Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29057, Jacob Campbell, R.I.
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R.I.           Campbell, Jacob       S.29057
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B848

New York

Jacob Campbell of Edmunston in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company
commanded by Captain Graffin of the Regt commended by Col. Goppin in the Rhode Island
line for 2 years-

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 80 Dollars per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831

Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of July
'33 and sent to (??)

Arrears to 4th of Sep 1832 $120
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Ma 39 $40
 
$160

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Geo. C. Stiles Clerk
Book D, Vol 5, Page 83 

Let to S. Burleson nov 21st 18??
Date of Death not on R.B. ILL.
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20,042
Jacob Campbell
admitted
2 years prevale
80
John Hyde Esqr
Agent
New Berlin
New York
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Original Claim
Declaration in order to be placed on the Pension List under the act of the 18th March 1818.

Chenango County ss On the fourteenth day of February 1827 personally appeared in open Court of the Court of Common Pleas held at the Court House in the Town of Norwick in and for the County of Chenango and State of New York being a Court of Record expressly made so by the laws of the State of New York and also because it proceeds according to the course of
Common Law with a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount keeping a record of its proceedings and which have the power of fine and imprisonment. Jacob Campbell resident in said County, aged sixty four years who first
being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the act of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the 1st May 1820- that he the said Jacob Campbell enlisted for the term of one year in April in the year One thousand seven hundred and eighty in the state of Rhode Island in the company commanded by Captain William Potter in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Christopher Green in the line of the State of Rhode Island
on the Continental Establishment. that he continued to serve in the said Corps until February in the year One thousand seven hundred and Eighty one, when he was
discharged from the service in the Town of Newport in the State of Rhode Island in consequence of sickness, that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever
pension except the present -- that his name is not on the roll of any state except Rhode Island, and that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension -- that I soon after I understood the said act was passed. I made an application but have been informed that the necessary proof had not been furnished. And in pursuance of the
Act
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of the 1st May 1820. I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818. and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War"" passed the 18th day of March 1818. and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me
any property or securities contracts or debts due to me, not have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed, to wit:
---

One Bed and Bed clothes for the same $1.00
Two Chest $2,00 
One Table  '" 1.00
Six Knives & forks  " " 25 
Six cups & Saucers " " 25
One Iron Pot " " 75 
one tea kettle '' 1.00

and necessary wearing apparel.By occupation I
am a farmer, but and old and unable to persue it My family consists of myself and wife, who likewise is old and unable to work. her name is Martha who is about sixty eight years old, And that that there has been no change of my property in possession, Since the 18th March 1818, and not now owned by me which I owned on the 18th March 1818 or since that
time.
[Signed] Jacob Campbell

Sworn to and declared on the 14th day of February 1827. before John Tracy, John Noyes & Levi Bigelow, Judges of Chenango Common Pleas

