Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20,864, Calvin Chapin, Mass. Vt.

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SERVICE
Mass
Vt

Chapin, Calvin
Huldah

NUMBER
W 20864

CONTENTS

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[printed document with fill ins]

Vermont 18. 7 33

Calvin Chapin
of Windsor co. in the State of Vermont
who was a Sergt & Priv in the Comp^y, commanded
by Captain Cowle, of the Reg't commanded
by Col. Woodbridge in the Mass ma
line for 7 mo's Sergeant  4 mo's Private
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Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont.
at the rate of 48 Dollars 33 Cents
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834
________________________
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of Sept
1833 and sent to Carlos Coolidge
Windsor, Vt
__________________
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 33
Semi-an. allowance ending 4 Mar. '36

$120.83
    24.16
________
$144.99

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by EC Brown        Clerk
Book  8 [or E.    Vol. 3.    Page 57

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Dead [left side of page]
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of April 6th 1838 from 4th September 1840 to Nov 1st 1840. Agent notified April 21st 1842

2429 [right side of page]
Vermont
Huldah Chapin
widow of Mass Calvin Chapin Dec'd.
who was a pensioner under the Act of 7 June 1832
and who died on the 3rd March 1834
of Windsor Co in the State of Vermont
who was a Sergt & priv: in the Compy: commanded
by Captain Cowle of the Regt: commanded
by Col: Woodbridge in the Mass: Militia
line for 7 months Sergeant
            4  do private
Prescribed on the Roll of Bellows Falls, Vt
at the rate of 48 Dollars 33 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 day of April
1839 and sent to Thomas F Hammond, Windsor, Vt.
Arrears to the 4th of $ Mon: 1839       $145.00
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Sept   24.16
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                                                             $169.16
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Act July 7, 1838
Recorded by Wm Steuart Clerk,
Book A_Vol._2_Page 36

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Declaration of Calvin Chapin

State of Vermont
County of Windsor ss. District of Windsor ss.

On this thirtieth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two personally appeared before the Probate Court for the District of Windsor in the State of Vermont in o[illegible]court Calvin Chapin a resident of Windsor in the County (and District) of Windsor and State of Vermont, aged 77 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 Stares in the year seventeen hundred and seventy five with Capt. John Cowle and served in Col. Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge's Regiment of the Massachusetts line under the following named officers; for eight months.
At Belchertown Mass. where he then lived, he was on the Role of minute men - He left home the day after the battle of Lexington (19th of April 1775) and went into camp at Cambridge Mass. and was under Capt. Fastir Lt Josiah Lyman and Ensign Hendrich, and there remained until, on the first day of May or very near that time, he enlisted into the service of the United States in the company of Capt. Cowle and Regt. of Col Woodbridge above named, the other officers of the company were Lt John Worcester Ensign Joseph Lane - Other officers of the Regiment were Lt. Col. Brown and Major... Staey.  Genl. Putnam, for part of the time commanded the Brigade w which his Regiment was. The Regiment

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continued at Cambridge until about noon on the day of the battle of Bunker hill, when the main part, if not all, of the Regiment moved to Charlestown, in company with two other regiments, all under command of Col. Jonathan Brewer, and crossed Charlestown Neck, moved up the hill and thereon took a station where they remained for two or three hours and assisted in taking care of some of the wounded -  at evening they recrossed the Neck and marched on to Prospect Hill and there remained and built a fort; after which he came down to the foot of the Hill and there remained until September in which month he was taken sick and was in the hospital for about six weeks and then recovered per-mission to go home to recruit his health. He went home in October and stayed there about six weeks - there which was about the middle of December he returned to duty and continued until he was discharged on the 1st day of Jan.y 1776. He received no written discharge, there were no discharges given to his knowledge. After the company was filled up, - perhaps a month after he enlisted he was made and served as 3d Sergeant and on the 31st Dec.r 1775 rec,d a warrant as such Sergeant, Signed by "R. Woodbridge Col." and "John Cowle Capt" which warrant is now in my possession 
The said Calvin Chapin further declares that in the year 1777 he lived at S. Buchertown and Gen. Gates sent out proclamation, or call, for volunteers - In the latter part of August of that year he volunteered and entered the Company of Jonathan Bodwell, or bardwell, in the Regt of Col. Elisha Porter and marched to Stillwater N.Y. He was then sent back to Tiphis Mills in Hoosack or near that place -  thence to Saratoga and joined the army - thence to Fort Edward where he stayed till ordered to Fort Miller, and as Burgoynes army marched out his regiment marched in[illegible] the British lines - He thinks it was on the next day after the surrender that they were dismissed, and started for home having

