Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2,319, Peleg Corey, R.I.
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[typed] (8-1776)
SERVICE [written] R. I. Corry, Peleg [typed] NUMBER [written] R. 2,319
[typed] CONTENTS [blank]
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[written] Pensions Papers 
of
Peleg Cory-
11927
Peleg Corey
N. Y.
Act 7. June '32
Rufus Cassit[?] agent
Hon W. Taylor
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[written] State of New York}
County of Onondaga}Ss:
On this day of September 1832 personally appeared
in Open Court before the Hon Daniel Moseley
new Chancellor of the 7th Circuit of the State of New York at a Court of [ilegible] now sitting for the State of New York in the town & county of Onondaga
and State aforesaid. Peleg Corey a resident
of the town of Otisco in the county of Onondaga
& state aforesaid who living & first duly
Sworn according to law doth on his oath,
make the following declaration in order  
to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832-
That he is Seventy four years of age the
11th Of July last that when he entered the
Service he resided in Narragansett in
the State of Rhode Island in the town then
called North Kingston afterwards called
North Washington that whom the Brittish [British]
first invaded Rhode Island he enlisted for
Six Months under Captain Peter Wright
and was called into immediate Service in
guarding the shores along the ocean attached
to the Regiment commanded by Colonel Charles
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Dyer during Six Months Service
[illegible] he was in a battle with the enemy when
they made the first attempt to land-
Colonel Green was there with a regiment
of Negroes- After the Six Months Service
was ended He was drafted & served out half of the time as follows
The Company of Militia
took turns in the service, one half served
out twenty days and then the other half
twenty days in this way he Served 
one half of the time the greatest 
part of the war- Living as he did on
the coast and on the seal of the
war he was Called out almost
every day to defend their towns their
Cattle or their lives, until the enemy
left Rhode Island- when not serving his term
under his draft.
The enemy were constantly sending ashore
parties of Soldiers from their Shipping and
wherever the enemy appeared on Shore there 
was an alarm all the inhabitants
turned out immediately this Deponent among
them, a Short Squabble would ensue and
the enemy would retire to their shipping-
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[written] He was one who assisted in taking a 36 gun frigate which ran aground 
at Point Juda and at the same
lines took one Captain & Seventy men as
prisoners who were sent to Boston.
General Sullivan commanded a part of this
time in that region. General [illegible] Spencer, and
General Varnum, from Providence were
on Rhode Island. After the French fleet 
left Rhode Island a Brittish [British] fleet came
in to the harbour and General Sullivan
had to retreat from the Island.
The Service which he performed consisted
principally in guarding the coast and in petty Squabbles with the [enemy crossed out] Scouting
parties of the enemy-
He was in actual Service more than
one half of the time after the enemy
first appeared off Rhode Island until
peace was declared-
He never had any written discharge from Service
He has no documentary evidence of his Services
nor any record of his age-
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[[crossed out: about 30 years since the war]
He lived at Northwashington in Rhode Island
until about 30 years since when he moved to North Hampton in the County of Montgomery 
in the state of New York, and resided
there 24 years and then moved to Otisco
in the County of Onondaga and State of
New York when he has since resided.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever
to a Pension or annuity except the present
& declares that his name is not on the
Pension roll of the agency of any State
He is acquainted with Elder Solomon
Guardsman of Onondaga and Eleazer Slocum
of Otisco who can testify to my warranty 
and [crossed out: Service] reputation of Service-
He was born in North Kingston in Rhode Island-
Peleg Coney
Subscribed & Sworn 
this 14 September 1832
Daniel Mosley
Circuit Judge & [illegible] Chancellor
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[written/ crossed out, to his character favor and thur belief
as to his services as a Soldier of the Revolution]
We Solomon Gardner a clerymen residing in the
Town of Onondaga in the county of Onondaga and
State of New York and Ebeazer Slocum of the town
of Otisco in the said County hereby certify that
we are well acquainted with Peleg Corey who
has Subscribed and Sworn to the above declaration
that we believe him to be Seventy Four years
of age that he is reputed and believed in the
neighborhood where he resides to have been
a Soldier of the Revolution and that we
concur in that opinion. also that he is a man
of veracity- subscribed & sworn this day & year aforesaid
Daniel Mosley Circuit Judge 
Solomon Gardner
Eleazer Solomon
And the said Court do hereby [line through, certify that] 
declare their opinion after the ministryation of
the matter and after putting the interrogatories 
prescribed by the war department that
the above named applicant was a Revolutionary
Soldier and Served as he States and the [they] must 
further certify that it appears to them that
Solomon Gardner who has signed the preceding 
Certificate is a clergyman residing in the
town of Onondaga afforesaid and that Eleazar
Slocomb who has also signed the same is a
resident of the town of Otisco in the county
of Onondaga afforesaid and is a credible person
and that their statement is entitled to credit
Daniel Mosley
Vice Chancellor}
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[written] I Daniel T Mosley Deputy Clerk of the County 
of Chancery of the Seventh Circuit
for the the state of New York
do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original
proceedings of the said Courts
in the matter of the application
of Peleg Cory for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and seal of office this 15th
day of September one thousand
eight hundred and thirty two-
Daniel T Mosley
Deputy Clerk

Peleg Cory
Pension Papers
Rufus Cossit agent
11927
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State of New York
Onondaga County } ss: Personally appeared in open
Court before Daniel Mosley vice Chancellor
of the Seventh Circuit at a Court now sitting 
at Onondaga
Peleg Cory [Corey] of the town of Otisco in the County of
Onondaga who being duly Sworn deposeth & saith
that by reason of old age & the consequent
loss of memory he cannot swear positively as 
to the truth of his recollection he served not
less than the periods mentioned below and
in the following grades: For six months
I Served as a private Soldier in the Militia
which six months commenced at or immediately
after the time when the British [illegible]
Rhode Island first- I am unable to
State the year in which this service
took place- I believe it was in the same
year but after the British took New York- I am unable to state the
time of the year or day of the month when my six months service
commenced or ended-
After the six months Service above mentioned- I served twenty days as a
private Soldier in the Militia and was
then discharged for twenty days & then
Served twenty days and in this
way I served every other twenty days
during the remainder of the war-
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At what time this twenty day's service commenced I cannot state - but I believe it was a year or more previous to General Sullivan's expedition - When General Sullivan came to Rhode Island I was serving under my twenty days draft.   I surely believe that I served two years and more under this last mentioned draft. 
I know of no person living whose testimony I can procure to any part of my service - I was born in North Kingstown, afterwards called North Washington in the state of Rhode Island in the year 1758.   
I have no word of my age - During the time I was serving my six months draft a regiment of soldiers commanded by Colonel Thomas Potter was stationed in South Washington. 
During the time that the British occupied Rhode Island the French fleet appeared off the coast and General Sullivan marched a detachment of 
soldiers on to Rhode Island with a view of uniting with the French and driving off the British - but after Sullivan had got on to the Island the French fleet moved off to Boston & left Sullivan to get off the best way he could.
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For the services above set forth I claim a pension.

Peleg Corey

Subscribed & Sworn this 26th day of February 1833 before me in open court. 
Daniel Moseley
Vice Chancellor

I Daniel T. Mosely Deputy Clerk of the Court of Chancery of the seventh circuit for the state of New York hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter and the application of Peleg Corey is [unintelligible] and subsequent proceedings [unintelligible] made this 26th day of February 1833. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this day & year aforesaid. 
Daniel T. Moseley
Deputy Clerk
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[illegible] 
and that he was in sundry small
skirmishes, assisted
in capturing a 36 gun
frigate at Point Juda
(Judith?/ verify) the Captain &seventy men, all of whom were sent to Boston & was in a
battle in North Kingston.
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January 30, 1940

Alice Torrey Meskimen 
970 Colfax Avenue
Benton Harbor, Michigan

BA - J/CC
Peleg Corey
R. 2319

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Peleg Corey, born July 11, 1758, in North Kingstown, Rhode Island, and served in Captain Peter Wright's company, Colonel Dyer's regiment. 

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, R. 2319, based upon service of Peleg Corey in the Revolutionary War. 

Peleg Corey was born July 11, 1758, in North Kingston, Rhode Island. Names of his parents are not shown. 

Peleg Corey applied for a pension September 14, 1832, at which time he was residing in Otisco, Onondaga County, New York, and stated that while residing in North Kingston (later North Washington), Narragansett, Rhode Island, he enlisted in the Spring of 1775, and served as private at various times until the close of the war, amounting in all to more than two years in Captains Thomas Clark's, Peter Wright's and Samuel Dyer's companies, Colonel Charles Dyer's Rhode Island regiment [crossed out - and that he was in battle with the enemy].   His claim was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of six month's service as required by the pension laws. 
After the Revolution he lived in North Washington, Rhode Island until about 1802, when he moved to North Hampton, Montgomery County, New York, where he lived about twenty-four years, then moved to Otisco, Onondaga County, New York.  He was still living there in 1840.
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No family data are shown in this claim.
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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1 2 one
970 Colfax Ave.
Benton Harbor, Mich. [Michigan]
Jan. [January] 16, 1940
Commissioner of Pensions-Washington D.C.
Dept. [Department] of Interior - Revolutionary War Section  Bureau of Pensions
Dear Sirs:  Do you have the record of Peleg Corey of Rhode Island on file in your office? The Military Census of 1777 notes a Peleg Corey in North Kingstown, Rhode Island between 16 and 50, "able to bear arms." I also have the information that a Peleg Corey, born North Kingstown, R.I. [Rhode Island], July 11, 1758, served in Capt. [Captain] Peter Wright's Co., [Company] Col. [Colonel] Dyer's Regt. [Regiment], 6 months; also served 2 years, Co. [Company] and regiment not given; also served in Capt. [Captain] Smuel [Samuel] Dyer's Co. [Company]. Family records state that this man had a son, also Peleg Corey, who was born in Rhode Island but grew to maturity in New York and died in Onondaga County. Sarah Spalding was the wife of this second Peleg Corey. She was born in Saratoga County, New York, as was also her father, J. Spalding, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Both Peleg Corey and Sarah Spalding were twice married. Jeremiah David Corey, born April 17, 1816 in Otisco Township, Onondaga County, New York was the oldest of the four children of this second marriage who grew to maturity.
If you have the record of Peleg Corey in your office, would you send me all the facts you have concerning him? I am particularly anxious to learn the date of his marriage and the name of his wife.
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I should also like to establish the place and date of his death. Thank you for any information which you may be able to give me.
Very sincerely,
Alice Torrey Meskimen
[faded circular "received" stamp] Jan 18 1940  MAIL SUB-DIV Reader No. 19 VETS ADM
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1940 - Jan [January] 30 - Hist [History] to Alice Torre Meskimer  ac
[Strike out "Acts of July 14, 1802, and March 3, 1873"]
2319
P.O. 
Peleg Corey
Service: [blank]
Enlisted: [blank], 18
Discharged: [blank], 18
Application filed: [blank], 18 
[illegible]  leges: [blank]
re-enlisted: [blank]
Attorney: [blank]
P.O. [blank]
[blank] Recognized. [blank] Contr[illegible]
[blank] Cert of Dis.  Searched for [blank] 18
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New York Revo [Revolutionary]
Peleg Corey Suspended
Let [letter] Hon [Honorable] W. Taylor
26 June '34
Let [letter] to George Pettit July 3 1836
Let [letter] to same[ Sept 1 1836
[strike out "to Hon. W. Taylor 22 Dec '36"]
do to [illegible] M. J. Bovee July 21st 1840 
do to Hon. [Honorable] H. Wheat on H.R. March 19th 1846
Act 7 June '32  x10th
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11,927
Peleg Corey, NY [New York]
[Strike out " Hon. W. Taylor June 24, 1834, George Pettit July 20 1836, same Sep 1 1836, Hon W. Taylor Dec 22 '36]
" [ditto: Hon] M. J. Bovee July 21 1840 (reviewed cases
[strike out "H. H. Wheaton Mch 10 1846, Hon. P.T. Jones July 12/54]
2319
June 7 1832
From list of rejected and suspended pensions "period, length, grade, names of officers and localities required."
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State of New York
Montgomery County ss.
Fones Cole of the town of Broadalbin in the county and state aforesaid aged seventy three years next June being duly sworn saith that he resided in the town of North Kingstown in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island during the war of the revolution during which time he was well acquainted with Peleg Corey who now resides as it is said and which this deponent believes in the the town of Otisco in the county of Onondaga in said state of New York. That the said Peleg Corey during the war of the revolution resided in the same town with the deponent in the said state of Rhode Island. That this deponent first saw said Corey in the services of the United States in the fall of the year 1775 the month he does not recollect with certainty. That the said Corey was with the Company commanded by Samuel Dyer and Lieutenant Pirce [Pierce] and in Col [Colonel] Seyers [Sayer's] regiment. That the said Peleg Corey was in said service about or nearly one half of the time from the fall of the year 1775 untill [until] the close of the war or nearly the close. That the said Peleg did not serve during the war [illegible] as this deponent believes than three years that he has seen him the said Peleg in said service more than two years and that this deponent is not mistaken and well recollects the services of said Peleg as he himself was in said service a
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a great proportion of said time and served in the same regiment with the said Peleg and was stationed with the said Peleg at the same place and amount of the time in North Kingstown and on the Island. That the said Peleg during said war was under the command of different Captains recollects he served in Captain Peter Wright's company but was in the same regiment. The words "him the said Peleg" "company" interlineated before execution and oath made.
[signed] Fones Cole
