Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12830, James Dunning, Conn. Continental New York

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SERVICE
Conn.
Continental
New York
Dunning, James
NUMBER
S. 12830
Carded

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8332
New York
James Dunning
Of Saratoga in the State of N. York
Who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Woodworth of the Regt. commanded by Col. Dickinson in the N.York.
time for 21 1/2 mins.
N.Y.Continental and Conn.
Records completed Jan’y 5/16
Inscribed on the Roll of N.York
In the rate of 71 Dollars 66 cents per annum.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3rd day of April 1833 and sent to J Ellsworth 
Saratoga Springs 
Arrears to the 4th of March’33.             $43.32
Semi-anl. Allowance ending 4 Sep.’33. 35.83
                                                                         179.15
Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Geo. C. Stiles Clerk
Book 6.  Vol. 4 Page 1.7

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State of New York
County of Saratoga SS
On the 20th day of August 1832 in open court
Before the court of chancery now sitting at Saratoga Springs Personally appeared James Dunning a resident Of the town of Greenfield 
In said County, Aged 74 years Who Being Duly sworn According to law doth Make the following Declaration In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress Of June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United Under the following Named officers and serve as herein stated.  He volunteered in the summer of 1775,  he thinks in July in a company commanded by Captain Woodworth, he does not Recollect the names of Either of the lieutenants They were strangers to him when he joined [Enlisted crossed out] The company. The regiment was commanded by Colonel Dickinson. And was a part of the New York State Militia. He joined the company then in the county of Albany. The place is now the town of Wilton, Saratoga County. The company was raided at Stillwater and about the time he joined the company at a place about 8 miles north of Saratoga Springs called Palmer-town where there was a block house and a garrison kept, and at that place and Fish Creek in Saratoga county. He served Three months under this engagement in 1776, and he believes in August. He belonged to a company of militia the same regiment of his father Michael.
The company was ordered to March to Saratoga, and did march there and remained there on garrison duty and scouting Parties, till they were relieved by  another company. The company was out about six weeks. In 1777, in July he went from home by Permission of his father. He engaged in a battle together with his team to  Gen.  Gates, where they lay encamped on Van Schaicks. Stayed about 6  miles above the city of Albany. He continued attached to General Gates army as a teamster after the capture of Burgoyne in October, and then returned home. He received nothing for the service.

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except the rations which men got from the Continental Stores, and he was engaged in carrying Continental Stores. In 1778, he volunteered for three months in a Company commanded by his father Michael Dunning in Col. Dickenson's regiment and marched to Fort Edward, served three months in this service. His father's Company was relieved, and he came home in the fall, thinks in September. In 1779, he volunteered for two months to serve under Captain Morse. This Company belonged to the same Regiment with his Father's Company. The Company marched to Fort Edward. On the day that his time of service expired which was in November, he volunteered to join a scouting party of Continental soldiers on a scout to Gilliland's Creek on Lake Champlain and went down Lake Champlain. He was gone one month on this excursion making in the whole service in 1779 three months. In April 1782 at Reading, Fairfield County, Connecticut, he enlisted for eight months to fill up the Continental lines. He passed muster in Danbury and joined the fifth Connecticut Regiment commanded by Col. Sherman at the Highlands. The Major's name was Temple, other Major's name he does not recollect. His Captain was Samuel Comstock, First Lieutenant was Salmon Hubble. Aaron Stuber was ensign. Regiment belonged to Huntington's Brigade.
From the Highlands, the Brigade went to Verplank Point. There, a detachment went to Dobbs Ferry, and then back  to Verplank.  He was discharged in November at the Highlands. He received a written discharge, but it is now lost.  He knew General Huntington and several other officers attached to the Brigade.  He never received but one discharge.  He has no documentary evidence of his services.  He knows no other person whose testimony he can procure except Abijah Hubbell of Ballston, who knew him as a soldier in the fifth Connecticut Regiment at the Highlands, and his brother, Ebenezer Dunning of Milton, who was in Fort Edward in 1779 with him.
To the questions propounded, he answers:
He was born in Fairfield County at a place then called Northfield, now

