Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1238, Paris Corey, R.I.
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Service                 Number
R.I                           W.1238
Corey, Paris
Lydia

B.L.Wt. 34502-160-55

Contents
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Transferred to Connecticut & Pensioner, so notified on 26 Nov 1832

to Connecticut from Rhode Island
Paris Corey
Private 
Rhode Island 1779 - 4 Years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the roll of  Rhode Island at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 23 of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 4th of Jany 18, and Sent to Benj. Cowell esq.
Providence R.I.

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818.             35.20
Semi-anl. all'e ending 4 Mar. 1819.   48.00
                                                            $83.20

{Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818}

4mos. 12d,

1 (Illegible) 1845
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2869
Rhode Island
Lydia Corey widow of Paris Corey who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
Rhode Island line.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 96 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.

Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of November 1853. and sent to George Durfie
Providence, R.I.


Recorded on the Roll of Pensioners under act
February 3, 1853, Page 49. Vol. A


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202012
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202012 (illegible) 
Lydia Corey (illegible)
Paris Corey Pri
Capt. E. Macomber
3 years
Revolutionary War
Revolutionary Pensioner
Felz 53-2869
(illegible) 11/56
Jos. S. Pitman
Providence, R.I.
Vol. C2-28
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Paris Corey

Paris Corey. Private

Olney's Rhode Island Reg

1779 to 1783

Benjamin Cowell Esq
Providence, R.I.

Admitted
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I Paris Corey of west Granwich in the State of Rhode Island on solemn oath do declare & say that in the month of March 1779 I enlisted as a private soldier in Capt. Ebenezer Macrombies Company and Col. Jeremiah Olney's regiment in the Continental Army of the United States & in the Rhode Island line. In which service I continued until the close of the war 1783.  I was in the Battles of White Plains & Harlem and lastly at the taking of Cornwallis. I am now sixty one years old [illegible]. And I now further declare that I am now in reduced circumstances & stand in need of the assistance of my country for support. 
the above Paris Corey could not write being blind - attest Benjamin Cowell
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Rhode Island District
Be it remembered that on this twenty third day of April 1818 come before me the within named Paris Corey & made solemn oath to the truth of the within declaration. In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand & have caused the seal of the court to be hereto affixed - 
David Howell
District Judge 

The signature of the judge of the peace of the district court for said District Court on hereto affixed. 
Witness Benjamin Cowell
Dis clk

Rhode Island District 26 Dec 1818. I am perfectly satisfied that Paris Corey the above applicant is poor enough being supported by town of West Greenwich as a pauper of that town. 
David Howell
District Judge
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Paris Corey

6174
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United States of America

Rhode Island District
County of Kent Special Court of Common Pleas July 7th AD 1829

On this 7th day of July 1820 personally appeared in open court being a court of record within and for said county Paris Corey aged 63 years residing in the town of West Greenwich in said County 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 private in Col. Grune's & Col. Olney's regiment three years that he made a previous declaration on the 3rd day of April 1815 and that he has received a certificate for a pension being no. 5174 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 any manner whatever disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the disposed of my property or any part titled, "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 of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen: 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. 
Paris his X mark Corey

A schedule of property and income (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) of Paris Corey said Paris declares that he has no property that he is entirely blind & unable to labour and that before he received his pensions he was supported by the town of West Greenwich as a pauper. - 
Paris his X mark Corey

Sworn to and declared in open court on the 7th day of July 1820. 
Witness Jno. G. Mawney Clk

Rhode Island District
County of Kent Clerk's Office of Court of Common Pleas AD 1820

I, John G. Mawney 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 do 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 11th day of July
Jno G. Maney Clerk of said clerk
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State of Rhode Island of West Greenwich
Kent County Court

