Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,480, Allen Corning, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Conn.
Corning, Allen or Corning
S. 36, 480
CONTENTS

6,342
Connecticut
Allen Corning*
of Huntington in the state of Connecticut who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel S.B. Webb of the Conn: line, for the term of 6 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 th of April 1815.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 rd of Feb y 1819 and sent to Judge Edwards Bridgeport - Fairfield, Ct - Conn:
  Arrears to 4th of Sep r 1818.  11 mos 24 / 30  38. 40    Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 March 1819.   48    * Corning   $ 86.40  
W.W.G. July 6, 07 { Revolutionary claim, } Act 18th March, 1818. }
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Notification sent the 26 June 1820, to David
Burn Esq r
Fairfield
Conn t

Allen Corning
2nd

District of Connecticut
On this 11 th day of April A D 1903 Allen born in the town of Huntington in said District under oath declares before Pierpont Brooks District Judge of the United States for the District of Connecticut in which District the Declarant now resides and ever since the end of the war of the revolution hath resided that in the spring of the year seventeen hundred & seventy seven the Declarant enlisted as a private into the service of the United States in Captain Hopkins Company in Colonel Samuel B Webb's Regiment in the Connecticut line on the Continental establishment of the armies of the United States in the war of the Revolution for the term of the continuance of the war aforesaid and that the Declarant faithfully served the United States in their armies against the common enemy as a soldier until the end of said war when in the month of June A D 1783 he was from said service honor- ably discharged which discharge the Declarant hath by time and accident lost
And the Declarant further maketh oath that he now is and was since the declaration of independence hath been a resident citizen of the United States and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of a gift ance from his country for his support
Allen Downing

District of Connecticut ss April 11 th 1818 The within James Allen Corning came before me & in my presence subscribed the aforesaid declaration & made oath that the same is true
Joseph Edwards District Judge of the District,
I affirm before the aforesaid declaration does mean that it was by mistake that the writer Joseph Barker says that the aforesaid declaration intended that it was a negligent omission intended and purposely done that I enlisted into Capt. Wolkins company enlisted in the month of May 1780 at Montville in New Jersey. Dated 22 nd Feb y 1818
James Allen Corning
I David Knapp of Washington in the County of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut having been duly sworn do hereby certify that being certain knowledge the aforesaid James Allen Corning did in the winter or early in the spring of the year 1780 enlist as a soldier into the Capt. Wolkins company no 608 Colonel H. Wells regiment and that he did serve in said company to the end of the war, I further know that there was a place in the town of Washington where he was discharged on the 21 st day of June 1780 at the expiration of his term. Corning was discharged at the same time.

District of Connecticut ss
On this 11 th day of April A.D. 1818 before me Richard Brewster District Judge of the United States for the District of Connecticut came John S. Hawley of Hunting- respective citizen thereof who being duly sworn doth depose and say that he well knows that the aforesaid Allen Corning is now for a number of years last past hath been a resident citizen of the United States and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for his support John S. Hawley
April 11 th 1818 the aforesaid aff.
District of Connecticut ss April 11 th 1818 Sworn before me
Richard B.
District Judge of the District of Connecticut
as was also Joel Mosher, Dec 22 d 1818
David Hurd
Joel Mosher having been duly sworn do make oath that the facts stated in said affidavit are true, I subscribe to the same accordingly and affirm that he did Dec 22 d 1818, Joel Mosher
Sworn Dec 22 d 1818, before me Richard Brewster District Judge of Connecticut Dist.

