Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25402, John Chamberlain, Vt.
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(8--1776)

SERVICE
Vt. 

Chamberlain, John 
Lydia

NUMBER
W. 25402 

CONTENTS
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28874
New York
John Chamberlain
of Rochester in the state of New York 
who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Seely of the Regt. commanded by Col. Walles in the Vermons 
line for 9 mo
Inscribed on the roll of New York 
at the rate of 30 dollars  0 cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of Aug. 1834 and sent to S.T Wilder
Arrears to the 4th of Mar. '34
Semi-ani. allowance ending 4 Sept.34
$90.00
15.00
-------
$105.00
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{Revolutionary Claim, for June 7, 1832.}
Geo Crump clerk
Vol. 4 page 131.
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499
New York Lydia Chamberlain
widow of John Chmberlain
who served int he Revolutionary 
war as a Private,
Inscribed on the roll at the rate of 30 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the tenth day of Aug 1849 and sent to E.F. Brown Present
Recorder on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 42 Vol. 4
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In the matter of John Chamberlain an applicant for a Pension 
original proceedings
S. T. Wilder
Attorney
Rochester N. Y.

Service as waster dissalld.
Admd
9 mo pri
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1834
69
1765

State of New York
Monroe County

On this sixth day of January 1834 personally appeared before me Addison Gardiner, Vice chancellor of the Eighth circuit of the State of New York, in open court. John Chamberlain a resident of the village of Rochester in the County and State aforesaid aged sixty nine years who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to attain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.

That the said John Chamberlain entered the service of the United States under the following officers and served as herein stated. The declarant entered a regiment raised by New Hampshire and Vermont to guard the frontiers of said states under the command of Colonel Benjamin Waite of Vermont, Major Sanford Kingsbury of New Hampshire, Capt. Charles Nelson of New Hampshire, Capt. Abner Seeley and Lieutenant Fippin of Vermont. That he entered as a volunteer soldier into the company of Capt. Abner Seeley during the counter of 1780 at the age of sixteen and served in said Seeley's company during the spring, summer and of all succeeding and quit the service during the winter thereafter.
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then he served nine months during unit campaign when he returmed to Thetford, Vermont. for winter quarters, That
he received a discharge Major Sanford Kingsbury which I lost That he was stationed at Corinth Vermont that the regiment built a fort. and called it Fort Maite and I counted the country distance -Connecticut  River,  Lake Champlain and the Canada Line, in order to keep off the Tories and indians and who infested those regions - that when he entered the service, he resided at Thetford Vermont but cannot state  the precise month when he entered the Service - that during the next season,being the spring, summer and fall and until the snow was deep , he was stationed at Strafford, Vermont, fourteen miles distant from Corinth aforesaid- that during this campaign he served [illegible],
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that he served nine months during that campaign when he succumbed to that food. Vermont.  for winter quarters, Thus he received a discharge from Major Sanford Kingsbury which I lost.  This be copy statement at [Corinth] Vermont that the regiment built a fort and called it Fort Waite and I scouted the country between Connecticut River, Lake Champlain and the Canada Line, in order to keep off the Tories and indians who infested these regions. - that when he entered the service, he resident at Thetford Vermont, but cannot state the precise month when he entered the service --
That during the next season, being the spring, summer  and fall and until the snow was deep, he was stationed at Strafford, Vermont, fourteen miles distant from Corinth aforesaid -- That during this campaign he served under the command of the same Capt. Seeley [aforesaid] in the same Company in which I served the year before, the said Company was engaged in scouting the Country between the Connecticut River, Lake Champlain and the Canada Line, that he remembered that one Morgan was a Lieutenant in said Seeleys Company during the Second Campaign and that apart of the time he acted as a waiter to Leiu Morgan ---
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that the object of the Company
was the same as during the
year before, to repel the Indians
and Tories [loyalists] and to guard the
frontiers of N Hampshire & Vermont.
He members that he quit these
vice when the snow was deep some
time during the winter, when he returned home. He thinks he send
the same length of time in the second
Campaign as in the first which was
as he believes, nine months. He can
not state whether he received a written
charge or not when he finally
quit the service, he did not serve in any continental regiment, but in
troops raised by New Hampshire and
Vermont that he has no documentary Evidence and knows of no person
who can testify to his services, unless
it be Oliver Root who belonged to
Strafford Vermont, whose name
is on the pension Roll. as he has heard
when he is the declarant does not know
That he hereby relinquishes every claim
Whatever to a pension or annuity except
the present and that his name is not on
the pension roll of the agency of any
State, that the reason why he has ever
applied for a pension before is because he
supposed, that the evidence of some liv
in witness would be required to substan
trate his claims to a pension-
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that he was born in the town of Hebron Connecticut on the 9 day of November 1764 - that he was brought up in the town of Thetford Vermont - that in 1805 he removed to the State of New York town of Scipio, Cayuga County - Where he acted as a magistrate - that he removed from Scipio to Rochester N. Y. where he now resides and has thus resided for the last nine years -
And the declarant says that he was in active service during the revolutionary war during the campaigns as they were then called - that he remembers distinctly that he volunteered in the winter, and went into active service early in the spring, and continued in active service till the next winter.  that he can not state the exact time when he entered or quitted the service - but truly believes that he served nine months - during the first campaign -
And that he again volunteered as a common soldier and intered [entered[ the service during the spring, summer and fall & served until the snow was deep - and he believes that he was in active service nine months during the second campaign -
The declarant can not say with a positive certainty that he was in active service eighteen months
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but says that he was in the service eighteen months according to the best recollection and belief of the declarant - that he can state positively that he was in the service twelve months and more, during the two campaigns as they were then called -
And this declarant says he nor the regiment was engaged in no battles during the war of the Revolution - 
John Chamberlain
Subscribed and Sworn this day 
and year aforesaid
A. Gardner

