Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34675, William Campbell, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Campbell, William
S 34675
b. born Mar. 5, 1753.
CONTENTS
all of ... County, ... 1829

20.080
Missouri
William Campbell
of Cooper Co. in the State of Missouri who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Slaughter of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Mullenburg in the Virginia line, for the term of two years. from February 1776 to February 1778
Inscribed on the roll of Missouri at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 day of January 1830
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 of January 1830 and sent to Robert P. Clark Esq. Boonville. Mo.
Arrears to 4th of March 1830. $13.93 Semi-annual all'ce ending
$13.93
{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820. }
Rec: Book L. 6. 210. fol. 98
Date of death not on AB

October Term 1829
Mr Campbell,
Original Claim —
£ 55. 1. 10
n. 115

State of Missouri County of Cooper ss
On the 12 th day of October in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty nine personally appeared in the Circuit Court for the County of Cooper in the State of Missouri in open Court before the Judge thereof (the same being a Court of Record created by the Constitution of the said State of Missouri) William Campbell resident of said County of Cooper aged seventy five years on the fifth day of March last, who being first sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18 th of March 1818 and the 1 st of May 1820, that he the said William Campbell enlisted for the Term of two years in the month of February in the year seventeen hundred and seventy five in the State of Virginia in the Company commanded by Captain George Slughter in the regiment commanded by Col. Muhlenberg and afterwards at the promotion of Col. Muhlenberg commanded by Colonel Abraham Bowman in the line of the State of Virginia on the Continental establishment; that he continued to serve in said Corps until sometime in the month of February seventeen hundred and seventy eight when he was discharged from service in the State of Pennsylvania (said declarant does not recollect the precise day of his enlistment or discharge) - that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension whatever except the present - that his name is not on the roll of any State except that of Virginia, and his reasons for not making earlier application for a pension are as follows - he states that about ten years ago he understood that he was entitled to a pension from the United States according to a law then in force - that he employed an attorney at the bar to obtain said pension for him - that he pursued the directions given him by his attorney who kept all the documents which were drawn out by him to forward to the City of Washington - that he was inform- ed sometime afterwards by his said attorney that his application was unsuccessful, and that since that time until the present he has not made application being discouraged by the result of his first one and having at all times but a confused idea of the laws in force on the subject of pensions and of the method necessary to be pursued under them to obtain one and being generally too poor to pay others to undertake to obtain one for him - And in pursuance of the Act of the 1 st of May 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the Territory (now State) of Missouri on the 18 th of March 1818 and that I have not nor had any person in trust for me, since that time by gift 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 18 th 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 hereto annexed and by me subscribed. And that since the 18 th day of March 1818 there has been no changes in my property - having had most

most of the property named in his Schedule at that time except the usual changes by breeding in his stock of cattle and hogs, the increase of which he has generally himself used - Said William Campbell does not reside at any home or place of his own but usually stays with a grand son named Bradley Campbell who is aged about twenty three years and who is not able to contribute much to the support of this declarant as the said Bradley has likewise his mother living with him (who is a widow) to support. The said Declarant states that he is by occupation a farmer but he is utterly unable to work and has not been able to work any for four or five years, being very old and infirm and having likewise sustained an injury in his shoulders which renders him incapable of much bodily exertion. his William X Campbell Mark
Schedule of the property of William Campbell the foregoing declarant owned by him on the 12 day of October 1829 - with the debts due to him at the same time
Ten head of hogs large & small - 1 Saddle in use ten years - Six head of cattle large & small - 1 man two years old worth perhaps $30. - 2 old ploughs & old gear - 2 Pats & a Pat Hammer - One bed & bedding - 1/2 dozen pewter plates & one dish - 1 pot & 1 Oven - A debt due from Robert Hammond of three dollars and another from Samuel Beatty of two dollars. his William X Campbell Mark
State of Mississippi } County of Cooper } ss
I Robert P. Clark Clerk of the Circuit Court within and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said William Campbell did serve in the revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of two years under an engagement in the Continental establishment, I also certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Records of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is ninety dollars & seventy five cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal of the said Court, this twelfth day of October in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty nine and of this State the Tenth and of the independence of the United States the fifty fourth.
Robert P. Clark

April 30, 1938
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Colonel John Bryson Barnes United States Army(Retired) Beonville, Missouri
BA-J/EEL William Campbell-S.34675 Acu
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of William Campbell, about whom you have no information except that he served in the Virginia troops, but was not the one of King's Mountain fame.
With the meager data furnished by you, no record of a William Campbell could be identified definitely. The record of a William Campbell, of Virginia, follows as found in pension claim, S.34675, which may aid you in some degree in your research.
William Campbell was born March 5, 1753. The place of his birth and names of his parents are not shown.
While residing in Culpeper County, Virginia, William Campbell enlisted in February, 1776, served as a private in Captain George Slaughter's Company, Colonels Muhlenberg and Abraham Bowman's 8 th Virginia Regiment and was discharged in February, 1778.
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 12, 1829, at which time he was a resident of Cooper County, Missouri.
At the time he made his application for pension, William Campbell stated that he had no home of his own but resided with a grandson, Bradley Campbell, aged about twenty-three years and that Bradley's widowed mother resided with him, also. He did not give the names of the parents of his grandson nor the name of his wife.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, William Campbell(s.34675),

you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:
William Campbell Certificate No. 20080 Issued January 13, 1830 Rate, $8.00 per month Commenced January 13, 1830 Acts of March 18, 1818 and May 1, 1820 Missouri Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILIER Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