On the 29th day of October AD 1853
Personally appeared before the court of probate in open session held in the town of West Greenwich and state & county aforesaid. Lydia Corey. A resident in the town of West Greenwich County of tecent 2 state & aforesaid  aged 66 years who first being duly sworn  according to law doth on her oath make the following statement and declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisian made by the act of congress passed on the 3 of February AD 1853. Granting pensions to widows person who served during the revolutionary war; that she is the widow of Paris Corey. Who was a soldier in the aforesaid war and was a pensioner for the aforesaid services and received his said pension first received at Providence  in the county of Providence and state of R.I. and Latterly and unto his death which occurred at Brookline in the state of Connecticut in the month of December AD 1844. At Plainfield in the state of Connecticut aforesaid. She further declares that she was married to said Paris Corey on the 17th day of November AD 1816 and that she was married to him previous to the year AD 1800
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and that she lived with her said husband Paris Corey unto the day of his death which secured at Plainfield on the month & year aforesaid and that she is now the widow Paris Corey deceased the same that is represented in the foregoing. My late husband pension was ninety six dollars per year and after his death at Brookline in the state aforesaid I received as his widow at the Brookline banked the sum of twenty four dollars therefore I apply through my attorney George Durfee Esq of the City Court of Providence in the state of Rhode Island for money on other grants that the U.S. Government may have in trust for me on my hereafter give grant on set apart for my use.
Lydia Corey

West Greenwich in the county of Kent and sate of Rhode Island at the court of probate held in said town on the 29th day of Oct. AD '83 Personally appeared Lydia Corey subscriber to the aforesaid statement and made oath to the truth of the same. 
In testimony thereof  we have caused the seal of said court to be hereunto affixed. 
Signed and sealed by order and on behalf of said court after the [illegible] Plainfield were inserted listed of Brookline as first written together after the convention of the date of her age and said Paris death which were written in figures
John James Probate clk of the town of West Greenwich
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State of Rhode Island city and county of Providence SS.
On this 7th day of August A.D. 1855, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said City of Providence in said county Lydia Corey aged sixty nine years, a resident of said city in said county who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Paris Corey deceased, who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Ebenezer Macomber in the Regiment commanded by Jeremiah Olney in the War of the Revolution, that her said husband enlisted on or about the  day of  A.D 1 for the term of  and continued in actual service in the said war for the term of over three years on or about the  day of  as she recalled A.D.1789 as will appear by reference to the rolls; that he received no printed, or written discharge; and that neither he nor she ever received or applied for, or is entitled to bounty land for any other service, that her husband was a pensioner of the United States on the roll of the (illegible) until the latter portion of his life when he lived in Plainfield Connecticut & drew his pension in Connecticut.  That she is now in receipt of a pension of 96 per annum on the roll of the (illegible) the act of Feb. 3. 1853.  (illegible) for evidence in support of her claim (illegible) evidence in support of her pension claim her certificate is dated Nov 12. 1853.  She further states that she was married to said Paris Corey in Hancock New York on or about the 14th day of 1816 Matthew Howard a Justice of the Peace and that her name before her said marriage was Lydia Pratt that her husband died a Plainfield Conn on the 11th day of December 1844 proof of which will be found on file with her previous application, for pension that she is now a widow.  That she makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitle under the act of March 3d, 1855, and that she pray that the certificate thereof may be sent for her to Joseph S. Pitman, Providence, R.I.  
Lydia Corey 
Attest Robert Knight 
