Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20,896, Timothy Corless, Continental Mass
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SERVICE [word is typed] Continental Mass[ Massachusetts cursive] Corliss, Timothy or Corliss, Hannah NUMBER [typed] W. 20.896[hand written]
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Notification sent to H.Elizabeth McLaughlin. Williamson, Vt.[Vermont] 22nd July 1820 10.162 [This page was a typed form that allowed  someone to fill in empty spaces left blank.] Vermont R Timothy Corliss of Topsham in the state of Vermont who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Sheppard of the Massachusetts line, for the term of One Year 1776. Inscribed on the roll of Vermont at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 10th of June 1819. Certificate of Pension issued the 3 of December 181[illegible] and Sent to John H Cotton [illegible] Bradford Vermont. 
Arrears to 4th of September 1819. 22.60 
Semi annual allowance ending March 1820  48.00 
2Months. 25/30  $70.66 [parentheses]Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March 1818.  Continued
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[upper right hand corner] 4822 VE
Vermont [underline] Hannah Corliss widow of Timothy Corliss dec[deceased] MSS who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 16 January 18[??] of Orange Co.[County] in the state of Vt[Vermont] who was a private in the company commanded by Captain [no name written] of the Regt.[Regiment] commanded by Colonel Sheppard in the Ms[Massachusetts] line for 1 year[underline] Inscribed on the Roll of Vt[Vermont] at the rate of 40. Dollars [scribble] Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. [underline] Certificate issued the 8th day of Jany[January] 1840 and sent [illegible] Spencer Corinth Vt.[Vermont] Arrears to the 4th of Sept[September] 1839 $140.00 Semi annual allowance ending May 40 20.00[total sum of both amounts number cut off from view] [Cover] title to William Spencer February 1, 1840.
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Timothy Corless Private [[17]76 to [17]77Shepard Massachusetts. 
Admitted
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State of Vermont Orange County p  At. Bradford on this 10th day of June 1819. Before me the subscriber one of Judges of Orange County Court within and for the County of Orange County State aforesaid, personally appears Timothy  Corless aged seventy two years, resident in the town of Topsham in said County of Orange who being by me  find 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, Initiated an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States in the revolutionary war  That he the said Timothy Corless enlisted in the town of Roxbury, State of Massachusetts in the month of December 1775 in the company commanded by Captain Warham parks, and Colonel Larneds Regiment and Colonel Sheppard was Lieutenant Colonel at the time of his enlistment, in the Massachusetts line for the term of one year, that he continued to serve in said corps in the service of the United States until the month of December 1776 when he was discharged in New Jersey, that he was not in any important battle, and that he is very poor and indigent and stands in need of assistance from his country for support. And that he has no other evidence but his his declaration of the two accompaning depositions, now in his power of his said services.  Sworn to and declared before me this day and year aforesaid. John H Cotton, Judge Orange County Court.
I John H Cotton Judge on aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Timothy Corless did serve in the revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy, and I also know him to be very poor and indigent and needs assistance from his country for support. Do now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the aforementioned act of Congress. [Signed] John H Cotton. Judge as aforesaid [hexagon seal, bottom left corner blank]
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Timothy Corless
Declaration and Schedule
16142 3rd December 1819
16142
Topsham
March 1829
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State of Vermont
Orange County
On this third day of July 1820 personally appeared before the County court for said county of Orange in open court, (said court being a court of record, agreeably to the laws of this state, having the power of fine and imprisonment, &c.) Timothy Corliss aged 73 years, resident in [illegible] in said county of Orange, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath declare that he served i the revolutionary war, as follows: that he enlisted for one years service in Capt Parks Company, Genl Leonard or Sheppard's Regiment about the first of the year 1776 in the Massachusetts line, that he made his original declaration on the tenth of June 1819 has received a Pension Certificate No 16142. 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, 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.
One bag - articles of household furniture not to exceed $10-$15 and that by occupation I am a farmer but owing to old age and other infirmities, am wholly unable to support myself.  That I have a wife, Hannah Corliss, aged 58 years in a low state of health and under the doctors care.
Signed Timothy Corliss

