Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17603, Curtis Chappell, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn
Chappell, Curtis or Chappel,
W. 17603
Sarah
CONTENTS

15.091 Q New York Curtis Chappel
of Canillus in the state of New York who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Dimon of the Connecticut line, for the term of Six Years War
Inscribed on the roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 13 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 of Sep 1819 and sent to Enire Mainro Esq. 2 Elbridge New York
  Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819.  133.86    Semi-ann. all'ce ending Mar 1820.  48.00    16 Mo. \frac{22}{30}  $181.86  
Con
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
Note sent June 18. 1821 to G. Willcox Esq. at Elbridge New York MK

New York - 2328
Sarah Chappel, widow of Curtis Chappel,
who died on the 13 th of Oct 1821 of family in the State of New York who was a P in the Comfy commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt commanded by General _____ in the Comfy line for 2 years Bounty
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 80 Dollars 75 Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th day of Sept 38 and seal band I. W. Brewster Simsville, N.Y.
Arrears to the 14th of Sept $600.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 40.00 $640.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 }
Recorded by R. Brewster Clerk, Book A Vol. 2. Page 106.

STATE OF NEW-YORK, } ss. Onondaga County, }
ON this Thirteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen before me, the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the county of Onondaga in said state, personally appears Curtis Chappell aged Sixty three years, resident in the town of Camillus in the county of Onondaga and state aforesaid, who being by me first duly sworn according to Law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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:"
That the said Curtis Chappell enlisted in the fall of the year 1777 in the state of Connecticut in the Company commanded by Captain Wallin in Col. Demands Regiment of the Connecticut Line that he continued to serve in the said Corps, or in the service of the United States, until the end of the War
when he was discharged from service in the State of New York at West Point that he was in the battles of York Town
and is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to and declared before me, } the day and year first aforesaid. }
Curtis Chappell
Squire Manro
I, Squire Manro Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the county of Onondaga as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Curtis Chappell did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. Dated this twentieth 18 th day, of
April 1818
Squire Manro
STATE OF NEW-YORK, } ss. Onondaga County, }
I certify that Squire Manro before whom the foregoing declarations under oath were made, and by whom the foregoing certificate was made, was on the day of the date thereof, and still is one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the county of Onondaga duly commissioned and sworn as such Judge, and that full faith and credit are to be given to his acts in that capacity. I further certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge, and know the foregoing signature to be his.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said Court, and my name subscribed.
Truman Adams clk

I Squire Munro Judge B c do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Curtis Chappel is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support and that the intimation in my certificate within written was made before signature by me  May 27 th 1819 Squire Munro —
State of New York Onondaga County To all to whom these presents shall appear I Squire Munro Esq r Judge B c , Attestas Blodgett to me personally known to be of good faith that in this deponent was personally and well acquainted with the within named Curtis Chappel during the revolutionary war and before and since and knows that the said Curtis Chappel enlisted & served in the revolutionary Army for the time and in the manner stated in the affidavit of the said Curtis Chappel within written The deponent further says on oath that he is in no way interested in the event of the said Curtis Chappel's application for a pension from his Country and further said not
Subscribed before me June 5 th 1819 before me Squire Munro —
Attestas Blodgett

Capt Charles Chapell
Private Col Demons Reg, Connecticut line 1777 war
Required the evidence of two credible and disinterested witnesses (or of an officer of the reg- iment) duly taken and authen- ticated . It does not
appear that the interlineation of applicants reduced circum- stances, was inserted previous to the judges signature.
15 May 1819
on Roll
Admitted

