Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17600, Collins Chapman, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
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Chapman, Collins Mary
W. 17600
CONTENTS

10,873
Connecticut
Collins Chapman
Oxford in the state of Connecticut
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bradley of the Connecticut line, for the term of Three Years
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 19 th of June 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th of May 1819 and sent to Isaac D. Root Esq. Clerk Bridgeport Connecticut
Arrears to 4th of Mar: 1819. 68. 23
Semi-ann. all'ce ending Sep. 1819. 48. 00
Ratio: \frac{12}{30} \frac{4}{31}
$116. 23
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Not entitled
Verification sent September 23 rd 1820 to Henry D. Root Esq. Clerk New Haven Conn.

Connecticut 747
Mary Chapman
widow of Collins Chapman
who died on the April 1831 of Fairfield Co. in the State of Connecticut who was a Private in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the _____ commanded by Colonel in the Revolution time for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 80 Dollars _____ Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th day of April 1837 and sent to Hon. G. Tomlinson, Present
Arrears to the 4th of March '37 480.00 Pension allowance ending 18 Sept. " 40.00
$520.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, Book _____ Vol. 1 Page 76
Mary Chapman Dec. 27. 1838

District of Connecticut ss.
Stratford in the County of Fairfield
I Collins Chapman of Oxford in the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut under oath do declare before the Honorable Pierpont Edwards, District Judge of said District, that I am now and ever have been a resident citizen of the United States of America and am fifty years of age, — that in the month of April A. D. 1777 I enlisted as a private soldier, to serve three years, in the Company commanded by Capt. Josiah Lacey late of said Stratford deceased in the 5 th Regiment in the Connecticut line commanded by Colonel Philip B. Bradley, in General Jedidiah Huntington's Brigade, in the late Revolutionary army, upon the continental establishment; and that I served faithfully against the common enemy, in the said Regiment for three years from said April 1777, at the end of which term I was regularly discharged at Springfield in the State of New Jersey, and then received an honorable discharge in writing from Colonel Johnson, which discharge was soon afterwards accidentally burnt & destroyed in a heap of brush in my jacket pocket, while I was

at work in the field, — That I am extremely poor, and, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life, I am in great need of assistance from my country for support, and now make application therefor to the Hon ble the Secretary for the Department of War. — Witness my hand at Stratford aforesaid this 19 th day of June A. 1818. —
Collins Chapman
Deft of Connecticut ss on the 19 th day June A 1818 came before me, the above named Collins Chapman and made oath to the truth of the above declaration — Ebenezer Dyer Judge of and deft

Fairfield County ss. Shatford June 18 th 1818 I Stephen Gorham of said Shatford do testify that Collins Chapman has this day called on me for my testimony relative to his services as a private soldier in the war of the revolution as stated in the foregoing declaration made by him, and that altho' I could not swear positively that he was the man of that name who served in said company & Regiment as he has stated as aforesaid, not having seen him before to my recollection since the close of said war, yet I can say with truth that from several conversations with him this day and enquiries made of him, together with his correct answers relative to facts & circumstances which occurred during the said period of his services in said Regiment, I feel confident & satisfied that he must have served therein as he has stated - That I well remember that a man by the name of Chapman served in said company & Regiment at the time he has stated, I think his name was Collins Chapman, and verily believe the present applicant to be the same man, as I think it next to impossible for any impostor to have answered the various questions I put to him to have stated other circumstances in the manner he has done. to have He had not stated to me the period of his services, from my recollection I should have fixed it at 3 years or during the war - During said period I was a part of the time an Ensign, & part of the time a lieutenant in the same company. - S. Gorham

State of Connecticut ss. Stratford June 18 th A.D. 1818 - Then & there personally came before me Robert Fairchild Judge of the County Court for the County of Fairfield in said State, Jeremiah Gorham of said Stratford, to me well known & of good reputation, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him made and subscribed in my presence -
Robert Fairchild
Collier Chapman
Deposition of Jeremiah G. Gorham of said Stratford having been duly sworn do make oath that the facts stated in the foregoing deposition of Jeremiah Gorham are true and I have said do further make oath that the person named Collier Chapman by reason of his idleness & drunkenness in life is in many respects from the country for several years and that the order and the formalities have a respect to the United States June 17 th 1818 Jerome Odell

Collins Chapman 10.073.
St 1029.
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White
(Caveat within)

At a County Court, held in and for the County of New Haven, in the District and State of Connecticut, on the 5 day of July 1820, the same being a Court of Record, and having a Seal, by virtue of the laws of said State.
PERSONALLY APPEARED, in open Court, Colins Chapman a resident in the town of Orford in the County of New Haven in said State, and exhibited and subscribed the following Schedule, and made solemn oath that the same is a true and perfect Schedule of all his income and property, necessary cloathing and bedding excepted, viz:
   1 Table $0.50   7 Chairs 0.50   1 Chest 1.00   Pewter Ware 0.50   Ston Ware 0.50   Tin Ware 1.00   Earthen Ware 0.50   Crockery Ware 0.50   Brass Ware 3.00   Pots & Kettles 2.00   1 Gun 3.00   2 Sythes 1.25   4 Axes 1.00   2 Axes 1.00   1 Saw 0.75   1 Hatchet 2.50   Four Riddle half bushel 2.00   Copper Ware 2.00   Glasses & Bottles 1.50   Bas kets 1.00   1 Sive 0.25   1 horn 10.00   1 waggon 20.00   1 Cart 12.00   1 Crow bar 1.00   2 Shovels 0.50   1 Sive 8.00   1 grind Stone 1.00   1 Plow & 2 Chains 7.00   about 50 acres land 750.  
I am indebted to several people Two Hundred Dollars  835.75 Colins Chapman

District and State of Connecticut, ss.
Be it Remembered, That in the County Court, held in and for the County of New Haven , in the District and State aforesaid, on this 5 day of July 182 0 , the same being a Court of Record, and having a Seal, under the authority of said State, personally came and appeared in open Court, Collins Chapman aged sixty three years, resident in the Town of Orford in the County of New Haven in said State, and being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: I enlisted for three years into Col. Joseph Lacy's company in Col. Phelps's 10th Bradley Reg't. Inf'ty. I Huntington's Brigade in the Connecticut line
that the original Declaration made by him, for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the Act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818, was dated the 19 th day of June 18 28 ; that in pursuance thereof he was entered in the list of Pensioners, and received a Pension Certificate No. 10873 And I do further 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 hereunto annexed, and by me subscribed. And I do further declare that my occupation is that of a farmer but by infirmity am unable to procure for my support and that I have in my family residing with me my wife aged 65 years iron-mound Almon Chapman who is unable to take care of herself aged 29 years
all which is subscribed by me the day and year aforesaid.
Collins Chapman
Sworn to, and declared in the Court aforesaid. Whereupon said Court is, on satisfactory proof exhibited in Court, of opinion that the total amount in value of the property contained in the aforesaid Schedule, is 835 Dollars and 75 Cents, and doth order these proceedings to be entered in the records of said Court.
Attest Henry C. Flagg Col.

District of Connecticut, ss.
I, Henry C. Hagg Clerk of the County Court in and for the County of New Haven in the State and District of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing and the Schedule thereunto annexed, are truly copied from the records of said Court: and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount, in value, of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is
837 Dollars and 75 Cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said Court on this
5th day of July 182 0
Henry C. Hagg CLK
I, Isaac Hull presiding Judge of the County Court in and for the County of New Haven in the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that Henry C. Hagg is Clerk of said Court, and keeper of the Seal and Records thereof; and that the preceding Certificate, under his hand, and the Seal of said Court, is authentic, and in due form of Law.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in
this 5th day of July
182 0
Isaac Hull Chief Judge of said Court

Oxford Fly the 10 th Ad 1820
As i thought i would give you a short sketch of my life my father was a native of connecticut born in the town of saybrook his name was Collins Chapman was in the old french war towards the last of the war in the year 1763 1763 he was killed by the indians my mother was left with nothing to support her with with four small children i myself myself being the oldest was bound by the town at until i was 16 years of age when 18 years years of age in 1776 i enlisted into the six months service was some time in the month of june to went to newyork was into a small skirmish at flatbush on long island was was into the retreat out of ne york with general putnam on sabbath day next day in a small skirmish at harlem was in the thickest of the white plains battle had a powder horn under my arm split to pieces by a ball from the enemy and my clothes tore to pieces by balls in some measure i enlisted was under captain william gaylor hobbs of new fairfile county of fairfile State of connecticut Gould Sillick fullaman collinal james was wasworth brigadier general on christmas day the whole regiment were discharged together Sometime in April 1777 i enlisted for three years i was at danbury when the the enemy came and burnt the stores followed them to ridgefield there in a battle with the enemy i was taken a prisoner carried on board the the prisonship had the small pox while a prisoner and numbers of others that died with it and i through mercy preserved in September was exchanged joined my regiment and company josiah Lucy of fairfile was my captain philips bar Bradley colonel fedediah hartington brigadier general in the winter 1778 came home on furlough married a wife staid at home a few days then returned to my regiment and company my lot was mostly to be near westpoint or near the lines down towards newyork until the last winter of my time and we then removed to morristown in new jersey halted there at some time in the month of march we removed to springfield there sometime in the month of april 1780 i received an honorable discharge from colonel jonson his given name i have forgot but had the misfortune to have my vest pocketbook and discharge all burnt in a heap of brush to together my when i came home found my wife with one child and nothing to support her i went to work as hard as i was able and my wife like in but my wife being very feeble was not to do able to do but very little for our our support and has ever since remind so my oldest son david left a wife and two children in the late war went to the southward joined the army was in the battle at newiorleans with general jackson he set out to return home was took sick and died on the road before he got home he would have been 41 years test of age last march was he alive to his wife and and family and has been a great bill of charge to me my son  and one of his children is rather a bill of charge to me now my son and my second son Alms now is 29 years of age enlisted be two days before the late war was was declared for 5 years