We Simeon M. Pike and Almira Pike of the City and County of Providence and State of Rhode Island having been duly sworn, depose and say, that we well knew Paris Corey who was a soldier of the Revolution whose widow now applies for bounty land, that we knew him for more than twenty years before his death, which occurred at Plainfield Connecticut about Eleven years ago, that we knew that he died about that time because we then attended his funeral at said Plainfield that we are residents of said Providence that we have known his said widow from his death to this time, that she has remained unmarried, signed and acknowledged in our presence, and that we know her to be the identical person she represents herself to be, and that we have no pecuniary interest in her claim.  Attest Robert Knight 
Simeon M. Pike 
Almira Pike
The foregoing declaration and affidavits were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written, and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, that I have no interest in this claim, and am not concerned in it prosecution. 
Robert Knight Justice of the Peace
It is hereby certified that satisfactory proof has been exhibited before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, by the affidavits of Simeon M. Pike and Almira Pike of the said county and state, who are personally known to me, who are entitled to credit, and who swear they have not pecuniary interest in the result of the above application; that Lydia Corey is the widow, remaining unmarried of the late Paris Corey who was a soldier of the Revolution and that said Paris Corey died at Plainfield Conn. on or about the 11th day of December A.D. 1844  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this seventh day of August 1855  I have no interest in this case, and am not concerned in it prosecution.  
Robert Knight Justice of the Peace
*"We attended his funera," or "were in the neighborhood at the time," or some equally good reason.
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The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Providence SC
Clerk's Office, Supreme Court, Providence August 11th AD 1855
I, John A. Gardner Clerk of the Supreme Court of said State, within and for the County of Providence: Do hereby certify that Robert Knight before whom the foregoing affidavits were made and who has thereunto affixed his name was at the time of is doing a Justice of the Peace duly appointed and qualified, and authorized to administer oaths and take depositions and the acknowledgment of deeds and other instruments, and that the signature to the annexed certificate, purporting to be his is genuine.
In attestation whereof, I hereto subscribe my name, and affix the Seal of said Court, the day and year above written
[signed] John A. Gardner
Clerk
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Stephen Town November 11th 1816 
This may certify that Parris Cory and Lydia Pratt were lawfully married by me
[signed] Nathan Howard Justice Peace
State of Rhode Island
County of Kent and Town of West Greenwich sc.
I certify the aforegoing to be a true copy of the records of the marriage of Parris Cory and Lydia Pratt.
Witness my hand and seal of office this 22nd day of October AD 1853
[signed] John James town clerk
I John James the above named, depose and say that I hold the office of town clerk in the county town and state aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town as certified by one John James town clerk of the town of West Greenwich
Sworn before me this 25th day of October AD 1853
Asa Sisson Justice of Peace
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The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Providence s
Clerk's office, Court of Common Pleas Providence November 1 AD 1853
I Leu Salisbury Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said state, within and for the county of Providence:  Do hereby certify that Asa Sisson Esq. is and on the 25th day of October last, was a Justice of the Peace in and for the town of Coventry in the county of Kent in said state duly appointed and qualified and authorized to administer oaths and take depositions and the acknowledgment of deeds and other instruments, and that the signature in the annexed certificate purporting to be his is genuine.
In attestation whereof I hereto subscribe my names and affix the seal of said court the day and year above written.
Leu Salisbury clerk
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December 12, 1927

