Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 10579, John Campbell, S.C. Va.

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[3-1776]

SERVICE 
S.C.
Va
Campbell, John
                Sarah

NUMBER
W. 10579
B.L.Wt.1015G3-160-55

CONTENTS
B 1756. M 1805 D. 1839

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

Ohio 26,250
John Campbell 26,250

of Hamilton Co. in the State of Ohio
who was a Pr [Private] in the Company commanded
by Captain Kellerd of the Regt [Regiment] commanded
by Col. Campbell in the Virginia
[line for crossed out] Militia --
9 Mo [Months] Pr [Private] $30.00

Inscribed on the Roll of – Ohio - 
at the rate of 30 Dollars - Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 17th day of April
1834 and sent to H. P. Gaines, Cincinnati, Ohio

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. ‘34 - 90.00
Semi=anl. [annual] allowance ending 4 Mar 15.00
105.00
{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by J T Sprague, Clerk
Book C [or E] Vol. 8 Page 5

[right side of page – Died Nov. 1839]

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State of Ohio } S.S. 
County of Hamilton } 

On the 19 day of February in the year 1834, personally appeared before the court of Common Pleas of said County of Hamilton & state of Ohio, John Campbell, a resident in Fulton township in said County, aged seventy seven years, the 15th day of October last, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832; -
That on the 9th day of March 1780, he volunteered in Lexington, Rockbridge County, in the State of Virginia, in the Company, commanded by Captain Alexander Tilford [Alexander Tedford], and in Colonel [William] Campbell’s Regiment, for a period of nine months, and marched immediately, with the greatest speed, to Guilford Court house

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in North Carolina, and arrived there late in the night of the fourteenth of the same month, and on the morning of the 15th joined the Army, then commanded by Gen’l. [General] Nathaniel Greene, & participated in the battle on the day last mentioned [15 Mar 1781]; that, in this battle the American Army were defeated, that the officers recollected by him as being in the battle at Guilford Courthouse, were Gen’l. [General] Muhlenburg [Peter Muhlenberg], Gen’l. [General] Stevens (or Stephenson) [Edward Stevens], Col. [Colonel] Wm Washington [William Washington] of the Cavalry, & several other officers of less note, whose names, it is deemed unnecessary to mention; that the Regiment of Col. [Colonel] Campbell to which he belonged, was stationed on the left of the American Army, and in common with the North Carolina Militia, threw down their arms and ran off; that the whole Army reached a place called “Hawfield” late on the night after the battle, & halted there during the following day; that he the said declarant, served out his said

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term of nine months, with the exception of about two months, during which he was confined at Camden in South Carolina by the Ague and fever; that he was not engaged in any other battle during his said first term of service, but was engaged in several skirmishes; - that after the expiration of said term of nine months he received a discharge from Lieutenant Sam’l. Paxton [Samuel Paxton], then commanding Captain Kilford’s [Tedford’s] Company, [several words scratched out] (the said Kilford having been killed in the said battle) – that he the said declarant returned home to said County of Rockbridge, in the state of Virginia, and after remaining there a short time, went with several others of his neighbours [neighbors] to Camden, South Carolina early in the month of June in the year 1781 and enlisted in the company commanded by Capt. [Captain] Johnson for “during the war;” - but remained in the service only six months, & then received from

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Lieutenant Hays of said Johnson’s company, a regular discharge, - said Johnson having deserted from the American Army and joined the British taking with him, as it was said a considerable sum of money in gold, then on the way to Camden to pay the American troops; - that he has forgotten the name of the Colonel to whose regiment said Capt. Johnson’s company was attached; - but recollects that a Major named Stewart belonged to the same, and appeared to be in command of it; - that he the said declarant, knows of no other reason for his obtaining a discharge before having been an enlisted soldier only six months, than this; - the British Army had in a great measure abandoned the southern states and the war was considered at an end, or at least so near so as to justify discharging the

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regular troops in those states, either generally or partially; - he also states that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no persons, whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service. - He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of Agency of any state. -
John [his x mark] Campbell 
Sworn to and subscribed}
the day & year aforesaid}
Danl Gano}
Clk }


Interrogatories propounded by the Court; & the respective answers thereto -
1st Where and in what year were you born? 
Answer. I was born in Rockbridge County, (then Augusta) in the state of Virginia, on the 15th day of October 1756.-
2nd Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
Answer. I have none, neither do I know that the time of my birth was ever recorded; but I have been often told by my mother, that I was born at the time & place above stated. -

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3rd Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live? -
Answer. I was then living in said County of Rockbridge, & remained there until about six years after the termination of said War; - I then removed to the vicinity of Knoxville in the state of Tennessee, where after residing about six years there, I returned to Rockbridge County aforesaid, & there remained until about twelve years since, when I removed to the said County of Hamilton, Ohio, where I now live.
4th How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute; - and if a substitute, for whom?-
Answer. I at first volunteered for a term of nine months, and served out that term, - and early in the month of June in the year 1781, I enlisted to serve “during the War”; but was discharged after having served only six months, as stated in my declaration. -
5th 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 service.

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Answer – I cannot now recollect the names of any regular officers besides those already mentioned who were with the troops where I served; nor can I add anything to my former statement in relation to the Continental & Militia Regiments but in relation to the circumstance of my service not already detailed, I will add that during the time of my service as an enlisted soldier, the regiment to which I belonged was stationed at Camden in South Carolina, in garrison guarding the military stores and belonging to the United States; but was not at any time engaged in a battle or skirmish. 
6th Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given & what has become of it? –
Answer- I received a written discharge at the termination of the respective periods of nine months as a volunteer, and six months as an enlisted soldier, - the former given by Lieut. Paxton & the latter by Lieut. Hays but both of them have been long since destroyed by fire.

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7th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood [neighborhood], and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
Answer. I am known to the Rev’d [Reverend] Wm Burke Post Master in Cincinnati, Septimus Hazen, Thos. Brainard, Jno. Whetstone and numerous others, who can testify to the facts referred to in the above question; - but I merely refer to the accompanying certificate given by a few of them. – 
John [his x mark] Campbell

Subscribed & sworn to}
on the day and year}
first above mentioned}
Danl Gano Clk}

We Wm Burke, a clergyman, residing in the City of Cincinnati and County of Hamilton, and residing in the same County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Campbell who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy seven years of age; that he is reputed and

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believed in the neighbourhood [neighborhood] where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion 
Sworn and subscribed}   William Burke 
the day and year aforesaid} F. A. Sayre 
Danl Gano Clk p.7}

That the said Court do hereby declare their of opinion, after the 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 certifies that it appears to them that Wm Burke who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman and resident in the City of Cincinnati and County of Hamilton, and that F. A. Sayre ,who has also signed the same, is a resident in the same City and County, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

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I Daniel Gano, Clerk Pro tem of the Court of Common Pleas of said County of Hamilton and State of Ohio, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Campbell for a pension. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office, this 19th day of Feby [February] – 1834
Danl Gano Clk

[written sideways and upside down] Jno Campbell to The United States 
Application for a Pension.

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29,728

John Campbell
Ohio

Return to Adm. 9 Months

H. P. Gains
Cincinnati, Ohio

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

WAR DEPARTMENT
PENSION OFFICE
6th March 1834

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 show what is necessary to be done these points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (these:}). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A STATEMENT, showing the Service of John Campbell

[column headings: Period when the service rendered: Duration of the claimant’s service. Year Month Day: Rank of the claimant: Names and Rank of the Field officers under whom he served.: Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service, Proof by which the declaration is supported.]
1.  1789 / 9 months / priv [Private] / Cap. Killard [Captain Telford] / 77 years Rockbridge County Va / Traditionary -
Col. Campbell
2.  1781 / 6 months / “ [private] / Cap. Johnston / 

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
JAMES. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832. The following regulations have been adopted: This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service. Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law: 
1. The Regular Troops. 
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers. 
3. Persons employed in the Naval service. 
4. Indian Spies. 
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians OR privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration. which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832. 
State, Territory, or District of} ss.
County of}
On this     day of     personally appeared (a) before A. B. a resident (b) of     in the county of     and State, Territory or District of aged (c) years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)    , with    and served in the      (e) regiment of the      line, under the following named officers: 
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.] 
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State. or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. 
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. 
1               of the Court of              do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of                for a pension. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this day of       &c. 
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out. 
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz: 
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the             and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with              , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be               years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. 
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. 
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.] 
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the 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 certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the            and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the            and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
I,        Clerk of the Court of            do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of              for a pension. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this     day of     &c. 
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction. 
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in bis declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not. proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his

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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.} {To an Officer.} Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it? 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 he 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 enquiry 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 to 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 thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will trans nit 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. 
(a) The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance. 
(b) The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule. 
(c) The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned. 
(d) The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served. 
(e) Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. ln a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words : "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:-For    year    months, and     days, I served as a    . For     months and    days, I served as a     ; and for such service I claim a pension." 
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c without specifying the tours, the names of the officers and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served: the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit. 
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable. 
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required. 
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case. 
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers. 
Mode of authenticating papers. In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers in not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate. 
Proof of Service. 
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found in the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signatures of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. The notes from (a) to (i) are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note (j) applies to continental troops only. 
[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases. 
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact. 
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

