Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1,613, Chauncy Camp, Conn.

SERVICE
Conn.
Camp, Chauncy
NUMBER
R.1613
CONTENTS

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832.
State of Connecticut County of Litchfield } §
On this 15 th day of August A D 1832 personally appeared in Open Court before me David B. Brinsmade Judge of probate within & for the district of Washington in the County of Litchfield aforesaid now sitting Chauncy Camp a resident of Washington in said County aged Seventy nine 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 act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated (Viz) That in the month of June A D 1776 he resided in Washington aforesaid and was then drafted from the Militia of said Town on a tour of duty of four months, which tour he performed as a private soldier in a company commanded by Capt. William Cogswell in a regiment of Militia commanded by Colonel Samuel Canfield at and near the city of New York. That he was in New York when it was taken by the British - That he was on Long Island with his regiment three or four days just before the battle but was not in it - That when the British entered New York his company retreated to

Harlem heights & was in a skirmish there with the British under Col Knowlton in which he was killed - This he thinks was in September 1776. That at the expiration of this term of service but had no written or printed discharge he was dismissed & came home to said Washington - That in the month of October 1777 he was again drafted from the militia of said Washington on a tour of three months duty and performed said tour of duty as a private soldier in a Company commanded by Capt. Peter Mills in the regiment commanded by Col. Samuel Cawfield at Houseneck, Saugerties & Fishkill in the state of New York and at the expiration of said tour was dismissed at the highlands near West Point .
That immediately after the last term of service expired he enlisted as a private soldier at New Milford in said Dutchess County for three years under Capt. Samuel Bortwick and was marched from there to West Point where he staid a great proportion of said term - That he was marched once during the time to Red Hook where he staid about two months - That he was occasionally on duty at different places along the river - That he does not recollect what regiment he was in but thinks that he was shifted from one regiment to another two or three times during the time - That during this period of service he was marched from West Point to White Plains & was in the battle at said last mentioned place - That he recollects seeing Genl. Washington

and Putnam on that day. and that at the expiration of his said term of enlistment he was discharged at West point by General Washington. That his discharge was signed by him but that he had lost it & has not seen it for many Years.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state, that he has no documentary evidence & knows of no person living who can testify to his said services except those whose affidavits are hereto annexed Sworn & Subscribed } Chauncy Camp the day & Year aforesaid }
We Robert B Campfield a clergyman residing in the town of Washington County of Litchfield & State of Connecticut and Noble Day residing in the same town county & State hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Chauncy Camp who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy nine Years of age, that he is respected & beloved in the neighborhood where he resides, that he has been a soldier in the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and Subscribed } Robt. B. Campfield. the day & Year aforesaid } Noble Day

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states - and the Court further certifies that Robt B. Campfield who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Washington aforesaid and that Noble Day who has also signed the same is a resident in Washington aforesaid and that their statements is entitled to credit.
I Anthony Smith Clerk of the Court of Probate within and for the district of Washington do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Chauncey Camp for a pension - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this fifteenth day of August A D 1832 Anthony Smith

29 33 1/2 very special Chauncy Camp Can
Jan 1853
Wear & Laffu, Bredent.

AFFIDAVIT AND POWER OF ATTORNEY.
STATE OF Connecticut, } ss. COUNTY OF New Haven, }
Be it remembered, That, on this 17th day of December, A. D. 1852, I, Burr Camp, do make known and declare that I am the son and heir-at-law to Sally Camp who was the only wife of Chauncey Camp, a Revolutionary soldier, who served 2 years, under the command of in the forces raised by the State of Connecticut, and that he and his said wife were married about the month of A. D., 1780 and that he died about the month of December, A. D., 1839, and that his said wife also died about the month of January, A. D., 1848, and that a pension of dollars a year was drawn by said no pension was ever drawn on account of said services, and so continued until the year A. D. 18, since which time nothing has been received by either or the heirs of either of said parties. Application having been made under Act of 1832, but same was suspended for further proof.
And that claimant is now 54 years of age; and it is understood and believed that there are arrearages of Pension, and other claims due for said services: Now, THEREFORE, the true intent of all this is to qualify and irrevocably appoint and empower ALFRED J. WORKS, of New Haven City and County, State of Connecticut,
as my Attorney, with power of substitution, to investigate, substantiate, demand, and receive the avails of, said claim or claims, and to say and do all things relative thereto, as amply as I might do: hereby ratifying every thing said or done by my said Attorney, or his substitute, in virtue hereof; ALSO, revoking all Powers of Attorney, or other authority previously given for any such purposes.
Attest, James H. Corbould W. Dorr Meigs
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, day and date first above named.
Burr Camp [L.S.]
Subscribed, sworn to, and acknowledged before me, the day and year first above indicated.
W. Dorr Meigs Notary Public. Sandyston Ct

1618 REJECTED
P. O. Chauncy Camp
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Connecticut Rev. Act 7. June 1852
Chauncy Camp Suspended
Letter to Frederick J. Fenn Nov. 8. 1853
1613

Declaration In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832.
State of Connecticut } County of Litchfield } ss
On this 23 rd day of September 1833. personally appeared in Open Court before me Daniel B. Brinsmade Judge of probate within and for the district of Washington in the County of Litchfield aforesaid now sitting, Chauncey Gamp a resident of said Washington aged Eighty 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 act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named Officer, and served as herein stated (W.D.) That in the month of June 1776. he resided in Washington aforesaid and was then drafted from the Militia of said Town on a tour of duty of four months, which tour he performed as a private Soldier, in a Company commanded by Capt William Cogswell in a regiment commanded by Colonel Samuel Canfield at and near the City of New York - That he was in New York when it was taken by the British - That he was on Long Island with his regiment three or four days just before the battle but was not in it - That when the British entered New York his Company retreated to Harlem Heights and was in a skirmish there with the British in which Col. Knowlton Commanded in which Col. Knowlton was killed - This he thinks was in September 1776. - That at the expiration of this term of service he was dismissed but had no written or printed discharge and came home to said Washington - That in the month of October 1777. he was

again drafted from the militia of said Washington on a tour of three months duty and performed said tour of duty as a private soldier in a company commanded by Capt. Peter Mills in the regiment commanded by Col. Samuel Canfield at Horseneck, Sawpit & Fishkill in the State of New York and at the expiration of said tour of duty was dismissed at the Highlands near West Point.
That immediately after the expiration of the last term of service as aforesaid he enlisted as a private soldier at New Milford in the State of Connecticut for the term of three Years under Capt. Samuel Bostwick and was marched from there to West Point & joined a regiment commanded as he thinks & verily believes by a Col. McKay or McKee where he staid a great proportion of said three Years, that he was shifted during the time into some other regiments altho he does not remember whose That during the time he was marched to Red Hook where he staid about two months. That he was occasionally on duty at several places on the Hudson river. That during this period of time he was marched from West Point to White Plains and was in the battle at said last mentioned place. That he recollects seeing Genl. Washington & Putnam on that day and that at the expiration of his said term of enlistment he was discharged at West Point by Genl. Washington, that his discharge was signed by him, but that he has lost it and has not seen it for many Years.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. That he has no documentary evidence &

Knows of no person living who can testify to his services as aforesaid - That Mr. John Barlow who gave his affidavit originally which is appended to his said first application is recently deceased Sworn & Subscribed the day & Year aforesaid } Chauncy Camp
We Robert Blampfield a clergyman residing in the town of Washington county of Litchfield State of Connecticut and Noble Day residing in the same town county and State hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Chauncy Camp who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be Eighty Years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that Opinion - Sworn & Subscribed the day & Year aforesaid } R Blampfield Noble Day
And the said Court do hereby declare their Opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and lends a he state - And the Court further certifies that Robert Blampfield who has signed the preceding Certificate is a clergyman resident in the Town of Washington aforesaid and that Noble Day who has also signed the same is a resident in Washington aforesaid and that their statement is entitled to credit.
And the Court further certifies

that it has been satisfactorily proved to them that John Barlow whose affidavit is appended to the former declaration of the said Chauncy Camp, deceased on the 18 th day of September A D 1833.
I Anthony Smith Clerk of the Court of Probate within and for the district of Washington aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Chauncy Camp for a pension — In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & seal of office this 23 rd day of September A D 1833.
Anthony Smith