Mrs. Arvid G. Ohlin
3 Shepard St
Groton, Conn

Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 1238, 
it appears that Paris Corey enlisted in March 1779 and served as a private in Captain Ebenezer Macomber's Company, Colonels Jeremiah Olney's and Greene's Rhode Island Regiment, he was in the taking of Cornwallis and was discharged in 1783. He also stated that he was in the battles of White Plains and Harlem but gave no details of this service.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 3, 1818, while a resident of West Greenwich, Rhode Island, aged sixty-one years.
In 1832, he was living in Sterling, Windham County, Connecticut. He died December 11, 1844, at Brooklyn or Plainfield, Connecticut.
Soldier married November 17, 1816 Lydia Pratt.
She was allowed pension on her application executed
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October 29, 1853, while a resident of West Greenwich, Rhode Island. She was born October 2, 1787, place not stated.
In 1853 she stated as follows-" We had six children five of them are living John Hamilton Almira Laura ( Roxdy (Dead) Phebe Paris were the names of our children" These names are not set apart by commas, it is therefore puzzling to understand the wording.

Respectfully, 
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner
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No. 3,586 Oct 11/53 [October 11, 1853]
Lydia Corey, Widow of Paris Corey
[strike out "Providence Co."]
Kent Co [county] R.I. [Rhode Island]
Act Feby [February] 3rd 1833
Rev
Commissioner
Adm'd [admitted] $96 per annum commencing 3rd Feby [February] 1853
George Durfee Providence R.I. [Rhode Island]
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Third Auditors Office Official Business
Nov [November] 5, 1853
Appl [application] of Lydia Corey, widow of Paris Corey 1853 Kent Co.
Revo R.I. [Revolutionary, Rhode Island]
N. Cole
Rev.
George Durfee, Providence R.I. [Rhode Island]
Hon. L. P. Waldo. Com. [Commissioner] Pensions
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34,502
No [illegible - acctg?]
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L.P. Waldo Esq  FREE
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
Lydia Corey
[circular stamp] Providence R.I. Nov 9
Geddes
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202012
Official Business
The Hon. J. Minot Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
FREE
[circular stamp] Providence R.I. [Rhode Island] Aug [August] 8
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This may certify to whom it may concern that Parris Corey was a soldier in my company three years in the RJ Regiment United States Army Revolutionary war and was discharged in 1783 after peace was declared and I believe stands in need of assistance.

Ebenezer Macomber Capt in the RJ Regiment in the army of the United State Revolutionary War
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Pension Office, Novr [November] 9 1853
Sir
Please certify the time to which the written named pensioner was paid; and if in your power, the date of his death - also, if widow received arrears, her Christian name.
Very respectfully your obt servt [obedient servant] S. Cole
F.Burt Esq 3d auditor present
For Commis'r (see other side)
Paris Corey, Act 1818 $8  pr month. Died 11th Dec 1844, paid to his death 
Arrears paid to Lydia Corey, the widow on settlement 1str gn 1845
Saml T. Rush
Actg Auditor
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West Greewich R.I. [Rhode Island] Sept [September] 30 1853
To the Commissioner of Pensions
I Lydia Corey widow Corey of Paris Corey deceased ask and request that the pension of my late husband be remited [remitted] to me through the hands of my agent and attorney and also all moneis [monies] and pension due my by late acts of Congress in relation to pensions, as witness may have this day and date as [illegible]
[signed] Lydia Corey
Stephen A. Wright
witness to signature of Lydia Corey
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I Freelove Palmer widow of Uriah Palmer; deceased in oath do depose and say that I am sister to Lydia Corey the widow of Paris Corey deceased and know that my said sister lived with said Paris Corey from the time of their marriage in New York state until the day of his death in Connecticut state some nine years ago, and since that time she has lived where I have seen her every few weeks, and she now lives with me in my house in the town of West Greenwich State of Rhode Island and is feeble in health and has never had any pension or money from the United States or any state or pension or person on person whatever since her husband's death. She was pensioner for services in the Revolutionary War and rec a pension to his death, my sister Lydia Corey has lived the widow of said Paris Corey since his death and is now his widow and living with me this day

Freelove Palmer
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Providence sc Providence Oct 4 AD 1853 personally appeared the written name Freelove Palmer and made oath to the truth of the within statement as true in all its parts and I consider her a person of truth who cannot be impeached.
Before me George Durfee Justice of the Peace
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I Stephen A Wright, on oath do depose & say that the said Lydia Corey widow of the late Paris Corey (deceased). A soldier in the Revolutionary War was the wife of said Paris and I was well acquainted with said Paris and Lydia Corey for the last thirty-two years past and have always known them as husband and wife and knew all their children and have known the said Lydia from her husband's death to the present day, and know that she has not been married to any other person, since his death, and is now his widow and is poor and needy in her present situation, I am the present senator to the Rhode Island Assembly from the town of South Kingston and know the above facts to be true from my own knowledge.