No 7121

Ohio Cin [Cincinnati] 
Sarah Campbell
widow of John Campbell

who served in the Revolutionary 

war, as a private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate 
of  30  Dollars – 
cents per annum, to commence on 
the 3d February, 1853

Certificate of Pension issued 
28th day of August 1862
and sent to Edwards F. Adams, Esq. [Esquire] Chicago Ill [Illinois] 

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act [paper torn]

[right side of page - Feby [February] 28th Transferred to Cin. [Cincinnati] Ohio from 4th Sept [September] 1862 by order of the Comm. [Commissioner]
1888 July 19 – S. F. Cary – history - Prior
Date of widow’s death not on AB]

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State of Ohio}
County of Warren} In Open Court - March Term 1861 - Present John C. Dunlavy Judge and ex officio Clerk 
On this 12th day of March A.D. 1862, before the Probate court held within & for the said County Warren & State of Ohio, personally appeared Sarah Campbell aged about 86 years, a resident of the County of Hamilton & State of Ohio aforesaid but now stopping with her son Henry Campbell of Twenty Mill stand in the said County of Warren who being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by act of Congress passed on the 3d [3rd] of Feby. [February] A.D. 1853 granting Pensions to widows of persons who served in the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of John Campbell deceased who was a revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, that to the best of her knowledge and belief her said husband entered service in the State of Virginia, and continued in said service in said Revolutionary war for the term of from six to twelve months, that her said husband was a pensioner of the United States under the act of June 7th 1832, at the rate of ($30) thirty dollars per annum, which was paid to him at the agency for paying pensions at Cincinnati Ohio- 
She further states that she was married to the said John Campbell in the State of Virginia about four miles from Point Pleasant which she believes is in the County of Mason, but that there is as she is informed and believes no public record of her said Marriage - That she had a private record of the same in her family bible which was burned with her house in Piketon Ohio many years ago, where she lived after she and her family left Virginia & before they moved to Hamilton County Ohio. She further says that by the said John Campbell, she had the following named children towit (1) Bithany who died young- (2) Hiram, who died about 12 years ago, (3) Sarah who is now living & the wife of one John Walls of Terre Haute Indiana (4) James, now living in Hamilton County Ohio, and about 49 years old, (5) Daniel, who died in 1834, and (6) Henry, now living at Twenty Mile

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Stand in the Court of Warren aforesaid, and with whom this deponent is now stopping, and who is now 44 years old.
She further says that before her marriage to the said John Campbell, she was married to one [^ John] Cruey by whom she had four children, towit - Polly, now Polly Stevens a widow living in Hamilton County Ohio Martha Cranmore, also a widow & living in Hamilton County Ohio, John Cruey & Abraham Cruey, said John is now living six miles from Maysville Ky [Kentucky] and Abraham died when young [words crossed out]. She further says that her first husband, Cruey, died in Virginia near Point Pleasant about the year 1798 or 1799, and that by the name of Cruey she was married to the said John Campbell as above set forth, about the year 1802, but the precise date of her marriage she is unable to tell-- That she was married by a Justice of the Peace by the name of Wadkins or Watkins to the best of her recollection. That she was not married to him prior to the 2nd day of January A.D. 1800, but at the time above stated and that her last husband the said John Campbell died on or about the 26th day of November AD 1839 - at Fulton now a part of Cincinnati Hamilton County Ohio, and that she has been since that day and still is his widow never having been married since his (the said John Campbells) death. She further says that there are no eye witnesses to her marriage now living that she knows of. And further that she hereby appoints Edward F. Adams of Galesburg her Attorney to prosecute this her claim for a Pension & tarried her pension certificate when issued - hereby revoking all former Powers of Attorney heretofore given by her, in the premises
Sarah [her x mark] Campbell {Seal}


P.F. Sullivan}
W [Dembery?]} 2 witnesses 

The foregoing Declaration of the said Sarah Campbell was sworn to and subscribed by her before me on this 12th day of March 1862 - and further certify that I know the said Sarah Campbell to be a credible witness and believe her to be as above stated and that she is of the age above stated & that I have no interest in this claim as Attorney or otherwise 
Witness my hand and the seal of the said Court [on the da scratched out] now in session, on

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on the day and year last aforesaid 
Jno C Dunlevy Probate Judge 

State of Ohio} 
Warren County} Probate Court
I Jno C Dunlevy Judge of the Probate Court in and for the County and State aforesaid and by virtue of the Constitution & law establishing said Court Ex officio Clerk thereof do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration was duly signed sealed acknowledged and sworn to by said Sarah Campbell before me and in open Court on the day & year above stated and that the interlineation of the word John before the word Cruey in the 5th line from the top of the 2d [2nd] page above was made before the signing thereof by said Sarah Campbell and before the oath above certified, was administered to her by me 

On testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court at Lebanon in said County the 12th day of March 1862
Jno C Dunlevy 
Probate Judge & Ex officio Clerk of said Probate Court

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[Left side of page] 283-46 Act Mar 3/55 
307645 Nov 95 
Sarah Campbell 
widow of 
John Campbell 
Private 

Revolutionary war 
Allowed. 160 acres. 
L.M. Drury 
Examiner 

E. F. Adams 
Chicago [crossed out Wm Barry Cincinnati Ohio] Chicago Ill.

[written through] 104563 – isd. [issued] August 28, 1862

[right side of page] Wm B. Barry Nov 27/57 
Ex'd-Goodman 
See paper in the pension claim under Act 3d [3rd] February 1853.

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

STATE OF Ohio} SS.
County of Warren} On this day of March A. D. 1862 before me, the subscriber, Clerk of Probate Court within and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Sarah Campbell aged 86 years, a resident of Fulton in the County of Hamilton and State of Ohio; who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of John Campbell deceased, who was a private in the company commanded by Captain ____ in the Virginia Continental Line – [Militia crossed out] in the War [crossed out with Great Britain declared on the 15th day of June 1818] of the Revolution –
That her husband entered the service in Virginia - in the year -- for the term of -- and continued in actual service in said War, for the term of more than 14 days and was honorably discharged --- She further states that she was married to the said John Campbell in the County of Mason and State of Virginia on the day of about the year 1802, by our Wadkins a Justice of the Peace and that her name before her said marriage was Cruey that her husband died in the County of Hamilton and State of Ohio on the 26th day of November 1839, and that she still his widow, and that there is, as she believes no public record of her marriage: that there is no private record of her marriage. Nor her husband's death.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled on account of said service, and mileage under the Act passed, 2d [2nd] March 1855. That she has --- heretofore applied for but not received under this or any other Act of Congress & Bounty Land Warrant. 
She further says that there are no eye witnesses of her said marriage now living. That she knows of ---- in the County of ----- and State of ---- and ----- of ---- in the County of ---- and State of ---.
She hereby appoints [SHERMAN crossed out] E. F. ADAMS, of [Gatesburg crossed out] [^Chicago] Illinois, her Attorney[s crossed out] with power of substitution, to prosecute this her claim for Bounty Land, to receive her Warrant when issued, and to do all other acts necessary and proper in the premises hereby revoking all former Power of Attorney which she may have given in the premises.  She further says [words crossed out] her said husband, the said John Campbell for some years previous to his [^death] drew a pension of thirty dollars per annum, 
which he drew at this office having pensions in Cincinnati Ohio. That he lived for many years previous to his death in Hamilton County, Ohio. She further says that having made application for a pension the widow of the said John Campbell, she hereby refers the Hon. Comr [Honorable Commissioner] of Pensions to the proofs placed on file in her said Pension application for evidence of her marriage to the said John Campbell, of his death, and of her present widowhood- 
W. [Dunley?]}
P.F. Sullivan } 2 wits [witnesses]
Sarah [her x mark] Campbell {Seal}

[Paragraph crossed out]

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[Paragraph crossed out]

State of Ohio}
County of Warren} 
The foregoing declaration of the said Sarah Campbell [words scratched out] were subscribed and sworn to by the said parties respectively, before me on this 12th day of March A. D. 1862, and I further certify that I know the said affiants to be credible persons, that the claimant is the person that she represents herself to be, that she is of the age above stated, that she is still a widow, and that I have no interest in this claim, In testimony hereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Probate Court in & for said County of Warren & State of Ohio, the same being a court Record this 12th day of March AD. 1862 
Jno Dunlevy
Probate Judge

[Paragraph crossed out]

State of Ohio}
Warren County}
I Jno Dunlevy Judge of the Probate Court in & for Warren County Ohio and by the constitution & law of Ohio establishing said Court the official Clerk thereof do hereby certify that the foregoing warrant of attorney was duly signed sealed & acknowledged by said Sarah Campbell in my presence & in open Court and that under the law of Ohio I as Judge of said Court have full power & authority to take the acknowledgement of deeds mortgages & other instruments of writing requiring and acknowledgement 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court at Lebanon [this is the County seat of Warrant County] this March 12th 1862 
Jno C Dunlevy Probate Judge and Ex Officio Clerk of Probate Court

[Stamped Department of the Interior / July 10 1862 / Pension Office]

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

Own

In reply to your request of ----, received ---- for a statement of the military history of John Campbell a 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 10579. 
[column headings: DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. / LENGTH OF SERVICE. / RANK. / OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. CAPTAIN. / COLONEL. / STATE.]
1.  Mch. [March] 9, 1780 / 9 mos. [months] / Private / Captain {Alexander Kilford {Lt. Samuel Paxton / Colonel Campbell / Va.