15091
Curtis Chappell
Con
L.L.G.

State of New-York, } ss : Onondaga County }
On the first day of September 1820, personally appeared in open court in the court of common pleas in and for the county of Onondaga, being a court of record proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of their proceedings, Curtis Chappell aged Sixty five years, resident in Carmel in said county, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:—
1777 into Catlin's Company Colo. Hays Regiment Connecticut Line and was transferred to the command of Captain Hays Colo. Continental Battery in which remained until the close of the war when I was duly discharged, and that I now hold a pension certificate No 15,091 and that he applied for said pension on the 13. day of April 1818.
and I do 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 hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
   Inventory of personal property     1/2 acres of Corn $8.00 Brookery $0.42   1 pr of flat irons 50 Spoons 28   1 pair of Andirons 25 1 pr Steel yards 1.00   1 Tobacco box 12 4 chairs 1.00   1 Jack knife 12 1 Churn 50   1 Small cow 8.99 6 knives 4 forks 37   1 Sow & pigs 8 4 barrels 1.50   1 Heifer 4 1 Tin Cup 12   3 Swine 4 1 Pitcher 12   2 axes 1.50 2 old wheels 75   2 hoes 1.00 1 Little B o 75   2 Sickles 50 1 Real 50   1 five pail Kettle 3.50 2 Chests 1.00   1 pot 1.00 1 iron Shovel 50   2 Kettles 1.25 1 1/2 bushels 50   2 Trammels 75 1 wash tub 75   1 pr Shovel & Tongs 1.75 Flour 1.25   1 Small table 1.00 1/2 barrel pork 4.00   1 Tea Kettle 1.00 1 pr Spectacles 13   1 Bake pan 1.00 6 bushels of wheat 3.75   1 Iron wedge & rings 75 Debts due me 9.00   1 Skillet 13 20.69   2 pails 50 44.22   6 Earthen plates 30 64.91   5 bowls 30 Debts which owe amount to — $ 51.40   412.22 13.51   Curtis Chappell  

I am a farmer not able to labour much in consequence infirmity occasioned by Rheumatism and old age, have a wife aged sixty two years feeble and not able to do much labour, have one son Truman Chappell aged Eighteen years unable to labour or taking care of himself for the want of sense, have one daughter Lucinda Chappell aged sixteen years and that myself and family depend wholly on our labour for subsistence except his pension. Curtis Chappell Sworn in open court this 1 September 1820
J. D. Wattles Judge of Onondaga Com Pleas
I, Truman Adams, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in
and for the county of Onondaga, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court; 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 the aforesaid schedule, is sixty four dollars and ninety one cents.
fifty one dollars & 40 cents
James
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this
nineteenth day of September 1820.
Truman Adams Clerk of the court for the County of Onondaga.

Declarations
In order to obtain the benefit of the third Section of The Act of Congress of the 4 th July 1836 State of New York,
Onondaga County ss On this Seventh day of March in The Year 1838 Personally appeared before the Jud- ges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for The County aforesaid (being a Court of record) Sarah Chopfull of resident of Elbridge in the County of Onon- daga aforesaid and State aforesaid aged Eighty two Years on the 16 th day of May last, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make The following Declaration in Order to obtain The benefit of the provisions Made by The act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836: That She is the widow of Curtis Chopfull who was a private sol- dier in The Army of the revolution. He volunteered in the four part of the war and went on the Northern Campaigns with The army and was present at the attack upon Guber at the time Montgomery was killed, after his return he went to the army at or near Newburgh Orange County New York as a substitute for some other person three months and then enlisted for during the war & was present at the hanging of Maj: Andre & at the taking of Corn Wallis and continued to serve till the close of the war as she then and has ever since under- stood and believes and during the whole of the war her place of residence was Salisbury Lite- rfield County Connecticut that he was in the habit of visiting home on a furlough occasionally during the time.
She further declares that She was Married to said Curtis Chopfull on the Eighth day of January in the Year Seventeen hundred and Seventy Eight, while he was at home on a fur- lough at Salisbury aforesaid by Rev Jonathan Lee then the minister of that place. That She remained with her friends at Salisbury until about a year before the close of the war when said Chopfull visit- ed her when home on a furlough, & the last year of the war she kept house in a room he hired for