Sworn to and declared on the third day of July 1820
before said court.
H.E.G. McLaughlin CLERK.
STATE OF VERMONT,
[illegible] County, ss.
this
third
I, H.E.G. McLaughlen clerk of the County
art for the county of Rutland, 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 fifteen
dollars
I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said court, at Chelsea this third day of July 1820
H.E.G.McLaughlen Clerk
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pension to certain widows.

State of Vermont
Orange County Ss.
On this 31st day of August AD 1839 personally appeared before the probate court for the district of Bradford in the County of Orange and State of Vermont, being a court of record and unlimited jurisdiction in probate matters holden in said county before William Spencer, Judge of said court.
Mrs. Hannah Corliss, a resident of Topsham in the county of Orange and state of Vermont, aged 77 years last January, who being first duly sworn according to law doth, in her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit f the pension made by the act of Congress, entitled an act granting half pay and  pension to certain widows, that she is the widow of Timothy  Corliss, late an revolutionary pensioner of the United States, who was a private in the Revolution Army in the Massachusetts, Continental line and
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United States troops, that her late
husband the said Timothy Corliss was a pensioner under
the Pension law of 1818, that he drew a 
pension at the rate of Ninety six dollars
For years to the day of his decease, that
she begs leave to refer to the said Timothy
Corliss declartion and the documents therein contained
for evidence of the service of the
said Timothy Corliss in the war of
Revolution.
She further declares that she was married
to the said Timothy Corliss by the name of ┃
Hannah Carter in the Town of Newbury in
the County of Orange, State of Vermont on the
15 day of January 1789, by [illegible] Kent then
a Justice of the peace for said County of Orange
but long since deceased.
that her husband the aforesaid Timothy Corliss died in Topsham
Aforesaid on the 16 day of January 1834, that she was not
married to him prior to his leaving the
service, but the marriage took place previous to
the first day of January Seventeen hundred
and ninety four (viz) at the time above stated
that she is now the widow of the said Timothy
Certify and hath never been married since the
decease of her Husband the said Timothy Corliss-
that she has no documentary evidence in
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her possession except what 
is herewith enclosed.
Hannah Corliss X her mark
Witness William Spencer
Henry Godfrey
Jonathan Jeness
mink
Sworn to and subscribed, on 
the day and year above written
before
William Spencer Judge of Probate.
and I certify that the above named
Hannah Corliss is a person
of truth and veracity. William Spencer
Judge of Probate
State of Vermont
Probate District of Bradford Ss.
I, J. W. D. Parker Clerk
and Register of the Probate
Court for the District
of Bradford do hereby certify
that William Spencer
Esquire whose name is above written is Judge of Probate
within and for the district of Bradford duly commissioned
and qualified to act as such that his
commission commenced on the 1st day of December 1838
and will expire on the 30th day of November 1839 and
that his signatures severally above written are genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my
official hand and affix the seal 
of said Probate Court at Bradford in
said district
this 24 day of September AD 1839 
J. W. D. Parker Register
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[Left side of image has only a few scattered legible words, and transcription is not possible]

[Right side top area is illegible]
Married January the 25th 1789 1789 to Hannah Carter [illegible] [illegible] to Timothy Corliss was married to Hannah Carter
January the 15 1789 by Cob Kint
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[Left side:]
Joseph [illegible] to me in the year 1789 for one day’s work making a sled
[illegible] went to [illegible] June the 5 1783 weeks |||||||||
John Ayers house [illegible]
Joseph [illegible] January to [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] L. [illegible]
[illegible] [illegible]work
[illegible] [illegible] 
[illegible] dig gating
Out dung. No walk [illegible]days work [illegible]
[illegible] [rest of left side s illegible]