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called Westin, on the twentieth day of December 1757.-
He has a record of his age, made his by his Father, it is now in possession of Richard Dunning, his youngest brother at Malta
Saratoga County - He lived at Stillwater, now Malta, Saratoga County, when he volunteered in the Militia. His Father's house was for nearly the whole of the War barricaded for a garrison and he was informed that the Tories had given out that he should be taken to Canada. On hearing this, his friends advised him to go to Connecticut, and he accordingly went among his friends there and enlisted at Reading.
After the War he lived at Malta, Saratoga County about two years and then removed to Greenfield and has lived those ever since. He was several times a volunteer and once enlisted. He has stated the names of the several officers with whom he served. In the expedition to Gilliland Creek, Captain
Morse had command of the scout.  It consisted of about eighty men. He received a discharge from the Continental Service.  Gen. Huntington signed it, he thinks.  It was given by the commanding officer at the Highlands, it has been lost. The Rev. Charles McCale of Milton, Clergyman, and Stafford Lapham, Post Master at Greenfield, are acquainted with him and can testify to his character for veracity
and his reputation as a soldier of the Revolution. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the
present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State
James Dunning
Subscribed and sworn
Aug. 20, 1832
G. M. Davison
Clerk in Chancery

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State of New York
County of Saratoga SS:

On the twentieth day of August 1832 in open Court before the Court of Chancery now sitting at Saratoga Springs, personally appeared Abijah Hubbell a resident of the Town of Ballston in said County, who being duly affirmed says, that he is now a pensioner,
his name is on the pension Roll of the New York Agency. That he is now seventy one years of age, that he knows the applicant for a pension James Dunning of Greenfield, before the said applicant entered the Revolutionary Army, that in 1782, affirmant was a soldier in the fifth Connecticut Regiment then commanded by Col Sherman -- The affirmant well remembers that in that year the said James Dunning joined the Regiment as a recruit to fill up the ranks, but how long the said office Dunning served, or when he was discharged he does not recollect
Abijah Hubbell

Subscribed and affirmed
before me, Aug. 20, 1832
G. M. Dovison
Clerk in Chancery

I certify that Abijah Hubbell, the person above named, is a credible witness
Dec. 31, 1832.
G. M. Dovison,
Clerk in Chancery

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6623
New York

6623
James Dunning

5614
P. 20

Aug 24 32
Nov 6 --

Judiah Ellsworth
Saratoga Springs, NY

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6623

BRIEF in the case of James Danning (sic Dunning), -- Greenfield, Co of Saratoga in the State of New York
(Act 7th June, 1839)

1.  Was the declaration made before a Court of a Judge?  Court

2.  If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3.  How old is he?  74 years

4.  State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period.     
Duration of Service. Years, Months, Days.
Rank.
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.

thinks in July in 1775.  3 Months.  Private.  Cap C Woodworth, Col. Dickinson
thinks in August 1776.  "about" 42 Days.  ".  Col. M Danning
July 1777.  "till in Oct."  Teamster.  Genl. Gates Col. Hays
1778.  3 mos.  Private.  M. Danning, Col. Dickinson
1779.  2 months.  ".  Cap. Morse
Nov. 1779.  1 month.  ".  (blank)
Apl 1782.  8 months.  ".  Col. Sherman, Major Troup, Capt Comstock, Lt. S. Hubbell, Ensign A Keeler, Genl. Huntington

5.  In what battles was he engaged?

6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Stillwater, Albany co. (now Malta, Saratoga co.) New York.

7.  Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  Living witness for terms in 1779 & 1782, & also Traditionary.

8.  Are the papers defective as to form or authentication?  and if so, in what respect?

X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

W. Fawcett
Examining Clerk.

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Rev. [?] 1812
[?] Section
[?]

November 3, 1930

Mrs. Nelson Cary Haskell
Amherst, Massachusetts

Dear Madam:

You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 12820, that James Dunning was born December 20, 1759, in Northfield, Fairfield County, state not named. 