Stephen A Wright
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Providence sc Providence October [illegible] D 1853 personally appeared before me [illegible - St]ephen A. Wright aforementioned and made oath that the written statement is true in all its parts and he is a many worthy of belief.
George Durfee Justice of the Peace
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West Greenwich R.I. [Rhode Island] Sept [September] 30 1853
I Lydia Corey widow of the late Paris Corey deceased on oath do depose and say that I was married to Paris Corey deceased in the town of Hancock in New York state and lived with hin to his death. We had six children five of them are living John Hamilton Almira Laura (Roxdy  (dead) Phebe Paris were the names of our children, I am sixty six years old October 2 AD 1853 and have rec'd [received] no pension or emolument from the United States nor any other state or person nonperson since my husband's death about nine years ago this [illegible strike out] last past at Brookline in the state of Connecticut U.S. My late husband was blind from the day that I married him to the day of his death. I am no poor and helpless and am not able to provide for myself and am dependant [dependent] on others for a living.
Lydia Corey
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Providence sc Providence October 4 AD 1853
Personally appeared before e Lydia Corey as before named and made oath to the truth of the within statement and I believe her to be a person whose truth and veracity cannot be impeached.
George Durfee Justice of the Peace
The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Providence sc. Clerk's Office Court of Common Pleas, Providence October 4 AD 1853
Do herby certify that George Durfee Esq. is a Justice of the Peace in and for the city of Providence in said county of Providence duly appointed and qualified and authorized to administer oaths and take depositions and the acknowledgment of deeds and other instruments and that the signature to the annexed certificate purporting to be his is genuine.
In attestation whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said court the day and year above written.
Leu Salisbury Clerk
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Providence Aug [August] 8 1855
Sir,
I have the honor to forward herewith the claim of Lydia Corey to bounty land which I request may be examined and the result communicated to me.
I am sir very respectfully your obedient servant
Joseph S. Pitman
Hon. J. Minot Commsioner of Pensions Washington DC
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Providence R.I. Nov. 9th 1853
L.P. Waldo Esq

Sir, I am informed by a note date Nov. 5 AD 1853 signature Sam.l L. Rind {Acting & Auditor)that the necessary papers in case of Paris  Corey's widow for a pension if the papers are sufficient and I think I have followed the instruction of Mr. Gaddes Esq one of your clerks. Yet if any thing is wanting please be kind enough to inform me and if all is right your attention to the matter will much oblige yours humble servant. 
George Durfee
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Providence R.I. 
Nov. 2d 1853
Geo. Durfee
Rec'd Nov 4th /33
ans.d 5 Nov. 1853

Respectfully record to the commission of pensions and Mr. Durfee so informed. 
[illegible] offer
Nov. 5, 1853
Sam.l S. Rind
noting auditor

Mr. Rind


Providence No. 2 1853
Mr. Burt Auditor
[illegible] Dept. 

Dear Sri, 
I take the opportunity of thanking you for your prompt investigation of my little business when last in Washington and trust that from the instruction rece'd from you and Mr. Gaddas Esq I may be enabled to because for the widow of Paris Corey at small remuneration of her husband's patriotism and allow me to remain your humble servant. 
George Durfee
Office 29
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Lydia Corey, widow of Paris Corey 66
married 17 Nov 1816
Died Dec 1844
Certified copy of town records
PS. If widows' name corresponds
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 Providence Oct. 3-1853

I know Mr. Durfee to be a money collector having an office in this city, and understand that he does a good deal of collecting for many of our citizens and is considered faithful and trustworthy in being for committee to his chapter

A. Potter
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Brief in the case of Lydia Corey, widow of Paris Corey Kent County and State of Rhode Island act 3d February 1853.

Claim, Original
Proof exhibited, 
Is it documentary, traditionary or supported rolls? If either state the substance.
Husband was a pensioner uner the Act of 18th March 1818
Marriage proved by certified copy of tour records

(If for instance)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what? 

