Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35864, John Corse, Del.
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Del.  Corse, John S.35864
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Dead.

See letter J.P.
Comegys, Oct. 15. 1835
to Cathcart March 31, 1846.
same May 6. 1846.
1946
-
Delaware
John Corse
in
Reg
Captain
Delaware line
in the army of the
United States during the Revolutionary War.
-
Inscribed on the
Roll of Delaware at the rate of
20 Dollars per month, to commence on the
6th of June 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 of July 1818-and Sent to the Pensioner
Dover, Delaware
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818-2 months 
$58.70
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
his commission
76 Three years
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Captain will please to
make a declaration in writing on this blank, before a judge, 
--and as soon as
It is delivered to the War Office, a
Pension will be granted
to him. If the declaration is
made before one of the U.S. Judges,
the seal of the Court may be dispensed
with.
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District of Delaware, 88.

On this sixth day of June 1818, before me the subscriber, District Judge of the United States for the said district, personally appeared Captain John Corse aged sixty eight years, ? resident in Kent County in the said district 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 he, the said John Corse on 16 January 1776 enlisted in the Delaware Regiment in the state of Delaware in the town of Dover in the company commanded by Captain Jonathan Caldwell being the second company of the said Regiment; that he was appointed Ensign in Capt. Jos. Stedham's company being the 1st company ofs regiment in April 1776, was appointed ? of Capt. Enoch Anderson's company of S. regiments 3 Dec 1776; that he continued to serve in the said regiment or in the service of the United States until he was appointed a captain in said regiment in 1779 to 1780 to relate back to the fall of 177?; that this deponent resigned about the lash of May 1780, that he was in the battles of Long Island White Plains, Brandywine, Germantown and Mammoth is the first of which he was dangerously wounded and in the second slightly, and that he 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 said services. 
Sworn to and declared before me the day of year aforesaid. 
John Fisher District Judge Delaware District. 
I, John Fisher District Judge, &c. as aforesaid do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Captain John Corse did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. 
Dover, 6 June 1818
John Fisher 
District Judge
Delaware District
*born 17 Oct 1749
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
MOS/HMM

January 7, 1930

Nettie C. Fries
1010 S. Michigan Street
South Bend Indiana

Dear Madam

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 35864, it appears that John Corse was born October 17th, 1749. place not stated. 
He enlisted January 16, 1776 in Dover, Delaware and served as Sergeant and Sergeant Major in Captain Jonathan Caldwell's Company in Colonel John Haslet's Delaware Regiment until April 25, 1776 when he was appointed Ensign in Captain Joseph Stedham's Company in said regiment. On December 3, 1776 he was promoted to 1st Lieutenant in Captain Enoch Anderson's Company in said Delaware Regiment. He was promoted to Captain in said regiment February 23rd, 1780, to rank as such from January 26, 1778, and he served until May 29, 1780 when he resigned. He was wounded in the back in the battle of Long Island, and wounded in the left hand in the battle of White Plains, and was also in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown and Monmouth. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 24, 1818 at which time he was living in Kent County, Delaware. 
He died in September 1823.
The soldiers widow, name not given, was alive in 1846. Reference was made to the large family of the soldier, but no names were given. 

Very truly yours, 
Earl D. Church
Commissioner
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Petition of
Capt. John Corse
__________________
Dec. 30, 1817
Ref. to the Committee on
Pensions & Revolutionary Claims
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To the honorable the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,

The memorial of John Corse of Kent County, in the state of Delaware, late a Captain in the Revolutionary army of said state, and in the Delaware regiment,