G. Percy Randall .Clerk of Chenango County do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction
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if the Court that the said Jacob Campbell did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy, for the term of Nine months under one engagement under the continental establishment. I also certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court and I do further Certify that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the Total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is
Fifteen dollars and twenty five Cents. 
 The testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court in this fourteenth day of February 1827.
[signed] P. Randall
Clerk of the Court of Common pleas of the County of Chenango
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Jacob Campbell (8014)
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Declaration,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act
of Congress passed June 7th 1832
State of New York
Ostego County Ss  On this Seventh day of September
1832, personally appeared in open Court before the
Honorable Robert Monell Circuit Judge for the
Sixth Judicial Circuit in the State of New York
And Vice Chancellor of the same Circuit
holding a Court of Record and
now sitting at [illegible] in said County
Jacob Campbell a resident of the Town of Edis
ton in the said County of Otsego and on his oath
maketh the following declaration in order to obtain 
the benefit of the act of Congress passed
June 7th 1832-
That he entered the service of the United States
under the following named officers and served
as herein stated, he first enlisted in the month
of March 1778 in the Rhode Island State troops
under Captain Philip Traffin commanding a company 
of infantry in Col John Toppins Regiment
General Corneills Brigade for one year that he
served during the whole period of his enlistment and
during this enlistment he was in the battle upon
Rhode Island under General Sullivan, he was
stationed nearly all the time at Tiverton in Rhode
Island and did not march into any other State.
He recollects that the French Fleet blockaded New
Port harbor this year and were driven off by a severe 
storm and put into Boston Harbor to refit
as was said at the time. He thinks he enlisted on
the 17th day of March and was discharged on the 17th
day of March in the following year took no
written discharge from the service, on the same
day that he was discharged he enlisted in the same
regiment under the same officers for one year
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and continued in the service to the end of his inlistment, During his last years service he was stationed at Tiverton and most of the time employed in building barracks breast works and other fortifications was in no battle during this year, he remained at the station the whole time, at the end of his last term of enlistment he took a written discharge signed by Col Toppin which discharge he lost many years ago so long since he cannot remember the particular time when He dioes not know except one Jeremiah Potter He does not know that any person is now living by whom he can prove this two years service Soon after the act of 1818 was passed be applied for a pension for this same service and proved his services by Liut Elias Jackson who belonged to the company in which he served and by James Alexander a fellow soldier in the same  company and Robert Jackson and Archibald Jackson two other fellow soldiers belonging to the same Regiment, The proofs of these witnesses were taken in writing and certified and to the war department with the application above mentioned where he supposes they still remain, The appliclation was rejected on the ground that the regiment which he belonged was not on the
Continental Establishment
In the month of April 1780 but on what par
ticularly he cannot recollect he enlisted in the
State of Rhode Island in the company commanded by Capt William Potter in the Regiment commanded by Col Christopher Green in the line of the State of Rhode Island, that he continued to serve in the said corps until February in the year 1781, when he was discharged from the service in the town of New Port in consequence of sickness his
discharge was a certificate from the six years 
of the Regiment whose name he does not 
now recollect that he was unable to do duty
and which certificate was lost or destroyed many years since
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This last mentioned service was proved by Caleb Church and Cady Church two fellow soldiers and the proof certified and sent to the War Department some four or five years ago with another application for a pension for this last mentioned service, where the proofs and the papers pertaining to the application still
remain as he believes- Certified copies of the same having been procured from the Department and are herewith presented to the Court. His last application was rejected as was alledged on the ground that Col Greens Regiment was not on the continental Establishment at the last Session of Congress he applied for the passage of a special act for his relief and has been informed and believe that a bill giving him a pension was reported to and passed by the house of Representatives and sent to the Senate but not acted upon by that body, now desires that he may be placed on the pension roll of under the act of 7th June 1832 and in conformity with the rules of the War Department in that behalf he states that he was born on the 4th of February 1762 at Voluntown in the State of Connecticut, He has a record of his age in his bible which bible is at his dwelling house in Edmeston, at the time of his first enlistment he resided in the town of Voluntown the place of his nativity. since the revolutionary war, he has resided in Dutchess County in this State, at Chatham Cohinbin County, at Worcester in Otsego County at But
termits in the same County at Columbus in
Chenango County and at Edmeston in Otsego
County which is the place of his present residence as above stated. He enlisted as is above set forth, he recollects of seeing General Washington General Layfayette General Putnam and General Lee Liger
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He also recollects that whilst he was in Col Greens Regiment that they had a hard fight with the French stationed at Port, Abel De Forest and William G Angel on persons to whom he is known and who can testify to his character for truth and vicinity and their belief of his service as a soldier of the Revolution-
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name not on the pension roll of the agency of any State
Sworn this day and year aforesaid
Subscribed
Robt Morell
Jacob Campbell
Frei Charelle
the Abel De Forest and James P. Dunne
see residing in the Town of Edmeston in the arm tour hereby certify that we are well acquainted who has subscribed and
with Jacob Campbell was Sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood when he [illegible] to have been a soldier of the revolution and that
we concur in that Opinion
Sworn &  Subscribed
the day year aforesaid
Abel DeForest
James Denison
Robt Morell
Lia Charalle
And the said Court does hereby declare
his opinion after the investigate of the matter
and after putting the interogatives presents by the War department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and sworn as the states And the County in the certifies that it appears him that Abel DeForest and James P. Dennison who have signed the preceding certificate an residents in the tourt of Edemester County of Otsego
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and an credible person and that this statement is entitled to credit.
Robt. Morell
(illegible) Circuit
Judge of the Sixth Circuit

I Jonathan L. Woods, Clerk of the Court of Chancery for the Sixth Circuit of the State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Law Court in the Matter of the application of Jacob Campbell for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 7 day of September 1832.

Jonathan Woods
Clk
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November 27, 1933.

