Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 1626, Duncan Campbell, Va.

SERVICE
Va.
Campbell, Duncan
NUMBER
P 1626
CONTENTS
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State of Kentucky } Gallatin County } Set the
On this 13 day of March 1834 Personally appeared before me Benjamin Tiller Justice of the peace in and for the county of Gallatin  Boyle  State of Kentucky and one of the Justices of the Gallatin county court Duncan Campbell aged 74 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 and served as herein stated That is to say being a resident of Orange County State of Virginia he did on the day of April 1780 as well as he now recollects enter the service of the United States as a drafted militia man and as a Surgeon upon a town of three months in the company of Capt Benjamin Johnson that he rendezvoused with his said company at the usual muster ground in said county together with several other companies under the command of Col Taylor and that he was marched immediately from his said place of rendezvous with the militia under the command of the said Col to Charlottesville and he states that he and the militia under the command of the said Col was there left stationed at the said place as a part of the garrison of that place during the whole period of his said term of three months being the period for which he was drafted and called into the service and after hav- -ing actually served out his said term fully and faithfully he was discharged and returned home He further states and declares that being still a resident of the said county of Orange State of Virginia he did on the day of August 1780 again enter the service of the United States as a Volunteer and as a Surgeon upon a town of

three months in the company of Capt Rott Johnson as as he now recollects that rendezvoused at with his said company at the usual muster ground in said county together with several other companies under the command of Col Temple and that he was marched from his said place of rendezvous with the militia under the command of the said Col to Richmond and he states that he and the troops with which he was were there kept stationed at the said point as a part of the garrison of that place during the whole period of his said term of three months being the time for which he volunteered and entered the service and after having actually served out his said term fully and faithfully he was discharged and returned home He further states and declares that being still a resident of the county of Orange state of Virginia he did about the middle of the month of June 1781 again enter the service of the United States as a drafted militia man and as a surgeon upon a term of four months in the company of Capt May Burton Lieutenant Belfield Lane and that he rendezvoused with his said company at the Court house in the said county of Orange and that he with his said company marched immediately to Richmond and he there came under the command of Col Thos Mathews and this declarant and the troops under the command of the said Col marched from thence to the Machin hills and there joined Genl Lawsons Brigade and from thence this declarant and the troops under the command of the said Genl marched to Williamsburgh and was there kept stationed for some time and from thence this declarant was marched to the green Springs and was in the engage- ment at that place and this declarant states that from thence he was marched to little York and the siege of that place commenced and that he was present and aided and assisted in the capture of the British army under Cornwallis and this declarant states that the period for which he

was drafted having at that time expired he after having served out his said term of four months fully being the time for which he was drafted and called into the service he was then discharged after having served out his said term fully and faithfully and returned home
This declarant states that he is growing old and is very infirm in body and that his memory has greatly failed him and he is confident that he performed other services during the Revolutionary war than those above set forth which he cannot now remember with sufficient certainty to attempt a correct detail of them but he is confident he did not serve less than three months as a volunteer and as a surgeon and seven months as a drafted militia man and a surgeon comprising a period of Ten months actual service in the revolutionary war as above stated and set forth
This declarant states that he has no documentary evidence and knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service 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
Duncan Campbell
Interrogatories put to the above named applicant by the said Justice of the peace
1 st Where and in what year were you born
Ans I was born in Orange County Virginia in the year 1760
2 nd Have you any record of your age and if so where is it Ans I have none -
3 Where were you living when called into the service where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live
Ans I was living in Orange County Virginia and continued to live there after the revolutionary war until the year

1812 when I moved to Gallatin county Kentucky where I now live
4 th How were you called into the service were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom
Ans I was drafted upon my first tour upon my second I was a volunteer and upon my third I was drafted
5 th State the names of some of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service
Ans
I recollect Genl Lawson Col Temple and Waylon Mathews who were militia officers upon my first tour I was stationed at Charlottesville upon my second tour I was stationed at Richmond upon my third tour I was stationed at different points part of my last tour I was stationed at Richmond part of my time at Williamsburg I was in the engagement at the Green Springs and from there I was marched to Little York and was present at the capture of Cornwallis in October 1781 and was there discharged
6 th Did you ever receive a Commission and if so by whom was it signed and what has become of it Ans 6 th Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it Ans I received discharges signed by my officers which I have lost
7 th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as an officer of the revolution
Ans I will name William Whitehead and Jacob Walton

