Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4994, John Campbell, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Campbell, John
S. 4994
Carded
CONTENTS
This man's widow pensioned as Asenath Campbell, former widow of James Miller, P.D. N. 15634.

2393.
Massachusetts
John Campbell
of Hampden in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain of the 1st by Col. Peabody in the 1st line for May
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 th day of Nov 1832 and sent same to Lyman New Hampshire Mass
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $34.99 Semi-annual allowance ending 21 Mar 33 11.66
$46.65
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by G H S Plain Clerk Book D. Vol. 2 nd Page 143

No. 472

We Moses Hallock a Clergyman residing in the town of Plainfield and Jason Pricheards residing in said Plainfield hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Campbell who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy nine years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Moses Hallock Jason Pricheards Before me Samuel Hinckley Judge of Probate for said County
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 mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Moses Hallock who signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of Plainfield and that Jason Pricheards who has also signed the same is a resident in the said Plainfield and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Samuel Hinckley Judge of Probate
I Samuel F. Lyman Register, Clerk of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Moses Hallock for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court this twelfth day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two
Sam F. Lyman Register
John Campbell Declaration for a Pension

DECLARATION, in order to secure the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Hampshire COUNTY OF Worcester , ss.
ON this twentieth day of August in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court, before Hon. Samuel Hineckley Judge of Worcester County now sitting John Campbell a resident of Plainfield in the County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 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 7th 1832.
THAT he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
I John Campbell of Plainfield aforesaid was born at East Windsor (now I think called Ellington) in the County of Hartford in the State of Connecticut, November 2 nd 1752. I have no official record of my birth, but suppose it to be on record at the Town Clerks Office at Ellington aforesaid where I resided until I was twenty two years of age. I have since been a resident of Brookfield in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts six years, of Western town adjoining the said Brookfield, three years, and the remaining forty eight years of my life, in Plainfield aforesaid. All my services in the revolutionary war were performed while a resident of Brookfield aforesaid. Viz. I first entered the service of my country being drafted into a company commanded by Capt. Joseph Cutler and Regt. by Col. Cushing, for two months in July I think 1775 and marched from Brookfield Mass. through Litchfield and Danbury Ct. White Plains in the State of New York in which vicinity we remained during the said term of two months which was spent in standing centinel and keeping guard, a part of the time, and then I was dismissed. Col. next entered the revolutionary war in the summer of 1777 as a substitute for Moses Adams of Brook- field aforesaid, for two months in a company commanded by Capt. Josiah Cutler, I think, (the Col. I do not recollect) under Gen. Gates - marched to Stillwater N.Y. and was there at the time of the surrender of Burgoyne soon after which I was dismissed, having performed the said two months service. I next entered my countrys service for three months by enlisting into the company

being performed the said two months service. I next entered my country's service for three months by enlisting into the company of Capt. Campbell, our Major's name was Campbell also. (the b- do not remember) in the Autumn of 1777 and passed through the State of Connecticut into the State of New York and spent the said three months on and near the banks of the Hudson River, and was dismissed from service without receiving any written discharge at this time or at the expiration of any former service.
I have no documentary evidence of any of my services and know of no man living who served with me or whose testimony I can obtain. I have a distinct recollection of going into the service and doing a private soldier's duty as above stated, amounting in all to seven months; but my memory is so much impaired by age, and intervening time, that I cannot relate many particular circumstances relative to said service; yet I well remember seeing an officer of pretty high rank by the name of Arnold, under Gen. Gates, who was very active in the battle before the surrender of Burgoyne - also of seeing the wounded who were brought from said battle ground, for the company to which I belonged was not called into action, though hourly expecting it, and standing in readiness for it. I am known in my present neighbourhood to the Rev Moses Hatch and Rev. David Kimball Ministers of the Gospel also to John Mach Esqr, John Hamlen Esqr, Elijah Warner, Esqr, Dost Samuel Shaw, one of our Select men, Major John Mach our town Clerk Deacon Robert Beals and Col. Jason Richards, all of said Plainfield, and to nearly all the inhabitants of said town who have arrived to mature years; any or all of whom can testify relative to my character for truth and veracity At my services before performed in the Militia of Massachusetts.
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.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Before me Samuel Brinsley Judge of Probate for said County John Campbell