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been in this service nearly two months
He further declares that after he removed to Windsor Vt he volunteered in August 1780 with others to go against a party of tories assembled in Wethersfield Vermont. The party found the tories and took some prisoners, and were ordered to conduct the prisoners to Bennington Vermont, from which place they returned home - In this expedition he was absent and served very nearly one month - He has resided in Windsor aforesaid 52 years - 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, and declam that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State - Calvin Chapin
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Jabez Proctor Judge
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. Jabez Proctor Judge
I Ruben Washburn, Register of the Probate Court within and for the District of Windsor in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Calvin Chapin for a Pension.

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In Testimony whereof I have here - unto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, this thirtieth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
Reuben Washburn.-

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State of Vermont                            [bracket] 
County & District of Windsor, SS   [bracket] 

On this twenty eighth day of August, eighteen hundred and thirty eight, personally appeared before the Hon. the Probate Court for the district of Windsor aforesaid, Huldah Chapin, a resident of Windsor in the county of Windsor and State of Vermont, aged eighty four years on the 27th day of November now last past, who being 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 7th, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows."
That she is the widow of Calvin Chapin, who was a Sergeant and Private in the War of the Revolution, and for his services, he the said Calvin obtained a pension of something over forty eight dollars per annum, as she thinks, under the Act of June 7th 1832, entitled "An Act supplementary to the Act for the relief of certain officers and Soldiers of the Revolution", for a more particular description of whose services, and the evidence of the same, reference may be had to the said Calvin Chapin's Declaration, and the affidavits & certificates therewith, now on file in the War Office of the United States.  She further declares that she was married to the said Calvin Chapin on the twenty sixth day of August, in the year seventeen hundred and eighty two, by the Rev. Pelatiah Chapin, minister of the Gosel, then a resident of said Windsor, & now deceased, her first name, being Huldah Whittemore; that her husband, the aforesaid Calvin Chapin, died on the third day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty four; that she subsequently received of the Pension Agent, the amount due on his certificate at the time of his decease, which as she thinks amounted to about twenty four Dollars, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz. at the time above stated.  Huldah her Chapin [signed with an x]
                                                                      mark
Witness.   Thomas F. Hammond.       
                 James Bayley                                      Sworn to and subscribed by the said Huldah Chapin, on this twenty eighth day of August, eighteen hundred and thirty eight before me
                  Thomas F. Hammond, Judge of sd Probate Court.

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I James Bayley of Windsor in the county of Windsor, and state of Vermont, aged fifty eight years, do depose and say that I have bee well acquainted with Calvin Chapin and Huldah Chapin formerly his wife and now his widow, for more than forty years before his death, that during the whole of tis period they lived together in the relation of Husband and Wife, and were so regarded by all their children, Friends and Neighbours; I never heard their marriage questioned by ay one; I married the Daughter of the said Calvin + Huldah, and for the last ten years before his death they lived with one in the same house'; that I was present at the death of the said Calvin, and saw him die on the third day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty four; that the said Huldah Chapin has, ever since the death of the said Calvin, continued to live with me as aforesaid, and that she has, from that time, even remained, and now is sole and unmarried.
Windsor August 28th 1838. /s/James Bayley
Sworn to and subscribed by the said James Bayley, in this twenty eighth day of August, eighteen hundred and thirty eight. Before me, 
/s/Thomas F. Hammond, Judge of said Probate Court
I, Rufus Root of Windsor in the county of Windsor and state of Vermont, aged seventy five years on the thirteenth day of March last, do depose and say, that I have resided in said tow of Windsor for the last sixty six years, being nine years old when my Father first moved into this town. That I was well acquainted with the Reverend Pelatiah Chapin who was ordained over the Congregational Church in the West Parish of said Windsor, about the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven; that about this time I became acquainted with Huldah Whittemore, who came into this town from N. Hampshire and worked in my neighbourhood as a Tailoress. I was also well acquainted with Calvin Chapin who came into this town not far from the same time, and resided here from about the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven or seventeen hundred and seventy eight, to the day of his death, which took place, according to my best recollection, four years ago last March. I was knowing by common report, before the close of the Revolutionary War, that the said Calvin Chapin was in the habit of keeping company with the said Huldah Whittemore, and it was generally supposed that they intended to enter into the marriage covenant with each other. I was not present when their marriage took place, but I understood and believed, from common report, that the