34 675 INVALID.
1937-Nov 30 - Visit to R. Ewing Riffle - Ex 1938-Apr 30 Visit to Cal John B. Barnes. Ex
File No. 34,675
William Campbell His Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 66
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Enoch Sob, aged about seventy or seventy one years of age, personally appeared before the subscriber, an acting Justice of the peace, for the county of Coey, & being duly sworn, doth depose and say, that he was personally acquainted with William Campbell, the present applicant for a pension, in the state of Virginia, who resided in Culpepper County, at the time of the Revolutionary War, this deponent residing in Shenandoah County. That this deponent, in 1776, joined Col. Muhlenburgh's regiment, at Williamsburgh, in the summer, upon its return from the South, where it had been on a tour, as he understood; that he then met with the said William Campbell, who had been in the service. That the said Campbell then belonged to the same regiment, in the company of Capt. George Slaughter, this deponent being in Capt. William Croghans. This regiment then marched to Pennsylvania; and, upon Col. Muhlenburghs promotion, it was in command of Col. Abraham Bowman. That this deponent was discharged in February 1778, at the Valley Forge, and he left the said Wm. Campbell then in the service and remembers seeing him the day he left camp. The said Campbell afterwards, in the same year returned home. This deponent never saw his discharge; but believes, from general reports & circumstances, that he served his full term of two years and was honorably discharged and never heard any thing to the contrary. That he was so intimately acquainted with him and so often in his neighborhood, that he must have

know the fact if it were otherwise (That he has known Campbell ever since, and they have lived near together in Missouri, in adjoining counties. This deponent believes the year of his joining the Regiment of Col. Muhlenburgh, was the year seventeen hundred and seventy six, about the month of June, as above stated,
And this deponent further saith, that, by reason of old age and bodily infirmity, he hath been unable, for several preceding Circuit Courts, for the County of Cooper, to attend, and further saith not, subscribed and sworn to this 27 th day of June 1829
Enoch Job
Levin Croppus J.P.
I Levin Croppus the aforesaid justice of the peace, do hereby certify that Enoch Job, the above named affiant, is personally known to me, and is believed to be a man of probity and truth, on whose testimony the utmost reliance may justly be placed.
Given under my hand this 27 th day of June 1829
Levin Croppus J.P.

State of Missouri County of Cooper ss. I, Ralut, P. Clark clerk of the County Court Within and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Levin Cropper Esqr whose name is subscribed to the within and foregoing certificate to the affidavit of Enoch Sob. - is and was on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the peace in and for the said County of Cooper duly Commissioned and qualified as such to act and that due and full faith and credit is and ought to be given to all his official acts as such. —
In testimony whereof I the clerk aforesaid have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Boonville this eighth day of July in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty nine, and of this state the ninth and of the independence of the United States the fifty fourth. —
Ralut, P. Clark clerk

Pension Office 13th Jan. 1850.
Bro. J. B. Lee, M.D. P.O. Box 1829 Washington
The Hon. John H. Eaton Secy of War Jan. 13. 1850
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Secretary of War City of Washington D.C.

R. EWING STIFFLER · Architect · DENVER, COLORADO MEMBER AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS      *      *      816 TWELFTH STREET
November 18, 1937
Veterans Administration, Pension Claims, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sirs:
Kindly supply me with the service record, and any enrollment data available giving age, place of birth, residence, etc. for the following,
WILLIAM CAMPBELL.
The Revolutionary War Pension Rolls as published in Senate Documents of the 23rd Congress, Vol. III gives:
Missouri Pension Roll,      - Cooper County William Campbell, private, Virginia Cont'l. Line. Annual allowance $96.00. Sums received $109.93. Placed on Pension Roll January 13, 1830.
Thanking you for your kindness in this matter, I am
Yours very truly,
A handwritten signature in cursive script that reads "R. Ewing Stiffler". The signature is written in dark ink and features a large, stylized initial "R" and a long horizontal line extending from the end of the name.

COLONEL JOHN BRYSON BARNES UNITED STATES ARMY (RETIRED) BOONVILLE, MISSOURI
Feb 25
Admiral Adkins Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:
Will you please send me any data on hand relative to William Campbell ( WILLIAM CAMPBELL ) a Revolutionary Soldier and Va. Continental? I have no further identification except that he was not the William Campbell of Kings Mountain fame.
Sincerely
John B. Barnes

November 30, 1937
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Mr.R.Ewing Stiffler #816- 12" Street Denver, Colorado
BA-J/EFL William Campbell-S.34675
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letters in which you request the Revolutionary War records of William Campbell who served from Virginia and received pension while residing in Missouri and of Henry and Peter Stiffler or Steffler, of Pennsylvania.
A search of the Revolutionary War records has been made and no record found of a claim for pension or bounty land having been made to the United States based upon the military service in that war of any soldier with surname Stiffler, Steffler or similar spelling. Such claims are the source of the data furnished by this office. The record of William Campbell has been found and is furnished herein.
William Campbell S.34675
The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.34675, based upon the military service in that war of William Campbell.
William Campbell was born March 5, 1753. The place of his birth and names of his parents are not shown.
While residing in Culpeper County, Virginia, William Campbell enlisted in February, 1776, served as a private in Captain George Slaughter's Company, Colonels Muhlenberg and Abraham Bowman's 8 th Virginia Regiment and was discharged in February, 1778.
all officers identified
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 12, 1829, at which time he was a resident of Cooper County, Missouri.

At the time he made his application for pension, William Campbell stated that he had no home of his own but resided with a grandson, Bradley Campbell, aged about twenty-three years, and that Bradley's widowed mother also resided with him. He did not give the names of the parents of his grandson nor the name of his wife or any other children.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, William Campbell (S.34675), you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:
William Campbell Certificate No. 20080 Issued January 13, 1830 Rate, $8.00 per month Commenced January 13, 1830 Act of March 18, 1818 and May 1, 1820 Missouri Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator.