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Reference File No. w-3071 BLWT-947-100 No.3521 Pa. Roll
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Robert Campbell, Sr., served as a private in The Pennsylvania Line Inscribed
on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to
commence 6th of April 1818. Certificate of Pension issued the 8th of October
1818 and sent to James Watson, Agent at Jersey Shore, Pa. Arrears to 4th
Sept., 1818 $39.73
Semi-anually arrears to 4th Mar 1819 $40.00 Total $87.73
Revolutionary Claim act of 18 Mar 1818
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Lycoming County of Pennsylvania:
Before me the subscriber James Davidson one of the Judges in and for said
County of Lycoming, came Robert Campbell and being sworn agreeable to law,
doth declare and say that he enlisted as a private soldier in the United
States Service under captain William Wilson. commanded by Colonel Chambers
first Pennsylvania Regiment in the year 1778 for the rerm of three years
and was honorably discharged at the Revolt at Morristown, New Jersey, when
called for a settlement at Little York in Penna., he the said deponent
enlisted under the said Captain Wm. Wilson, commanded by Colonel Harmor
in said firstPennsylvania Regiment, during the war that he continued in
said service of the United States till the end of the war and was discharged
at Philadelphia, that said deponent is necessitated for assistance from
his country, and that he has not received any pension from the United States
previous to this time, that he was and served as a fifer in the music the
part of the time of his service.
Sworn and Subscribed before me Robert Campbell
the sixth day of April AD 1818
James Davidson
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James Davidson Esq., Judge, Jersey Shore, Lycoming County, Pa. Robert Campbell,
Pennsylvania Line, Revolutionary Claim. The evidence relative to the indigent
circumstances of the claiment, is deemed sufficient.
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Sworn affidavits
Lycoming County, Penna., April 7th 1818: I, the subscriber, do hereby certify
that I personally know the identical Robert Campbell the within deponent
while in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, saw
him frequently from the year 1778 till within a few months of the time
the army was disbanded when I retired. I was surgeon to the 5th Penna Reg't.,
the greatest part of the Revolutionary War. I also know the said Campbell
in private life and I have reason to believe that he is now necessatated
for assistance.
Signed James Davidson
April 7th 1818
I, the subscriber, an inhabitant and Justice of the Peace in and for Lycoming
County, Pennsylvania, do think and of the opinion that Robert Campbell,
the person within stated, was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and stood
for the freedom of the United States, and that the said Robert Cambell
is from his large family is necessitated for any compensation that can
or may be granted to him from the Act lately passed to them who served
in the Revolutionary War.
Signed James Watson J.P.
April 7th 1818
State of Penna. Lycoming Co., Personally came before me the subscriber,
one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in said County
James English and Daniel Callahan who
Note. (the rest of this affidavit is missing from pension file.