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said Calvin and Huldah were married, and I have no doubt but that they were married by the Rev. Pelatiah Chapin aforesaid. For a number of years I was their nearest neighbour, and know that they lived together in the relation of Husband and Wife, and were so regarded by every one, some time before I was married, and I was married on the thirty first day of October, seventeen hundred and eighty four. That the said Calvin and Huldah continued to live together in the same relation until his death, and since the death of the said Calvin, the said Huldah continues to live in this town, and now lives in the family of James Bayley, her son-in-law. That the said Calvin and Huldah were ever considered of the first respectability, and I never heard their marriage questioned by any one, and I have no reason to doubt but that they were legally married.
Windsor August 28 1838.
                             Rufus Root

Sworn to and subscribed by the said Rufus Root, on this twenty eighth day of August eighteen hundred and thirty eight.
Before me Thomas F. Hammond, Judge of said Probate Court.

State of Vermont    [bracket]
District & County   [bracket]
of Windsor             [bracket] 
I hereby certify that Huldah Chapin, who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing Declaration and James Bayley and Rufus Root, wo have severally sworn to and subscribed the foregoing affidavits and Edwin Edgerton, Town Clerk of Windsor, who has certified to the Copy of Record, and sworn to and subscribed the affidavit hereunto annexed, are each of them persons of truth and veracity, and that their respective statements are entitled to full credit and belief.   Thomas F. Hammond, Judge of the said Probate Court.

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[verso]

Windsor, Vermont, Sept. 26th 1838, 
Should a Pension be granted the within applicant, the certificate may be forwarded to me, at this place; as also any communication touching her application.
/s/Thomas F. Hammond,

[recto]

2114
Huldah Chapen wid of Calvin Vt.
Act July 7. 1838
Married 1782
died Mar 3 1834
Allow $48.33 per annum

Tho F Hammond
Windsor Vt

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The following is an extract from the Record of Marriages for the Town of Windsor, in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont.

"Calvin Chapin and Huldah Whittemore of Windsor married August twenty sixth A. D. One thousand Seven hundred and eighty two"

I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date, which is Expressed on the record, in fair legible figures as follows;
"August 26th A. D. 1782"

Edwin Edgerton
Town Clerk of said Windsor

I, Edwin Edgerton, above named, depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the Town of Windsor, County and State aforesaid,
and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said town, with the exception above named, as certified by me.
Edwin Edgerton
Town Clerk of said Windsor

Sworn to before me, by the said Edwin Edgerton, on this twenty first day of September, eighteen hundred and thirty two.
Thomas F. Hammond, Judge of the Probate Court for the District of Windsor

State of Vermont}
District & County of Windsor}

Probate office for said District__
I, Salmon F. Dutton, Register of the Probate Court for the District (& County) of Windsor aforesaid hereby certify that Thomas F. Hammond before whom Huldah Chapin swore to and subscribed the foregoing or annexed Declaration, & before whom James Bayley Rufus Root & Edwin Edgerton severally swore too and subscribed the annexed and foregoing affidavit, is Judge of the Probate Court for said District, which Probate Court is a Court of Record, and that the signature annexed to the respective certificate of the oaths and of the credibility of the said Huldah Chapin, James Bayley Rufus Root & Edwin Edgerton purporting to be the signature of the said Thomas F. Hammond, is his own proper and genuine signature__ Witness my hand and the seal of said Court at Cavendish in said District, this 25th day of September 1838.
Salmon F. Dutton, Register.

