Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 45322, Amos Camp, N.H.

SERVICE
N.H.
Camp, Amos
NUMBER
S. 45322
CONTENTS

Camp, Amos
His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of New York, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on April 25, 1794, and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 95.
Rank: Private
Regt: Colonel Hale's New Hampshire.
Disability: Wounded in the left arm and belly by a musket ball.
When and where disabled: Sep. 19, 1777, Bemus's Heights.
Residence: Columbia county.
Remarks: Enlisted April 14, 1777; discharged May 1, 1780.
Evidence transmitted by the District Court complete.

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May 29, 1906.
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Let to B. M. Camp, Feb 27. 1837 same, March 22 1837.
Notified above sent to George Prout Esq. Cooperstown, N.Y. 13 October 1840
14.749 R Amos Camp
Amos Camp
of Westford in the state of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Reed of the New Hampshire line, for the term of three years
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of - 8 - Dollars per month, to commence on the 20 th of March 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 th of Sep: 1819 and sent to Messrs Morse & Stewart Cherry Valley N.Y.
  Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819  = $ 44    semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Mar: 1820  48.00    15 mo 15/30  $ 92.00  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

St. N. York Otsego County ss. On this 20 th March 1819 came before me Amos Camp a citizen of the Town of Westford and County of Otsego and State of New York and in order to obtain the benefit of the late act of Congress passed 18 th March 1818 for the relief of revolutionary soldiers makes the follow- ing declaration on oath,
That he the said Amos enlisted into the service of the United States against the common enemy the Continental Estab- lishment in the month of April 1777 in Capt. Bell's company in Col. Hales Regt. in the New Hamp- shire Line for the term of three years said Regt. was afterwards com- manded by Col. George Reed which said

term of three years he served this component served faithfully and was honorably discharged at West Point in the St. A. F. C. which discharge he has lost, and he this component was in the battle of Bur- goyne besides many skirmishes, and he this component received a severe wound in the body in the battle of Burgoyne and in the arms of which wound he this component is now severely afflicted and for which wound he this component received a pension from the U. States under the act of Cong. passed 28 th of March 1792.

and the name of him this deponent now is on the Pension Roll at the rate of $64. 00 per annum as will appear by the inspec- tion of the said Pension Roll and this deponent further says that he collected this proof hereto-subjoined, pre- vious to his making this application and this de- ponent says he travelled 200 miles into the St. Vermont and State of New Hampshire to collect the said proof. And he this deponent further says that he is in need- less circumstances and is absolutely in need of as- sistance from his country for support and he

The said deponent fur- ther States that he resigned the $64. pension as appears by the release hereunto an- nexed and on condition he received this pension for which he applied and fur- ther that he is in the six- tyth year of his age and further this deponent saith not Amos Camp
Sworn & Subscri- bed before me this 20 th day March 1819
James S. Campbell one of the Judges of the Court of Com- mon Pleas of the County of Ohio and St. of N. York -

District of New-York, } ss. Otsego County, }
ON this 21 st day of June 1820 personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of record for the county aforesaid, Amos Camp aged 61 years, resident in Warewick in the county of Otsego in said District, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war, in Captain Bills company, Colonel George Root regiment, belonging to the New Hampshire line: And the date of his original declaration was on the 10 th day of September 1819 on which he has received a pension certificate, No. 14,749 And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift or sale, or in any 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 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed, and by me subscribed.
ARTICLES OF REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE.
No personal property - Iron Ware worth Seven Dollars - Other household furniture worth ten Dollars - No debts due me I am indebted about fifty dollars my family consists of three persons myself a cripple by reason of wounds Rec d at the taking of Burgoyne - my wife aged fifty nine much out of health - My son Amos aged thirty four years Insane for eleven years past
Sworn to & declared on Amos Camp This 21 st June 1820 Before the Court
J. W. Snorill Clerk
own $50 emp: \frac{1}{8} $6.25

Amos Camp Nantucket No 14,749 Abey C 21
George Morell Coopers town, Agent
14749 6 Sept. 1819
En

State of New York Otsego County Clerk's Office ss: I George Morell Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Otsego & State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing oath & the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total am- ount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Twenty Dollars — In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said County this 24 th June 1820
G. Morell Clerk

