Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12823, Cary Dunn, Continental (New York)
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Service 
Continental (New York)

Dunn, Cary 

Number 
S 12823

Carded

Contents
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No 1246

New York

Cary Dunn
New York in the State of New York was a Major in the Line commanded by Geo Clinton in the New York line for two years and upwards

Continental Line
Records corrected Jany 11/06 R
Inscribed on the Roll of New York 
at the rate of 600 Dollars 00 per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831 

Certificate of Pension issued the 30th day of Oct 1832 and sent to Pens. in
New York City

Arrears to September 1832  900
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Mar '33 300
$1200

Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by Wm H Palmer Clerk
Book D Vol 5 Page 80
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Supplemental affidavits of R Riker Recorder of the City of New York & of Josiah Ogden Hoffman and one of the Judges of the Superior Court in the City of New York. Also affidavit of John Odell First Marshall in the office of the Mayor of the City of New York
R Riker
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County & State of New York Ss Richard Riker recorder of the City of New York being further sworn saith. That he is fully 
acquainted with the family difficulties
which arose in consequence of the death of
mother of Major Dunn & the remarriage of
his  father with a second wife A long expensive & angry law suit was
the consequence. The second
wife & her child claimd the whole Estate under a will made by old Mr.  Dunn. The 
will was set aside but Major Dunn was put to great expences,  & is now destitute, and this Deponent has no doubt that his commission & documents have been withheld or destroyed as Major Dunn has stated as far as this Deponent is informed & as he believes Major Dunn must have acted at times under Govr George Clinton or the State authorities & at times under the orders of the Continental officer. But this deponent has no doubt that he served in substance as he has stated
This deponent also knows that the said Major Dunn has two scars-one on the right wrist &
the other over the right eye which he
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always understood were received in battle in the War of the Revolution as he has before stated. 

R Riker

Sworn this 24th October 
1832 in open Court
Abm Asten Clerk Com Pleas NY
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Affidavit of Major Cary Dunn to obtain his pension as an Officer of the Revolution proved in court

No. I

Also affidavits of Major Genl. Morton R. Riker Recorder of the City of New York and the authentication of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
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State of New York
City and County of
New York
Page 1st 

On the first day of September 1832 personally appeared in open court before John T. Irving, First Judge and Richard Riker Esquire Recorder of the City of New York about holding the Court of Common Pleas of the City and County of New York. [words crossed out] Cary Dunn a resident of the City of New York aged about seventy three years who being 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 or 15th of May 1828. That he entered the service of the United States in the latter part of the year 1777 as second Lieutenant under a Company of Rangers only two officers appointed by either John Hancock or Henry Laurence Esquire, Presidents of Congress when Congress sat at Lancaster
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or Yorktown in the State of Pennsylvania as the deponent cannot recollect when the British Army was in Philadelphia, that saith after Captain Meyers died and the command of the company devolved on the deponent who continued in such command for a short period and was promoted in the year of 1778 to the Office of Captain of said Company and late in the summer of the same year or beginning of the fall was promoted to the Office of Major and that he acted as such in various capacities as the accompanying documents will show returning to his rank as Major as the deponent most unfortunately by the great period of time that has elapsed, has lost many essential papers from the late Governor George Clinton, General Heath, Gen Hand, Col. Scammell Adjutant General and other officers. And this deponent further deposes and says that he was wounded in the right hand in a [sortie?] made near the Minisink  on the Canal Brandt the Indian
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Chief and his band of Indians, Tories and who burnt a village. I think called Pennpack on the frontiers of the state of New Jersey or New York the scar of the wound which remains and the deponent further saith that in the early ^ part of the summer of 1779 he was ordered to report himself to the late Governor George Clinton of the State of New York and obey his orders when this deponent was ordered on the frontiers of that State by the Governor with a command of troops that could be collected of Continentals and Militia when General Sullivan was the General selected for the Western Army against the Indians in the year of 1779 and continued until the close of that year when Governor George Clinton permitted this deponent on furlough to return to his affectionate fathers ^ house in the State of New Jersey where he resided as one of the Whig scribes from the City of New York. And the deponent further declares that in June of the year 1780 he was ordered by Colonel Scammell the Adjutant General under the immediate command
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of the illustrious Washington then at Morristown in New Jersey by Major John Stagg to join the Army and was ordered to join a strong detachment under the command of General Lord Sterling and General Hand to attack the enemy under General [Henry?] Johanson who the day before destroyed by fire Connecticut farms and compelled General Harwell with the Jersey Brigade and Militia to retire from the field of battle. And the deponent further deposes that he and Major Reed of Col. Harris Regiment was ordered as the advance part of the Detachment to command the attack on the enemy which was done advancing and retreating under the order of General Hand Commanding in the field until he was obliged to retreat 4 or 5 miles from Elizabethtown where we lay on command all night and in the morning was relieved by another detachment of fresh troops and joined the main army on the Short Hills in the town of Springfield and the main army marched towards the Hudson and left two Brigades of Continental Troops with the Artillery
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under the Command of Major Gen Green to watch the enemy and the deponent remaining under Gen Green's orders. Shortly after Gen
 [Irny ? hansen?] in the same month of June advanced towards Springfield in great force attacked and defeated troops at Springfield in various points and took possession of the village and began burning and plundering and discharged much of the village when the deponent was ordered by Lieut Col. Barber Acting Adjutant Gen, to all of the Artillery commanded by Captain Lieut Thompson of Col. Lambs to [??] and who in a few moments in the retreat and both of his legs was shot off and died. When this deponent received a slight contusion over the right eye the scar of the contusion which remains and was furloughed by indisposition and early in the spring the year of 1781 he was ordered to report himself by Gen. Hand then Adjutant Gen in the [norm?] of Col. Scammell who joined his regiment to report himself to Governor George Clinton and receive his orders
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as it was shortly contemplated to make an attack on the city of New York in conjunction of the French Fleet & Army and that deponent was then ordered to report to Westchester on the lines and since confidential communications from our employed friends in the City of New York and elsewhere as the Army was then joined by Count Rochambau with the french army at Phillsburgh in Westchester when General Washington suddenly moved with a strong body of our troops and the french army to Virginia against Lord Cornwallis and Gen Heath was left commanding General of the army remaining. And the deponent further says that he served in different capacities in the army of the Revolution under the directions of the late Governor George Clinton of the State of New York on command as Major, as also under the Orders of Major Gen Health during the War and this deponent further says that his commissions as 2nd Lieut. Captain and Major was earnestly requested
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by his affectionate father of him to remember revolutionary times which your deponent from fillial [filial] duty complied with in the year of 1807 when this deponent married, went and resident in Queens County. And this deponent further saith that owing to a family lawsuit of a will arising  from a second marriage of his father his commissions have been lost or destroyed. (as your deponent defeated them in a lawsuit in the Supreme Court before the Hon. Judge Platt in this City as the deponent believes) having made several applications to John Doughty the Guardian of a Child by the second marriage and the agent and attorney of the widow in the life time of that aforesaid John Doughty for them, but never received either of them nor could obtain any information of them. This deponent further saith that he was appointed by the late Governor George Clinton an Ass [assistant] Justice for the City and County of New York the 2nd day of April 1791 passed
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the Secy Office signed by Robert Harper Depy Secy and this deponent further says that the late Governor George Clinton informed this deponent that he nominated him to the Council of Appointments for his services as an American Officer of the Revolution. The deponent further declares that he has never applied for a pension from the United States and never received any from the Unites States or any other State in the United States. 