Subscribed and sworn to this nineteenth day of May 1834 before me the undernamed justice of the peace and I certify that I am acquainted with the above named Fones Cole and that he is a man of truth and veracity and that his statement is entitled to full credit and belief.
[signed] Marcellus Weston Justice of the Peace of  [illegible] in the county of Montgomery and State of New York
State of New York
Montgomery County Clerks Office ss.
I George D. Ferguson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Montgomery aforesaid do hereby certify that Marcellus Weston before whom the foregoing affidavit of Fones Cole purports to have been sworn was on the date thereof a Justice of the Pease in and for the county aforesaid and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and verily believe that his name subscribed to said affidavit and also to the above certificate of character is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 9th June 1834.
[signed] Geo. D. Ferguson Clerk
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Herkimer County ss.
Nicholas Spink of the town of Herkimer in said county being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is now sixty nine years of age and was a musician in the Revolutionary War for which services he this deponent is in the receipt of an annual pension ninety six dollars that in the year Seventeen hundred seventy eight as deponent believes, he was attached to a company of minute men raised by the State or United States and which deponent is not able to state commanded by one Samuel Dyer Capt [Captain] and one Sylvester Pierce was Lieutenant as deponent believes said company was attached to a regiment commanded by one Charles Dyer Col. [Colonel] the other officers of the regiment deponent cannot now recollect. Said Company was stationed at north kingstown in the state of Rhode Island was raised for the purpose of defending the inhabitants residing along the sea shore  deponent joined this company early in the spring of the year 1778 when the same was raised and continued with the company for more than six months.
And deponent further saith that Peleg Corey who now resides in the town of Otisco in the County of Onondaga in the state of New York was a soldier in said company and was inlisted [enlisted] for six months and served the full time and during the time that deponent belonged to this company, that said Corey was a faithful and good soldier and at that time sustained a fair character that deponent has not seed said Corey for several years but will recollect him to be the same individual who served in said company as above stated and further this deponent saith not.
[signed] Nicholas Spink
Sworn and subscribed this 8th day of May AD 1834 before me
[signed] John Dygert Just. Peace [Justice of the Peace]
Herkimer County ss.
I John Dygert the Justice before whom the foregoing affidavit was take do truly certify that I am well acquainted with said Nicholas Spink Esq who subscribed the foregoing affidavit and know him to be a man of truth and veracity and that his statement is credible.
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to full credit and belief
John Dygert Just Peace [Justice of the Peace]
State of New York
Herkimer County ss.
Clerks office
I Julius C. Nelson clerk of the said county do certify that John Dygert Esq befor whom the preceding affidavit purports to have been sworn was on the day it bears date a Justice of the peace in and for said county and duly authorized to act as such Justice
And further that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be the propert hand writing of the said Justice. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal of office this 21st day of May 1834.
Julius C. Nelson Clerk
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State of New York
Onondaga  County ss.
Peleg Corey of the town of Otisco in said County being duly sworn saith that in addition to his said declaration hereto annexed he states that the first of his said services in his said declaration mentioned was commenced in the spring of the year 1775 and was performed under one Peter Wright Captain, and that the next of his said services were commenced in the fall of the year 1775 and performed under the same Captain Wright in Col. [Colonel] Dyer regiment of Malitia [Militia] that he served alternately every other 20 days that he cannot recollect the particular month on which his said services commenced or ended but is positive that his service term commenced in less than two months after his first term expired which was in the fall of 1775. That it is impossible for him to state precisely the days that he was on duty for but his recollection is that he was drafted from time to time to serve alternately every other day during the years 1776 and 1777. That the enemy were constantly invading the shores of Rhode Island in the section where deponent lived and one half of the whole of the malitia [militia] were obliged to be under arms alternatively the whole of the time that his said services were performed in a regular organized corps called out by authority. Deponent further saith that in the spring of the year 1778 he enlisted in to a company of volunteers commanded by our Captain Samuel Dyer which was attached to the regiment of Malitia [militia] commanded by our Col [Colonel] Charles Dyer and served six months at North Kingstown on the lines.
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deponent recollects that there were soldiers stationed at Warwick neck called the nine months men.
And deponent further saith that after his said last mention six months expire he called out as a minute man and served when was required which was very often until the close of the war. In Capt. Peter Wright company aforesaid but which particular service he cannot astertain [ascertain] the amount with certainty. 
Deponent recollects of being in a battle at Quitnisit neck and helped retake fifty head of cattle from the British which they had taken from the citizens that Col. Kit Green was there also at the battle with five hundred negroes and he further saith that he was born the 11th day of July 1758 that he has no record of his age that when he was first called into the into the service he would in north Kingston in the state of Rhode Island and further saith not. 
Peleg Corey