2.  Enl [Enlisted] at Camden, S.C. June 1781 / 6 mos. [months] ] {Captain Johnson; Lt. Hayes / Major Stewart / S.C.

Battles engaged in, Guilford 

Residence of soldier at enlistment, Rockbridge Co. Virginia 

Date of application for pension, Feby. 19, 1834. His claim was allowed. 

Residence at date of application, Fulton Twp. Hamilton Co Ohio – 

Age at date of application, towit Oct 15, 1756 in Augusta Co Va 

Remarks: he married in Mason Co. Va. Aug. 9, 1802 or 1805 Sarah -- born Sept. 11, 1783, wid of John Crewey or Crurey who d.[died] 1798 or 1779. Soldier died at Fulton, Ohio, Nov. 6 or 26, 1839 and she was allowed pension on her application executed Aug. 24, 1850 while a resident of Cincinnati. Oh: They had 6 children Betsey or Bethany died young, Daniel d. [died] 1834; Hiram d. [died] about 1850; in 1862 Sarah was wife of John Walls; James was abt. 49 yrs. old & Henry youngest) was born 1818, with whom widow resided at Twenty Mill stand, Warren Co. Ohio. - 

Respectfully,  Commissioner.

(Capt. Kilford Killed at Guilford " [Captain] Johnson deserted to British)

d-285C

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[left side of page] 
1919 Feby, 8. History to Mrs. Wm. W. Baum ¢

1929 - Aug 21 [History crossed out] L.P. Summers adv
Cost of Photos- Corres [Correspondence] incl. of John Campbell, W. 18869 – [initialed] MMHF

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 10,579

Sarah Campbell
Wid [Widow] of
John Campbell
Privt [Private] Rev. War

Act: Feby [February] 3d [drd], 1852

Index: - Vol. , Page 

[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Sarah Campbell. 
Widow of 
John Campbell. 
Warren County. Ohio.

Act 3d [3rd] Feb. [February] 1853
2d Section
Allowed. As the widow 
of a Private, at the 
rate of $ 30 ann. [annum] 
to begin on the 3d [3rd] of 
February 1853.

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307643
See 283462

Act Mar 3/38
May 30/60
Sarah Campbell
wid [widow] of
John Campbell prv [private]

Rev. War
Pensioner
Ohio Sus ‘53
Set (see Rev. Pen. Cor.) June 18 /60

Sherman & Adams
Galesburg, Ill. [Illinois]

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101563 

160 acres

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No 5999 

Sarah Campbell 
widow of John 
Ohio

Let. [Letter] John V. Nice, Sept. 6/55
Same May 8/56
(See Letter of D. D. T. Benedict within)
Let. D.D.T. Benedict June 16/59
Same Nov 26/59
“Sherman & Adams, June 18/60 Mar. 5/61

“Act Feby 3, 1853
“Sherman & Adams – Sept. 24, ‘6[paper torn]

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Twenty Mile Stand, Warren Co. 0. [County, Ohio] Feb 6th, 1861 
Hon. [Honorable] Commissioner of Pensions, 
Sir - I hereby appoint Sherman and Adams, of Galesburg, Ill., my attorneys, with power of substitution, to prosecute my claim for a Pension as the widow of John Campbell, deceased, late a Revolutionary Pensioner, of Hamilton County, Ohio.    Hereby revoking all former powers of attorney given by me in the premises. 

Sarah [her x mark] Campbell 
John Bell} 
David W Baxter} witnesses

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State of Ohio} 
Warren County} Personally appeared before me, a justice of the Peace in aforesaid County, the within named Sarah Campbell, to acknowledge the within Power of Attorney to be her act and deed. 

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand seal this 6th day of February AD 1861 
David W. Baxter {Seal}

[stamped - PENSION OFFICE / FEB / 13 / 1861]

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married about the year 1802

Sarah Campbell, Ohio} 
widow of John} 
Hiram Fortney, Meredith Fortney, Amelia Fortney testify to the relation of husband wife - that husband was a pensioner & claimant is his widow.

Testimony in Bounty land application 

Mary Stephens}
Martha Cannon}

Testify that they are the children of applicant by a former husband and at an early period of life they remember that their mother was married to John Campbell. [the crossed out] - they recollect the date that they were to informed, when they were little children though they were not present at the marriage and from that time to the death of John Campbell, they lived together as husband & wife & had children born.

in another affidavit dated 28th April 1862, they state that their mother Sarah Married John Campbell in about

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three years after the death of their own father John Cruey. That they remember the time of their mother Sarah, leaving home to be married to John Campbell that the two returned the same day as husband & wife and always afterwards sustained that relation to the day of John Campbell’s death, a period of [at crossed out] thirty five years and had six children born.
Samuel Akin & Martin Doss. aged sixty & fifty five years respectively. Testify that they have Known Sarah Campbell the applicant & her husband John Campbell the Pensioner for thirty years – past. The former for thirty years & the latter for twelve years before his death, that they lived together as husband & wife & deponents never heard their marriage called in question.

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County of Hamilton S.S. on this 4 day of August A.D. one Thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally Appeared before me William Finton a Justice of the peace Within the County and state aforesaid Sarah Campbell aged seventy two years on the Eleventh day of September AD 1854 a Resident of the City of Cincinati [Cincinnati] County of Hamilton in the State of Ohio 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 act of Congress passed February 3d [3rd] A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty Three that she is the widow of John Campbell who was a pensioner in the County of Hamilton and State of Ohio and drew his pension at Cincinati [Cincinnati] agency as Long as he lived his original pension certificate having Issued at the war department of the United States under Act of June the 7th 1832 at the rate of thirty Dollars a year he having been a private in the Virginia militia In the Revolutionary war she further declares that she was married to the said John Campbell in Mason County in the State of Virginia on the ninth day of August AD one thousand eight hundred and five and that previous to said marriage her name was Sarah Cruey she further state [states] that her said Husband the aforesaid John Campbell died at Fulton now the City of Cininati [Cincinnati] County of Hamilton in the State of Ohio on the sixth of November 1834 - that she was married to him at the time and place above stated she further swears that she was a widow on the 3d [3rd] day of February in the year 1853 and that she is still a widow and that she has not ever before made an application for a pension she further states that she has not got any record evidence of their marriage but before the Hon Commissioner of pensions to the testimony here with presented

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sworn to and subscribed in the presence of us on the day and year first above written attest 

Sarah [her x mark] Campbell 
Wm Finton
Martin Doss 

State of Ohio 
County of Hamilton} SS on this 24 day of august [August] AD one thousand Eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me William Finton a Justice of the peace within and for the County and state aforesaid Mary Stephens and Martha Cranmore who being each of them first duly sworn according to Law depose and say that they are acquaint [acquainted] with Sarah Campbell who has made oath to the forgoing affidavit that she is a credible person and is the Identical widow she has represented herself to be in said application they Further state that they are each of them residents of the City of Cincinati [Cincinnati] County of Hamilton in the State of Ohio And that the said Sarah Campbell resides in the same place that the deponents do and they further state that said Sarah Campbell was married to John Campbell on or About the time and place so stated by said Sarah Campbell in the aforesaid affidavit and they have bin [been] Will acquaint [well acquainted] with boath [both] John Campbell and Sarah Campbell from the year 1805 at the time of their marriage untill [until] the death of said John Campbell which death did occur on the 6th day of November 1839 the Deponents further states that they was [were] personally acquaint [acquainted] with said John Campbell and Sarah Campbell from their marriage in Mason County in the State of Virginia which marriage they believe did take place about the time mentioned in Sarah Campbells declaration and knew them Well as Husband and wife during the Length of time mentioned say from the year 1805 to the year 1839 [or 1859] and are

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Now well acquainted with said Sarah Campbell and that she is now living near this deponents and they know her the said Sarah Campbell to be the widow of the aforesaid John Campbell and have not ever married since the death of John Campbell and know her to be a widow at this time. sworn to and subscribed the day and year First above written
Mary [her x mark] Stephens 
Martha Cranmore [her x mark]
Wm. Finton

I William Finton the Justice of the peace before whom the forgoing affidavits of Mary Stephens and Martha Cranmore was sworn do hereby certify that the said Mary Stephens and Martha Cranmore who have sworn to the same are credible persons and I further certify that I am not interested in This Claim nor in the prosecution of the same given under my hand and seal the day and year first above writin [written] 
Wm. Finton 
Justice of the peace 

The State of Ohio Hamilton County SS 
I Thos Spooner Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within & for said County do hereby certify that Wm Finton before whom the foregoing Declaration of Sarah Campbell affidavits of Mary Stephens and Martha Cranmore were taken was at the time of the Execution of the same an acting Justice of the Peace in & for Fulton Township County & State aforesaid, and as such duly elected qualified & commissioned, that his signature thereto is genuine. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court at Cincinnati this 24th day of August AD 1853 
Thos. Spooner Clerk CC P H Co O 
By D.W. Thrasher Deputy

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

Brief in the case of Sarah Campbell, widow of John 
Warren County and State of Ohio} a revolutionary 
act 3d [3rd] February 1853} 
2d [2nd] Section} Soldier 

Claim, (“original,” or “for increase.”) 