Sworn to and subscribed in open court this 1st day of September 1832 before me
Abm Asten Clerk 

Cary Dunn Junior 

This is to certify that we the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas held in & for the City of New York in the State of New York in open court, the said court claims now set before us and being a court of Record are of opinion and fully satisfied after a full investigation of the preceding
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matter and the aforesaid statement and application of Cary Dunn Jr. and after putting the questions and interrogatories prescribed by the War Department as in print and now before this court that the above applicant was a Revolutionary Officer and served as he states. And the court further states that the witnesses who have been sworn in court are credible persons and their testimony is entitled to full credit. And further that the Court has no doubt from the original documents - the affidavits of the Hon. Josiah Ogden Hoffman and the other proofs exhibited before the court and its own knowledge of the applicant Cary Dunn Jr that his statement is wholly true in substance. 

Jno T Irvine
First Judge

R Riker
Recorder of the City of New York
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I Abraham Asten, Clerk of the City and County of New York and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, do hereby certify the foregoing and annexed papers contained the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of Cary Dunn Junior for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said court of Common Pleas this first day of September 1832. 
Abm Asten Clk
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Rev War

12823

INVALID

File No 12.823

Cary Dunn
Major Rev War 

Act June 7th 1832

Index:- Vol. Page

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Cary Dunn
New York
Act of June 1832

See letter to claimant
17 July 1832
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City of New York} Ss. Richard Varick Esqr. MAYOR, 
And the ALDERMEN of the City of NEW YORK 

To all to whom these presents shall come, Send Greeting: 
Know ye, that Cary Dunn Jr. Esqr. is admitted, received and allowed a FREEMAN and CITIZEN of the said City; to Have, hold, Use, and Enjoy all the Benefits, Privileges, Franchises and Immunities whatsoever, granted or belonging to the said City. In Testimony whereof, the said Mayor and Aldermen have caused the Seal of the said City to be hereunto affixed. Witness, Richard Varrick Esquire, Mayor, the twenty seventh day of February in the Year of our Lord 1797 and of the Sovereignty and Independence of the State the twenty first.
By order to the 
Mayor & Aldermen

Robt Benson Clk
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State of New Jersey 
Missex [Middlesex] County 
May 4th 1778
These are to certify that the Bearer Cary Dunn Jr. Capt personally appeared before me & voluntarily took the several oaths prescribed by Law of Allegiance and abjuration as witness my hand Saml Kennedy Esqr
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Dunn, Cary S-12823
(CONT, NY)
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DUNN, CARY   S-12823
(CONT,NY.)

Major Dunn Headquarters

Favor of Mr.
Handshaw }X             [?andiston?]
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Dear Sir
I was at the Court House when two
Express arrived from Major Westbrook
with an acct of the Indians as running toward our Post I will be much [obliged?] to you for a
particular Acct  of their Torie movements
and likewise of your situation and
strength for Gods sake provide ourselves
with [having?] [Xing?] necessary in the Fort and defend it to the last you may be  [?] of
Relief if the Fort is situated as I hope it is
I am convinced I am convinced it will not
be in the power of the Enemy
to reduce it Col. Bond and now Lt Col and 
what is called? of the militia and will
this day as far as Major Bessemers I have..[illegible] Express to this
with the acct I have already [illegible] ?
I am Dear Sir Your most obdt
 Humble Servt
18 October
1778                             
                                        Robt Hoops
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DUNN,CARY
(N.Y.) S-12823


Sight S of S S
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Dunn, Cary
(N.Y.)  S-12823

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Continental (New York) Dunn, Cary S12823
Carded
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No text on this page
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Dunn, Cary
(Cont, N.Y.)
S-12823
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[Note: much of this page is illegible, but some of it can be made out with difficulty. It appears that the right edge of the letter may be cut off]

[illegible] Feby 18th 1779
Sir
Thro the Extreme [illegible, Sincerity?] and difficulty of getting Forage Some of our horses are so reduced as to be unfit for Service [I] therefore desire you will take them off my hands & dispose of them as [illegible] ed in such cases.
you will please give .. had a receipt for them.
I am  Sir your obdt s...
[signed] Oliver Spencer
[illegible]
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Cary Dunn Jr.
S File 12823
Continental N. Y.
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[Note: copy is very light and the top part is largely illegible. Toward the bottom, some sense can be made.]

... Commissaries [illegible] and be continued untill further … Corps will furnish their guard for six Days than to be relieved by Col Spencers Regt who will take it for Eight day & be relieved by the Infantry of Genl [illegible] Legion who will continue for ten Days
Genl Hand compliments to Baron DeFrey’s and beg’s that he will Communicate the above orders to Col Armonds  & Col Spencers Regiments
by order of Genl Hand
Gen Orders
[signed] Wm Sproat
M. Brigade
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Dunn, Cary
(Cont, N. Y.)
S- 12823
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On public Service

To
Carey Dunn
A D Q M Genl 
the Troops under General Hand
now at  Minisink
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Easton, January 10th 1779

Sir:

I am favored with your Letter of the 1st Instant which I would have answered sooner but in a hurry [returned?]  your letter.

I am pleased with the appointment the Genl. has made in you.  He was pleased to write to me on this subject, and I will take care to send you cash as soon as I receive another supply which will be soon. 
I have not any [?nabri?s] on hand but I can  muster a few Baggs for you.  They shall be sent by the next opportunity.  

For a Waggon [sic] & 2 Horses or a Purge Hedge with 2 Horses I pay three dollars $ day and find Rations & Forage but of the person employed find their own provisions & forage 5 of 6 $ day.  For a large four-horse team since Jany 1779 I pay 4.5 [?] pr day & find everything  [?]  & allow £ 3..15/they finding their own Rations & Forage. 
 All accounts for forage will be paid by Col. Stroud & also for hauling to January 1st, 1779.  I have fixed Col. Strounds as the half way house between us and at his place will center the stores, sent to you.