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Duncan Campbell —
We William Whitehead & Deputy President of Gallatin County State of Kentucky hereby Certify that we are well acquaint- -ted with Duncan Campbell who has subscribed and sworn to the the preceding declaration that we believe him to be 74 years of age and upwards and that he is reported and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a Soldier in the revolution and we concur in that opinion Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Jacob Walters
W. Whitehead
And I the said Benjamin Tiller Justice of the peace as aforesaid hereby declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter and after having putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a a surgeon in the revolutionary war and served as he states and I certify that from infirmity of body he cannot attend the court to make his declaration and I further Certify that there is no clergyman residing in the immediate neighbourhood of the said Duncan Campbell and as further Certify that Jacob Walters and William Whitehead who has signed the preceding Certificate are residents of Gallatin County Kentucky and are credible persons and whose statements are entitled to credit Given under my hand this 13 th day of March
1834
Benjamin Tiller P.P.G.

State of Kentucky Gallatin County } I Richard P. Butler Clerk of the County Court of Gallatin County State of Ken- tucky do hereby certify that Benjamin Tille, whose name appears to the foregoing cer- tificate was, at the date thereof and still is a justice of the peace in and for said County and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine and that the foregoing were this day presented to me in my office as the orig- inal proceedings in the matter of the ap- plication of Charles Rose for a Duncan Campbell for a pension by said justice
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this four- teenth day of March A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty four
Richd. P. Butler

33. 262
Duncan Campbell Kentucky

State of Kentucky } Gallatin County }
Be it known that on this 15 th day of October 1835 personally appeared before me Benjamin Tiller, a Justice of the peace in and for the county of Gallatin state of Kentucky and one of the Justices of the Gallatin county Court Duncan Campbell a resident of said county and state aged 75 years and upwards who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration by way of amendment to a declaration made by the said Duncan Campbell some time in the spring of 1834 in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed 7 th June 1832. This declarant states that some time in the spring of 1834 as well as he now recollects he made a declaration and stated the services he performed during the revolutionary war as a militia man and surgeon in order to be placed on the pension roll. He further states and declares that from the great infirmity of body that he now labours under as well as infirmity of mind that he cannot now state his services as correct nor as fully and particularly as he did in his said declaration in the spring of 1834.

this declarant will therefore for  will have to rely for upon his former declaration He would again state that at the time he entered the service of the United States that he was living in Orange County Virginia and that upon his first tour he was drafted upon a tour of three months and served out said time fully and faithfully and upon his second tour he was a volunteer upon a tour of three months and served out the said term fully and faithfully and upon his third tour he was drafted upon a tour of four months which term this declarant served out fully and faithfully and this declarant states the first tour of three months he was drafted as a militia man and that he served as a Surgeon and upon the second tour he was a Volunteer and served as a Surgeon and that upon his third tour he was drafted and served as a Surgeon as stated in his former declaration and this declarant further states and declares that to the best of his knowledge and belief he never did receive a commission as Surgeon during the revolutionary war this declarant states and declares that from the great

bodily infirmity he has laboured under since the time he made his former declaration and from the loss in part of his memory that he cannot now state his services as correct as he then did he states that he is very helpless and old and that the small amount to which he may be entitled would be of great use and benefit to him in his old age he therefore prays the allowance of his claim
Duncan Campbell
State of Kentucky } Gallatin County }
I Benjamin Tiller a Justice of the peace in and for the county of Gallatin state of Kentucky and one of the Justices of the Gallatin County Court do hereby certify that this day Duncan Campbell the subscribed and was sworn to the preceding declaration before me and I further certify that the sd Campbell is unable from bodily infirmity to attend court to make declaration and who I certify appears to me to be 75 years of age and who

is reputed and believed to have been a soldier of the revolution and I concur in the opinion and I further certify that he is a man of high standing in his county for veracity and truth and whose statements are entitled to credit Given under my hand this 15 th day of October, 1835 Benjamin Tiller D.D.
State of Kentucky } Gallatin County }
I Rich d P Butts Clerk of the County Court of Gallatin County in the state aforesaid do hereby certify that Benjamin Tiller whose name appears to the foregoing Certificate was on the day of the date thereof an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County regularly commissioned and qual- ified as appears of record. and that as such full faith and credit are and of right ought to be given to all his official acts. In testimony whereof I have here- unto affixed the Seal of said Court at Port William in the County afore- said this 16 th day of October 1834
Rich d P Butts by J B Boonum D.C.
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1626
0. Duncan Campbell
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
0. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

