Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1818, Manoah Camp, Conn.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Conn.
Camp, Manoah
Clarissa
Number
W.1818
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Connecticut 1772
Manoah Camp of Durham in the state of Con't. who was a Private in the Comp'y. commanded by Captain Camp of the Regt. commanded by Col. Hooker in the Conn't. line for six mos.

Inscribed on the Roll of Connect't. at the rate of 20 Dollars 00 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 17th day of Sept. 1833 and sent to John Fisk Middletown Ct.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1833  50.00
Semi-anl allowance ending 3 Mar '84 10.00
$60.00
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by Wm. R. Palmer Clerk, Book E Vol. 3 page nine
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State of Connecticut County of Middlesex Ss Durham Aug. 4th 1832
   On this 4th day of August AD 1832 personally appeared in Open Court before the Judge of the Court of Probate for the district of Middletown now setting at Durham in said Probate District Manoah Camp a resident of said Durham aged seventy one 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 AD 1832
   That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers &amp; served as herein stated &amp; that he was drafted in the state Troop of the State of Connecticut on or about the 25th day of March 1777 for a term of two months under Capt. Samuel Camp of Said Durham in the Regt commanded by Col. Noadiah Hooker &amp; served under Gen'l. McDougle. He was marched to Peekskill where he was stationed, was marched to Danbury and (illegible) &amp; back to Peekskill and on or about the 25th day of May AD 1777 he was dismissed having served two months; he had no written discharge
   That he was drafted in the State Troops  of the State of Connecticut some time in the month of August AD 1777 for a term of two months &amp; served under Cap. James Robinson of said Durham and was marched to Fish Kill, Red Hook &amp; White Plains, and that some time in the month of October 1777 he was dismissed having served two months he had no written discharge
  That he was drafted in the State troops of the State of Connecticut some time in the Month of August AD 1779 for a term of two months under Captain Shepherd of Waterford County &amp; was marched to New Haven &amp; East Haven Connt. and that some time on the Month of October 1779 he was dismissed having served two months; he had no written discharge.
   While he was at Peeks Kill he remembers that two soldiers were shot for desertion and one hanged as report said for going over to the British and returning from them to our Army with the promise of a commission or with a commission of the rank of Captain in case he could enlist a company from our Army. This was as I understood it. General Burgoyne was taken (illegible) while he was at Fishkill. 
No individual from said Durham was with him while at said Fishkill except M. Bridgman.
 That he was always a soldier while in service
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He has no documentary evidence of the forgoing facts nor does he know of any living persons who can fortify his statement except those whose depositions are annexed hereto. Nor said Manoah Camp performed other short tours of service but does not distinctly recollect the precise length of each tour and therefore will not particularly mention them.
In addition to the depositions annexed hereto he would refer to a deposition of Timothy Coe attached to Rejoice Camp's application for a pension wherein it will be found the said Coe has named said Manoah Camp in common with the said Rejoice Camp as having been in the service with him.
He the said Manoah Camp hereby relinquishes 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. In answer to the first interrogation, he states that he was born in said Durham county the last day of the year 1760. To the second, that he has a record of his age in an old book at home and likewise it may be found on the records.
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of said Town of Durham as he supposes.
To the third, that he lived in said Durham when called into service; that some time after the revolutionary war he removed to Middletown subsequently to Glastonbury after that to New Haven all in County and last of all he returned to said Durham about 28 years ago where he has ever since and now resides.
To the fourth and fifth that he cannot state more particularly than he has done
To the sixth that he was always a soldier and that he never received a formal discharge from service but was dismissed as was usual.
And to the seventh that John White Esq. John Swathel, Guernsey Bates and others will testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier in the Revolution. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Manoah Camp
We David Smith, Clergyman residing in the Town of Durham & John White residing the sd. Town of Durham certify that we are well acquainted with Manoah Camp who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy one years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a
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soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion
David Smith
John White

