Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4652, Moses Chamberlin, Continental N.H. Vt.

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SERVICE
Continental
N.H.
Vt.

Chamberlin, Moses
Abigail

NUMBER
W. 4652

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2164     216
Pennsylvania.
Abigail Chamberlin
of Moses Chamberlin

died on the   14th February 1832
of Susquehanna in the State of Pa
who was a Sgt & Lieut in the Company commanded
by Captain Barrows of the Regt commanded
by Col Beedel in the N.H.
line for 1 year Lieutenant
1" Sergeant
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Inscribed on the Roll of Penn^a
at the rate of 220 Dollars 00 Cents per annum,
to commence on the [crossed out] 4th day of March, 1831 [/crossed out]
14th February 1832
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Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of June
1838 and sent A. L. 
Post  Monrose Penn^a.
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arrears to the 4th of March 1838     $1320.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept " 110.00
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                                                           $1430.00


Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the 3^d

RECORDED BY  D. D. Addison    Clerk,
Book    A.        Vol. 3          Page 138

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Dead
Paid at the Treasury under
the Act of the 6th April 1838
to 8 of 9 Children from 4th
March to 12 April 1840.
Agt notified 24 Sep 1841

J. C. Miller Apl
30. 18?1

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18,544
Pennsylvania
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Moses Chamberlin.
of Gibson in the State of Pennsylvania,
who was a Sergeant in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Reed of the New Hampshire line, for the term of 1 year.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 9th of May 1818.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 11 of April: 1822. and sent to Hon: D Burrows, H.R.
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Arrears to 4th of Mar: 1822.               $366..99
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1822.    48..00
                                                                  414..99

45 mos:
(illegible)/31 & 4/30

{Revolutionary clam, Act 18th March, 1818.} & 1st of May 1820

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Moses Chamberlin

Copies

Not found on the N. H. rolls

Hon D. Burrows H. R.

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District of Pennsylvania. ss.

on this fifth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in open court. viz the Court of Common Pleas holden at Montrose in the County of Susquehanna & State of Pennsylvania before the Honourable Edward Herrick President Judge thereof & Davis Dimcock & William Thomson his associates. Moses Chamberlain a resident of the township of Gibson aged seventy years in December last, who being first duly sworn according to law, both on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the 18th of March 1818, and the first of May 1820, that he, the said - Moses Chamberlain, enlisted for the term of eight months and served our the term he enlisted for and then he enlisted as Sergeant for the term of one year on Winter hill near Boston on the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seven six in the State of Massachusetts, in the company commanded by Benjamin Mann Capt. & in the regiment commanded by Col James Read in the line of the state of New Hampshire on the Continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said corps until the 17th of February in the year 1777 having stayed six weeks longer than enlisted for for the new army to be recruited then he was discharged with the approbation of his officers from the said service in Morristown, in the state of New Jersey. That he was in the Battle of Boston - that he was in the retreat out of Canada - that he was in the Battle of Trenton in New Jersey, at the taking of the Hessians and in the Battle of Princeton New Jersey and also at the taking of Burgoine - and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services, except the depositions of Emerson Corliss & Willian Haselton. And that he applied by original [illegible] dated May 9th 1818 for his pension which was rejected, because the warrant from Colo Read was not dated, & the Judge did not certify the reduced circumstances I were in.

And in pursuance of the act of Congress of the 1st of May 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not since

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that time by gift, sale, or in any other manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war." passed on the eighteenth day of March eighteen hundred & eighteen and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property of securities, debts or contracts due to  my offering have 

I am a carpenter by occupation, but by infirmity of old age entirely unable to follow my occupation.  I have a wife Abigail fifty seven years old very infirm & unable to do much for our support also a son of 16 years of age small of his age and not able to do much for his support.

The cause of my indigency was. I lived near the frontiers in New York State and the enemy came upon us in the late war, drove me off and I lost the most of my property - I lived near what was called the French mills.

Schedule - 
27 Acres of land. 8 partly under improvement the rest uncleared of its very stony & rocky.
1 horse
1 2 iron kettles
1 pine leaf table
1 pair plough irons
1 pair shovel & tongs
1 brown axe. 1 narrow axe
1 auger - pair bisels
1 pair of steel yards
1 shoat
1 hand saw ---- took from Burgoine

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Debts that I owe.

To Remberance Chamberlain - $70.00
To Andrew B Peters - 26.00
To Austin Jones - 23.00
To John Belcher - 12.00
To Lock Chandler - 11.00
To Enoch Smith - 7.00
To Daniel Smith - 16.00

& a number of other small debts in the neighborhood

(signed) Moses Chamberlain

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State of Pennsylvania
Susquehanna County ss.}
On this Sixth day of March int he year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven personally appeared before the Honorable Davis Dimock associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County & State aforesaid, Abigail Chamberlin a resident of the Township of Gibson in the County and state aforesaid aged seventy three years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4, 1836 - That she is the widow of Moses Chamberlin a pensioner for services performed in the war for American Independence. That the said Moses Chamberlin enlisted as she believes sometime in April (1776) seventeen hundred and seventy six into the continental service, under Captain Timothy W Barrons in Col. Reed's Regiment as a private in the first Campaign + went on service to Canada, and returned in February or March in the next year (1777) That he served during the Campaign of seventeen hundred + seventy seven, as she believes under, and as sergeant in Capt Barrons Company of the New Hampshire line and Col. Beedle's Regt. She thinks he went to Canada in this campaign. That he was some time a Lieutenant in the same company under the same Captain + colonel. That she believes + is confident that she understood at the time that he was at the Battle of Lexington at the taking of Burgoine. She thinks he served at least under Capt. Barrons during most if not all of the year (1778) seventeen hundred and seventy eight - + some in (1779) under the same Captain, and after that as a Minute

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Under different Captains on skirmishes at different times till the end of the war. She is confident that he served three or four years before + served as a Minute Man

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She further declares that she was married to the said Moses Chamberlin on the Twentieth day of May - in the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine that her husband the aforesaid Moses 
Chamberlin died on the fourteenth day of February in the year eighteen hundred thirty two; and that she remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereunto annexed.
/s/Abigail Chamberlin

Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year first above written, She the said Abigail Chamberlin being a credible person and unable by reason of bodily infirmity to appear in Open Court - before me}
/s/Davis Dimock Associate Judge
State of Pennsylvania
Susquehanna County} ss.
I George Walker Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said county do certify that Davis Dimock whose name is subscribed above is associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County & state aforesaid on the said first day of March A.D. 1837. And that his signature as above is genuine 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court. This fifteenth day of April A.D. Eighteen hundred + thirty seven.
/s/Geo. Walker Prob