in Salisbury aforesaid when her first son Sarah Chapfull was born while her said her land was still in the service & returned home on a furlough about a month thereafter and returned again to the army. That she had been married five years and two days when said son was born being the 10 th Jan uary 1783. In February 1784 she & her said husband moved from Salisbury to Shrewsbury Montgomery County and resided there a few years, and then moved to Chichester & then back to Shrewsbury, and then to Pymatuning Township in the Spring of 1793 & resided there until the Spring of 1808 when they moved to Connellsville in said County where her said husband Curtis Chapfull died on the 13 th day of December 1821 having obtained a pension under the act of 1818 & drew the same two years - That ever since that time she has removed his widow as well more fully appears by reference to the proof herunto annexed That she has no documentary evidence of the service of her said husband or of her marriage I swear to and subscribe } her on the day and year above } Sarah H. Chapfull written before mark
Oliver R. Stone } Johnson Hall } Judges Lyman H. Mason }

State of New York
Onondaga County } ss Be it Known that on this Sixth day of July in the Year 1838 before me Isaac W Brewster, a Commissioner of Deeds in & for said County duly authorized to take affidavits vs, Came Jonah Chappell of the Town of Ellenville in said County to me known, and produced before me an Ancient Bible purporting to be the Bible of Curtis Chappell deceased in which I certify are the following entries to wit
"Curtis Chappell was born in the Year 1751"
"Sarah Chappell the wife of Curtis Chappell was born" "in the Year 1755"
"Jonah Chappell was born January the 10 th A 1783"
"Nathaniel Chappell was Born March the 28 th 1785"
"Mark Chappell was born the 16 th of March 1787"
"Sarah Chappell was born September the 28 th —"
"Mary Chappell was born July the 28 th "
"Myriam Chappell was born September the 1797"
"Truman Chappell was born August the 11 th 1801"
"March the 18 th 1800"
"Sarah Chappell departed this life being in the"
"11 th Year of her age Mary Chappell departed this"
"life the same day being the 7 th Year of her age"
"Both were the daughters of Curtis Chappell and"
"Sarah Chappell —"
"June the 4 th A 1801 Mark Chappell departed this"
"life being in the 14 th Year of his age"
And I further Certify that the place where the year of the births of Sarah & Mary Chappell were probably entered & the place where the day of the month of the birth of Myriam Chappell was probably entered in said Bible, being near the margin thereof are so worn and distid as to render it impossible to dis- tinguish the figures. And that the said Bible has the appearance of great age and said entries have the appearance of Antiquity —

And the said Jonah Chappell being by me duly sworn deposeth and saith that the said Curtis Chappell (who was a Revolutionary pensioner of the town of Camillus in said County, was his reputed Father and the said Sarah Chappell his reputed Mother that he resided with them from his earliest recollection until after he became 21 years of age and that the persons named in the entries in the said Bible after the name of this deponent were his brothers and Sisters that the said Bible was the family Bible of the said Curtis Chappell from the earliest recollection of this deponent and that the entries therein, of which the foregoing is a copy, are in the hand writing of the said Curtis Chappell that the entries of the births of those who were born before this deponent's recollection were in said Bible from his earliest recollection of said Bible and that he recollects distinctly, since his father made the said entries of the death of this deponent's two Sisters Sarah & Mary - In testimony whereof I the said Jonah Chappell have hereunto subscribed my name the day & year first above written.
Jonah Chappell
Subscribed & sworn to this 6 th day of July 1838 before me Isaac M. Brewster
Court of Duds &c
The figures 1783 on the opposite page & the word Curtis on this page written upon blots & the word Chappell on the opposite page erased before signature
I M Brewster Court of Duds &c
(P.S. You have with the papers before suit in this matter the Certificate of the Clerk of the County (under seal) of my Official Character & Signature Yours J.M.B.