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesd.
and the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that David Smith who has signed the predeed'g certificate is a Clergyman resident in the town of Durham. & that John White Esq. who has also signed the forms is a resident in the town of Durham & is a credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit. Attest Stillman A. Wightman, Judge of Probate for the District of Middletown. 
  I John Fisk Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Middletown do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the applications of Manoah Camp for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 4th day of August AD. 1832
John Fisk Clk.
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322
Connecticut.
Clarissa Camp
widow of Manoah Camp
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private
Ct Line
Inscribed on the Rolla the rate of
20 Dollars
per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 
10th day of Sept. 1949
and sent to
Jonathan Barnes,
Middletown,
Conn.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2 (crossed out and handwritten in) July 29, 1948, Page 274 Vol. 1
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State of Connecticut }
County of Middlesex } ss Probate District of Middletown.
On this seventeenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty nine before the Court of Probate for the District of Middletown in said State (the same being a Court of Record by the Laws of said State, by which it was created) person-ally appeared Charissa Camp a resident of Durham in said District in the County of Middlesex and State of Con-necticut, aged seventy six years, who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following dec-laration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions, made by the Act of Congress passed July 29th 1848; that she is the widow of Manoah Camp late of said Durham now deceased, who was a private in the Army of the Revolution, and, as such, was at the time of his death a pensioner of the United States at the rate of Twenty dollars per annum; and for proof of the revo-lutionary services of the said Manoah Camp she begs leave to refer to the Records of the War Department, hav-ing no personal knowledge thereof.

The further declared that she was married to the said Manoah Camp on the Twenty fourth day of April in the year seventeen hundred and ninety four, that her husband the aforesaid Manoah Camp died at said Durham on the fifth day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty two; that she was not mar-ried to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the second of January eighteen hundred, to wit, at the time above stated. She further swear that she is now a widow, and that she has never before made any application for a pension.

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, Before me, Elihu Spencer Judge of se Court of Probate } Charissa Camp
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State of Connecticut
Middletown Probate District}ss.
I, Thomas G. Mather Clerk of the Court of Probate for said District of Middletown, hereby certify that the Hon. Elihu Spencer, before whom the foregoing Declaration, as sworn to and subscribed, is and was at the date thereof Judge of the Court of Probate in & for said District of Middletown, in the State of aforesaid; and I further certify that the signature of said Judge subscribed to said Declaration is genuine.

In testimony whereof, I have hereto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of said Court of Probate this twenty first day of August AD 1849.
Thomas G. Mather Clk
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State of Connecticut)
County of Middletown)ss April 23 1849
Durham Town Clerks Office
I William Wadsworth Town Clerk of the said Town of Durham and keeper of the records thereof do hereby certify that it appears from said records that Manoah Camo & Charrisa Bartlet were married on the twenty fourth day of April in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety four, and that the entry on the said records is in the words and figures following - "Manoah Camp & Charrisa Bartlet were joined in marriage April 24th 1794."
William Wadsworth
Town Clerk

Sworn and subscribed
this 23rd day of April
A. D. 1849
Before me 
Jonathan Barnes
Justice of the Peace.

I further certify that the said William Wads-worth is Town Clerk of the said Town of Durham and keeper of the records thereof, and a credible witness.
Jonathan Barnes
Justice of the Peace.
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(top left corner of page is torn)
W. & N. Div.
1818
W. B.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.

December 3, 1896.

Sir:
Replying to your request for information concerning the military record of Manoah Camp, a soldier of the Revolutionary War you are advised that he made application for pension on August 4, 1832, at which time he was 71 years of age and residing at Durham, Conn., and his pension was allowed for six months' actual service as a private in the Conn. troops, Revolutionary War; a part of the time he served under Capt. Samuel Camp and Col. Hooker, (place of enlistment not stated).

His widow, Clarissa, made application and received a pension for the service of the husband as above set forth..

Your attention is called to the fact that you again fail to mention the name of the person for whom the above infor-mation is desired, and as the history of not more than two sol-diers can be furnished to each applicant, because of the large
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number of such requests and the time and labor necessary to ex-pend on each report, this Bureau must decline to furnish you fur-ther data relative to the military records of Revolutionary sol-diers unless your requests fully comply with its requirements.

