Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34139, Jeremiah Campbell, Mass.

SERVICE
Noass.
Campbell, Jeremiah
NUMBER _____
S 34/39
CONTENTS

(795)
Massachusetts Roll.
Jeremiah Campbell, Capt Knapp Private 4 Mass. line. 1777-1 year - In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 16 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st of June 1818 and sent to Hon. Edward Bangs, Worcester, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818 Semi-annual allowance
4 months 19/30 $37. 6
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
4 Sep 1818
Hardwick Worcester Co.
W. L. Marcy Mar 12 resp'd claim
Make application sent [illegible] 31 st Feb 1820 to [illegible] Marcy [illegible] Abigail Bangs [illegible]

State of Massachusetts I Jeremiah Campbell a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Hardwick in the County of Worcester in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on May, seventeen hundred and seventy seven
I entered and was engaged in the Land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to May seventeen hundred and eighty
as a private soldier against the common enemy; without any interrup- tion or absence: that I belonged to Capt. Mores Knapp's Company Col. Shepard's Regiment in the Massachusetts Line
and that I left the service on on about the first of May 1780 and was honourably discharged; but my discharge is lost. and that, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of sixty four years
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Jeremiah Campbell BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this sixteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me, Edward Bangs one of the Circuit judges of the U. S. District Court for the western Circuit in said State, comprising said County of Wor- cester
the abovenamed Jeremiah Campbell and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination du- ly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
Given under my Hand and the Seal of said Court, the day of the date aforesaid.
Edward Bangs

Jeremiah Campbell
16 Apr
Correct JH

Jeremiah Campbell
195
1 June 1818.
Sep. 1878.
Dear Sirs,
1
18. THE BRITISH COUNCIL OF CHIEFS OF STAFF

Schedule of the Estate of Jeremiah Campbell of Hardwick in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Applicant for a pension under the Act of Congress of May 1. 1820.
   1 Grindstone .50. 1-5 gal kettle 2.00. 1 Sugar bowl & cream .14   2 pr old wheels 2.50. 1 pot .50. 1 tea pot & coffee pot .80   2 ploughs 1.25. 1 Bake pan 1.00. 2 Mugs .37   3 Chains 2.00. 1 Fry pan .07. 2 tumblers .14   2 spades 1.50. 1 Tea Kettle .50. 3 Glass bottles .53   1 shovel .25. 1 Spider .33. 2 Jugs .22   1 Iron Bar 1.00. 1 Skillet .25. 2 milk pans .22   2 hoes .67. 1 pr tongs & shovel 1.25. 1 Loom 1.00   3 pitchforks .75. 8 Chains 1/ 1.33. 2 spinn g wheels 1.00   2 Rakes .25. 1 small desk 1.00. 1 calf 3.00   1 cart Body 2.00. 1 Chest .25. 6 Cyder barrels 1/ 1.00   1 dung fork .40. 2 maple tables 2.33 = .66. 2 Axes .75   20 plates .80. 2 pails @ .20 .40. 2 augers .42   6 Shep 5.00. 9 Cups & Saucers .33. 1 Looking glass .50  
$34.48
My family consists of only of myself and wife; my occupation is farming which my age and infirmities render it difficult for me to pursue.
Jeremiah Campbell.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COUNTY OF WORCESTER, ss.
ON this twenty third day of June 1820, personally appeared in open Court, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, being a Court of Record, within and for said County of Worcester, established as such by the laws of said Commonwealth, Jeremiah Campbell aged sixty seven years, resident in Hardwick in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: I enlisted in May 1777, in the Mass s line in the Reg t commanded by Col. M c Shepherd, company commanded by Capt Moses Knapp, and continued in the service until the month of May 1780 when I was honorably discharged, Capt Seth Parmeter at that time commanding the Company. I applied for a pension under the law of Mar 18.1818, on the 15 th April 1818, and my pension certificate No. 795—
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, 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 hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Jeremiah Campbell
Sworn to and declared, on the twenty third day of June, 1820 before the said Court.
Attest, Abijah Bigelow, Cler.
I, ABIJAH BIGELOW, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, holden within and for the County of Worcester, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is thirty nine dollars and forty eight cents. —
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty third day of June 1820.
Abijah Bigelow Clerk of the Court for the County of Worcester.

