt Servt
Jesse Charlton
J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Ten
Washington
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Taylor Chapman
additional
Declaration
proof
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State of Connecticut
Comptrollers Office
Hartford
July 10th 1837

I William Field Comptroller of Public accts for
the State of Connecticut hereby certify
That in the Public Books, & records remaining in this office relating to the Revolutionary War
I find the following entries.

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Hashells receipt

United States or
1779 July 9. To an order on the Treasurer
By Serg E. Denslow, for guarding 
Continental Stores at Windsor
$1004, 16,10
specie value $L66, 6, 2

1779 Aug 16
To Ensign Dan Hayden Guarding
Hospital Stores.
$49,10, 3 Specie

1780 April 5 To do by Serg E. Stoughton for amount of his pay Roll for guarding Continental Stores at Windsor
4040,12,
Specie value $278,7,8

April 07
E. Stoughton guarding hospital
Stores, 
Specie value $58, 68

1781 Nov 16
Serg. Moses Willson guard hospital stores
$161,10, 9

1783 Feb 11
Moses Willson
Do hospital Stores $139, 811

And in the Public Books War is charged
1783 To amt of Brigadier General
March David Waterbury
Roll of Field & Staff Officers $1371,10
There is also the following entries
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Capt. Samuel Granger

1777 Feb. 24  To advanced you in part of your £10 premiums for receipt £500 (Jour 2, 311 page)

Apl 11   To Do per  Do      100 (Leg A 94 pages)
May 20  To Do        Do       260
Nov 18  To Blankets           27  13
 "      27 To Ditto                 12, 6, 61/2
1778 March 13  To Clothing 5, 16, 6

(from journal 399)
1783 March 21 To shoes & stockings of Gen Waterbury 53, 8 (from journal 399)
To cash of Maj. Humphrey 6, 6
1781 Merch & to order on Treasurer Lawful Money £404

(from journal 1551)
1783 March 25 By his acct rendered £800, 0, 0

(from journal 1689, No.)
Nov 5 By ditto      ditto  £99, 16

I know of no rolls of Capt. Samuel Grainger's Company remaining in this office.   
There are the following accounts with Col. Levi Wells.
(Leg. C 4.30 & 1321)
1781 Dec. 21 By his acct. rendered for pay rolls and cash advanced his captains exclusive of what is credited st. (state) money £2056, 17, 17
and immediately following is Capt. Samuel Grainer

(from Journal 4 1321)
To cash advanced at sundry times for Col. Wells state money - £171, 12
Capt. Ozias Bissell to cash at sundry times
for Col. Wells state money - £190, 6, 5
Capt. Israel Converse to cash at sundry times for Col. Wells.  £145, 6, 5
Capt. John Morgan Dr. 
To cash at sundry times for Col. Wells acct for 
in his settlement Lt. M £32, 10, 4
Other captains are mentioned in the same connexion (connection) as Capt. Joshua Bottom, Nathaniel Wales & Jabez Fitch. 

Wm. Field Comptroller
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At a meeting of the Govenor and Council of Safety, holden (held) at Hartford on the 28th day of February (unintelligible) 1778, present his (all noted as Esqrs. (Esquires), Excellency the Govenor, 
His Honor the Lieut. Govenor, 
Jabez Huntington
William Pitkin
Adm. Davenport
William Williams
William Hilhouse (Hillhouse) 
Benjamin Payne
Andrew Adams

Upon the application of James & Horace Hooker shewing (showing) to this board that they have been appointed by Isaac Foster Esq.  Director General to receive & store a large quantity of hospital stores, for the use of the United States, part of which have already arrived at Windsor & the rest daily expected and that they have had orders from said Foster to supply to his Excellency therefore a guard & praying for a proper guard as per application on file. 