Yours respectfully,
Commissioner.

Mr. Hobart L. Hotchkiss,
New Haven, Conn.
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Dec 3 96 To
Hobart L. Hotchkiss
New Haven Ct.
SWB

Revwar (written on a slant)

WIDOW, &c.

File No. 1818
Clarrissa Camp
Widow
Manoah Camp
Rev. Rev War
Act July 29, 1848
Index:-Vol. A, Page 112
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Connecticut Roll, Act 7 June 1832.
Manoah Camp. Pri, $20 per annum,
To what time last paid?
Died 5th March 1842
Pd to his death BLB

Pension Office Col

To Third Auditors Office,
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I Jabez Chalker of Durham in the County of Middlesex and State of Connecticut being 74 years old depose and say that in the Revolutionary war I was in the service of United States and in the year 1777 and I verry well remember that Manoah Camp of Durham aforesaid was with me at Fishkill in the State of New York & we both were in the Service of the United States for two months in the fall of the year 1777
And the deponant further saith that afterwards to wit in the year 1779 he the deponant & the said Manoah Camp were (illegible) and went to New Haven to guard at New Haven, East Haven & other places and were in service two months this service was performed in the fall of the year 1777 and the deponent further saith not Durham August 3d 1832 
Jabez Chalker
Middlesex County Ss. Durham August 3rd 1832 Personally appeared Jabez Chalker and made oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is the truth before me John White Justice of the Peace
B Middlesex County Ss Durham January 31st AD 1833 This certifies that I the subscribing authority have for more than fifty years last past resided within one & a half miles of the above named Jabez Chalker and are well acquainted with him and have always considered him to be a person of truth credibility & veracity
Worthington G. Chauncey Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut
Middlesex County
I John Fisk Clerk of the County Court of sd. County of Middlesex do Certify that John White Esq. is a Justice of the Peace within & for sd. County of Middlesex as Comr. on file in my Office & that his name subscribed to the preceeding certificates markd. A. B. are his proper hand writing & signatures.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & affixed the seal of sd. Court this 4th day of Augt. A.D. 1832
John Fisk Clk.
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State of Connecticut
County of Middlesex} Ss. Middletown 31 Jany AD 1833
I certify (the said John White Esq being absent in the Southern States) that Jabez Chalker the deponant and subscriber of this deposition, is well known to me to be a person of truth and veracity and a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit.
Attest. Stillman K. Wightman Justice of the Peace and Judge of Probate for the District of Middletown.
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I Rejoice Camp of Durham in the County of Middlesex and State of Connecticut being 73 years of age depose and say that in the revolutionary war in the 1777 in the service of the united states I verry well remember that Manoah Camp was with me at Peekskill and Danbury and that we were both of us in the service
And the deponant further testify and said that the said Manoah Camp was in the year 1777 with me at Fishkill also at Red Hook and and that we were both of us in tow months in the service.
And further the deponant saith not
Rejoice Camp
Durham August 4th 1832

Middlesex County Ss Durham August 4th 1832 Personally appeared Rejoice Camp and made oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is the truth before me John White Justice of the Peace

