Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6652, Constant Chapman, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn
Chapman, Constant Jemima
H. 6652
CONTENTS

Col. G. Tilden & Ramsey Feb 29 48
147.
Ohio  Pittsburgh Agency  Constant Chapman
of Portage Co in the State of Ohio, who was a Sergeant in the company commanded by Captain Humphrey of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Meigs in the Connecticut line, for the term of three years, from _____ 1778 to _____ 1782
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio Pittsburgh at the rate of 120 — Dollars per month, to commence on the 4 day of March 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 nd of August 1832 — and sent to Penina Brinfield, Franklin Mills, No. Ohio
Arrears to 4th of March 1832 $120. — Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep: " 60. —
180. —
{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820. }
7 June 1832
Rec: Book D. Vol: 2. fol: 187.

Ohio
2116
Aug 18 Miss Mary Detha history Soc
Amelia Chapman widow of Constant Chapman Con n who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Sergeant
lot 4892
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 120 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 th day of June, 1849 and sent to
Tilden & Ramsey Ravenna Ohio
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 336 Vol. 5
Aug 18 1849 Hand with Miss Detha

I Constant Chapman do solemnly & sincerely before most Eminent In presence of Almighty God that I enlisted into the Connecticut line of the Continental Army at Saybrook County of Middlesex & State of Connecticut January first 1778 in Capt. Elisha Dyer's Co. in the 6 th Reg t of Infantry, Commanded by Return J. Mige Esq r for 3 Years as a private soldier and faithfully served until January first 1781 and was then Honourably discharged same day Re-enlisted in the same Reg t which was then or about that time Commanded by Zebulon Butler Esq r for other three years and was then appointed a sergeant in Capt. Enoch Root's Co. in which capacity I faithfully served until peace between America and Great Britain In 1783 at that time the three years men of the Connecticut Line were embodied in one Regiment Commanded by Sherman Swift Esq r I was then appointed a Sergeant Major in said Reg t and served in that capacity until 28 th October following doing Garrison duty at West Point in the Highlands of New York and was then Honourably discharged as was the rest of the Reg t whose time of service expired by the first day of January 1784 for which Indulgence in each Chopped three cords of wood for the use of the Garrison as was said and further that I have been conscience leaving the Army and now am a citizen of the United States of America and that I now have a wife and five children three of which are yet young and having no means of support which I am incapacitated to afford them as I am in Indigent circumstances and have had for Twelve or thirteen years a confirmed lameness which is increasing in one of my hips which prevents me in a great measure from labour and my leg & thigh are severely painful and now leaning on my staff broken down with lameness and other infirmities I have but two Alternatives before me which are either to obtain some assistance from my country or whom I think I have a just claim or to shortly to add me to the number of our parish Poor Constant Chapman

nyo city
I hereby certify that the within affidavit was sworn to and sub- scribed this 14th day of April 1818 before me since that I am a qua- lified notary public in the town of Smith- ville in the State of New York and have no doubt as to his rev- olutionary services as attested in the within affidavit sworn by himself and I have seen his war- rant as a Sergeant Major which he says he has since lost
Charles Poplyn
Judge of Chenango court
State of New York Chenango County June 12th 1818
I hereby certify that Charles Poplyn Esq. was at the time the foregoing Affidavit was made before him a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County and that the above Signature is his hand writing.
Michael J. Bright Clerk
[Handwritten signatures and scribbles]
Constant Schuman
Correct by Rev.
Judge of the
noting also the
residence of the
claimant
1778-3 years
Col. Mingo Continent Regiment
Private
Constant Schuman

State of New York
Chenango County ss. I John Noyes one of the Judges of the of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Chenango do hereby certify that Constant Chapman the Claimant in the annexed Papers named has produced to me satisfactory Evidence that he is an inhabitant of the Town of Smithville in the County and State aforesaid, and that he is an infirm man in indigent circumstances possessed of little or no property, & by Reason of his reduced circumstances in life now stands in need of assistance from his Country for support. Dated May the 10 th 1819.
John Noyes Judge of Chenango Common Pleas
State of New York Chenango County
Clerks Office
Thereby Certify that John Noyes Esq. before whom the above Affidavit appears to have been taken is a Judge of the Court of Com. Pleas in and for the County aforesaid duly authorized to take the same and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe the above signature to be genuine In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the said Court of Com Pleas this 11 th Day of May 1819.
W. Matthew Dep y Clerk