Proof exhibited, (if original.) 
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance. 

John Campbell of Hamilton County, Ohio was a pensioner under act of 7th June 1832. at the rate of $30 per ann [annum] and died as appears by the vouchers in the Third Auditors office on the 6th of Nov. 1839. and the seal. 

(If for increase.) 
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what? 
-one of his pensions was paid to his widow Sarah, on proof before the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton Co. that she was his widow as appears, by the certificate of Wm Henry Harrison Clerk of that Court dated 9th March 1840.
Marriage of Claimant with the Pensioner occurred in Virginia in the year 1803. Proof offered that there is no public or private record of the fact.
Name and resident of Agent

Marriage relation proven by the testimony of seven persons, certified to be credible witnesses.

Examining Clerk,

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sworn respectable witnesses 
Mary Stevens & Martha Cranmore Testify that they are children of the applicant by a former husband named John Cruey, that when they were children, about three years after their father’s death they well remember that their mother [left crossed out] Sarah left here to be married to John Campbell, that the two returned the same day, as husband & wife, and always afterwards they sustained that relation (& had six children born whom they reared) to the day of the death of John Campbell a period of thirty five years. These witnesses testify that John Campbell was a pensioner.
Samuel Akin & Martin Doss aged sixty & fifty five years respectively testify that they have known Sarah Campbell the applicant, and her husband John Campbell the [applicant crossed out] pensioner, the former for thirty years & the latter for twelve years before his death, that they 

CAMPBELL, JOHN (S.C. W1O579)

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lived together as husband & wife had a family of children, and the deponents never heard their marriage called in question. 

They certify that the witnesses Mary Stevens & Martha Cranmore, whom they have known to thirty years past, are the children of Sarah Campbell by a former husband, but that they lived in the family with their mother, & John Campbell after the marriage of the former to the latter. Hiram Fortney Meredith Fortney & Amelia Fortney, testify to the relation of husband & wife of John & Sarah Campbell, and that claimant is his widow. 

Identity & Widowhood proved by the same testimony- 

The relation of husband & wife is conclusively shown by the testimony above cited, as well as by the certificate of the Court upon which

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the last payment of the pension of John Campbell was made to his Widow, Sarah as shown by the vouchers in the Third Auditors Office.

Allowed at the rate of thirty dollars per ann. [annum] to begin on the 3d [3rd] of February 1853.

L.M. Drury 
Examing [Examining] Clerk 

Certificate to 
Edward F. Adams, Esq. [Esquire] 
Chicago Ill. 

CAMBELL, JOHN (S.C.) W 10579

[circular stamp with "THE {POSTAL SERVICE?} OF THE UNITED STATES"]

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State of Ohio}
County of Warren} SS. On this 10th day of May A.D. 1860, before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County and State [^personally appeared] Sarah Campbell aged eighty three years and more who being duly sworn deposes and says that she is the widow of the late John Campbell, deceased, who was a private in the company comanded [commanded] by Capt [blank] in the Virginia Militia in the War of the American Revolution, and who was a Pensioner of the United States under the act of June 7th 1832, at the rate of thirty dollars per annum, and resided when he drew his pension in Hamilton County and State of Ohio and drew his pension at Cincinnati in said State of Ohio 

She further says that she was married to the said John Campbell about the year 1806 or 1807 in the County of Mason and State of Virginia by one Mr Wadkins a Justice of the Peace and that before her said marriage her name was Sarah Cruey, (or Crewey), that she lived with her said husband from the time of her said marriage to the time of his death which occurred in the month [words scratched out] of November A.D. 1839, that

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she had by her said husband six children to wit, Betsey, Hiram, Sarah, James, Daniel and Henry - That said Henry Campbell is her youngest child and was born in the year 1818 - That her said husband died as aforesaid in the month of November AD 1839. and [^ in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio] she has not married since her said husband’s death, but is still his widow.
She further says that after her said husband’s death the receive the received five dollars as his widow, for his pension from the 4th of Sept 1839 to the date of his death- 
She further says that [^ she] always supposed that there was a public record of her said marriage in the County of Mason and State of Virginia aforesaid where she was married, but she has been informed and believe that no such public [^ record] can be found in said County - That she had a private record of her said marriage in a family bible, but during the life time of husband, the said John Campbell, their house was consumed with five and the said Family Record, and everything else in said house was burnt with it-- and she has now no family or private record of her said marriage.-
She further says that for further proof

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of her said husband’s service, she begs leave to refer the Hon. Commissioner of Pensions to the proofs placed on file in the Pension office by him, in his application for his pension, and she hereby makes such proofs a part of this application. She also says that she has herself applied for a Pension, as the widow of the said John Campbell, and wishes to refer said Commissioner of Pensions to the proofs on file in [^ her] said application and & she makes them also a part of this declaration. 
She further says that she is a resident of the County of Hamilton and State of Ohio aforesaid, and has been for thirty years last past but that she is at present staying with her son, the aforesaid Henry Campbell in the County of Warren aforesaid- 
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the act of 3d [3rd] March 1855- And she further says that it is possible that an application for Bounty Land was made for her at the time of her said application for her Pension but that to the best of her recollection and belief there was no such application made-But if there was such application made for her, she has

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Never heard from the same and she is quite certain that she has never received a Bounty Land Warrant under this or any other it of Congress, and she believes that she has never made any other application therefor 
She also says that she has appointed Sherman and Adams her Attorneys in the premises with authority to receive her warrant her issued, and if she may have given a Power of Attorney to any one heretofore in relation her Bounty Land claim she hereby revoked the same.
Andrew S Ross}
Joseph M. Ralston} 
Sarah [her x mark] Campbell
We A. S Ross and J. M. Ralston residents of the County of Warren & State of Ohio aforesaid, whom our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration of Sarah Campbell was signed and acknowledged by her in our presence, and we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person that she represents herself to be and that she is

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still a widow and that we have no interest in this claim 

Joseph M Ralston
Andrew S Ross

State of Ohio}
County of Warren} SS
I hereby certify that the foregoing declaration of Sarah Campbell and affidavit of A.S. Ross and J. M. Ralston were sworn to and subscribed by the parties respectively before me on this 18th day of May A.D. 1860, and I also certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, that the claimant is the person that she represents herself to be and is still a widow, and that I have no interest in this claim 
David W Baxter J. P. 

The State of Ohio} S.S. 
Warren County} I J.S. Totten, Clerk of the certify That David W. Baxter, Esq before whom the above affidavids [affidavits] were duly executed according to law at that time and now is an acting Justice of the peace in and for the County of Warren, and State of Ohio, duly elected Commissioned and qualified and that

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all of his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit and that his signature is in his own proper hand writing. 
Witness my hand and the seal of said court at the court house in Lebanon, this 14th day of May A.D. 1860. 
J. S. Totten. Clerk Court, Com. Pleas [Court of Common Pleas]

State of Ohio}
County of Hamilton}
On this 26th day of May A.D. 1860. personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Hamilton State of Ohio aforesaid [words scratched out] Martha Cranmore aged about fifty eight years, a resident of said county, who being duly sworn, deposes and says that she is a daughter of the aforesaid Sarah Campbell [ the above] applicant for Bounty Land. That she is Sarah Campbell's daughter by her first husband, John Crewey (or Cruey) that from her earliest recollection her mother the said Sarah Campbell lived with her stepfather

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John Campbell as his wife and by him the said John Campbell had six children to wit, Betsy, Hiram, Sarah, James, Danel & Henry. That Betsy, Hiram & Daniel are dead, but the others are now living-- Deponent says that she does not remember when her said mother was married to said John Campbell having been as she was told but one year and a half old.-- That she lived with her said mother until she was sixteen years of age, but has lived near her said mother & her step father the said John Campbell ever since they were married, with the exception of three months until the time of his death, that for the said John Campbell drew a pension at Cincinnati, Ohio, at the rate of thirty dollars per annum for some eight or ten years before his death. That he died in the month of November A.D. 1839. in Hamilton County Ohio & where he had lived for many years before death. That his mother the said Sarah Campbell is now stopping with his son Henry in Warren County Ohio about twenty miles from Cincinsti [Cincinnati]. She further says that the said Sarah & John Campbell lived together as husband and wife from her earliest recollection to the time of

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his death, and were reputed to be husband and wife & that she never heard that fact disputed or questioned. 