State of New York}
Monroe County} ss
We Benjamin Howard a Clergyman residing in the village of Rochester County & State aforesaid and Eli Stilson and Eleaser Bush of the same place, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Chamberlain, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration the we believe him to be sixty nine years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion -
Benjamin Howard
Eli Stillson
Eleazer Bush
Sworn & subscribed the day and year
aforesaid -
A. Gardner
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And the said court do truly declare their opinion, after [illegible] investigation of the matter. And after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and Served as he States- And the Court further certify that it appears to them that Benjamin Howard who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman resident in the village of Rochester and that Eli Stilson and Eleazer Bush, who has signed the same are residents of the same village of Rochester and a credible persons and that their statements are intitled to credit 

A Gardiner

State of New York   }
Monroe County       }ss

I [?] Samuel L Selden
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Clerk of the Court of Chancery for the Eight Circuit of the State of New York.  I duly certify the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Chamberlain for a pension –
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal of office this eight day of January one thousand and [illegible] four. –
Saml Seldon, Clerk
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12190
Lydia Chamberlain
Rd  Sept. 5 1845
N. Y.
Act 7. July '38 [crossed out]
Admitted
Pr #30 per an
com 11 April 1843,
Under act 3 march 1843
& 17 June 1844, and 2nd Feb 1848
E. F. Brown 
Prest.

Geo. Hastings Esqr}
Mt. Morris}
Livingston N. Y.}  crossed out
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State of New York
Livingston County ss. Be it remembered that on this seventeenth day of May 1845 before me Samuel H Fitzhugh Esquire a Judge of Livingston County Court personally came Lydia Chamberlain and made oath in due form of law in order to obtain the benefit of the various acts of Congress providing for the payment of pensions to the widows of Revolutionary Soldiers that she is the same person who is named in the annexed affidavit of Joseph Hosford and Herman Hosford as Lydia Hosford and that on the twelfth day of March in the year 1788 she was united in marriage to John Chamberlain by Doctor Asa Burton who was then a minister of the gospel in Thetford in the State of Vermont; that said marriage took place in Thetford aforesaid where this deponent and the said John Chamberlain then resided. That after said marriage this deponent continued to live with the said John Chamberlain in 
Thetford aforesaid until the spring of the year 1805 when we removed to what was then called the town of Sophia in the County of Cayuga and the State of New York and is now known as the town of Springport; that in the spring of 1815 the said John Chamberlain removed to the town of Sparta in the County  of Livingston and State of New York, where this deponent continued to reside with him till about ten or twelve years ago when the said John Chamberlain became reduced in his circumstances and went to the City of Rochester in the County of Monroe & State of New York to reside with his son who lived in that city and this deponent remained with another son in Sparta aforesaid. That said John Chamberlain continued to reside in Rochester until the eleventh day of April 1843 or about that date when he died as this 
deponent is informed by her son with whom he lived in Rochester. That this deponent is now in the seventy fourth year of her age, that her maiden name was Lydia Hosford. That after the said John Chamberlain went to the city of Rochester he obtained a certificate entitling him to draw a pension as a Revolutionary Soldier of the United States as this deponent is informed and believes and that this deponent has always understood that said  John Chamberlain was a soldier of the United State in the Revolutionary war since this deponent was married to him. And
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This deponent further says that she has not intermarried with any other person since the death of the said John Chamberlain.
Lydia Chamberlain
Sworn & Subscribed this 17 }
day of May 1848 before me }
Sam H Fitzhugh
Judge Livingston County Court
[illegible] Supreme[?] Court