State of New York } Chautauqua County } on this 13 th day of March
1820 personally appeared in open court being a court of Record for the said county solemnly adjudged to be such by the tribunals of the several States Constant Chapman age fifty nine years resident of the town of Smithville in said county of Chautauqua who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows (viz) in Col. Mays Regiment of Connecticut & Captain Elisha Ely's Company of Infantry That his former declaration was dated on the fourteenth day of April 1818 and that his certificate of Pension is No 11.837 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 manner disposed of any property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within a provision of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain pensions engaged in the land or naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary war passed on the Eighteenth of March 1818 and I have not nor has any person in trust for me any prop- erty or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is

contained in the schedule hereto annexed and before subscribed (B),
  House Barn & one acre of Land 200.00 See the following Debts   1 Silver Watch 15.00 12   Notes against sundry Persons 99.00 Irregular Entd. 1810 $255.00   1 Looking Glass 3.00 Interest to Year - 178.50   6 Common Chairs 2.50 Bonds & Mortgages on House & lot. } 180.00   1 Table 2.00 Other Small debts, say, 10.00   1 Cow 15.00 $623.50   2 Sams 7.00   25 lbs Wool 9.37 1/2   2 House Chests 2.00   1 Chest With Drawers 3.00   $358.87 1/2 
That my family consists of a wife and two children my wife aged 58 Years Inform. as to health about a girl aged 14 Years healthy. The other a boy 11 Years old of middling health
That I am by occupation a Farmer but unable to labor much in consequence of a confirmed lameness in my right hip
Constant Chapman
Sworn to and declared on the 13 th day of June 1822 before me Tracy Coker Mr. Rose & David Brattle Esqrs Judges of said Court
Chautauqua County Clerk's Office } ss } Nathan Chamberlain Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas

we and for the County of Chautauqua do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereunto annexed are truly copied from the record of this Court And I 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 three hundred and fifty Eight Dols & Eighty Seven & a half Cents and debts due from him is Six hundred & twenty three Dollars ten fifty Cents In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court July August 17 th 1820
Watson Chamberlain Clerk P. Elisha Chittenden D Clerk

The State of Ohio Portage County ss
On this 17 th day of April AD 1848 personally appeared before me Isaac Swift one of the Associate Justices of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County, Benjamin Chapman a resident of Springfield in said County of Portage, aged eighty five 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 7 th 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pension to certain widows" and also to obtain the benefit of the pro- vision made by Congress in the several acts contin- ued therein passed March 3 rd 1843, and June 17 th 1844 and claiming the benefit of all Resolutions of Congress in said things. That she is the widow of Constant Chapman who was a Sergeant in the Army  Revolution in the War of the Revolution. She further declares and says that her said husband at the time of his death was at the time of his death a pensioner of the United States, that he was pensioned under the act of Congress of June 7 th 1832, on the 2 nd day of August AD 1832, at which time he resided in said Township of Springfield, and that the evidence of his services, and upon which he was pensioned, as appears from his pension certificate, now in her possession, is of record in the Pension Office in Book D. No. 2 at page 187, to

which said record as proof thereof she begs leave to refer She further declares and says, that she was Married to the said Constant Chapman on the 27 th day of January Seventeen hundred and eighty five, that her husband the aforesaid Constant Chapman died on the 24 th day of September AD 1827, that she was not Married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the Marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred and eighty five at the time above stated
I swear to and subscribe on the 24 th day of January 1848 the day and year above written before me Isaac Swift a justice of the peace
I certify, that the above named Susanna Chapman cannot from bodily infirmity attend any Court of Record in the said State of Ohio, so as to have her declaration therein taken
Brimfield April 17 th 1848
Isaac Swift a justice of the peace

