Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 15103, David Dunning, Conn.

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Conn.
Dunning, David
S15103
Carded

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1545
Connecticut
David Dunning
of Ridgfield in the State of Conn't
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Mead of the Regt commanded
by Col. Waterbury in the Connecticut
line for 6 mo and Private
in Cavalry 2 mo

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
at the rate of 28 Dollars 33 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 6 day of November
1832 and S[illegible] E. Taylor
Danbury County

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $42.49
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4. Mar. 1833 - 1416
[a double line is under the numbers]
$56.65

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by E. D. Bullock Clerk 
Book D Vol. 3 [there is a mark somewhat like an 0 nearby; could be 30] Page 38

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Died June 7, 1833
See A. B.

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State of Connecticut County of Fairfield} SS.
Probate District of Danbury Ridgefield

On this fourth day of August AD 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Hon. Reuban Booth [illegible] Judge of the Court of Probate for the district of Danbury now [illegible] said County in Ridgefield in said District of Danbury.  David Dunning aged seventy nine yeas who being first duly sworn doth in his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.  That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated--That in the year 1775 he enlisted and repained to over maker and performed three months service under Captain Matthew Mead and Sergeant [illegible] Taylor said service was performed by keeping guard and order at the fort and making fences and [unknown] in the militia service--Colonel Waterbury of the Connecticut State Troops commanding the Regiment in December 1775 and was discharged in March 1776  That in the year 1776 the Company to which he belonged was called out under Captain Samuel Comstock and marched to New York and performed two months service in the militia  That in the fall or autumn of that same year viz in November this declarant

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with eight more was detached and marched to Norwalk and kept guard at the place called Calf Pasture in said Town of Norwalk in this service he was engaged one week.  That in 1777 the Company or a part of it as this declarant thinks, to which he belonged was drafted to go to the defense of Fort Independence (ostensibly for its defense) but in fact to decoy the enemy, that the declarant was on duty in this service for a month under Sergent Seth Abbott and Ensign Samuel Olmsted in the militaria service and commenced and terminated said service in the month of January of that year  That also in same year he was drafted he thinks and performed a tour of service a duty that he was at Fairfield when the British landed at Compo that he followed them through Reading to Danbury and from there through Ridgefield and Wilton to Campo the place of their [unknown]  This last named service was performed in the militia and commended as this declarant thinks in April of that year and was in said service one week--That in 1778 he thinks in June he was drafted and went to White Plains and joined Col Shelden's Regiment of Cavalry and there performed 11 months service in a Company commanded by Captn Caleb St John and was regularly dismissed  That in the same year he was drafted and performed for a month

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service in Captn Caleb St John in the Cavalry and Sergent Hoyt said service was performed at Horseneck in the Town of Greenwich and Abraham Gregory was cornet to said Company--That in the year 1782 in July the company to which he belonged was called out and was on duty at Norwalk and Fairfield when those towns were destroyed by the enemy, was the latter town when the British landed and was in the battle or skirmish which then took place under Captain St John in the Cavalry and was dismissed after one week's service at Horseneck in the Town of Greenwich under Captain Hull and Sargent Hoyt and Zachariah Smith was cornet,  That while he served in New York he was under the command of Col Waterbury  That he hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension for annuity except the present and hereby declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of ay State.  That he was born at

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Wilton in the County aforesaid on the 9th day of July 1753 that he depends upon his parents for his age and has no record of the same,  That he lived at Wilton at each and every time he was called into the service and has resided in said Town of Wilton until about three years ago.  Since which time he has resided in Ridgefield in this County and State aforesaid--and resides in said Ridgefield-- That he hath no documentation or other evidence other than what is herewith annexed --  Being examined by the Cout, he saith that when he do served two months at New York, he served in the Regiment of Connecticut Militia commanded by Col John Mead--and served in New York at the time the British took the City and was with the American Army on the retreat to Harlem Heights and that when he was as aforesaid drafted in 1778, he belonged w said Captain St John's Company but said St John did not enter the service--He was drafted to fill with said Sheldon's Regiment --
Sworn to and declared in open court the day and year aforesaid --David Dunning
Atted Edward Taylor Clerk

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The said David Dunning 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.
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid
David Dunning
Attest Edward Taylor Clerk

We Charles G. Selleck a clergyman, residing in the town of Ridgefield and Harvey Smith residing in the same, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with David Dunning who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration:  that we believe him to be seventy nine years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed, the day and date aforesaid.
Attest Edward Taylor Clerk
Chas G Selleck 
Harvey Smith
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories, prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Solder, and served as he states.  And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Charles G. Selleck who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident of Ridgefield and that Harvey Smith who has also signed to same is a resident of the town of Ridgefield and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Attest Edward Taylor Clerk

I, Edward Taylor Clerk of the said Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of David Dunning for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of my said Office this 4th day of August 1838
Attest Edward Taylor Clerk

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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield S.S
I Reuben Booth of Danbury in the said County, Judge of the Court of Probate within & for the District of 
Danbury, in the said County & State, do hereby certify that Edward Taylor Esquire, who hath signed & certified the foregoing proceedings of the said Court of Probate, & the certificates of ca[illegible] of the annexed
Depositions is Clerk thereof, & was such Clerk, duly appointed & sworn, at the time the same import to have been signed, I certified by him That the said signatures importing to by the signatures of the said Edward Taylor are in his proper handwriting, and that full faith and credit are due to his attestations as such Clerk.
[next paragraph is indented to the middle of the page]
In testimony whereof,
I have hereunto set my hand in Danbury [illegible] 
this 8th day of August A.D. 1832
[signed as:] Reuben Booth
Judge of the Court
of Probate for the
District of Danbury
Connecticut

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October 4, 1937

David Dunning; S. 15103
BA-J/MCS

Mrs. F. C. Krauser
221 15th Street
Denver, Colorado

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your request for information relative to David Dunning, a Revolutionary War soldier who received pension while living in Fairfield County, Connecticut.

