Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44749, Amaziah Chappell, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Chapell, Amariah NUMBER S. 44749 or Chapal
CONTENTS

Notification sent Nov. 9 th 1820 to Danl. Shepherd Salem N.Y. chit May 12 1829
12-6-22 R New York
Amariah Chapal of Granville in the state of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel S. B. Webb of the Connecticut line, for the term of 3 years 1777.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 24 th of Novr. 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th of July 1819 and sent to Samuel Stevens Esq. Salem NY
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 3 mos 1/30 26.89 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th March 1819. 48.00 Alls: 74.89
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

Affidavit of Mathew Wilson & Luke Mitchell cook
Declaration of Swedish Baptist certificate etc. —

State of New York } Washington County } ss
on this twenty fourth day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me the Subscribed first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the county aforesaid State aforesaid personally appears Amariah Chappell aged sixty four years Resident in the Town of Granville County and State aforesaid, who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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;" that the said Amariah Chappell enlisted in the Town of Lebanon in the state of Connecticut in the Company commanded by Captain Judah Halsey in Colonel Samuel Webb's Regiment on the seventh day of May in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventyseven - that he continued to serve in the said company in the service of the United States until the seventh day of May in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty when he was discharged from service in Morristown State of New Jersey that he was in the service when Ecorps was Burnt and also at Defiance and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services except the enclosed papers.
Amariah Chappell
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid Anthony Blanchard - First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington in the State of New York

I Anthony J Blanchard first judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington State of New York do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Amariah Chapell did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and laid before me to the secretary for the department of war pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress - Dated 24 th Nov. 1818
Anthony J Blanchard
State of New York
Washington County
I Daniel Shipard Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington do certify that Anthony J Blanchard Esq r
by whom the above certificate was made was at the time & still is first Judge of the Court aforesaid acting under the authority of the said State and that the above is his signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of the said Court this 10 th day of December 1818 D Shipard Clerk
In addition to the above certificate I do hereby further certify that the said Amariah Chapell it appears to my satisfaction that the said Amariah Chapell is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support. Dated 16 th June 1819
Anthony J Blanchard First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington in the State of New York

Washington County } _____
Amariah Chappell being duly sworn says that Captain Judah Hemenway in Colonel Samuel Webb's Regiment into which this element entered as mentioned in the annexed declaration was in the Connecticut line of troops raised for the service of the United States
Sworn this 14 th day } of June 1819 before me }
Amariah Chappell
Anthony Blanchard } First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington in the State of New York -

Washington County } Nathan Wilson being duly sworn says that he is acquainted with Amariah Chap- pell of Granville in the County of Washington and State of New York and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support
Nathan Wilson
Sworn this 16 th day of June 1819 before me
Anthony Blanchard - First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington in the State of New York.
State of New York } Washington County } ----- / -----
Luke Hitchcock being duly sworn says that he is acquainted with Amariah Chappell of Granville in the County of Washington and State of New York and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support
Luke Hitchcock
Sworn this 16 th day of June 1819 before me
Anthony Blanchard - First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington in the State of New York.

In the matter of { Amariah Chaplin }
declaration
Amariah Chaplin
12.422 (Sept. 1829)

State of New York Washington County ss
In Washington Common Pleas August term 1820
On the first day of September 1820 personally appeared in open Court (being a Court of Record for the County of Washington in said State decided by the Supreme Court of said State to be a court of record proceeding according to the course of common Law with Jurisdiction unlimited in amount keeping a record of the proceedings & having power to fine & imprison) Amariah Chapral resident in Granville in said County who first being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he enlisted for three years in Col. Webb's regiment Capt. Alden's Company That Capt. Alden was afterwards killed by Bellam Company of Light Horse of refugees That this deponent then served the remainder of his time for which he enlisted in Capt. Breakley's company that he was in the following battles vizt in the battle of Bunker-hill in 1775 in the battle of Long Island August 22 d 1776 & retreated out of the city of New York That he was in the battle of White Plains in 1777 was in the battle at Epaus & in the battle at Saratoga that his service above mentioned was in the Connecticut line & that he was discharged at Morristown in the year Eighty that he faithfully served his country as a soldier during the three years for which he enlisted that he was honorably discharged at the expiration of said term of three years in the manner stated in his declaration under oath taken the 24 th day of December 1818 as this deponent believes as his pension certificate which he obtained upon said declaration allows his pension to commence on that date And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March 1818 & that I have not since that time by gift sale or 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 provision of an act of Congress intitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18 th day of March 1818 & that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any