[Right side]
To the paymaster for [illegible]
Pleas to pay to the bearer all the wages that is due to me for eight months service done in the Continental army in the year 1776 Captain Caleb Sheep’s Company and shall be a final discharge from me-
Dated Brimfield 7 July 1786
Timothy Corliss [presumed]
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(?) the 11 1 (?)
Item beg. unto work with Jeken Ely Co. for mending my boots ie. one shilling and 4 pence 1-9 for shoe binding 3 buttons.
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[Left side:]
Stephen [illegible]
[illegible]for two days labor fulling flax 5-
To full days labor for digging [digging] [illegible] three shillings per day all in one year [illegible] [illegible]

[Right side:]
[illegible] [illegible] [illegible]
To one saddle £210
3 ½ feet of [illegible] [illegible]
40
250
Mr. James Calton the same day to making a [illegible] of close [illegible]
MP to MP frame.
[illegible] for one bushel of corn James Colton to two pounds of [illegible] to one per [peck] of [illegible]
[illegible] from [illegible]
[illegible] Timothy Corliss [illegible] from the [illegible] since [illegible]
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My wife deceased December the 6th 1787 buried on the 8th day. My wife Anne Ladd (that was deceased December the 6th 1785 buried the 8th day. Death is a tarot [terror?] to all both great and small and of hope it will be a warning to me to prepare for it we should always be thinking of death and a better state.
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1790

Cow took a bull the 27 of August. Thought a cow of Nathaniel (Mesil?) in the year of 1789.

August 10, (1789?)
Carried to the widow Mary Corlis for four pounds of pork (1:4?).
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E. (Gorham?) Corlis
for one pig 3
the (out to weigh?)

to two day's work 
moving 6

Figures:
17 x 3 = 51
16 x 4 = 64
6.4 + 5.1 = 11.5

Jonathan Fireman (?) to two feet and half of wood in the ye (viz?) to half a cord of wood

Jerushe Corlis born in the year 1790 the g day of April

Jonathan May the 18th 1909. His day received of Timothy Corlis (take to?) town state county for the year 1902 1 day received by Mr. James George Constad
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[Left side]
2 gallons [illegible] to one [illegible] [illegible]plowing £6
[illegible] went to [illegible] June the [illegible] day.
[illegible] [illegible]sixteen shillings per [illegible]

[Right side]
[illegible] for two pounds of [illegible] [illegible]
[illegible]given [illegible] [illegible]to [illegible]
Days work [illegible]
In the year 1789
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[Left side]
[illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]
Of wood in the year [illegible].
To one days [illegible] a
Trimming apple trees.
To one quarter of days work mending fence
To half day work going [mowing]
To [illegible] of work
Haverhill September the 30 189_
Of for value received Promis[e] to Pay
to Timothy Corliss or his order
the sum of ten pounds [illegible]
money on demand with interest
Til paid as with interest til 
Paid as witness my hand in
Presents [sic] of Jonathan

[Right side:]
Dolan
Jonathan [illegible] [illegible]
To one days work
mowing with one days work and
to half days work to one days work threshing
To one days work mowing
to one day mowing
to one quarter of days work to one days work
in october 1789.
[illegible] Thimble
one pair of gallows’s
One written [illegible] week.
to me four Pounds ten Shilling
Lawrence Pulmon
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[Left side]
to Timothy Corlis or his order
the sum of ten pound cash 
money on demand with interest til 
paid as with interest til 
Paid as witness my hand
in presents [presence] of Jonathan

[Right side}
Honorable
September the [illegible] HH
[illegible scrawl to bottom, then:]
to me four Pounds ten shillings 
Lawrence Pulmon
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[Left side]
Haverhill 1789
Kimball Calton
To one days work and half to four feet of wood 10
To [illegible] one yard 2
to four horseshoes 6