Mrs. John Stewart French
2133 14th Avenue South
Birmingham, Alabama.

BA-J/ILL
Jacob Campbell
S. 29057

Dear Madam:

The record of Jacob Campbell is furnished herein as found in the papers on file in pension claim, S. 29057, based upon his service
in the Revolutionary War.

Jacob Campbell was born February 4, 1762, in Voluntown, Windham County, Connecticut; the names of his parents are not shown.

While residing in Voluntown, Connecticut, he enlisted March 16, 1778, served as a private in Captain Philip Traffan's company, Colonels
Barton and John Topham's Rhode Island regiment, was in the battle of Rhode Island and continued until the expiration of one year, then reenlisted under the same officers and served until some time in April, 1780, at which time he enlisted in Captain William Potter's company, Colonel Christopher Greene's Rhode Island regiment and served until sometime in
February, 1781, when he was discharged at Newport on account of sickness.

After the war, the soldier resided in Dutchess County, New York, in Chatham, Columbia County, that state, and in 1818, in Worcester,
Otsego County, New York; in 1823, he resided in Butternut, in said Otsego County, later moved to Columbus, Chenango County, New York.

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 2, 1832, at which time he resided in Edmeston, Otsego County, New York; he was living there in 1835.

In 1827, Jacob Campbell stated that his wife, Martha, was about sixty-eight years of age, but he did not give her maiden name. There is
no reference to children in the papers in this claim.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name of
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person paid, and possibly the date of death of the soldier, Jacob Campbell, yyou (sic) should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, citing the following:

Jacob Campbell
Certificate #3848
Issued January 4, 1833
Rate of $80 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831.
Act of June 7, 1832.
New York Agency.

Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER,
Assistant to Administrator.
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29057
INVALID.
Rec'd

File No. 29,058
Jacob Campbell
To Rev War

Act: June 2 32"

Index: - Vol. 2, Page 64
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1906 Oct. 20. History to John L. Campbell.
1933. Nov. 27. Hist to Mrs. John Stewart French - ILL.
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1629
P.O. Jacob Campbell
Service:
Enlisted:
Discharged:
Application filed:
Alleges
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
Recognized:
Contract:
Cert of Dis:
Searched for:

REJECTED
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Rejected

See letter 4 April 1827 to John Hyde. (?) of New Berlin New York. and an extract from a letter date 28 March 1827 from Major John L. Dexter on file with additional evidence see letters to Hon. J.C. Clark M.C. March 1829. See letter Jan 18th to Hon W.G. Angel H.R. 

Letter to Claimant 11 Nov. 1832.
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State of New York
Chenango County Clerk Office

[seal]

I hereby certify that Nathan Taylor, Esquire, before whom the annexed affidavits were taken, was at the time of taking the same, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in for said County, commissioned and duly sworn and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the
said Judge and verily believe the signature to be genuine.
In testimony thereof  have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this fourteenth day of February 1827
[signed] Perez Randall Clk
of said County
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June 13, 1826
Judge Taylor
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State of New York
Chenango County Caleb Church of the Town of Columbus in the County of Chenango being
duly sworn saith that he was acquainted with
Jacob Campbell in the year one Thousand One Hundred and Eighty and that the said Jacob Campbell enlisted in and belonged to the Company Commanded by Captain William Potter in the regiment commanded by Colonel Christopher Green in the Rhode Island line in the month of April in the year one thousand seven Hundred and Eighty and was duly
discharged in the month of February
following in consequence of sickness
Sworn and subscribed the twelft (sic) day of
June 1826 Before me
[signed} Nathan Taylor, one of the Judges
the Court of Common Pleas of Chenango County
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State of New York
Chenango County Caleb Church of the Town of Columbus in the County of Chenango being
duly sworn saith that he was acquainted with
Jacob Campbell in the year one Thousand One Hundred and Eighty and that the said Jacob Campbell enlisted in and belonged to the Company Commanded by Captain William Potter in the regiment commanded by Colonel Christopher Green in the Rhode Island line in the month of April in the year one thousand seven Hundred and Eighty and was duly
discharged in the month of February
following in consequence of sickness
Sworn and subscribed the twelft (sic) day of
June 1826 Before me
[signed} Nathan Taylor, one of the Judges
the Court of Common Pleas of Chenango County
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B 5.8 W.D.
19 Nov. 1835
Pension Office
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Edmeston Nov 12. 1835

War Office of the United States
Examiners Office

Messrs

Enclosed I send you (by request of the owner
Jacob Campbell) his Pension Certificate with a
request that it may be signed by the Examiner
which has been hertofore [heretofore] omitted in consequence of which the cirtificate [certificate] itself has had to be presented
at the Office of Payment of Pensions in this State (New York) and unless objectionable Mr Campbell the Pensioner would be glad that you would retain this old one here presented, and forward him a now [new] one as this is considerably worn.

