Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2,321, Sheffield Cory, R.I.

SERVICE
NUMBER
R.S.
Cory Sheffield
R 2,321
CONTENTS

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
State of Connecticut } County of Windham } ss
On this 31 st day of July 1833 personally appeared in open Court before the Probate Court for the Dis- trict of Voluntown in said County now sitting Sheffield Vory a resident of the Town of Volun- town in the County of Windham and State of Conn- ticut aged 84 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the follo- wing 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 hereinafter stated.
First in the Month of November 1776. I was drafted in Capt. Job Angells Compa- ny, in Col. Nathaniel Brown's Regiment of Rhode Island State Troops or Militia, Field and Staff Officers. Captain Hanson Li- utenant Col. Isaac Johnson was adjutant, John Sinks was Sergeant Major. Officers in said Captain Angells Company Lieut-

Joseph Dreyer, Ensign Thomas Young, Sergeants Benedict Vory and Timothy Hall, Judeah Ellsworth was black in said comp- any, and in the Month of November af- oresaid, I marched to East Greenwich in the State of Rhode Island, and there remai- ned in actual duty in said company and Regiment in guarding the shores until sometime in the Month of February 1777. when we were marched to North King- ton in the same State, and there remained in service in said company in guarding the shores; - at this time the British Ships lay off the shore, and the officers and soldiers belonging to the same, frequently attempted to come on shore to take (sometimes by force) our provisions, and at other times to purchase articles of the farmers, who came to this place occasionally to see their bro- ther, but the object of the American forces was to keep the British off. I here rem- ained in duty as aforesaid until some- time in June 1777. when our Regiment was discharged and I came home, making

Six Months or more that I was in service in this my tour of duty, in proof of my services I refer to the affidavit of Calib Gates herunto annexed.—
I have no documentary evidence in relat- ion to my services, and know of no person living (excepting the said Calib Gates) who was with me in this my tour of duty. And it is not in my power to give the names of the officers and the general circumstances of my service more fully than I have in this my declaration. And for this service I ask a Pension .

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. —
The following interrogatories were by said Court propounded to said Applicant viz
1 st When and in what year were you born? Answer at North Kingston in the State of Rhode Island on the 30 th day of July 1749. 2 d Have you any record of your age and if so when is it, Ans. I have a record of my age in my Mother's Family Bible, and in the Town records of the Town of North-Kingston, Rhode Island 3 rd When were you living when called into service Where have you lived since the Revolutionary War And where do you now live? Ans. When called into service I lived in West Greenwich in the State of Rhode Island, and afterwards moved to Kingston St. When I moved here: most because there lived none since the Revolutionary War.
4 th When were you called into service were you drafted did you volunteer or were you a substitute And if a substitute for whom? - Ans. I was drafted

5 th State the names of some of the regular Officers who were with the Troops when you served with Cont- inental and Militia Regiments as you can re- -collect and the general circumstances of your Service I am not able to give the general cir- cumstances of my service or the names of the officers more fully than I have in my declaration. Therefore I can say no more only that it is owing to my loss of mem- ory. _____
6 th Did you ever receive a discharge from the Ser- -vice and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it? Ans. I never received

any written discharge, but was honourably discharged;
4 th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief in your services as a soldier of the revolution — Nathaniel Sheffield and Samuel Perkins.
Sheffield Vory

Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year afore said before the Probate Court for the District of Voluntown in Windham County and State of Connecticut.
Timothy G. Gulliver Judge
We Nathaniel Sheffield a clergyman residing in the town of Voluntown in said County and State and Samuel Robbins residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquaint- ed with Sheffield's Votary who has subscrib- ed and sworn to the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neigh- borhood where he resides to have been a Sol- dier of the Revolution and that we are in that opinion. Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year afore said before the Probate Court for the District of Voluntown in the

County and State aforesaid _____
Winney Gallup Judge
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion After the investigation of the matter and after put- ting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named Affiant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Katherine Dripps who has signed the preceding certificate is a clerg- ymen resident in the town of Voluntown and that Samuel Perkins who signed the same is a resident in the said town of Volun- town and is a credible person and that the person who has subscribed the within Affidavit is well known to the Court to be a witness whose testimony is entitled to credit. —
Winney Gallup Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Voluntown