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Susquehanna County SS.
I Wright Chamberlin of Gibson township in the County of Susquehanna and State of Pennsylvania aged Seventy nine years do depose and say that I was well acquainted with Moses Chamberlin my brother who was eight years older than my self who was a Soldier in the revolutionary war who died in the township of Gibson five years ago Last february past and has left a widow who was a wife of his youth and now widowed and ever has been since his death her maiden name was Abigail Stevens I was not present at the marriage but had seen her before the marriage and am now near neighbour to her and ever have been since my brothers Death the service my brother performed in the army after his marriage the length of time I cannot tell but know it was several tours in Militia and  several Cols and was a pensioner of the United States at the time of his death by act of Congress 1818 and further this deponent saith not
/s/Wright Chamberlin
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State of Pennsylvania 
Susquehanna County ss} On the 13th day of April 1837 personally appeared before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for the County of Susquehanna Wright Chamberlin on his Solemn oath according to Law saith that the above Deposition by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth and I further certify that the said Wright Chamberlin is a credible witness and his statement is entitled to full credit 
/s/Joseph Washburn } J peace
State of Pennsylvania
Susquehanna County}ss - I George Walker Clerk of the County Court of the aforesaid County do hereby certify that Joseph Washburn whose name is written above is a Justice of the Peace in + for the said county of Susquehanna duly commissioned + qualified according to law + was the same at the time of signing the above and that the signature of the said Joseph Washburn is his genuine signature. 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office + subscribed my hand this fifteenth day of April AD Eighteen hundred + thirty six
/s/Geo. Walker Prob.

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I Simeon Stevens of Newbury in Orange County and State of Vermont aged sixty nine years do depose testify and say that I was present at the marriage of Moses Chamberlain and Abigail Stevens in the month of April 1779 at my father's Simeon Stevens' in Newbury Vermont and they were married by Peter Powers Minister of the Gospel - I know it was in the month of April because it was in the time of making maple sugar. and I know it was in the year 1779 because my mother died that year said Abigail was my sister and I am now informed she is the widow of said Moses Chamberlain - said Moses lived at the time of his death in Gibson Pennsylvania my sister at the time of her marriage with said Moses was not sixteen years old till the month of October next after her marriage and further this deponent saith not - 
/s/Simeon Stevens

State of Vermont
Orange County ss - At Bradford in said Orange County this 9 day of March 1837 there personally appeared before me the above named Simeon Stevens and made solemn oath that the above deposition by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth and I hereby certify that the said Simeon Stevens is a creditable witness - 
/s/Adams Preston Justice Peace

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State of Vermont
Orange County ss - Orange County Clerk's office March 9, 1837
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I. J. W. D. Parker Clerk of Orange County Court do hereby certify that Adams Preston whose name is within written is a justice of the peace within and for said County of Orange duly commissioned and qualified to act as such that his commission is dated the 15. day of November 1836 and will expire on the 30-day of November 1837 - and that his signature within written is genuine - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand official and affixed the seal of said County Court this 9 day of March 1837 - 
/s/J.W.D. Parker Clerk

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[typewritten letter]

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section 
EEL

July 21, 1930

Mr. R. E. Dale
540 North 26th Street
Lincoln, Nebraska

Dear Sir:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W.4652, that Moses Chamberlin was born in December, 1749, place not stated.
While a resident of Newbury, Orange County, Vermont, he enlisted before the battle of Bunker Hill and served eight months, dates of this service and officers names not given. 
He enlisted in the State of Massachusetts, January 1, 1776, served as sergeant in Captain Benjamin Mann's Company, Colonel James Reed's New Hampshire Regiment, and was discharged February 17, 1777.
[handwritten margin note: Because it did not in the paper as Vermont as he was in the NH book. did not use Vt.]
He enlisted in September, 1777, and was at the capture of Burgoyne, dates and officers names not stated, and in December 15, 1777, he received his appointment as sergeant major in Colonel Timothy Bedel's Regiment, but it is not stated whether this last named service was as sergeant major.
It is stated that from the spring of 1778, he served one year as lieutenant in Captain Timothy Barren's Company, Colonel Bedel's Regiment, and that from sometime in 1779 until the close of the  war he was called out on a number of tours in the scouting service, a part of the time as first lieutenant in Captain Fry Bayley's Company.
He was in the retreat from Canada, in the battles of Boston, Trenton and Princeton and in several skirmishes.

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He was allowed pension  on his application executed September 5, 820, at which time he was a resident of Gibson Township, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania.

He died February 14, 1832, in Gibson Township, Pennsylvania.

The soldier married May 20, 1779, in Newbury, Vermont, Abigail Stevens, who was born in October, 1763. They were married at the home of her father, Simeon Stevens. It is stated that her mother, whose name is not given, died the year of Abigail's marriage.

She was allowed pension on her application executed March 6, 1837, at which time she was residing in Gibson Township, Pennsylvania, with her youngest son, Samuel S. Chamberlin, one of her nine children referred to, no other name given.

She died April 12, 1840.

The Revolutionary War records of this bureau fail to afford any information in regard to another Moses Chamberlain, searched under all spellings, as described by you.

                 Very truly yours


               E. W. MORGAN
               Acting Commissioner.

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Timothy Bedel Esquire Colonel of a Regiment of Volunteers raised by Order of Congress for an Expedition against Canada - To Moses Chamberlain - Greetings 
I do hereby reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Courage and good Conduct con[obscured] Appoint you the said Moses Chamberlain to be Serjeant Major to the Regiment of Volunteers under my Command, You are therefore Carefully and Diligently to discharge the Duty of Serjeant  Major and all Inferior Officers and Soldiers are hereby required and Commanded to Obey you as their Serjeant Major, And you, yourself are required to Observe and follow such Orders and Directions as you shall from Time to Time receive from me or the Adjutant of said Regiment or other your Superior Officers according to Military Rules and Discipline in War in pursuance of the Trust reposed in you, and for which this shall be your sufficient Warrant Given under my Hand and Seal at Haverhill this Fifteenth day of December A. D. 1777 - 
/s/Tim'o Bedel Col'l

CHAMBERLIN, MOSES

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This may certify that I received this warrant at Headquarters on Mount Independence of opiset  Ticonderoga at the Northern army in the year 1776 - this warrant was wrote by Jonathan [illegible] and when it was signed the date was omitted this through a Mistake which was not noticed until it was sent to the Secretary all which I am ready to attest to

Moses Chamberlin
W.F. 4652
N. H.