Respectfully Yours
Silas Burleson for
Jacob Campbell

I also by request of John Willis a Pensioner forward to you his duplicate cirtificate [certificate] which was made payable in
the State of Vermont but has been transfered to this State & which by transfer and other hard usage is much worn  if you would confer a favor by forwarding him a new certificate or duplicates and retaining the one herein enclosed

Yours Respectfully
Silas Burleson For
John Willis
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Silas Burleson P
Edmeston Otsego Co. 
New York

Secretary of the War Office of the United States 
Washington City
D.C.
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State of New York}
Oneida County}Ss 
Robert Jackson being duly sworn will say that he was in service in the Army of the United States in Capt Barton's Regt. in the Rhode Island line in the year 1778. That he was well acquainted with Jacob Campbell at the time who was then a Soldier in the said Capt Burton's Regt. and who did join said Regt at Tiverton in the State of Rhode Island early in the Spring of 1778 and continued to serve in said Corps as he this deponent verily believes untill the 16th day of March 1779 at which time the said Corps were discharged & further saith not.
Robert Jackson

Sworn this 18th day of October}
1819 before me}
Th H. Hamilton Judge

I certify that Robert Jackson the above deponent is well known to me and that he is a man of truth
Th. H. Hamilton Judge
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Clerks office 
Oneida County Sc.
I certify that Thomas H. Hamilton was a Judge in and for the County of Oneida, at the time of making the within affidavits and is duly authorized to make the same and I being acquainted with his hand writing do verily believe the signature of Th H. Hamilton to the same to be of his own proper hand writing. Witness the Seal of said County of Oneida this Nineteenth day of October 1819.
William P. Herrick Depty Clk
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DECLARATION.
State of New York}
ALBANY COUNTY.} Ss.

Pursuant to an Act of the Congress of the United States of America, passed March 18th 1818, to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the said United States, in the Revolutionary War, I Jacob Campbell aged 56, 4th Feb. last of the Town of Worchester in the County of Otsego and State of New York aforesaid, DO HEREBY make the following solemn Declaration under oath, before the Hon. Samuel Haring Esquire, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Albany and State aforesaid, in the terms following, to wit: - I do solemnly and sincerely swear and declare, that I am a resident Citizen of the said United States, to wit, in the town, county and state aforesaid; and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life, I am in need of assistance from my country for support. I do further declare, that I served in the War of the Revolution, against the common Enemy, in the capacity of a Private Soldier in the continental (illegible) and that I served in the said War until the about three years, that I belonged to Captain (illegible) Company, in Colonel (illegible) Regiment, in the Rhode Island line - That I entered the said service on or about the 16th of March in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight and was discharged on the (illegible) of March in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine that I left the said service by reason of an honourable discharge from Colonel Topham which discharge I have lost. That I served about two years in the sixth wave. afterwards under several commanders in *Tiverton Rhode Island. I received my discharge on Rhode island. I was in the Battle of Sullivans expedition on Rhode Island
And I do further declare, that in addition to my former Declaration, and pursuant to the restrictions of the aforesaid Act, I do hereby freely relinquish every claim I have to any and every Pension which might or has been allowed me by the said United States. previous to the passing of this act.

IN WITNESS whereof, I have subscribed this Declaration, in presence of the Judge above mentioned, at Albany in the State of New-York, this ninth day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Jacob Campbell
Sworn this 9th day of April 1818
before me
Sam Haring
Judge of Albany Com Pleas

Judge's Certificate.
State of New York.}
CITY AND COUNTY OF ALBANY.}Ss.
*The applicant thinks Tiverton i in Rhode Island State. the deponent in Massachusetts on the line.