State of New York
Livingston County ss Harlem G. Chamberlain aged fifty ____ years and upward being duly sworn says that he is a son of John Chamberlain and Lydia his wife who are named in the preceding affidavit of Lydia Chamberlain, that the said Lydia Chamberlain has continued to reside with this deponent in the town of Sparta in said County since the time that said John Chamberlain went to live with this deponents brother in Rochester, that the said John Chamberlain died as deponent informed & believes in the spring of 1843. & that the said Lydia Chamberlain has remained the widow of the said John Chamberlain since his decease.
Harlem G. Chamberlain
Sworn & subscribed this 17th
day of May 1845 before me 
Sam H Fitzhugh
Judge Livingston County Court
[illegible] Supreme[?] Court
State of New York
Livingston County ss I Samuel H Fitzhugh Judge of Livingston County courts do certify that the above named Harlem G. Chamberlain & Lydia Chamberlain are persons of credibility & good standing.  & that I have no reason to doubt the statements above made by them.
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[illegible].  & that the said Lydia Chamberlain is a woman of advanced age & infirm in health & in my opinion unable to endure the fatigue of attendance in open court to make her declaration.
Given under my hand this 19th day of May 1845
Sam H Fitzhugh
Judge Livingston County Courts
[illegible] Supreme Court
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State of New York
County of Monroe
As Octavius P. Chamberlain being duly sworn deposes & says that he resides in the city of Rochester: that he is a son of John Chamberlain late of the city of Rochester now deceased: that the said John Chamberlain died at Rochester on the Eleventh day of April in the year 1843 having resided in the same city most of the time for about ten years previous to his death: that the said John Chamberlain was a pensioner of the United States, & had a certificate in his keeping at the time of his death signed by John Forsyth acting Secretary of War dated August fourteenth 1843 by virtue of which he was entitled to receive thirty dollars a year during his natural life which certificate is numbered on the back “No 28874” – and that Lydia Chamberlain his widow survives & resides in the town of Sparta in the County of Livingston & further Saith not.
O. P. Chamberlain
Sworn and subscribed by the Said Octavius P Chamberlain On this 29th day of August 1845 Before me – the said Octavius P being know to me as a credible person
P. G Buchan
First Judge of Monroe County Courts
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Lydia Chamberlain affidavit of the abscence [absence] of family Record

E. F. Brown Atty
2 Aug. 1849
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State of New York
Monroe County SS.
O. P Chamberlain being duly sworn, deposes and says that he is a Resident of the City of Rochester in said County. That he is forty-ish years of age, and is the son of Lydia Chamberlain an old Lady (widow of John Chamberlain) now applying for a pension on account of the service of her late husband in the Revolution.  That he is the Eighth child of the said John & Lydia Chamberlain and is well acquainted with the said applicant: that his father the said John Chamberlain resided in his family at his death. And deponent is well acquainted with the affairs of the family of his said father & mother aforesaid.  That his father the said John Chamberlain & Lydia Chamberlain never kept a family record of the births & Deaths of their children as Deponent [illegible] believes.  Having never seen or known of any. And Deponent further says there is now no record. Either Public or private of the Marriage of his said father & Mother nor any Record of the births & Deaths of his Brothers and Sisters
O. P. Chamberlain
Subscribed and sworn to this 28th  of July 1849 before James S Tryon Justice of the peace
State of New York
Monroe County SS.
On this 28th day of July A D 1849 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in & for said County appeared O. P. Chamberlain to me known to be the individual described in & who took & subscribed his name to the above affidavit & was by me duly sworn to the truth of the same – and further I hereby Certify that the said deponent is a man of good character & his statements therein contained are Entitled to Credit
James S Tryon J. P.
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State of New York
Monroe County

I certify that James S Tryon Esq is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and surely believe the signatures to the within Juras and certificate, purporting to be his are genuine - In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affirmed the seal of said county this twenty eighth day of July 1849.

John C Nash clerk
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29604
John Chamberlain

Data?