went to the northward broke his body got his discharg time some in the winter got a discharge on the same account i went 200 miles after him and brought him home and he has to wear a truss and cannot do any thing without it and is not able to support himself and is quite a bil of charge to me and looks to me as much for his support as he did when he was not more than 8 years old i have strove by honest industry to obtain a small living while many others have been left with good fortunes but by rioting and drunkenness gambling and debauchery and have spent all that they had and one in particular that i know of and has come with his petition and cattles will get his portion as for my occupation it is what we commonly among us can call a tinker going from place to place to mend their brass kettles and tin ware and now am so lame in my feet that i cannot travel travel to persue my calling any more and am now owing two hundred dollars notes on interest i had to sell my oxen and and cow to help pay my debts sheep i have none i have done my best endeavours to get an honest by my living by my labour but now have grown so old and decrepited and my wife likewise that i do in reality stand in need of help as my small property must soon go for for my support and do the best i can i am now a man that drinks no kind of distilled spirits nor never have spent any of my property that way i never never had one single cent of property left me by any friend or relative therefore under my my situation do bleg for some relief and may the god of all mercys grant you a long life and protect you in all your noble righteous undertakings i shall write no more but thus subscribe myself your ever well wisher and humble petitioner
Collins Chapman
As there was not in my schedule room to write every particular and so i made bold to to write a few lines myself

State of Connecticut County of Fairfield ss Bridgeport On this third day of December A D 1836 personally appeared before the Probate Court in and for the District of Stratford in said County and State aforesaid. Mary Chapman a Resident of the Town of Woodbridge in the County of New Haven State of Connecticut aged Eighty Years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836: That she is the widow of Collins Chapman Dec d . who was a private Soldier in the Army of the Revolution and served as her husband has stated in his application for a Pension under the Act of 1818 or Act of 1828. to which Application she refers - That she thinks he drew $96 per Year - Pension
She further declares that she was married to the said Collins Chapman on the fifteenth day of May in the Year Seventeen hundred seventy eight. That her husband the aforesaid Collins Chapman died in the Town of Oxford in New Haven County in April the A D 1831. of old age, and that she has remained his Widow ever since that Period as will more fully appear by reference to the Proof hints annexed And she further states that she allways understood her husband the said Collins served in the Continental Army for a considerable

part of the War and Long after they was Married but cannot now remember where he served nor under what officers That her memory is feeble and broken and must depend on the proof now at Washington, to establish her claims, remembering he came home from the Army on furlough and returned again when she had a child by the name of David who is now dead which was her first child - That she has no record of his husband's death but thinks proof of that may be found at Washington with the Power of Attorney sent to draw his Pension thinks there was a small balance of Pension due after he died cannot remember whether she drew it or not but believes it was drawn.
That she resides in Woodbridge in Newham County as she has stated and the reason That she has made her Declaration in Hartford County is That she formerly resided in Danbury in Hartford County and many of her friends now reside in the Hartford County and she being on a visit to her friends in the Hartford County and her proof residing in that county it is more convenient to her to make her application for a Pension in the Hartford County That she was born in Danbury in Hartford County July 15 1756 That her name was Mary Weed before she was married. That she was married in the Town of Danbury in the Parish of Bethel May 15 1778 by the Congregational

Minister of said Parish — her memory is so feeble she does not mean to say positively that she has stated the true time that he died but believes she is right. Has no Records of any kind. To prove his service or his marriage, but can testify without any hesitation that she was married to said Collins at the time she has stated and long before the close of his service in the War of the Revolution. Also remembers she was about 22 years old when she was married. Has no Record of any kind or document evidence — Signed in presence of Mary her Chapman Mark
Glavon B Durand
Isaac Sherman
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before
Attest, R S Nichols, Clerk Mark Moore Judge
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented by the war department that the above named applicant is the widow of Collins Chapman a revolutionary soldier who served as the States
Attest, R S Nichols, Clerk Mark Moore Judge

I Roswell S Nichols Clerk of the Court afore-mentioned do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Mary Chapman for a pension for testimony wherein I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office on this third day of December A D 1836 R S Nichols, Clerk.
State of Connecticut County of Fairfield, ss. Bridgeport I Roswell S Nichols Clerk of the Probate Court in and for the District of Stratford in said County and State aforesaid hereby certify that Oliver Shepard, Edward Sayluy, John L Andrews, Isaac Sherman & Jacob Beers are all Justices of the Peace in and for said Fairfield County duly commissioned and qualified, that their commissions will expire in June 1837 and that their signatures to the Depositions of Erastus Cole, Percy Starr, Elisha Taylor, Anson Chatfield, Deborah Merritt and Andrew Leavensworth are all their genuine signatures — Given under my hand and the seal of said Court the 7 day of January A D 1837. R S Nichols, Clerk

Rockville Grant County Wisconsin December 6 th 1858
Sir I Wrote to the treasury Department for information as to What the Name of the Captain Or Colonel were that Collins Chapman a Revolutionary Soldier served under In Reply I was Directed to the Commissioner of pensions, likewise I Received a Copy of a pension Certificate From the War Department In favor of Collins Chapman, a probator stating that he was inscribed on the pension list Roll of the Connecticut agency, at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the nineteenth Day of June one thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen, I am the Son of the said Collins Chapman and the only living heir. I am Informed that I can get bounty land for my fathers services, if I can find the Name of his Captain or Colonel which he served under, by taking proper steps, likewise I am Informed that I can get back pay of my mothers pension, she only drew one years pay, that was in 1834, she Died April 4 1839 aged 74 her name was Mary Chapman father Died April 26 1831 aged 73 years This information I have from my Niece where they Died, I have Not been to Connecticut Nor heard from my connections there for 37 years till of this year I hope you will be so good as to give me the necessary information as about the bounty land and mothers pension if you can
Very Respectfully Your Obt Servt Ammyson Chapman, Sen
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington DC

along with the claim for a

W th Calhoun Sir I received an account or minute from you or some of your Clerks in a letter to me from Henry W d Edwards Esq r that the papers in favour of Alma Chapman a Soldier & a Natural Invalid of the last War in favour of his obtaining a Pension for an Incuriable Infirmary Brought upon him whilst in the Service of his country was sent Back To Pierpont Edwards Esq r on account of their want of formality & Mr Edwards says that he never received them they must have failed in their Passage - the man has an undoubted claim upon the assistance of his country his complaint is a Rupture in the groin & his faculties of Mind is Better to serve than calculate & if there is any minutes of of his Papers in your office It would Doubtless be a kindness to him To know them and the additions requested for the business he is unable to transact Business of himself & as it will require some considerable of Money to go over the business again People wont let him have money upon uncertainties you might therefore Do A kindness according to me What in reality must be transacted in his Behalf & find the Most Capable make Mistakes So Sir wishing you prosperity in Employment & remain yours to serve ————— Dan Chapman
Preferd in the county of Newhaven, State of Connecticut January 12 th 1824
For the Honourable Calhoun Secretary of the War Department

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 17600
Mary Chapman Widow of Collins Chapman Pre New War
Act: July 4 th 36
Index:—Vol. A , Page 131
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Commission of Pensions
Washington
Mrs. Chapman Collins - Conn. D. 1826
Rock Md.

Treasury Department,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
OFFICIAL BUSINESS.
Auditor.
Geo: C. Whiting Esq. Comm: of Pensions.

Fairfield August 21 st 1826
I hereby certify that the name of Levi Candee appears in "The Annual Connecticut Register" as one of the Justices of the Peace for the town of Oxford, and that in my opin- -ion full faith & credit ought to be given to his official acts, as such, and that the within signature is genuine.
Gideon Tomlinson M.C.

Hon Joseph Barbour Secy War Sir City Washington
This may certify that Collins Chapman has become poor and needy and has applied to the Selectmen of the Town of Exeter for assistance and is now receiving relief by Order of S t Selectmen Exeter August 16 th 1826
Levi Candee just of the Peace

Connecticut Roll,
Collins Chapman placed on the revolu- tionary roll as a Private @ $8 per month, May 20. 1819, and dropt Sept. 23. 1820 — Restored, and notification sent on the 29 of August 1826 to Hon. Gideon Tomlinson at Fairfield, Con.
Person under act of March 1823, to com- mence on the 21. August 1826. —
Sept 1819

This may certify that Billy Chatfield signor of the within certificate is a man of truth
Oxford Aug. 16. 1826. Samuel Meigs Justice of Peace
Hairfield August 21 st 1826
The name of Samuel Meigs is contained, in "the Annual Connecticut Register," as one of the Justices of the Peace for the town of Oxford. The above I believe to be his signature. Gileson Poulton M.P.