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James Reed Esq'r.
Colonel of the Second Reg't of Foot EN'L To S. Moses Chamberlain Greeting
Reposing special trust & Confidence in your Loyal good Behaviour I do hereby appoint you a Serjeant in Capt. Benj'a Morris Company in the Reg't under my Command and you are diligently to discharge the duty of a Serjeant And to obey all orders that you may from time to time Receive from your Superior Officers, And the men are ['to obey' crossed out] hereby required to obey all your Lawful Command, as a Serjeant of s'd Company, for which this shall be your Sufficient Warrants. Given under my Hand
/s/Jas. Reed Col. -

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State of Pennsylvania 
Susquehanna County ss. On the eighteenth ay of August A. D. one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, Before me the subscribed an associate judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid, Personally appears Josiah D Stowe, who being duly sworn according to Law, doth on his solemn oath depose and say, that he the deponent was an Officer (a Major) and as such did duty in the revolutionary war, in Colonel Timothy Beadle's regiment, in the New Hampshire line, and that then and there when doing such duty, that he the deponent knew, and was well acquainted with Moses Chamberlin, and that the said Moses Chamberlin did serve and act as first Lieutenant, in Captain Timothy Barrons Company in the said Col. Beadle's regiment, in the revolutionary war, for one whole year and more, and further the deponent saith not, for testimony of the above I have hereunto set my and at Great Bend, in the County aforesaid the day and year first above written
/s/William Thomson

Susquehanna ss
I do hereby Certify that Josiah Stowe, the above named deponent, is a man of a good character, and the now verry infirm from age, yet retains his faculties sufficiently to recollect the transactions of the revolution, and to answer such questions as may be put to him concerning the events of that period correctly, & therefore verrily believe the said Josiah Stowe to be a credible person, Given under my hand at Great Bend this eighteenth day of August A.D. 1819.
/s/William Thomson

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Pennsylvania
Susquehanna County s I Jabez Hyde Jun'r Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of this County aforesaid do certify that William Thomson Esquire is and was at the time of taking and signing the within Certificate an associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid and that full faith and credit ought to be given to all his official acts and deeds as such' And, that his signature is of his own proper hand writing
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Said Court at Montrose the twentieth day of August AD 1819
/s/Jabez Hyde Jun'r Proth'y

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Susquehanna County ss
Personally appeared before me Davis Dimock one of the associate Judges in and for said County Amos Ingals who being by me first duly sworn - according to law deposeth and saith that he knew Timothy Barron's Captain in Col Bedles Regt in New Hampshire line and that he had often heard the said Captain Barron say that Moses Chamberlin was a Lieutenant in his company and that he was a good soldier and did his duty faithfully and that he had heard many a credible person say the same and further the deponant saith not
/s/Amos Ingals
Sworn and subscribed this 20th day of August 1819 /s/Davis Dimock
I do certiy that it appears to my sattisfaction that the above deponant Amos Ingals is a credible person -

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Pennsylvania Susquehanna County ss
[court seal affixed] I Jabez Hyde Jr - Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Susquehanna do certify that Davis Dimock Esquire is and was at the time of taking and signing the within Deposition one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid and that full faith and credit ought to be given to all his official acts and deeds as such. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set y hand Seal of Said Court at Montrose the twentieth day of August AD 1819
/s/Jabez Hyde Jr Proth'y

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I Jacob Bayley of Newbury in the County of Orange and State of Vermont of the age of Eighty four years testify and say that I was well acquainted with Moses Chamberlin formerly of Newbury aforesaid and know him to be a Lieutenant in Capt Timothy Barron's Company in Bedel's Regiment in 1778 and I further say that the s'd Moses Chamberlin was frequently out with me and others on scouting parties after his [illegible] end of the war
/s/Jacob Bayley
[E. B. Stevens witness}

State of Vermont 
County of Orange SS} at Newbury in the said County of Orange on the 24th day of March 1837 Jacob Bayley of s'd Newbury to me well known personally appeared and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth and I certify that s'd Bayley is a credible person and his testimony entitled to belief.
Certified by James Abbott Justice Peace

I Simeon Stevens of Newbury in the County of Orange and State of Vermont of the age of sixty nine years testify and say that I was well acquainted with Moses Chamberlin formerly of Newbury aforesaid from the year 1779 to the end of the war and that he was frequently out on scouting parties in the service of the United States during that period
/s/Simeon Stevens
{E.B. Stevens witness}
State of Vermont
Orange County ss} at Newbury in the Said County of Orange on the 24th day of March 1837 Simeon Stevens of Said Newbury to me well known personally appeared and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth and I certify that s'd Stevens is a credable person and his testimony entitled to belief
Certified by James Abbot Justice Peace

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State of Vermont
Orange County ss - Orange County Clerk's office March 27, 1837 - I, J.W.D. Parker, Clerk of Orange County Court do hereby certify that James Abbott is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County of Orange duly commissioned and qualified as such that his commission is active November 15, 1836 - and will expire on the 30 day of November 1837 - that his signature within written is genuine - 
[court seal affixed] In testimony of [illegible] I hereunto set my official hand and affixed the seal of said County Court this 27 day of March 1837 - 
/s/J.W.D. Parker Clerk

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State of Pennsylvania
Susquehanna County} ss.
On this fifteenth day of April A.D. eighteen hundred + thirty seven, personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in + for said County of Samuel S. Chamberlin a credible witness, who being duly sworn according to law on his solemn oath deposeth + saith that he was well acquainted with Moses Chamberlin of the Township of Gibson in the County of Susquehanna, a Revolutionary Soldier + a pensioner, and present at the time of the his death. That he died in said township of Gibson in the County + State aforesaid, on the fourteenth day of February AD eighteen hundred + thirty-two. leaving his wife Abigail Chamberlin a widow who still remains the same. Further the deponent saith not.
/s/Samuel S. Chamberlin
Sworn + subscribed the day above written before me - as witness my hand + seal.} /s/David Post Justice Peace [facsimile seal]

State of Pennsylvania
Susquehanna County}ss I George Walker Clerk of the County Court of the aforesaid County do hereby certify that David Post whose name is above written was a Justice of the Peace in + for the said County of Susquehanna on the said fifteenth day of April 1837. + is the same duly commissioned + qualified according to law. And that the signature of the said David Post as above written is his genuine signature.
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this fifteenth day of April A.D. Eighteen hundred + thirty seven.
/s/Geo. Walker Prob.