No 4.492
John Campbell
Panel
7 Months
Admitted
   Period Years Months Days Hours Minutes     Duration of Service   Hours   Names of Employers and their Offices  
Slave F. Lyman Northampton Mass
 1. State his service, as stated in the form annexed  2. How old is he?  3. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  4. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? 
(Act Jan. 1835)
BRANCH in the case of John Campbell of Northampton in the State of Massachusetts

BRIEF in the case of  John Campbell of the County of Hampshire  in the State of Massachusetts — (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? cont  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 79 years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days. As a Gen.     In 1775 July — 2 — Serfants Col. Bushing, Capt. Cutter   " 77 Substituted 2 for Moses Adams Capt. Josiah Cutter   " 77 Autumn — 3 — Private Capt. Campbell  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Brookfield  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Sevin Bell Examining Clerk.

1905 Oct. 23. Hist. to L L Campbell
Rehran
4994 INVALID.
File No. 4994
John Campbell Print Rev War
Act: June 7 th 1832.
Index:—Vol. m , Page 57
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Rev David Hinkell & others Certificate for John Campbell

We the undersigned, all inhabitants Plainfield in the County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do declare and say, that, we have long been acquainted with John Campbell of Plainfield aforesaid, who is about to apply for a Pension under the Act of Congress of June 7th 1832, but who says he knows of no one living who can testify in his favour. And we do further say that the said John Campbell sustains a good moral character and is esteemed a man of truth and veracity and whose testimony can be relied on, though considerably enfeebled by age, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood to have been a revolutionary soldier, and we concur in that opinion, and have never known any doubts to exist in the mind of any one relative to his revolutionary services.
Plainfield aforesaid August 17th 1832.
David Kimball, Jun. Pastor Congregational church, Plainfield.
Robert Beals Dea 21
Samuel Shaw M.D. Selectmen
Erastus Bates Esq. of Plainfield
John Mack Jr. Town clerk
I hereby certify that the above named John Campbell and all those who have certified as above, relative to the said Campbell's character are inhabitants of said Plainfield and that they all hold the offices annexed to their several names and are all men of truth and veracity, and I also concur in the opinion that the said Campbell was a revolutionary soldier.
Plainfield in the County of Hampshire Mass. John Mack, Justice of the Peace August 17th 1832.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
HAMPSHIRE ss. I, SAMUEL F. LYMAN, Register of the Court of Probate in and for said County, do hereby certify that John Mack Esquire, before whom the annexed deposition certificate is taken is one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly and regularly appointed, and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and have no doubt that the Signature annexed to said deposition certificate is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this twentieth day of August A. D. 1832.
Sam e F. Lyman Register of Probate.

Y o 4472
John Campbell

B R I E F objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of John Campbell which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes. VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? yes
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? yes
XIV. † If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility?
And is the official character and signature of the magistrate certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? yes.
 EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For _____ year _____ months and _____ days. I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension.”

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
†QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
†QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

OCT 21 1905
FILES.
OFFICE OF THE POSTMASTER, NORTHAMPTON, MASS. L. L. CAMPBELL, P. M.
2393
OCT 19 1905
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:-
According to the history of Revolutionary soldiers, there were some fifteen men who served in that war from Massachusetts by the name of John Campbell. My great grandfather bore that name, and he served in that war. In order to collect certain data, I need to know which John Campbell was my ancestor. Very likely the records of your office will settle the question. He was born Nov. 2d. 1752. Place of birth not positively known, nor place from where he enlisted. History states that he served in the war and witnessed the surrender of Burgoyne to Gates in 1777. He received an annual pension of $23.33. It is quite possible that he enlisted from Rehoboth, Mass. After the war, his address was Cummington, Hawley and Plainfield, Mass., some one of the three. You will confer a great favor if you can identify which John Campbell this case fits.
Respectfully,
L. L. Campbell
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