Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1854, Enoch Chapin, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Chapin, Enoch
R. 1854
CONTENTS
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No 38.291
Enoch Chapin deed
Mafs
Act 7 th June '32
rev. Gorham Feb 5/52
1854

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
1852
RECEIVED
P. O. Enoch Chapin
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Norhampton Nov 17. 1851
To The Commissioners of Pensions Washington D.C.
Dear Sir: Herewith I send the Certificate of the Secretary of Massachusetts with regard to the Revolutionary services of Enock Chapin. These papers are put into my hands by a son of the said Enock as the application shows. It is his desire that I should communicate with the Office and ascertain what more may be necessary as Evidence (if any) upon which he may make out a claim to a pension in consideration of the services of his Ancestor.
I am little acquainted with the rules of your Office; any information therefore which may be furnished to me with regard to what steps it is necessary to take to establish the claim will be most gratefully received. I would also request as early an answer to this as may be consistent with the rules & business of the office.
Very Respectfully,
Yours,
W. S. Goshaw Atty for Enock Chapin

APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF REVOLUTIONARY SERVICES, made by the Enoch Chapin a son of the party who rendered the service.
State of Massachusetts County of Hampshire Town of South Hadley
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office, of the service of Capt. Enoch Chapin in the war of the Revolution.
He was a native of the Town of West-Springfield in the County of Hampden formerly Hampshire and State of Massachusetts
He enlisted from the Town of West-Springfield (supposed) in the County of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts — in the year 1776, or thereabouts, as a Captain in the Company commanded by Captain  himself in Col. Elisha Porter's Regiment, in which Abner and he served as follows, * viz. — Morgan was a Major, and Adasah Warner Adjutant, and Daniel Breck Chaplain, — and he served as follows, viz. at Isle Au Noix , Ticonderoga , and Crown Point about 1776- or 1777, and it is understood was in the service at Fishkill New-York about 1779- He died at said South Hadley in 1801- Neither he nor any of his family, to my knowledge, ever had any pension on account of his services. —
* Here describe as fully as may be, the length of service, the rank, &c. of the claimant, or the capacity in which he served, and all other particulars known.

I am now sixty  seventy years old, and my memory does not enable me to state the services more fully than above stated. I have neither mother, brother, nor sister living.
WITNESS my hand, this ninth  tenth day of August. A. D. 1857
Signed by said in my presence,
Wm Bowdoin JUSTICE OF THE PEACE.
} Enoch Chapin
4065

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
September 5, 1851.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Enoch Chapin is borne on a pay roll of his Co, marched from West Springfield on Alarm April 20. 1775. as Capt. 8 days.
On rolls of 8 mo. Service in 1775. in Col. Danielson's Regt. as Capt. - signed order for Coats for his Co. Decr. 30. 1775.
On a pay roll of his Co. in Col. Gerrish's Regt. of guards to stores as Capt. from July 2. 1778. to Jan'y 1. 1779. 6 months.
On a pay roll of his Co. from Hampshire Co. as Capt. from Sept. 24. 1777. 1 month.

And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Francis Walker Secretary of the Commonwealth.