She further says that he her said stepfather the said John Campbell, had a family record but it was burnt with his house many years ago and that there is now no private or family record of the marriage of the said Sarah & John Campbell 
H. H. Morris Justice of the peace { Martha [her x mark] Cranmore

At same time and place came Samuel Akins aged 62 years and B. F. Smith aged thirty two years & more who being duly sworn depose and say that they have [^been] residents of the County of Hamilton for more than thirty years. That they were well acquainted with Sarah Campbell the aforesaid applicant for Bounty land having known her for more this thirty years. That they also known John Campbell for more than ten years before his death. That he died about twenty or 21 years ago. That said John and Sarah Campbell lived together as husband and wife up to the time of the death of said John Campbell and were always reputed so to be, and deponent believes that they were so, never

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having heard the fact of their marriage disputed or questioned. That said John and Sarah Campbell had several children whom they raised together, among which was James, Henry, Sarah, now living and Hiram now dead, and several others whose Christian names they do not remember. Deponent further say that they always understood that said John Campbell was a pensioner of the United States. Deponent Akins has heard said Campbell say he drew a pension. And deponent Smith says that said Campbell trades at his fathers Grocery Store, and would sometimes be short of funds & this again would get money which the deponent; understood at time was his pension money.
Samuel Akins 
B. F. Smith

The foregoing affidavits of Martha Cranmore and Samuel Akins and B. F. Smith duly Sworn to and subscribed by the said parties respectively [words scratched out] before me, and I further certify that I know the said affiants to be

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credible witnesses, and that I am not interested in this claim. And I further certify that I was well acquainted with the said John Campbell for some ten years before his death. Have also known said Sarah Campbell for thirty years and more, and I fully concur in the statements set forth in the foregoing affidavits of Margaret Cranmore & Saml [Samuel] Akins and B. F. Smith from my own personal knowledge of the said John & Sarah Campbell - Witness my hand this 26th day of May 1860- 
H. H. Morris 
Justice of the peace

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

Hamilton County, {Sct.
I Richard A. Stone Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County of Hamilton do hereby certify that H.H. Morris 
before whom the foregoing affidavits 
appears to have been taken ---- was at the time of taking and subscribing the same, a legally acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the County of Hamilton, duly commissioned and qualified, and authorized to perform such official acts, and that his said signature is genuine. 

In Testimony Whereof, I, the Clerk aforesaid, have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court of Cincinnati, in the said County, this 26” day of May A.D. 1860 
R. H. Stone Clerk, H.C.C.P. 
By J. L. Thompson Dpty [Deputy]

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Bounty Land.
Sct of 3d [3rd] March 1855.
Claim of
Sarah Campbell
No

307.643

1- Claimant is wid. [widow] of John Campbell, late a Revolutionary Pensioner of Hamilton Co. Ohio.
2- Was married in Mason County, Va. But no public record of said marriage can be found. Has no private or family record.
3- Cohabitation & reputed marriage proven.
4- Applicant refers to her late husband’s application of his pension & makes the proofs on file therein a part of this application
5- Having hereby applied for a pension, she also makes the proofs on file in her said application a part of this application.
6 Proof that applicant is the wid. [widow] of said John Campbell late of Hamilton Co. Ohio who was a Pensioner of the United States

Sherman & Adams
Galesburg, Illinois
Attys for Applicant

[stamped Pension Office / 30 May / 1860]

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Pension Application
of Sarah Campbell
Wid. [widow] of John Campbell
late Rev. Pensioner of Hamilton
Co. Ohio

[stamped Department of the Interior July 10 18 Pension Office]

Edward F. Adams
Galesburg [crossed out], Chicago Ill.
Attorney

Since the within papers are made out I have moved my offices to Chicago Illinois- E.F. Adams

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State of Ohio} 
County of Hamilton} On this 28th day of April A.D. 1862. Before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County and State, Polly Stevens a widow, and Martha Cranmore, also a widow. who being by me duly sworn depose and say each for herself, that they are both daughters of the aforesaid Sarah Campbell, by her first husband whose name was John Cruey. That their father the said John Cruey died in Virginian near Point Pleasant (in Mason County they believe it was) when they were infant children, leaving four children, three of whom are now living, towit. These deponents & their brother John Cruey Jr. now or recently living six miles from Maysville [^ in] Kentucky. They further say that they know that their father is dead from the fact that they were at his funeral, but that they were so young that their recollections are not as distinct as of the things that happened at a later date but they have from their earliest recollections heard their said father’s death spoken by their mother & other relatives and friends & they know that he is dead and died near the close of the seventeenth century. The think about 1799. 
They further say that after the death of their said father, the said John Cruey, their mother, Sarah Cruey and now the aforesaid Sarah Campbell was married to John Campbell. That they do not know how long after the death of their said father, their mother the said Sarah Campbell was married to him, but have always understood and believed it was about three years thereafter but that they do, each of them, distinctly recollect when their mother, then Sarah Cruey, but now the aforesaid Sarah Campbell went away with the said John Campbell to be married. That this event took place in Virginia, not far from Point Pleasant & they believe in Mason County, but they are not positive as to the name of the county. But they do, (as aforesaid) distinctly remember when their mother the said Sarah Campbell, the above applicant for a pension, went away [words scratched out] from her house with said John Campbell to be married. That on the same day they returned as husband and wife as deponents did then believe and have fully and firmly believed for the last sixty years, or thereabouts that they both saw them when

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They left and when they returned and that the said Sarah Campbell & John Campbell lived together as husband and wife from that time or the time of their marriage, aforesaid to the time of the death of the said John Campbell, a period of from (35 to 37) thirty five to thirty seven years. That as husband and wife, the said Sarah & John Campbell had six children to wit, Betsey, who is now dead, Hiram, who is also dead, Sarah who is the wife of one John Walls of Terre Haute, Indiana, James now living in Hamilton County Ohio, Daniel who is dead, and Henry who lives at Twenty Mile Stand, Warren County Ohio, with whom their mother; the said Sarah Campbell is now stopping. They further say that they have perfect knowledge of the truth of the above statements as their step-father the said John Campbell, raised [^ them] with his own children, above named- and from the day on which he took their mother, Sarah Cruey, to be married, to the day of his death, he was to them (deponents) as a father. They further say that they do not know in what year their mother, the said Sarah Campbell was married to the said John Campbell, but to the best of their knowledge and belief it was about the year (1802) eighteen hundred & two.
They further say that the aforesaid John Campbell for many years before his death, claimed a Revolutionary Pension of thirty dollars ($30) per annum, which was paid to him at Cincinnati Ohio and that he died in Fulton, Hamilton County Ohio on about the 26th day of November AD 1839. That they know that he is dead and died at the time and place aforesaid from the fact that they were at his funeral. They further say that the aforesaid Sarah Campbell is the widow of the said John Campbell, late pensioner as aforesaid. Never having been married since the death of her second husband the said John Campbell. That she has always been reputed to be his widow. Never having heard the fact of their marriage disputed or questioned and further that they do reside at Fulton in the county of Hamilton & State of Ohio & have resided there for 34 -- years last past. 
Stephen Howell
Joseph H Debolt } 2 witnesses. 
Polly [her x mark] Stephens
Martha [her x mark] Cranmore

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State of Ohio} 
County of Hamilton} on this 28th day of April AD 1862 before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State, Samuel Akins aged 60 years and Martin Doss    aged 55 years, who are to me well known and who are credible persons and who being by me duly sworn deposeth and say that they are each well acquainted with Mrs. Sarah Campbell the above applicant for a pension & for Bounty land. That they have known her for thirty years last past. That they were acquainted with the aforesaid John Campbell her late husband. Having known him for about ten or twelve years previous to his death. That they the said Sarah Campbell & the said John Campbell lived together as husband and wife to the time of the death of the said John Campbell and never reputed so to be and the deponents never heard the fact of their marriage disputed or questioned. That said John Campbell died in Fulton Hamilton County Ohio about the year (1839) eighteen hundred and thirty nine. Which deponents know [to be the crossed out] from the fact that they lived in Fulton aforesaid at the time of his death and remember it very well. And the said Sarah Campbell has been since that day as still is reputed to be his widow which deponents believe to be a fact-& that she has never married since the death of her said husband, the said John Campbell. That the said Sarah Campbell has resided in Fulton Hamilton County Ohio for about thirty years or more last past, but that she is now residing as deponents have been informed & believe with her son Henry Campbell, at Twenty Mile Stand Warren County, Ohio and further, that she the said Sarah Campbell & the said John Campbell her late husband had and raised together several children, among whom are James Campbell, now living in Hamilton County Ohio, and Henry Campbell, now living at 20 Mile Stand as aforesaid. They further say that they are acquainted with Mrs. Polly Stevens & Mrs. Martha Cranmore, said be [crossed out] (said to be children of the said Sarah Campbell by her first husband, John Cruey) having known them for some thirty years last past. That they the said

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Polly Stevens and Martha Cranmore were raised in the family of the said John Campbell with his own children, and they are credible persons. 
Deponents further say that they always understood during the lifetime of the aforesaid John Campbell that he was drawing a Revolutionary Pension, but how much for annum they did not remember if they ever knew. They further say, that the aforesaid Sarah Campbell is the mother of [crossed out] who is the mother of the said James Campbell and Henry Campbell is the identical person who was the wife of the said John Campbell, who was a Revolutionary Pensioner as aforesaid, and who is now the widow of the John Campbell she never having been married since her said husband’s death. And further that they do reside in the County aforesaid and are not interested in this claim. 
Samuel Akins 
Martin Doss
Stephen Howell} 
HH Morris} 2 witnesses. 

The foregoing affidavits of Polly Stevens & Martha Cranmore, and Samuel Akins and Martin Doss were sworn to and subscribed by the parties respectively before me on this the 28th day of April A.D. 1862 - and I further certify that I know the said affiants to be credible persons and that I am not invested in this claim. 