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The affidavit of David Johnson of Newbury in the County of Orange and State of Vermont, Showeth that he is Town

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1749
State of Vermont
[court seal affixed] Orange County Clerk's Office March 27 1837 - I J.W.D. Parker Clerk of Orange County Court do hereby certify that Joseph Berry is a justice of the Peace duly commissioned and qualified as such - that his commission is dated the 15 day of November 1836 and will expire on the 30th day of November 1837 - that his signature within written is genuine - Given under my official hand and the seal of said County Court this 27 day of March
/s/JWD Parker Clerk

✓1949
Abigail Chamberlin
Pennsyl'ia
served one year as Serg't from Ja 1776
1 yr St. Apl 1778 to Apl 1779.
various May 1777
proof of service after marriage signed

admitted 
1 year Sergt 60
1 year Sergt  160
______
$220
died 14 Febr 1832
/s/A. S. Post 
Montrose Pa

on roll
Capt Timothy Barron's Co Col Bedel's regt - 
from April 1778 to April 1779. As Scout
Roll with Mr. Sylvester,

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State of Vermont Orange County ss
I Emerson Corliss of Bradford County & State aforesaid and I William Hesseltine of Haverhill New hampshire Grafton County of Lawfull age Testify and Say that we were Continental Service in the year 1776 under the Command of Colo James Read in the Company of Benjamin Mann and we were knowing to Moses Chamberlain belonging to the said Company and Regiment and his doing duty as Sergent in said Company and Regiment one year or more
/s/Emerson Corliss
/s/Wm. Haseltine
State of Vermont orange County ss
Newbury June 17 - 1820 then personally appeared before me Emerson Corliss and William Haseltine Signers of the above Deposition and made oath to Same
/s/Simeon Stevens Justice of peace

[county court seal affixed] Orange County Clerks Office June 21st 1820 - 
I. H.E.G. McLaughlin Clerk of Orange County Court hereby certify that Simeon Stevens before whence the foregoing Deposition was Taken is a Justice of the peace within and for the County of Orange aforesaid acting under the authority of therein State and that his subscribed to the foregoing certificate is in his own hand writing.  - 
Attest /s/H.E. G. McLaughlin Clerk O.C. Court

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Montrose April 2d 1822

Sir I am informed that it is necessary for me to certify that Moses Chamberlin did apply for the provisions of the act of 1818 granting pensions to such as served in the Revolutionary War &c.
I do therefore certify that Moses Chamberlin of the Township of Gibson and County of Susquehanna did apply to me in order to obtain a pension certificate according to the provisions of the act of 1818 and made the necessary declaration and oath on the ninth day of May 1818 and not having his papers before me & I cannot state further particulars
I am Sir your obdt. and very honorable Servt.
/s/Davis Dimock Esq Judge

To J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War

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I Simeon Stevens of Newbury in the County of Orange and State of Vermont aged seventy years do depose testify and say that some time fall winter I made a deposition in the case of Abigail Chamberlain widow of Moses Chamberlain who resides now as I am informed in Gibson Pennsylvania and who is an applicant for a pension - in which deposition I stated as I now recollect - that said Abigail and Moses were married in the month of April 1779 and that I supposed or concluded it was in April by reason of its being about the time of making maple sugar - and upon recollection I now conclude I must have been mistaken as to the time or month - and now come to the conclusion that the marriage must have been in the month of May of the year 1779 - and my reasons for thinking as I now depose are that in those days the County was new and the snow remained on the ground to a later period in the season than now - and as there were then scarcely any roads we left our sugar in the woods where it was manufactured until the snow went off so that we could get to it with a team on the bare ground - and I also now recollect well that I myself went on foot into the woods to the sugaring place to get some sugar for the wedding - I well recollect that said Moses after his marriage with the said Abigail was employed as a scout for above one year and that said Abigail his then wife lived at my fathers during this time - and I well recollect that during this year said Moses went by my fathers with a prisoner a tory that he had taken and carried said tory to head quarters - and I recollect that afterwards said Moses went on a scout to Union River but as what prior period I cannot now fix and that when he came home he had powder spots in his face which he said was occasioned by using powder to strike pin while on

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that scouting party - And I further recollect that said Moses was called out after wards on the requisition of General Jacob Bayley when an alarm was given that the tories had come and all the able bodied men were called out at that time -  and I should think that they were out at this time about one week - I know that at that period the head quarters of the scouting parties was at said General Jacob Baileys in Newbury - and that said Bailey had the control and general overnights of the scouting parties that were sent out in the manner above stated - and that said Moses always held himself in readyness to go and did go as above stated at the requirement of said Jacob Bailey - 
I well recollect further said Moses Chamberlain was a man much depended upon in those times - as he had been before that period a Lieutenant ['soldier' crossed out] in the continental line in Bedel's regiment, Timothy Barron's company - my recollection is but I cannot be positive that said Moses was called out and went as a soldier at the time of the burning at Royalton - which my recollection would fix in the year 1780 - 
and further say not /s/Simeon Stevens

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State of Vermont
Orange County ss., Orange County Clerk's office July 26., 1837., I, J.W.D. Parker Clerk of Orange County Court do hereby certify that Adams Preston is a Justice of the peace within and for the County of Orange aforesaid - that he is duly commissioned and qualified as such justice that his commission on the 15 day of November 1836 and will expire on the 31 day of November 1837 - and that signature written opposite as such justice is genuine - 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my official hand and affixed the seal of said County Court this 26 day of July 1837 - 
Attest J.W.D. Parker Clerk

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I John Bayley of Newbury in the County of Orange and State of Vermont of the age of Seventy two years in May last - do depose testify and say that I was born in Newbury aforesaid, and have there resided ever since - I further say that I was well acquainted with Moses Chamberlin formerly of said Newbury, during his residence in said town, from the commencement of the American Revolution until he left this part of the Country about five and twenty years ago - 
I further say that said Chamberlin with several other young men enlisted and went of to joint the American Army a little time before the battle of Bunker hill and continued in the service one year - Said Chamberlin with the company from this place in September 1777 marched to the taking of Burgoyne and I have understood and have no doubt but that he was present at and before the surrender - 
In the Spring of 1778 said Chamberlin was again in the Service as a Lieutenant in Captain Timothy Barnes company in Colonel Timothy Bedels Regiment, stationed at Haverhill Newhampshire the period of one year - much of which time said Chamberlain was posted at the fort opposite to Haverhill in Newbury af'said with a part of said Company - Said Chamberlin was a very active efficient man in the Scouting business and in the summer of 1779 - in haying time he took and brought in a Tory prisoner, who was delivered up to General Bayley - Said Chamberlin I recollect was out in the Scouting Service the season that Royalton was burned by the Brittish in 1780 - In June 1782 a party from Canada was in and succeeded in taking prisoners Lieutenant James Bayley of Captain Fsgr Bayley's company which was stationed at the fort - with two other persons - said Chamberlin I well recollect was one of the party that went in pursuit of them and was absent a week or more - Said Chamberlin as I am