I am Sr. your most humbl Servt
Rbt. Lettis Hooper, Jr. 
 [D Q M G] [Quarter Master General]

Carey Dunn, Esq.
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DUNN, CARY
(CONT, N.Y)
S- 12823

To
Major Carry Dunn [illegible]
Baron Deglaebeeck [?] 
Newark
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Newyork Saterday Morning 11 Clock
the 6 July 1783
Dir friend
I am happy to inform you that I had the plaiser [pleasure] of seing [seeing] one good friend, which is interested in my person, and to find my affairs in [illegible] a 12 Day
 Col Smith here is commissioner in town read over letter to Congress and to General Wassington [Washington] in four day I hope answer I request you to favor to go to Capt. Pierson and to get my [illegible] to send my bagage tomorro and to tell them, to mark my no [number?] of expenses, and so first I git money to [pe  pay?] them I hope you woont be surprys [surprise] in my going as in such manners, I hope to gave you in 8 Day soo much more satisfaction.
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I hope my dir friend you woont one instant neglect to send my bagage because I want them, and to addres them to Mr Sigles, as I hope Mr Sigles himself will gave you [illegible] I have the honour to present my correspondence to [illegible] papers and at my goedt friends and tell to mister Smith the barber the first time he will be in yorck to come to me in hope Dier friend you woont neglect me
your Dir friend
your most obed and [?] Servant
L B Deglaebeeck

P.S. I hope Dir friend you will rait [write] me a
letter and let me now [know] wat [what] [passt?] I hope you think I am a man of [honesty?] to return in a [fea?e] Day
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[Written on lower left side of page]
DUNN CARY
(CONT, N.Y.)
S.12823

[Middle of page]
On Public Service
Major Cary Dunn A.D.Q.M.G
Minisink
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Head Quarters Minisink 5th March 1779

The Genl desires you will find the enclosed
Letter by imediate Express
Yrs 
W Sproat M.B.

Majr Dunn
ADQM Genl
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Cary Dunn Jr. Esq.
103 Spring Street
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Dr Sir
I saw Mr Thompson who will receive you at his house near the foot of Beekman St opposite the chapel tomorrow afternoon at 4 o clock. I explained to him that you had the good wishes of my father,
of which you would show him the evidence
and that you are more over a veteran
of the revolution
I am Dr Sir
 Yr Friend
Chas King

C Dunn Jr Esqr

Tuesday Aftnoon 19 Dec
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Free G.C. Verplank

[Round Postal Stamp] Washington City Jun 27

Cary Dunn Esq
147 Laurens Street
New York
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Washington June 27th 1832

Dear Sir

I presume there can be no doubt that you are entitled to the benefits of the act of the present session supplementary to that of 1828.
The evidence however & application must be presented according to the rules which shall be presented by the war department. The Secretary will shortly find his regulation, with blanks for the form of application which when I receive I will send you.
The power of attorney is wholly useless at present & the pension when started will be paid at the Branch Bank of New York. I therefore return you the power. You will find the law in the Courier & other papers which publish the laws. 
I am your obt servt
G.C. Verplank
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Affidavit of the Hon Josiah Ogden Hoffman
No.II

This affidavit shows that Major Dunn was in the Revolution, the American uniform and was called Major Dunn.

Prescribed in Court before us

Jno T Irvin N Pub
R Riker
Recorder
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State of New York ss: 
Personally appeared before me Richard Riker Recorder of the City of New York. Josiah Ogden Hoffman one of the Judges of the Superior Court of the said city. who being duly sworn doth depose and say that in the fall of 1782 he resided at Newark in the state of New Jersey as a student at Law and continued so to reside for several years. That in the said year 1782 or early in 1783 he frequently saw  Cary Dunn Esqr. who was considered by this deponent and his fellow law students as an American officer and went by the name of Major Dunn, and according to this deponents last recollection and belief he usually appeared in what was then considered an American uniform of the United States army, and further this deponent saith not     J.O. Hoffman
Sworn before me this 26th day of January 1830
 R Riker Recorder N York
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N York 24 October 1832

Sir
I return Major Dunns papers with such supplemental proofs and documents as will I hope remove all difficulties to his receiving his pension. 
May I repeat my earnest entreaties that you will give them as early attention as your convenience will permit. He has a family, is greatly in want, and is a highly meritorious object of the County of his Country. 
I have the honor to be Sir your very Obt Servt
R Riker

Hon
Lewis Cass
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This contains Major Cary Dunns supplemental affidavit and several original documents showing the rank he held in the War of the Revolution. 
R Riker

No. IV
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War Department
Pension Office
September 29, 1832

Sir
The papers in support of your claim under the Act of June 7 1832 are herewith returned. 
Your declaration requires amendment. You should state explicitly how long you were actually in the service. It is indispensable that the Department should be put in possession of such evidence, because the amount of your stipend will depend upon the length of your service in that grade.
Very Respectfully 
your obt. servt
J.L. Edwards

Major Cary Dunn
No 147 Lawrence St
Care of Hon R.Riker
New York
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N York Sept 1832

Sir
Will you allow me to call your special attention to the enclosed papers. There can be no doubt that Major Dunn was an officer in the army of our revolution and faithfully served his county in that memorable era. 
No I.
Is his own affidavit with the details of his services
No II
Is the affidavit of Josiah Ogden Hoffman one of the Judges of our Superior Court
No III
Are sundry original letters addressed to him during the revolutionary war
No IV
Is the affidavit of Major Gen Morton
No V
Is my own affidavit having known Major Dunn upwards of thirty years 
Lastly No. 6 Other Documents on the subject
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I cannot doubt that Major Dunn is entitled to benefit of the act of 1828 and manifestly to the act of 1832. If there be any defect in form may I ask the favor of communication pointing out such defect. I feel greatly for Major Dunn- he is very respectable and most undoubtedly served his country with zeal and fidelity as an officer in the army of the US Revolution and almost during the whole struggle. 
I have the honor to
be, your very obt
Servt
R Riker

Hon Lewis Cass
Sec of War
If Major Dunn could have the original documents returned it would gratify him as they are memorials of the Revolution.
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Philadelphia March 6th 1791

My Worthy Friend
I cannot omit so favorable an opportunity as now presents itself by my Brother to send you a few affectionate lines. 
I am my friend in health as is also Wm W. I have nothing new to inform you off the continental round is the same. I have past the little time of my being in this place in the utmost tranquility -  I must say without an interruption, which make the moments fly swift tho pleasant Cary I have little els [else] to wish for, but the happenings of your society I cannot forgit [forget] them agreeable moments -  I have tho a number of associates yet they do not Supply that deficiency and tis hard when we are so near. as to future prospects I think the gentlemen gave proof of their approbation of the past. I have also a handsome imploy [employee?] in the dry good line which makes
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my Circumstances comfortable in this long recess. - I wish I could say anything that would be to our mutual advantage but your situation is so comfortable that you are above a speculative vein, you have a secure fortune, and intend only to improve it by caution, go on then my dear friend, and continue to conduct yourself with that manly and becoming pride, together with that good and humane heart which has hitherto marcked your action and you must insure the approbation of your fellow citizens, and the Choicest of Heavens Blessings.
Wm Wheaton joins me in best wishes to your mama and father- God bless them and you-compliments over the way.