I, Samuel Haring Esquire, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Albany and State of New-York (the said Court being a Court of Record within the said State) do hereby CERTIFY, to the Honorable the Secretary of War of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an Act of Congress of the said United States, passed March 18th, 1818, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," that the said Jacob Campbell named in the foregoing Declaration, personally appeared before me the aid Judge, on this ninth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen,
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and in my presence subscribed the same Declaration; and at the same time, in due form of law, took an Oath before me, on the holy evangelists of Almighty God, that the said Declaration was true - And I having examined the said Jacob Campbell touching the matters in the said Declaration contained, and having also taken the Deposition of the said Joseph Alexander which accompanies this Certificate and the said Declaration, and being satisfied that the facts stated therein are true, and the only evidence in the power of the said Jacob Campbell to produce I do further Certify, that it appears to my entire satisfaction, that the said Jacob Campbell did actually serve in the Revolutionary War aforesaid, against the common Enemy, in the manner and for the time by him stated in his said Declaration, and that the said Declaration is in other respects true. All which said proceedings had before me, and the testimony produced in the case, I do certify and transmit to the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War, according to the direction of the Act of Congress aforesaid.
IN TESTIMONY whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed my Seal, at Albany in the State of New-York, this ninth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Sam Haring

Clerks Office City}
& County of Albany} Ss. I certify that Sam'l Haring above named was a Judge of the Common Pleas in and for the City and County of Albany at the time the preceding Certificate was signed.

In Testimony whereof I have affixed the Seal of said Court on this 9th day of April 1818.
George Merchant Clk
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James Alexander
Affidavit
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James Alexander of Voluntown in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut Esq. aged Sixty two years, came before me the Subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said Windham County, and being duly sworn Testifies and says that in the Spring of the year 1778 he the deponant inlisted into Capt. Phillip Traffins Company in Col. John Tophams Regt. and continued in said Regt. until March 1779 & this deponant further says that Jacob Campbell then belonging to said Voluntown served with him in said Company and Regt. and this deponent well knows that the said Jacob Campbell some time in the month of March 1779 Inlisted into said Traffins Company in said Tophams Regiment for one year more and entered said service at Tiverton in the State of Rhode Island and this deponent verily believes that said Jacob served in said Regiment until the Spring of 1780 as he then Returned to his residence in said Voluntown which was not more than one mile from the Residence of this deponant & further says not.
James Alexander
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State of Connecticut Ss Windham County
October 7th AD 1823

Personally appeared before me the subscriber James Alexander Esqr. Singer of the within & foregoing Affidavit & made solemn oath to the truth of the facts therein stated.

J Gordon Associate Judge
of the Court of Common Pleas
for Windham County

I David C. Bolles Clerk of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas, within and for the County of Windham in the state of Connecticut, do certify that James Gordon Esquire, before whom the foregoing affadavit hath been made, is an associate Judge of said Court of Common Pleas; that the signature of his name & office annexed above, is in hi hand writing; & full faith and credit ought to be given to his acts as such. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the publick Seal of said Court at Brooklyn in said County this Seventh day of October Anno Domini 1823
David C. Bolles
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State of New York}
Columbia County}Ss.

Archibald Jackson of Chatham in said county aged sixty years, being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say.

that he this deponent became acquainted with the within named applicant Jacob Campbell, in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy eight, about the middle of March at which time said Campbell enlisted into the service of the United States, in Col. Toppens Regiment, and this deponent believes in the company under the command of Capt. Traffen, in the Rhode Island line. And that the said Campbell remained in the service at that time for one year being the time of his enlistment when he was honorable discharged. And this deponent further states that he was a recruiting officer in the same lime and enlisted the said Campbell either in the year 1779 or 1780 for the term of nine months or longer and said Campbell served the term of his enlistment and was honorable discharged. And this deponent verily believes the said Campbell (illegible) and faithful soldier and is deserving of the assistance of his country.
Archibald Jackson

Taken and sworn by and before me this 8th day of July 1919.
Jon. C. Hursted} One of the Judges of Columbia Common Pleas

Jacob Campgell
Traffins Co. Jacob Campbell
Toppins Regt.
Rhode Island Line

see the (illegible) of April 14 1818
ED

Not 6 (illegible) found on the Rhode Island Rolls Col. Topham was in the Continental (illegible)
April 1779 to April 1780 - In served sisted in (illegible) to the above time. This 
Further (illegible)
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Affidavit
Joseph Alexander being duly Sworn Saith that he was well knowing to Jacob Campbell named in the foregoing declaration, having enlisted and serving under Lieut Jackson (Brother in Law to this deponent.) and Colonel Toppens Regiment. That he had a brother who served under the same Commanders with said Campbell That he is satisfied his reduced circumstances in life and his unblemished general Character, makes him a fit object for his Country to exercise its bounty upon.
Joseph Alexander