Clinton Ct. Nov. 27. 1848 - Messrs Tilden & Ramsey,
In the Records of this Church as kept by Rev. Schillies Mansfield a former Pastor of the church I find the following under the heading, "Marriages."
One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty five January twenty seventh. "Constant Chapman of Saybrook with Jerimiah Kelley".
I Enoch S. Huntington Pastor and Clerk of the Congregational Church in the Township of Clinton (which Church, at the time the above record was made, was called the first Church of Killingworth) in the County of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of the record of said Church now in my possession, with the exception of the date which is expressed in the record in fair legible figures as follows "1785. Jan'y 27. th"
I, Enoch S. Huntington above named do hereby and say, that I hold the office of Pastor and Clerk of the Congregational Church, in the Township, County and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Church, with the exception

above named, as certified by me,
Enoch S. Huntington } Pastor & Clerk
Sworn to & subscribed before me this twenty seventh day of November AD 1848,
Ely A. Elliot
Justice of the Peace
State of Connecticut
County of Middlesex } ss: I. Elisha Spencer Clerk of the County Court for said County of Middlesex, do hereby certify that Ely A Elliot Esq is and on the 27 th day of Sept November, instant, was a jus- -tice of the Peace in and for said Middlesex County, duly commis- -sioned and qualified (as by Commission on file in my office) And further that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said Ely A Elliot & verily believe his signature above written to be genuine
In Witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County Court, at Middletown in said County this 29 th day of November AD 1848.
Elisha Spencer Clerk of said County Court

The State of Ohio Portage County ss I John H. Chapman of the County of Portage of lawful age being first duly sworn according to law, on my sole oath depose and say that I am fifty seven years of age, and am a son of Constant Chapman and Demina Chapman That I resided at home in the family of my said parents, before, and at the time of their removal from the Township of Billingsworth, now Clinton, in the County of Middlesex and State of Connecticut to the Township of Green, after- wards Smithville, in the County of Chenango and State of New York, in the year one thousand Eight hundred and seven, and then after con- tinued to reside with my said parents, at said Township of Smithville at and until the year one thousand Eight hundred and fourteen at which last mentioned time I intermarried and went into business for myself. In the year AD 1817 I removed to said County of Portage where I have since resided. My said parents remained at said Township of Smithville until the year AD 1821 when they also removed to said County of Portage, where they afterwards continued to reside until the decease of the said Constant, which took place on the 24 th day of September AD 1847. Since which last mentioned date the said Demina has continued to reside in said County of Portage and has not intermarried but is still a widow.
I further depose and say that the said Constant and Demina from my earliest recollection down to the death of the

said Constant at all times continued to live and cohabit together as husband and wife and was in all respects reputed and acknow- ledged as such
I further depose and say that the said Terence is still living, and that she is the same identical person who signed the  the appli- cation for a pension heretofore attached and that her said husband the said Constant Chapman was in his life time a pensioner of the United States I own to and subscribe before me on this 29 day of January AD 1849
Lydia Mooresey J.P.
John H. Chapman
Also Joseph H. Chapman of the County of Portage of lawful age being first duly sworn according to law on his said oath deposes and says that he is Forty Five years of age, and is a son of Constant and Terence Chapman. That he resided with his said parents at the time of their removal from the township of Billingsport, now Clinton, in the County of Middlesex and State of Conn section to the township of Green, afterwards Smithville, in the County of Cuyahoga and State of New York, and thereafter continued to reside with them until the year AD 1820 when he removed to the State of Ohio. In the year AD 1821 his said parents also removed to said State of Ohio, where they afterwards continued to reside until the decease of the said Constant which took place on the 24 th day of September AD 1827 at all times before

which last mentioned period, from his earlier recollection, the said Constant and Semina were husband and wife together as husband and wife and were known as husband and wife as such.
I further declare and say that the said Semina since the death of her said husband has resided in the Township of Brimfield in said County of Portage, and that she has not remarried, but is still living, and is still a widow, and is the same identical person who signed the declaration for a pension, her to attach, and that her said husband the said Constant Chapman was at the time of his death a pensioner of the United States.
Given to and subscribed before me this 29 day of January, A.D. 1849.
J. G. Chapman Lydia M. Chapman
Also Mary McNamee of the County of Portage of lawful age being first duly sworn concerning to her and her said oath declares and says that she was acquainted with Constant and Semina Chapman during the time they resided in the Township of Green, afterwards Smithville, in the County of Chenango and State of New York, and has been acquainted with them since they removed to said County of Portage for about four years before the death of the said Constant which took place sometime in the month of September.