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S.15103, based upon the military service of the only David Dunning of Connecticut that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.

David Dunning was born July 9, 1753, at Wilton, Connecticut.  The names of his parents were not given.

While a resident of Wilton, Connecticut, he enlisted in December, 1775, and served at various time until sometime in 1782, amounting in all to eight months and one week, as private with the Connecticut troops under Lieutenant Seath Abbott, Captains Matthew Mead, Samuel Comstock, Caleb St. John and Hull, and Colonels Waterbury, John Mead and Sheldon.  He was in the battle of Fairfield.

Je was allowed pension on his application executed August 4, 1832, at which time he was living in Ridgefield, Fairfield County, Connecticut, having moved them from Wilton about 1820.

David Dunning died June 7, 1833.

There is no data on file relative to his family.

No charge is made for furnishing this information.

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator

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15103
INVALID.
File No. 15.103
David Dunning
Priv. Rev. War
Act: June 7 1832
Index:-Vol. 1, Page 105
[Arrangement of 1870]

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Mch 18, 1904 Hist to Miss Gertrude Jelliffe
Southport, Conn.
1937 Oct 4. hist to Mrs. F.C. 
Krauser M.C.S.

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I Thaddeus Mead of Wilton in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut.  Aged sixty nine years, being first duly sworn do declare and say that I am well and personally acquainted with David Dunning of Ridgefield in said County, now present and who hath made application for a pension and have knowledge that in the month of August 1782, this deponent, then belonging to a Company of Cavalry, under the Command of Captain Hull, was on a tour of duty in said Company, being drafted to go to Horseneck, for one month, this deponent marched with said Company to Horseneck, and well remembers that for the day after said troop arrived there the said David Dunning arrived and performed duty as a private in said Company for one month, and further say not.
Thad's Mead

August 4th 1832  Sworn and subscribed in open Court of said Court of Probate certifies that the deponent contains a good character for truth & is a credible witness.
Attest Edward Taylor Clerk

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David Dunning
No 1433
admit
private 6 mo infantry
2 mo Cavalry
28.33
E. Taylor [illegible]

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We the inhabitants of the Town of Ridgefield in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, hereby certify and declare, that we are well and personally acquainted with David Dunning of said Ridgefield, who hath made application for a pension for Revolutionary services, and for many years, have been so acquainted with him, that he has an sustained and [illegible] a good character for integrity and truth--

That we have this day heard read his declaration made before the Court of Probate for the district of Danbury for the purpose of obtaining a pension, and from our confidence in him as a man of integrity and [illegible] so good to truth and fully believe he served as he has therein stated--

William Hawley
Walter Dauchy
Philip Bradley
Harvey Smith
Silas Perkins
Jesse S Bradley

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I Thaddeus Sterling of Wilton in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, aged seventy two years being first duly sworn according to law

[illegible] and say that I am personally acquainted with David Dunning of said Ridgefield and has personal knowledge that said Dunning performed two months service in the City of New York in the year 1776 under Captain Lewis Comstock in the Connecticut militia, and that said Dunning performed  [illegible] months service in the year 1777 near Fort Independence in the month of Jan 7ofthe same year.

Thads Starling

August 4th 1832 Sworn & [illegible]in open court of the law Court of Probate certifies that the Deponent sustains a good character for truth & is a credible witness.

[illegible] Edward Taylor Clerk

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[stamp on top left] FEB 27 1904
[stamp on top right] PENSION F FEB 25 1904 U.S.OFFICE

Commissioners of Pensions, - 
Dear Sir, -
Will you kindly send me David Dunning's application for a pension as I am very desirous of settling a point in my family history and feel quite sure that will help me. The following is the one

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I wish
U.S. Senate 23d Congress
Pension Rolls Vol I. p 85.
"David Dunning, private Conn. Continentals. Placed on Pension Rolls 6 Nov. 1832, Died 7 June 1833 aged 81 Annual allowance $28.33 Fairfield C. Conn."

Your reply will greatly oblige,
Yours respectfully
Miss Gertrude Jelliffe
Southport, Conn
Feb 23 - 1904

[stamped in left corner] FEB 27 1904

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[Seal in top left corner, on the Seal is "Daughters of the American Revolution"]
Mrs. Frederic C. Krauser
Peace Pipe Chapter
Denver, Colorado

September 13, 1937

Veteran's Administration
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:- [handwritten to the side of this] only 1 [illegible]

If you have pension record of David Dunning of Woodbury, Connecticut, I believe he resided in Fairfield County, Connecticut, please send me copy and tell me charges and I will remit promptly.

Very truly yours,

[handwritten] Minnie H. Krauser
(Mrs. F. C. Krauser)
221-15th Street
Denver, Colorado

[far left corner of letter] MHK/IHB