S.J. Wilder Esq
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WAR DEPARTMENT, Pension Office,
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned.  The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed.  The notes and the regulations will shew (sic) what is necessary to be done.  Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }).  You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by compling [complying] with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A Statement, showing the Service of John Chamberlain
Period when the service was rendered:
 Member of 17th volu.
Years:
Months: 9
Days:
Rank of the claimant: Pri or waiter
Name and rank of the Field officers under whom he served: Cap Seely [illegible]
I am, respectf 
Your
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Document is a list of Regulations
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3
alleged service, as they are known at the Department.  A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case.  The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
	The Court will propound the following (m)  Interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
	1. Where and in what year were you born?
	2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
	3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?  
	4.  How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?
	5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
	6. To a soldier: did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
	     To an officer: did you ever receive a Commission, and if so, by whom was it signed and what has become of it?
	7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
	The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
	The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons--one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
	The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important in the absence of any direct proof except the declaration of the party. And the courts are requested to be very particular in the inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
	Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
	Whenever any official act is required could be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
	No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent there too, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the court upon the whole matter.
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

July 24, 1928
C. A. Sprague
Business Manager
The Corvallis Gazette Times
Corvallis, Oregon

Sir:
I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 25403, it appears that John Chamberlain was born in Hebron, Connecticut, November 9, 1764. 
While a resident of Thetford, Vermont, he enlisted during the winter of 1780 and served nine months as a private in Captain Abner Seeley's Company, Colonel Benjamin Waite's Vermont Regiment. 
He enlisted in the spring of 1781 and served nine months in Abner Seeley's Vermont Company. 
In 1805 he moved from Thetford, Vermont to Scipio, Cayuga County, New York, and from there, in 1815, to Sparta, Livingston County, New York. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed January 6, 1834, while a resident of Rochester, Monroe County, New York, where he had lived for nine years. he died there April 11, 1843.
Soldier married, March 12, 1788, in Thetford, Vermont, Lydia Hosford, of said Thetford. She was allowed pension on her applica-
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tion executed May 17, 1845, while a resident of Sparta, New York, aged seventy-three years.
A son, Harlem G. Chamberlain, was living in Sparta, New York, in 1846, and stated that his father had also served in the War of 1812.  Another son, Octavius P. Chamberlain, in 1849 resided in Rochester, New York, was then aged forty-six years, and stated that he was the eighth child of John and Lydia Chamberlain. The names of the other children are not given.
Respectfully,
Winfield Scott
Commissioner
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Lydia Chamberlain
officiant of
Town Clerk of Thetford
Vt.

E.F. Brown
Atty.
2. Aug. 1849
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State of Vermont
Orange County [L]
I Hamilton D Tyler, a Resident of the Town of Thetford in said County & State aforesaid aged thirty-five years, being duly sworn deposed & say that I was Town Clerk of the town of Thetford in the said County and that I hold the custody of the Records of said Town, and that I have carefully examined the said Records in Relation 
["in relations" appears crossed out] to Marriages, and that upon such Examination I am not able to find a Record of the Marriage of John Chamberlain and Lydia Hosford.
Attst Hamilton D Tyler, Town Clerk
of the town of Thetford
Subscribed & sworn to this 26th day of June 1849
Before me WD Ladd Justice Peace
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State of Vermont
Orange County,…SS
I, Calvin Blodgett Clerk of the County Court of the County of Orange in the State of Vermont do hereby certify that W D Lodd Esq is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the first day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and forty eight and will expire the thirtieth day of November next, and that his signature here unto affixed is genuine.
Given under my hand and seal of said County Court this 24th day of June A.D. 1849
Calvin Blodgett Clerk.
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12190
Lydia Chamberlain
N. Y.
[illegible] to Geo. Hastings Oct 10 ‘45
To same April [illegible]
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New York
Revoy
John Chamberlain
Suspended
Let to S. T. Wilder, June 30, 1834
Admd
Act 7 June ‘32
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12190 Sept. 5. 1845.
be Lydia Chamberlin
Sep 7. 1838

[written on its side/envelope?]
30 ct.
John L Edwards
Councils of Pension
Washington
D.C.
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Hon J.S. Edwards [illegible] of pensions,
[illegible]
I enclose to [bleed through from other side of paper] to you the decla
ration of Lydia Chamberlin made before a judge of Livingston County for the purpose of obtaining a pension with pro[mark]f of her marriage.  the death of her husband vc. I have not the instruction of the department appli
cable to such cases, but presume she has complied with all the requisitions in the particulars which are essential.  May I request your attention to case as soon as other duties will permit.  Please direct to me
Yrs in
[illegible] Livingston County Geo Hastings
A York Augt 30 1848
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Payments to be made
at New York 
by Pre. th Mechanics Bank
Agent for paying Pension=
ers, in the Agency of
New York
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WAR DEPARTMENT
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that in conformity with the law of the Uited States of the 7th June, 1832, John Chamberlain of the state of New York who was a Private in the Revolutionary Arm is entitled to receive Thirty dollars and [squiggle] per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831 and payable semi-
annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this fourteenth day of August one thousand eith hundred and thirty=four
John Forsyth
act.g. Secretary of War.
J L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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Treasury Department, 
Second Comptroller's Office,
May 10- 1838
Sir.
  Under the act of 6th of April 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by cer-
tain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," John Chamberlain a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany Agency, at the rate of thirty Dollars and ----cents per annum, under the law of the 7th. June 1832 has been paid at this Department, from the 4th. of September 1836 to the 4th. September 1837
Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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J. L. Edwards Esq
Pension Office
Washington