A.D. 1827. That during her entire acquaintance with the said Amos and Deborah they have continued to live and cohabit together as Husband and Wife, and were known and reported as such.
She, for the reasons and says that the said Deborah is the same individual person who signed the declaration for a pension her to attached, that she is still living and has not intermarried, but is still a widow.
Sworn to & subscribed before me Mary Needham on this 29 day of January A.D. 1829.
Sylvia Woodworth J.P.
The State of Ohio } Portage County ss }
I, Sylvia Woodworth, one of the Justices of the peace within and for said County do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with John H. Chapman, Joseph A. Chapman and Mary Needham who severally subs- cribed the foregoing declarations, and that they are each credible persons.
Given under my hand this 29 day of January A.D. 1829.
Sylvia Woodworth J.P.

information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. Assistant Secretary of War file 6652
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Jan'y 1, 1778 3 yrs. Pvt. Elisha Ely Return J. Meigs Conn.   Jan'y 1, 1781 Sgt. David Humphreys Zebulon Butler   Enoch Reed   Henry Lee Samuel B. Webb   Sgt. Major Horace Swift   discharged Oct. 28, 1783  
Battles engaged in, _____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, inlisted at Lyndon, Middlesex Co. Conn.
Date of application for pension, Apr. 14, 1818. His ct. was al.
Residence at date of application, Chamanga Co. ct. 4.
Age at date of application, 57 yrs. He died Sept. 24, 1847.
Remarks: Soldier married in the Twp. of Clinton, Middlesex Co. Conn. Jan'y 27, 1785, Jeremia Kelsey. There were 9 children: John K. 57 yrs old in 1849 and Joseph G. 46 yrs old at same date are the only names stated. His widow, Jeremia was allowed pension on an application executed Apr. 17, 1848 when a resident of Brimfield, Portage Co. Ohio aged 85 yrs.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

Constant Chapman
In May 1819 of Chenango Co NY Age 21 died June 1820 at 59 years living in Smithville Chenango Co NY June 1820 wife aged 58 yrs 4th daugh aged 14 Son 11 yrs removed Oct 1821 to Portage Co Ohio
Mar June 27 1785 to Jerusha Kelley of Clinton Co formerly in Killington (at Pownal) He died Sept 24 1847 at Pownal Under Capt. April 1848 aged 85 yrs About 1807 moved to Greenfield Smithville NY from Killington now Clinton
Wife 69 yrs old when he has confirmed himself in his left leg & thigh from knee
John K Chapman in Jan 1849 of Portage Co aged 57 yrs to Portage Co 1817 Mar 1814 Enlisted at Saybrook Conn (Westbrook was part of Saybrook until 1840) Jan 11 1778 under Capt Elisha Ely in Col R. J. Mays (6 th reg) for 3 years as a private & during Jan 1 1781 we enlisted same day in Genl Reg then Col by Col Johnon Butler for 3 years & after Serf in Capt Enoch Reed's Compy & served until Peace was declared In 1783 he was embodied  enlisted with reg Col H Swift in one reg & then after Serf Major & on duty as Garrison at Westport & discharged in Oct 1783
Apr 8 th 1781 first Capt Samuel Humphrey then Capt Reed Reg broken up 1782-3 then in Col S th Webb reg Capt Humphrey then Ely's Compy then put under Col Swift & after Serf Major until Oct (from July 1783) 1783 when discharged
Joseph G a son in Jan 1849 of Portage Co Ohio to which he removed 1820
1820 55 1765

encamped Summer 1778 at White Plains & winter 1778-9 at Red Bank Pa & 1779-80 Monmouth 29 on Quincy Arnold's Order to defend West Point