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informed and verily believe has resided for something more than twenty years in the town of Gibson in the State of Pennsylvania and deceased there about five years since 
/s/John Bayley

State of Vermont
Orange County SS - Newbury August 3d 1837 Then personally appeared before me the above named John Bayley and made solemn Oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is true to the best of his recollection knowledge and belief - And I certify that I am personally acquainted with said Bayley and that he is a credible witness - /s/Joseph Berry Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont
Orange County ss. Orange County Clerk's office August 7. 1837 - J.W.D. Parker Clerk of Orange County Court do hereby certify that Joseph Berry is a justice of the Peace within and for said County of Orange duly commissioned and qualified as such that his commission is dated the 15 day of November 1836 and will expire on the 30 day of November 1837 - that his signature above written as such justice is genuine - 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I hereunto set my official hand and the seal of said County Court this 7 day of August 1837.
/s/J.W.D. Parker Clerk

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(1)
I Simeon Stevens of Newbury in the County of Orange and State of Vermont of the age of SEventy years last May do depose testify and say in addition to + explanation of the testimony which I have heretofore given as applicable to the same case - that Moses Chamberlin formerly a resident of Newbury aforesaid but who afterwards lived at Gibson in the State of Pennsylvania at and until the time of his death - was a lieutenant in the war of the Revolution in a company of men belonging to Colonel Timothy Bedel's Regiment of which company Timothy Barron was Captain, and was stationed at Haverhill in the County of Grafton and State of Newhampshire - 
Said Moses Chamberlin entered the service as above in the month of April AD 1778 and continued therein for a term of one year or more - I think through the summer season of 1779 - I well remember that in the winter of 1778 + 80 that news was brought to this vicinity of the approach of a party of the enemy from Canada and that detachments returned after having proceeded on snowshoes to Cabot a distance of same 30 or 40 miles - having learnt that the enemy after taking several men from the Station at Peacham had returned to Canada
/s/Simeon Stevens

State of Vermont
County of Orange ss - Be it known, that on this 17th day of January AD 1838, before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared the said Simeon Stevens who hath subscribed the foregoing deposition, in my presence, and made solemn oath that this foregoing deposition contains the truth the whole truth + nothing but the truth - And I do hereby certify that the deponent is a credible witness - /s/Joseph Berry Justice of the Peace

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State of Vermont Orange Co. Clerk's Office}
[court seal affixed] I P. C. Jones Clerk of Orange County Court hereby certify that Joseph Berry is a  Justice of the Peace within and for said County of Orange, and that his commission is dated on the first day of Nov. A.D. 1837 and will expire on the 30th day of Nov. A.D. 1838 And I believe the foregoing Signature of his to be genuine 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my name and the Seal of Said Court this 18th day of Jany A.D. 1838
Attest /s/Penley C. Jones Clerk
[margin note: 1837-25/12]

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Moses Chamberlain
Gibson, Pa

Charles Catlin Agt
Montrose, Pa
Recd 28 Dec'r 1820

see letter to Hon. D. Burrows, H.R. March 18, 1822.
['requested' crossed out] was informed if the Judge would certify the day on which he made his first Declaration &c. pension would commence at that time
Case admitted says letter
['Daniel Burrows [illegible initials] Free
To the Honorable J. C. Calhoun Secretary of Washington City' overwritten]

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Dear Sir
Yours enclosing the certificates for Daniel Dimock  - Israel Hewet - & Daniel Chamberlin - who were continued on the Pension roll - came duly to hand - 
n
I enclose herein & attending, this letter, nine applications for the same purpose viz. for 
Samuel Woodruff
Jonathan Newman
Simeon Wylie
Elias Bennet 
Moses Chamberlin
Hezekiah Lee
Silvanus Wade
John Eldred
Timothy Hall
They have been shown by my Brother James - i hastily ran over there and believe they are correct - 
Very Truly your Honorable Servant - 
/s/Charles Catlin

J. C. Calhoun Esqr

Montrose Dec 9 - 1820

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Free
J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D. C.

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Montrose Susquehanna Co. Penna
Aug. 21. 1837

J. L. Edwards Esq
Dear Sir}
In answer to your letter I have succeeded in obtaining the enclosed testimony to the point named. The discrepancy in the testimony is explained  + for the proof added, with without doubt will be satisfactory. In the town where the marriage took place there were no church records as I was informed at that time. The Sergeant Major Commission is also enclosed which must satisfy with respect to the Chamberlin's service in Dec. 1777. And if I have a right idea of the law is presumptive proof in the absence of a recorded discharge, of service to the end of the war. But I will not assume your prerogative of deciding - Contra. Submitting the matter I subscribe my self Yours &c.
/s/A. L. Post

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J. L. Edwards Esq
Dear Sir}
In making out the papers in the case a discrepancy occurs between the widow and Simeon Stevens. The widow is undoubtedly right in the time of the marriage took place. Yet it in all probability took place at the time of making maple sugar which might have been in May as well as April It is possible however that the thought might not occur to you upon examination + I therefore mention  it.
Moses Chamberlin's pension I understand was only eight dollars per month + for this reason when the the records of the department was burned evidence was supposed to be destroyed that Colonel Bedel Reg' was employed in the United States Service. As that fact is now known the widow if she is allowed a pension for the half pay to which her husband was entitled, that which he actually received can not be taken as the full amount, or extent. I mention this + add If there is not proof of this fact in the War Department. I can furnish it as a Commission to Moses Chamberlin conferring upon him the office of Sergeant Major under Timothy Bedel Esqr Colonel. Commander of the Reg't raised by order of Congress lies before me signed by Col. Bedel himself dated 15th Decr. 1777. fully confirming in point of date the widows statement.
If you require it please say if any thing in the form of proof of identity is necessary or that the instrument will show for itself. 
If consistent please say also whether the amount that the Moses Chamberlin should have received of right comes to widow or children or heirs generally - 
Yours very respectfully
/s/A. L. Post
Please direct all communications to me at this place Montrose Susquehanna Co. Pa - 
[margin note: If you should write will you be so good as to inform her who can furnish this with the facts, whether the records of the War Department show ['whether' crossed out] Ensign Daniel Lawrence R. I'd. to have been a Supernumerary, or to have served to the end of the war. - A.L.P.]