Resolved, by this board, That Col. Roger Newberry be & he is hereby directed to furnish and supply from the Regiment under his command in such manner as he shall judge most convenient to said James Hooker & Horace Hooker a proper guard, of one sergeant and twelve men for the present, and in case he shall judge it necessary that he increase said guard to the number of eighteen men;  to guard said stores till further orders;
And that, proper pay rolls be made up and presented to the Committee of paytable (pay table) for payment, who are hereby directed to liquidate the same, and draw on the ....
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Treasurer for the sum that shall appear
to be due thereon, and charge the same
to the account of the United States
In absence of the Comptroller
Certified by Royal R Hinman Secretary
of State 

the State of Connecticut do hereby certify
that the foregoing is a true Copy from the Journal of the Governor and Council of safety for the State of Connecticut now remaining in this Office.

And I further certify, that upon
the Journal of the late paytable office also
remaining in this office under date of the
9th day of July 1779, there was charged to the
United States an order on the Treasurer
in the words & figures
Viz
United States
Dr To an order on the Treasurer by
Sergeant Denslow, for guarding Continental
Stores at Windsor
$1004, 16, 10

Also, under date of the 5th of April 1780,
is another charge to the United States
in the words & figures following, Viz,
United States Dr. To order on Treasurer by
Capt Elisha Hinman for his company

Count Dostang $1415 -12.6
To ditto by Serg E. Stoughton for amount of
his pay roll Guarding Continental Stores
at Windsor,.$4040,12 " 6

And that the above items of account for
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guarding Continental Stores at Windor were charged upon a list of Claims
in favor of this State against the United States,
and that there remains in this
office the receipt of E Haskell Com
for vouchers for the above, and other charges. Comptrollers Office February 27th 1837
In absence of the Comptroller Certified
By Royal R Hinman Secretary of
State
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To whom it may concern this may certify that I am acquainted with Mr. Payton Chapman who was born in Hudson in the State of Connecticut and that I was in the service with him in the year 1780 at Horse Neck under Captn. Samuel Granger in Col. (illegible) Wills Regiment and that Sam Chapman was there in a (illegible) of duty/in (illegible) Sept 19, 1834.

                                    Jebiel Harmon (signed)

(illegible) Co. (illegible) Sept 19, 1834
Personally appeared Jebiel Harmon signer of the above certificate and made oath to the truth of the (illegible)

before me Thaddeus Spencer Just of the Peace
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State of Connecticut 
County of Hartford
I Philo A Goodwin Clerk of the County for said county of Hartford certify that Thaddeus Lyman was a migistrate as above at the period that the for going deposition subsequented by him bears date, and that the forgoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have [ineligible] affixed my seal of office and subsequented my name this sixteenth day of Junein this year AD 1836.
Philo A. Goodwin Clerk
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I Charles Allyn of Windsor in the County of Hartford State of Connecticut [ineligible] and say that I am of the age of seventy three years. That in the year 1779 I belonged to the guard stationed in Windsor [ineligible] to guard the continental store in [ineligible] town that Taylor Chapman then of [ineligible] Windsor did duty there and belonged to [ineligible] guard, how long the [ineligible] Chapman did duty in this guard I do not know recollect but am of opinion that he served six or seven months. 
Charles Allyn