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MANUFACTURERS OF
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AKRON, OHIO.
Please furnish records of Oct. 28, 1910.
Commissioner Pensions.
Dear Sir:- Isaac W L. Loveland, Soldier of the Revolution, who served as private in Capt. Barnard's Company. Enlisted May 2 1778. Also served in Third Regiment, Col. Samuel Hyllys Conn. Line. Also in First Regiment Capt. Johnathan Heart's Company, Col. John Durke, which served along the Hudson.
And Constant Chapman, Soldier of Rev. served in Fourth Regiment Connecticut Line commanded by Colonel Gebulon Butler. Conn. Pensioner residing in New York.
Mrs. C. Franz. 585. E. Buckle Ave, Akron, O.
OCT 31 1910

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Los Angeles. 632 W. 6 th St. Calif. Dec. 31 - 04.
Commissioner of Pensions Dear Sir,
Will you kindly send me the Military History of Constant Chapman a soldier of the Revolution from Conn. Rank, Sergeant under Capt. Elisha Ely and Enoch Reed, Colonels R. J. Muggs, Z. Mitten. Married Jennina Kelsey.
He applied for a pension in the year 1818; died, Sept. 24 - 1847, in his 89 year in Brimfield Portage Co. Ohio
His Military history is desired for genealogical purposes by his descendants.
Yours Truly. Frank E. Hull
632 W. 6 th St. Los Angeles
California.

1453 Grove St Oakland California
Nov 24 1901
M. Clay Evans. Commissioner.
Dear Sir.
Will
you please send me a statement of the military history of Constant Chapman a soldier of the Revolutionary war,
Very sincerely, Yours Mrs Florence E. Wells.

Oct. 31-1901 W. H. Chapman Montalvo, Calif
Dec. 7-1901 Florence E. Wells, Oakland Cal.
Jan'y. 24, 1905 - N 15 W Frank E. Mull Los Angeles Calif.
1910 for 5 Hist. to Mrs. C. Franz V.P.M.
Key WIDOW, &c.
File No. 6652
Jemima Chapman Wid.
Constant Chapman Sergt. Res't. Mas.
Act: Foley, 27/48
Index:—Vol. A , Page 113

611 214 01110
Report
Emelia Chapman widow of Constant Chapman who was a Sergeant in the Revolution, Husband died 14 Sept 1841
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 120 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 24th day of March , 1841. Sept
Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of June, 1849, and sent to Tilden & Ramsey Ravenna Portage Co. Ohio
[Act of JUNE 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book Vol. 2 Page 202

Lyon (4837) Sept: 1819 New York Ohio Constant Chapman
of _____ in the state of _____ who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Weigs — of the Connecticut line, for the term of 3 years 1778 —
Inscribed on the Roll of New York , at the rate of — 8 — Dollars per month, to commence on the 14 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 th of June 1819 and sent to Chas. L. L. Esq.  Greene, Chenango County  New York 
Arrears to 4th of Mar: 1815 10 mo 17 3/4  1/31 $ 85.56 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep: 1815 " 48. $ 133.56 
Reinstated
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
 Discontinued under Law 1 st  May 1820  Smithville, Chenango Co. 
Notified from Kent to Mr. Tracy Esq. Suffolk New York 28 th July 1820 Reinstated 15 th Feb y 1821, by Hon: Col y J. H. W. & on that day sent to Hon: M c Morris , Sec. War

War Department.
Pension Office, 15 th Feb y 1821.
Sir
You are hereby informed that the Secretary of War has reconsidered your case, and has directed your name to be reinstated on the pension list.
I am respectfully,
Your ob t Serv t
J. L. Edwards
Mr Constant Chapman
Smithville, Chenango Co, N.Y.
Care of Hon: Mr Morell, H. Rep s U. S.