Middlesex County Ss Durham January 31st AD 1883 This certifies that I the subscribing authority have from my infancy resided within on mile of the above named deponant Rejoice Camp and are well acquainted with him and have always considered him to be a person of truth credibility & veracity
Worthingon G. Chauncey Justice of the Peace
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State of
State of Connecticut
County of Middlesex} Ss Middletown 31st Jany 1833
I certify (the said John White Esq being absent in the Southern States) that Rejoice Camp the deponent and subscriber of this deposition is well known to me to be a person of truth and veracity and that his statement is entitled to credit. Attest Stillman K. Wightman, Judge of Probate for the District of Middleton and Justice of Peace
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State of Connecticut
County of Middlesex} Ss Middletown 1st Feby AD 1833
On this 1st day of February AD 1833 personally appeared in open court before the Court of Probate within and for the District of Middletown now sitting in said Middletown Manoah Camp a resident of Durham in said District now aged 72 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration in addition to and by way of explanation of his former declaration made before said Court at Said Durham the 4th day of August AD 1832, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832.
As to my first tour to Peekskill I was drafted a soldier in the rank of a private in the company under the command of Capt. G. Samuel Camp on or about the 15th March 1777 for a term of two months. Simeon Parsons was Lieutenant and Rossie Francis was Sergeant of the company. These officers all belonged to said Durham His Regiment was commanded by Col. Noadiah Hooker. We were under the command of General McDougle. The Ensign and other inferior officers belonged to other Towns and their names I do not recollect. The names of some of the soldiers are more familiar: such as this: there were two of one name which were named the last or near the last in the Roll call. They were distinguished thus Tibbols of Milford and Joseph Tibbols. The names
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2. 
of other soldiers were, Ezekiel Scott, Amasa Scovil, Noadiah Pulford, Samuel Tea, John Robinson, Thaddeus Austin, Reubin Hickcox, Schyler Goddard, Reuben Hosford, &c. These individuals are all dead or gone beyond my knowledge.
We were marched to Peekskill and were stationed in the barracks. The stores of the Government provision, &c. were burned some days before we arrived there. When the British came to Danbury we were marched there. The division then embodied and marched was estimated at 2000 in number. We were then marched back to Peekskill. We were at times detached in small scouting parties to White Plains and on the enemy's lines. While on service below Peekskill two men were shot for desertion and one hung for enlisting men to aid the enemy. He expected a superior, but when presented to General Putnam the General said no. he would have killed all of us if he could Gods curse him, he must die. I was present at the execution. I remember at a certain time a cannon ball came rolling and bounding and struck Amasa Merrium in the fort and broke out two of his teeth. I served two months as stated in my first declaration and on or about the 15th day of May 1777 was dismissed (illegible) Rejoice Camp of said Durham is the only survivor of those who were with me this tour and his deposition is appended to my first
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3.
declaration
   Respecting my second tour. I was drafted a soldier in the rank of a private for the term of two months on or about the 28th day of August 1777 in the company under the command of Capt. James Robinson, Ensign John Schuyler and Sergeants Stephen Norton and Benjamin Tainter. All those officers belonged in said Durham. We were commanded by General Putnam. The name of the Colonel I do not remember. We were marched to Fishkill Red Hood and White Plains and had no particular station for any great length of time. Toward the last of this tour I was ordered out in a detachment down the North River below Peekskill. The enemy had collected a number of Cattle afraid by the Refugees. There was a party of Continental Troops with us. The Enemy retreated: we surrounded the cattle and brought them away. None of our company that I remember were with me at that time but Bridgman Guernsey who is dead. We were file leaders. I remember on our return a young soldier being tired out was put into a Blacksmith shop and left there. On or about the 28th day of October 1777 I was dismissed having served out my term of two months. For proof of this service I refer to the depositions of Rejoice Camp and Jabez Chalker both attached to my first declaration.
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4. As to my third tour I was drafted a soldier in the rank of a private on or nigh the 6th day of August 1779 for a term of two months and marched to New Haven Coont. under the command of Sergeant Stephen Norton of said Durham and joined the company commanded by Capt. Sheppard of Wallingford Connt Mr. Yale of said Wallingford was also Sergeant in said company. After keeping guard a few days in New Haven were were ordered to east Haven, Connt. to guard and work at the Fort on Beacon Hill. The latter part of this tour I was advanced to the rank of a corporal. We had no field officers that I knew of this tour.
Capt Jabez Chalker's deposition attached to my first declaration, is the only proof I have been able to obtain of my service this tour. Every other individual who was with me at that time is dead or beyond my knowledge.
  Thus I have endeavored to satisfy the requisitions of the War Department and hope this additional declaration will be deemed sufficient. At present I know of no other individual who can was with me is either after above tour: when testimony can be obtained, and I have spared no pains in this matter. I performed other short tours of service of 8 and 10 days at a time; but I make
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no claim except for six months service comprising my three tours before mentioned. This six months service I performed in full and for this I claim a pension. 
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Manoah Camp
Attest. Stillman K. Wightman Judge of probate for the District of Middletown.