respectfully represents,

That your memorialist enlisted as a common soldier in the afore said regiment, in a company therein commanded by Captain Jonathan Caldwell, on the 16th day of January 1776; that on the 25th day of April thereafter your memorialist was appointed by the Continental Congress, an Ensign in the company commanded by Capt Joseph Stidham, in the same regiment; and on the 27th day of August the next ensuing, at the battle between the American and British armies on Long-island, your memorialist, while on a retreat ordered by the said Joseph Stidham, was dangerously wounded by a bullet, in his back, near the spine; that the wound took place when the afore said company was within about eighty or an hundred yards of the British party commanded by Earl Percy; that immediately after receiving said wound, your memorialist was ordered by Capt Stidham to be taken within the American line
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lines, by two private soldiers; that your memorialist was rendered unfit for duty, by means of the aforesaid wound, until nearly the day on which was fought the battle of White-plains, to wit, on the 28th day of October, in the year aforesaid; that shortly before the said last battle, your memorialist resumed the duties of Ensign in the lastmentioned company and bore his part in the battle of White-plains and was slightly wounded in his left hand, but that said wound was of little or no detriment to your memorialist, nor has it been at any time since; that your memorialist was promoted on the 3d day of December, 1776 to the office of first Lieutenant of the company in the said Delaware regiment whereof Enoch Anderson was Captain;  and finally on the 23d day of February1780, he was promoted to the command of a Captain, to rank as such, from the 26th day of January 1778, all which will more fully appear, by the several commissions aforesaid, accompanying this memorial: --

And your memorialist further begs leave to represent, that he sustained, during the revolutionary war, his part in all the principal battles fought between the American and British armies, from the battle on Long island to the battle of Monmouth on the 28th of June 1778;-- that the bullet occasioning the aforesaid wound in the back, was so deeply entered as to defy the surgical skill of [unintelligible] to extract it and it has remained ever since in the body of your memorialist; that said wound has never entirely disqualified your memorialist from
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from bodily labor, but has often, even in his younger days, on the approach of and during bad weather, been most painful and distressing to him; and since by his advance in years has embarrassed his labor and obstructed the usefulness of his life; that he has often been advised by his friends (who know the narrowness of his circumstances) to embrace the offers held out by Congress, from time to time, and to apply for a pension; but he has been repressed by his reluctance to encrease the expenses of his country and to be burdensome to the community--
--The weight of years, however, being in his 69th year, admonishes him now, together withe the increasing vexation of his wound, to apply to Congress for relief; this he would even now refuse to do, but that he feels the vital spark expiring, and his bodily infirmities convince him that he cannot much longer toil for his daily bread or sustain the weight of a numerous and helpless family--

Your memorialist humbly prays your honorable body to take his case into your wise consideration and to afford to him such relief in the premises as to your honors shall seem meet; as also to cause to be issued to him a grant of such portion of Western lands as heretofore have been pledged for the remuneration of revolutionary officers and soldiers, by any resolution or act of Congress, in just care made provided, and you memorialist as in duty bound    will ever pray &c
December 22 1817.      Jno. Corse
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Pension office
May 6, 1846

Sir,
In reply to your letter of the 1st inst. I have the honor to inform you that the pension of Captain John Corse was paid to the 4th of March 1820, and his stipend ceased on that day as he failed to exhibit a schedule of his property in conformity to the provisions of the law of May 1 1820. He did not acquire any right to bounty lands from the U States, as it appears from his pension papers that he resigned his commission in May 1780.

Hon C W Cathcart             on file
AR                                      1878
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Washington City
May 1. 1846

Sir,
The name of John Corse Capt Delaware Continental Line was placed on the Pension Roll July 28th 1818, and his pension commenced June 6th 1819 - he died I believe in 1822.

I would thank you to inform us whether he was paid or not the full amount of his pension up to the time of his death. Please give me the time for  which his pension was paid-
   
Also please inform us whether he was entitled to Bounty Land or not, and if he was where was it located-
   
By complying with the above request you will much oblige-
   
Most respectfully
[illegible]
C h ls [Charles] Eathcart

JG Edwards Esq
Com 'of Pensions' 
Present
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To the Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C.