Curtis Chappell was born in the year 1751 Sarah Chappell the wife of Curtis Chappell was born in the year 1755
Mark Chappell born March the 10th 1751 I attended Church Born March the 10th 1751 Mark Chappell was born the 10th of March 1751 Sarah Chappell born August the 28th 1755 Mary Chappell born July the 28th 1758 Hannah Chappell born August the 10th 1760 Jermain Chappell born August the 10th 1760

Lucendy Chaplin was born June the 12 th of 1804 Lucinda Chaplin was married the 11 th of Sept - 15 th 1822 John. Halsey was born July 31 st 1823. Lucinda Halsey was born August 31 st 1825 John Halsey was born October 30 th 1829

State of New York
Onondaga County } Be it Known That on The fifteenth day of August in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty Eight before me (Isaac M c Bruster a Commissioner of Deeds in & for said County) personally came Sarah Chapell to me known to be the same person who has made two former dispositions in relation to the Claim of Sarah Chap pell for a pension, And being by me duly sworn deponeth and saith that the three leaves hereto attached constitute the family record of Curtis Chap pell his father, and all the family record which the said Curtis Chapell ever had to his knowledge or recollection that the said three leaves were cut from the family Bible which belonged to the said Curtis Chapell from the earliest period of this deponents recollection and is the same which was mentioned in this deponents former disposition That the Entries made on two of said leaves (viz, That on which is entered the birth of said Curtis Chapell and Sarah Chapell his wife and that on which is entered the birth of this deponent, are all in the hand writing of said Curtis Chap pell according to the best of this deponents knowledge and belief and further saith not.
Sarah Chapell
Sworn & Subscribed by the above named Sarah Chapell. whose reputation for truth & veracity I certify to be good, the day and year first above written Isaac M c Bruster Com d of Deeds

X 3350
Sarah Chappell. widow of Curtis
N.Y.
act 4-July '36
adm 2 years pri
808
no deduction
J. M. Brewster Jamesville N.Y.

State of New York Onondaga County
I Elijah Rhoades Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Sarah Chappell for a pension under the third section of the act of Congress of the 4 th July 1836 In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court this 7 th day of March 1838
E Rhoades Clerk
State of New York Onondaga County } ss 7 th day of March 1838 Be it known That on this 7 th day of March 1838 before the subscribers a Com- mission of Dues in and for said County per- sonally appeared. Sarah Chappell and Nathaniel Chappell of Elbridge in the County aforesaid. The said Sarah aged fifty five years and the said Nathaniel aged fifty three years who being duly sworn depose and say that they suppose themselves to be sons of Curtis Chappell and of Sarah Chappell all who made the foregoing declaration. That they & each of them remember living with their said Father and Mother in Shawangunk Orange County and of moving from thence to Pompey Ononda- ga County when the said Sarah was about ten years old that they resided with their said pa- rents in Pompey aforesaid until they became of age and subsequently lived with and near them in Coeymans until their father the said Curtis Chappell died on the 13 th day of December 1821. That while they so lived with their father and Mother they frequently heard their talk with their friends and relate the circumstances of the service of their said Father in the Revolutionary

was and of their marriage and it was generally understood by these deponents and the friends of the family that Said Curtis Chappell had been paying his addresses to the Said Sarah (Whose maiden name was Drown) at the time the war commenced. & that he went in the first part of the war on the Northern Expedition and when he returned they engaged to be married but before it took place he went to the Army at or near Newburgh as a substitute for another man three months that within that time a Mr. Saffrey attempted to supplant him in the affections of Said Sarah and wrote him in her name that she would have nothing more to do with him. That on receiving the letter the Said Curtis being disappointed insisted for during the war - but on returning home on a furlough in the winter of 1778. He learned that the letter was a forgery and then married the Said Sarah and that she continued in Salisbury until the close of the war, and that they fully believe the facts above stated. That the Said Curtis Chappell was always reputed to have served as a soldier during the revolutionary war and that he was married to the Said Sarah while in Said service and that they had been married five years and two days when the Said Sarah was born. And these deponents further say that the Said Curtis Chappell obtained a pension under the act of 1818 and drew the same two years up to the 4 th September 1821 - but the pension for the fractions of the year from that time to the time of his death was not drawn to the knowledge of these deponents and they do not know where his pension certificate is - That Said Sarah has continued a widow and lived with the Said Sarah ever since the death of her said husband Curtis Chappell
Subscribed & sworn to by the above named Sarah Chappell & Nathaniel Chappell to me known to be respectable persons this 7 th day of March 1838 before me Isaac W. Brewster Court of Suits
Jonah Chappell
Nathaniel Chappell

