Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12561, Joel Cornish, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
born.
bornish, Joel
S. 12561
CONTENTS
carded

8670
New York
Dear Cousin
of Onondaga Co in the State of New York who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Case of the Regt n commanded by Col l Hurlburt in the Col l M a . time for Com d 21 ds.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 22 Dollars 38 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of April 1833 and sent to Rufus Cook Onondaga.
Arrears to the 14th of March 1833 644.76 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 Sept " — 11.19
$55.95
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 4 Page 16

State of New York } ss: Onondaga County }
On this twenty fifth day of September personally appeared in open Court before the Hon. Daniel Mosely Vice Chancellor of the Seventh Circuits of the State of New York at a Court of Chancery held in the town & county of onondaga & State aforesaid, Now Sitting Dick Corbish a Resident of the town of onondaga in the county of onondaga & State of New York, aged seventy years old 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 th 1832. That he was, born on the twenty second day of March in the year 1762. in the town of Simsbury in the State of Connecticut: he has no record of his age, When he entered the Service he was living in the town of Simsbury in the County of Hartford & State of Connecticut, and continued to live there until April 1808. when he moved to the town of onondaga, in the county of onondaga & State of New York, where he has ever since & now does reside. —
In the latter part of April in the year 1779 he was drafted & joined the company of Captain Job Carr, Lieutenant Benjamin Farnham, Ensign Elisha Carr, and was marched to Horn Muck, through New Haven, Milford Stratford, along the Sound, when he arrived at Horn Muck, his company was attached to the Regiment commanded by Colonel Noahiah Hooker — The Regiment was stationed at Horn Muck. The Service performed by said Regiment consisted in keeping guard & watching the movements of the enemy: & During his Service at Horn Muck, a company of light horse came from the city of New York and

2 killed three of the guard, light horsemen came frequently from New York, and drove off cattle sheep and hogs etc . Fairfield and Norwalk were both burnt by the enemy. During the time he was stationed at Horse Neck: which took place according to the last list of his revolution in July. Some time in the month of July the whole Regiment marched from Horse Neck, seven or eight miles to the north & remained there about ten days, in consequence of a large party of the enemy making their appearance near the place where they were stationed - A Regiment commanded by Colonel Phelps of Simsbury in Connecticut was stationed at Horse Neck. a short time after the regiment to which this Regiment was attached, had marched to the north. The Regiment to which this Regiment was attached belonged were marched to New Haven, & there discharged about the last of July 1779 after serving three months or more
In June 1780. he was drafted & joined the company of Captain David Humphreys, and marched immediately for West Point in the State of New York. After marching about 7 or 8 miles. they had orders to halt. They remained at Garrets tavern 6 or 7 days & then returned home, and remained at home one day when they had orders to march again. He then marched for West Point, through New Hartford, Harrington, Litchfield & Pomeroy - then He stopt several days at or near Pomeroy. The company then marched again for West Point, and on arriving in about 12 or 13 miles of their place of destination as was said by their officers they had orders to proceed no further & were then

discharged & returned home - He was absent from home on this last mentioned draft about three weeks - The company belonged to the Regiment commanded by Colonel Hatching - In the last week in August or first of September 1780, George Cornish was drafted for a three months tour as then called. When this opportunity took his place, and Marched under Captain Eliza Carr Lieutenant Silas Hays, to New Haven and was attached to Colonel Austin's Regiment. The Regiment to which he belonged was stationed at New Haven in Connecticut: their service consisted in keeping guard - Nothing remarkable took place during this period of his service - He was discharged at New Haven, the last of November or first of December of the same year and returned home. He was from home at this time of service something more than three months.
He never received any written discharge from the service, and has no documentary evidence whatever of any part of his services -
The above mentioned Regiment & company belonged to the Militia of Connecticut - He knows no person living, whom he can procure to testify to his service, except Ralph Loomis a part of his service - Stephen Dutton & Samuel Gates of the town & County of Connecticut. live in my neighborhood & can testify to my character for veracity & their belief of my services as a soldier of the revolution.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the army of any state
Subscribed & sworn to this 3rd day of year aforesaid Daniel Moseley Colonel Judge J. V. Chandler