While residing in Stillwater, New York, he enlisted and served as a private with the New York troops, as follows:

In 1775, three months in Captain Woodworth's company in Colonel Dickinson's regiment; from in August, 1776, one and one half months in Captain Michael Dunning's company (soldier's father) in Colonel Dickinson's regiment; from in July, 1777, three months as teamster under Colonel Hays; in 1778, three months in Captain Michael Dunning's company in Colonel Dickinson's regiment; in 1779, three months in Captain Morses's company in Colonel Dickinson's regiment, and was on a scouting party down Lake Champlain

He enlisted in Redding, Connecticut, In April, 1782 and served eight months in Captain Samuel Comstock's company in Colonel Sherman's Connecticut regiment.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 20, 1832, at which time he was living in Greenfield, Saratoga County, New York.

There is no reference to either wife or children. 

Very truly yours

E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner

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12830
Rev War
INVALID.

File No. 12.830
James Dunning
Priv. Rev War

Act:  June 7 1832

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1922 Nov 8 hist to I.M. Strobridge
1922 Dec. 12 I.M. Strobridge notified of cost of copies an
1923 Feb 10 Photos mailed to I.M. Strobridge, aus.
1930 Nov. 3 Hist to Mrs. Nelson Cary Haskell aus
1930 - Nov 3 - Hist to Mansfield J. French army
1930 Nov 15 Mrs. Nelson C. Haskell adv. see letter in Michael Dunning U. 16245 [illegible]

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State of New York
In Chancery

In the matter of Janes Dunning an applicant for a pension

Papers No. 6623

[illegible] $71.66

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State of New
County of
York
Saratoga SS:
-
On the twentieth day of August 1832 in open Court
before the Court of Chancery now sitting at Saratoga Springs personally
appeared Charles McCaber a resident of Milton in said County
Clergyman aged fifty nine years who being duly affirmed deposes
that he has known James Dunning an applicant for a pension, between
thirty and forty years. That the deponent has resided for thirty years
last post within about some miles of the said applicant. From 
aquaintance with him, he verily believes he is of the age he represents himself.
The said applicant is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have
been a Revolutionary Soldier, and the deponent concurs in that opinion
The deponent never has heard any doubt expressed as to the fact
The character of the said applicant has always be fair and he is
estimated among his neighbors a credible and respectable inhabitant
Charles McCaber
Subscribed and affirmed
Aug. 20, 1832
Gile Davison
Clerk in Chancery

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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation
of the matter, and after pulling the interrogations prescribed by the War
Department. That the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier
and same as he states.
And the Court further certifies that it appears to them
that Charles McCalve who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman
a resident in the town of Milton in Saratoga County and
that Stafford Sapham who has also signed the same is a resident of
the town of Granfield and Last Meath of the same town, and is 
a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit-
E. Cowen Vice Chancellor 4th Circuit N. York.
I Gideon M. Davison Clerk of the Court of Chancery for the fourth
circuit of the State of New York, do hereby certify that the foregoing
contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the
application of James Dunning for a pension_.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and seal of office at the town of
Saratoga Springs the 23d day of
August one thousand eight hundred and
thirty two
G. M. Davison
Clerk in Chancery
And I further certify that the amended story of
explantory affidavit of the said James
Dunning was duly affixed to the foregoing
original procedings -
In testimony whereof, I have
hereunto the my hand & seal of office,
the 20 day of January 1833
G. M. Davison
Clerk in Chancery

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State of New York}
County of Saratoga}
On the thirty first day of December, 1832,
personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a
Justice of the Peace, James Dunning who being duly
sworn deposeth & saith that by reason of old age, &
the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear
positively as to the precise length of his service, but
according to the best of his recollection, he served not
less than the periods mentioned below & in the
following grades.
For three months he served as a
private in Captain Woodworth's company in Colonel
Dickensons regiment of the New York Militia

For one month & a half, he  served
under Captain Michael Dunning, in the same
regiment
For three months he served as a teamster
for General Gates under Col Hay.