Mar 12 47
Greenwich Mass March 6
Paid 10
Hon Commissioner of Bounty Lands Washington D.C.
Jere Campbell Mar 24 18

Glenwich Massachusetts March 3, 1871
Hon. Commissioner on Bounty Lands
Dear Sir I am requested by Jeremiah Campbell heir at Law of Jeremiah Campbell deceased who was a private in the Army of the Revolution who was inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of $8 per Month, to commence on 16 th April 1878 and who drew a Pension untill he died lately, to enquire if he was entitled to Bounty Land as such Soldier pleas answer me soon, as the time is fast running out when it can be had -
Yours Respectfully Laban Morey
N.B. it is said that Campbell served 3 years at one time in the war of the Revolution. L.M.

March 1, 1937.
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BA-J/ady Jeremiah Campbell S.34139
Mr. F. W. George 1300 Steele Street Denver, Colorado
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter relative to Jeremiah Campbell, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The data contained herein were obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, S.34139, based upon the military service of Jeremiah Campbell in that war.
The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of Jeremiah Campbell are not stated.
Jeremiah Campbell enlisted, place not stated, in May 1777, served as private in Captains Moses Knap's and Seth Banister's Companies, Colonel William Shepard's Fourth Massachusetts Regiment and was discharged about the first of May 1780.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 16, 1818, at which time he was aged sixty-four years and a resident of Hardwick, Worcester County, Massachusetts.
Soldier's wife was living in 1820, her name and age not given. It is not stated that they had children.
In 1847 one Jeremiah Campbell, was an heir-at-law of the soldier, Jeremiah Campbell, his age, residence or degree of relationship not shown. There are no further family data.
In regard to location of bounty land applications, such applications as were not destroyed by fire in 1800

and in 1814 are on file in this office. Jeremiah Campbell, named above, was not entitled to bounty land because his service terminated before the close of the Revolutionary War in 1783.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator
Date of death not on AB.

34 139 Rev INVALID.
1937 Mar. 1. Hist. to F. W. George. A. 12. 4.
File No. 34 139
Jeremiah Campbell Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 65-
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Pension Office
March 12. 1847
Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 5th inst. I have to inform you that no so revolutionary soldier acquired a right to bounty land unless he enlisted for the war, and served till the close thereof, in the year 1783. It appears from the  his pension papers of Jeremiah Campbell only that he served three years terminating in 1780. He was  did not, therefore, acquire entitled to bounty land from the U States.
Saban Marcy, Esq., Greenwich Massachusetts.

Be it remembered that David Holbrook of Wrentham in the County of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, hereby testifies and makes solemn Oaths that I was a Lieutenant in the late Continental Army in the late Revolutionary war, in the Company then commanded by Moses Knapp Esq in the Regiment commanded by Lt. Col. Wm. Shepard being the fourth Massachusetts Regiment and Jeremiah Campbell was a Soldier in said Company, and Regiment and according to my belief he enlisted in May in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven, and served until May one thousand seven hundred and eighty and was then honorably dismissed having been a faithful Soldier during said term.
David Holbrook
Wrentham the 17 th day of April A.D. 1818 Then the above named David Holbrook signed and made solemn Oaths to the truth of the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed before me Cornelius Wallock Justice of the Peace

Thirteen Hundred Steele Street, Denver, Colorado, Feb. 9, 1937.
Veterans Administration, Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:-
May I have whatever information your files contain regarding Jeremiah Campbell a Revolutionary war pensioner who in his latter days lived in Hardwick, Mass? From what information I have he probably lived during the war at or near Norton, Bristol Co., Mass.
Does your office have the record of Revolutionary war soldiers who applied for land bounties? If not, where may the information be obtained?
Yours very truly,
A. N. George.