We Stephen Butler & James Gates residing in the town and county of Onondaga do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Bob Cornish who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy years of age; that he is reputed & believed, in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. We also certify that he is a man of veracity -
Sworn & subscribed the 20th day of January
Daniel Moseley
Edward Freedy
Bob Cornish Stephen Butler
James Gates
And the said board do hereby certify their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them, that Stephen Butler & James Gates who have signed the preceding certificate are residents of the town of Onondaga, in the county of Onondaga, and State of New York, & that they are credible persons, and that their Statement is entitled to credit -
Daniel Moseley Vice Chancellor

State of New York } Onondaga County }
I Rufus Taylor of the town of Manlius in the County of Onondaga, being duly sworn according to law, do depose and say that I am well acquainted with Joel Cornish who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, that in August or September 1780, this Deponent and said Joel Cornish, entered the service marched from the town of Simsbury in the State of Connecticut in a company commanded by Captain Elisha Carr, & Lieutenant Silas Hays to New Haven in Connecticut, and continued in the service for three months, and were then discharged at New Haven and returned home - This Deponent has been acquainted with said Joel Cornish ever since the revolution, and believes him to be a man of veracity -
Subscribed & sworn this 25 th of Sept. 1832 -
Daniel Mosley Circuit Judge
State of New York } Onondaga County }
I Charles Barker a resident of the town of Onondaga in the County of Onondaga, being duly sworn according to law, do depose and say, that he is well acquainted with Joel Cornish of the town & County of Onondaga, that he was well acquainted with him during the revolutionary war, and lived within two miles of him at that time, that during said war he saw said Joel Cornish and several others with their equipments, and understood that they went into the service as soldiers, and this Deponent now verily believes that he was

said Joel Cornish was in the service of the United States during a part of the revolution, and this Deponent further says that said Joel Cornish is a man of truth — And this Deponent further says that it was reported in Simsbury in the State of Connecticut, that said Joel Cornish was a soldier in the revolutionary war, and such is the report in the neighborhood where said Joel Cornish now resides — And this Deponent has never heard any one deny that he was a soldier of the revolution — Subscribed & sworn this } Charles Barber 25 th of September 1832 — } Daniel Moseley Circuit Judge
I Daniel Moseley Deputy Clerk of the Court of Chancery of the Seventh Circuit for 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 Joel Cornish for a Pension — In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twenty fifth day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty two Daniel Moseley Deputy Clerk

State of New York } Onondaga County } ss: Pirm. my appeared before me Daniel Mosley vice Chancellor of the Seventh Circuit in open Court now sitting for Comish. who being duly sworn, deposeth & saith, that by reason of old age, and 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 of the list, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: I served three months as a private soldier, at Horn Brook in the State of Connecticut in the year 1779.
In the year 1780 I served as a private soldier three months and three weeks, according to the list of my recollection — For the above services I claim a pension — The reason I did not procure the evidence of a Clergyman as to his belief of my age and the general belief in my neighborhood relative to my revolutionary services, is, that there is no Clergyman residing in my neighborhood —
There were no Continental troops, or Militia Stationed at Horn Brook, or New Haven, during the times I was at those places, except a regiment of Militia commanded by Col. Noah Phelps, which came to Horn Brook to relieve the regiment to which I belonged, and a regiment of Militia, commanded by which came to New Haven to relieve the regiment to which I was attached — I do not recollect any Continental officers, that were with the troops where I served — I do not recollect One Continental officer passed through

Muhlen, while I was stationed at that place; His name was Mr. Dugab or some such name —
I have no record of my age —
Subscribed & sworn this 31 st day of January, 1833 before me —
Jack Connick
Daniel Moseley Vice Chancellor
The court does hereby certify that Rufus Taylor and Charles Barker, who have sworn to two of the preceding affidavits, are credible persons and their statements are entitled to credit —
Daniel Moseley Vice Chancellor
I, Daniel T. Moseley, Deputy Clerk of the Court of Chancery of the Seventh Juristic for 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 Joel Wornish for a pension — And also the subsequent proceedings of the said court on a sup- plementary declaration made this 31 st day of January, 1833. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, the day and year aforesaid —
Daniel T. Moseley
Deputy Clerk

Job bornish —
Pension papers
11926
Rufus Lofit agent
admitted
6 mo 21 days Private
20
2.31