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Windsor, Vermont, Sept. 26th 1838,
Should a Pension be granted the within applicant, the Certificate may be forwarded to me, at this place; as also any communication touching her application.
Thomas F. Hammond,


2114

Huldah Chapen
Did of Calvin
Vt
Act July 7, 1838
Married 1782
died Mar 3 1834
Allow $48.33 pr ann

Tho F Hammond 
Windsor VT

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I Thomas Chapin in Lowell in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont of Lawful age do depose and say - That my Brother Calvin Chapin now of Windsor in the State of Vermont then of Belchertown in the State of Massachusetts in the year 1774 volunteered as a minute man in which situation he remained until April 1775 when immediately after the battle of Lexington he was called upon to march + rendezvous at Cambridge Massachusetts, on his arrival at ['Massachusetts' crossed out] Cambridge he entered into Capt. John Coles Company and was attached to Col. Ruggles Woodbridge's Regiment from which he the said Calvin Chapin was discharged in January 1776. I further depose that the said Calvin again volunteered + went to Saratoga + was at the taking of Gen. Burgoyne at which time he was out town months + further the deponent saith not
/s/Thomas R Chapin

State of Vermont
Orleans County ss} Lowell August 14, 1832
Personally appeared Thomas Chapin that person above named and made solemn oath that the facts stated in the foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth. Before me /s/Otis Leland Justice of Peace
And certify that the above named Thos Chapin is well known by me to be a credible Person
/s/Otis Leland Justice of the Peace

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State of Vermont
Orleans, County ss} I Ira H. Allen Clerk of Orleans County Court do hereby certify that Otis Leland before whom the within affidavit was sworn was on the day of the date of his certificate a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Orleans duly qualified to administer oaths, and his name subscribed thereto is his own proper signature - 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of the said Court this 14 day of August 1832.
/s/Ira H. Allen Clk

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9708
Calvin Chapin

5

Admit
7 mos Sept
4" Private

Carlos Coolidge
Windsor 
Vermont

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BRIEF in the case of Calvin Chapin 
County of Windsor in the State of Vermont
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge: in Open Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? [blank]
3. How old is he? 77
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
[column headings: Period.|Duration of Service.(Years, Months, Days.)|Rank (As a)|Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.(Gen. Putnam)|
April In 1775|([blank]|1|[blank])|Private|Capt. Jno. Cowle Col. B.R. Woodbridge|
Do. Do. Do|([blank]|7|[blank])|Sergeant|Capt. Foster|
last of August 1777|(nearly|2|[blank])|Private|Capt. Bodewell or Bardwell.|
August 1780|(nearly|1|[blank])|Private|Col. Elisha Porter.|
[end of columns]
5. In what battles was he engaged? none mentioned
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? at Belchertown Massachusetts
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary, and by living witnesses past. and by another witness who however says he entered the service in 1774 and not as stated by the applicant in 1775.
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct with the acception of the above discrepancy. 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned. 
/s/Sam'l Potts
Examining Clerk.

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BRIEF in the case of Calvin Chapin
County of Windsor in the State of Vermont
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge: in Open Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? [blank]
3. How old is he? 77
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
[column headings: Period.|Duration of Service.(Years, Months, Days.)|Rank (As a)|Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.(Gen. Putnam)|
April In 1775|([blank]|1|[blank])|Private|Capt. Jno. Cowle Col. B.R. Woodbridge|
Do. Do. Do|([blank]|7|[blank])|Sergeant|Capt. Foster|
last of August 1777|(nearly|2|[blank])|Private|Capt. Bodewell or Bardwell.|
August 1780|(nearly|1|[blank])|Private|Col. Elisha Porter.|
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5. In what battles was he engaged? none mentioned
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? at Belchertown Massachusetts
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary, and by living witnesses past. and by another witness who however says he entered the service in 1774 and not as stated by the applicant in 1775.
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct with the acception of the above discrepancy.
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
/s/Sam'l Potts
Examining Clerk.