For three months at a later
period under his father, Michael Dunning

For two months under Captain
Morse in the same regiment & one month after
this term expired, on a scout down Lake Champlain;
Captain Morse commanded the scout:
The services done under Capt.
Woodworth, Captain Dunning & Morse were
performed partly in keeping Garrison &  partly in
exploring the country on scouts to prevent
eruptions of the enemy from Canada-  Colonel
Dickinson was not in the field, but companies
were detached for this service at various
times.

For eight months he served 
under Captain Comstock, in the fifth continental
 regiment commanded by Colonel
Sherman, to fill up the regiment, & served
the whole time of his enlistment=
James Dunning
Subscribed & sworn before me, the 31st Dec. 
Ransom Cook Justice of the Peace

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State of New York, Saratoga County Clerks office SS.  I John
A. Bradley Deputy Clerk of the County of Saratoga Do Certify
Ransom Cook who has subscribed his name to the Jurat of the within
affidavit, was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and
for the County of Seals acting under the authority of the said
State of New York
Witness my hand and seal of
Office the 31 day of December
1832
John A Bradley
Dept. Clerk

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State of New York}
County of Saratoga} S.S.

On the twentieth day of August 1832
in open court, before the court of Chancery now sitting
at Saratoga Springs personally appeared
Ebenezer Dunning of Milton in said County, who
being duly sworn according to law doth depose
& say that he is now seventy one years of age,
he is brother of James Dunning, the applicant for
pension -  The deponent was in the nine
months service in the New York State troops in
1779 at Fort Edward, when the applicant went out
on a scout towards lake Champlain, but how
for they went he cannot state.
The deponent was along with
the American Army when they retreated before
Burgoyne in 1777 & he has a faint recollection
that applicant was along with the Army
in its retreat, as well as when it advanced
North to meet Burgoyne
Ebenr Dunning

Subscribed and sworn
Aug. 20. 1832
G. M. Davison,
Clerk in Chancery

I certify that the above named Ebenezer
Dunning is a credible witness, Dec. 31. 1832
G. M. Davison
Clerk in Chancery

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State of New York}
County of Saratoga} S. S.

On the twentieth day of August 1832,
in open court before the Court of Chancery now
sitting at Saratoga Springs, personally appeared
Stafford Lapham, Post Master in Greenfield, who
being duly sworn doth depose & say he is now thirty
seven years of age - He lives about half of a mile
from the residence of James Dunning, an applicant
for a pension; he has known the said applicant for
twenty years & upwards - until a few months since
deponent has lived about six miles from the
applicant - from acquaintance with the
applicant, deponent verily believes the applicant
is of the age he represents himself - And the said
applicant has always been reputed & generally
believed to have been a Revolutionary soldier in
the neighborhood & town & deponent concurs in
that opinion - deponent never heard that any
doubt ever existed as to the fact of the said
applicant's having been a Revolutionary Soldier -
The applicant is a man of fair character & a
credible & respectable inhabitant of the town
Stafford Lapham

Subscribed & sworn
Aug. 20, 1832.
G. M. Davison
Clerk in Chancery

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Mrs. Nelson Cary Haskell
Amherst
Massachusetts 

Department of the Interior 
Bureau of Pensions 
Gentlemen
Can you give me information of one James Dunning who served in New York Militia from Saratoga County (probably)?
Placed on rolls 4/3/1833
Commencement of Pension 3/4/1831
I have not the number of his claim.