Deerfield August 4 th 1926
This may certify that I have taken the wife of Collins Chapman at 45 cents per week to keep by order of the Selectmen of the town of Deerfield
Billy Chatfield

Connecticut
Collins Chapman, priv. Served from 1777 to 1780.
1 st Sched: July 1820.
Real Estate — $750 — Personal — 85.95
Total $835.95
Owes to several people $200. —
Sched: under Act Mar 23 25. June 1823.
Real Estate — $162.50 Personal — 24.50
Total $187.00
account for the deceased
By sale of 37 1/2 acres of Land to G. Dimon, on the 17 th Jan'y. 1821, for $300 in consideration of a debt due S to Dimon. Certif. & Copie within, Numerous small articles to the amt. of $22.57, owed to different people, names & dates given — paid small
debt with part & the balance expended in family —
aged 60 yrs, a Tinker, but from "age & weakness" is unable to pursue any business — wife 58 yrs unable to support herself — son 32 yrs "unable to sup- port himself by reason of a rupture acquired in the late war" —
see letter Oct 24. 1823, to John L. Tomlinson
Derby
Conn.
Oct 19

Claimant aged 68, timber unable to do any thing, wife 68 unable to support herself or claimant by her labor, son aged 32, enlisted in the late war, little dependent upon claimant for support, letter from Hon G. Tomlinson filed within.
I certify that I have examined this case and am of the opinion that, according to the principles which have governed in previous decisions, this claim ought to be admitted.
Signature see letter, March 1825 to Hon. G. Tomlinson on this field, cont
Not sales factoring. The land was sold for half its estimated value.
1 Oct 1819
Last evidence Apr 7, 1820
Collins Chapman  Connecticut
Private. Served 3 years from Apr 1777. Horse $10. - wagon $20. - cut 12 $42 - 50 acres of land 750. - a few articles of furniture and some farming utensils. 43.75 ones $200. - Sched, 5 July 1820. $835.75
2 d Schedule, 25 th June, 1823 12 1/2 Acres of land $162.50 a few articles of furniture 24.50 sundry trifling articles sold, $187.00 and shown out and destroyed, 3 1/2 acres of land sold by Simon Dany 1821 for $300 in all $322.67 than paid to Simon $300 being a debt due him the balance was applied to the payment of small debts, &c. Copy of deed exhibited, consideration $180. Deymans affidavit exhibited, states that in Dany 1821, he loaned claimant $180. and set a mortgage on his land for secu- rity, (copy of mortgage exhibited) at the expi- ration of two years, claimant not being able to pay the interest or principal conveyed the land to him, in payment, in July 1823, states that in Feb, 1824, he conveyed the land to Biller Habbell for $193, which was the amount of the debt and interest due from claimant, affidavits of the select men and several of the inhabitants of Oxford state claimant to be in very ne- ed circumstances, and if not relieved by the county must depend upon the char- ity of his neighbours or the town for sup- port.
(Sept 1819)

Comt. Mary Chapman $80 per ann, act 4 July '36
Hon. G. Tomlison Present

War Dep t
Pension Office
April 12 th 1837
I submitted your opinion in re, to the Attorney General, and with you. He, however, thinks it best to wait again, and tried. I gave instructions to tomorrow to that effect.
For the pleasure of seeing you again in this that you will do me the pleasure of your soon as you reach here, pray pay you some than heretofore.
I am with great respect Yours &c
for District of Va 9 v.

Treasury Department Third Auditor's Office Dec. 21. 1838.
Sir;
I return the papers received from you under date of the 20 th inst. & in reply to your enquiries have to inform you that Collins Chapman, a pensioner of the Connecticut Agency, under act of March 18. 1818, died 17 th April 1831, & his pension has been paid in full to that date: the pension of his widow, Mary Chapman, under act of July 4. 1836, (same agency) appears to have been paid to March 4. 1839.
Very Respectfully Your Ob t Serv t
A. Stearns Auditor
Geo: C. Whiting Esq. Comm te of Pensions

House of Reps 11 April 1826
Dear Sir
Within two or three years past, a large real estate belonging to the heirs of David Foulston deceased has been in the market for sale at Oxford in Middlesex County Connecticut. This circumstance, I have always understood, has materially depreciated the value of land in that town.
Very respectfully Yours W. S. Ingerson
Hon: Gideon Foulston

House of Rep s April 13 th 1826
Dear Sir:
It is a well known fact that real estate has fallen in value generally in the State of Connecticut within the last few years but in the Town of Oxford in particular an unusual depression has been experienced from the cause mentioned by Mr Ingalls in his letter to you — The sales actually made in that Town have not reached more than two thirds of the appraised value made a few years since, as I have been credibly informed and have no doubt was the fact —
Respectfully yours &c.
Hon. G. Tomlinson
O. Mearin

State of Connecticut.
Sir
Bridgewater, January 7 1837
I send you the Pension application of the Widow Mary Chapman and you may if you please send her Pension certificate
To me —
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions.
Yours very Respectfully Isaac Sherman

Fairfield August 21 st 1826
To the Hon. J. Barbour Sec. of War -- Sir
I herewith transmit certain documents in support of the claim of Collins Chapman to be restored to the pension list.
The application of this man has been long suspended, but a careful examination of the evidence, in its support, which has been from time to time, addressed, with that now for- warded, will I confidently trust sat- isfy you that the old man is, at this time, in such extremely reduced circumstances, as greatly to need the assistance of his country, for support. I have particularly attended to the claim, & am satisfied that injustice would be done to him, by a continued

refusal to afford him the relief, which he seeks, & to which he is doubtless, by law, entitled. The length of his service ought to secure to this case a favorable consideration. The objection that his property, as exhibited, in his his first schedule, amounted to more than $800, was originally urged with force, but it now appears that he was then, in debt, and has been obliged to sell all his property to pay his debts, & to obtain the necessary supplies, for himself & his family. It is true that his property was sold, for a sum, considerably less than its value, as stated in that schedule, but the certificates of the Hon. Messrs Mearns & Ingersoll, among the doc- uments, in the War Department, prove that, owing to local causes, real estate has been reduced, in value, in the town of Oxford to a degree, much exceeding the general reduction

which is well known to have taken place, in our country, and satisfactorily explained, in connection with the other documents, the reason why the old veteran has been compelled to call upon the Selectmen or overseers of the poor to support his aged & demented wife.
My conviction that the claim of the old man is just & fairly within the provisions of the act of the 18 th of March 1818, and the acts amendatory of that act, is so strong that I deem it my duty to ask your particular attention to the evidence, in its support.
With great esteem,
I remain, Sir,
Your obedt. Servt.
Gideon Moulton

Colleen Chapman
Ad April 21. 1826
Dr. G. Williams
182
for restoration on Bill
for 1819 medical
Page
mission Office

House of Reps.
April 21 st 1826
Dear Sir,
I herewith transmit to you the certificates of Messrs Mervin & Dugdale, regarding the depreciation, in the value of land, in the town of Oxford, in Connecticut, which has taken place within a few years past.
It is presumed that those certificates will remove the objection which you suggested to the restoration of the name of Collins Chapman to the present list.
Yours respectfully
G. Poulton

The Hon. James Barbour Sec. of War.

Fairfield May 31 st 1823
Sir
I herewith forward to you certain documents, in support of the claim of Collins Chapman to be restored to the pension list.
These documents exhibit the old man, as destitute of estate and in needy circumstances, and thus seem to remove the only objection which has, hitherto been urged against the continuance of his pension. The certificate, signed by a large number of the inhabitants of the town of Oxford, including the selectmen and magistrates of the town, affords satisfactory evidence that the restoration of the name of Collins Chapman to the

pension roll will be, in accordance, not only with public opinion, but the general wish of the people of that town.
In compliance with the solicitation of the old man, I take leave to request your early attention to his claim.
With great respect I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your obedt. Servt. Gideon Poulton
The Hon. J. Barbour

11 March 1826.
Colent Chapman
Count:
Re o Feb y 4. 1826.
Hon G. Tomlinson
✓
HR
Sept 1819.
authenticated by The Hon W. Ingersol
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This may certify that I have paid Collins Chapman of Oxford One hundred Dollars in Beef Pork Flour and other Articles necessary for Family Use which is all that I give him for Riggs Hill Land Berkeley November 10 th 1824 Benjamin English
New Haven County At Oxford November 21 st 1824 Personally appeared Benjamin English signed at the foregoing Confession and made solemn Oath to the Truth of the same
Before me Levi Cande justice of Peace I Believe Mr Benjamin English to be a man of truth and veracity Levi Cande for a Peace
I am well acquainted with Levi Cande Esq. who is a justice of the Peace for New Ha- ven county, in which county I reside; and have often seen his signature. I have no doubt, that the above signature, is the genuine signature of said Cande. January 31. 1826
M. S. M c Gehee
My from Connecticut

