Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 38,502, Cornelius Arey, Navy New York
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Navy          Arey, Cornelius    s 38502
New York
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Certificate of Pension issued the 20 of May 1820
and sent to Benjamin Carwell (illegible)
Providence Rhode Island
arrears to 4th of Mar 1820  $179-96
emi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1821  48.
22 mo 11/20  5/21  $227.96
[Revolutionary claim,]
[Act 18th March, 1818]
Continued
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Cornelius Arey
Com' AC Douglas Reg
not on Continenntal establishm.
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I, Cornelius Arey of Providence in the District of Rhode Island on solemn oath do swear and say that in the beginning of the Revolutionary war I enlisted as a private soldier in Col. MC Douglas
regiment in the continental army of the United States (illegible) in New York Line the name of the Captain of our company I do not recollect - in  whist  service I eighteen months, - I marched the (illegible) with in said regiment, - (illegible) with General  Montgomery n his life garde at the capture of H Johns- and afterwards of the taking of Montreal, and 
(illegible) at the storming of Quebec when my said General was killed- Sometime soon after I left my land (illegible) in November 1779 entered on board the Frigate  Providence (illegible) then in (illegible) of the United States, said before and next under Commander 
Whipple (illegible) in Charleston, South Carolina, and a little before Charleston  (illegible) i was (illegible) on board the Queen of France and from there was  (illegible) into the Front (illegible) to the British, during the
(illegible) lost one of my eyes in an engagement with the enemy and in consequence of which was confined in the hospital - eleven months. I further declare that I never received any written discharge when I 
now further declare that I am in (illegible) (illegible) and stand in need of the (illegible) of my country for supplant being in the 69th year of my age. 
Cornelius Arry   His mark X
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I Elisha Dyer of P[...] do certify and say that I have known the within named Cornelius Arey for ten years last past and upwards he having worked for me frequently - and from the best of my knowledge I have no reason to doubt of the health of the within declaration by him submitted and I now know him to be in indigent circumstances [...]
[SIGNED Elisha Dyer]
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Rhode Island District
Providence 30 November 1819

I am satisfied that the aforenamed Cornelius Arey served, in the continental Navy in time of the revolutionary war, he nine months required by Statutes, & that he is poor and needy ; and that entire credit may be given to the deposition of Lieutenant Beryer Page

David Howell 
District Judge

To the Honbl. Secretary of War
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Cornelius Arey
17026

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Sept, 1820
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

RHODE-ISLAND DISTRICT.

Providence, sc. District Court, August term, A.D. 1182

On this first day of August 1820, personally appeared in open Court, being a court of record, within and for Said District Cornelius Arey aged 68 years, residing in the town of Providence in said County & District who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows : that he served as a Mariner on board the frigate Providence commanded by Com- A Whipple more then ten months that he made a previous declaration on the twentieth day of April 1818, and that he has received a certificate for a pension, being No. 17,026 And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ; and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen : that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, my 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.
Cornelius X his mark Arey

A SCHEDULE of property and income (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) of Cornelius Arey
Said Cornelius discloses that he has no property of any description whatever that he is not so crippled that he cannot work, that he is now in such indigent circumstances as to be supported by said town of Providence as a pauper.

Cornelius Arey X his mark

Sworn to and declared in Open Court on the First day of August 1820 before

Hon David Howele District Judge 
Witness Benjamin Cowell ck     

RHODE-ISLAND DISTRICT.
Clerk's Office of the District Court, A.D. 182

I, Benjamin Cowell Clerk of Said Court do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court ; and I did further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is nothing

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this Second day of August, 1820
Benjamin Cowell Clerk of said Court.
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Invalid
Navy

File nO. 38502
Cornelius Arey
Marine
Vessel Queen of France
Revolutionary 

Act March 18, 1818
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Cornelius Arey
Mariner, of Providence
Queen of France
Com: 20 Apl 1818

Sent to 
Benjamin Cowell Esq
Providence
Rhode Island


Honorable John C Colburn
[] of war
Washington DC

{Stamp PROVIDENCE}
{Stamp FREE}

[]
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Berya Page Depon

{Stamp Newport OCT 27[]}

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Benjamin Cowell Esqr
Clerk US District 
Court Providence
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I Benjamin Page of Portsmouth in the County of Newport State of Rhode Island do certify that I was Lieutenant onboard the Providence Frigate Abraham Whpple Esq Commd laying in Boston the third day of November 1779 when Cornelius Arey entered as a seaman and sailed with us from Boston to Charleston S Carolina On the second day of April he was on the list of names on the exchange battery which I commanded on the 29th of April 1780 he was ordered into Fort Jedson  On the fourth day of May he was wounded and lost an eye, was sent the hospital where he remained untill we surrendered to the Brittish [British] Army [] May 12th 1780 of [] was not exchanging until August when the General Exchange took place Portsmouth October 23 th 1819  Benj Page

Newports Newport 26th October 1819, Then personally appealed Benj Page, and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed 
Before me
H Y Cranston
Jus. Peace.
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Overseer of the Poor's Office
Providence R. I. 12th Nov 1819

I certify that Cornelius Arey a lame white man has been for sometime past and is now wholly supported by this town as one of its Poor.

Geo. Olney Overseer
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Certificate of Wm Jones
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The undersigned formerly a Captain of Marines in the Navy of the United States & attached to the Frigate Providence A. Whipple Esq. Commander in shish he served untill [until] her being given up to the British Forces at the fall of Charleston S. Carolina according to his best recollection testifies that the twenty gun ship called the Queen of France (an old French ship) was in the United States service Company with the Providence Boston & [] at the taking of the Jamaica Fleet so called & after continued to cruise with said Frigate &c untill [until] he with said ship were given up to Admiral Arbuthnot at Charleston aforesaid that said Queen of France was formerly commanded by Capt Joseph Olney & succeeded by Capt Rathburn [] of the United State Navy

Wm Jones

Providence R. I. Decr 4th 1819
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J L Edwards Esq
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Providence 6th December 1819

Sir

I herewith again enclose the application of Cornelius Arey for a pension together with each additional testimony as in the opinion of the Dist judge will entitle him to a pension.

I am Sir very respectfully
Your most obt sert

Benjamin Cowell

J.L Edwards Esq
Superintendent of the Pension Office