Old cases.
2 Admitted.
Free
Hon. J. C. Calhoun
Sentuary for the war department Washington

Sir
Enclosed is the translation of Elijah Vickery which was sent back for the foreign certificate of incorporation at the that was certified by me a year ago as a foreign. The old form is now with your request. and a new set of certificates are offered to his station. Constant Chalmers an translation is also enclosed.
Most Respectfully Yours.
Ch. Saffyn
Wm J.C. Colbourn -
Green Chenango Co. N.Y.
May 13th 1819

To the Hon. Lewis Cass Secretary of War In 1818 I petitioned for a pension and obtained it my affidavit and other proofs went to show that I served 6 years in the Revolution by two enlistments for 3 years each; 3 years as a cavalry in Meigs Comm d Reg t and three years as a Inf y and Inf y Maj r which papers are in the war office I expect I was appointed a Inf y in 1781 in Meigs old Reg t at or about that time comm d by Lieut Col o Butler Ely who'd think Sign g my Inf y warrant I was first in Capt a David Humphreys Compy who was then a brevet Col o and with the Comander In Chief I was then transferred to Capt a Enock Reed's Compy and did orderly duty and continued in S d Compy until the Reg t was broken up in the fall of 82 or beginning of 83: when I was transferred to Col o Samuel W. Webb's Reg t Capt a Henry Ten Eyck's Compy and continued in S d Compy until July 3 rd 1783 at which time the discharging of the war were war discharged at which time the 3 years men of the Comm d Line were put into one Reg t comm d by Herman Swift Esq r I was then appointed a Inf y Major and did duty as such until October following when I was Honorably discharged all which will I expect appear by the muster roles of S d Regiments
I now wish to be continued on the old act and in view the provisions of the act of June 7 th 1832 in order to receive a pension according to my and draft pay in the Army which was $10- for Mo s I have received eight dollars for me up to 4 March 1832 I have withdrawn all my pension papers & receive my pension from the Pittsburgh agency please to direct any communication to me
July 13 th 1832 To Brimfield Portage County Ohio to Franklin Mills to offer your very humble Serv t Constant Chapman

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
Constant Chapman late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New York Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to com- mence on the fourteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this eleventh day of June one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
J. L. Edwards in the absence and on behalf of the Secretary of War.

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RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by A. Mae D. 1/11/10
Claim No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant _____
Soldier Constant Chapman
Service Conn.
Additional Service Rev.
No _____ claim, State records _____, 191_____
No claim, combination records _____, 191_____
REMARKS:
No S.W. F. of any service Wed. F. 6, 6 5 2 No other Wed. any service " Reg. at all.

Constant Chapman Pittsburgh Pa, act 7 June 1832 $20 00 per ann.
To what time was he last paid, Feb 6 A
Pension Office } paid to 4 th Sept 1847. June 12 1849 } Wm. Tyson

Parsons Portage County Ohio Feb 11 th 1828
Col James E. Edmonds
Comm te of Pensions
Sir
Constant
Chapman of this County, was a Sergeant in the War of the Revolution, and was promised under the act of June 7 th 1832. He was married June 7. 27 th 1785 after the last period of his service, and since leaving his Widow, who still survives, Sept. 24 th 1847.
The Widow is desirous of obtaining a Pension, and our object in writing is to learn whether this state of facts will entitle her to one, if her case is properly presented. She is unable to incur the expenses of making an effort, unless the result is reasonably certain
Very Respectfully
Yours &c.
Silas H. Hovey

Pavonia Portage County Ohio Feb 7. 7 th 1849 -
Dear James E. Edwards,
Commissioner of Pensions Sir
Enclosed for you? The declaration of Mrs Chapman, in order to obtain a pension, together with the accompanying testimony, confirming as we believe to the regulations of your Department. The husband of Mrs Chapman was pensioned under the act of 1832 as a Sergeant. From your letter to us under date of the 29 th of Feb 7. 1848, you say that Mr Chapman was improperly pensioned as of that rank. The record in your office not furnishing any evidence of his having rendered any services in that capacity, and that he should have been pensioned only as a private. We think in this you may perhaps be under a mistake. Mr Chapman was first pensioned, as we are informed, under a law much earlier than that of 1832, perhaps in 1818 or 19 at which time he was in fact pensioned only as a private. In 1832 this pension was given up and a new one granted him as a Sergeant under the act of 1832. It is therefore probable to us that the record of the services upon which he was first pensioned is the one to which

you refer in your letter. In this however we may be mistaken, and if so the evidence furnished you by the institution of these records, will of course correct us.
Mr Chapman is quite agree, and in ill health, and it is therefore desirable that the application should be acted upon as soon as may be convenient.
Very Respectfully & Fully Yours & Ramay