I Daniel Huggins Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Columbia in the aforesaid County and State do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the Application of Shreffler  Warg for a pension
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 31 st day of July 1833.
Daniel Huggins Clerk

Sheffield Corey.
Power of Attorney of Elias R. and Henry Sheffield Corey,
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AFFIDAVIT AND POWER OF ATTORNEY,
STATE OF Connecticut COUNTY OF New London } ss.
Be it remembered, That, on this 6 th day of January , A. D. 1853 now  Elias R. Corey and Harvey Sheffield Corey do make known and declare that he  and  the  Grand son of Sheffield Corey and heir-at-law to Sheffield Corey who was the  wife of a Revolutionary soldier, who served  years, under the command of  in the forces raised by the State of and that he and his said wife were married about the month of A. D. that he died about the month of A. D. and that his said wife also died about the month of A. D. and that a pension of  dollars a year was drawn by said on account of said services, and so continued until the year A. D. 18                    , since which time nothing has been received by either, or the heirs of either of said parties.
And that claimant now is now 32, and 28 years of age; and it is understood and believed that there are arrearages of Pension, and other claims due for said services: Now, THEREFORE, the true intent of all this is to qualify and irrevocably appoint and empower ALFRED J. WORKS, of New Haven City and County, State of Connecticut,
as our  my Attorney, with power of substitution, to investigate, substantiate, demand, and receive the avails of, said claim or claims, and to say and do all things relative thereto, as amply as he  me might do: hereby ratifying every thing said or done by our  my said Attorney, or his substitute, in virtue hereof; ALSO, revoking all Powers of Attorney, or other authority previously given for any such purposes.
Attest,
In witness whereof, we  I have hereunto set our  my hand and seal the  7 th day and date first above named.
Ebenezer T. Wetmore Frances Mary Corey Mary A. Corey
Elias R. Corey  L.S. Harvey Sheffield Corey
Subscribed, sworn to, and acknowledged before me, the day and year first above indicated.
Ebenezer T. Wetmore Notary Public

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
2321
P. O. Sheffield Cory Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
REJECTED
Application filed: _____, 18
Deceased: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Connecticut Revol.
Sheffield Corp
Suspended
See letter to
Francis B. Johnson
16. Oct. 1833.
2321
Act 7. June 1832

Sheffield, Ver.
Sept
Return to be made to Francis B. Johnson Pumpkins St. Windham County

I, Goldy Gates of Pownalton in the County of Windham, and State of Connecticut, aged 73 years, a soldier in the War of the rebellion, do testify and say that in November 1876 I was drafted in Capt. Seth Angell's Company of B.I. State Troops or Militia and marched to East Greenwich in the State of Rhode Island, and said Capt- ain Angell's Company was there joined to Col. Nathaniel Brown's Regi- ment. The officers in the company of said Capt. Angell, of whom I can recollect were Lieut. Joseph Drape. Ensign Thomas Young Sergeants Brinsley Hovey and Timothy Hovey The field and staff officers of said Regiment Lieutenant Colonel, Isaac Johnson was Adjutant. Colonel Isaac was Brigadier- Major. I remained at said East Green- wich, in service in said Company and Regiment in guarding the shores until

Some time in the Month of February 1777. when we were marched, to North-Kingston in the same State, and there remained in guarding the shores, to prevent the landing of the British, (who were off the shore at that place at that time), we have remained in service as aforesaid, until sometime in June 1777. when our Regiment was dismissed, and I was discharged and came home, and I do further testify and say that, Sheffield Gory, then of West Greenwich in the State of Rhode Island now of Volanton aforesaid, and the identical person who has signed the foregoing declaration, was drafted at the same time I was, to wit, in the Month of November 1776. in said Capt. Sibley's Company, and in said Col. Nathaniel Brown's Regiment, and marched with me, and continued with me, in actual service, in said Company and Regiment during the full period of my service, which was until the Regiment was dismissed at North-Kingston Rhode-

island, as aforesaid, when we were discharged and came home together making a term of duty of six months or more, and further this Deponent saith not.
Caleb Gates
Wadsworth County ss. Schenectady July 31 st 1822.
Personally appeared Caleb Gates signee of the above and foregoing affidavit, who is personally known to this board as a witness whose testimony is entitled to full credit and belief, and made solemn oath to the truth of the same. Before me
Wmmy Gallow Judge —