George Durfee Esq
Providence

Name and residence of Agent Rhode Island

R. Geddes
Examining Clerk
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United States of America
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Secretary's Office Providence
Oct. 4, AD 1853

I Asa Potter Secretary of said State; keeper of the records and seal thereof: 
Do certify, that on the seventeenth of June AD 1853 Benoni Wells of West Greenwich was duly declared a justice of the peace for the town of West Greenwich that he is duly commissioned as appears of record that he is qualified and now acting in said office; and as such is by law authorized to take depositions and the acknowledgement of deeds and other instruments and to administer all necessary oaths and that his signature to the foregoing certificate is genuine. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said state at providence the day and year above written. 
Asa Potter
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Acknowledge before me this third day of October AD 1853 and I certify that I have no interest in the results of the claim to which the within paper relates and am not concerned in its prosecution Benoni The US Justice of Peace from county of said State of Rhode Island & town of West Greenwich duly qualified according to law. 
State of Rhode Island Sec'ys Office Providence October 4th AD 1853. 
I certify that Benoni Wells of West Greenwich county of Kent & State of Rhode Island is a Justice of the Peace for said town of West Greenwich duly elected and commissioned according to law and as such is authorized to take depositions and then acknowledgement of deed and other instruments made seal and to administer all necessary oaths and that full faith & credit accordance to his acts as such. 
In testimony whereof have [illegible] set my hand & seal of said state the day & year before written
A. Potter
Secy.
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West Greenwich R.I. Oct 3d 1853

I hereby constitute and appoint George Durfee of Providence in the state of Rhode Island my true & lawful attorney for me & my name for the following named purposes my that he the said Durfee may examine all papers now in Washington D.C. in relation to the pension due me as widow of the late Paris Corey (deceased) and to Act as agent of my claim to said pension and receive any certificate that may ten to the receiving of the same and to receive from the commissioner of pensions I certificate of pension for me as widow of Paris Corey deceased and I authorize my said attorney to appoint me or more attorneys under him for the purposes aforesaid witness my hand & seal this day & year first.  above written
Lydia Corey

Stephen A Wright
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For transfer
Sept. 25

Transferred court
26 November 1832

Honorable Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
City Washington
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Application for a Transfer
County of Windham

September 13th 1832

On this 13th day of September 1832 before me the subscriber a justice of the peace for said county of Windham personally appeared Paris Corey of Sterling in said county who on his oath declared that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Ebeneser Macomber in the regiment commanded by Col. Jeremiah Oleny in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of Rhode Island from whence he has lately removed that he now resides in the state of Connecticut where he intends to remain and wishes his pension to be there payable in future. The following are his reasons for remaining from Rhode Island. 
Because he purchased a piece of land in said Sterling where he intends to reside in future. 
Paris his X mark Corey

Anthony Stranahan

Windham county 
Brooklyn September 13th 1832
Personally appeared before me Paris Corey above named and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by his subscribed. 
Armin Bolles Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut
County of Windham
(City of) Brooklyn, September 13 A.D. 1832

I Anthony Stranahan of Plainfield in said Windham County of lawful age do certify and say that I am well acquainted with the within named Paris Corey and know him to the same person as within described and that he was placed on the Pension Roll of the Rhode Island agency and had drawn his pension there until the present time. 
Anthony Stranahan

Windham County ss Brooklyn September 13, A.D. 1832 personally appeared before me Capt.  Anthony Stranahan and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed. I further certify that I am acquainted with the said Stranahan and know him to be a credible witness. 
Armin Bolles, Justice of the Peace

I Armin Bolles Clerk of the County Court acting and for the County of Windham in the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that Armin Bolles before whom the foregoing affidavits were made is duly (unintelligible) as a Justice of the Peace in and for said Windham County & that the foregoing signature of his name are in his handwriting &c. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and office the seal of said Court at Brooklyn in said County this 15th day of September, A.D. 1832
Armin Bolles Clerk
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3 Shepard Street, 
Groton, Conn.,
Dec. 7th, 1927.