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[upper left corner handwritten initials]
awf

Rev. and 1812
War Section.

May 13, 1926

Mrs. Edward J. Savage
1226 Helen Ave
Detroit, Mich

Madam:

I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 20884, it appears that Calvin Chapin, while a resident of Belchertown, Massachusetts, was a Minute-Man, and April 20, 1775, marched to Cambridge, and enlisted and served as private and Sergeant in Captain John Cowl's Company, Colonel Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge's Massachusetts Regiment, and served until January 1, 1776.

He  enlisted in August 1777 and served several weeks as Sergeant in Captain Jonathan Bardwell's Company, Colonel Elisha Porter's Massachusetts Regiment, and was at the capture of Burgoyne.

He moved to Windsor, Vermont, and enlisted in August 1780 and served one month, on alarm against

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the Tories officers stated.

He was allowed pension on his application executed July 30, 1832, while a resident of Windsor, Vermont, aged seventy-seven years.

Soldier married August 26, 1782 at Windsor, Vermont, Huldah Whittemore, who was born November 27, 1753.  She was allowed pension on her application executed August 28, 1838, while a resident of Windsor, Vermont.  She died November 1, 1840.

Children are referred to, but no names are given.  A son-in-law, James Bayley, was a resident of Windsor, Vermont, in 1838, and aged fifty-eight years.

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.

[handwritten note at bottom of letter]
Sergeant's Warrant referred to in application of soldier not found in claim when this letter was written     awf

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State of Vermont
Windsor County ss} At Windsor in said County, on the seventeenth day of July in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty three, personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace within and for said county of Windsor, Calvin Chapin, to whose original declaration this supplementary affixed is her annexed, 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 Eight months and twelve days (from the 20th April 1775 to 1st January 1776) he served as a private and Sergeant, in the Company of Capt. - Cowle and Regiment of col. Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge; - For seven weeks he served as a Sergeant, in the year 1777 in the Company of Capt. Jonathan Badwell or Bardwell in the Reg't of Col. Elisha Porter; - and for thirty days he served as a volunteer private, in 12780, in an expedition against a party of Tories and as guard after they were captured; - he further deposeth and saith that for about five months of the time which he served in Col. Woodbridge's Reg't he served as a Sergeant and on the 31st Dec, 1775 (the day before his discharge) he rec'd

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the Warrant which is hereto annexed, and which he took (although just on the point of leaving service) under an impression that he would not be liable to the draft for service while he held his warrant - and that in both terms of serving as Sargeant he served as much as seven months - 
/s/Calvin Chapin
Subscribed, and sworn to, 
Before me - /s/Carlos Coolidge Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont
Windsor County ss} Woodstock, County Clerk's Office ['August 20th' crossed out] July 19th this A. D. 1833 - I, Benjamin Swan, Clerk of Windsor County Court do hereby certify that Carlos Coolidge is one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, and that the above is his signature - 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof, I hereto affix the seal of said court, and subscribe my name, the day and year above written - 
/s/Benj Swan

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Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 20864

Huldah Chapin
Widow of Calvin Chapin
Sergt. Rev. War.\\Act:  July 7" 1838

Index:- Vol. A, Page 132
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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[handwritten vertically]
1926- May 13 - Hist to Mrs. Edward Savage  awf
1928 - Feb 3 - Mrs. Edward J Savage [illegible]
of place of birth & names of parents of widow not given awf

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MRS. EDWARD JAMES SAVAGE
1226 HELEN AVENUE
DETROIT, MICHIGAN


[stamp]
PENSION
S
MAR
U.  18  S.
1926
OFFICE
[/stamp]

March 16, 1926

Pension Commissioner
Washinton, D. C.