Subscribed and sworn before me this 4th day of June 1834 
John Dunford J.P. 

State of New York
County of Onondaga
I, Alanson Edwards junior deputy clerk of the said county do certify that John Dunsford esquire before whom the preceding affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county duly elected and qualified and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verify believe his name subscribed to the jurat of said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and genuine signature Witness my hand and seal of office this 13th day of June 1834
A. Edwards Jr. Dpt. Clrk
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answ.d

[stamped] FREE

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Court of Pensions
Washington
D.C.


Peleg Corey
case



[written along the left hand side] 
June 30th 1840
N.Y.
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Amsterdam June 25.1840

Sir
Enclosed I forward you a letter from Mr. Peleg Corey   who has made application under the Act of June 7th 1832 - please give a report. 
I am yours respectfully 
Matthias J. Bovee

Hon. J.L. Edwards
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10th W. [illegible]

24 June 1834

OC
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War Dept. 
Pension
June 24 '37

Sir, 
I have the honor to state the claim of Peleg Corey has been examined & susp.d. The alternate service of the militia of R. Island was not understood to have commenced as early as the fall of '75 but waiving the objection to that past of the declaration it is indispensable that the claim and should designated some fixed period for the commencement of his service & that he regularly performed his successive tours without failing in a single instance to some definite period or if he failed to perform any of his tours to state them his papers are placed on file - There is no objection to allow Joshua Lynch a pension for 6 mo & 12 days if he will by a relinquishment confine his claim to that amt. of service. 

Act 7 June

Hon. W. Taylor
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Hon. J.L. Edwards Esqu.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

[written along the left side]
Aug 29
NY
Act 4 July '36
7 June '32

[written upside down along the bottom]
Peleg Corey


[written along the right side] 
E. Benedict 
S. Webster
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Fabius Onondaga County
N.Y. Aug 23rd 1836