Collins Chapman. Oxford. Conn.
Recd 3 June, 1826.
1 March, 1823.
On Roll Sept 1819

you note
To Gideon Tomlinson in the Mr city of washington Rec or to Mr Joseph Barber secretary of the war department in the city of washington
Pension Office
Dec 10th 44 1 May 29

Oxford may the 26 th AD 1826
Mr Tomlinson sir i receivd your letter of Dec may the 6 th 1826 on the 26 th of may 1826 you wrote to me that that you wanted a copy of the deed of my lands rigses hill land that i sold to benjamin English isenta copy of my deed with the rest of my writings but i expect it has miscaried or got mislaid somewhere but i send you another copy my son my son is not able to do any labor upon the account of his rupture which he got in the army my wife very feeble with the palsy in her hands and not able to do but very little work i shall turn to mr barber
Mr barber sir i now write a few lines to you hoping and beging and pleading for mercy as i am in a distressed situation being very feeble myself and my wife and son to maintain and must be under the necessity necessity of applying to the town very quick as i expect that congress will be dismissed before this letter reaches you do be pleased to write to me as quick as possible if you can with conveniunce whither you  can you can have mercy or cannot and if you write to me direct the letter to the town of Oxford the letter to collins Chapman in the town Oxford is the county of newhaven and state of con connecticut i expect that Mr gideon tomlinson before this letter reaches there will be gone so wishing you a long life and prosperity in all your righteous pursuits
i subscribe myself your affectionate friend collins chapman as all my writings writings are there at the seat of government my petition my proof and every thing is there if you could grant my pension as i am in reality in distress

Mr Gideon Tomlinson Esqr in the city of Washington Now in Congress Assembled
To

Oxford April the 3 rd A D 1826
Mr Tom Tomlinson sir i have never heard from you since i was to your house and i did not know but that there might be some miscarriage of letters pray do not be offended for my writing to you my son has been unable to do any labour the present winter that we have had by reason of his rhyum by by being in the army the last war my wife still grows more feeble with the palsy in her hands and i myself not able to do but very little labour so that i must apply to the for town for assistance very soon if my country which i served 6 months in the year 1776 then in april 1777 i enlisted for 3 years and served my time out faithfully as been witnessed and sent to Mr Calhoun then secretary of war if my country will not assist me i must of necessity come upon the town if you can write me a few lines concerning my fate and destiny without being inconvenient to you i should be very thankful so no more at i remain your friend and well wisher Collins Chapman

Collins Chapman
Re No 24, 1826
Hon. G. T. ...
H. ...
J. L. Edwar...
see 24 April 1826.

House of Reps.
April 22 d . 1826
Dear Sir,
Enclosed you will find a letter from Collins Chap.-man in relation to his claim, and his pecuniary circumstances.
I trust the several explanations which he has given regarding the disposition of his property will be found satisfactory.
Yours respectfully
G. Paulson

Duluth September 9 th 1873
Hon L. C. Calhoun Secretary of War Sir,
Enclos d are two copies of Deeds from C. Chapman rec d in envelope from your office some time since, accompanied with my certificate as Notary.
I am not aware of any other officer, but a Notary Public, whose certificate is designed to prove the facts in question. In our courts the records of the Town are proof that the person certifying is Clerk & his handwriting is proved by common law evidence. The fact that a person is justice of the peace can be proved by the Secretary of State, because they are appointed by the General Assembly but neither the Secretary of State nor any superior officer in the State can know that a person is town Clerk, but by inspection of the records of the Town. If however, there is any other evidence necessary beside that now furnished, I will cheerfully procure it on its being pointed out.
With much respect Yours very obed t Servant John L. Hutchinson

Oxford May 7 th 1823.
To whom it may concern! We the Authority & Select Men of the Town of Oxford in the County of New Haven & State of Connecticut being fully convinced of the matter of fact, that Collins Chapman of S d Oxford did serve as a Soldier in the Revolutionary War, as was fully proved in Court, upon which he did obtain a pension, for S d service , but is now denied S d pension, and being now become poor and needy, and a Family consisting of a Wife & Son destitute of Health and Reason in a measure, & wholly dependent on him for maintenance; and although he is an honest and Industrious Inhabitant of the Town, yet in his advanced Age, he will under the necessity of help either from Friends or the public. We believe his Service to Attieve own Independence, & his pecuniary Circumstances entitle him to the continuance of his Pension.
Long Under just & Peace Samuel Meigs. Ins r of Peace
Abijah Myer Select John De Leon } Men Chauncy M c Hold

to the Secretary of war
City of
Washington
Oxford July
Three

Sir I take this opportunity to inform you of the State of some of the pensioners as a duty I owe My Country theirs in this town Collins Chatman Isaac Chatfield Moses Briggs Treeman Lovland these can live as well as folks in general they are well supplied of and do not want the assistance of their country you will no them by their applications it is the opinion of people in this town that these ought not to have it there is some others But you will no I was a Soldier thru the Revolution these men are in the town of Oxford in the State of Connecticut theirs So much cooling heat makes me in close these few lines this from a friend and well wisher to My Country until Death
Yours M Kelle Oxford July 10 th 1820
State of Connecticut

To the Honourable James Baker Secretary of the War Office Wee the Subscribers being acquainted With the Person and Circumstances of William Chapman of the Town of Oxford County of Newhaven & State of Connecticut & knowing that by the cause of his wife being of a feeble constitution & a Son that is rather Deficient in his Intellectical faculties, that he has suffered the loss of his Property by those causes as the Laws oblige him to support his Son whilst he is able to think it just right & reasonable that he should be admitted to a pension for his Military Services & that he never ought to have been debard and as he is a man of the strictest truth and veracity Wee sincerely request that he may be restored to his Pension
Oxford April 1825 Subscribers Names
Subscribers Names
 Abijah Hyde  Billy Chatfield  Martin Northrop  Joel Burnell  Duke Burnell  Levi Burnell  Thomas Dutton  Lewis Chatfield  Elijah Harger  John Smith  Abner Tibbitts  Agur Curtis  Andrew Nahorn  Benjamin English  James Beardmore  Abiah Stone  Clark Tilton  Benjamin Roberts  Alanson Gillet  Joseph Burroughs  George Basset 
 Hosiah Dutton  Daniel Dutton  Ephraim Dutton  William Tomlinson  Benjamin English  John Dutton  Isaiah Chatfield  Dan M'Ginnes  John Chatfield  Isaac Nichols  Isaac Nichols  Joel Perry  John R. Perry  Benjamin Burnell  William Lowland  William Tomlinson  Philo Hinman  Marvin & Soper  Isaac Hawkins  Horace Canale  Isaac Sherman 

We certify that we are personally acquainted with the several subscribers to the within petition & consider them men of truth & respectability
Samuel Meigs Levi Candee
I hereby certify, that Samuel Meigs, & Levi Candee, whose signatures are affixed to the above Certificate, are Residents in the Town of Oxford, and acting Justices of the Peace, in & for New Haven county.
Oxford April 27 th 1825.
Abel Wheeler
And by request of the within named Collins Chapman I further certify that Horace Sutton, Noah Stone & Thomas Sutton whose signatures are affixed to the within Instrument are inhabitants of the within named Town of Oxford & respectable practicing physicians of said Town -
A. Wheeler
The above named Abel Wheeler, has been a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, in the county of New Haven; and repeatedly elected a member of the Senate of this state. I consider him a gentleman of strict integrity & great weight of character.
Gideon Tomlinson

Billie Hubbell's
Quit Claim deed from
Paula Denson
A stylized signature in cursive ink, appearing to read "Paula Denson". The signature features large, flowing loops and a prominent vertical stroke at the end.

To all People to whom these Presents shall come Greeting:
KNOW YE, That I Gould Dinnon of Newtown Fairfield County
of the State of Connecticut for the consideration of One hundred & ninety three dollars received to my full satisfaction of Billie Stubbel of Monroe in said County do Remise, Release, and forever Quit Claim unto the said Billie and to his heirs
and unto Heirs and Assigns forever, all the Right, Title, Interest, Claim and Demand whatever, which the said Releasor have or ought to have in or to Two certain pieces of land lying in the town of Oxford in a New Haven County; — one of the said pieces of land has Buildings thereon standing, and said Buildings are to be conveyed by this instrument as well as the above pieces of land — and said pieces of land are bounded & described as may more fully appear on a certain Mortgage deed given by Collins Chapman to the said Gould Dinnon dated 14th day of January 1821. as may appear on the Town Records in Oxford. Recorded in Book 9th Page 79, said property being the same formerly owned by the said Collins Chapman
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the Premises, with all their Appurtenances, unto the said Releasee, and his Heirs and Assigns forever, so that neither I the Releasor nor my Heirs, nor any other person under me or them, shall hereafter have any Claim, Right or Title in or to the Premises, or any part thereof; but therefrom and they are by these Presents forever barred and secluded.
In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal this 5th day of February A. D. 1824.
Signed, Sealed, and Delivered, in Presence of Laura Dinnon Jacob Dinnon
Gould Dinnon D.S.
Fairfield
COUNTY, ss. Newtown February 5th A.D. 1824
Personally appeared Gould Dinnon Signer and Sealer of the foregoing Instrument, and acknowledged the same to be his free Act and Deed, before me,
Jacob Dinnon Justice of the Peace.
A true Copy of Record by Vol. 18th P. 76. B. 74. Thomas C. Dutton Town Clerk at present Oxford Feb. 18th 1825