Since receiving the enclosed letter from the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Mr. Frederic w. Cook, I have had considerable correspondence with various persons engaged in genealogical research etc., trying to prove conclusively which of these Calvin Chapin was my Revolutionary ancestor, as I desired to use the information in a supplemental paper to the D.A.R., of which I am already a member.

The only light I have been able to get on the subject is that on comparison of the military service of Calvin Chapin and his brother Sylvanus Chapin, also of Belchertown, I noted that Sylvanus enlisted under Capt. John Cowl, Col. Woodbridge's regiment.

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As these two brother Calvin and Sylvanus were 20 yrs and 18 yrs., one would suppose they would enlist in the same company, so I assumed the Calvin who enlisted the same day in the same company (Capt. Cowle's company) was my ancestor. Later, finding that an older brother, Elijah Chapin, had also enlisted the same day under Capt. Cowle's further confirmed my belief.
Also, the research workers could find no further enlistments for the Calvin Chapin who enlisted under Capt. Bardwell, while the other had a number of enlistments, becoming a Sergeant later on. In one of these later enlistments, the name Sylvanus Chapin also appears.
My ancestor, Calvin Chapin, later went to Vermont, married and lived to a good old age in Windsor, Vt. The Adjutant General of Vermont sent me a copy of the Revolutionary service for the year 1780 of one Calvin Chapin, whom I presume to be my ancestor.
If you can furnish me with an abstract of the original application for a pension, by my ancestor, Calvin Chapin, it would settle the matter beyond doubt. Any fees accruing will be promptly paid.
I have been unable to find in my family tree any other Calvin Chapin than my direct ancestor, who might account for this second enlister, I thot it might be an uncle for whom my ancestor was named, but can find none such
Respectfully yours, /s/Mrs. E. J. Savage

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[handwritten letter]
[letterhead: MRS. EDWARD JAMES SAVAGE 1226 HELEN AVENUE DETROIT, MICHIGAN]

wishes copy of original application of Revolutionary ancestor, Calvin Chapin, for pension, if any such application were made.
Calvin Chapin, born Jan. 5, 1755 at Belchertown, Massachusetts, son of Elijah and Thankful Billings Chapin. 
Married Aug. 26, 1782 at Windsor, Vt. to Huldah Whittemore
Died March 3, 1834 at Windsor, Vt.
[receipt stamp: U. S. PENSION OFFICE S MAR 18 1926]

Letter from Sec. of Mass. returned in letter. may 13-26, [initialed: AWS]

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[handwritten letter]
[letterhead: MRS. EDWARD JAMES SAVAGE 1226 HELEN AVENUE DETROIT, MICHIGAN]

Attention: Dep. of Rev. + War of 1812
Feb. 1, 1928

Mr. Winfield Scott,
Commissioner of Pensions, 
Bureau of Pensions, 
U. S. Dept. of the Interior, 
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir: - 
For some time past I have been endeavoring without success to trace the parentage and birthplace of my ancestress, Huldah Whittemore Chapin, widow of the Revolutionary soldier, Calvin Chapin, whose Pension claim was W. 20864, application executed July 30, 1832 while a resident of Windsor, Vermont. His widow (he died at Windsor Mar. 3, 1834) also applied for a pension, her application being executed on Aug. 28, 1838, while a resident of Windsor, Vt. She died Nov. 1, 1840.
Huldah Whittemore and Calvin Chapin were married on Aug. 26, 1782 at Windsor, Vt., but the town clerk of the town states that only the date is recorded, no parentage nor birthplace of Huldah Whittemore being given on his records.
If occurred to me she might have given such date in her application for a pension, or on his application. If so, would I be able to obtain it?
Your kindness in giving me the military record

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[handwritten letter]
of Calvin Chapin (in May 1926, when I asked you for it) as stated in his pension application, was much appreciated and cleared up a doubt as to which Calvin Chapin of Belchertown Mass. was my ancestor, as two Calvin Chapins of Belchertown went on the alarm of Lexington. I am very grateful to you for that assistance and shall be equally grateful if you have the parentage and birthplace of the wife Huldah Whittemore Chapin, and can give it to me. 
Any fees necessary will be promptly paid.
Yours respectfully, 
/s/Mrs. E. J. Savage
Huldah Whittemore was born on Nov. 27, 1753, but I do not know where.