(Area by Postmark):
Oct 15
Mr Corse
Del.
1818
28 July 18
Del.
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Dover Del Oct. 12.th 1834.-

To the Court of Pensions.}

Sir,
If it be not too much trou=ble [trouble], will you be kind enough to ex =amine [examine] the papers on file in your office, + [and] ascertain whether Cpt. John Corse of the Delaware Continental Line is in the Revolutionary army ever transmitted to the War Dept a schedule of his property in compliance with the provisions of the act of 1920s. I find by an inspection of the Delaware Pension Roll that he was placed upon the roll in June 1818 at the annual allowance of $240-. He = [strike out: was deceased] died in September 1823 he = seeing . never precious but $419 dols. and a few cents not quite two years pension. His kins are anxious to obtain any thing which may be due, and have requested me to write. Be pleased to give me a speedy answer. -
Respectfully your [illegible]
Joseph T. Comegys

Capt. Corse served to the end of the war. -}
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J. L. Edwards Esq.
Pension office
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Hall of the House of Rep.s May 1, 1820

Sir,
Capt John Corse, a pensioner placed on the list under the Act of March 1818 has requested me to procure for him & return to him his commissions.
He was placed upon the list in the summer of 1818; these were forwarded to the office in support of his claim, three commissions one of Ensign one of Lieutenant, & one of Capt. -- in the Delaware Regiment. I presume, there can be no reason for retaining his commissions in the office, and I should be obliged if you would forward them for me to the post office of the House of Rep.s
I shall leave this place probably on Wednesday evening by 5 oclock
Respectfully 
Yours
Willard Hall
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Free
The Hon The Secretary of the Department
of War 
Washington.

(postmark)
Dover, DE
May
13

(faded area at right):
Capt Corse's commissions sent,
at the request of
the Hon. Willard Hall,
M C to the latter gentn--
May 2, 1820-- see
the letter on file with
the other papers of 
Captain Corse--
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Dover, 13. May. 1818.
Sir,
I enclose the claim of Capt Corse for your decision. Mr. Dougherty the Clerk of the House of Representatives of the United States, has written to Mr. Hall our Representative in Cong; that he will furnish you with evidence of the Commissions to which Capt Corse alludes in his deposition. He will also exhibit to your view, the bill which passed the House for relief of Capt Corse and was not acted on in the Senate, for want of time. Capt Corse is a high-minded, honorable man; and in swearing to his indigent circumstances, swears to what I know to be true and have been satisfied of, for upwards of twenty years. I have often furnished him with articles of clothing, from my own resources.
With perfect respect, sir,
I have the honor
to be your obdt.
humble servt.
John Fisher

Hon J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington.
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Captain John Corse
Dover.
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Bellevue 26 Nov. 1819
Dr. Sir,
Your letter of the 20th Inst. came to hand this moment. Enclosed is the certificate, that I suppose best fitted to serve you. I wish I could see you once more before I die, and am, Dr. Sir, your old friend (illegible)
James Tilton


Captn. Corse.
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This may certify all whom it may concern; that I was well acquainted with John Corse as a commissioned officer (I think an Ensign) in the delaware regiment, when he was wounded in the back, at the battle of Long-Island.

James Tilton.

Bellevue/ near Wilmington Del.
26 Nov. 1817
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Having been requested to inquire into the present disability of Capt Corse; we accordingly did examine him, and perceived a mark indicated as the seat of the injury, which had the appearance of having been occasioned by a bullet.
Captn. Corse states to us that he had received a gun shot wound during his service in the revolutionary war. That the ball remained in or near the place where it was received; and produced, at times, such diminution of muscular power as rendered him unable to spit, cross his legs, or turn himself in bed.

The fact of the wound having been sustained, we have understood, as matter of report, nearly, if not ever since we have known or even heard of Captn Corse.

As to the remaining of the ball, Captn Corse knows best. We did not feel it; nor did we expect to do it, being previously informed of its location.
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But we do not hesitate to say that, the infirmities of which Captn Corse complains, cannot be ascribed to the natural failure of his constitution, but appear to be reasonable, if not necessary, consequences, of an instance of violence done in the neighborhood of the spine; where I ever stated, the wound was suffered, and where, on our examination, the mark appeared.