Sworn this 9th day of April 1818
before me
Sam. Haring
Judge of Albany Com. pleas
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Jacob Campbell
Traffins Co. Jacob Campbell
Toppins Regt.
Rhode Island Line
see the (illegible)
Aprl 14 1818
ED

Not 6 (illegible found on the Rhode Island roll Col. Topham was n the Continental establishment only from April 1779 to April 1780. The application stated (illegible) prior to the above time. This claim (illegible) Rejected 17 (illegible)

Further evidence of service necessary (illegible) 13 May 1818
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To the Hon. Lot Clark
City of Washington
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Butternut November 21st 1823
Hon. Mr. Clark

Enclosed all the papers that I have in my possession to enable me to obtain a pension if there is any thing deficiant and you will have the goodness to give me timely information you will Confer a Peculiar favor on one who has to labor hard for his living and stands much in need of his countrys assistance at this time you will peruse by the old papers that I (illegible) in consequence of not having on the right year named in which I served and you will also peruse by my new affidavit that that error is righted on perusal of the declaration you will notes the words 2 years in said war which too years was served in the same regiment.
I entered the army in March 1778 under Col. Topham Regiment for one year and was discharged in March of 1779 then I enlisted for one year more in said regiment and had an honorable discharge March 1780 and then enlisted in Col. Green's untill about the middle of February 1781 at which time I was discharged
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If you (illegible) the goodness to take charge of my papers and attend to the business for me and give me notice of the proceedings and events
you will prefer a particular favor and your well wisher and constant friend
Jacob Campbell

Direct your communications to New Lisbon Otsego County Hards and Pecks office

NB dear sir if you will have the goodness to look at the Affidavit that has bin Rote with made inck that States when Clo Topham establishment you find by my
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Regiment came on to the Continental subsequent Affidavit that I served the next year in sd regiments
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Hon. Lot Clark
Member of Congress
Norwich
Wm Campbell
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Butt't 14 Nov.  1823

Dear Sir

This old gentleman Jacob Campbell of this town has an application to make to the War Department for a pension. He has procured an (illegible) supplying the defering notes in the former application at the War office.

I have referred him to you because you can present the papers & if any thing for this is requisite inform him distinctly what it is.

It will afford me great peasure to hear from you as often as your convenience will permit.

Wishing you a safe journey & pleasant session I am very truly
Your (illegible) friend
John C. Morris

Hon. Lot Clark
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Old Care see page 28 Regt
Jacob Campbell.
Worcester County
New Yok
1629

Suspended
1818

See letters Dec 8 1823
& 11 March 1824 & 24 Jan 1825.

Hon. Lot Clalrk
House of Reps
See letter to Hon W.G. Angl
2 March 1826

Hon. J. C. Calhoun Pension Office
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Ro the Honorable Sectary

(Illegible)

Sir
I have the honor to transmit to you the enclosed Pension papers. Please examine them & if correct send me the Certificate of Pension. If not correct, please return to me noting the Deficiency

I am sir Respectfully
Yours
Lot Clark

Brwns Hotel
Pennsylvania Avenue
Dec 8th 1823
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War Department 
Pension Office 
Dec. 31. 1822

Mrtain Ss
Buren

Sir,
The papers in the care of Jacob Campbell have been again examined. He states his service to have been for one year in Col. Topham's Thode Island Regiment in 1778-79. That Regiment was not on the continental establishment at that time. The claim, therefore, cannot be admitted. Agreeably to the regulations of the Department, the papers will remain on the files of this office. Mr. Campbells letters to you is herewith returned.
I am respectfully
yr. obt. sr
J.L. Edwards

Honorable
M. V. Buren Senator
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State of New York}
Otsego County Ss} The 27th day of November 1832 personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace of said County Jacob Campbell and in answer to quiries of the objections being duly sworn says that he enlisted in Capt. Troffins company on the 16th day of March 1778 and joined the army on the 17th of the same month and on the 16th day of March 1778 was discharged and enlisted again the same day for one year more in the came company and served his time out making a term of service of two years in succession all the time as a private soldier that on the first day of April 1780 he enlisted in Capt. William Potters company in Col Greens regiment as a private soldier for one year and served untill the 26th or 7th of February ensuing when he was discharged on the account of sickness. That he is unable at this time to procure any other testimony than that of Jeremiah Potter and for further proof must rely on his former papers which he supposes to be now on file at the war office.