[Right side]
[illegible]
[illegible]
To one [illegible] cash money the [illegible]
To one [illegible]
One shilling [illegible] pence
James [illegible] to one [illegible] work planting.
To [illegible] [illegible]
To half a days work mowing and to one days work mowing in the year 178 [illegible]
To one days work dressing [sic] flax to half a days work planting.
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[???] to Timothy Coriss [??] his order the sum of twenty pounds star pulmoney on mend with interest nil paid as witness my hand

[??] which [??] John Gety at to half days [??] to cast one stirling handful money

[??]
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Revolutionary Widow, etc.
File no. 20896

Hannah Corless
Widow of Timothy Corless
Private Revolutionary War

Act July 7, 1838
Index Volume A, Page 187
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Corinth Vermont 
January 18
Free
Honorable J. L. Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions Washington 
City 

January 25, 1840
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Corinth, Orange County, Vermont
January 17. 17, 1840-
Honorable  J L Edwards
Sir, I have received Mrs Hannah
Corless pension certificate dated January 8 1840 for
five years at 40 dollars per year-
I am requested to enquire if there is not
An error in making out the certificate to Mrs. Corless-
Her late Husband Timothy Corless ls was a pensioner and 
drew 96 per year.
Will you have the goodness to
look once more to her case, and see if there 
be any mistake
Respectfully Yours Sir
William Spear
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Corinth, Orange County, Vermont,
Honorable J L Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
Sir, I forward the declaration and [illegible]
Mrs Hannah Corliss Widow of Timothy Corliss,
deceased late a United States Pensioner, for pension.
It is the wish of Mrs Curtis that return may 
be directed to the subscriber.
Respectfully yours, Sir
William Spencer
October 4. 1839.-
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Timothy Sherman’s deposition
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I, Zadock Nichols of Brimfield
in the County of Hampden and Commonwealth
of Massachusetts of Lawful age testify and say that Timothy Corlis of Topham County of Orange and State of Vermont, formerly belonged to Brimfield where I now reside and was born and that I was well acquainted with him-
that he served as a common Soldier
during the Revolutionary war against
Great Britain in Captain Warham
Parks company and in Colonel Barnard’s regiment
in which William Shepard was Lieutenant Colonel. That he served 
One year in 1776 and was a good and faithful soldier. I was a
Soldier and belonged to the same Company
Zadok Nichols

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire Ss.
Brimfield
September 1. 1819
Personally appeared Zadock Nichols subscriber
to the above deposition whom I know to be a man of
good character for truth and made oath to the truth
of the same deposition
Before me Stephen Pynchon-
Justice of the peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampden Ss
I, John Ingersoll Clerk of all the Judicial
Court within and for the County of Hamden do
Certify that Stephen Pynchan Esquire is a Justice
of the Peace within for the County of Hampden
and that full faith and credit is and ought to be 
given to all acts done by him in said capacity
and that the within signature is his proper hand
writing- In testimony whereof I have
hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of
the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said
County of Hampton this Seventh day of September
in the year of our Lord one thousand
Eight hundred and Nineteen
John Ingersoll Clerk
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Timothy Shannon of South Bromfield in the
County of Hampden and Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Deposit and says that Timothy Corliss of
Topsham in the County of Oringe [sic] and State of
Vermont was a common soldier in the United State
army in the Massachusetts line of troops that he
belonged to Captain Warham Parks Company and colonel 
William Sheppards regiment in which Company I 
was a private soldier and that he the said Timothy
Corliss was out and served in said United States army
one year at one time of servis [sic] which ended about
the first of December A.D. 1776.
and that he was a good soldier and performed his
Duty.
Timothy Sherman
South Brimfield
August 31 1819