I Benjamin Thompson of Sullivan in the County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire do hereby certify and say that in the Spring of the year 1777 I saw my brother Amos Thompson set his hand to an Indenture to go into the Continental Service for the term of three years and in a short time after he marched to join his Regiment and sometime in the Month of December of the same year my father received a letter from my brother Amos that he was in the Hospital at Albany damaged and wished for his assistance my Mother set out for his relief and brought him part of the way home but he not being able to proceed my Mother left him and returned home — not many days after I set out with my Father and one other man and brought my brother home as a Novelist he lay about one year before he was able to travel and then returned to the army
Benjamin Thompson
State of New Hampshire Cheshire ss Feb 7 20th 1819
Then Deon Benjamin Thompson signed of the above personally appeared and made oaths to the above declaration —
Before me Marshall Noble Just Peace

No. 74. 22. 1837

6865 3
Feby 21. 1837.
Bounty Land and Pension Office
Answered in Reference to Bounty Land at the Bounty Land Office Feb 24 th 1837
Amos Camp N.Y. Oct 1815
6 Sept 19
File
Washington -
To the Secretary of War,
27. ... no G... was

Sir,
Fort Plain Feb. 12. 1837 -
My father Amos Camp was a soldier in the revolutionary war, he was an assisted pensioner from the time of the Bennington battle till he died in Feb. 1822 - he acted under Stark at Bennington, about in 1819 or 20 he applied for a pension under another law & relinquished his pension as an invalid & succeeded - his papers, &c, must be on file probably in your office -
I want you to inform me whether he was not entitled to some land & whether he disposed of it, in his life time, & where it is located if he did not dispose of it in his life time &c, & whether his children are not entitled to the land, & to the pension which he drew in his life time, I understand his widow would be entitled to his pension if she were living but she has been dead a few years, I want to know whether her heirs can draw his pension up to the time of her death, I have not seen the late pension law I wish you to send me it if you can, any information which you can give me on this subject will be very thankfully received, Yours &c, Secretary of war - B. B. Camp

45322
Rev INVALID.
File No. 45322
Amos Camp
Rev War
Act: 18 March 1818
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 75
[Arrangement of 1870.]

A. Amos Camp
Pensioner
Alvan Stewart agent.
Cherry Valley N.Y.
Adm l
The claimant must
annex his old pension cer-
tificate to his declaration. com: of pen. 23 rd Apr. 1875
& send them to the War Dept.
The 1 st  \frac{1}{2} sheet is explanatory of the absence of the certificate of '92
Morse & Stewart, Cherry Valley N.Y.

I know all men by these presentes that J Amos Camp Soldier of the Revolutionary war do hereby resign a pension of Sixty four Dollars per of the U. States for a wound in the Revolutionary war and placed on the said Pension list by the act of the 28 th of March 1793 provi- ded he the said Amos receives a pension under the act of March 1818 I so witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 20 th March 1819 in presence of Alvan Stewart Amos Camp

State of New-York, } ss. Otsego County, }
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twentieth day of March 1819 the above named Amos Camp came before me, James S. Campbell one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Otsego and State of New-York, and made oath that the facts stated in the foregoing Petition and Declaration are true:—And I the said Judge, pursuant to the directions of the Act of Congress, entitled “An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, during the Revolutionary War,” do certify to the Secretary of War, that it has appeared to my satisfaction that the said Amos served in the Revolutionary War against the common enemy, for the term mentioned in the said Petition and Declaration hereunto annexed:—And in pursuance of the directions of said Act, I do hereby certify to the Hon. the Secretary of War, that the testimony of Samuel Davis and B. Humb as detailed in his affidavits hereunto annexed, affidavits was taken before me, and that I am satisfied that the application of the said Amos is fair and bona fide in all respects, and that he, by reason of his reduced circumstances, is absolutely in need of assistance from his country for support.
James S. Campbell

State of Virginia Pensylvania County
I Josiah Masters first Judge of Pensylvania Common Pleas Co. certifying
That on the 23 d day of April 1818 Arrol Camp of the New Hampshire line made application to me for the new Pension etc. I made out his papers & transmitted the same to the War Department & were rejected for further evidence
Josiah Masters
Springfield August 2 d 1819