State of New York
Onondaga County ss Be it known that on this swenth day of March 1838 before the Subscribers a Commissioner of Deeds in and for the County of Onondaga aforesaid personally appeared George W. Olmstead of De Witt in said County and Sixty two years who being duly sworn according to law deponeth and saith that he became ac- quainted with Curtis Chesfull in the winter of 1797 & 98 when they resided in the town of Pompey in said County. That he this deponent bought School in Manlius in said County in the same winter, and boarded at the house of Oliver Owens a member of the School dis- trict that while there said Curtis Chesfull came to said Owens on a visit and brought his wife whom this deponent recognizes to be the same person who has made the foregoing deposition & whom this deponent then under- stood to be the sister of said Oliver Owens. That the said Curtis and his wife at the time afore- said had with them two boys whom they called sons aged from 12 to 15 years the older of whom they called Sarah & this deponent believes the said Sarah & Nathaniel and have made the foregoing deposition are the same persons that they the said Curtis & his wife frequently came to said Oliver Owens. visiting & this de- ponent was acquainted with said Curtis from that time until he moved from said Pompey to Camillus. That he frequently heard said Cur- tis relate circumstances which occurred in the revo- lutionary war & that he heard during the war and that he was married while he was in the service. and that he was generally reported to have been married to the said Sarah Owens while he was a soldier in the revolution and this deponent firmly believes the said to be true
Subscribed & sworn by the above named George W Olmstead to me known to be a reputable man I saw this 7th day of March 1838 before me
Geo. W. Olmstead
Isaac W Brewster Court of Deeds

State of New York - 3
Onondaga County ss p Be it known that on the 7 th day of March 1838 before the subscribers a Commission of Enquiry in and for said County personally appeared Mary Gilson of De Witt in said County aged fifty three years who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that she is well acquainted with Sarah Chopfull who made the foregoing declaration and was acquainted with her reputed husband Curtis Chopfull in her life time; the said Sarah being sister of Oliver Owen the father of this deponent -
That this deponent remembers that said Curtis and Sarah lived together & were reputed to be man and wife in Shawangunk Orange County where her father then lived as early as she can remember very fast that she distinctly recalls going to school with their children Sarah & Nathaniel while at Shawangunk that the said Sarah was about two years older than this deponent & the said Nathaniel was about her age. That said Curtis & his family resided on her father's farm while at Shawangunk that they moved from there to the County of Onondaga in June & her father in October of the year 1793 that she has been acquainted with the family ever since, that it was reputed in the family & this deponent frequently heard it mentioned in the early part of her life both by said Curtis and others that said Curtis was a soldier of the revolution and that he was wounded in the first part of the war to said Sarah Owen and lived in the war several years after the said woman and that they had been married five years and two days when their oldest son Sarah was born which this deponent believes to be the fact. and that
was during the

Said Sarah has always since her first recollection been reputed to be the only wife of said Curtis Chapell and that she has remained a widow ever since the death of said Curtis and that said Sarah and Nathaniel are the same persons who made the foregoing deposition subscribed with their names -
Sworn and subscribed by the above named Mary Gilson to me known to be a person of Credibility, before me this 7 th day of March 1838 Isaac W Brewster Court of Sued
Hole of New York
On an day a County ss Be it known that on this 7 th day of March 1838 before the subscribers a Commissioner of Sueds in & for said County personally appeared Oliver O Gilson of said City in said County who being duly sworn deposes and saith that he together with the Clerk of the town of Salisbury Litchfield County Connecticut on the third day of March instant made diligent search in the record of Marriages in said Town Clerks office for an entry of the marriage of Curtis Chapell from the year 1775 to the year 1785 and that no record of the marriage of said Chapell could be found therein between said dates. and this deponent further says that the name of Jonathan is as a Minister frequently appeared in such records. and that this deponent was informed by several respectable persons that at the time above referred to the law did not require it the duty of Ministers & Magistrates to file Certificates of Marriages to be recorded but that duly devolved on the parties only and that it was very frequently neglected
Subscribed & sworn this 7 th day of March 1838 by the above named Oliver O Gilson to me known to be a credible person. before me Isaac W Brewster Court of Sueds Oliver O Gilson