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Susquehanna County ss.
personally approved before me one of the Justices of the peace in and for Said County Abigail Chamberlin a woman in our town Ship and on her Solemn oath Deposeth and Saith that there is no record to be found of her Marraige and we have no family record Kept by us and further Saith not
/s/Abigail Chamberlin

Sworn and Subscribed before me this 6th Day f february AD. 1838 /s/Joseph Washburn J Peace

State of Pennsylvania
Susquehanna County ss
II. Geo Walker Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do certify that Joseph Washburn Esqr. before whom the above acknowledgement was taken, was at the time and still is a Justice of the Peace, duly commissioned and appointed, and that full credit is to be given to his official duty as such
[court seal affixed] In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office at Montrose, the Sixth day of February A.D. 1838.
/s/GeoWalker Prot'y

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Montrose Susquehanna Co. Pa.
Feby. 15. 1838.

J. L. Edwards Esgr
Dear Sir - 
Enclosed in the declaration, of Ichabod Buck, draw up as near as the case would allow in precise accordance with the printed form + regulations received from the Department. There is no doubt but that the Old Gentlemans statement is perfectly correct as he remembers it. In drawing up the declaration from the Old Gents own mouth we were were struck with his scrupulous rejections of even dates, that might have been collected from history if he did not fully remember.
It will be recollected that the affidavit of Benjamin Buck has been sent on. So I feel that nothing under the instructions I have is left to be made out in the Case. 
Enclosed also are the papers containing all the required additional proof in order to make out the Claim of Abigail Chamberlin widow of Moses Chamberlin deceased. 
Hoping that I shall hear from you, the decision of these cases as soon as made, I subscribe myself 
Yours for those deserving Pensions 
/s/A. L. Pose

Ichabod Buck's papers
['Act 1' crossed out] taken mb

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[handwritten letter]
Montrose Susquehanna Co. Pa
16. Jan. 1851

Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir;
The claim of the heirs of Moses Chamberlin has been put in my hands for collections and I wish you to furnish me some information upon it. 
Moses Chamberlin served during the most of the war with Great Brittain - from 1779 to 1784. He held in turn the commission of first Sergeant, First Lieutenant, Captain and Major - 
The commission of Major as also that of Captain were under Col. Beatle, and was regularly discharged at the close of the war. Upon an application in 1819 for a Pension as Major, on account of an irregularity or deficiency in the proof of Col. Beatles Commission, he was unable to procure it, and received only the pension of a private. About the time of his death, the necessary evidence came to light, and the department granted to his widow, the portion of the Majors widow, which she received from the time of his decease in 1832 to the time of her death in 1840 - The papers, I am informed by the heirs are all in the possession of the department. I wish you to make a search and inform me if they are filed in the office. And also to state what additional proof you will require in the adjustment of the unpaid difference, between the pension of a private ad Lieutenant for 13 years, the time that he received it - By doing so you will oblige. Your Obt Servt
/s/J.C. Miller

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Montrose 10th April 1832

J.H.G. M. Critchen Esqr.
Dear sir
Some months since I entrusted you with the pension claim of the heirs of Moses Chamberlin. Since that time I have not heard from you in relation to this matter of all.
Will you please answer by return mail and inform me of the result of your investigations and much oblige.
Yours Truly
J.C. Miller

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[handwritten letter]
Pension Officer
April 30. 1831 - 

Sir:
In reply to your letter relating to the Case of Moses Chamberlain dec'd. I have to state that he was pensioned under the Act of 1818 as a private  or sergeant, and his widow under that of 1836 as for 1 year Sergeant and for 1 years lieutenant. It is too late to inquire whether his pension was properly computed or not. The Act of 1818 was a merely personal one, designed to save from [illegible] the surviving affair, and adding to whom it applied. Their children were not within the contemplation of being up and have no claim under the Act. 

Very Respectfully
Your Obt servt
/s/F. S. Evans for Com of Pensions

J. C. Miller Esqr
Montrose Pa.

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TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Second Comptroller's Office, 
September 15, 1841.

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Eight of nine child'n of Abigail Chamberlain, dec'd a Pensioner on the roll of the Philadelphia Agency, at the rate of Two hundred + twenty Dollars ['and Cents' crossed out] per annum, under the law of the 4th July 1836, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March, to the 12th April 1840 - 
Respectfully yours,
/s/Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.

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[letterhead: NEW YORK SOCIETY
PRESIDENT, CHAUNEY M. DEPEW.
VICE-PRESIDENT, JOHN C. CALHOUN.
SECRETARY, G. CREIGHTON WEBB.
TREASURER AND REGISTRAR, EDWARD HAGAMAN HALL.

BOARD OF MANAGERS.
CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW, LEWIS CASS LEDYARD,
CHARLES A. DANA, ALLAN MOLANE HAMILTON,
JOHN C. CALHOUN, JOHN WISE,
JAMES OTIS, C. W. HASKINS,
GEORGE S. BOWDOIN, WALTER S. LOGAN,
HART LYMAN, GEORGE W. VANDERBILT,
G. CREIGHTON WEBB, EDWARD HAGAMAN HALL,
STUYVESANT FISH, WILLIAM L. BULL,
[[illegible] crossed out]

630 First Street, New York
April 13th [illegible]

The Hon. Commissioner of Pensions.
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
[illegible body of letter]
I have the honor to remain
Your Obedient servant
/s/Edward Hagaman Hall
State Registrar and Tres.

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[receipt stamp: U.S.P.B. OLD WAR & NAVY FILES. MAR 13 1905]
[annotated initials: BW]

[handwritten letter]
Lenoxville, Susq. Co., Pa.
March 2, 1905
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D. C.
Sir
I am trying to get the place and date of enlistment of Moses Chamberlin for the year 1776. He was born in Litchfield Conn. Dec. 21, 1749; his father Moses C. moving to Newbury Vt. about 1772 where he also served his country.
The time for which Moses (2) enlisted for 1776, according to his diary, expired Jan. 1, 1777 and Gen. Sullivan wanted them to stay six weeks longer which he did.
I have been told that owing to his papers being mislaid

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[handwritten letter]
he, during life drew a pension only as a private but after his death Feby 14, 1832 his papers were found and his widow drew a [illegible] pension with back pay. When was he Captain?
Any information renaming the service of said Moses Chamberlin will be gratefully received.
Yours Respectfully
(Miss) E. M. Barber
[receipt stamp: U. S. PENSION OFFICE A MAR 6 1905]
[receipt stamp: U. S. PENSION OFFICE A MAR 6 1905]

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[letterhead: Western Department. Northern Assurance Company, of London.
Monadcock Block, Chicago.
G. H. LERMIT, Manager. J. C. CORBET, Asst. Manager.
ESTABLISHED 1836.
F. C. HASELTON
SPECIAL AGENT
642 MONADCOCK BLOCK
CHICAGO, ILL.]
[handwritten letter]
Chicago Aug 23d 1910.