State of Connecticut
Hartford County
Windsor September 25th 1834 personally appeared before me the above named Charles Allyn to me were known as a person of truth and integrity and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by here subsigned
Henry Sill Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut
County of Hartford
I Philo A Goodwin clerk of the county [ineligible] for said
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State of New York
Lewis County
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace of Lowville in said county Taylor Chapman a resident of Lowville aforesaid who of being duly sworn [ineligible] and saith that he served as mentioned in his declaration hereto annexed not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades:
The the first tour of service named in said declaration he served six months as a private soldier
That he served the second term of service specified in said declaration five months
That he served the third term of service specified in said declaration one month
That the above service was rendered in the Connecticut State troops and under the officers speicified in his declaration. And that he has mentioned the dates and [ineligible] of entering and leaving the service as explicitly in his declaration as he is able to do from the best of his recollection
That he has no documentary evidence and knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service
Taylor Chapman
 I certify that on the 10th day of May 1833 personally appeared before me the above named Taylor Chapman and made oath in the form of law to the truth of the above affidavit. And I furthy certify that I am well acquainted with the said Chapman I believe him to be a person of truth + veracity. 
Orine Wilbur Justice of the Peace
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Clerks Office
Lewis County
I Carlos P. Scovil clerk of the County of Lewis do hereby certify that Orine Wilbur Esq, whose name appears within as a justice of the piece was on the day of the date of said certificate a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, dwelling in said county duly commissioned and sworn and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and verify below the signature "Orine Wilbur" signed to the [ineligible] certificate to be his own proper hand writing
Given under my hand and seal of office the 20th day of May 1833
Carlos P. Scovil Clerk
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State of New York
County of Lewis
On this 20th day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in court, before the judges of the court of common plead now sitting, Taylor Chapman a resident of Lowville in the County of Lewis and State of New York, aged sixty eight 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 7th 1832: That he was born in Windsor, County of Hartford and State of Connecticut in the year 1764 and that he is now sixty eight years of age: that he entered the service as a substitute for his father, Taylor Chapman, in the fall or autumn of 1779, and he thinks in October, and was stationed as a guard to the continental stores, at Windsor, Connecticut, for which position his father had volunteered, under the the superintendance of Captain James Hooker and continued in the service, belonging to said guard, as near so he can recollect till April following. Making, as he believes, six months.
That he entered the service in the summer of Seventeen Hundred and Eighty; that he cannot say positively what month, but thinks in the fore part of the summer, in a regiment raised by the state of Connecticut and commanded by Colonel Levi Wells and Major Shipman: The company to which he belonged was commanded by Captain Samuel Granger and Lieutenant A. McDowell and ensign Frederick Whiting. The regiment was raised to serve nine months: That he marched with said regiment from Hartford Conn. the fore part of the season- passed through Wethersfield, Wallingford, New Haven, Milford, Stratford, Fairfield, Stanford, and arrived at Grunwich on horse near where they encamped.
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They likewise encamped at other places- Quaker Ridge and Crum Pond- and went into winter quarters in a place called North Street in the Town of Grunwich- at which place they went into winter quarters in this neighborhood- a company in a house- That in October as near as he can recollect Lieutenant McDowell, of our company, diserted to the enemy; and after they had gone into winter quarters, as above, the company to which he belonged was attacked by a company of harse, supposed to be at the instigation of the laid Lieutenant McDowell. And the greater part of the company, to which he belonged, were taken prisoners and carried to New York. The rest of the company were dis-banded but he had no written discharge- he cannot tell precisely what time this took place, but thinks in the forepart of winter. Afterwards McDowell was taken and hanged in Hartford Conn.
In the year 1781 he entered the service in a company common- by Captain McKinney for the purpose of guarding a quantity of powder (about ten tons) while it was removed from Hartford to the Fish Kill, in which service he was gone from home about one month. He cannot tell precisely what time in the year-
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We John Blodgett a clergyman of the Town of Lowville and County of Lewis and State of New York and Abraham Conyne of the same town, county and state aforesaid do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Taylor Chapman who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration: that we believe him to be sixty eight years of age: That he is refuted and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Subscribed and sworn to the day and year aforesaid
Carlos P. Scovil Clerk
John Blodgett
Abm Conyne
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They likewise encamped at other places- Quaker Ridge and Crum Pond- and went into winter quarters in a place called North Street in the town of Grunwich- at which place they went into winter quarters in this neighborhood- a company in a house- That in October as near as he can recollect Leiutenant McDowell, of our company, diserted to the enemy; and after they had gone into winter quarters, as above, the company to which he belonged was attacked by a company of harse, supposed to be at the instigation. 
Matter of the application of Taylor Chapman for a pension
In testimony which I have hereunto [ineligible]
[ineligible] seat of any office
This 20th day of September 1832
Carlos P. Scovil Clerk
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The National Archives  Division fo Veteran's Administration Archives
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
Bounty Land Warrant Record Card*
Name Chapman, Thomas Grade Private Line Connecticut
Warrane Number 5584 Acreage 100 Issues Oct. 22, 1790
To--not shown--
The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concering warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.