H H Morris Justice of the Peace of the city of Cincinnati, Hamilton Co, Ohio

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State of Ohio} 
County of Hamilton} I hereby certify that H. H. Morris Esq. [Esquire] before whom the foregoing affidavits of Polly Stevens, Martha Cranmore, Samuel Akins and Martin Doss were made and acknowledged and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn that his signature thereto [words crossed out] appears to be his signature. I hereby [crossed out] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas on this 9th day of June A.D. 1862. 

Charles E. Cist Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton County Ohio 
By T.L. Brown Deputy

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Sarah Campbell for Pension

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State of Ohio} 
Hamilton County} SS On this 15th day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty six personally appeared in open Court before the Probate Court of Hamilton County in the State of Ohio Sarah Campbell a resident of Hamilton County in the State of Ohio aged 74 years and upwards who Being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the Benefit of the pension act of February 3d [3rd] 1853 that she is the widow of John Campbell who was a Revolutionary pensioner at the rate of 30 dollars a year that said pension was granted to him for service in the Virginia Militia in the war of the Revolution and allowed under act of June 7th 1832 and that his pension certificate bore date April 17th 1834 that she was married to said John Campbell at Mason County in the State of Virginia in the month of August in the year of 1815 and that said John Campbell died in Hamilton County in the State of Ohio on the 6th day of November in the year 1839 that previous to her said marriage to John Campbell she was the widow of John Cruey and that [^ her] name was Sarah Crewey [Cruey] that she has not any documenting or Record evidence of her Marriage to John Campbell that she has not been Married since the death of said John Campbell but That she still remains his widow that she has applied for a pension in the year 1855 John V. Nice being her agent but that she has not ever obtained said pension that she now makes this application as a supplement to that one above named sworn 
To and subscribed in open Court 
in the Probate Court of Hamilton County in the State of Ohio on the date first above written in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
Sarah [her x mark] Campbell

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hand and affixed my official seal at Cincinnati in the state of Ohio on the date last aforesaid. 
John Burgoyne 
Probate Judge

State of Ohio} 
Hamilton County} on this the 25 day of April in the year 1856 personally appeared before me William Finton a Justice of the Peace within and of the County and state aforesaid Mary Stephens and Martha Cranmore both of them residents of Hamilton County in the state of Ohio who being each of them Duly sworn according to Law depose and say that Sarah Campbell the party who has made oath to the foregoing declaration is the Mother of both the Deponents that they are children by her first husband named in the above declaration Mary Stephens is 53 years old and Martha Cranmore is 50 years old and upwards and that there mother from the best account they can obtain is now over 74 years of age and that they do both well remember the date when they were informed that their Mother and John Campbell were married that they were not present at their mothers said wedding but that the deponents learned it from their mother and from said John Campbell and from common report that they were married as had been stated by Sarah Campbell in the foregoing declaration and that they knew her in the time that passed from the time of said marriage to the date of the death of said John Campbell and that said John Campbell and the mother of the deponents did live together as husband and wife untill [until] said John Campbell died that the deponents believe that they were married as said Sarah Campbell has stated in the aforesaid

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Declaration that thes [these] deponents know that said John Campbell died on the 6th day of November 1839 and that Sarah Campbell the party named in the foregoing declaration is now a widow because they know that she has not been married since the death of her said husband they further state that they are not interested in this claim sworn 
to and subscribed before} 
me on the day and year first in} 
this affidavit written}

Mary [her x mark] Stephens
Martha [her x mark] Cranmore

April the 25th of 1856
I William Finton the Justice of the Peace before whome [whom] the foregoing Affidavit was sworn to do hereby certify that the affiants ar [are] credible persons and that I am not interested in this claim or in this prosecution. 
Wm Finton
Justice of the Peace

The State of Ohio}
County of Hamilton} Sct. I, Thomas Spooner Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, the same being a Court of law and record in and for the said County do hereby certify that William Finton, who signed the foregoing certificate last above written was at the date of making of the affidavits last above written & of his certificate to the same, a legally acting Justice of the Peace in and for the said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and duly authorized to administer oaths, take depositions &c within said County and I also certify that his signature to said certificate is genuine.

Witness my hand and the seal of the said Court at Cincinnati in the said county this the 26th day of April AD 1856
Thomas Spooner Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton County 
By E. Page Deputy

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283-462

Act 3rd March 1855

Sarah Campbell 
Widow of John Campbell dec'd [deceased] of VA Militia in Revolution and a Pensioner of Cincinnati Ohio Role Act 7th June 1832

For additional evidence the department is referred to the voucher on which she rec'd [received] the Balance of his pension. 

Wm B Barry
Cincinnati
Ohio

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State of Ohio
County of Hamilton

On this 21st day of Nov 1857
Personally appeared before me a Notary Public within and for said County, Sarah Campbell aged 76 years, a resident of Fulton in said County who being duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of provision made by the [blank] section of the Act of Congress approved March 3rd 1855.
That she is the widow of John Campbell late of said county who was a private in the Virginia Militia in the war of the Revolution, and a pensioner of the United States on the Cincinnati Ohio Roll at the rate of thirty dollars per annum under Act of Congress of 7th June 1832.  That she was married then near Point Pleasant VA in 1803 (as she best remembers) [^ by Squire Watkins J.P.] that her name before her said marriage was “Cruey”. That her said husband died in said County of Hamilton on the 6th day of November 1839. She also declares that she has not again married but is now a widow, that she has not received a warrant for Bounty Land under this or any Act of Congress nor made any previous application therefor [therefore], and that she received the Balance of her said husbands pension and surrendered his pension certificates refers to the evidence on which she recd [received] same.

That she constitutes and appoints Wm B Barry of Cincinnati Ohio her Attorney in the premises observe her warrant. 

Attest 
R Hill
Hiram Fortney 

Sarah  [her x mark] Campbell

Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year first above written before me, as notary my hand and seal and I certify that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.

Richard Hill
Notary Public

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Towit

We Hiram Fortney, Meredith Fortney, & Amelia Fortney residents of Fulton, Hamilton County Ohio upon our oaths declare that the within declaration was signed and acknowledged by Sarah Campbell in our presence and that she is known to us to be the identical person she represents herself to be -she also declares that her husband John Campbell died to our knowledge in the year 1839. That he was a pensioner for services in the Revolutionary war and received his pension at Cincinnati Ohio. That he and the said Sarah lived together as man and wife, were so recognized and had family That having been intimately acquainted with her since his decease we know that she has not again married but is now a widow. We also declare that that [crossed out] we have no interest in her claim to Bounty Land. 

Hiram Fortney
Meredith  [her x mark] Fortney
Amelia  [her x mark] Fortney

Sworn to and inscribed before me

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Towit:

On the day and year first herein written as witness my hand and seal, and I certify that deponents are known to me to be credible persons.
Richard Hill
Not [Notary] Public

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Jno Campbell’s papers to procure a Pension

Ohio Roll

9 April 1836.

[written sideways] Free
Col. James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

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Cincinnati, Ohio
April 1st 1834

Sir,

[ink smear] Campbell, whose papers are enclosed, has relinquished the claim for that part of his service which he cannot prove. I hope you will send him a certificate for his nine months’ services. I sincerely believe that his statement throughout was at first correct, he is a very very infirm old man, who appears to be rapidly approaching his end and is so very deaf that I could not easily make him understand my questions relative to his services. I never understood until yesterday (when it was too late) that he was a sergeant during the 9 months service, when he was a volunteer. 

I am Sir, very respectfully 
Your obt. Sert. [obedient Servant]

H.P. Gaines.

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Chicago Illinois
5th July 1862
Hon Commissioner of Pensions

Sir
I send you herewith the applications of Sarah Campbell for Pension and Bounty of Land as the widow of John Campbell deceased late a Pensioner of Hamilton County Ohio.
The papers would have been forwarded some weeks ago [crossed out] or maybe months ago, but for two reasons- one of which is, the all but impossibility of getting papers of the kind properly executed by proxy, and the other is, the papers were several weeks on the way from Cincinnati to this place.

I have been acquainted with Mrs. Campbell (the applicant) and three of her children for several years (about 3 ½) and with Samuel Akin, one of the witnesses about eleven years and have had conversation, a good many times with others of their Fulton neighbors about this claim. And I will say all the old settlers of Fulton (Ohio) are just as well convinced that Mrs. Sarah Campbell (the applicant) is the lawful widow of John [crossed out] the said John Campbell, who

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Who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of Hamilton County Ohio, as set forth in her declaration & proof, as they, as they are that Genl [General]  Washington was an officer of the Revolution. In all my experience in the Pension & B. L. [Bounty Land] business, I have never found a single case that was more plainly meritorious than this. And I trust that the evidence will be found satisfactory & Conclusive. If so, you will please send the Pension Certificate and B.L. W [Bounty Land Warrant] to my address and office. 

Your Humble Servt [Servant],
E. F. Adams

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We the undersigned citizens of the County of Hamilton, do hereby certify that we have long been acquainted with John Campbell, who has recently applied for the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 in favour [favor] of certain officers & soldiers of the Revolutionary War; - and we do declare without hesitation, that the said John Campbell is a man whose general character for veracity is above suspicion, or reproach; and [^ we] do also certify, that we believe that he was a soldier of the Revolution. 