[on side]
28.874
Dec 31.
Jonah [illegible] Chamberlain
Nyork

Hon Timo Childs
HR
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J.L. Edwards Esq
Sir-
Will you have goodness to inform me for what sum-and for what cause or service is John Chamberlain on the pension roll?
He now resides in Rochester N york
Yours Respectfully
Timothy Childs

 
pro Rep ser 301/x3G
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J. L. Edwards esq. Paid
Washington City

Union
Corners
June 13

To the Care of Willis
G. Wade

[sideways]

June 25, 1846
The co
Lydia Chamberlain
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Union Corners Post Office
West Spartan Livingston Co.
May 12th 1846
Dear Sir
Yours received, concerning Widow Lydia Chamberlains claims to Pension, (answer to questions) John Chamberlain to Lydia Horsford, was Married in the year 1788 by Rev Doct. Asa Burton, all of the town of Thetford, Co. of Orange State of Vermont; it was there  John Chamberlain entered the Revolutionary War.  he [illegible] [illegible] a Pension a few years before he died say $26 per year.  did not draw from the whole time claimed; Widow Lydia Chamberlin has made application before a Judge for a Pension some over a year since.  Papers are at Washington.  Sent by George Hastings Esq.  Proof of Marriage, affidavits of the mar Joseph Horsford whom, if living, now reside in Thetford, are brothers to the said Lydia; whom correspondence if necessary, may be had.  Papers [illegible] objected to, for the want of recorded proof. of Marriages and the line of Troops, the said J. Chamberlain served in. the Secretary of Vermont has wrote he could not find on record. the service of J. Chamberlain but one day. so says G. Hastings Aty. at Mt. Morris, Now another claim which I wish seen to. I am the son of the said John [illegible] Lydia Chamberlain my Mother has lived with me for the last twenty-five or thirty years at my cost,  the said
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John Chamberlain being poor &  an insane brother, about the same length of time, my father has lived with a younger brother for near the same length of time, unable to support himself, he being a cripple by the effects of Rheumatism, which he allways said, came upon him in consequence of extreme suffering from [crossed out] on Grenadier Island, while he was under General Wilkinson, on the river St. Lawrence during the last War, with England, in the winter where many of the soldiers were frozen in their limbs, one leg became shorter than the other, and perished, & so remained till his death, which was three of four years since.  I think he ought to be remunerated by the Government; he inlisted in the town where he was Married in Vermont under Lieut. Smith Eaton, for during the war.
Yours with due respect
H. G. Chamberlain

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Washington City
to the care of Willis G. Wade, Esq. 

N. B. W. G. Wade Esq as soon as it can be assertained [ascertained] there can be any thing done, please write Harlem G. Chamberlain
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Jan 23
Redal
Lydia Chamberlain
Morris NY Dec 20
Wm Crump Esq
Pension Office
Washington
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Mt Morris Decr 22. 1845
Geo W Crump Esq,
In your letter of the 10th of Oct
last in relation to the application of Lydia Chamberlain you state that the date of the marriage should be established by the records of the town or church, I have the impressions that her papers show that no such records exist
in such a case I presume that kind of proof will not be required. You also say that proof of the service of her husband
must be obtained from the office of the Secretary of Vermont.
In all cases of the kind which I have before had nothing more
was required than the production of the certificate of the
original pensioner. I would inquire if after that is produced
the proof from the Secy of Vermont is indispensable. To
obtain it would be attended with expense & inconvenience & I desire to avoid it if possible. I have now no copy
of the instructions from the Department, & have no means
of obtaining information except by writing
yours
Geo Wastings
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June 27 1834
Revisory Board
Free
new York
Hon. Lewis Cass retired
Secretary of War
City of Washington
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Rochester N.Y. June 20 1884
Secretary of War.
Sir
Herewith I send law the
 papers of John
Chamberlain a petitioner for
pension. He has produce two affidavits
Adding to his own declaration which
i obtain to be all the testimony which can be
produced in his behalf.
whether that
will be sufficient I am unable to say ┃
but hope they will prove to be
I am, sir, very Respectfully
S. T. Wilder Attorney for
John Chamberlain
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July 30
John Chamberlain
July 29. 1834
Pension Office
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Rochester N.Y. July 1834
Hon Sec. of War.