Pension Bureau, 
U.S War Department, 
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sirs:

About October 18th, I wrote to you asking information in regard to the Revolutionary War Service of some of my ancestors. I have been told that you are willing to give this information, so thought perhaps you did not receive the letter. Then, again, you may have so many requests for such information that it takes a long time. If this is so, I hope you will pardon my bothering you again.
I asked you if you had any record of John Bliven of Westerly fighting in R.I Regiment, 1777? Did he have a pension, and if so, the number?
I have the information that Paris Corey was serving as private under the command of Captain Ebenezer Macomber and Colonel Jeremiah Olney, 1779-81&82. His widow, Lydia Pratt, was granted a pension, No.2869, on Nov. 12th, 1853. Could I in any way secure a copy, or certificate of this, and if so, what is the fee?
Also, I have from State Record Commissioner of R.I. this, in regard to Jeremiah Stone. " Our records show that a Jeremiah Stone served as Private, Capt. Draper's Co., Col. Kasson's Regt. Militia, in 1778.  A Jeremiah Stone served as Sergeant Major, Col Tophams Regt., from May 16th to aug.16, 1778.  A Jeremiah Stone, possibly the same man, served as Lieutenant, Capt. Hoppin's Co., Col. Topham's Regt., from Nov.16 to Dec.16 1778, and from Jan. 16, to March 16, 1779. A Jeremiah Stone born In Providence, about 1755, enlisted March 14, 1782, for 9 months, campaign of 1782. 
A Jeremiah Stone appears as Private on list of names probably Capt. Stephen Knight's Co. of Scituate." I have looked through the 1774 Census for the State of R.I. and found only one Jeremiah Stone in the whole state. Also, I looked through the Stone Genealogy, and there was no other Jeremiah until
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after 1800. My Jeremiah Stone was in Providence 1745, and moved to Scituate when about 30, and the dates do not overlap. The Librarian at the R.I. Historical Scotiety thinks that it was the same man in every case, as he says that often happens. Could you tell me if Jeremaih Stone of Scituate ever received a pension, and if so, the number, and where I could secure a certificate of service, or something to send in with D.A.R papers as proof. I know that I am imposing a great deal in asking this information, and did I not want to join the D.A.R. so badly, I would not consider bothering you.
Thanking you most sincerely for any help which you can give me, I am 
Respectfully yours,
Mrs. Arvid G. Ohlin

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3 Shepard Street,
Groton, Conn.
Oct. 20th, 1927.

U.S Pension Bureau
War Department,
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen: 
I am trying to get information on my ancestors, which would enable me to join the D.A.R. I have been told that I might be able to get the necessary information on my Revolutionary ancester through the Bureau. I hope that I am not going beyond the usual procedure in asking your assistance. 
I am looking for the War records of Paris Corey from around West Greenwich. I have found a Paris Corey who served as private Feb. 1781 in R. I. Regiment. If possible, could you give me the name of his widow, if she received pension, as that is the necessary missing link, which I need.
Also, could you give me any help in regard to John Bliven of Westerly. He was born in Westerly Sept. 1730, which would have made him around 45 yrs. at the time of the Revolution. The only record which I can find at this time is that he down on the Military and Civil Lists of R.I in the year 1762-King's Co. Reg't. ass Ensign John Bliven. Due to the fact that he was a military man at that time. I feel he must have served later, unless in poor health. There is a Major John Bliven who was in the battle of Oriskany and was taken prisoner and so died. He was not the one I want. He was a cousin of my John. The John Bliven whose record I wish did not die until 1805, in Westerly.
Any information which you can give me in regard to these two men will be most deeply appreciated. I hope that I am not causing you too much trouble.

Very Truly yours,
Mary E Ohlin
(Mrs. Arvid G)

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REV
Widow, &c.
File No. 1238
Lydia Corey widow Paris Corey Priv. Rev. War
Act Feb [February] 3, 1853
Index:-Vol. A, Page 141
1927 Dec 12 - Hist to Mrs. Arvid G. Ohlin