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir - Will you please give me any information you may have regarding the military records of the following persons in the War of the Revolution and War of 1812.
Cephas Child, West Fairlee Vermont
Moses Chamberlain Bradford  " 
Remembrance Chamberlain of Connecticut.
(exact location unknown to me) during last portion of his life a resident of Newbury Vermont.
Thanxing you in advance I am
Yours truly
/s/F. C. Haselton.

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Abigail Chamberlin 
Pennsylvania

Suspended
See letter 16 June 1837 to A. L. Post.
do. 25th Oct'r 1837

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[handwritten letter]
J.S.C. W. 4652 Rev. War.
Apl. 3, 1905.

Madam: - 
In reply to your request for the military history of Moses Chamberlin a soldier in the Revolutionary War, you are advised that he applied for a pension September 15, 1820, at which time he was a resident of Gibson Township, Susquehanna Co., Pa. and seventy years of age.
He stated that he enlisted in Massachusetts January 1, 1776 as sergeant in Capt. Benjamin Mann's company Col. James Reed's 2nd regiment New Hampshire Line on the Continental Establishment and was discharged February 17, 1777 at Morristown, N. J.
Papers on file show that he was appointed December 15, 1777 sergeant-Major, and in 1778 a first-lieutenant of Capt. Timothy Barron's company, Col. Timothy Bedel's New Hampshire regiment.
He was in the "battle at Boston",

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[handwritten letter]
retreat out of Canada, Trenton, Princeton and second Stillwater. His claim was allowed.
Soldier married May 20, 1779 at Newbury, Vt. Abigail daughter of Simeon Stevens, and died at Gibson Twp., Pa. February 14, 1832.
His widow applied for a pension March 6, 1837 at which time she was seventy-three years of age, and resided with her youngest son Samuel S. Chamberlin at Gibson Twp. aforesaid. Her claim was allowed for her husband's service of one year as sergeant and one year as lieutenant.
The arrears of her pension was "paid to eight of nine children of Abigail Chamberlin deceased, to April 12, 1840" The children's names were not mentioned.
Very resp.
/s/Miss E. M. Barber
Lenoxville, Susquehanna Co., Pa. 

Com'r

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[receipt stamp: U.S. PENSION OFFICE MAY 26 1930]
[handwritten letter]

Lincoln, Neb., May 23, 1930

Commissioner, Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C. 
Dear Sir;
Was application made for a pension on account of the Revolutionary services of Moses Chamberlain (Chamberlin)? According to the data I have he was born Oct. 5, 1757 at Hopkinton, Mass., moved to London, N.H. with his parents about 1774, married Rebecca Abbot and was still living at London about 1800. As she was 86 years of age when she died I suspect that at least an application was made for a pension. Please send data given in application. 
There is another Moses Chamberlain (Chamberlin) who has been confused with the above. If I am not mistaken he married Abigail Stevens and died in Pennsylvania. I would like data given for him also.
Was application made for a pension om account of the Revolutionary services of James Chase, [margin note: CJ U-Mass- - C] who according to my data was born at or near Newbury, Ma
[margin note: No Moses - Hopkinton, Mass - Rebecca Abbott]

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[handwritten letter]
Mar. 6, 1751 and married Elizabeth Haseltine. He lived at Haverhill for a number of years and I rather think he is the one who served in Capt. Timothy ['s' crossed out] Eaton's Company inn 1775 and again in 1776. He moved to London, N.H. about 1777 and seems to have been there yet in 1800. I suspect that he served again from London. Two of his children were Elizabeth and Isaiah. Please send data given in application and other records. The soldier may have been the father of the above, who was also James. 
I understand that Linus Beach [margin note: Beach or Black?] made application for a pension claiming among other things that he had small pox in the Revolutionary army. I suppose it was the son Linus wife Elizabeth Abbot. They lived at Cornwall and Norfolk, Conn., and at Middlebury, Vt. He died in 1828 and she in 1842. The father Linus was 53 at the outbreak of the Revolution married Dinah Royce. Please send data.
Yours very truly,
/s/R. E. Dale. 
[receipt stamp: U. S. PENSION OFFICE MARY 26 1930]

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[handwritten letter]
Mar. 6, 1751 and married Elizabeth Haseltine. He lived at Haverhill for a number of years and I rather think he is the one who served in Capt. Timothy ['s' crossed out] Eaton's Company inn 1775 and again in 1776. He moved to London, N.H. about 1777 and seems to have been there yet in 1800. I suspect that he served again from London. Two of his children were Elizabeth and Isaiah. Please send data given in application and other records. The soldier may have been the father of the above, who was also James.
I understand that Linus Beach [margin note: Beach or Black?] made application for a pension claiming among other things that he had small pox in the Revolutionary army. I suppose it was the son Linus wife Elizabeth Abbot. They lived at Cornwall and Norfolk, Conn., and at Middlebury, Vt. He died in 1828 and she in 1842. The father Linus was 53 at the outbreak of the Revolution married Dinah Royce. Please send data.
Yours very truly,
/s/R. E. Dale.
[receipt stamp: U. S. PENSION OFFICE MARY 26 1930]
[return address: R. E. Dale.
540 North 26th St.,
Lincoln, Neb.
[truncated postmark: LINCOLN N MAY 24 5 1930]

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6769

3-2233
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division

Feb 21 1927
Chief Rev War Section Division

I have this day received from 
A. W. DeGoosh 
cash No [blank] for $ 90/100, requesting
photostat copy ['post office addresses' crossed out] } as per letter herewith.
[margin note: OK-not ctfd]
[overwritten: 1927 Feb. 28. photos mailed + Finance Div. notf AW]

O. J. RANDALL
Chief Finance Division.
[initials: H.C.L.]
[margin note: C 26]

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[typewritten letter]
February 21, 1897

Commissioner of Pensions;
Sir: I, the undersigned, request photostat copies of six pages (not certified) from Revolutionary War pension claim W. 4652 of Moses Chamberlin and widow Abigail.
[handwritten: /s/A. W. DeGoosh US Shipping Board Washington]
A. W. DeGOOSH
U. S. Shipping Board
Washington, D. C. 
Received payment
Ninety cents
/s/Margaret M. H. Finch
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section 
[receipt stamp: FINANCE DIVISION BUREAU OF PENSIONS BOOK-KEEPING DESK FEB 21 1927]