Jacob Campbell

Subscribed and sworn}
November 27th 1832 before}
Philo Bennet Justice of Peace}

State of New York}
Otsego County} Ss
I horace Lathrop Clerk of the said County do certify that Philo Bennet before whom the preceeding afficavit purports to have been sworn was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in & for said County that I am acquainted with his hand writing & verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit is his own proper hand writing & Signature. Witness my hand & seal of office this 29th day of November 1832. Horace Lathrop
Sy T.K. Cory Deputy
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State of New York
Otsego County Ss
Jeremiah Potter of the Town of Pittsefiels in the said County and State being duly sworn sayeth that he was well acquainted with Jacob Campbell in the year 1778. That in the said Jacob served as a revolutionary soldier in Col John Toppins Regiment of Rhodeisland State Troops in company commanded by Capt. Phillip Traffin that the said Jacob was an enlisted soldier and knows that he served in the year 17799 but did not serve with him in that year in the year 1778 the deponent and the said Jacob were stationed in the first part of the campaign at Tiverton and afterwards on Rhodeisland untill they retreated off when they returned to Tiverton.
his
Jeremiah X Potter 
mark

Subscribed and sworn 
August 20th 1832 before me
Philo Bennet Justice of the Peace

I do certify that Jeremiah Potter is a man of truth and veracity and his testimony entitled to full credit and belief
Philo Bennet Justice of Peace

State of New York}
Otsego County} Ss.
I Horace Lathrop Clerk of the said County do certify that Philo Bennet before whom the preceding affidavit purports to have been sworn was on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly qualified as such & that I am acquainted with his hand writing & verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his own proper hand writing & signature. Witness my hand & the seal of Office this 10th Day of Septr 1832 
Horace Lathrop
By Thos. K Cory Deputy
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State of New York
Otsego County Ss} 
The within named Jeremiah Potter being again duly sworn before me the within named Justice of the peace says that he enlisted in the within mentioned Rhodeisland troops in John (illegible) company Col. Eliots Regiment in April 1778 that he immediately became acquainted with Jacob Campbell who had enlisted in March previous in Capt. Traffins company and Col Toppins Regiment as a private the he the said Jacob was enlisted for one year and served his time out in March 1779 he the said Jacob was discharged and enlisted in the same company on the day that he was discharged for one year more as a private that this deponent served with him three only after his second enlistment but verily believes that he served his year out. 
his
Jeremiah x potter
mark
Sworn and subscribed before}
me November 27th 1832}
Philo Bennet Justice of the Peace}

I do certify that I have been acquainted with the above named Jeremiah Potter for fifteen years and that he is respected to be a man of truth and veracity and that he is entitled to full credit and belief
Phil Bennet Justice of Peace
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I would refer the secratary at war to my former declarations under Col.s Toping & green and to the Testimony of my services under each which are now on file in the pention office. Lieut Jackson enlisted me in Topings Reg. his affidavit you will find with my papers also two affidavits of James Alexander by whom I prove two years service in Topings Reg.
Jacob Campbell

Jacob Campbell
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State of New York}
Otsego County Ss.} 
On the 30th day of October 1819 Silas Crippen Esq. personally appeared before me Seth Chase Esquire one of the Justices of the Peace of the said County and being duly sworn saith that he is personally acquainted with Jacob Campnell the person named in the petition accompanying this affidavit that he is in indigent circumstances and is actually in need of assistance from the country for suupport and further saith not
Silas Crippen

Sworn to and subscribed this 30th day of october 1819 before me
Seth Chase JP

I certify that the above deponent is to me personally known and that he is a man of truth and veracity
Seth Chase JP
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State of New York
Otsego County Clerks Office Ss. I certify that Seth Chase whose signature appears to the within papers was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Otsego aforesaid duly qualified as such & that the said signatures are genuine.
In testimony thereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the court of Common Pleas for said County this first November 1819
S.W. Morell Clk
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State of New York}
Oneida County}
I Jacob Campbell being duly sworn according to law deposet and saith that the annexed declaration was by him made on oath before Samuel Haring Esqr a Justice in and for the County of Albany. That he enlisted in March in the year 1778 in capt. Graffers company ( and as he at the time of making the within declarations was in Capt. Toppins Regt.) but since Time was in Capt. Barton's Regt. in the Rhode Island line. That he served in said Barton's Regt. for one year and was honorable discharged at Tiverton in the State of Rhode Island. That Capt. Barton was wounded some time in the year 1778 and that the command then devolved on Capt. John Topham Regt in the (illegible) of Toppins. And that this deponant is in strained circumstances and needs the assistance of his Country for support.
JacobCampbell