Constant Chapman Declaration Smithville, Chenango Co. New York
#175
n o 11837
11 June 1819
not entitled

State of New York Chenango County
on this 13 day of June 1820 personally appeared in open court being a court of Records for the said County solemnly adjurged to be such by the tribunals of the several States Constantus Chapman aged fifty nine years resident of the town of Smithville in said County of Chenango who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows (viz) in Col. Mays Regiment of Connecticut State and Capt. Glisha Ely's company of Infantry that his former declaration was dated on the 14 th day of April 1818 and that his certificate of pension is no. 11,837 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 manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within a provision of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land or naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18 th March 1818 and 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 more other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed viz    a house barn and one acre of land  $200.00    notes against sundry persons  99.00    1 silver watch  15.00    1 looking glass  3.00    6 common chairs  2.50    1 table $3. 1 Cow $15 2. swine $7. 25 lb. wool $9.37 1/2  34.37 1/2    2 house chests $2 1 chest with drawers $3  5.00     358.87 1/2  
I owe the following debts viz    Judgment entered 1810  $255.00    Interest 10 years  178.50    Bond & mortgage on house & lot  180.00    other small debts say  10.00     623.50    That my family consists of a wife & two children my wife aged 58 years Inform as to health eldest child a girl aged 14 years healthy the other a boy 11 years old of middling health - That I am by occupation a farmer

but unable to labour much in consequence of a confirmed lame-ness in my right hip
Launceston Chapman
Sworn to & declared on the 13 th day of June 1820 before Lord Tracy Gossford Road David Bull Esq r Esq r Judges of said Court
Chenango County ss
Clerk's Office } I Nathan Chamberlin Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Chenango do hereby certify that the foregoing oath & schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of this Court & I 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 Three hundred fifty eight Dollars and Eighty seven cents In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court July 1 st 1820
N. Chamberlin Clerk of said Court

Rec d Aug 31. 1820
for rec d account
for rec d account
John B. Calhoun
This man has been stretched with this with his papers.
Secretary Washington

Oxford August 10 th 1870.
Hon. J. C. Calhoun,
Sir, Constant Chapman who has been struck off of the pension list flatly himself that it has been done by some mistake. He has been to the County Clerk's Office and taken the copy of his Schedule &c. which he insists I should forward to you begging the favour to know whether there has been any mistake in the transaction. He cannot be satisfied that he ought to be struck from the list on account of the property he professes, when his property amounts to 358 Dollars and \frac{87\frac{1}{2}}{100} and he is indebted $623. I am not personally acquainted with the circumstances of this man, but fully believe he has inventoried all things correctly in his schedule. I know that he is lame and believe that he cannot support himself without assistance from some quarter.
Most respectfully
your humble Servt
Uri Tracy

War Department,
PENSION OFFICE,
July 28
1820.
11037
SIR,
You are hereby informed that the Secretary of War does not, on account of the amount of your property, consider you entitled to a Pension under the Acts of the 18th March, 1818, and 1st May, 1820; and has, therefore, directed your name to be stricken from the Pension List.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J L Edwards
To Mr.
Constant Chapman Smithville Chenango County New York.

APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER.
The State of Ohio
County of Portage
ss.
On this Second day of October 182 1 , before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Portage personally appeared Constant Chapman who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Elisha Elye in the regiment commanded by Colonel Return S. Meigs in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of New York from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the state (district, or territory) of Ohio where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future.
Constant Chapman
Sworn and subscribed to, before } me, the day and year aforesaid. }
John Sloan Jus Pacis
NOTE. The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated.