See for
To the Honourable Secretary of War
Washington City
The deposition of Gould Dimon taken & sealed up the 7 th day of April A.D. 1825 by me Samuel C. Blackman Justice of Peace
of certify that your Dimon, the within in name & Deposition, is a respectable man, and subject an unimpeachable character for truth & veracity. Samuel C. Blackman Justice of Peace

The Deposition of Gould Dimes of the full age of Newtown in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, is as follows, to wit: That on the 17 th day of January A.D. 1821 the Deponent lent Collins Chapman one hundred and Eighty Dollars, to secure the payment of which he gave me a mortgage of two certain pieces of land situate in Oxford in New Haven County & State of Connecticut, said to contain about twenty acres each, together with the buildings thereon standing - By the conditions of the mortgage, the conveyance, by said mortgage was to be void upon said Chapman's paying the Deponent back the money with annual interest at the end of two years. At the end of two years and some thing more the Deponent called on said Chapman for said money, he said he could not pay it; and on the 16 th day of June A.D. 1823 said Chapman executed, & conveyed by, quitclaim deed all his to the Deponent, all his right, title and interest in & to the premises in full satisfaction of said debt. That on the 5 th day of February A.D. 1824 the Deponent sold and conveyed to Belle

Hubbell of Monroe in said Fairfield County the same land for the con- sideration of one hundred and ninety three Dollars, which was the amount of the Debt and Interest, if no mistake was made. The Deponent further says that said Chapman, since his giving said quitclaim deed, has not had, to the Deponents best knowledge or belief, any right, title or Interest in or to said land or any part thereof, and further the Deponent saith not. Gould Simon
State of Connecticut } County of Fairfield } ss. Newtown
on the 7 th day of April A.D. 1825 personally appeared Gould Simon who subscribed the foregoing Deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same, before me
Samuel C. Blackman Justice of peace
I certify that the foregoing Deposition was taken at the request of Collins Chapman to be used before the Secretary of War of the United States, for the purpose of establishing a claim for a pension in favour of
Said Chapman.
Samuel C. Blackman Justice of the peace
Newtown April 7 th 1825

I certify that the words "me" and "all his" were erased, and the words "the Deponent" interlined, before the deposition was signed & sworn to. Sam l C. Blackman Justice of peace
is to paying

I, Erasmus Cole, of Danbury, Fairfield County State of Connecticut, of lawful age being duly sworn do depose and say that I am now the Pastor of the second ecclesiastical Church and society in said Danbury over which Church I pastor. The Rev Noah Whetmore was formerly settled and that I have examined the Records of said Church and cannot find any record of the Marriage of Collins Chapman & Mary Wed nor the record of any marriage whatsoever as it is not the practice of this Church to record marriages.
Erasmus Cole
Fairfield County ss Danbury November 22 nd 1836 Then personally appeared the above named Erasmus Cole and made oath to the truth of the above Deposition by him subscribed before me - and I further certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Deponent and that he sustains a good character for truth and is a credible witness.
Oliver Shepard Pastor of the Pear

I Darius Starr of Danbury Fairfield county state of Connecticut of lawful age being duly sworn doth depose and say that I now am and for a number of years have been the clerk of the Town of Danbury, that I have examined the records of said Town of Danbury and that I cannot find the marriage of Collins Chapman and Mary Weed upon said records - and am confident that said marriage is not recorded upon said records - I have been informed and so believe that the records of said Town were burned, when the Town was burned by the British troops in the revolutionary war - (Darius Starr)
Fairfield county ss Danbury November 22 d AD 1836. Then personally appeared the abovenamed Darius Starr, and made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed before me - and I further certify that I am well acquainted with the above -named deponent, and that he sustains a good character for truth and is a credible witness. Edward Lupton Justice of Peace

I Eliud Taylor of Danbury County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, of the age of Seventy eight years do depose and say, that I was early in life well acquainted with Collins Chapman and served with him in the year 1776 in the Connecticut State Troops in the war of the Revolution, and that some time in the year 1778 or 1779 he the said Collins Chapman was Married to Mary Weed of sd Danbury, by Noah Whitman then an ordained Minister in Bethel of Danbury the Town of Danbury, and I was present at the wedding after Peace was established Established by the sd Chapman and his wife lived in sd Danbury a great many years, as a neighbor to me, and I now know that the said Mary is now living and the widow of the said Collins Chapman Did further the deponent saith not
Eliud Taylor
Fairfield County ss Danbury November 28 th 1836 Then personally appeared the above named Eliud Taylor and made Oath to the truth of the above Deposition by him subscribed before me, and I further certify that I am well acquainted with the above named deponent, and that he sustains a good character for truth and is a creditable witness
John S. Andrews Justice of Peace
January 4 th 1837
Eliud Taylor further Deposeth, and saith that he was Married, on the 13 th of April 1780 and that he knows, that Collins Chapman was Married to Mary Weed, one or two years before, and had one child born at that time and further the deponent saith not
Eliud Taylor
Fairfield County ss Danbury January 4 th 1837 Then personally appeared the above named Eliud Taylor and made Oath to the above named truth of the above Deposition by him subscribed before me
John S. Andrews Justice of the Peace

Anson Chatfield of Pomfret in Hartford County State of Connecticut of Lawful age Deposeth and saith that he formerly resided in the Town of Oxford in New Haven County & State aforesaid as near Neighbour to Collins Chapman whose Widow has now applied for a Pension, and was present at the House of S d Collins Chapman when he died in S d Town of Oxford and as deponent believes it was in April 1831 that S d Collins and of Old age and Intemperance, That he remembers hearing a man by the name of David R Chatfield talk about his Widow Mary Chapman drawing the Balance of S d Collins Chapmans Pension after his death and understood at the time that the Balance of his Pension was drawn and remarked that it cost about as much to get the Balance of his Pension as it was worth, and further testifies that S d Mary Chapman has never married since the death of S d Collins but is now living in Woodbury in New Haven County State of Connecticut as his Widow
Anson Chatfield
State of Connecticut County of Hartford S s Pomfret Decmbr 6 th 1836 Personally appeared Anson Chatfield and Subscribed and made oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition who I certify is a credible Witness known to me Sworn & Subscribed } Isaac Sherman Justice of Peace Before me }

I Deborah Merritt of Newtown in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut of the age of seventy three years do depose and say, that I know that Collins Chapman who was born in said Newtown and was acquainted with him in early life and know that he the said Chapman was a soldier in the war of the American revolution and was taken prisoner by the enemy and carried to New York, I know the said Collins Chapman was married to Mary Place of Danbury in said Fairfield County when it was about 15 years of age, and I now know the said Mary is living and the widow of said Collins Chapman etc,
and further deponent saith not
her Deborah X Merritt mark
State of Connecticut Fairfield County ss Newtown 12 th day of November 1836.
Personally appeared Deborah Merritt and after being duly cautioned made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition and the matter therein contained - before me
Jacob Beers justice of the peace
I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Deborah Merritt and know her to be a person of fair character and a credible witness in Court -
Jacob Beers justice of peace

Andrew Leavenworth of Monroe, in the County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut aged 71 years next January. Deposeth & saith, that he was well acquainted with Collins Chapman & his Widow Mary Chapman who has now applied for a Pension lived in the same Neighborhood some time here until a few years since when they moved to the Town of Oxford where he understood said Collins died a few years ago. and that his widow Mary Chapman is now living in the Town of Woodbridge in New Haven County and still remains the widow of said Collins Chapman always understood that said Collins was a Pensioner.
Andrew Leavenworth
State of Connecticut County of Fairfield ss Bridgewater Decm 6 1836 Personally appeared Andrew Leavenworth and Subscribed and made oath to the truth of the above Deposition who I certify is a credible Witness will thereon to me Sworn & Subscribed before me
Isaac Sherman Justice of Peace

To all People to whom these Presents shall come====Greeting.
KNOW YE, That I Collins Chapman of Oxford in Newhaven county
for the consideration of one hundred dollars received to my full satisfaction of Benjamin English of Derby in s. country do give, grant, bargain, sell, and confirm unto the said
Benjamin English a piece of land situated at a place called Riggs-hill in Oxford bounded easterly on highway, southerly on Moses Gander & west & north on Levi Gander - containing about twelve & a half acres, be the same more or less.
[Large decorative flourish signature]
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the above granted and bargained Premises, with the Appurtenances thereof, unto the said grantee his Heirs and Assigns forever, to his and their own proper use and behoof. AND ALSO, I the said grantor do for my self and my Heirs, Executors and Administrators, covenant with the said grantee his Heirs and Assigns, that at and until the ensealing of these Presents, I am well seized of the Premises as a good indefeasible Estate in FEE SIMPLE; and have good right to bargain and sell the same in manner and form as is above written; and that the same is free of all incumbrances whatsoever.
And furthermore, I the said grantor do by these Presents bind my self and my Heirs forever, to WARRANT and defend the above granted and bargained Premises to the said grantee
his Heirs and Assigns, against all claims and demands whatsoever. In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal the 15 th day of November A. D. 18 24
Signed, Sealed, and Delivered, } in Presence of
Collins Chapman L.S.
Lorenza Miigs Samuel Miigs
Rec d Nov r 17. 1824 Cop. att. J. H. Dutton T. Clk
Newhaven COUNTY, ss. Oxford November 15 - 1824 Personally appeared Collins Chapman Signer and Sealer of the foregoing Instrument, and acknowledged the same to be his free Act and Deed, before me,
Samuel Miigs Justice of the Peace.
A true copy of record from Vol. 9. p. 458 of Oxford records
att. J. H. Dutton T. Clk
Oxford May 27 - 1826