property or any securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed.
  I have one bed of the value of  $15.00    one saw & fine sign of the value of  6.00    one old bed & bedding worth  8.00    three old chairs  75    one old chest  1.00    one pot & one tea kettle 5/  87 1/2    one old skillet  25    four old knives & forks  25    fine tea cups & saucers  18    one ax  1.00    one old pair tongs  18    one suit each of old clothes for myself & my wife  10.00     $53.41 3/4  
I am by occupation a laborer but from age & hardship am infirm I am now 67 years old I have a wife who resides with me who is 62 years old & has for a number of years been so infirm as to be unable to help herself & for a great part of the time been under the care of the physician & is now afflicted with a cancer on her chin I have had a large family of children but they have all married & left me & are in indigent circumstances & unable to afford me any assistance whatever two of my youngest sons on whom I depended for assistance joined the American Army during the late war & were in the battle of Gettys- -burgh in Sept 1863 & have since gone to the western part of this State & are unable to afford me any assistance dated at Sept 1870. in open court.
Amariah Chapell
D. Phelps & Clerk

I Daniel Shepherd Clerk of the County of Washington do hereby certify that the foregoing oath & the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court & 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 fifty three dollars forty one cents in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said court on the
D Shepherd Clerk

Amaziah Chappell person indistinguishable
CHAPPELL, AMAZIAH (CONN.) S-44749

These certify that Amaziah Chapfull a Soldier in Col. Samuel Webb's regiment raised for the defence of the United States in 1777, by extraordinary exertions in the Army was disabled and still remains in such debilitated state as renders him unable to obtain his support by labour. Having heard the evidence exhibited and considered the same am of opinion that he is by the Act of Congress entitled to receive out of the public funds which hath made provision for such Invalids, the sum of Twelve shillings per month as an Invalid Soldier.
his  signature W m Pitkin a Judge of the Superior Court.
East Hartford Decem r 10, 1788.
To Oliver Wolcott, Comptroller.
(Amaziah Chapfull aged 34 years Aug t 14, 1788.)

State of Connecticut Hartford County ss Hartford Dec 31. 1813
This may certify that the above is a true copy of the certificate of Amaziah Chappell a prisoner of the United States, as is recorded on the Books of the Controller's Office
Elisha G. Controller

Concord,
Sept. 1823 — and left the New York

44749 INVALID.
Rev
File No. 44749
Amariah Chappal Priv. Rev. War.
Act: 18 th March, 1818.
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 84
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Granville N.Y. 31 July
Free
Mr. John C. Calhoun Secy of War Washington City
Recd. 6 Sept. 1843
Paid to Dept. 12 3/4

Granville Washington County N.Y. 29 July 1823.
Wm. John C. Calhoun
Dear Sir.
I take the liberty to inform you that there is a man by the name of Amariah Chapell, a Revolutionary Pension who resides in this Township, and who formerly resided in the State of Connecticut. after his removal to this place he petitioned to be placed on the Pension list of the State of New York. as it would be more convenient for him to draw his money from it for that place than Middletown, & has since regularly twice a year drawn his pension from both places. If I am not misinformed $72 from Conn. and $96 from New York - for several years past. I am inclined to believe there must be something wrong, which I would offer as an apology for making this communication -
I am Sir respectfully Your Obt Servt -
Henry Bulkley, Prebendarian

Amaziah Bappell private Colonel Webb's Regt 1777-8 years
The line must be stated in the declaration.
for the John C. Jennings Governor
The certificate of the discharge as to the usual circumstances of the service is required.
Service admitted - But, before a certificate will be issued on this application, the above mentioned defects must be supplied and then return this paper with the former certificate to the new one.

Granville Jan 1833
John C.
John C. Calhoun Esq. Secretary for the Department of War
Washington
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I know all men by these presents that I Amariah Chappell of the Town of Greenville County of Washington State of New York for and in consideration of the Honorable the Secretary of War placing my name on the pension List agreeable to the provisions Late 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" do hereby exonerate and discharge the United States from the payment of any further or other pen- sion allowed me by any former act of Congress from the day I may be so placed on pension List agreeable to the act above Recited - Witness my hand and Seal at Greenville of- forsaid this thirtyfirst day of December 1818
Amariah Chappell
Signed and Sealed in presence of - Phinehas Hitchcock
State of New York } Personally appeared Before me Phinehas Hitchcock one of the Washington County } Justices of the peace of the said County Amariah Chappell the sign- and ruler of the above instrument and made solemn oath that he signed and sealed the same for the uses and purposes therein mentioned this fourth day of January one thousand seven hundred and nineteen - Phinehas Hitchcock
To the Honorable the Secretary for the Department of War. Sir if there should appear to be any serious defect in the above papers you will please to point them out to me and I will endeavor to supply the deficiency yours in the mean time Very Respectfully
Amariah Chappell