Explanatory proofs
N.Y. Offgo. County B. I was Camp being duly sworn say, that his pa- pers have been returned to him and it is stated by the War department that he must annex his old pension certifi- cate to his papers; But his opponent says that under the act of 1892 when he was placed on the pension list he received no certificate, & further that the public notice given of his being on the pen- sion list was through the medium of the newspapers after he had made his proof before the commissioners and he further says that he had drawn his pension for about twenty six years, by making out a power of attorney with- out ever giving the copy of any certificate whatever. And this opponent fur- ther says that he made an application for a pension

under the act of the 18 th March 1818 on the 4 th day of April 1818 before Judges Masters of Prescotean Co. St. A. G. which was returned by the War Dept for the want of ad- ditional proof, and this deponent having since removed to the County of Otago where this last application was made at about the distance of ninety miles, he therefore prays that it may seem right to the Hon. Secretary to place him on a of the time of his original application.
Sworn before Amos Campbell Amos S. Campbell one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Otago on the 17 th day of June 1819
I Certify that from credible testimony testimony taken by me in respect to the credibility of Amos Campbell that I am satisfied and have no doubt of his being a man of truth and credibility and is to be believed on oath Amos S. Campbell

Samuel Davis — Deposition

I Samuel Davis of Londonderry age 80 do testify and say that I was acquainted with Amos Camp of Cambridge State of New York and that said Camp and myself both enlisted at the same time meaning the month of April in the year 1777 and placed ourselves under the command of Capt. M. Bell belonging to Col. Hales Regiment belonging to the Continental Troops said Regiment was afterwards commanded by Col. George Reed Hale being taken by the Enemy at Hubbardton in the State of Vermont and that Camp and myself marched together to Siconderoga and kept to gather until we retreated from Siconderoga and till the taking of Burgoyne at which time said Camp was wounded and was conveyed to Albany and put into the hospital after that I had no personal knowledge of him until he had recovered of his wound and returned to and joined Army after which he was my mess mate during the three years for which we both enlisted at the expiration of which time I obtained my discharge which was in the year 1780 and in about two weeks after I arrived at home said Camp came home also at the time we enlisted we both belonged to Pelham in the County of Rockingham in and State of New Hampshire and further the Deponent saith not
Samuel Davis
State of Vermont } Londonderry Feb. 27 1819 Windham County ss } Then Samuel Davis of Londonderry in the County of Windham and State of Vermont Personally appeared and after being lawfully examined made solemn oath that the foregoing deposition by him subscribed contains the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth
Before me Luther Stowell Jus. of the Peace
I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with Samuel Davis for eight or ten years and he sustains a good moral character among us in this Town
John Wakefield Justice of the Peace

Mar 17
Catskill
Amos Camp
NY 20
Mar 20
FREE
J. L. Edwards
Comm r of Pensions
Washington —

Fort-Plain March 10 th 1837-
Sir, Some time in the year 1820 or short time before or after my Father Amos Camp relinquished his pension as an invalide & applied for & obtained a pension, as a soldier of The Revolutionary war . His affidavit & papers upon which his application was founded are probably on file in your office - I wish you would take the trouble to refer to those papers (viz: his affidavit &c,) and let me know under whom he listed & in what line - when & where, how long he served, & under whom & where he was wounded & when - I suppose the above facts can easily be found in & answered from his papers upon which his claim to a pension as an invalide or as a revolutionary soldier was founded - I should prefer to have you send me the papers, but probably that you could not do, - I want the information above requested, to enable me to settle the question, whether his heirs are entitled to bounty lands & how much & where they would be located &c, perhaps after seeing the papers above mentioned, you could give me some instructions on this subject that might be of use, if you could it would be gratefully received - it seems that his name is not returned on any of the records of the Eastern Continental lines, on file in the Bounty land office, among those entitled to Bounty lands from the U. States, from an examination made by Mr. Wm. Gordon 24 th Feb. 1837 - But I have been told that some of the States gave bounty land to the soldiers who were enlisted in such States during the Revolutionary war, by an arrangement with the General Government -
Very respectfully yours B. M. Camp
J. L. Edwards Washington