To all People to whom these Presents shall come Greeting.
KNOW YE, That I Collins Chapman of Oxford in Newhaven county for the consideration of one Hundred dollars received to my full satisfaction of Benjamin English of Derby in said county do give, grant, bargain, sell, and confirm unto the said Benjamin English a piece of land situated at a place called Ridge hill in said Oxford is bounded easterly on highway & southerly on Moses land & west & north on Levi land , containing about twelve & an half acres, be it same more or less
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the above granted and bargained Premises, with the Appurtenances thereof, unto the said grantee his Heirs and Assigns forever, to his and their own proper use and behoof. AND ALSO, I the said grantor do for my self and my Heirs, Executors and Admin- istrators, covenant with the said grantee his Heirs and Assigns, that at and until the ensealing of these Presents, I am well seized of the Premises as a good indefeasible Es- tate in FEE SIMPLE; and have good right to bargain and sell the same in manner and form as is above written; and that the same is free of all incumbrances whatsoever.
And furthermore, I the said grantor do by these Presents bind my self and my Heirs forever, to WARRANT and defend the above granted and bargained Premises to the said grantee
his Heirs and Assigns, against all claims and demands whatsoever. In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal the 15 th day of November A. D. 1824,
Signed, Sealed, and Delivered, } in Presence of
Collins Chapman L.S.
Loammi Meigs
Samuel Meigs
Recd. Nov. 17 th - 1824
Coh. ver J. Stone Dutton J. C. S.
Newhaven COUNTY, ss. Oxford November 15 - 1824
Personally appeared Collins Chapman Signer and Sealer of the foregoing Instrument, and acknowledged the same to be his free Act and Deed, before me,

Fairfield August 21 st 1826.
I certify that it appears, from "The Annual Connecticut Register" that Hosea Dutton is the town Clerk of the Town of Oxford, in the state of Connecticut; and I have no doubt that the fact is so, and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to his official acts, as such, and that the within is his signature
Gideon Linsley M.C.

State of Connecticut, New-Haven County ss. Oxford August 7 th A.D. 1826. I hereby certify to all whom it may concern, that Morea Sutton is Register or Town Clerk in said Oxford the present year -
Abel Wheeler justice of the Peace

It appears from "the Annual Connecticut Register" that Abel Wheeler is a Justice of the Peace for the town of Oxford, in the State of Connecticut. Judge Wheeler has been a Senator in the General Assembly of this State, and is a gentleman of highly respectable character, to whose certificate written within full faith I credit ought, in my opinion to be given.
Hartford August 21 st 1866
Gideon P. Smith M.C.

Oxford April the 29 th A D 1825 to Mr Barber sir i sit down write a few lines to you to you inform you that my certificates of my revolutionary services are all there at the war office i expect as i once drew my pension but was cut off in 1820 though very my much involved in debt and the interest money has all  my eat ing up all my property my wife is of a feeble constitution and is not able to milk a cow nor to spin a thread by the reason of the palsy palsy in her hands so that i keep neither cow sheep nor hog my son also of a feeble constitution broken bodied and not able to do but very little labour and myself not able to do but very little labour by reason of old age my eyesight and hearing considerably failing of me i have neither house nor nor home onely as i have to hire and as my property is all gone i have nothing more to hire with except the town does assist me and the last war to has ruined me as my oldest son went of into the army and left a wife & two children which i had to maintain was in the battle at new orleans and died before he got home my other son enlisted for 5 years went to the northward broke his body and had his discharge upon the same account and as others that went into the revolutionary war have pensions i beg and plead for mercy amongst the others and if you cannot have mercy upon me to be pleased to me write to me in the town of oxford county of new haven and state of connecticut perhaps you may not know know what select men are they are what in a great many other places are called poor masters so after wishing you prosperity in all your righteous and lawful pursuits so i subscribe myself your humble petitioner petitioner
Collins Chapman

Oxford January the 12 th A D 1824
Mr Calhoun Sir with tears in my eyes i set down to write a few lines to you to inform you one time more of my situation i have by the name of one son alma Chapman who enlisted in the service last the first year of the late war in 1812 for 5 years went to the north ward broke his body and was discharged at Burlington in Vermont and on the account of his broken body some time in January on February next after he enlisted he was sometime in June his body was broke on a march and he has never been able to do but but little very labor since when he went into the army he was inspected by doctor Patrick and declared to be a sovereign able bodied man a number of our friends and neighbors to apply for advised us to apply for a pension and we got a petition by pierpoint several up  esq Edwards esq witnessed by by his Captain Peter Broley and doctor Patrick and one Goodsell his given name i have forgot and i carried the petition directed to you from sd Edwards and put it into the post office myself and at Bridgport and i have had to maintain my son ever since he came out of the army for he is not able for to maintain himself for he can do nothing at all without a trust i had another son by the name of Edward who went off and left his wife and two children and went down to New Orleans and was in the battle with General Jackson and died before he got home and i had his family all to maintain and had to hire them children boarded out by the week as the laws of Connecticut obliged obliged me to take care of them as my sons wife also had long fit of sickness which together with the doctors bill under amounted to a sum of money and as i understand by Mr John L Tomlinson that you wanted to know how i came to get rid of my property i would write to you every particular when i first drew my pension i was deeply in debt and paid them off as far as it would go i then went and bought a horse up and wagon upon the credit of my pension gave 57 Dollars for my horse and 50 Dollars for my wagon in about a year i lost my horse with sickness for he died and i was 200 Dollars in debt before then i had to mortgage my small farm leaving 12 acres and a half of poor broken land and cannot sell it for anything to help me

and my pension being stopped and every thing fell so low that i was obliged to sell everything at such reduced prices that i had to part with that i very much wanted in my in my family and i am so decrepit in my feet that i cant travel with my tinker tools as i formerly used to do although my wife was feeble before she since last July shock of the palsy and almost lost entirely the use of one hand which not me is quite a non plus and if the congress which now is a sitting would grant me some relief i should be exceedingly thankful for i am so decrepit now with hard labor and old age that i am not in reality able to maintain myself much more to maintain two my wife and son but nature and affection teaches one to exert himself to his utmost but still my country should be entirely welcome to my service if i had to die on the road of it it did not assist those that are not half as deserving nor so needy there is my neighbor N H told me himself that he was not in the service but nine months and i was in in three years and six months and he has spent 5000 dollars of his fathers property as i am informed by my neighbors as i have not lived in this place 8 years my neighbor at only one year N H is drunk to the tavern or store every time he can get money for my part i never had no property by my parents but my father was killed by the Indians in the year old french war my mother with four small children in the 1774 i enlisted in april when the british burnt danbury was taken prisoner put on board the prison ship remained a prisoner until september then exchanged went to my regiment in the winter was at home on furlough married wife went back to the army served my time out in april 1780 returned home found my wife with one child but nothing to support her but i went to work as hard as i was able my wife was always feeble and was never able to do but very little  since work i married her an now nothing of any consequence only what she does with one hand as for myself i have always done as well as i was able to do i drink no distilled spirits of any kind i am owing now 200 dollars in two notes against me and have only that 12 acres and a half of land to pay it with the late war has undone me in the war revolutionary war i was young robust and hardy now i am decrepit and old and worn out with hard labor and fatigue the congress will have but a little while to pay the old revolutionary men for they are all old and will soon be gone

and my pension being stopped and every thing fell so low that i was obliged to sell everything at such reduced prices that i had to part with that i very much wanted in my in my family and i am so decrepit in my feet that i cant travel with my tinker tools as i formerly used to do although my wife was feeble before she since last July shock of the palsy and almost lost entirely the use of one hand which not me is quite a non plus and if the congress which now is a sitting would grant me some relief i should be exceedingly thankful for i am so decrepit with with hard labor and old age that i am not in reality able to maintain myself much more to maintain two my wife and son but nature and affection teaches one to exert himself to his utmost but still my country should be entirely welcome to my service if i had to die on the road if it it did not those that are not half as deserving nor so needy there is my neighbor N H told me himself that he was not in the service but nine months and i was in in three years and six months and he has spent 5000 dollars of his fathers property as i am informed by my neighbors as i have not lived in this place 8 years my neighbor at only one year N H is drunk to the tavern or store every time he can get money for my part i never had no property by my parents but my father was killed by the indians Indians in the year old french war my mother with four small children in the 1774 i enlisted in april when the british burnt danbury was taken prisoner put on board the prison ship remained a prisoner until september then exchanged went to my regiment in the winter was at home on furlough married wife went back to the army served my time out in april 1780 returned home found my wife with one child but nothing to support her but i went to work as hard as i was able my wife was always feeble and was never able to do but very little  since i married her an now nothing of any consequence only what she does with one hand as for myself i have always done as well as i was able to do i drink no distilled spirits of any kind i am now  only now 200 dollars in two notes against me and have only that 12 acres and a half of land to pay it with the late war has undone me in the now revolutionary war i was young robust and hardy now i am decrepit and old and worn out with hard labor and fatigue the congress will have but a little while to pay the old revolutionary men for they are all old and will soon be gone