A Johns
Ain Maudain
March 13th 1818

Witness present.
John Fisher.
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House of Reps.
March 20th, 1846

Sir,
The widow of John Corse who was (see the printed pension Roll) a captain in the Delaware Continental Line wishes to obtain a Pension--

I wish to be informed whether the proof on file in your office would be sufficient to be retained or to entitle the said John Corse to his pension were he now alive--

Respectfully Yrs.
Ch W Cathcart 

J L Edwards Com. of Pensions
Present
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Letter to Hon. C. W. Cathcart 31 March 1846
(lined out) same May 6 1846
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Free
The Honorable The Secretary of War
Washington City

(upside down) write on envelope "send his commissions"

(sideways) Correct
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Sir,
At the request of Capt. John Corse of this county, I enclose a declaration made by him before Judge Fisher agreeably to directions endorsed upon the form forwarded him.

Capt. Corse did some time past make a declaration before Judge Fisher, which was forwarded to the War Department, but is supposed was [sic] informal.  He hopes, that his pension will take date from the first declaration they made, as that is evidence of his application for relief and of the time of this application, altho [sic] defectice, it is presumed, in point of form, which defect is not thro [sic] his fault.  In this hope I concur, as Capt. Corse has always maintained a respectable stand up in the community, relying principally upon his own [illegible] and labour for his support; and he is now reduced to need assistance by the infirmities of age destroying his ability to labour.

It is his desire that his commissions, which the Clerk of the House of Representatives informed me he had delivered to the War Department, should be forwarded to him, when the purpose for which they were delivered, shall be answered.

I am very respectfully yours,
Willard Hall
Dated June 8, 1818

The seal of the Court is not affixed to the Judges Certificate because the seal is in the possession of the Clerk 48 miles from his place.  The endorsement [illegible] it may be dispensed with
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sion on file in this Bureau.  John Corse S. 35864

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment.
Jan 16 76
Apr 25, 76
Dec 3, 76
Jan 26 78

Length of Service.

Rank.
Sgt. & Sgt Maj
Ensign
1st Lieut
Capt.

Officers Under Whom Service Was Rendered.
Captain.                                    Colonel.
Jonathan Caldwell             John Neaslet
Joseph Stedham                
Enoch Anderson
and served until May 29 1780 when he resigned

State.
"Delaware Regt."
"                "
"                "
"                "

Battles Engaged In, Long Island (annotated "wounded in back") & White Plains (annotated "wounded on left hand"), wounded in both battles, Brandywine Germantown Monmouth

Residence of Soldier at  Enlistment, Enl. in Dover Del.

Date of application for pension, Dec. 22 1817 (illegible)

Residence at date of application, Kentleo, Del.

Age at date of application, b Oct 17, 1749 Died Sept 1823

Remarks: Soldiers widow, name not stated was alive in 1846
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Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:--
Please send me the pension record of John Corse who served in the Revolutionary War from Delaware. This John Corse was born 1749 and died Sept 1823.
I want this record to complete my D.A.R. papers.
Yours very truly,
Nettie C Fries

1010 S. Michigan St.,
South Bend, Indiana
Nov. 15, 1929

(Postmark) U Nov 14 1929 Office
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Rev See Bartow, Ha,
Oct, 21. 1914
Commissioner of Pension
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir,
Will you oblige me by finding out whether or not the names of John and Washington Corse appear on the Pension Rolls of Delaware or Penn after the Revolutionary War? The home of John
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Corse, or at least the home of his father was [illegible] Creek Del, but the town, under that name does not exist today. Can you give me any clue as to where I might find the public records of this place?
It may be that the services of John Corse are recorded in the Penn. Rolls but I rather doubt this
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for family tradition states that he was a privateer, familarally known as "Captain Jack" and that he was taken capture by the English and contained with about an hundred others, in a prison ship in Boston harbor, he being one of the eleven who lives to be set free. His son, Washington also served in the Rev but have no authentic record of his services. If it were possible I should like very much to have my papers made put for the nat. society of D. A. R. [illegible] you that I shall [illegible] appreciate to render me, thanking you in advance. Sincerely, 
89 Jackson on [illegible] [illegible] W. [illegible] [illegible]
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Office of
Fred Corse
Trustee
Center Township Marshall County