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Mrs. Nelson Cary Haskell
Amherst
Massachusetts 

I would like very much to find the date and place of birth and date of death
[handwritten between lines:] no only one born 1750
This has one. Michael Dunning
Born in Newtown Connecticut 1726
Any revolutionary record 
(Not his son Michael, born in 1750)
I should be very grateful for any help.
For genealogical work. And
I am very truly yours 
Alice Dunning Haskell
(Mrs. Nelson C. Haskell)
October 17th 1930

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October Fourth, mcmxxii 1922
Idah Meacham Strobridge
Consulting and Research Genealogist
Artemisin 
231 Avenue Forty-one (East)
Los Angeles 

Comm’r of Pensions,
Washington D.C.
Dear sir:
Did James Dunning, who served in an Albany County, New York, company in the Rev. War, have a pension, or apply for one, or did his widow? If your records show that he did, will you give me such information as you can.
I desire this for genealogical work only.
Yours sincerely,
I.M. Strobridge

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Idah Meaghan Strobridge 
Consulting and Research Genealogist
Artemisin
231 Avenue  Forty-one (East)
Los Angeles 
February Ninth mcmxxiii 1923
Mr. Washington Gardner,
Comm’r of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear sir:
If the photostats of James Dunning’s service as a Rev. soldier have been sent, they have not reached me. (Pension Claim s.12830) I received your letter of Dec. 12, 1922, and a receipt for the P.O. M.O. (for $1.60) dated Jan.5, 1923; but nothing since, and a little anxious, as I have lost two checks and several letters lately by their non arrival.
Very sincerely yours,
I.M. Strobridge

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in re Ew. S.12830
Rev Sol

Idah Meachan Strobridge
Consulting and Research Genealogist
Artemisin
231 Avenue Forty-one (East)
Los Angeles
November 14th, 1922
[The following is printed on the left side of the letterhead]
Fifty years ago, local
history and genealogy
were not generally considered
worthy of study.
Now, however, the man
in the street can hardly
be regarded as Educated
unless he knows something
of his own family
lines.
R. H. W. DWIGHT.


Washington Gardner,
Comm'r of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Dear sir:
Thank you for the history of James Dunning, a Rev. soldier of New York & Conn.  I would like to have a photostat copy of his application for the pension, and would like to know what amount I
shall send to obtain the same, I desire this data to prove the line of
descent from James Dunning to his great-grandson, Henry Dunning Schoonmaker
who wishes to become a member of the Society, Sons of the Revolution.
Thanking you for the frequent help the Pension Bureau has afforded me,
Very sincerely yours,
I. M. Strobridge
[handwritten:] 9 pages
[Stamp:]  U  S. PENSION OFFICE NOV 21 1922

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[Following is printed on upper left of letterhead]
Fifty years ago, local
history and genealogy
were not generally considered
worthy of study.
Now, however, the man
in the street can hardly
be regarded as educated
unless he knows something
of his own family
lines."
R. H. W. DWIGHT.

[Stamp on right top:] U S. PENSION OFFICE 
JAN 5 1923

Idah Meacham Strobringe
Consulting and Research Genealogist
Artemisin
221 Avenue Forty-oue (East)
Los Angeles
December Thirtieth
mcmxxii

Washington Gardner,
Comm'r of Pensions,
Washington, D.C,

Dear Sir:
Herewith find money order for $1.60.  Please
send me photostat copies of the original papers in the Revolutionary War
pension claim, S. 12830, of James Dunning, which I desire for genealogical
use. There are nine pages, and these I would like certified.
Very Sincerely yours,
I, M. Strobridge

[Stamp]FINANCE DIVISION
JAN 5 1923
BUREAU OF PENSIONS

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M233
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division
19___
JAN 5. 1923 [stamped]

Chief of Rev War Section
Sir:
I have this day received from
I. M. Strobridge M.O 
No. 986, 410
for $ 1, 60/100
requesting copy [cross-out: post office addresses]
as per letter herewith

Very respectfully,
O. J. RANDALL
Chief of Division.