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1-681
SUBMIT IN DUPLICATE PHONE Branch 476
Inquiries regarding this job should refer to Requisition No. 13058
Requisition for Duplicating, Addressograph, Photostat and Blue Print Work.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
WASHINGTON [marginal initials: CPS]
CHIEF, Division of Publications, Room G. 137'
February 26, 1927. 192
Please furnish work specified below.
Bureau ordering Pension Deliver to Room No. 5033
(ALL COPY FOR DUPLICATING WORK SHOULD BE PLAIN AND WRITTEN IN ELITE TYPE, EXACTLY LINE FOR LINE AS IT IS TO APPEAR ON FINISHED JOB.)
Title and description of job photostat copies of 6 pages from the Rev. War pension claim, W. 4652, Moses Chamberlin.
No. of copies 1 of each page Shall form be kept standing? [blank] days
For further information see A. E. Wilson Room No. 5033 Phone No. 541
Approved: /s/O. L. Gambin 
AEWilson Chief of Branch ['or Division' crossed out]
[receipt stamp: DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS DEPT. POF THE INTERIOR RECEIVED FEB 26 1927] [margin note: Reed]
NOTE: No order made "SPECIAL" unless statement showing necessity is written below and approved by Chief Clerk of Bureau ordering
______
CHECK WORK DESIRED
Duplicate
Multigraph single or double space? [blank] Facsimile signature? [blank]
Mimeograph one side or both sides? [blank] Facsimile signature? [blank]
Folding once or twice?
Assembling
Stapling Once? Twice? Side? End?
Electric typewriter Fill in addresses? [blank] Dated? [blank]

Addressograph from lists [blank]
Envelopes, size [blank] Cards, size [blank]
Proof list [blank] Pay rolls [blank]
Labels (submit sample) [blank] Corrections {blank]
Fill in letters [blank] Tabulation sheets [blank]
Photostat x Size actual Official use? [blank] Repay? yes $ 0.90
Blue Print Size [blank] Official use? [blank] Repay? [blank] $ [blank]
Remarks [blank]
(OVER)

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NOTE: Routine changes of addresses may be made on this blank without formal reference through or initialing of chiefs of branches or chief clerks of bureau.
[blank] 192 [blank].
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INDICATE BY AN X IN PROPER SQUARE ACTION TO BE TAKEN.

口   Make new addressograph plate
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as follows:

Now reads 1 [blank]
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MULTIGRAPH
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I Levi Stevens of Greensboro Orleans County Vermont ss now in my sixty eighth year Tetify and say - I was born in Newbury Orange county Vt. and lived there till I was twenty one years old - the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine I think in May at my fathers house in Newbury my sister Abigail Stevens was joined in matrimony with Moses Chamberlin by the Rev Peter Powers then a settled minister in the same place. I further state that my sister lived at my father's one year after her marriage. During this time her ['father' crossed out] husband was at my father's occasionally, at such times that he was not directly engaged in the service for it was my impression at that time and it has been the same ever since that he was employed in the service of the United States, being under the command of Gen Jacob Bailey. I know that several times he went out on what was then called scoutting. I will mention one instance The said Moses Chamberlain often having been gone several weeks returned to my fathers with a prisoner which he took immediately to the garrison of Gen. Baileys. In the third year after their marriage the said Moses Chamberlain lived within two miles of my fathers and I lived with him at this time there were constant alarms I will mention one time in particular when the enemy in a scoutting party came to Gen. Baileys for the purpose of takin him They wounded one and carried away two prisoners - Upon this the said M. Chamberlain was called out by authority in the night and was gone in the siege seven or eight days - I farther state that the said Abigail Chamberlain is now living in Gibson Susq county

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Penna. with her youngest son Samuel S. Chamberlain. She is now a widow. Her husband has been dead some five or six years - & further I say not - 
/s/Levi Stevens

State of Vermont Caledonia County ss} Hardwick July 24 AD 1837
Then Levi Stevens of Greensboro in the County of Orleans personally appearing and after being carefully examined and duly cautioned made Solemn Oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth
before me /s/Orra Crosby Justice of the peace

I hereby certify that the above named Levi Stevens is a man of truth and honesty
/s/Orra Crosby Justice peace
State of Vermont
Caledonia County ss.} I Samuel B. Mattock clerk of the County Court of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Orra Crosby Esq is a justice of the Peace in & for said County duly commissioned & qualified; that his commission was dated the 10th day of Nov'r 1836 & will expire the last day of Nov'r 1837 and that his signatures above written are genuine 
[court seal affixed] Given under my hand and the Seal of Said County Court at Danville this twenty eighth day of July 1837
/s/Sam'l. B. Mattock Clerk.

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[verso]
May 18 Hist Edw. H. Hall, New York N.Y.
Apl. 3, 1905 History to Miss e. N. Barber, Lenoxville, Pa.
1910 Sept 2, Hist to F. C. Haseltine M.13.H
1927 Feb 28. photos to A. W. DeGoosh. aw.
1930-July 21- Hist to Mr R. E. Dale EED

[center]
Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 4652
Abigail Chamberlin Wid. Moses Chamberlin Lieut. N. H. Line
Act July 4, 1936, Sec. 3d
Index: - Vol. A, Page 113
[Arrangement of 1870.]

[recto] 
1890 
to [remainder of document obscured]

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In reply to your request of Aug 23, received Aug. 25, 1910 a statement of the military history of Moses Chamberlin a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (and or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. NS File 4652
[column headings: DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.|LENGTH OF SERVICE.|RANK.|OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.(CAPTAIN.|COLONEL.)|STATE|]
[blank]|8 mos|[blank]|([blank]|[blank])| ✓ |
Jan 1, 1776 to|Feb 17 1777|Sgt|(Benjamin Mann.|James Reed)|NH|
Dec 15 1777,| " |Sgt Major}|(Timothy Barron| " )|NH|
1778| " |1st Lt.}|([blank]|[blank])|[blank]|
[end of columns]

Battles engaged in, Boston Retreat from Canada; Trenton Oct. 26, 1776 Princeton, Capture of Burgoyne.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Newbury, Orange Co. Vt.
Date of application for pension, Sept 5, 1820. Her claim was allowed
Residence at date of application, Gibson Township, Susquehanna Co Penn.
Age at date of application, born. Dec, 1749: died Feb 14, 1832 in Gibson Township aforesaid.
Remarks: He married in Newbury Vt. May 20, 1779, Abigail b. Oct 1763 dau. Simeon Stevens. She was pensioned on an application executed Mch 6, 1837 at which time she was ['73 years of age and' crossed out] a resident of Gibson Township, Susquehanna Co. Penn. where the mrs. living with her youngest son, Samuel S, who was one of her nine children - no other names stated. 
Very respectfully, 
/s/Q,, Commissioner. 
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