I certify that the interlineations in the full declaration of the said Camp, referred to by the Department in their objection to his pension claims, and all interlineations therein, were made by me with my own hand, or by my request and having the statement of said Camp, in the month of August AD 1832, when said declaration was examined by me as Judge of Probate within and for the District of Middletwon
Attest Stillman K. Wightman Judge of Probate for the District of Middletown

I John Fist Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Middletown do here by certify that the foregoing contains the additional proceedings of the said
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court in the matter of the application of Manoah Camp for a Pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office this 30 day of March AD 1833
John Fisk Clk.
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I Jonathan Wells of Durham in Middlesex County and State of Connecticut being now seventy Nine years years old do depose and say that from my infancy until the present time I have resided in the Town of Durham and have been acquainted with Manoah camp of said Durham from his infancy & that we both belonged to the Militia in Durham & during the Revolutionary war were both subject to drafts and the Deponent further says that about the 10th day of July AD 1779 he was drafted and served in the State troops of the State of Connecticut for a Tour of three months in a Company Commanded by Cap.t Shepperd of Wallingford Stephen Norton of Said Durham served as Seargent we were marched & stationed at East Haven in said state of Connecticut as a guard & about the 10th day of August 1779 there was a second draft for a term of two months for the purpose of erecting fortifications on Beacon Hill & after the arrival of those that were of the second draft we served alternately as Guards & Labours on Beacon Hill & the deponant has a perfect recollection that Manoah Camp of said Durham was drafted & served for the term of two months at East Haven as Guards & Labourers on the fortifications he being one of the second draft as expressed above & that we both served in the same company for said term of two months. I do not recollect all the names of the officers that served that tour for we were stationed in small detachments on the Sea Shore and when the term of time of one detachment expired others were drafted & supplied their places & I do not recollect that we were embodied in a Regiment during the tour and about the 10th day of October 1779 the deponant & Manoah Camp were dismissed the Deponant having served three months but Manoah Camp having served only two months There were no written discharges given & further the deponant saith not dated at Durham this 18th day of March AD 1833
Jonathan Wells
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State of Connecticut
Middlesex County} March 30, 1833
I, John Fisk, Clerk of the County Court of said county of Middlesex do certify that Worthington G. Chauncey Esq was on the 18 March Inst and now is a Justice of the Peace within & for said County of Middlesex as p. cont. on file in my office & that his name subscribed to the preceding certificate is his proper hand writing & signature. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & affixed the seal of said court this 30 day of March AD 1833.
Jno Fisk Clk
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State of Connecticut
County of Middlesex} ss. Middletown,

I Asher Robinson of Durham in said County of Middletown being duly sworn depose and say, that I am fifty seven years of age, and a resident of said Durham, where I have always resided; that I am well acquainted with Charissa Camp of said Dur-ham, widow of Manoah Camp, deceased, who has made application for a pension on account of the revolution-ary services of the said Manoah Camp, under the Act of Congress of July 29th 1848, and I know that the said applicant Charissa Camp is the widow of the said Ma-noah Camp and that she has not intermarried since his decease. I further depose and day that I well knew the said Manoah Camp, and often assisted him in drawing his papers to obtain his pension semiannually, that he drew twenty dollars per annum, and that he died at said Durham to my knowledge on the fifth day of March in the year one thousand eight hun-dred and forty two, and that at the time of his de-cease he was a revolutionary pensioner of the United States; and further I say not. Dated at said Middle-town the 18th day of August A. D. 1849.
Sworn to and subscribed}
this - 18th day of August}
A. D. 1849, Before me} Asher Robinson
Jonathan Barnes
Justice of the Peace,
I further certify that the said deponent Asher Robinson is well known to me, and is a respectable and credible witness.
Jonathan Barnes
Justice of the Peace.
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State of Connecticut
County of Middlesex} ss. Middletown,