Thomas S Towler
S. W. Dunham
A. C. Lewis
Wm M Smith
Henry Weeks

{I have been somewhat 
{acquainted with the 
{aforesaid Campbell 
{for two years and believe 
{the facts set forth wherein 
{to be substantially true.
{Fulton Sept 12th 1833
{Thomas Brainerd

{From what I have seen or 
{known of Mr. Campbell during 
{a short acquaintance I have 
{no doubt but he sets 
[forth the truth in his petition
{S. Hazen

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[left side of page] from the acquaintance I have had with Mr. Campbell I believe the statements he has made in the within are substantially true. 
J Whetstone

[right side of page]
{Hamilton County, Ohio
{City of Cincinnati

{I A. W. Sweeney a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, do hereby certify that the persons whose names are hereto attached as vouchers for the within named John Campbell, are entitled to credit for truth & veracity. Witness my hand and seal this 15th of Feby 1834.
AW Sweeney J. P.}

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Citizen of Hamilton County, Ohio
for 
Jno Campbell


Judg [Judge]
William Burke
I am of opinion from all that I can learn that John Campbell was a soldier of the Revolution
Wm Burke

[written sideways] Certificate of Reputation

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Lebanon Ohio
Dec. 26 1859

Hon. Geo. C. Whiting

Sir, D.D.J. Benedict Atty. for Sarah Campbell who is a claimant for a pension, requested me to forward to you the certificate of the qualification of the Justice of the Peace before whom some papers were acknowledged by said widow. 

I herewith have sent it.

Very truly yours
E.F. Adams

P.S. The paper which requires the certificate herewith sent, is, I think a Power of Atty. acknowledged by said Sarah Campbell 8 or 10 weeks ago. 

Yours &c
E. F. A.

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The State of Ohio}
Warren County} SS

I James S Totten Clerk of the court of Common Pleas within and for said county do hereby certify that D. W. Van Dyke Esqr. [Esquire] was duly elected commissioned and qualified a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Warren Ohio on the twenty first day of April A.D. 1857. I also certify that the said D. W. Van Dyke Esqr. [Esquire] is now and has been a Justice of the Peace for said county from the said twenty first day of April A.D 1857 to the present time (said commission expires three years from the date thereof)

In testimony whereof have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court of Lebanon this 26th day of December A.D. 1859
James S. Totten Clerk
By P.L. Sullivan Deputy

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To be used in the 
Pension Case of
Sarah Campbell
widow of John Campbell

(stamped)  Pension Office
                   Dec 30 1853

DDT Benedict
Gallipolis Ohio
Atty. for Claimant

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Sarah Campbell



(Stamped) Pension Office
Jun 10 1859

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                                 Pension Office
                                  Sept. 6, 1855

Sir,
     I have received and examined the papers transmitted to you in support of a claim for pension of Sarah Campbell, widow of John Campbell, of Ohio and filed them under the Act of February 3, 1853.
     The declaration should have been made before a Court of Record, - the marriage should have been proved by record evidence from the Clerk's Office of the county in which the marriage took place, and the witnesses should have identified the claimant as the widow of the pensioner.  The claim is suspended for further proof.
             I am, very respectfully,
                      Your obdt. servt.
                                   J. Minot
                                   Commissioner

John V. Nice, Esq.
Fulton,
Hamilton Co.
      Ohio

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State of Ohio}
County of Warren} S.S.

Know all men by their presents that I Sarah Campbell (widow of the late John Campbell) of the County of Hamilton & state aforesaid, but now residing in the County first aforesaid, do by these presents appoint Daniel D.T. Benedict of Gallipolis in the county of Gallia, & State of Ohio, my true and lawful attorney for me &  in my name place and stead to prosecute, [words scratched out] my claim for pension, & to collect my pension when allowed under the Act of 1853, and other Acts as such cases made and provided [^ also to receive my Bounty Land Warrant] hereby revoking all authority by me given heretofore to any other person or persons & confirming whatsoever my said attorney may lawfully do by virtue hereof.  In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal on the 11th day of October A.D. 1859.

Sarah [her x mark] Campbell
        

C.W. VanDyke}
T.L.  Pendery}    Witnesses

State of Ohio        
County of Warren on this 11th day of October

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A.D 1859 Personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in & for the county aforesaid Sarah Campbell who is personally known to be the person who she represents herself to be and whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Power of Attorney and acknowledged the signing and sealing the same for the use and purposes therein expressed.  In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal on the day as was last aforesaid.
        D.W. Van Dyke, J.P.

State of Ohio
County of Warren S.S.
     Personally appeared before me the subscribed Justice of the Peace in aforesaid county Hanry Campbell who is personally known to me to be a credible witness, who being duly sworn deposes and says that he is a son of the aforesaid Sarah Campbell, that the said Sarah Campbell is still a widow, that she is the widow of said John Campbell late of Hamilton County

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Ohio, who was a Revolutionary Pensioner at the rate of [crossed out], that the said John Campbell died on or about the 26th day of November A.D. 1839.
Henry [his X mark] Campbell

Jeremiah Pendery
J.L. Pendery

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 11th day of Oct - 1859-

D. W. VanDyke J.P. {SS}

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[Top left, in a printed box]
J.H. Sherman     E.F. Adams
Sherman & Adams
Attorneys and Land Agents
Galesburg, Ill.
Attention given to the prosecution of Military Land Claims for Soldiers of the War of 1812, and their heirs; and of all claims growing out of Military Service.

[Top right, in a printed box]
We are devoting especial attention to the prosecution of SUSPENDED COUNTY LAND claims.  Our experience in this branch of business, our extensive correspondence with Soldiers and their heirs throughout the country, and facilities for finding the necessary proof to establish such claims enable us to succeed where others have failed and given up in despair.  In fact, we rarely fail where service for the term of fourteen days were actually rendered.

Galesburg, Ill, Feby 9th, 1861 
Hon Geo. C. Whiting, Sir,

We herewith send you a Power of Atty, from Sarah Campbell widow of John Campbell deceased, late a Rev. [Revolutionary] Pensioner of Hamilton County, Ohio.

By your letter of 18th June 1860, you inform us that D.D.T. Benedict Esq. had written a letter to you as her Agent in which he states
     "I think this Sarah Campbell is not the true applicant, that is, I think this widow of John Campbell is another person entirely, and that this Sarah is only a woman who lived with John Campbell unlawfully, while his wife is still alive."
 
Now in relation to the above we beg leave to make two or three suggestions.  1st We think the Hon. Commissioner is in error in supposing that Mr. Benedict was at the time Agent for Mrs. Campbell.  Her agent at that time was, we think one Rice.

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2nd we think Mr. Benedict did not become Mrs. Campbell's agent till the fall of 1859 when he sent an application for her pension, or perhaps more possibly some further proof in his case.  We may be in error in this, but our opinion is based on the following facts towit.  Mr. Benedict sent some papers to the writer of this letter, which in Cincinnati in the fall of 1859 with the request that he would call on Mrs. Campbell and get them signed.  We found that she had gone up to Warren Co. and he followed her up - but found the papers did not set forth the facts in her case - as for instance that she had no children by Campbell, whereas she lives with her son Campbell and has several other Campbell children living near her.  The papers were made out in accordance with the facts, signed & forwarded to Mr. Benedict.  But at this time Mrs. Campbell had never made Mr. B. acquaintance, and we feel certain that to this day B. has never seen her - and the writer got the impression at the time both from her & him, that he had never been her agent.  
3d [3rd] Mr. B. told the writer that he had written such a statement as quoted above to the Commissioner, but that he had afterwards become convinced that he was in error, and had filed an affidavit to that effect.  
This statement was made to the writer some months after he made out the papers in the case -
Now permit us to inquire whether that

[rest of letter is not available]

(Stamp over the text)
PENSION OFFICE
FEB 3 
1861

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State of Ohio}
County of Highland}
On this 9th day of August A.D. 1861, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county, and State Daniel D.T. Benedict, to me well known and whom I certify to be a credible witness, who being duly sworn, deposes and says that he was some years ago Agent for Mrs. Sarah Campbell widow of John Campbell deceased who was a Revolutionary pensioner at the rate of thirty dollars per annum and late of Hamilton County Ohio. That he did at one time write to the Hon. Commissioner of Pensions to this effect to wit. That the said Sarah Campbell was not the wife of the said John Campbell deceased, but that she (the widow) was another person entirely and that this Sarah is only a woman who lived with the said John Campbell unlawfully, while his wife is alive! ‘

Deponent further says that he afterwards became fully convinced tht he was in an error on that point, that after a careful examination of her case in Fulton, Hamilton County [^ Ohio] where the [^ said] John & Sarah Campbell lived for many years, and having raised their family, and that he never through the whole period in which he acted as her Agent, learned any facts or heard any report going to show that the aforesaid Sarah Campbell was not the lawful widow of the said John Campbell, but on the contrary from the good reputation that the said John and Sarah Campbell sustained among those who had known them even after they moved into the said Town of Fulton, and from the absence of any report or apparent suspicion he was led to believe most fully that the first impression which he had got, and which he communicated to the Hon. Coms. of Pensions as above was wholly unfounded, and that he had been misinformed maliciously.

