Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 27615, William Champenois, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Champenois, William S. 27615 Champenois New York agency and residence
CONTENTS

William Champenois List Sertificat William Champenois
CHAMPENOIS, WILLIAM (NY) S-27615

City of New York So
Personally came before me Isaac L. Skip Notary Public William Champeanois who being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he is the same William Champeanois who was placed on the pension list by an Act of Congress passed on the 20 th day of April 1790
sworn the 23 rd Sept r 1796 before me.
Isaac L. Skip Not Pub
William Champeanois

State City and County of New York ss: On this seventeenth day of July A.D. 1834 personally appeared in open court before the Justices of the Marine Court of the City of New York now sitting William Champeuoir, of said City who being first duly sworn according to law - doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. That he is of the age of Seventy five years on the first day of September last past, according to the tradition of his family - but that he has no written record of his age - that he was born 1 st Sept r 1758 at Mount Pleasant county of West Chester State of New York.
That he entered the service of the United States as a volunteer in Colonel Hammonds Regiment, Capt a Paulding Horton's Company of militia raised in West Chester County. That he entered in January 1777, and was (though not in a soldier) at the battle of White Plains. That the said company formed themselves into a company of or minute men Rangers for the purpose of guarding the lines in West Chester. That he continued with said company until the fall of 1779 doing duty & engaged in many skirmishes & took a good many British prisoners for more than two years when the company broke up - the company having been by that time reduced by being killed & taken prisoners down to 12 or 15 men - & obliged on that account to break up - That immediately thereafter he again volunteered in Colonel Thomas' Regiment N. York State Troops in Capt a Morris's Company and served between two and three months, and on the 20 th

day of March 1780. said company was engaged in action with the British at Kings Street near Lawfits in said County of Westchester & this deponent received a wound in his head from a musket ball, which disabled him from duty for the rest of the war. That his life was despaired of for several months after his wound, and he was laid up in hospital more than six months after his wound. That he has received a pension of six dollars a month since 1796 for his disability. That he has no documents to prove his services. But that he has with him two witnesses to wit Mr Samuel Young and Mr Abraham Boice his fellow- soldiers who can testify to a personal knowledge of his services. That he has always resided in Westchester county and is now in New York because he finds it more convenient to make his appli- -cation here and his witnesses also are here and he cannot get them to go with him to his county town. That General Mc Dougall commanded at the battle of White Plains, He saw him frequently afterwards That he also knows Col. Green Col. Thomas Col. Hammack & several others. That he never received a discharge. That he is well known to Judge Thompson Judge Jonathan Ward & others of Westchester who can testify to his character for veracity & their belief of his services, - if required That his name is now on the pension roll of the New York agency, which he hereby relinquishes in consid- -eration of his being put on the roll under

The Act of Congress of June 7 th 1832. Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid } William Chapman in open court. } John Kimberlee
Clerk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, and reading the affidavits of Samuel Young & Abraham Boice which are hereto annexed that the above named William Champlaine was a soldier of the Revolution and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Samuel Young & and Abraham Boice who have sworn to said affidavits are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to full credit.
By the court. J.S.
John Barber - Clerk

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
1837
P. O.
William Chapman
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____ _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

City of New York ss
William Champanois came before me and made oath that he is the same William Champanois who is a pensioner on the list of the New York Agency and that he has received his pay up to 24 th of March 1819 on Certified copies of the annexed Certificate
Sworn before me this
23 March 1820
William Champanois
McDonough N.Y.

M rs Champagne's App n for new certificate
recd 15 May 1890
J. L. Edwards

New York 12 th May 1820
Sir
I take the liberty of mentioning to you the case of William Champlenois a pensioner on the New York list who was placed on the pension list by an act of Congress, & never had a certificate from the Office of the Secretary of War.
In consequence of instructions to the Bank not to pay pensions without certified copies of Original Pension Certificates, on the pensioners Resignation payment has been refused to this pensioner and some time in March last he applied to the Secretary of War for a certificate & requested it might be forwarded to the Branch Bank here.
This pensioner lives in the country and has come a second time to New York for his pension money. The great disappointment & expense accruing to this poor man has induced me to use this freedom to request the favour of you to forward his certificate soon as convenient.
I am very respectfully Sir Your obed t Servt J. D. Winthrop
J. L. Edwards Esq d