Sir,
I have [illegible] a letter from
Mr J. S. Edwards stating that without further proof no more than nine months
pension could be allowed to John Chamberlain as a pensioner, Mr Chamberlain
has no more proof, and will take
that sum which you think proper to
allow him. Allow me to call your attention
to his Papers.
Chamberlain [illegible]
he served twelve months, positively.
[Illegible] he is allowed but nine.
He thinks you may have made some mistake
 in the computation, and has
requested me to call your attention
to it.
I am very Respectfully
---
S. T. Wilder
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8613
New York
Lydia Chamberlain widow of John Chamberlain who was a private in the Revolutionary War,
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 30- Dollars --- Cents per annum, to commence on the (crossed out: 4th day of March, 1843.) 11th day of April 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the tenth day of Aug 1849. and sent to E. J. Brown Esq. Present
[Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A. Vol. 2 Page 88.
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John Chamberlain, New York, Act of June 1832 $30 to what time paid?  E. P. to  to Mar. 1843.
Pension Office
August 8, 1849
W.S.A.

died 1843.
inscd. 14 Aug 1834
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June 24
Lydia Chamberlain
Widow of John
New York
Revd Oct 1838.
E. H. Brown
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Washington, 7. June 1849.

Col. J. L. Edwards,
Comm. of Pensions.

Sir,
On the 20th, March last, I called your attention to the Revolutionary Pension Claim of Lydia Chamberlain, widow of John, of N. York, and filed some paper in relation to it. You showed me the correspondence, by which it appeared some paper had been over-looked or omitted in the last examination, and you said you would have it taken up in a few days. As J. G. Austin Esq., from whom I received the case, represents the old lady as near the grave, you will confer a favor by making this case special.