I wrote you on the 12th July last to forward the pension papers of Mr. Peleg Corey of Otisco in this County & received a reply from Dr. Crumplunder date of the 20th ult, stating that my "request cannot be complied with". After failing of success in his application for some two or three years and after losing confidence in his previous agents & soliciting me to undertake for him and becoming satisfied  myself, that the old gentleman had been a bona fide soldier in the revolutionary war, I consented on condition I could procure the papers so as to get an understanding of the state of the case - without the papers or a copy of them, I find it very difficult if not impossible to proceed - It is the more difficult, because Mr Cory [Corey] resides 20 miles off where he cannot be consulted. & were this otherwise, the three years while his application has been pending, have continually & progressively weakened & withered his faculties. May I then request a copy to be made, of his declaration, & especially of the affidavits of Nicholas Spink & Fones Cole, by some of the clerks in your office or any other person? & for the labor & services of copying I will remit payment by Mr. Taylor, our representative in Congress, when the session [illegible] in November next, and it will be reckoned among the numerous favours received at your hands, in the progress of my agency for the veterans of the revolution. 
I enclose applications from Margaret Webster and Huldah Benedict for the benefit of the third section of the Act of Congress passed July 4th 1836. Your action & returns as speedily as convenient on these applications will confer a special obligation upon the poor Williams. 
i am very respectfully your Obed.t &c. &c. [etcetera]
George Pettit 

Hon. J.K. Edwards Esqr. 
Com.r of Pensions
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Peleg Corey

July 18
Fabius,  NY
July 12

N.Y. 

J.L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Fabius, Onondaga County, N.Y.
July 12th, 1836

Sir - 

More than two years ago I was solicited by Peleg Cory of Otisco in this county, to take the agency from the hands of another, & aid him in obtaining  a pension under the act of 1832, but declined for reasons of respect to his agent - the old Gentleman had become impatient of the delay, & imputes it to inattention on the part of the present agent - Seeing him yesterday, at his residence 20 miles from mine, he again renewed his solicitation, & I agreed to try to help him.  To do this understandingly, I need to see his papers, especially the affidavits, which the agent says, are the files of your Office - If it be not inconsistent with your regulations, please forward them to me, otherwise, please write, giving the state of the application & [illegible] of the objections. I am to see him again on the 29th Inst, & should be glad to receive your answer before that time - He says that an error as to his name, called him William Corey, appears in some return from your office, now in the hands of Gardner Lawrence Esq. of Syracuse, the present agent. 

I am respectfully &c,

George Pettit
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War Department Pension Office July 20, 1836
Sir
In reply to your letter of the 12th instant, I have to state that the request that the papers of Peleg Corey may be returned cannot be complied with. The claimant alleges in his declaration that at the time of the British took possession of Rhode Island he served a tour of six months in Capt [Captain] Peter Wrights company of the Rhode Island Militia. After that [strike out "time he served alternatively"] twenty days at a time alternately one-half of the time during most of the war. No claim thus indefinitely set forth can according to the regulations of the Department is allowed. In the first place there is no evidence of a six months tour in the militia of that state in 1776. 2 the date of each tour and the places where ordered and the names of the officers are not in each and every instance as required specified
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[line through- before any part of the aforesaid can be satisfactorily examined]
this must be done before a satisfactory examination can be held
Geo. Pettit Esqr.
July 20 1835
George Pettit Esqr
Fabius
New York
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[written] George Pettit Esqr
September 1 '36
O. C.
Rec Vol 39
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[written] War Department
Pension Office
Sept 1st. 1836
Sir 
Neither the original papers or copies thereof
can be furnished in the case of Peleg Corey: a brief
of his statement is furnished in my letter of the 20th July
last in which are set forth the objections to his claim
George Pettit Esqr
Fabius
New York

