William CHAMBERLIN, COL.

                   Apparently there are two spellings of the Chamberlin/Chamberlain family.

Col. William Chamberlain purchased from John Garrison in 1761 a house and mill on Neshanic Creek at Rainbow Hill, Hunterdon Co. NJ. At the time of the Revolutionary war, he owned a farm and mill on Neshanic Creek near Wertsville.  He was a Capt. of the 2nd Regiment of Hunterdon Co. during the Revolutionary War and was in a number of battles and skirmishes.  In 1776 he was promoted to Major and and later to Lt. Col. in both the militia and the continental Army.  Col. Wm. Was at Trenton, Germantown 1777, Monmouth 1778, Elizabethtown 1780 and Springfield 1780.  When Maj. Wm. Chamberlain was promoted in 1776, Capt. Nathan Stout (see Stout ch.) took over his company.  A foraging party of the British in 1776 burned Col. Wm. Chamberlain's mill at clover Hill.  At the Battle of Germantown on 3 Oct and 4 Oct 1777, he lost his oldest son Lewis, 18 years old.  On 22 Mar 1780 Col. Wm. was court martialed for his "ungentlemanly and unofficer-like behavior towards the officers andmen, impeding the militia and favoritism toward certain officers."  He was casheried from the militia on 14 May 1781.  In the 1780 Hunterdon County rateables he had 94 acres of farm land plus 20 acres of undeveloped land.  Col. William moved the Shamoken, Union County PA, in 1792 where he purchased 600 acres.

Taken from Family Tree Maker Internet site, John Boss, 2/8/99