Allen Corning
(6342) (Ex 2 )
March 189)
Caroline

At a County Court, held in and for the County — of Fairfield — in the District and State of Connecticut, on the 14 th day of June — 1820 the same being a Court of Record, and having a seal, by virtue of the laws of said State.
PERSONALLY APPEARED, in open Court, Allen Corning — a resident in the town of Huntington — in the County of Fairfield — in said State, and exhibited and subscribed the following Schedule, and made oath — that the same is a true and perfect Schedule of all his income and property, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) viz.
1 pocket knife — $ 0.04 2 nail gimlets. — 12 $ 0.16 Allen Corning.
Subscribed & sworn to in open Court aforesaid. —

District and State of Connecticut, ss.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That in the County — Court, held in and for the Tranfield County in the District and State aforesaid, on this 14 th day of June
182 o the same being a Court of Record, and having a Seal, under the Authority of said State, personally came and appeared in
open Court, Allen Corning aged 63 years resident in the Town of Huntington in the County of Tranfield in said State,
and being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows:
to wit - That according to his best recollection he entered into the land service of the United States as a private in the winter of 1780 but at what time he cannot exactly recollect, nor can he recol- lect the name of the Capt under whom he enlisted but well re- collects that it was in Col. Samuel B. Webb's regiment in the Connecticut line on the continental establishment & for the term of & during the war, which he faithfully served out & was, at West point, at the end of said war, to wit, on the 8 th day of June 1783, honorably discharged, and that he is now on the pension list of the United States under the act of Congress of the 18 th of March 1818 & that his original de- claration for obtaining said pension is of the date of the 11 th of March April 1818 and that his certificate from the War office for the said pension is numbered 6342 .
that the original Declaration made by him, for the purpose of obtaining a Pension, under the Act of Congress of the 18th of March, 1818, was dated the _____ day of _____ 18____ that in pursuance thereof he was
entered in the List of Pensioners, and received a Pension Certificate No. _____
And I do further solemnly swear
that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the annexed Schedule herein annexed, and by me subscribed. And I do further declare that my occupation was formerly
that of a shop-joiner, but of late years only a day labourer at different sorts of light work, but thro' age, decay & various infirmities of body & mind, particularly loss of eyesight can do but little for my support.
and that I have no family or persons or persons resident with me for whom I provide, or who are liable by law liable for my
support.
Allen Corning.
all which is subscribed by me the day and year aforesaid.
Subscribed,
Sworn to, and declared in the Court aforesaid. Whereupon said Court is, on satisfactory proof exhibited in Court, of opinion that the total amount in value of the property contained in the aforesaid Schedule is sixteen cents and and doth order these proceedings to be entered in the Records of said Court.
Mess David Burr (Clerk)

State of Connecticut, ss. Fairfield County
I DAVID BURR. Clerk of the County Court for the County of Fairfield, in the said State, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is
Sixteen cents
_____ Dollars
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Fairfield, this 14 th day of June  A. 1820.
David Burr
Clerk of the County Court for said County of Fairfield.
District and State of Connecticut, ss.
I ROBERT FAIRCHILD. Chief Judge of the County Court for the County of Fairfield, in said State, do certify that DAVID BURR, Esq. is the Clerk of said Court, duly appointed and sworn; and that the said Court is a Court of record, made so by the statute laws of said State; that it proceeds according to the course of the common law, has a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, with the power of fine and imprisonment, and keeps a record of its proceedings.
Robert Fairchild
Chief Judge of the County Court for the County of Fairfield.

36 480
Rev INVALID.
File No. 36 480
Allen Corning Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 91
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I Pierpont Edwards District Judge of the District of Connecticut do certify that it appears to my satisfaction
Allen Connings, private, Connecticut line, 11. April, 1818.
Hopkins was not a Captain till 1779 - S be corrected.
Adm.
Pierpont Edwards, Esq Judge, Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Connecticut Rec'd 27. May, 1818.

Allen C. McLaughlin
The
Honorable John C. Calhoun,
Secretary of the Department of War
Washington,

I Purvis Edwards District Judge of the District of Connecticut do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that Allen Cerning who made & subscribed the declaration contained in the annexed Schedule did serve in the Revolutionary war against the common Enemy as stated in his said declaration & I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me in his case to the Secretary of the department of War pursuant to an Act of Congress in such case made & provided said proceedings & testimony are contained in the annexed schedule May 20 th 1818
Purvis Edwards