I remain yours affectly
Joseph Wheaton

Major Dunn
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A Striking Coincidence- The effect of the singular coincidence of the decease of the two Patriarchs of the Revolution, caused a sensation which vibrated throughout our country and excited the surprise of the world. We have to announce another event of the same kind, of men who "in life were united and in death were not divided." Colonel Aaron Benjamin and Major Joseph Wheaton, both died on the Sunday the 23rd ult. In the war of the Revolution they served in the same line and shared the dangers of the same battles. During the last war they were both again found in the service of their country, and discharged with youthful zeal their various responsible duties. On the close of war, 1815, they exchanged their swords for the pen, and received appointments in the Treasury Department. They were located in the same room, and constantly associated in all the amenities of public and private life. About two years since Major W. came to the office laboring under strong mental derangement; his friend, Col. Benjamin, took him home and on his return said "he believed the Major and himself were about to follow their companions to the tomb," About midday he remarked, "that he would go home and die among his children." He left Washington the next morning for Hartfort [Hartford] Ct. and Major Wheaton never resumed his place in the office; thus these soldiers and friends closed their official duties on the same day, and both on the 23d ultimo, sunk to that quiet rest which will only be broken by the clangour [clanger] of the last trumpet.
So sleep the brave who sink to rest, 
By all their country's wishes blest. 

[Nat. Intell.
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[text is cut off on the right side]
three years. 
This news is of considerable importance to those gaged in commerce with Brazil or Buenos Ayres, it must necessarily throw the markets from their mer footing. This it has  already done, as will be by reference to the commercial advices. A year probably must elapse before the market comes to a posi where it may be depended on. 
 It will appear from an extract from the "Preliminary Convention" which follows, that Monte Video, wh has been the main subject of the quarrel, is left to pose of itself. 
Extract from the Preliminary Convention & c
The Government of Brazil and that of the Republic gage themselves to evacuate the province of Montevideo that it may be constituted and governed as the said vince think proper. In two months after the exchange the ratification of this treaty in Montevideo, the Brazil troops will remove by sea or land to their own territory . The Argentine Troops will cross the Uruguay- fifteen dred of the former will remain in Montevideo, and the s number or more of ours in whatever point of the province which may be ten leagues distant from the residence of Government. 
The city of Montevideo shall be governed duri
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Affidavit of Major Genl 
Morton

This affidavit shows that Major Dunn wore in the Revolution the American Uniform.
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I do hereby certify that I have known Cary Dunn Esquire of this City for a number of years, I remember well to have seen him in Morristown State of New Jersey during the Revolutionary War in uniform, and have every reason to believe that he was an Officer of the Revolutionary Army of the United States. 
I do further certify that Mr. Dunn has uniformly sustained the character of a man of uprightness and of truth. 

New York August 30th, 1832
J Morton

of the city of New York
Major Genl 1st Division
NY State Artillery

Sworn to and subscribed to in open court this 1st day of September 1832 before me
Abm Asten Clerk
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State of New York
City and County of New York} ss.
I, Nicholas Dean, Clerk of the City and County of New York, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said City and County, Do hereby certify that Richard Riker of the said City before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn was at the time Recorder of the City of New York and duly empowered to administer oaths. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County, this 28th day of August 1828. 
N Dean
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District of Columbia,
Washington County, SCT. 

Know all men by these presents, That I, Aaron Ogden the Attorney mentioned in the annexed power from Cary Dunn Junr do hereby constitute and appoint John R. Nourse my true and lawful attorney and substitute, to effect all the purposes for which the power from the said Cary Dunn was granted. 

Witness my hand and seal this second day of September 1828.

Witness
John Nourse 

Aaron Ogden

Be it known, that on this second day of September 1828, personally appeared before me, Michael Nourse, Notary Public, the above named Aaron Ogden, and acknowledged the foregoing power of substitution to be his act and deed. 
Michael Nourse 
 Notary Pub
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960 
Cary Dunn
Declaration
Rec'd Sept 1828

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Revolutionary Claims 
[A]

Form of a Declaration to be made by the officers

For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of a pension act entitled "An Act for the services of certain Surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved on the 15th May 1828. I Cary Dunn of the city and county of New York and State of New York do hereby declare that I was an officer in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution and served as such to the end of the Revolutionary War at which period I was a Major and commanding officer of a detachment of Rangers in the line of the Army. And I also declare I was entitled under the resolve of the 25th of October 1780 five years pay. having never received any payment whatsoever by that resolve. 
Witness my hand this Twenty eight day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight. 
Carry Dunn Junior
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Before me Richard Riker Recorder of the City of New York in the County of New York in the State of New York personally appeared, this day James Fairlie and Richard Hatfield, of the said county, who did severally make oath that Cary Dunn Junior by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been an officer in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated.
Ja Fairlie [signature]
Richard Hatfield [signature]
Witness my hand, this 28 day of August in the year 1828
R. Riker 
Recorder of the City of New York
I, [blank] , Clerk of the Court of the county of [blank], in the State of [blank], do hereby certify , that [blank], before whom going affidavits were sworn, was, at the time a [blank], and duly empowered to administer oaths.
testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the [blank] said Court, this [blank] day of [blank] do hereby certify, that before whom
Here insert, To the end of the war, or (as the case may be,) to the time when the arrangement of the Army provided by the resolves of Congress of the 3d and 21st of October, 1780, was carried into effect; and that I was reduced under that arrangement.
Here insert, the sum of [blank] dollars, paid to me by the agent for paying pensions in the State of [blank. If the claimant has not been a pensioner, this part of the declaration may be omitted.
A Justice of the Peace, or other magistrate duly empowered to administer oaths, as the case may be
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Rev Pension Papers

Hon. Lewis Cass

Sec. of War
City of 
Washington 

Major 2 years
$600 per annum
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Hon. Lewis Cass
Secy. of War
City of Washington

Major 2 years
$600 per annum

[Illegible postal stamp of Oct]
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New York July 12 1832

Hon Lewis Cass
Sec of War
Respected Sir, 
My legal friends have advised me respectfully to request the favors of you, as the Guardian of old soldiers Rights under the Act approved by the President June 7th 1832 to enquire and receive these documents filed in draft [or my?] case from the Secy of the  Treasury which A Dickens acknowledged to be true by his written note dated December 18, 1829 in my possession. You will Sir then find my Declaration supported on oath by my lamented deceas'd friend and fellow companion in the revolution Major James Fairlie one of the Aid's de Camp of the honorable Veteran late Major Gen Aaron Stuben and also Richard Hatfield Clerk of the
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Court of Sessions of this City, taken before Richard Riker Recorder in Compliance of the Directions of W Rush then Secty of the Treasury, to attain our just & hand carried rights (under the ambiguous instruction & made of the Act passed the 15th day of May 1828 when Anthony Post a Captain of Artificers Compy of this City who smiled [?] on by receiving its benefits, and others forgotten.
From the benign consideration of the Secty upon the operations of the Act communicated to the Hon Samuel, A C [illegible] Chairman on Pensions in the Senate Dated June 15th 1832 does the Secty of War the highest honor in this City, from the Justice of its operations who have been humble instruments to attain the independence of the [illegible] States, under it’s privations, which we respectfully say comes within your regulation  I, Permit me to present the copy of the Deposition of Judge Hoffman in my possession 