I John Ballow of Kent in Litchfield County State of Connecticut depose and say that in the month of June A D 1776 I was well acquainted & still am well acquainted with Chauncey Camp of Washington in said County & that at the time aforesaid, said Camp was drafted as a private soldier from the Militia of said town on a tour of duty of three or four months & which he does not recollect, which tour was performed principally in & near the City of New York, in a company commanded by Capt. William Cogswell in a regiment commanded by Col. Samuel Canfield, that said Camp served there when Long Island was taken by the British & left New York with the Army when it was evacuated in Sept. of the same year - I further depose and say that in October A D 1777 he was drafted again from the Militia of said Town as a private soldier on a tour of three months in a company of troops commanded by Capt. Peter Mills in a regiment commanded by Col. Samuel Canfield & performed said tour of duty at Saw pits, Horseneck & Fishkill & was discharged at the Highlands near West point - I further depose & say that immediately after said term of service expired he enlisted as a private soldier for three years into the regular Army, as I believe, altho it might have been a regiment of state troops into a company commanded by Capt. Samuel Bortwick & I was knowing to his serving a part of said period at West point, as near as I can recollect two years of said period -

and that I further know that said Camp served a part of said period of three Years at Red Hook & at several other places on the Hudson river, and further the deponent says not.
John B. Barlow
State of Connecticut Litchfield County } ss.
On this 10 th day of August A.D. 1832 personally appeared John Barlow the signer of the foregoing affidavit, whom I certify to be a credible witness made solemn oath to the truth of the same before me,
Not. Public J. P. Pease

Memor. Chauncy Camp
To
Rev. J. Linn

I Frederick Wolcott, Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut, certify Frederick J. Penn Esq. now is, & for more than one year last past hath been, a Justice of the Peace for said County, legally commissioned and qualified, and that as such he hath a right by law to administer Oaths, to take affidavits &c —
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of said Court at Litchfield in said County this 17 th day of December A. 1832. Frederick Wolcott , Clerk.

War Department Pension Office September 9. 1883
Sir
The papers of Chauncey Camp have evidently undergone alteration in consequence of the objections made by this Department since they were originally drawn up. The explanation given by you, that the clerk has since affixed his seal is not satisfactory - for if you refer to the clerk of the county court as must be presumed he does not undertake to verify the papers. The date of the certificate of the probate court forbids the presumption that the alterations were made before that court and the papers authenticated anew as it cannot be supposed that any tribunal would countenance so material a change in its proceedings without expressly pointing out and explaining the amendments under a certificate of the true date. A different practice would leave the papers at the mercy of any individual into whose hands they might fall
If the claimant enlisted for three years under one engagement it must have been in the Continental Army, as no State troops were raised for so long a period. Either the claimant or his witness must state the regiment in order that the service may be traced by the rolls in this Office. The papers are herewith returned. A new declaration and affidavit should be drawn free from interpolations and transmitted to this Office, together with the present papers.
I am

I am Respectfully Your obed t Serv t J. L. Edwards
Frederick S. Ferrin Esquire Washington Court

Am. J. Edwards
Conno. of penmanship

Washington (D.C.) Sept. 23 d 1833
Sir, The papers of Chauncy Lamb are herewith returned - Owing to the recent decease of Mr. Marlow a new affidavit can not be obtained - It is hoped however, that the facts as far as they are proved will entitle him to some compensation for the services rendered his country.
Respectfully Yours &c J. P. Kennedy