55w
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I Caleb Hill of North Kingstown in the County of Washington on solemn oath do testify and say that I am seventy eight years of age during the Revolutionary War I served as a soldier in the militia and in the independent company [illegible] the Kentish Guards. During the war I knew Peleg Corey who then lived in North Kingstown but who left here for some part of the State of New York, many years ago. In the year 1775 I did duty in the company of militia of which Peter Wright was Captain one [illegible] Leut [Lieutenant] and Sylvester Pearce ensign marched to the regiment of whom Charles Dyer was Colonel and the said Peleg Corey belonged to the same company with me and I am [illegible]  positive that I served two tours of duty of one month each in said company during that year with the said Peleg Corey [illegible] at the Willus House in Aquidneck Neck in North Kingstown. In 1778 I joined the independent company called the Kentish Guards in [illegible] after that is the company to which Peleg Corey belonged. I do not doubt but that he served more in the company during the war as the militia was [illegible]  whilst the enemy were at Newport from 1776 to 1777 and every one had to serve one third of the time at least sometimes one half.
[signed] Caleb Hill
I Stuckely Hill, of North Kingstown in the county of Washington on solemn oath testify and say that I was a soldier during the War of the Revolution and did duty in the Militia of Rhode Island in the year 1778. Peter Wright was Captain of the company to which I belonged. Edward Dyer Leut [Lieutenant] and Samuel Dyer Ensign. And during that year [illegible] of being on duty time in said company guarding the [illegible] the bay at the same time that Peleg Corey who then lived in North Kingstown but who left here a number of year ago for the State of New York was on duty, but I cannot state the particular months of the year we were stationed in Aquidneck Neck North Kingstown. I presume he served at the time but have no positive recollection of the same. I was sergeant of the company part of the time and find his name on an old roll in my possession
[signed] Stukely Hill
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I Peleg Card of North Kingstown in the county of Washington on solemn oath do testify and say, that I am eighty one year old during the Revolutionary war I knew Peleg Corey who then lived in North Kingstown but who left a number of years ago for the State of New York. He [illegible] during the war to the same company of Militia that I did and sometimes did duty where I did. The Militia was divided into three divisions and each on then [illegible] third [illegible] of the time, and the said Corey lived near me and sometimes served when I did I have no doubt but that [illegible] one third [illegible] of time, during the three years the enemy were at Newport from 1776 to 1779. I [illegible] then one month in the fall of 1776 when Thomas Clark was Captain of the company stationed two weeks of the time at the House of Thomas Clark the Captain [illegible] the officers there no recollection [illegible] North Kingstown afterwards in the years 1777 and 1778 I served with said Peleg Corey several tours of duty of one month each when Peter Wright was Captain of the company stationed in Aquidneck Neck the tours of duty were one month each Sylvester Peace was ensign of the company part of the time but I cannot recall the particular months but [illegible] with him in each of the years of 1777 and 1778
[signed] Peleg Card
Washington ss. In North Kingstown September the 10th 1836 Personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said North Kingstown Peleg Card Caleb Hill Stukely Hill whose names are annexed to the foregoing depositions who after being by me duly examined cautioned and sworn gave the foregoing depositions which was by me reduced to writing in their [illegible] by them subscribed in [illegible] and they are well known to me and that their [illegible]
[signed] Sylvester G. Shearman Justice of the Peace
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[written] Hon. W. Taylor
22. Dec. 1836
Recd. Vol 39 Page 388
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War Department
Pension Office
Dec 22. 1836
The additional evidence in support of the
claim of Peleg Corey has been examined-- The
claimant alleges in his declaration that thus [crossed out the found illegible]
in the commencement of the war he served 6 months
in Capt Wrights Company & that after that he served 
alternately nearly the whole period of the war-
Mr. Corys statement has been [illegible] & is  [illegible] objected
to as not being [illegible-crossed out] in conformity with the regulations of this Department [crossed out sentence] 
which require that the
duration of the term of actual service be specified
as well as the names of the officers in such tour, the
place or places when rendered & the period. Without such specification no satisfactory investigation of the
claim can be had - The witnesses whose affidavits are now produced have gone but little further than to identify the claim and 
in the service [crossed out have not] at various periods during the war
Hon Wm Taylor 
House Reps. N. Y.
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[written]Hon. H. Wheaton
10. March 1846
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[written] Pension Office
March 10. 1846
Sir,
Agreeably toyour request I make the
following statement in the case of Peleg Corey. I can
discover no evidence in this case sufficient to support to warrant 
the Department in granting the lowest pension allowed
by law. My letter of the 21st of July 1840 to the Hon.
M. J. Bovee, an extract from which I herewith enclose, will
show that is wanting in this case.
I have the honor 
No. 11927 Act of June '32
New York Index
Enter this
Hon. H. Wheaton
House of Rep
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[written] Mathias J Bove Esqr.
Amsterdam
N. York
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Otisco May 11, 1821
Dear Sir I understand that you are in the habit of obtaining pensions for those who have served in the Revolution.  I have been a soldier in the revolution and want to employ you to get my pension.  I will give you [illegible] part if you will obtain it for me.  I applied for it some eight or ten years past but was unsuccessful.  