State of New York ss
Personally appeared
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before me Richard Riker recorder of the city of New York, Josiah Ogden Hoffman one of the judges of the superior court of the said city who being duly sworn doth depose and say that in the fall of 1782 he resided at Newark in the State of New Jersey as a student at law and continued to reside for several years, that in the said year 1782 or early in 1783 he frequently saw Cary Dunn Esq. who was considered by this deponent, and his fellow law students as an American officer, and went by the name of Major Pursar, and according to this deponent best recollection and belief, he usually appeared in what was then considered an American uniform of the United States Army, and further this deponent saith not.   J. O. Hoffman
Sworn before me this 26th day of January 1830  R. Riker Recorder New York 

Suffer me to refer the
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Sect. of war to the Hon, G. C. Verplanck for my private and public character, who has perused my papers and whose friendship is gratefully acknowledged Pardon the long epistle  &c of and [an] old Soldier  I have the honor to be 
 Yr Ob Srvt 
Cary Dunn Junior
No. 14 Laurance Straet [Laurence Street]

N.B.
Col Oliver Spencer letter to me is also in the Treasury Department dated 1779 when on the frontier of Minisink
Pardon interlineations and blunders as my feelings recurs to danger almost forgot by the present generation who are  l??iously] folding when old soldiers are drove in poverty &c who was in affluence years past
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C Dunn
Rec'd 11 Nov 1828
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New York Nov 10th 1828
Vattel says B 3rd Ch, 8th*
"For when the end is lawful, he who has a right to prosecute this end, is warranted in the use of all necessary means to attain it" Hon, R Rush, 
Permit me again respectfully to address the Secy of the treasury, as I have not received an answer from mine, dated the 24th, ultimo, nor  from Col Ogden my Atty, by which means my rights as an old officer of the Revolution by the Act approved on the 15th of May 1828 is noticed & forgotten 
Suffer me to call your attention to the following copy of an order from my superior officer in my profession, when I commanded at the North West, without egotism community, or elucidation, and other places through the Revolution until the peace, and greatly regret the loss of my personal friends the late Vice Presidents Governor  George Clinton, General Hand, Generals Alex Hamilton and others, who have gone to the Silent Tomb, who would by very public advocates in substantiating my hard earned rights under the Act of the 15th May 1828
[* from "The Law of Nations or the Principles of Natural Law" by Emmerich de Vattel]
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Copy
Dear Sir, I was at the Court House when the Expresses arrived from Major Westbrook with an acct, of the Indians advancing towards your posts, I will be much obliged to you for a particular acct, of their Force movements, &c and likewise  of your situation and strength for God sake, provide yourselves with everything necessary in the Fort, and defend it to the last, you may be assured of Relief, at the Fort is situated as I hope it is,I am convinced it will not be in the power of the enemy to reduce it; Col Bond now Lt Col, is collecting the militia, and will this day get as far as Major Bessemer's. I have sent an express to the Governor with the account I have already received 
 I am Dear Sir, your mostly Obt Humble Servt. Robt Hooper
October 15th 1778 Major Dunn Head Quarters Lauriston
Yours respectfully Cary Dunn Junior No 160 Wooster Street
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Capt. Carey Dunn
Case
Quere for his declaration
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Cary Dunn case

There was an act of Congress in the early part of the war directing all officers who had been appointed to take before some magistrate the oath of abjuration and allegiance and from a copy of certificate of Samuel Kennedy Esquire who is known to me to have been a Justice of the Peace of Sussex in New Jersey, it appears that he administered to Cary Dunn this oath of abjuration and allegiance as a Captain, so that I have no doubt that he a Captain in the line of the  Continental Army when this oath was administered to wit, on the 4th of May 1778. 
Brigadier

General Hand of the line of the Continental Army, to my knowledge commanded a detachment of the Continental troops on the frontiers against the Savages that Major Sproat was his brigade Major and the regiment of one of the sixteen additional commanded by Col. Oliver Spencer who was my brother in law, being married one of my sisters and whose hed [hand] writing I am well acquainted, was a part of the detachment from the army under General Hand. 
From a copy of a General Order of General Hand signed by William Sproat his Brigade Major it appears that Major ^ Carey Dunn (so called from certify [certificate] ) was of
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pointed to act as assistant Deputy Quarter Master General for that depent [deponent] during his continuence with it.
From an original letter in the hand writing of Col Spencer that on the 13th of February 1779 he communicated order to Major Dunn then of Minisink on the frontier, as assist deputy Quarter Master General.
At the time of Major Dunns appointment to the Quarter Masters department I think it probable that the act of Congress had passed, which authorized such appointments to be taken from officers of the line of the army and this did [illegible] their [illegible] Commissions, and that by this advancement Major Dunn never returned to his command in the line, but continued employed in the Quarter Masters department untill the reduction of the Army, for he [illegible] of no actual services after the year 1780.
It is submitted whether Captain Dunn can be admitted if he shall be able to make out these facts
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New York July 10th 1828
Thursday
Colonel Aaron Ogden
Dear Sir
Having consulted with my old friend Major James Fairlie of this city on Tuesday last.
He was so kind as to present the following advice in writing to wit "State" your case to Col. Ogden, and let him know that you had called on me, and that I recommend you first to his particular attention.
Permit me to request your attention to my case with the following facts & copies of [retracts?] as a promised to attain my right under the Act approved on the 15th of May 1828"
When Congress adjourned to Lancaster in Pennsylvania 1777 from Philadelphia I was appointed a Second Lieut in the Army of the United States through the kindness the Hon Philip Livingston then a member of Congress my deceased fathers friend an exile from this City, P
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command recruiting in the interior of that State & Jersey among the hardy youths of it as a Company of Rangers and was Successful to obtain promotion the following copy of a Certificate in my possession agreeable to a Resolve of Congress and General Order of the illustrious Washington will show to wit
State of New Jersey
Sussex County 
May 4th 1778
These are to certify that the Bearer Cary Dunn                     Junior Captain personally
appeared before me & voluntarily took the Several oaths prescribed by Law of Allegiance and abjuration as witness my hand.
Samuel Kennedy
Esquire
------------------------------
Copy of General Order in my possession
Head Quarters Minisink
29th December 1778
Major Cary Dunn is appointed to act as Assist Deputy Quarter Master General for this Department during his continuance here, and is to be respected
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and obeyed as such,
General Hand’s compliments to Baron De Frey and begs that he will communicate the above orders to Col Armonds & Col Spencer’s Regiment 
By order of General Hand 
[signed] Wm Sproat M Brigade 
This appointment of my particular friend General Hand was a small additional pay Because I had been fortunate to defeat that [cnsl? - Col.?] Brandt [Brant] & his Indians & Tories when they destroyed Peenpack  &c in October 1778 
See 2 Vols page 298 & 299 of General Washington letters dated Frederickburgh Nov 25th 1778 which directed General Hand to the command of all the Troops for the frontiers & Minisinks of your state  Personally handed New York