Next April I shall have to quit my house and where I shall go nobody knows all my neighbors are a-rising to get my pension those neighbors who signed the petition me I sent to you all most all of them knew my circumstances and I do beg and pray and beseech that honorable body of men the Congress would have some mercy on me and let have some assistance for myself and my wife I have not put away my property amongst as my children as a great many I believe has done my little property has gone but thanks be to the great giver of all good it has not gone for rioting and drunkenness it has not gone for lewd women all with  gratuitous but it has unavoidably or providentially gone now Mr. Calhoun I wish you if you cannot except this please to let the congress have it and see if you cannot if they will not except it please to write to me let it go which way it will to Collins Chapman of Oxford County of New Haven State of Connecticut So after beseeching the the father of all mercies to hold and protect you in all your righteous proceedings and likewise that thy honorable body of men the congress that they may be endowed with wisdom and rule in righteousness this is the prayer of your friend and humble servant Collins Chapman

State of Connecticut County of New Haven
I the undersigned Notary in & for said County duly commissioned and sworn, having on this first day of September A.D. 1823 resorted to the Town Clerk's Office in the Town of Oxford in said County & there personally inspected read and examined the Books & Records of said Town do certify and make known that by major vote of the Inhabitants of said Oxford in legal Town meeting assembled on the 3 rd day of December 1822 Hosea Dutton was appointed Town Clerk for the year then next ensuing, was duly qualified & accepted said appointment, that the Books & Records of said Town have ever since that time been and now are in the possession & keeping of said H. Dutton & that the two certificates signed at the bottom of the two annexed papers certifying the same respectively to be true copies of said Records are in the true hand writing of said H. Dutton & were made & signed by him in his said Official capacity. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed my seal of Office on the day & year aforesaid
John L. Hemenway Notary Public
foregoing Instrument, and acknowledged the same to be his free act and deed Philip Nichols Justice of Peace.
A true copy of record from Vol. 9. page 79 of Oxford records July 10. 1823 H. Dutton T. Clerk

To all People to whom these Presents shall come—GREETING : KNOW YE, That I Collins Chapman of y e town of Oxford in y e county of Newhaven for the consideration of one hundred & eighty dollars
full satisfaction of Gould Dimes of y e town of Newtown in Fairfield County received to my
Do give, grant, bargain, sell, and confirm unto the said Gould Dimes two certain pieces of land, situated lying & being in y e Oxford the first piece is in quantity twenty acres more or less together with y e buildings thereon standing bounded northwesterly & easterly on highway — westerly on Jon s L. Nichols in part & in part part on my own land of about nine rods long & in part on y e land of Elizabeth Chatfield & south on S d Elizabeth in part & part on Silas Sperry. reserving y e land that y e select men of S d Oxford have agreed with me for which sum the S d piece for a highway
The second piece is in quantity twenty acres more or less bounded easterly on S d Silas Sperry in part & part on James Beardmore — Northerly on S d Jon s Beardmore in part & part on Truman Bapett & all other sides on highway the district that y e S d property lieth in given by y e name of Moon Hill
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the above granted and bargained Premises, with the Appurtenances thereof, unto him the said Gould Dimes his Heirs and Assigns forever, to his and their own proper Use and Behoof. AND ALSO, I the said Collins Chapman do for my self and my Heirs, Executors, and Administrators, covenant with the said Gould Dimes his Heirs and Assigns, that at and until the ensealing of these Presents, I am well seized of the Premises as a good indefeasible Estate in FEE SIMPLE; and have good right to bargain and sell the same in manner and form as is above written; and that the same is free of all incumbrances whatsoever. And furthermore, I the said Collins Chapman do by these Presents bind my self and my Heirs for ever, to WARRANT and defend the above granted and bargained Premises to him the said Gould Dimes his Heirs and Assigns, against all claims and demands whatsoever. In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal the 17 th day of January Anno Domini 18 21
Signed, Sealed, and Delivered, in Presence of,
Joseph Silliman Deodatus Silliman
1821 Jan y 20 th
Thomas Dutton T. Clerk of Court Cop. rec.
Always provided & be it known that y e conditions of y e above are such that if I y e S d Collins Chapman shall well & truly pay to y e S d Gould Dimes at y e end of two years from this date the sum of one hundred & eighty dollars with interest annually then the above is to be void as of no effect otherwise to be good & effectual in law as a note being given for S d sum
Collins Chapman L. S.
Fairfield
Personally appeared
COUNTY, ss.
Huntington Jan y 17 th A D 1821
Collins Chapman
Signer and Sealer of the
foregoing Instrument, and acknowledged the same to be his free Act and Deed, before me,
Philip Nichols
Justice of Peace.
A true copy of record from Vol. 9. page 79 of Oxford records July 10. 1823 J. H. Dutton T. Clerk

To all people to whom these presents shall come Greeting
Know y t that I Collins Chapman of y e town of Oxford in y e county of Newhaven - for divers good causes & considerations moving have remised & forever quit claimed & by these presents for myself & my heirs fully clearly & absolutely renise release & forever quit claim unto Gould Dimer of y e town of Newtown in y e county of Fairfield his heirs & assigns forever all such right estate title interest & demand whatsoever as I y e s d Collins Chapman have or ought to have in or to two certain pieces of land situate lying & being in s d Oxford together with y e buildings standing on one of y e s d pieces of land - is better understood & described as more more fully appear on a certain instrument which I y e s d Chapman gave to s d Dimer dated on y e 17 th day of January A D 1821 - & acknowledged before Philip Nichols Justice of peace & recorded in s d Oxford records in book 9 th page 79 th may more fully appear - reference thereto being had - the meaning of this deed is to convey all my right of redeeming s d property hereafter
To have & to hold y e above bargained premises unto y e s d Gould Dimer his heirs & assigns to y e only use & behoof of y e s d Dimer his heirs & assigns forever - so that neither I y e s d Chapman nor my heirs or any other person or persons for me or theirs or in any & their names or in y e name right or stead of any of them shall or will by any ways or means hereafter have claim challenge or demand any estate right title or interest of in or to y e premises or any part thereof - but from all & every action right estate interest & demand of in or to y e premises or any part thereof they & every of them shall be utterly excluded & debarred forever by these presents - In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 16 th day of June A D 1823
Collins Chapman L. S.
Signed sealed & delivered in presence of Levi Cander Betty M. Poole
Newhaven county ss Oxford date above personally appeared Collins Chapman signer & sealer of y e foregoing instrument & acknowledged y e same to be his free act & deed before me Levi Cander Jut. pre
Wit July 9. 1823 Cop. rec. H. Dutton T. Clk
A true copy of record from Vol. 8. pag. 616 of Oxford record
Attest H. Dutton T. Clk.

Mr Barber sin with tears in my eyes i sit down to wrie a few lines to you and i beg of you to read them with patience as congres has passed an act that if any of the old revolutionary Soldiers did become poor they should have their pension restored to them again and i have become poor in reality and am under the necessity of parting with my wife for the town to take care of her as she is not able to milk a cow nor spin a thread nor do any other work of any consequence and it is hard parting after living together so long and my son must go on the town likewise that broke his body in the army which has been proved by his captain peter bradly and charles goodsil and i have had him to maintain ever since he got his discharge from the army as he is unable to do but very little labour and it seems must be denied his pension because his discharge says for general infirmities his discharge was sent to the war office and i expect is now there and myself lame in my feet and borne down with age and infirmities am not able to do but very little labour the last war was more fatal to me than the revolutionary  For then i was war was young robust and hardy but now decriped with age i had two sons went into the army the last war my oldest son david left a wife and two children and went into the army and was as with general jackson at the battle of new orleans and was took sick upon the road and died and never came home and as the laws of the state obliges a man to take care of his grandchildren as my wife was very feeble i had to hire them took care of a number of years my other son enlisted first of the war and was a sound able bodied man as was proved by doctor parruck who was then surgeon and examiner of soldiers that capt bradly then enlisted and he went to the northward broke his body and captain bradly came told me of it and said he must have a discharge for he would not be able to do soldiers duty so i went to burlington about 300 miles and got him discharged and brought him home which cost me 60 Dollars