THE STATE OF OHIO, Portage County, ss.
I, SETH DAY, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in, and for the county of Portage, in the State of Ohio, do by these presents, certify and make known, that Jonathan Slover Esquire, before whom the foregoing
Deposition was taken, and who has thereunto, in his own proper hand writing subscribed his name, was, at the time of taking such Deposition and now is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn, and to all whose official acts as such, full faith and credit is, and ought to be given, throughout the United States, and elsewhere.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court at Ravenna, in said county, this 2 nd day of October in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty one
Seth Day
Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT,
PENSION OFFICE,
October 18 th 1821.
SIR,
IN conformity with the regulations of this Department, you have this day been transferred from the Roll of New York to that of Ohio . . . . . to take effect from and after the 4 th day of September 1821.
I am, Sir, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. Edwards
Mr. Constant Chapman
U. S. Pensioner.
Care of S d Day, Esq r Ravenna Ohio

I Elias Stevens of Clinton County of Middlesex State of Connecticut of Lawful age do hereina- say that I was acquainted with Constant Chapman & Jerimiah Kelsey before and after marriage & that I was present at their marriage and stood up with them as Bridesgroom - & that they continued to cohabit as husband & wife until they left this country. & that they lived in the Town of Killingworth now Clinton until about the year eighteen hundred and six when they left & removed to the Town of Green afterwards called Smithville in the State of New York - Clinton July fifth eighteen hundred and forty eight - and further this Deponent saith not
Elias Stevens
Middlesex County, ss. Clinton July 8 th 1848 Personally appeared Elias Stevens signer of the above depositions (with whom I am personally acquainted and know him to be the respectable and credible person) and made solemn oath to the truth of the same Before me,
Ely A. Elliot Justice of Peace

I Lydia Bull of Clinton County of Mich- -aelix & State of Connecticut of Lawful age depose and say that I was acquainted with Courtland Chapman & Jerimiah Kelsey before and after their marriage and that I was present at their marriage and that they contin- -ued to cohabit as husband & wife until they left the country and that they lived in the town of Hillingworth now Clinton until about the year eighteen hundred and six when they left and removed to the town of Green afterward called Smithville in the County of Chemango & State of New York. And further this Deponent saith not. Clinton July fifth eighteen hundred and forty eight Lydia Bull
Macomb Co. Mich. Clinton July 5. 1848 Personally appeared Lydia Bull signer of the above deposition with whom I am personally acquainted and know to be a respectable and credible person and made solemn oath to the truth of the same. Before me Ely A. Elliot Justice of Peace

State of Connecticut }
County of Middlesex } ss:
I, Elihu Spencer Clerk of the County Court for the said County of Middlesex (the same being a Court of Record) do hereby certify that Ely A. Elliott Esq., was on the 5 th day of July 1848 and ever since has been a Justice of the Peace in and for said Middlesex County (as by Commission on file in my office). Also that I am acquainted with the handwriting of said Ely A. Elliott and that I verily believe the signature of his name to the two certificates on this sheet preceding is his genuine handwriting.
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County Court at Middletown in said County this 3 rd day of August AD 1848.
Elihu Spencer Clerk of said County Court

at 44 687. N 13877
Levina Chapman wid of Constant
o
act-7 May 1838
Mamut 1785-
Rejected husband
and 24 Sept 1847
Adm act 17 Mar
44 12 July 48
$120 00 per m
24 Sept 1847
Tilarn & Ramsey
Ravenna
Portage Co O

The State of Ohio } Postage bounty p }
I Horace Y. Beebe Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Portage in the State of Ohio, do hereby certify that Isaac Swift Esq. before whom the annexed Deposition of Joanna Chapman was taken, was, at the time of taking such Deposition an Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said County of Portage duly commissioned and qualified and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine - and I further certify that Lydia Underwood Esq. before whom the annexed Deposition of John R. Chapman, Joseph G. Chapman and Mary Sedgwick were taken, was, at the time of taking such Depositions a Justice of the Peace within and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court this sixth day of February A.D. 1849. Horace Y. Beebe Clerk.