In 1780 when General Knyphausen advanced with our cruel enemy Burnt Connecticut Farms in your State and murdered that amiable lady Mrs Caldwell I was ordered by Col Scammel the Adjutant General to advance with Lord Sterling & General Hand to follow the retreating British to Elizabeth town until they passed
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Over to Staten Island when we had [illegible] [walk?] from the old Mansion House of Mr Williamson to Price fields was his name I believe to Captain David Zeigler led bravely in advance supported by Captain John Statler of the Dragoons I must halt (In fine [illegible] have confirmed [?] in the Continental Army of the U. States in various places of it until the War was over & the Army disbanded never received no monies of any kind except monthly pay no commutations of no kind whatsoever &c Because I was then sick) perhaps foolish pride to ask for it  Now I am reduced by unforeseen circumstances over which I could not control now necessitates my plea and Documents in my possession by the Statute say so because it is my right & your testimony in this my Native City can be my quarters &c  I pray you to answer this letter soon as possible  direct to Cary Dunn Junior #160 Wooster Street
NB 
Pardon the prolixity of this letter interlineations &c

Your friend
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Mr Cary Dunn
New York
Submit the paper
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Please to take particular care of the letters inclosed and return them that my good family may read them in years to come. I have had a severe visitation of sickness for seven weeks or I should wrote you & Col Ogden are this, remember me kindly to Col. O. and please to tell him to renew the attack to attain my rights & transmit my pay after deducting his Ten per Cent to my order on the Branch Bank of the U states in this City, Indulge an answer soon as possible  pardon composition scroll & freedom of writing and length, my lineation I pray may be my apoligy [apology] in your generous [illegible] for interlineations ^ as best
your fellow Citizen & friend
[signed] Cary Dunn Junior
No 160 Wooster Street
I pray may be my apology for interlineations ^ as [illegible] & as I am afflicted body & mind & call for your charitable indulgence in troubling you in this painful communication in able to copy it by rheumatism of acute nature.
NB
I wrote the Secy two letters if you can ask him respecting there import Because I gave him a copy of the Order in my possession of my superior Officer to defend the forts against the Indians Dated October 15th 1778 - that is the fort alluded too when I incurred the severe wound on the frontiers) My last letter to Mr. Rush this November 10th 1828 refers to the fact of the sortie made
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N. York Jany 14th 1829 
Hon Gulian Verplanck
Dr Sir
By the advice and pressing directions of our friends, that justice to myself and a family of seven in number & to my friends in behalf of one of the old Soldiers of which I am proud to declare to be one of the remaining few to solicit your kind attention to my case whose feelings are greatly wounded by the Mandate of the Secy of the Treasury as a barrier against my just hard earned rights under the Act approved on the 15th of May 1828 to wit “that my declaration does not mention the line of the army to which you belonged & therefore your claim could not be corroborated by any evidence now in the War Department” 
[illegible, Protrack?] from Col. Ogdens letter of November 1828

In compliance of the Secy directions transmitted me by Col. Ogden they were obeyed agreeable to the very letter of the Statute. Made & provided by my written declaration, supported by the Testimony of Major James Fairlie & Col. Richard Hatfield who you well know and transmitted to Col. Aaron Ogden my duly authorized Atty at Washington to attain my rights
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2
secure my pay deducting Ten Per Cent for his services & associates &c  Judge my amazement in unison with my legal friends consulted on the [illegible, occasion?] that the Secy should travel out of the path to impede the operation of a plain statute that is imperative, when the applicant has complied in his Declaration in the words of it accompanied by his two Witnesses which is conclusive. Does not the Secy know that the great Washington had power from Congress to make his officers as the great distress & want of Troops were beyond description which never found there way to the War Office, the army so distributed & distressed through the several States on the frontiers & Sea board &c to render & aid you kind Sir Permit me to call your attention as a pioneer in my case when Congress adjourned to Lancaster in Pennsylvania 1777 I was appointed a Second Lieut. Under Captain Myers since dead only two of us and was advised to assume a popular Name to encourage enlistments as our Army was small times expiring &c as Col. Hazens Regiment was called Congress "Own” on the same principle to add to his enlistments We called ourselves Rangers and was so successful as to bring in the field nearly two hundred for three years or during the War, I was after appointed a Captain, the following copy of Esquire Kennedy Certificate in my possession will show, State of
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New Jersey
Sussex County
May 4th 1778 
These are to Certify that the board Cary Dunn Junior Captain personally appeared before me and Voluntarily took the several oaths prescribed by Law of Allegiance and abjuration as Witness my hand 
[signed] Samuel Kennedy Esquire

I was then ordered on the Western frontiers of this State and reported myself to Governor George Clinton and followed his orders as the Indians & Tories where spreading destruction on the Inhabitants & there settlements, and was then ordered to Winter Quarters to the Minisinks under my friend General Hand who knew me well and was pleased to issue the following General Order in my possession as a small compensation by additional pay to my rank, tho my arm was then in a sling from a severe wound received in making a Sortie from a small fort against the cruel Brandt & his devils.
Head Quarters Minisink December 29th 1778 
Major Cary Dunn is appointed to act as Assist Deputy Quarter Master General for this Department during his continuance here, and is to be respected and obeyed as such
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3 
General Hands compliments to Baron De Frey and begs that he will communicate the above Orders to Col. Armands & Col. Spencer’s Regiments 
By order of General Hand
[signed] Wm Sproat 
M Brigade 

I send inclosed Col. Spencer letter whose handwriting is well known to Col. Ogden, being a relation of his, in which my rank is acknowledged agreeable to General Hand’s Orders above & the Colonels knowledge also inclosed Mr [illegible] King’s fathers letter to me some years past from Washington City is mislaid alluded too perfectly I remember it was flattering Because I [illegible, deemed?] and particular of Services &c Quarters & found acquaintance with him, at General Heath’s in the Revolution when I was stationed in West Chester County near the British lines, and Mr King was on a  [illegible] in Camp in June I have served faithfully from 1777 until the peace of 1783 in various places & states under various Officers & in Brigades & Divisions  Please to consult with Col. Ogden and peruse any letters to him to attain my rights & deeply regret the Deaths of my sincere friends Governor G. Clinton General Hamilton, General Hand & others who knew my services in the War who would be my Advocates in substantiating my hard earned rights under the Act of the 15th May, 1828

I never recd communication certificates of no kind whatsoever nor was I reduced under any arrangement during the War any confidence in the Government was, that they would do justice in time the [illegible]
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960
 C Dunn
Rec'd 25 Oct 182[?]
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[City?] of New York Oct 25th 1828 
Hon Richard Rush 
Respectfully Sir,
In addressing you the pleasing recurrence rushes upon my friend the happy days and hours past and gone when your venerable deceased father affectionately advised me in entering my Military service in Lancaster 1777, when I was appointed a Second Lieut of Rangers through the kindness of the deceased Philip Livingston Esquire then a member of Congress from this my native city, who died at York Town, in Pennsylvania my deceased Whig fathers friend then an exile from this city, in which my promotion to rank from Lieut to Captain and to Major till the peace of 1783 which please to be referred to my Declaration supported by the Testimony of Major James Fairlie and Col, Richard Hatfield to attain my rights under the Act approved on the 15th of May 1828 and acknowledged to be received by Col. Aaron Ogden by his letter dated Washington City Sept 3rd 1828 to wit Dear Sir, Yours of the 29th ulto has been duly
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received, Containing your declaration and
Power of Attorney which will be attended to
soon as possible