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampden ss August 31 1819
then personally appeared Timothy Sherman subscribed to the above deposition and made oath to the truth
of the same before me 
James L. Wales Justice of the peace
I herby certify that the above deponent Timothy
Sherman is a credible witness and considered
a man of truth and veracity.
James L. Wales Justice of the peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampden SS.
I, John Ingersoll Clerk of all the
Judicial Courts within and for the County of
Hampden do certify that James L. Wales
is a Justice of the Peace within aforesaid County
and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given
to all acts done by him in said capacity and the
above signature is his proper hand writing - In testimony
whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of
Circuit Court of Common pleas for said County this
Seventh day of September in the year of our Lord one
thousand Eight Hundred and Nineteen
John Ingersoll Clerk
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I, Jonathan Jenness of Topsham in the 
County of Orange and State of Vermont aged Sixty
years next march, certify depose and say that 
Timothy Corliss late United States pensioner died in
said Topsham on the 16 day of January 1834.
and that Hannah Corliss who has this
appeared before the Probate Court for the district 
of Bradford and made her declaration for pension as 
the widow of the said Timothy Corliss and has
Never been married since the said Timothy Corliss deceased.
I further testify and say that a small book
that accompanies this is in the hand
writing of the said
Timothy Corliss on
which there is an entry in
the hand writing of the said Timothy Corliss of
his marriage to Hannah Custer by [illegible] Kent January 
15. 1789, and further saith not.
Jonathan Jenness

Sworn to and subscribed before me in open court on the 31 day of August 1839. And I hereby certify that the the above named
Jonathan Jenness Esquire is a man of truth and veracity.
William Spencer Judge of Probate
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I Jerusha Godfrey of Topsham in the
County of Orange and State of Vermont
aged 49 years last April, do certify and
say that I am daughter of Timothy
Corliss late a pensioner of the United States
that he the said Timothy Certify died at
Topsham on the 16th day of January
1834 and that Hannah Corliss who has
this day appeared before
the Probate Court
for the district of Bradford and made her declaration for 
pension is the widow of the said Timothy Corliss and has never
been married since the decease of the said Timothy Corliss.
I further testify and say that an
old account book herewith inclosed
which is a family record of the manrriage
of the said Timothy Corliss
to Hannah Carter
by [illegible] Kent January 15, 1789 is the
hand writing of the said Timothy and was found among
my Fathers papers after his decease and has been
in my possession ever since his decease.
Jerusha Godfrey
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court on the 31 day of 
August 1839. I certify that the above named Jerusha Godfrey is a person of truth and veracity. before me
William Spencer Judge of Probate
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I, Simeon Stevens, Jr. of Newbury county of Orange State of Vermont aged 50 years do testify and say that I am town clerk of the town of Newbury aforesaid and have in my possession the records of said town and I find among the [illegible] records of said town of the marriage of Timothy Corliss to Hannah Curtis as follows, to wit “Timothy Corliss and Hannah Curtis [illegible] Jacob Kent town clerk” I certify that it is a true copy of the record with he exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures “January fifteenth (15) one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine, 1789,
I Simeon Stevens, Jr above named depose and say that I hold the office of gown clerk of the own of Newbury in ghetto county , town and state aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Newbury with the exception above named and certified by me.
S. Stevens, Jr
Town Clerk

State of Vermont
Orange County Ss
Newbury September 23rd AD 1839.
Personally appeared the above named Simeon Stevens, Jr. And made solemn oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed and I certify that he is now town clerk of the town of Newbury aforesaid and a man of truth and veracity
Before me
Moses Wallace Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont
District of Bradford SS. I, J. W. D. Parker Clerk and Register of the Probate Court for the District aforesaid
do hereby certify that Moses Wallace is a justice of the
Peace within and for the County of Orange duly
commissioned and qualified to act as such. that
his commision commenced on the first day of December
1838 and will expire on the 30 day of November
1839 and that his signature within written as a 
Justice is genuine-
In testimony whereof I hereunto set
my hand and the seal of said
Probate Court at Bradford this 2nd
day of October 1839
W. D. Parker Register