Copies mailed & 
your Division notified
Feb. 10-'23

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MF 42
Date Feb. 6 1923
Name James Dunning No. S.12830
Rev. War
Photographic copies wanted of  5
Pieces, consisting of. 9 pages.
Remarks:
A.E. Wilson 
Rev. War Section 
Chief Law Clerk
MMH
Serial No. 7698

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707 Sumner Ave.
Syracuse, N.Y.
Oct. 21, 1930

Revolutionary and 1812 Wars Section 
Veterans Administration 
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington D.C.
Dear Sirs:
I shall appreciate your kindness in giving me information about James Dunning, private in 13th. regt. , Albany Co. Militia during the Revolution. I believe he was placed on the pension rolls Apr. 3, 1833 and that his pension commenced Mch. 4, 1831, age 75 yrs.
I wish especially to learn the places of residence up to the time of his death, the place to which the last pension check was sent, the place from which he enlisted and the names of all persons their places of residence and names, given in the papers on file in your records; also accompanying dates, especially that of birth and death, if given.
Thanking you for your kindness in this matter, I am,
Respectfully yours,
Mansfield J. French
707 Sumner Avenue 
Syracuse, N.Y.

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Rev. War Section.
Dec. 12, 1922.
I. M. Strobridge,
231 Ave. 41, East.
Los Angeles, Calif.
Madam;
In response to your letter of the 14"" ultimo,
you are advised that photostat copies of the original papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 12830, of James Dunning will be furnished you under the provisions of the Act of August 24, 1912, at the rate of fifteen cents a page with twenty-five cents extra for certification, if that is desired.  the number of
pages to be copied is nine.
The proper amount should be forwarded to this
Bureau by money order drawn to the order of the Secretary of the Interior.
Very respectfully,
Washington Gardner
Commissioner.

send all of this [handwritten]
    15
  ___9_
   135
____25___
   1.60

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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION
[illegible] Sec1
[illegible] B
3 -- 525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C.,  11-8, 1922

In reply to your request of  _ _ _ _ _ _ _
for the history of Jas. Dunning,
a soldier of the Revolutionary War,
the following is taken from the claim for pension
S.12830
[Table with column headings as follows:]
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. |
LENGTH OF SERVICE. |
RANK. |
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. CAPTAIN. |  COLONEL. |
STATE. |

1775 | 3 mos. | Pvt. | Woodworth | Dickinson | NY |
Aug. 1776 | 1 1/2 mos. |  " | +Micheal Dunning | " |
July 1777 | 3 mos. | Teamster | [check mark] | Hays |
1778 | 3 mos. | Pvt. | Michael Dunning | Dickinson |
1779 | 3 mos. |  " | + Morse | [illegible |
[illegible] Apl. 1782 | 8 mos. |  " | Saml. Cemstich | Sherma | Conn. |

Battles engaged in, none stated
Residence of soldier at enlistment. Stillwater, NY. wh  later was Malta Saratoga Co. NY
Date of application for pension, Aug 20, 1832  al
Residence at date of application Greenfield, Saratoga Co., NY
Age at date of application, b Dec 20, 1757 in Northfield Fairfield Co.
Remarks: It is not stated if he was mar.

+ Father of Sol.  Bros Ebenezer & Richard

Respectfully,
Commissioner.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

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November 3, 1930
Mansfield J. French.
707 Sumner Ave.
Syracuse, New York
Dear sir:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the revolutionary war pension Claim, S. 12830, that James Dunning was born. December 20, 1759, in Northfield, Fairfield County, State not named.
While residing in Stillwater, New York, he enlisted And served as a private with the New York troops As follows:
In 1775, three months in Captain Woodworth’s company in Colonel Dickinson’s regiment ; from in August, 1776, one and one half months in Captain Michael’s Company (soldier’s father) Colonel Dickinson regiment from in July, 1777, three months as teamster under Colonel Hays; in 1778, three months in captain Michael Dunning’s company in Colonel Dickinson’s regiment; in 1779, three months and captain Morse’s company in Colonel Dickinson‘s regiment, and was on a scouting party down Lake Champlain.
He enlisted in Reading, Connecticut, in April, 1782 and served eight months in Captain Samuel Comstock’s company and Colonel Sherman’s Connecticut regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 26, 1832, at which time he was living in Greenfield, Saratoga County, New York.
There is no reference to either wife or children.
Very truly yours,
E. W. Morgan.
Acting commissioner