I enlisted myself in the revolutionary army 6 months in the year 1776 then in April 1777 I enlisted for 3 years and when it was burnt Danbury I was taken the prisoner and suffered almost everything but Death then in September after was released being 5 months a prisoner then joined my regiment and served my time out my father was in the old French war and was killed by the Indians my brother was 3 years in the revolution war and it seems as if the family had done their part in the wars when my father was killed my mother had 4 small children and the town had to support them I being the oldest nearly 6 years old was by the town bound to a man until I was old enough to go to a trade and I never had a cent but what by my own industry I earned and that is now gone by reason of the last war and now am obliged to call on the town for support as I am unable to labour but very little by being lame in my foot and have not done half a days work in a day this summer and now if you can be so kind as to have mercy upon me and grant me my pension so that I can again live with my beloved wife I should be thankful if I had put my property out of my hands into my childrens hands as I believe as it a great many have done and then made oath that they did no such thing in order to obtain a pension I should have obtained my pension but I did not do it as would not for all their pensions false swear myself my certificate of my being in the army were sent to the war office and I expect they are there now the men that witness my certificates are all dead as I am informed as they lived a distance from me Mr Edwards wrote to me that is true that my property in 1820 was in my schedule I sent was $35-75 that is it true but land among us has fallen more than one half there was land then belonging to David Tomlinson Esq who died in 1821 that was appraised at 30 dollars per acre after his death and in less than 2 years was sold for 12 dollars per acre for they could not get no more and many more such cases I write but it is needless because my crown was all one the same and to go and get another schedule it as is needless it seems to me for I have scarcely enough property left to pay the appraisers and court fees as I have had to sell my property for to get necessities for my family to live upon

Mr Hubell that bought my place of gold omen let me have the place  the  for for 2 years with the interest and the time was out and he sold to another man and i was obliged to move out Mr Hubbell's deed that Gould Simon gave him was and his receipt for the interest of the money and a copy of the deed was sent to the War office and i trust is there now and now i beg and plead for mercy one time more and i beg of you to send me a line as quick as possibly you can whither you have money or not without too much inconvenience as it will not be but a little time before i shall be under the clods therefore i beg for a little assistance while i am above ground as i cannot help myself but a very little by reason of infirmities and old age and as poverty surrounds on every side i submit to providence so after giving my respects to you and wishing you a long life peace and prosperity health peace and prosperity in all your lawful and righteous pursuits i shall subscribe myself your affectionate friend and ever wellwiser
Collins Chapman N.B. perhaps you do not know what select men are they are what in many places are called poor masters when i gave gave in my schedule in 1826 i was then 200 dollars in debt you have never wrote to me whither you have have excepted my my son Alma Chapman's petition or not if you can be so kind as to send me a line whither you you have or have not we should be very thankful

Collins Chapman Declaration of
yy to do
Brotherly connect.
Rev.
Admitted
Killed in action Ap 1777 mustered on first Augt Sep 1777 discharged Ap 1 1786

I Richard Edwards do hereby certify that all dignities, benefits, etc. etc. that all appear to my satisfaction that Collier Shahman who made a full and the declaration contained in the annexed schedule, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy as stated in his said declaration, and now knows with the proceedings & testimony taken and had before me in his case to the Secretary of the department of war, for a grant loan as by congress in full cash made and provided; said proceedings and testimony are contained in the annexed schedule January 30 th 1819
Richard Edwards
January 30 th AD 1819 I do hereby certify that the aforesaid Collier Shahman by reason of his active service in life does stand in need of the assistance of his country but what Richard Edwards do hereby certify of same

Declaration of Collins Chapman in order to be restored to the pension list under the act of 1 st of March 1823 - County of New Haven p.
On this 25 th day of June 1823 personally appeared in open court, that is to say before the County Court in session at New Haven within & for New Haven county, in the State of Connecticut, being a Court of record for said county, Collins Chapman a resident in said county aged sixty six years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of the 18 th of March 1818 - the 1 st of May 1820 and 1 st of March 1823 - that he the said Chapman entered into the service of the United States (then Colonies) in the year 1777 that is to say, he enlisted at Danbury some time in the month of April in said year into the company then commanded by Capt. Josiah Lacey in the regiment commanded by Col. Philip B. Bradley in the line of the State of Connecticut on the continental establishment, for the term of three years & served faithfully during said term & was honorably discharged at Springfield in New Jersey at the close of said term of service in the year 1780 - And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any other manner disposed of any property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, or 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

mean" layed on the 18 th day of March 1818- and that I here not in her any form interest 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 & by me subscribed, which schedule is as following
  1. Piece of land containing 40 1/2 acres 162-50   2 Axes - 1. Scythe - 2. Iron wedges, & 1 crowbar 4-50   Pewter, tin, earthen & wooden ware formerly used in family 3-00   1. Porridge Pot - 1. Iron & 1. Brass Kettle 3-50   1. Chest and small old chairs 1-50   2. Hayforks & old benches & old tubs 5-00   Shovel & Tongs and 1. Trench 1-50   1. Hatchett 1-00   1. Grindstone 1-50   1. Hay 2-50   1. Table 50   187-00 
The said Chapman has formerly followed the business of a tinker, mending tin, brass and pewter ware, but owing to age and weakness is now unable to have about to seek employment, and of course is unable to support himself by that or any other employment or occupation. That he has a wife Mary sixty eight years old in July next, who is unable to support herself or me by her labour, one son named Almon aged 32 years, who is unable to support himself by labour, by reason of a rupture acquired in the late war, both dependent on me for support. That since the exhibition of my former schedule, the following changes have been made in my property
   Property disposed of To whom Time of sale Amount rec d for the property sold     1- Gun Billy Chatfield Sept 1821 cash rec d $2-00   1- Scythe worn out   2- Axes Sam Chapman Sept 1822 cash rec d 67 cts   2- Axes, worn out and broke   1- Saw - broke   1. Sam Riddle & half bucket Billy Chatfield Sept 1821 cash rec d $2-00   3 Cases & Bottles broke   Baskets worn out   Saws worn out   1. Horse - died April 1821   Wagon Sam Chatfield April 1823 cash $7-00   Carts Billy Chatfield Sept 1822 cash 10-00   2. Shovel broke and worn out   1. Swine - ate in family  

   Property disposed of To whom Time of sale Amount rec d for the property sold     1. Plough - worn vest   2 chains Brilly Chalfin Sept 1821 Cash rec d $1-   37 1/2 acres land Mrs. Lander Jan 7 17. 1821 $ 500 dollars rec d   322 = 67  
The amount rec d for property sold being three hundred twenty two dollars 67 cents was paid to said Lander for a debt due to him $300- The remainder was applied to pay small debts & for articles consumed, in the family. The said debts being due when I made my former schedule. Collins Chapman
New Haven County ss-
County Court June Term 1823
Sworn to and declared on oath in open court by the said Collins Chapman this 26 th of June A. D. 1823- Attest
Chas. A. Ingersoll Clerk of the County Court for New Haven County
I Charles A. Ingersoll Clerk of the County Court for the county of New Haven do certify that the said schedule and oath have been admitted to the records of said Court, and that the same are truly copied therefrom; 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 said schedule is one hundred and eighty seven dollars - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, this 28 th day of June A. D. 1823-
Chas. A. Ingersoll Clerk of the County Court for New Haven County

To the Hon d Calhoun Secretary of the war Department We the Subscribers Being Fully of the Opinion that Collins Chapman a Revolutionary Soldier is Intitled to & ought to receive a Pension from his country from the following reasons Viz His wife from the natural Infirmness of her constitution is unable to perform but very little labour & having a son Whose Intellectual Faculties seem to be some what Inferior to the commonality of mankind Has Been a great Burden & damage to him in his worldly affairs which together with other circumstances has reduced him to Poverty altho' he is a man call'd Prudent & Industrious we therefore do request & desire that the S d Collins Chapman may be Endowed with the reward he deserves & be restored to his Pension & receive his Arrearages & this we request by Being well acquainted With his Person & circumstances as Witness our hands this 25 Day June A 1823
Oxone Cair
Samuel W m Mitchell John Chalfield
Levi Canfield
Samuel Meigs
Cyrus Perry
Eliza Dootman
Cyrus Gillison
Geor. Shorn Smith
William Wooden
David Steele
Silas Hawkins
Nathaniel Wooster
Philo Hinman
Truman Laval & W
Philo Wooster
Levi Lewis Curtis
Isaac Priest
Luke Bunnell
Joel Bunnell
Levi Bunnell
David R. Chatfield
Henry English
Silas Sperry
Benjamin English
Walker Lake
Andrew Grahame
Benjamin English Jr
James Beardlee
Joel Perry
Bennet Perry
Billy Chatfield
Abel Chatfield
Amos Chatfield
Truman Horniman
Ebenezer Wooster

Cyrus Perry Eliza Birtman Cyrus Billings Geo. Shum Smith William Wooden Brad. Skelton Silas Hawkins Nathaniel Wooster Philo Hinman Truman Lavelle Philo Wooster  Eliza Curtis Isaac Druett Luke Bunnell Joel Bunnell Leeverett Bunnell
Isaac Chatfield Zuri Chatfield Truman Chatfield Ralph Nichols Truman Bapett Anson Tomlinson Wilbys Witches Riggs Nichols
Henry English Silas Sperry Benjamin English Walter Lake Anson Graham Benjamin English Jr James Beardlee Joel Perry Bennet Perry Billy Chatfield Abel Chatfield Anson Chatfield Truman Tomlinson Ephraim Wooster