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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
March 3d, 1842.

Sir:
Under the date of the 6th of April, 1838, 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," The adm'on of Huldah Chapin, dec'd a Pensioner on the Roll of the Montpelier, Vt. Agency, at the rate of Forty eight Dollars and 33 Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th July 1838, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1840, to the 1st Nov. 1860 - 
Respectfully, yours,
/s/Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.

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Calvin Chapen Vt. ['Bellows Falls Agency' crossed out] Act Jun- 7 1832, when pass'd
[initialed: AM]
Died 3d March 1834 p'd to that period [initialed: JH]

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[handwritten letter]

Windsor Vt. July 25. 1833

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Comm'r of Pensions

Sir - I again transmit the papers in support of the several claims of Levi Bishop, Calvin Chapin, and Caleb Litchfield, returned to me for supplementary matter. In relation to the traditionary evidence to be given by a clergyman, I pray leave to suggest, that the claimants have supposed that where proof by living witnesses is given, testimony by tradition is not required. If, however, they be in error as to this, it is early for them to furnish such evidence, although seldom can it be done by a clergyman, for most of those who have permanently located, or settled, as the phrase is, in this part of the country at an early day, have themselves deceased Resides, the law of Vermont, upon the obligations and relations of minister and people, has been almost wholly repealed, and that which remains is so relaxed, that in most connexions of the sort the changes - have been frequent, so much so, indeed, that having regard to the great age of the survivors of the Revolutionary war and their retired habits, as well as to the age of the present members of the clerical order, it is difficult to find in our parishes that, of that character, who can testify to reputation, Saving such proof, I feel confident in hazarding the assertion, that there is not

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a case within any agency, of which the fullest traditionary evidence may not by given by large numbers - 
I am, very respectfully
Yr. Obt. St.
/s/Carlos Coolidge

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I, Levi Bishop, of Windsor and State of Vermont, aged seventy two years and upwards, depose and say - that at Windsor aforesaid, sometime in the month of August 1780, and I fix the month by this fact, that I was in the field reaping, news came that a party of Tories was on and about Aschutney Mountain, on the side of Weathersfield. I dropped my sickle in the field and was one of the first two that reached the "alarm ground" - Calvin Chapin of Windsor, now before me, and preparing his claim for a pension, soon joined us, and we proceeded to the place where the Tories had established themselves - woke them up, and took some prisoners and brought them to Windsor for examination. Upon examination had, said Chapin and myself, with a Lieut. and six men (all of us) were ordered to conduct the prisoner to Bennington Vt. We took them to that place; returned by the way of Arlington; where we rec'd from Gov. Chittendon a supply of ammunition for Windsor, and returned home - In this tour, we were on duty not more than a day or two from a month - said Chapin was with us the whole time - 
/s/Levi Bishop

State of Vermont
County of Windsor ss.} Windsor July 30th 1832 Then the above named Levi Bishop, who has been long known by me as a credible person, personally appeared and made oath that the foregoing affidavit, by him subscribed, contains the truth and nothing but the truth, 
Before me - /s/Carlos Coolidge Justice of the Peace

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State of Vermont
Windsor County ss} Woodstock County Clerks Office August 24th 1832 
I Benjamin Swan Clerk of Windsor County Court do hereby certify that Carlos Coolidge is one of the Justices of the Peace within & for said County and that the within is his Signature -- 
[court seal affixed] In Testimony whereof I hereto affix the Seal of said Court and subscribe my name the day & year above - 
/s/Benj'n Swan

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Rev. and 1812 Wars Section.

February 3, 1928

Mrs. Edward J. Savage
1226 Helen Ave
Detroit, Mich.

Madam:

I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 20864, it appears that Calvin Chapin married August 26, 1782 at Windsor, Vermont, Huldah Whittemore, she was born November 27, 1753, place not stated, nor are the names of her parents given.

Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.