See letter
See letter 3 Oct 1835 to Saml. Todd Frankfort. de. Oct 28-1835 same
Rejected
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State of Kentucky, } Gallatin County } J. S. T.
The affidavit of Charles Rose taken in Gallatin County Kentucky on the 9 th day of June 1834, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following affidavit. This affiant states that he is a resident of Gallatin County and that he is well acquainted with Duncan Campbell of said County and State who is about applying to be placed on the pension roll of the United States and the said Duncan Campbell is reputed and believed to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and this affiant further states that from bodily infirmity the said Campbell is unable to attend the proper Court to make out his declaration that the said Campbell is unable from wounds which he received several years ago, That he lives at the distance of Twenty miles from the court house in said County. This affiant states that the said Campbell is a man of good character and standing in the County where he resides. Sworn to and subscribed the day and Year above-mentioned
Charles his  Rose mark
The affidavit of Charles Gower taken in Gallatin County Kentucky on the 9 th day of June 1834 who being first duly sworn

according to law. This affiant states that he lives in Gallatin County Kentucky and that he is well acquainted with Duncan Campbell who is about applying to be placed on the pension roll of the United States. This affiant states that the said Campbell is unable from bodily infirmity to attend the court to make his declaration, that he received a wound several years ago from some cause or other, and is entirely disabled from leaving home and that he lives at the distance of twenty miles from the court house in said County, and this affiant states that the said Campbell is reputed and believed to have been a soldier of the revolution and that he is a man of veracity and truth and of good character and standing in the County in which he resides
Charles his X Gowens mark
State of Kentucky } Gallatin County } ss. I Benjamin Tiller a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Gallatin and State of Kentucky do hereby certify that this day, came in person before me, Charles Rose and Charles Gowens and subscribed and swor-

sworn to the preceding affidavits, and who I further certify are creditable persons and whose credits statements are entitled to credit Given under my hand this 9 th day of June 1834
B Tiller W.P.C.
State of Kentucky Gallatin County I Richard P Butler clerk of the county court of Gallatin county state of Kentucky do certify that Benjamin Tillen whose name appears to the preceding certificate was at the date thereof and still is a Justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid and the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal and subscribed my name this 9 th day July 1834
Richard P. Butler

Frankfort Sept 25 th 1835
The case enclosed would have been presented to the Department before this time. But the agent who prepared the papers thought it would require some proof of service as Campbell was a Surgeon and proof in his case cannot be obtained if the claim cannot be allowed as it now stands please to inform me if how to proceed in order to obtain for him
Respectfully Yours Sam. Ladd

Oct 2 nd
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Canv of J. C. Edwards of the Pension office

Mayville July 2 1833
Dear Sir
I enclose you the Declara- tion of Jeps Bennett to procure a pension Mr. Bennett has employed me to attend to his case for him - please upon examining his case, write me on the subject -
I think it, probable the records of the 3. Mary land Regiment - Capt. Brooks Company will show his name -
Yrs Respectfully
N. D. Coleman

132. 11. 5
J. L. Ely Compt. of Pensions FREE Samuel H. H. Bg Frankford. Kentucky.
Duncan Campbell Esq

War Department Pension Office October 3, 1835
Sir,
The declaration of Duncan Campbell has been examined and filed with suspended cases in this office. He alleges that he was drafted as a militia man and surgeon, in Virginia, at several different times. He should make an amended declaration and state fully and particularly the time and place of his service and whether he received a commission as a surgeon, and if so, by whom it was signed.
I am, respectfully,
Your Obedt. Servt.
J. L. Edwards
Samuel Todd Esq. Frankfort. Kentucky.