No. 11926
Joel Leonard
admitted
6 mo 21 days Private
5/14/16
Rufus Copst
Onondaga
27 Sep 1832 27 Dec 1832
P-186

No 11926
BRIEF in the case of  Isaac Garisch of Onondaga  County of Onondaga in the State of New York  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Before a Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? Seventy years 70  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     was drafted in the part of April 1779 1 3 or more Private Gen. Lord Howe, Gen. Clinton, Col. Harkness, Capt. J. B. Cane, Lieut. Bangs and   until about July 1779 Putnam, Ensign Elisha Cane   In 1780 Capt. Zaniel Houghmeyer   was drafted in June 1780 about 21 Subsistence Col. Houghmeyer, regt.   part of August or 1st Sept Asst. Genl. Comdt. Col. Austin, regt. Capt. Elisha Cane, Lieut. Bangs  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Not any  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Simsbury, Hartford Co. Connecticut  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By living witnesses & by traditionary evidence  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? No remarks 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Alvan Williams Examining Clerk.

rs. and 1812 Wars Section KEL OW
July 30, 1929
Mrs. Lewis A. Walker 40 Elm Street Westerly, Rhode Island
Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 12561, it appears that Joel Cornish was born March 22, 1762, at Simsbury, Connecticut.
On September 25, 1832, at which time he was residing at Onondaga, Onondaga County, New York, he applied for pension and stated that while a resident of Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut, he enlisted and served as a private in the Connecticut Troops as follows:
From early in April, 1779, three months in Captain Job Case's Company, Colonel Hezekiah Hooker's Regiment; from sometime in June, 1780, three weeks in Captain Daniel Humphreys' Company, Colonel Hutchings' Regiment; from late in the summer of 1780, three months as a substitute for George Cornish (no relationship stated) in Captain Elisha Case's Company, Colonel Austin's Regiment.
His claim for pension was allowed and he was paid

Re
to March 4, 1835. Upon a re-examination of the papers in his claim, it was found that the claim had been inadvertently allowed and he was requested to furnish record evidence of his service from the Comptroller of the State of Connecticut, which he failed to do and his name was dropped from the pension roll in August, 1835.
After the Revolution, he lived in Simsbury, Connecticut, until 1808, when he moved to Onondaga, New York.
It is not stated that soldier was ever married.
Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH Commissioner.
Date of death not rec APB

Adolf Hans D. Göttsche
MRS. LEWIS A. WALKER 40 ELM STREET WESTERLY, RHODE ISLAND
U. S. Pension Bureau.
Will you be so kind as to give me information concerning the record of Joel Cornish in the Revolutionary War? I believe he applied for pension in 1832, at the age of 70 years, from Anandaga, N. Y. but enlisted from Simsbury, Hartford Co. Conn. and was dropped from rolls in 1835.

Thank you for the trouble involved- Truly yours -
Mrs. Lewis A. Walker. 40 Elm Street Westbury, R. I.
I don't believe he made much of a record, but his name should be on the Pension rolls, I am told.

1929-July 30-Visit To Mrs Lewis A. Walker Bk
Reuben
12561
INVALID.
File No. 12,561
Job Cornish Paul Pat. wa
Act: June 7th 1832.
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 78
[Arrangement of 1870.]

August 21, 1835.
Sir: On a reexamination of the papers upon which your pension under the Act of June 7, 1832 was allowed it appears that your claim was inadvertently admitted. Some further evidence in support of your declaration may be had by applying to the Comptroller of the State of Connecticut to whom you are referred for that purpose. The payment of your pension will in the meantime be suspended. To Mr. Joel Connish, Onondaga, N. Y.
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March 12, 1851.
Sir: In compliance with your verbal request before leaving Washington I have reexamined the case of Joel Cornish and find that the pension allowed him under the Act of 7th of June, 1832 was suspended in August 1835 for reasons set forth in a letter from this Office to him dated August 21, 1835, a copy of which is herewith enclosed.
When the Office is furnished with the evidence required in that letter he will be restored to the rolls. To Hon. D. Gott, Pompey, N. Y.

Isaac Bornish, New York. N.Y. agency.
Act of June 7, 1832.
$22.38 per Annum.
To what time has he been paid?
pd to 4 th March 1835 B.B. A. F. K.
N. B.—Please state the Agency when enquiries are made, and oblige B.B.