Yours Respectfully
Aaron Ogden

Cary Dunn Junr.
No 160 Wooster St
NY

Being inform'd by my friend Major Fairlie that Col Ogden has gone to Boston and not hearing from him or his return to Washington compels me to trouble the Hon. Secretary of the Treasury who I am confident partakes the philanthropy of his deceased parent, Having wrote two Lette[paper damaged] to Col. Ogden dated July 10th 1828 & August 29th




Permit me for to request yo[ur] [paper damaged] intervention as Captain Theodotious Fairlie [illegible] me a few days past in Major Fairlies Office that you remitted him his pay including the [illegible] due in September past payable to his order at Branch Bank of U. States in this City after deducting Ten per Cent for Col. Ogdens & his associates Agents.  Suffer me Respectfully to solicit my pay through your goodness in the same Per Cent to my Order at  the U States Bank in this City as the Cold Season is advancing and my family of seven in number
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hardly calls for it my circumstances are very circumscribed to what things where in years past which will confer a great favor [illegible]
Yours most respectfully 
[signed] Cary Dunn Junior
No 160 Wooster Street
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Carey Dunn Jr. to Aaron Ogden }
Power of atty.

Jno. R Nourse  [Publ?]

Presented 6 Sep.
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Revolutionary Claims.
( C. )
Form of a Power of Attorney.
Know all men by these presents, that I, Cary Dunn Junior of the City of New York in the county of New York in the State of New York do hereby constitute and appoint Aaron Ogden of Elizabeth Town New Jersey my true and lawful
attorney, with a power of substitution, for me, and in my name, to receive from the United States the amount of pay now due to me, under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution,” approved 15th May, 1828,
as a Major and [in the, crossed out] commanding officer [regiment. crossed out] of [the, crossed out] a detachment of Rangers in the line of the army of the Revolution.
Witness my hand and seal, this twenty eighth day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight.
Cary Dunn Junior    [L.S.
Sealed and delivered in the presence of
Abrm M Valentine

Before me, Abrm M Valentine a Justice of the Peace in the county of New York in the State of New York personally appeared, this day, Cary Dunn Junior whose name is subscribed the foregoing power of attorney, and acknowledged the same to be his act and deed, and also declared that the same was not given by reason of any transfer, or of any attachment, levy, or seizure, by any legal process whatever, of the pay therein authorized to be received, but that the said pay is intended to enure wholly to his personal benefit.
Witness my hand, this 28th day of August in the year 1828.
Abrm M Valentine
I, [blank] Clerk of the Court of the county of [blank] in the State of [blank] do hereby certify that [blank] before whom the foregoing power of attorney acknowledged, is a Justice of the Peace.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the [blank] said Court, this [blank] day of [blank] in the year

[D.]
Form of Affidavit to be taken by Attorneys.
Before me, Michl Nourse Not. Pub in the county of Washington in the District of Columbia personally appeared this day, [illegible] Nourse [illegible] A. Ogden the attorney named in the foregoing power of attorney, and made oath that the same was not given to him by reason of any transfer, or of any attachment, levy or seizure, by any legal process whatever, of the pay therein authorized to be received, but that the said pay is intended to enure wholly to the personal benefit of the person by whom the said power was executed.
Witness my hand, this notarial seal the 3 day of September in the year 1828 
Michl Nourse
Noty Pubc

I _________Clerk of the Court of the County of
__________in the State of __________
do hereby certify, that __________
before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was, at the time, a Justice of the Peace, and duly empowered to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the
[L. S. said Court, this__________
day of __________
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State of New=York,
CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW-YORK, } SS.
I, NICHOLAS DEAN, Clerk of the City and County of New-York, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said City and County, Do Hereby Certify, THAT Abraham M Valentine of the said City Esqr before whom the foregoing Power of Attorney was acknowledged is a Justice of the peace in and for the City & County of New York
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County, this 28 day of August 1828
N. Dean
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Supplemental Deposition of Major Cary Dunn Junior made in pursuance of the annexed Communication from the War Department Pension Office, under date of the 29th of September 1832.

City County & State afosaid } ss     Cary Dunn Junior an officer in the Army of the United States of America the war of the Revolution being further duly sworn (before the Honorable the Judges of the Courts of General Sessions of the Peace in & for the said City & County in open Court the said Court being a Court of Record)[crossed-out] doth in addition to his former deposition made on the 1st day of September last 1832 before the Hon: the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said City in open Court deposes & says That in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy seven he entered the said army of the american Revolution as a second Lieutenant under Capt Myers as before stated in his original deposition.
That appointments of officers were made by John Hancock or Henry Laurens while Congress sat at Lancaster or York in the State of Pennsylvania to the best of this deponents recollection.  That in 1778 he was appointed a Captain after the death of Captain Myers as stated in his former affidavit.  See his oath as Captain dated 4 May 1778 hereto attached.
This Deponent further saith that late in the summer or autumn of the year one thousand seven hundred seventy eight he was appointed a Major.  In proof of which this Deponent refers to the annexed original documents

First a letter from Robert Hoops dated 15 Octr.
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1778 hereto attached & addressed to this deponent as Major the rank he then held.
Second General order by General Hand & hereto attached dated Minisink 29 Dec 1778
addressed to this deponent as Major the rank
he then held.
Third A letter from Robert Lettis Hooper Jr D 2 M
[illegible] dated "Easton" Jany 10th 1779 and hereto annexed
Fourth A letter from Col. Oliver Spencer  dated Minisink 
Feby, 18th 1779 addressed to this deponent as Major the rank he then held.  There are also some papers on file in the War office to which also he refers.
And this deponent positively deposes
and says that he served and was in actual
service in the American army during the War
of the Revolution in the following Grades
and during the following periods that 
is to say.
That he was commissioned and [inserted] actually served as a second 
Lieutenant in the Fall of 1777 to the Month
of April or May 1778.
That he was commissioned and [inserted] actually served as a Captain from about
the month of May 1778 to the month of
August or September in the same year.
And lastly that he actually served as
Major & with the commission
and rank thereof from the Autumn of
1778 in the american army of the war of
the Revolution, more than two years.  In
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fact except when sick or on furlough he
furthermore actually so served until the close of the war in 1783.
and this deponent also adds that
he was in other actions besides those before stated
as set forth in his former affidavit. and
particularly that he accompanied Lord
Sterling with the Troops under his command in
a descent upon Staten Island in the winter
of 1780 commonly called the hard winter.
and finally that his commission &
most material documents are lost or destroyed by
the unfortunate family dispute which took place as stated in his
former affidavit. This deponent also
attached a letter addressed to him
as Major dated 5th March 1779
Head Quarters Minisink from
Wm. Sproat Brigate Major to
General Hand-- And this Deponent
further saith that when General Hand took the
command he this deponent presented to him his
several commissions of Lieutenant; Captain, and Major.
Cary Dunn Junr.