I William Wadsworth of Durham in said County of Middletown being duly sworn depose and say, that I am thirty two years of age and a resident of said Durham, where I have always re-sided; that I was well acquainted with Manoah Camp late of said Durham now deceased, who was reputed to be and I have no doubt was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States at the rate of twenty dollar per annum; that, to my knowledge, the said  Manoah Camp died at said Dur-ham some time in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty two, leaving a widow Charissa Camp, who is still living and has not intermarried since his decease; that I have seen the application of the said Charissa Camp for a pension under the Act of Congress passed July 29th 1848 before the Court of Probate for the District of Middletown on account of the revolutionary services of the said Manoah Camp and I know that the said applicant is the inden-tical person, who was the wife and is now the widow of the said Manoah Camo, and further I say not. Dated at said Middletown the 18th day of Au-gust A. D. 1849.
Sworn to and subscribed}
this 18th day of August}
A. D. 1849, Before me} William Wadsworth
Jonathan Barnes
Justice of the Peace,
I further certify that the said deponent William Wadsworth is well known to me, and is a respectable and credible witness.
Jonathan Barnes
Justice of the Peace.
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State of Connecticut
County of Middlesex}ss. I Elihu Spencer Clerk of the County Court in and for said Middlesex County do hereby certify that Jonathan Barnes Esq. within named is and since the 20th day of June 1849 has been a Justice of the Peace in and for said Middlesex County, duly commissioned and qualified (as by commission on file in my office). Also that the several signatures of the said Jonathan Barnes named hereinbefore written and affixed to the several certificates hereto annexed, are his genuine handwriting & signature.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County Court this 21st day of August 1849.
Elihu Spencer
Clk of County Court
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No 437
Clarissa Camp
widow of Manoah 
CT
Act 29 July 1848
Married April 1794
Husband died 1842
Admd 6 months
pri. $20 per annum
Com 4 March 1848

Jonathan Barnes
Middletown, Connecticut
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[round circle that contains]
MIDDLETOWN AUG 21 CON.
[handwritten]
W. Cole 
Act
29 July 48
[stamp] FREE
James L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Middletown Conn. August 21st~1849.

I enclose the application of Mrs. Charissa Camp for a pension. She re-quests that a corticate, if issued, may be transmitted to me.

Very respectfully
Your obt. Sert.
Jonathan Barnes

James L. Edwards, Esq.
Comr. of Pensions.
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2591
Manoah Camp
Connt.

admd

5614
[illegible]
Middletown
A. D. M.

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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Manoah Camp which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?

V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled?
Interlined

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
Not fully

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?

XIV. If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility?
No
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?


EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long 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, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason 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 not less than 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 service I claim a pension."
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.

QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged,. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.

QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
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THE CONNECTICUT SOCIETY.
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

President,
Jonathan Trumbull
Norwich.

Vice-President
Edwin S. Greeley,
New Haven.

Secretary
Decius L. Pierson,
Hartford.

Treasurer
John C. Hollister
New Haven.

Registrar
Hobart L. Hotchkiss
New Haven.

Historian 
Joseph G. Woodward
Hartford.

Manoah Camp

New Haven Nov 27, 1896

To the Hon,. Commissioner of Pensions:
Washington

Dear Sir: Will you please send me for use in this office, the pension record of service of Manoah Camp of Durham in this state, who served in the Revolutionary War.  I wrote for record of another party some time since and have not received it.
Yours truly,
Hobart L. Hotchkiss, Reg.
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BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME Camp, Matthias  GRADE Sergeant "in Proctor's Artillery" LINE Pennsylvania

WARRANT NUMBER 9199   ACREAGE 100   ISSUED June 29, 1789 to M. McConnell, assignee

*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 application for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.