Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1879, Simeon Chapman, Conn.

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Chapman, Simeon
R. 1879
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No 38, 70 3
Simeon Chapman Missouri
Let to A Emory, March 3/54
1879
kw
Act 7 th June 1832

(Name) Chapman
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____

Steelville Mo
July 5
Friend
Commission of Pensions
Washington ex- de c
John H. ...
Oregon

Steeleville Mo Feby 9 th 1859
Dear Sir
Enclosed is an application of Simeon Chapman who was a Soldier of the "Revolutionary War". He is desirous of receiving Pension or Bounties Land whichever he may be entitled to he knows of no one living who served with him and if the application is not properly drawn up, will the department give us the proper instructions.
Respectfully
Yours &c
(Commissioner of Pensions) A. Emory Washington City } Sec }

38,723
Lincoln Chapman Application for Patent on Dimension
A Emory Agent on City Steelville Mo 3

State of Missouri } County of Crawford }
Be it remembered that on this the 6 th day of December A D 1853 Came before me the undersigned an acting Justice of the Peace for and within the County aforesaid Simeon Chapman aged Eighty nine years personally known to me to be a Creditable person, and being duly sworn according to Law declared declared that he was a private (as a Substitute for William Chapman) in Captain Woods Company (he thinks his name was John Woods) of Militia under General Schuyler, and that the name of Lieutenant or Ensign was by the name of Abbott and that he was drafted at Tolland in the State of Connecticut and that he does not recollect for what time but that he did serve out the time for which William Chapman was drafted in the Old Revolution- ary war and until he was Honorably discharged he thinks about four months and that he has no regular discharge & he believes that he never did receive any, if so it is lost or mislaid, and that he does not now know of any person now living with whom he served, but will appear by the musterrolls of said Company he recollects of the following names of men who served with him in said Company. Samuel Reed Yemith Davis John Warner Roger Delino and that he makes this application for the purpose of obtaining a pension as an

Revolutionary soldier or any other relief to which he may be entitled under any of the pension laws of the United States and he has never received any pension or Bounty Land or any other remuneration for his said services That his services as above he thinks were rendered in 1780 or 1781
Simeon Wm Chapman Secondly subscribed to before me this the day & year first above written & I do hereby Certify that I am personally acquainted with Simeon Chapman and that he is of the age above stated and a Creditable person and that he is very infirm and unable to perform any labor in order to obtain a support
Attested by Jesse Poulter J. P. Benjamin Harrison
Hartwell Parsons