Very Respectfully,
Yr. Ob. Serv.
Edw. F. Brown
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state of New York
Genesee County
Nathaniel Brown of
the Town of Bethany in said County
being duly sworn deposeth and says that 
he this deponent was a soldier in the Revolutionary
war in the State Troops raised by the
State of Vermont and New Hampshire
commanded by Colonel Benjamin Waite
for the purpose of guarding the frontiers
and that this deponent was attached
to Captain Abner Seely Company.
This deponent further deposeth and
says that the said Company was stationed
the first year at the town of Corinth
in the State of Vermont which this
deponent believes was about the year
Seventeen hundred and Eighty one or
1782 deponent further
deposeth and says that during the
time said company was stationed
at Corinth as aforesaid he this deponent
was acquainted with John Chamberlin
and that John Chamberlin was a
member of Captain Abner Seely
Company in said Regiment and
performed duty as a Soldier this
deponent further deposeth and
says that the next year after
the one above mentioned Captain
Abner Seely's Company was stationed
Strafford in Vermont And further
this deponent says not.
worn and Subscribed
Nathaniel Brown
9th day of June
D 1834 Before me
Ira Earll a Commissioner
of Deeds & c of Genesee County
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State of New York
Genesee County
I do certify that I
am acquainted with Nathaniel
Brown named in the within affidavit
and that he is
Baptist Minister in
good standing and a man who
bears a good Character for truth
and veracity
Ira Earll Commissioner
State of New York
of Deeds
County of Genesee  I Timothy Fitch, Clerk of the and
Ira Earl before whom the within affidavit
purports to have been made was at the ┃
date of taking the same a Commissioner
of Deed duly authorized to take affidavits
in said County and that his signature
subscribed to said affidavit and to the
above certificate is genuine
In testimony
whereof I have hereunto subscribed my
name and affixed my official seal this ninth
day of June 1834
Timothy Fitch Clerk
 B. Pringle Deputy
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Afft of Heman Hosford
and Joseph Hosford
respecting Marriage of Mrs
Chamberlin
Thatford
Jan 4
George Hastings Esq
Mt. Morris
New York
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We Joseph Hosford aged Seventy one years in
October at and Heman Hosford aged sixty four
in January last part both of Thetford in the County
of Orange State of Vermont, do certify depose and say
that we well recollect that we were both present
at our fathers house in said Thetford in the month
of March in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred
and Eighty Eight and saw our sister Lydia Hosford ┃
joined in marriage with John Chamberlain
then of said Thetford Doctor Asa Burton a Minister
of the Gospel and pastor of the Congregation Church in  Thetford said
 officiated on the occasion and performed the 
Marriage ceremony- the day of the month when
the marriage took place we do not distinctly recollect
that the said John Chamberlain with his wife
Lydia family removed from said Thetford to the
Town of Scipio in the State of New York about forty
years ago. And some time afterwards about the
commencement of the last war as we understood
the said John and Lydia with their family removed
from Scipio to Sparta now in the County of
Livingston in the State of New York One said Sister
Lydia Chamberlain, has visited as twice serve
the resided in the State of New York, once when she
resided at Scipio once since she resided
at Sparta-We understood that the said John Chamberlain 
died in the fall of 1843 that there still
Survives as his widow. And I the said Heman Hosford
depont say that I have carefully examined the town
records in said Thetford & do not find the above
mentioned marriage recorded in said Town
Joseph Hafford
Heman Hosford
State of Vermont ⎬ At Telford in said County
Orange County on this 26th day of December
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in the year of our Lord 1844 Personally appeared
the subscribing authority the above named
Joseph Hosford & Heman Hosford, well known to me as 
witnesses of unquestionable credibility and severally
made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit
by them subscribed contains the whole truth
nothing but the truth relative to the
matter for which it is taken
Simeon Short Justice of the Peace
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STATE OF VERMONT,
Calin Blodgett Clerk of the County Court of the
 County of Orange in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that
Simon Short Esq is
an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county
duly commissioned and qualified. that his commission was
dated on the first day of December in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty four
and will expire the thirtieth day of November next, and that
his signature hereto affixed
is genuine.
under my hand and the seal of said County Court, this
December A.D. 1844
27th day 
Calvin Brodgett Clerk
Mr Hastings
Sir if the above is not sufficient, with some
trouble I could have obtained other witnesses
Yours respectfully
Heman Hosford
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Affidavit of Oliver
Root in the case of
John Chamberlin
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State of New York, Livingston County for
Oliver Root of said County being duly sworn
deposeth and saith that he verily believes that
John Chamberlin served in Col. Benjamin
Waite's regiment and Capt Abner Seely's company
state troops which were raised for the defence
the frontiers to wit, Connecticut river, Lake
Champlain etc, that it was as near as he can
recollect in the year 1780 - 81 or 82 that he
was well acquainted with all the officers named
by the said Chamberlin, that he served in the
same regiment but cannot recollect precisely
which of the above years it was in which the
service was performed, that the regiment was
mostly raised in the month of Feb. to March
and was discharged in Dec. following, that the
following year this deponent was in
Connecticut and knows nothing of the further
service of the said Chamberlin, and further
this deponent saith not
Oliver Root
Sworn and subscribed this 9th day of May
1834 before me
John C Coe a commissioner
of Deeds etc
And I certify that I am well acquainted with
Oliver Root the above deponent, and that
he is a person of good moral character for
truth and veracity and that his mental
faculties are good and but little impaired
John C Coe
State of New York
Livingston County
I certify that John C. Coe before whom the preceding
affidavit purports to have been sworn and also whose
name appears to the above certificate of credibility was
at the dates of the same a legally authorized
commissioner of Deeds of said County and as such
duly authorized to take affidafit etc. And that
I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such commissioner
and verily believe his name subscribed to the [unknown word] of the said
affidafit and to the said certificate is his own proper hand writing and
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my hand and seal, the day and year [crossed out]
on this the 10th day of May 1834

words cancelled by me S. G. Haven

of the Court of Comm
Chauncey R. Bond clk
of Livingston County
By. S.G. Haven Dep clk.
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In reply to your request of __________, received ____________
a statement of the military history of John Chamberlain,
soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired
information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for
pension on file in this Bureau.
W. 25402
DATES OF
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.
Winter 1780
Spring 1781
LENGTH OF
SERVICE.
9 mos
9 mos
RANK,
Private
Private
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Abner Seeley
Abner Seeley
COLONEL.
Benjamin Waite
STATE.
Vt.
Battles engaged in,
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Thetford, Vermont
Date of application for pension, Jan 6, 1834, His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Rochester. Monroe Co., New York
Age at date of application, born Nov. 9, 1764 at Hebron, Conn.
Remarks: Soldier married Thetford, Vt., March 12, 1788 Lydia Hosford.
He died April 11, 1843, at Rochester, N.Y. and she was allowed pension on
her application executed May 17, 1845 while 73 yrs of age as a resident of
Sparta, N.Y. with son Harlem G. Chamberlain aged 50 yrs.
In 1849 son Octavius P Chamberlain aged 46 yrs stated that he was their 5th child. No further family data.
1847 - 77 yrs old
1845 - 73 yrs old
Respectfully,