I have served under Capt. Thomas Clark (Militia) then he resigned and Capt. Peter Wright took command. Then I enlisted under Capt. Samuel Dyer as a minute man and Sylvester Pierce was Lieut.  I did duty six month as minute man.  Then I went back into Capt. Wright's comp. again the time I served under Capt. Wright I was on duty twenty days and off the same alternate, but was hired as a substitute the other twenty so that I was in service all the while.  For witnesses I will refer you to Stukely Hill, Caleb Hill, John Spink, Ed.d Laten, Peleg Card, Squire Wm. Reynolds, Sweet Briggs, Stephen Northrup, Peleg Slocum (North Kingston, Rhode Island) and Christopher Jenkins, Duanesburg, Nicholas Spink, Herkimer.  

Capt. Thomas Clark's widow and Capt. Saml Dyer's widow and Lieut. Pierce's widow know that I was in service and quartered in their house with them.  Should you want more information let me know.  Yours truly Peleg Cory 
Hon. M J Bove
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I Peleg Card of Noeth Kingston, in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island on solemn oath do say, that I am ninety years of age and am a Revolutionary Pensioner during the War of the Revolution I served much as a soldier in the Rhode Island Militia and I knew Peleg Corey, who then resided in said North Kingston, and belonged to the same Company of Militia that I did.  In the Fall of 1775 I served with him, one month in the Company of Militia of which Thomas Clark stationed at the house of Thomas Clark in December 1776 I served with him another Month, in the same Company Peter Wright then being Captain.

In October 1777 I served with him another Month at Trenton in this State, in the time of Spencer's Expedition, to take possession of Rhode Island, with the same Captain. 

I served with him another Month in August 1778, [illegible] on Rhode Island and [illegible] on the [illegible] adjacent in the time of Sullivan's Expedition.  I also served with him at other times and places, but cannot be positive as to the dates of the other times or places.  He always served when his term [illegible].  I knew that he enlisted in a United States service, but never knew in what Company or Regiment
Peleg Card X his mark 

Witness
Sylvester G. Shearman
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Washington ss State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations
In North Kingston August 6th 1845
Personally appeared before me the Subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for said North Kingston Peleg Card whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Deposition and after being by me duly examined, cautioned & sworn made Oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition. Which was by me [illegible] to certify, in his presence and he being unable from old Age to write his Name, made his mark in my presence & I affixed my Name [illegible] a witness in his presence.

And I further Certify, that the said Peleg Card is well known to me and that his Character for truth and veracity is good.

Sylvester G. Shearman Justice of the Peace
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State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations Washington ss.

Town Clerk Office, of the Town of North Kingston.

I the Subscriber Town Clerk of the Town of North Kingston Hereby Certify that Sylvester G. Shearmen, before whom the annexed Deposition is a Justice of the Peace for said town of North Kingston, legally [illegible] commissioned and qualified to act as such. And I further Certify that the signature attached to said Deposition, purporting to be his, is his own proper signature, in his own hand writing, known to me as such.

In testimony whereof I Saml Pierce do set my hand & seal of Office at said North Kinston, this Seventh Day of August in the Year 1845.
Sam Pierce T. Clk.
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Additional Testimony in
the case of Peleg Corey of Otisco 
Onondaga County N. Y.
September 1836
George Pettit Fabius
Agent
Hon W Taylor
HK
Dec 14
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State of Rhode Island  Providence Plantations 
Washington

Clerk justice of court of Pert
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July 12/34  12th
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[written] 151
[illegible] Office
July 12, 1854
Sir:
I herewith return the letter of
Silas Corey, Esq and from the [illegible] to
Ach Nat the claim of Peleg Corey,
under the Act of June 7, 1832, for certain
matter [illegible] under the authority of
the [illegible] of Rhode Island [illegible]
[illegible] for the case as that the said
[illegible] nor [illegible] set forth and
has claimed according to the regulations.
The accompanying copy of a letter
addressed to George Pettit, Esq after 
20 [illegible] of July 1836, will show you the
attached objections to the claim which
have not been named [illegible] of any subsequent
testimony.
Hon. D. J. Jones,
[illegible] of R I