Sworn this 24th day
of October 1832 in open Court
Abm Asten Clk for Pleas
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And the said Court of Common Pleas do hereby
Certify that from an examination of the
preceeding supplementary declaration of the
said Applicant -  Cary Dunn Junr. and of the
accompanying affidavits of Richard Riker
Josiah Ogden Hoffman and John Sidell
all to the Court well known, They are satisfied
that he the said applicant did serve as
Revolutionary Officer as therein stated
Jno T Irvin
First Judge of the Court of
Com Pleas for the City &
County of New York

I Abraham Asten Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas for the City and County of New York do
hereby certify ^ that the aforegoing declaration and affidavits contain the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of
Cary Dunn Junior for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the Seal of the
said Court of Common Pleas this twenty
fourth day of October 1832
Abm Asten Clerk
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City County and
State of New York| ss.

Josiah Ogden Hoffman
one of the Judges of the Superior Court of the
said City and County of New York, being duly
Sworn, doth in addition to his former affidavit
depose and say, That he perfectly recollects seeing Cary Dunn Junior the present applicant for
a pension, as a revolutionary officer, under the act
of Congress in the year one thousand seven
and and eighty two, at Newark in the
State of New Jersey, in the Uniform of an
officer in the American army, that Newark
was then in the possession and under
Control of the American army and its
government.  That this Deponent
cannot state the rank which the said
Cary Dunn held but is perfectly confident,
that he was considered an
officer in the American Army & that
he wore the uniform of such officer &
was frequently seen by this Deponent.
This Deponent further saith that
he is certain as to the period of time - when
he so saw the said Cary Dunn Jr.
in the uniform of an officer of the revolution
because he was a student at Law at Newark
in the year one thousand seven hundred
and eighty two and it was during that
time, the said Cary Dunn Jr was seen
by him in the uniform of an American
officer as before stated -
J. O. Hoffman

Sworn this twenty fourth day
of October 1832 in open Court
Alem Asten Clerk Com Pleas New York
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City County & State of New York ss.
John Sidell first
Marshall in the office of the Mayor
of the City of New York,
being duly sworn saith
That he has known Cary Dunn Jr.
the before named applicant from his
boyhood,
that this Deponent has always
understood that upon the breaking out of
the war of the revolution, the said Cary
Dunn Jr. left the City of New York, and
in the war joined the army of the
revolution. That he has always understood
that the said Cary Dunn Jr.
served as an officer in the American
Army - that it has always been so
reported and this deponent has
not the least doubt of the fact,
that from his knowledge of the
moral Character of the said Cary
Dunn Jr. he would place implicit
Confidence in his oath.
John Sidell  FM
Sworn this twenty fourth day
of October 1832 in open court
Abm Asten  Clerk Com Pleas NY

[The following is all crossed out]
And the said Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that
from an examination of the preceding supplementary declaration
of the above named applicant and the accompanying 
affadavits of Richard Riker Josiah Ogden Hoffman and
John Sidell all to the Court well known they are satisfied
that the said Applicant did serve as a Revolutionary
officer as therein stated
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[Entire page crossed out]

City & County of New York  I Abraham Asten Clerk
of the Court of Common Pleas for the City and
County of New York do hereby certify that the
aforegoing declaration and affidavits contains
the original proceedings of the said Court - in
the matter of the application of Cary Dunn Junr
for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court
of Common Pleas this twenty fourth day of October
1832.
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Affidavit of R. Riker

This affidavit shows
the association of Major
Dunn with American
officers-- And as Companions
in the War of
the Revolution.
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City Court and State of New York ss. Richard Riker the said City Counsellor at Law and Recorder of the said City, being duly sworn doth depose and says that he is well acquainted with Cary Dunn Junior Esquire the applicant within named. That he said Cary Dunn Junior was intimately known to this deponent upwards of thirty years ago and while this deponent was yet in his boyhood. That the said Cary Dunn Junior was then a justice in the City of New York and was afterward the first Judge of Queens County in the State of New York. That he the said Cary Dunn Junior is a man of strict truth and the most entire confidence may be placed in his veracity. 
And this deponent further says that the said applicant continue to call himself Cary Dunn Junior, not that therein a Senior but from having adopted the name with Junior affixed to it, he continued it although this deponent knows that his Father Cary Dunn died many years ago, and this deponent was at his funeral. 
And this deponent further saith that he has not the smallest doubt that the facts stated by the said Cary Dunn Junior in the annexed statement are true in substance, although the detail from a want of recollect may be imperfect.
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that this deponent has from his earliest knowledge of him always understood that he served as an Officer in the war of the revolution. This Deponent thinks that many years ago he has seen him occasionally in the uniform of an American Revolutionary Officer. This Deponent knows that the said Cary Dunn Junior held the Office of Justice under the late Governor George Clinton and this deponent also deposes and says that he has frequently seen Col. Oswald and Captain John Stake at the office of the said Cary Dunn Junior and always understood that they were fellow officers and Companions in the war of the Revolution. This Deponent knew Col. Oswald well- always understood he was a brave officer and believes he accepted a command during the French Revolution in the battle of Parnasse [Parnassus]. He also knew Capt. Stake intimately, who was said to have been a most gallant officer in the American Army. This deponent attended the funeral of Captain Stake and knows that the Society of the Cincinnati attended the funeral, and
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as he believes distinguished members of that society were pall bearers. 
Finally this Deponent says that he has no doubt whatsoever of the entire truth in substance of the statement of the said Cary Dunn Junior, of his services for several years as an American officer during the Revolutionary war and of his being justly entitled to a pension from the U. States according to its laws. 
R. Riker

Sworn to and subscribed in 
open court the 1st day of 
September 1832 before me
Abm Asten Clerk
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960
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
2 May 1829
Cary Dunn Junior of New York
has applied to the Secretary
of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution,” approved on the 15th of May, 1828.
He states that he was as an officer on the Continental line, and served as such to the end
of the war,
at which period he was a Major of a detachment of Rangers of the New Jersey or Pennsylvania line; and that he does not state that he received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the resolve
of 22 March, 1783; and, further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March,
1826, nothing.

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated
by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary,
F A Dickins

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Third Auditor's Office
5 May 1829
[words crossed out]
It further appears that Cary Dunn Junior is not now on the pension list of any agency , and has not been since the 3d March 1826. 

The Revolutionary records in this
Office, furnish no information whatever in relation to the services of the above named  Major Cary Dunn Junior

Peter Hagner  Aud
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War Depart: Bounty land office
6 May 1829
The records of this Office do not show that Cary
Dunn Jnr as an
Officer of the New Jersey or
Penna line ever received or is entitled to
bounty land of the United States
Robert Taylor
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Cary Dunn Jr-                          Major -
New Jersey or Penn. line          Capt &c-

New York-
Cary Dunn Jr.
Papers transferred to the War Department
at the request of B. L. Beall Esqr 26th
July 1832-
No Record. Ref or old Books
   "      "         Wid -  Invalid file No. 12323