Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 2468, Abraham Cory, New Jersey

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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
New Jersey
[handwritten star in black ink]
Cory, Abraham
or
Corey
NUMBER
S 2468.
Carded
CONTENTS

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2468
INVALID
File No. 2468
Abraham Corey
Print Rev. War
Act: June 8, 1832
Index:-Vol. A., Page 73
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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5369
New Jersey
Abraham Corey
in the state of New Jersey
who was a  in the company
commanded
by Captain Blackwood of the commanded
by in the New Jersey
line for 14 months & Private – $46.66
Inscribed on the Role of New Jersey
at the rate of 46 Dollars 66 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued she 8th day of February
1833 and forth him of council
House Reps
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832. $49. 99
Semi-annual allowance ending 11 May 1831 $23.33
$93.32
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded Vinal Luce Clerk,
Book D Vol. 4 Page 145

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State of New Jersey
Morris County
Be it remembered that on the twenty seventh day- of July in the Year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and Thirty Two before me, Thomas Dickerson – One of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in for the county- a Morris personation appeared Josiah Munson Whom being by me duly sworn according to law upon his oath saith that he is upwards of sixty seven years of age and is acquainted with Abraham Corey- & had been acquainted with him ever since the year AD Seventeen Hundred & Eighty two and before that time in the month of April in the Year of our Lord seventeen hundred and Eighty two deponent knows that the said Abraham Corey- enlisted Under Heron Farman quarter master at Morris Town in said county in the Waggon [Wagon] department of the service of the United States for one year unless sooner discharged and by- his said enlistment it was provided that it at anytime he was not charged with the care of a team he Was to perform such other services in the Waggon [Wagon] department as should be required of him by the Waggon [Wagon]
Master General of his deputies, for the sum of Ten dollars per month. That the said Abraham Corey- and deponent in company with several others within two months after his said enlistment, marched from Morris Town aforesaid by the Way-of Pompton in the County of Bergen and through New Windsor to Newburgh on the Hudson river
oft in the state of New York. That they-remained there in said service for Upwards of three months as near as deponent can recollect tented in the field & that
While there deponent knows that the said Abraham Corey-was employed as a Blacksmith for the purposes of the continental army. Under the direction of its
Officers, and that while there the said Abraham Corey drew rations & messed with deponent- That within five or Six months after the enlistment and in the early

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part of the fall succeeding as rear as deponent can now collect the army took the field & deponent and the said Abraham Corey- under the direction of the officers of the
Army- Were separated & after that deponent did not see the said Corey- Until they were discharged. Deponent has always understood and had reason to believe that the
said Abraham Corey served under his enlistment Until the time he was duly discharged and further deponent Saith not-
Josiah Munson [signed]
sworn & subscribed before me the day & Year above written, 
Thomas Dickerson [signed] 

I am personally well acquainted with Josiah Munson the above deponent, & know him to be a man of fair character & good rapport, & is in all respects fully entitled to belief. I also know that Thomas Dickinson Esq. before whom the foregoing deposition was taken, is one of the Judges of the Common pleas Court in the County of Morris in New Jersey, & that the above signature of his name, is in his own pleasure handwriting
Feb. 6th 1833. 
Lewis Condict, one of the
Reps. from N. Jersey [signed]

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Abraham Corey
1804
New Jersey
8. Jany 1833
Obj. 5. 14. 11
Hon. L. Condict
Admitted
Foster & Printed 14 mos. 41. 14

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Brief in the case of Cory, Abraham in the State of New Jersey, County of Morris (Act 7th June, 1833.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Correct
2 If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity:
3. How old is he? 74
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Rank. Duration of Service. Period. Under whom he served.
Served in 1782
5. In what battles was he engaged?
6. Where did he reside when he entered service? New Jersey
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication and if so, in what respect?
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Executive Clerk

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Declaration of Abraham Corey
6104
DO

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DECLARATION, IN ORDER TO OBTAIN THE BENEFIT OF THE ACT
OF CONGRESS, PASSED JUNE 7, 1832.
STATE OF NEW-JERSEY, SS.
County of Morris
On this twenty seventh day of July [text crossed out] 1832 personally appeared, in open court, before. the Judges [text missing] the court of Common Pleas now sitting Abraham Corey a resident of Randolph Township- in the county of Morris and State of New-Jersey, aged seventy-three since 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 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named Officers, and served as herein stated:
That he enlisted under Aaron Forman Quartermaster at Morristown in Morris County is the
year seventeen hundred and eighty two, as a waggoner [wagoner] in the wagon department of the service of the United States, for one year unless sooner discharged and by his said
enlistment it was provided that if at any time he was not charged with the care of a team, he was to perform
other service on the waggon [wagon] department as the Waggen [Wagon] Master General or his deputies should require of him for the
sum of ten dollars per month, - that immediately or his said enlistment he was marched to Newburgh in the state
of New York in change of a Team, and in company with a detachment of troops, where he remained for nine
months doing the duties as a Waggoner [Wagoner] and blacks
smith shoeing horses and making axes for the use of the army and under the direction of the Waggon [wagon]
Master General Coggshall from Connecticut until he was sent home to N. Jersey.  That previous to his service as a Waggoner [Wagoner] in the Regular army, he was enrolled as a Militia Man at N. German town in the County of Sommerset on
the year seventeen hundred and seventy six in the fall of that year. - he was enrolled in the Company of Captain Godfrey Rhinehart - and were marched in said company to Amboy in this state where he was
under the Command of Colonel Winds where he remained some time until we were ordered home being released by other troops. - he was next marched
to Bound Brook under the command of Captain Backman we were here engaged in skirmishes very
frequently with the enemy. _ we were next marched to Elizabethtown where we remained four months we were then Relieved, and he was ordered to Elizabethtown again where we remained four weeks he then enlisted in the Regular army as a Waggoner [Wagoner] as he has above stated.
he was sure there two full years engaged in active service the field, and never applied for any discharge.

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while attached to the army or in the militia but served his whole time as a Waggoner [Wagoner] or Militia man
of the Revolutionary army.
I was born in the County of Morris A.D. 1758 and my eye is recorded in the
family Bible - lived in the County of Hunterston when I went out with the
Militia, and have lived since the Revolution partly in the County of Essex and partly in the County of Morris and now live in the County of Morris - I [crossed out text] enlistd [enlisted] for one year in the Wagon department - General Coggshall was the Quarter Master General of the waggon [wagon] department. I received a written discharge but
it is now lost.- Thomas Dickerson and Daniel Lawrence are acquainted with
me and can testify as to my character for veracity and their belief of [your crossed out] my services as a soldier of the revolution

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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, is only on that of the Agency of the State of New Jersey
sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
William Buttin
Abraham Cory
Thomas Dickerson and Daniel Lawrence
residing in the County of Morris hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Abraham Corey
who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be Seventy three 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, thee day and year aforesaid.
William Brittin
Thomas Dickerson
Daniel Lawrence
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter,
and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above
the named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the court
further certifies, that it appears to them, that Thomas Dickerson & Daniel Lawrence
who has signed the preceding certificate in the said County of Morris
and State aforesaid, and that Daniel Lawrence
who has also signed the same. is a resident in the County and state aforesaid
and a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
William Buttin
Silas Lindftn
David Day
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in
the matter of the application of Abrala Corg for a pension.
TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my
hand and seal of office twenty seventh day of January
in the year of our lord one thousand
eight hundred and thirty three