Plymouth, Ind. Oct. 7, 1907
Pension Bureau,
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir:-- I have a very greaat desire to become a "Daughter of the American Revolution" and ho to be able to furnish the needed information.
My ancestors on fathers side of the hous came from Delaware and if we understand it correctly my great, great grandfather was a Captain during the Revolution.
A few years ago the state of Delaware was trying to compile a history of the soldiers from that state who fought during the Revolution and they wrote to us. We later rec'd a booklet and
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Fred Corse
Trustee
Center Township Marshall County

Plymouth, Ind. Oct. 7, 1907

in it find mentioned Captain John Corse and Third Corporal James Corse. If you could find it of any benefit I should gladly send it.
Hoping for an early reply, I am
Yours Respectfully,
Nettie Corse.
Plymouth, Ind.

(postmark) U. S. Pension Office Oct 10 1907
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35864.
Invalid.
Revy
File No. 35864
John Corse
Capt Rev War
Act: 18 March 18
Index:--Vol 2, Page 91
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1907 Oct. 23. Hist. to Nettie Corse
1914. Oct 28. Hist to Mrs. Bernice W. Lyle.   M.B.H.
1930, Jan 7, hist to Nettie C. Fries   M.C.S.
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John Corse
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United States
Delaware district; jct--
Depositions of witnesses produced, sworn and examined before me John Fisher District Judge of  the United States for the Delaware district, on the claim of John Corse late a Captain in the Delaware regiment of the army of the revolutionary war; and now a resident and inhabitant of the district aforesaid, for a pension in the pursuance of 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 18.th March 1818.
The aforesaid John Corse aged sixty-eight years and upwards, being sworn in due form of law, deposes and declares as follows, viz, That he the deponent enlisted on the 16.th day of January 1776 in the second company of the Delaware regiment, then  commanded by Capt Jonathan Caldwell; that the deponent enlisted in said company as a common soldier and was immediately made a sergeant; that upon the said regiment being embodied in the town of Dover, this deponent on the request of the adjutant (illegible; Henry Holland?) of said regiment was made sergeant-major of said regiment, by Col John Haslet, who thereafter fell in the battle of Princeton; that upon the death of McDonough an office of said regiment, room was made in April 1776 for the promotion of this deponent, who then received a commission of Ensign in Capt Joseph Stedham's company, it being the first company of the Delaware regiment aforesaid; that during the time this deponent was Ensign of said company, he was present at the battles of Long-island and White
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White-plains at both of which the deponent was wounded, and in the former dangerously so; that sometime in December 1776, this deponent received a first Lieutenant's commission in the company of Captain Enoch Anderson, for and during the existence of the war with GBritain; that as Lieutenant of said Anderson's company this deponent was present at the battle of Brandywine in September 1777 in that part of the army commanded by Major General John Sullivan and on the 4th of October following was at the battle of Germantown in the center division commanded by the same General; that on the 28.th of June 1778 this deponent was present at the battle of Monmouth and continued from that time in active service till on 29.th May 1780, when this deponent resigned his commission as Captain which he had some time before received, to rank as such from the fall of 1778; that this deponent was without intermission in the services of the United States, on the continental establishment, from the aforesaid 16. January 1776 to the 29.th May 1780; that his several commissions mentioned above were delivered by this deponent to the Hon Millard Hall master of (illegible) from Delaware, with a view to obtain at the (illegible) -sion of Congress, relief compensation for his voluntary services and sufferings, which commissions Mr. Hall has informed this deponent, on this day, are to be found on the files of the House of Representatives of the United States, at the city of Washington, and to which this deponent begs leave to refer in verification of what he
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has stated above in this affidavit; and this deponent further saith, that since his advance in years, the wound which he received at the battle of Long-island has become exceedingly vexatious and distressing to him and often disqualifies him for any kind of service whatever, all which he fully made appear to the Honorable the Congress of the United States at this late Session; and by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for support; and further this deponent saith not.