State of New York } County of Onondaga } ss.
I Levi Wells Deputy Clerk of the said County do certify that Isaac M. Brewster Esq. before whom the preceding Affidavits purport to have been sworn, was at the date of the same a Commissioner &c. in and for the said County, duly commission- =ed and qualified, to take affidavits and that I am acquainted with his handwriting and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavits to be his proper hand writing and signa- =ture.-
Witness my hand and seal of office this seventh day of March 1838.
Levi Wells Dep. Clerk.

3350 Mar. 14 Sarah Chapell
N.Y. Oct 8 Oct 4 July 136
Free Hon. J. L. Edwards Court of Pensions Washington City

Janesville March 8 th 1838
Dear Sir
Enclosed are the papers of Sarah J. Chapfull in support of her claim for the pension of Curtis Chapfull please inform me the result of the application as soon as convenient, Mrs Chapfull does not know now that any person is living that she knew when she was married it being 60 years ago I think the evidence of having been married before the termination of the service of her husband is as strong as Circumstantial testimony can make it I hope it will be deemed sufficient
Truly Yours
Isaac M c Master
Hon J L Edwards Clerk of Pensions

Free Hon J. L. Edwards Court of Pensions Washington City

Jamsville July 6 th 1838
Sir
Your Favour of the 25 th ult relating to the Application of Sarah Chopwell widow of Curtis Chopwell for a pension was duly received - I have the satisfaction now to send you Evidence of family Record of the birth of their first Child which I trust will be satisfactory to the Department - I can conceive of no motive which the old man could have had to make it incorrect I could find no record in the Bible, of Marriages either of the Parents or Children I presume none was made
Wm J L Edwards
Truly Yours Isaac M Brewster

Elbridge Onondaga Co May 22nd 1821-
Hon J. Calhoun
I humbly enclose You The proceedings of the Ex. at trial & the Certs to happen as Pensions - Under the Pension Law.
Pls pass upon them As soon as convenient & inclose the Certificates to me
I am Sir Very Resp Young.
J. Willcoxson
Adrup - J. Willcoxson Rec. Elbridge Onondaga Co. N. York

Feb 14 Feb 8 10 Courtesy of 1878 13 Sept 19
Free M. Brewster P.M. Jonesville
Bureau of Pensions Washington City

Jamesville Onondaga Co NY Feb 8 th 1838
Dr Sir
I am applied to to obtain a pension for the Widow of Curtis Chapell. who was a soldier in the revolution (after marriage) I presume in the New York line. He drew a pension under the law of 1818 at Camillus in this County and died about the year 1820 will you please inform me what ever draw of his services you have on the books? whether further will be required and send me copy of the law in favor of Widows and a set of forms and directions for making out the necessary papers
Respectfully Yours
Isaac M c Intosh
Com te of Pensions

Papers in Support of the Application of Sarah Chappell Widow of Curtis Chappell

Jamesville Aug 17 th 1838
Dear Sir
Enclosed are the leaves on which the record, mentioned in your letter relative to the case of Sarah Choppell, is entered. I took the affidavit of Joseph Choppell as to the fact of there being the same mentioned in his former affidavit. I cut the leaves out of the old Bible myself in his presence. & have no doubt of its genuineness - The old lady had given the bible after the death of her husband to her daughter Lucinda who was married to W m Holstead & she continued the record with her family. I hope these will be satisfactory. Please write me soon if they are not.
Truly yours
J. L. Edwards Esq.
J. W. Foster

✓ Sarah Chappell, wid. of Curtis C
✓ Set. to Isaac W. Brewster, 25 th June 1838.
✓ Set. to same, Augt. 9, 1838.

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 17603
Sarah Chapel
Wid. of
Curtis Chapel
Priv. Rev. War
Act: July 4, 1836
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