Commissioner.
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Established 1862
The Corballis Gazette-Times
Incorporated
C.E. Ingalls Myron K Myers
C. A. Sprague
Printers
Publishers
C. A. Sprague Business Manager
Corvallis,
Oregon
desires history of John
Chamberlain
W. 25402, Vt. Troops
Widow Lydia
Personal call at Bureau
Sept. 2, 1927
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Rev Sec
Trumansburg N. Y.
March 2nd

To. Hon. Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C. 
Dear Sir:
I would like to obtain the Revolutionary record of Major John Chamberlain - his wife's name was Lydia Hosford and drew his pension.
If the department can furnish the data I will be very grateful.
Respectfully yours.
Mrs. Theron C. Brown
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[illegible overwriting] WIDOW, &c.
---
File No. 25402
Lydia Chamberlain
Wid of John Chamberlain
Priv Rev War
Act: Feb 2nd 1848
Index Vol Page
(Arrangement of 1870.]

1919 Mch. 13. Hist to Mrs.
Theron C. Brown &
---
1924 Aug. 3 hist to Caroline S Baker in
Letter in R 2912 Elias
Dewey
1928- July 24 - Hist to
C. A. Sprague, M.E.E.
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[horizontal text]
County do hereby certify that Harlem H Chamberlin Esquire was on the day of the date of the above Certificates a Justice of the peace in & for said County duly Elected & qualified, and that the signatures to the above certificate purporting to be his are genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Official seal this 6 day of March AD 1849

[orthogonal text]
Lydia Chamberlain
widow of John Chamberlain
Declaration for a pension
under acts of 3rd March 1848 & 17th June 1844 & Joint Resolution of July 1st 1848
$30. per annum

[illegible overwriting]
E. F. Brown Atty
Wash D.C.
20 March 1849.
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State of New York
Livington County ⎬ 
SS. On this 28th day of February A.D. 1849 Personally appeared before the subscriber a
Justice of the peace in & for said County of Livingston & State aforesaid. Lydia Chamberlain a resident of the town of West Sparta in the County of Livingston aforesaid aged Seventy Seven years, who being first duly
sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Acts of Congress passed 3rd of March 1843 & 17th June 1844 & 2nd of February 1848 & Joint Resolution of Congress approved July 1st 1848
Relative to Evidence in Application for Pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
that she is the widow of John Chamberlain deceased who was a soldier & served in the Revolutionary war & who was also in his life time a Pensioner of the United States
at the rate of thirty dollars per annum, under the act of June 7, 1832.
She further declares that she is still a widow. that she has not intermarried since the death of her said Husband the said John
Chamberlain. She further declares that some time since she made a declaration to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the act of 3rd of March 1843 & 17 June 1844. & caused the same to be filed in the pension
office at Washington & for some cause to her unknown her said application has not been granted. She further declares that in her said Declaration so field is set forth fully her late husbands death, her Marriage, her Husbands pension & all the proofs which was thought necessary in her said application for a Pension, as the widow of the said John
Chamberlain & She hereby Respectfully refers to her said papers now on file for a more full statement
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of the grounds of her Claim for a pension: further declares. that she hereby relinquishes every claim for a Pension. except the present-
Lydia Chamberlain
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and Year above written before me
Harlam G. Chamberlain I. P

I. Certify that the foregoing declarant. Lydia Chamberlain is personally known to me & is a creditable person-
Harlam G. Chamberlain I. P

State of New York
Livingston County SS. I William H Whiting Clerk of the said county, do herby certify that Harlem G. Chamberlain Esquire was on the day of the date of the above certificates. a Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly elected & qualified, and that his signatures to the above certificates purporting to be his. are genuine

In testimony where of I have hereunto set My hand and affixed my official seal this 6 day of March A D 1849
Wm H Whiting, Clerk
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Conclusive Evidence.
Lydia Chamberlain,
Widow of John,
See letter from the Pension Office, of 11. June 1849, to
E. F. Brown Atty.
Washn. D.C.
2. Aug. 1849.
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Washington City, 2. Aug. 1849.
Sir:
According to the requisitions of your letter to me of 11th June last, I herewith enclose the Affidavit of the Town Clerk of Thetford Vt. and the Affidavit of O. P. Chamberlain, both proving that there is no record of the Marriage of John & Lydia Chamberlain.
I trust that the claim will now be allowed.
Very Respectfully,
Yr. Obt. Servt.
Edw. F. Brown