Taken, sworn and subscribed
this 24.th day of April 1818
Jn.o Corse

Before
John Fisher, District Judge
Delaware district.

To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War:
The undersigned District Judge of the United States for the Delaware district, prays leave to certify,
That it appears to the satisfaction of the undersigned, that the foregoing applicant Captain John Corse served in the revolutionary war as a private soldier and as an officer in the Delaware regiment of the continental establishment, and in the time mentioned in the foregoing deposition, the undersigned having seen the aforesaid several commissions of the said John Corse, shortly before the late session of Congress;-- the undersigned accordingly transmits the above deposition to the Secretary of the Department of War, agreeably to the provisions of the act of Congress, the title of which is herein before recited--
In witness whereof he has set his hand at Dover, in the district aforesaid, and causes the seal of the court for said district to be hereto affixed, this thirtieth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and of the Independence of the United States the forty-second.
John Fisher District Judge--
Delaware district
Attest; Thos.  Witherspoon Clk Dis . Co. Del
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Delaware district, fet;

Personally came before the undersigned District Judge of the United States in and for the district aforsaid, John Shelton, who being solemnly sworn on the Holy angels of the Almighty God, doth depose and say that he was a private soldier in the company of Captain Nathan Adams of the Delaware Regiment, which served in the Revolutionary war; that this deponent was present at the battle fought on Song island between the American and British armies on the 27th day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six, that on said day, in the morning, this deponent saw Captain Corse, then an Ensign in Captain Stidham's company, in the ranks of the Delaware Regiment; that this deponent well remembers, that Captain Stidham's whole company was detached to reinforce some other body of men, shortly after which the battle commenced and became general; that after said detachment went off, this deponent aid not see Ensign Corse during that day; but sometime shortly afterwards, this deponent heard, which he was at New York that Ensign Corse had received a wound at the battle, which had been fought, on Song island; that at Newark, in the state of New Jersey, this deponent saw Ensign Corse, who appeared to be in a state of disability from the wound which he has received, at the battle of Song island; that said would was generally understood
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understood to be in the back, near the spine, that this deponent has know Captain Corse ever since the the war of the Revolution and has generally lived a near neigh born to him; and this deponent verily believes, from the knowledge which he has of Captain Corse, that his wound received at the battle aforesaid, has been for many years and is now very troublesome and inconvenient to him in so great a degree as to debar him from bodily labour, and to prevent him from standing straight and even from walking about, at times; and further this deponent saith not.
his
John Shelton Mark

Taken, sworn, subscribed
This 10th of March 1818

before John Fisher, District Judge - Delaware District.

Also personally came before the undersigned Joseph Harper of Kent County, in the district aforesaid, Esquire, aged ninty sixty-one years, who being sworn, deposes as follow, To wit, that he first became acquainted with Capt. John Corse, some time in the latter end of February or first of March 1776; that Capt. Corse was at that his the Sergeant Major of the Delaware Regiment, then commanded by Col. John Haslet, in which capacity he continued but a short time, being promoted to the office of Ensign, in Capt. Jos Sted (unintelligible) company
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it being the first company of the Delaware regiment; that said Cause continued with the regiment during that year and was with said regiment on the 24th day of the August 1776 on Long island; and when the regiment was marched out to the battle ground on said day and just before the battle commenced, Capt. Stidham's company was detached from the regiment and sent on a scouting party, with which Captain Corse went, in his capacity of Ensgn; that this deponent does not recollect of seeing him again on the day of the battle, but understood afterwards that he had been wounded in a rencounter with the enemy, which this deponent believes to have been the fact, as he afterwards saw him walk very lame and supporting himself by the aid of stick or crutch, that this deponent does not know exactly how long Capt. Corse continued in the army; but believes he continued for several years after he received his wound; And that this deponent served in the said Delaware Regiment, in the company thereof, commanded by Capt. afterwards Col. Vaughan, and further this deponent saith not.

Joseph Harper

Taken, sworn, subscribed
this 13 March 1818

before John Fisher Dist. Judge
Delaware District