New York
William Champenois, Private, In the Army U. States
Inscribed on the roll of New York at $3 75 / 100 increased to $6 by Law of the 24. April 1816
Cert: issued 16. May 1820 sent to the care of Isaac Lawrence, Esq. Pres. of B. W. U. S. & Agent for Paying U. S. Pensioners New York.
Lt. S. M. Taylor 24 June '34-

New York 23 march 1820
Sir
I take the liberty of enclosing you the only Certificate of pension I have ever had in possession & on which by copying the same & making oath I have hitherto been paid but as payment is now refused for want of a Certificate of Pension under your hand & I am waiting in New York at expense I will take it a favour to have one sent me to the care of the President of the Branch Bank in this City
I am very respectfully Sir your Obedt Servt William Chapman
J. C. Calhoun Esq

State City and County of New York ss: On this 17 th day of July AD 1834 personally appeared in open court before the Justices of the Marine Court of the City of New York Samuel Young Esq. of Westchester County who being sworn according to law upon his oath says that he is Seventy four years of age and upwards. That he was a soldier of the Revolution and a son of Joseph Youngs one of the committee of Safety residing in said County of Westchester during the revolutionary war. That he knows Mr William Champlaine who now appears with him and has known him since he was a boy when he lived near his fathers house in Westchester. That to his personal knowledge said Champlaine was a soldier in Capt. Jonathan Paulding Horton's Company of Rangers from January 1777 to the fall of 1779 a period of more than two years and a half. That he well remembers seeing him on duty in said company in January 1777 and saw him repeatedly and very frequently in service from that time up to the fall of 1779. That said company was one of the most active and effective on the lines and were assigned to that part of the lines immediately to the East of Depew's fathers house and extended to Wrights mills about four miles. That Depew does not recollect seeing said Champlaine after the deep snow in the winter of '79 & '80 soon after which the

lines were removed back to Croton - until the end of the war - that Deponent has known said Champlaine ever since the war as a man of veracity and good character. Deponent was also one of the commissioners appointed by President Washington in 1794. to report on the cases of revolutionary invalids and in consequence of such report he was put on the pension roll. Sworn and subscribed to in open court the day and year aforesaid
Sam Young
John Barbine Clerk

31768
The application of M m Champenois for a pension - under Act June 7 th 1832.
Rejected

State City and County of New York ss: On this 17 th day of July A D 1834 personally ap- peared before the Justices of the Marine Court in open court Abraham Boice of the City of New York Cartman a respectable and credible person who being sworn according to law, says that he was seventy three years of age on the 16 th day of October last past. That in 1777 he was a soldier of the Revolution in Capt a Paulding Horton's company, served in it nearly a year & was then taken prisoner & carried to New York. That he is well acquainted with Mr William Champenois who now appears with him in court and has known him ever since they were boys together. That said Champenois was also a soldier in said Horton's company during the time that Deponent was so attached to said company, doing duty together with Deponent. That said company was called Capt a Horton's company of Rangers. That after Depo- nent was released from prison he went to the North, enlisted under Col Weissfelt & did not see said Champenois until the end of the war.
Sworn and subscribed, Deponent, Abraham Boice making his mark, in open court, mark. the day and year aforesaid
John Barbere Clerk

Rev. War 27 615 INVALID. unknown
File No. 27, 615 William Chapman P. O. Box 10
Act: _____ Index: Vol. 9, Page 89
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Ex by M c Dougall Jewett, N.Y. Feb 13, 1894

Recd Oct 7 th June 1832 Rejected
See letter to J. N. Taylor New York 20 th Aug t 1834
1837

Chanpenois, William
His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of New York, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on May 22, 1794, and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 126.
Rank: Private
Regt: Colonel Thomas's militia
Disability: Wounded by a ball in his forehead, received from a party of the enemy who lay in ambush, while on a march.
When and where disabled: 1781, King street.
Residence: West Chester county
To what pension entitled: Three-fourths
Remarks: No rolls in office.
Evidence complete, except that the disability is proved but by one evidence.