In the Matter of Imaziah Chapple A Revolutionary Soldier.
Affidavits

State of New York - } Also I know that of the Town of Granville in the County of Washington } County of Washington and State of New York be- ing sworn I state that some short time after Amariah Chappe- Revolutionary Pensioner obtained his certificate that he was in- scribed on the pension list Roll of the New York Agency in com- formity with the law of the United States of the 18th of March 1818, she said Amariah Chappe called on this Deponent to request him to write for him to the agent of the said Amariah upon which through whom he had received the pension allowed him by Go- vernment as an Invalid Pensioner, to inform him that he had a certificate under the act of March 18th 1818, by which he was entitled to the pension allowed by that law to a private in the Army of the Revolution, and to obtain from that Agency the Ar- rearage due on his original pension, before the commencement of his pension under the late act - That this Deponent did write for the said Amariah, to the said Amariah in Agent of the Connietical Agency stating, that he had applied for a pension under the act of March 18, 1818, that he had obtained his certificate, and that a certain portion of the old pension remained due to him before the commencement of the new pension, which he wished forward- ed to him, that the said letter so written by this Deponent - was signed by the said Amariah Chappe, and forwarded to the agent of the said Amariah in Middletown in Connecticut to a Mr. Williams then Post Master in Middletown, that in answer to this letter the said Amariah received instructions what he must do to receive the said arrears of his pension that he must be examined by Physicians &c that the De- positions were completed with and forwarded to Connecticut and in return much to the surprise of the said Amariah and of

of this Deponent; the said Amariah, received his pension in full up to the time, being as this Deponent believes his pen- sion for one year, whereas he applied for only two or three or four months supposing that he was entitled to ask for no more than up to the time he was entered on the pension Roll under the Act of 1818. - It was then supposed the said Amariah having given due notice of his situation that he was entitled to use and receive what the Government Agent, with a full knowledge as he believed of the facts, felt authorized to do some to him - As he had faithfully served the Government for many years, and had been disabled in its service - And this Deponent further saith that the said Amariah, and his Wife are aged and very infirm and unable to do any thing for their support, and are very poor, and in great want of the necessaries of life, and must without the aid of the Govern- ment or the charity of his neighbours, must be in absolute want and in a state of starvation - And further this Deponent saith that
Sworn this 22 nd Day of December A d 1823 - Nathan See Justice of the Peace
A. J. Northrup
County of Washington ss Amariah Chappele of the town of Green- ville, County of Washington and State of New York the Revolutionary Soldier named in the foregoing Affidavit being sworn Deposeth and saith, that the statements & facts set out in the foregoing Affidavit are true - And further he saith that he served as a soldier in the Revolutio- nary Army nearly six years, and that he was disabled in that service

service, and is now aged and infirm and unable to do any thing for his own support, that his wife is bound down with infirmities and unable to do any thing toward her maintenance and that they are in absolute want - And further this Deponent saith that after he received his pension from the Government Agency as mentioned in the foregoing affidavit, he discovered that all was not as right in his receiving that pension and frequently conversed in relation, thereto and was told by some of his acquaintances from Connecticut - that it was continued in connection to the invalid pensions of that Agency in consideration of their disabilities, and this Deponent to whom this appears unreasonable, unduly and fully believed the same and further this Deponent saith he hath not received any portion of his pension from any quarter since that which fell due on the fourth of March last and that if a part of his pension could be continued to him it would relieve him from great distress and his most pressing wants - And that in receiving his invalid pension as he has done, he has never supposed he was committing any fraud on the Government, but that the Government being acquainted with all the circumstances in relation to his situation, and to his unusually arduous services performed in our national struggle intended he should receive what he did receive, and further he saith not
Chas A. Cook Chaplain
Sworn this 22 nd December 1823 before me Nathan S. Dufresne

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Chappell, Benjamin GRADE Private LINE New York
WARRANT NUMBER 6926 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED July 14, 179-? to Richard Platt, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.