He further says that he did, while he was Attorney for Mrs. Campbell, make search in Mason County Virginia for a public record of the marriage of the said Sarah & John Campbell but found non, but was told in the early

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part of the present century.  A Justice of the Peace of the same name as the one named by her as having married her lived in that county, but has long since died - (Mason County Virginia being the county where she claims to have been married) - deponent further says that the pension claim of the said Sarah Campbell passed out of his hands some months ago, he does not know how long, but that he has done nothing in the premises for about. And further that he is not now interested in her claim - 
D.D.T. Benedict

State of Ohio}
County of Highland}
The foregoing affidavit of D.D.T. Benedict was subscribed and sworn to before me and I certify that I know the said deponent to be a credible witness being well acquainted [with] him - & further that I have no interest in this claim - this August 9th A.D. 1861
James Gibson, J.P.

State of Ohio Highland County} S.S.
I John A. Trimble Clerk of the Court of Highland County, do hereby certify that James Gibson whose genuine signature appears to the above acknowledgement is and was at the time of executing the Same, an acting Justice of the Peace within & for the County of Highland aforesaid, and that full faith and credit are due and of right given to all his official acts as such Magistrate In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of Said office at Hillsboro the 17 day of August 1861.

Jno A. Trimble, Clerk

(written sideways)  Pension claim of
Sarah, wid. [widow] of
John Campbell
Towit

[stamped PENSION OFFICE SEP 3 1861]

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Gallipolis Ohio May 30th 1859
Hon
Sir one of the heirs of John Campbell & his widow have placed the enclosed letter in my hands asking me to inquire of you what disposition you have made of the pension claim therein mentioned-has the pension been allowed or does it still stand as it did when this letter was written.
                     Yours respectfully,
                     D.D.T Benedict

P.S.  I think this Sarah Campbell is not the true applicant that is I think the widow of John Campbell is another person entirely and that this Sarah is only a woman who lived with John Campbell unlawfully while his wife is still alive.
                                          D.D.T.B.

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Continuation of letter of 9 Feb. 1861
affidavit of Mr. Benedict is not enough to counteract the statement which it is intended to disprove.  If it is not enough, please tell us what more proof is required.
The writer of this had made a good deal of inquiring into Mrs. Campbell's case and feels quite certain that no other person living can be found, except Mr. Benedict who ever suspected that Sarah Campbell the applicant was not the lawful wife of the said John Campbell or whoever heard of suspected that said Campbell ever lived

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with any other woman than the applicant.
We do not think he can prove her marriage by a record of living witnesses, (She having been married some fifty odd years ago in a retired part of Mason Co. Va.) But all other facts that are material to the case we can as easily prove, as if Campbell had lived until Jany 1st 1861 with the said applicant. The writer of this has as much confidence in the Justice of her claim as he has that her husband (the said John Campbell's) claim was just.
Please excuse us for writing so long as letter & favor us with as early reply as possible. 
Very respectfully yours 
Sherman & Adams by E.F. Adams

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                      Cincinnati, Ohio
                        5th Nov 1857

The Comm. of Pension,
     Sir,

Please find herewith application of Sarah Campbell, an old resident of this County, for Bounty Land --

She informs me that her marriage certificate and bible were destroyed by the burning of her house and the Clerk of the Court at Point Pleasant Va informs me that Mr. Watkins (the Justice of Peace who married her) did not make any returns prior to 1806.  So that we are unable to produce Record Evidence of it -

She drew the Balance of

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of his pension and surrendered his pension certificate, and is well known among the old Residents of Fulton (now attached to Cincinnati) where she has resided from a very early period --

Very respf [respectfully]
Wm. B. Barry

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Hopkinsville O. [Ohio]             Free
23 Feby}

Hon. R.A. Harrison
Mem. [Member] Congress
from Ohio
Washington City
D.C.

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Hopkinsville, Ohio  23 February 1863
            Hon R.A. Harrison

                                 Dear Sir
I enclose you the pension certificate of Mrs. Sarah Campbell, you will see it is payable at Cleveland.  She resides with her son in this Warren County.
     I desire that you will present the matter to the Commissioner of Pensions and procure a transfer for payment at the Cincinnati Agency.

                        Very respectfully,
                                 John Hopkins

Please make the transfer, as
above requested
Washington, Feb. 28, 1863     R.A. Harrison

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J.H. Sherman     E.F. Adams
Sherman & Adams
Attorneys & Land Agents
Galesburg, Ill.
Attention given to the prosecution of Military Land Claims for Soldiers of the War of 1812, and their heirs; and of all claims growing out of Military Service.

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We are devoting especial attention to the prosecution of SUSPENDED COUNTY LAND claims.  Our experience in this branch of business, our extensive correspondence with Soldiers and their heirs throughout the country, and facilities for finding the necessary proof to establish such claims enable us to succeed where others have failed and given up in despair.  In fact, we rarely fail where service for the term of fourteen days were actually rendered.

Galesburg, Ill., Aug. 29th 1861
Hon. Commissioner of Pensions
Sir:
     Enclosed we send the affidavit of D.D.T. Benedict, as additional evidence in the claim of Sarah Campbell a pension as the widow of John Campbell died, who was a Revolutionary Pensioner.
     We trust this will sufficiently explain and counteract the effect of his letter of May 30th 1859. to which it refers.
     Our last communication from the Department in the case bears date March 5th 1861.
Your Obt. Serts, [Obedient Servants]
Sherman & Adams

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City of Cincinnati
Hamilton County, Ohio

This day John Campbell of Fulton Township in said county and state, appeared personally before me H.P. Gaines a notary public in and for said City & County, and after being duly sworn, states as follows;- that although he did serve as an enlisted soldier in the War of the Revolution for the time and in the manner stated in his declaration, dated the 19th day of  February last, and herewith enclosed, yet he knows of no living witnesses as by whom he can prove his said service in that character-that in his declaration aforesaid, he had relied on his name being found on the Muster rolls or records in the War Department, and as it is not to be found there, he hereby relinquishes all claim whatever to a pension under the Act of Congress passed

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June 7th 1832, or at any other period whatever, so far as concerns his services as an enlisted soldier, and claims no pension for any other services than the nine months during which he was a volunteer in Capt. Alexander Telford's company & in Col. Campbell's Regiment, as stated in his said declaration.

John [his x mark] Campbell

Subscribed & sworn}
to this 31st day of}
March 1834, before}
me. H.P. Gaines, Notary Public, in wit -
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and notarial seal this day, last above mentioned.
H.P. Gaines
Notary Public

(in corner box, on angle)
John Campbell to the United States Relinquishment of all claim, except for nine months service

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Galesburg, Illinois
26 May 1860

Hon. Geo. C. Whiting,
Sir
Herewith we send the application of Sarah Campbell widow of the late John Campbell a Revolutionary Pensioner of the U.S. who at $30 - per annum- & who resides in Hamilton County Ohio.

We think we have made proof that will be satisfactory to you on all points with perhaps one exception - to wit, that of the non existence of a Public Record of the marriage of the applicant to said John Campbell - But as she has referred to her application for her pension, and made the proofs on file therein a part of this application, we beg leave to say that we think you will find among those papers an affidavit of our D.D.T. Benedict to the effect that he searched in Mason County Va for said Public Record, but that it could not be found - and which we hope will be satisfactory on that point 

On issuing the warrant, please forward to our address in Galesburg, Illinois- and oblige-

Your humble servts,
Sherman & Adams

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Hon sir,
     Enclosed pleas [please] find the application of Mrs. Sarah Campbell asking for pension under act of 3rd February 1853 which I trust is in accordance with the general rule of the department, pleas [please] answer me at this place the desision [decision] on said application and oblige. Very respectfully your most Obedient serv
                               John V. Nice
                               Fulton April 28 56
                               Hamilton County
                                       Ohio

Hon
     J. Minot
     Commissioner
     of Pensions
     Washington City
         DC

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Treasury Department
Third Auditors Office
August 22, 1862  

Sir:
     I comply with the request contained in your letter of the 20th inst. [institute] by enclosing the vouchers upon which the arrears of pension were paid in the case of John Campbell, a pensioner in the Cincinnati, Ohio, rolls under Act June 7, 1832 at $30 per annum.
Very respectfully
Your obt serv,
 RJ Morris,
 Auditor


Joseph H. Barrett Esq.}
Comm. of Pensions}

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August the 29, 1855
Hon. sir, Towit-

I have inclose [enclosed] you the application of Mrs. Sarah Campbell for pension under the Act of February the 3rd, 1853 which I trust is sificant [sufficient] to obtain her pension at the rate of $30 per year. 
Pleas [Please] answer me at this place when it suits yours conveinence. [convenience] 

Yours respectfully,
John V. Nice
Fulton Hamilton County
Ohio

Hon. L.P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pension
Washington City D.C.

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Rev Ser [Revolutionary Service] own

                                        Warren, Ohio
                                        January 28th

Bureau of Pensions:-
Dear Sir:-
     I have an ancestor Mark Hatton that is supposed to have fought in the Rev. War.  Do your records show he drew a pension or say on the payroll as a soldier?  Also another Ancestor John Campbell, both he

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and Mark Hatton enlisted from Rockbridge Co. Vir.
                     Sincerely,
                     Mrs. Wm. W. Baum