Sworn the 18th day of October}
1819 before me}
Th. H. Hamilton a Judge
in & for said County

I certify that Jacob Campbell the above deponent is well known to me and that I believe him to be a man of truth
Th. H. Hamilton Judge
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State of New York}
Oneida County} Ss Elisas Jackson being duly sworn did say that he this deponent was in servis in the Army of the United in Capt. Bartons regt. in the Rhode Island line in the year 1778. That he this deponent then served under a Lieutenant Commission in the aforesaid Regt. that he this deponant enlisted Jacob Campbell as a soldier into the said Capt. Bartons Regt. for one year. That the said Jacob Campbell continued in service the time of his enlistment and was honoroable discharged at Tiverton as stated by him in the annexed application and (illegible) that Capt. Barton was wounded some time in the year 1778 and was succeeded by Capt. Topham in the command of the said Regt. as stated by the said Jacob Campbell in the foregoing affidavit and there that the said servis of the said Jacob Campell was in the Continental establishment. further this deponent saith not.
Elias Jackson

Sworh the 18th day of October}
1819 before me}
Th. H. Hamilton Judge

I certify that Elias Jackson the above deponent is well known to me and that he is a man of truth
Th H. Hamilton Judge
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MRS. JOHN STEWART FRENCH
2133 FOURTEENTH AVENUE, SO.
BIRMINGHAM ALABAMA

Nov 15th / 33

Pension Dept
Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:

Will you please send me the war penmsions of John and JacobCampbell, who drew pensions in New York in 1840? 

Thanking you in advance for this kindness
I remain very cordially

(Mrs. J. Stewart) Janie C. French
address on paper-

[stamped] RECEIVED NO 17 1933
PENSION INDEX SECTION

[added] No pens # ident 11-20-33 [initials]
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JOHN L. CAMPBELL,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR.
BROCTON, NEW YORK.

Brocton, N. Y. Oct. 10, 1906.

Pension Department,
Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:-

If possible I wish to get from your office a record of the military services of Jacob Campbell, an alleged Revolutionary Soldier. He died near Edmeston, Otsego County, New York, on the 27th day of June, 1845 at the age of 83 years. For some years previous to his death he was drawing a pension from the government as a Revolutionary Soldier
I wish the record for use in establishing a right to a membership of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and for that reason would likes the facts showing the volume and page of
documentary evidence of his services. If you can furnish me the facts as requested above I will be very much obliged to you.

Yours,
[signed} John Campbell

[stamped]
US PENSION OFFICE
OC 11 1906

[subtraction added by hand]
1845
1763
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O. W. and N. Division.
3 -- 525.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C. 

File 19059 Rev. 


In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Jacob Campbell, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (crossed out - or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.


DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT | LENGTH OF SERVICE | RANK | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED: CAPTAIN | COLONEL | STATE

R.I.

2.  Ap 6 or 7, 81 |  10 mos, sickness | Pvt | Wm Potter | Christopher Greene | R.I.

1. Mrch 16, 78 | 2 yrs | Pvt | Philip Grafton | John Topham | R.I. 

Battles engaged in, R.I. 
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Voluntown, Conn.
Date of application for pension, Feby 14, 1827.
Edmiston
Residence at date of application, Chenango Co. NY 1832 Edmiston Otsego Co. NY
Age at date of application, B. Feby 4, 1762, Voluntown, Conn. 
Remarks: 1827 - wife Martha abt. 68

Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

20581b3m11-05
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November 27, 1933.

BACJILL


Mrs. John Stewart French
2133 14th Avenue South
Birmingham, Alabama.

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the records of John and Jacob Campbell, pensioners of New York in 1840.

The records of these two pensioners are furnished herewith on separate sheets from their claims for pension.

Very truly yours,

A. D. HILLER,
Assistant to Administrator.