Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,601, Joseph Corbin, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Conn.
Corbin, Joseph or Cobann
S. 34,601
CONTENTS

345 Connecticut Roll
Joseph Corbin, 11 Capt Humphrey Private 4 Connecticut line In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 th of May 1818 and sent to S. Baldwin, New Haven, Conn.
Arrearages to 4 th Sept r 1818 4 months 25/31 $38. 45 5
{ Revolutionary claims, } { Act 18th March, 1818, }
77 v War Continued Berlin Harford Co
Photographic print of steamboat N.Y. 1820s by artist G. St. George New Haven Conn. transferred to Math. St. Mark 1829 from the New Haven

Joseph Coburn Pri. New Haven, Con.
April 4. 1840
Y. Baldwin,

State of Connecticut New Haven County
I Joseph Cobin of Berlin in the County of Hartford and state aforesaid do on oath declare that I served my country, in the Revolutionary war, on the continental establishment for more than six years as a soldier — that in the month of May in the year 1777 I enlisted into Captain David Humphreys company in Col Dimon's Regiment, afterwards commanded by Col Meigs the fourth Regiment in the Connecticut line to serve during the war, and continued to serve in the same company (afterwards commanded by Capt John Mansfield) until June 1783 when I was honourably discharged, but by time and accident my discharge is now lost and cannot be produced.
I further declare that I am a native citizen of the United States, where I have always resided & that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life, I now need the assistance of my country for support. Wherefor I pray that I may be placed on the pension list of the United States in conformity to the provisions of the Act of Congress passed March 18 th 1818 to provide for the soldiers of the Revolution. New Haven April 4 th 1818 sworn to & subscribed before me Joseph Cobin the day & year aforesaid Simon Watrous Judge of the Superior Court of Connecticut

To the Honourable the Secretary of the Department of War I certify that the within named Joseph Cobourn known to me on the 4 th day of April A D 1818 personally appeared before me & made oath to the truth of the within Declaration by him subscribed
I further certify that the signature of Geo W Stanley annexed to the certificate on the deposition of John Mansfield enclosed, is the proper handwriting & signature of Geo W Stanley Esq r known to me to be a Justice of the Peace for New Haven County and that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Joseph Cobourn the applicant served in the revolutionary war against the common enemy as he has stated & I therefore certify & transmit the evidence in his case - April 4 th 1818
Simson Baldwin a Judge of the Dist Court of Connecticut
Connecticut
County of New Haven ss
New Haven Apr. 11. 1818
I Dyer White Clerk of the Superior Court of the State aforesaid for said County, & keeper of the Seal thereof do certify that the name of Simson Baldwin subscribed to the foregoing certificate are in the proper handwriting of Simson Baldwin one of the Judges of the Dist Court of State well known to me
In testimony whereof I affix the seal of said Court
Dyer White

Joseph Leabin?
345
Sept 10/10
LM

At a County Court, held in and for the County of New Haven, in the District and State of Connecticut, on the 6 th day of July 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, Joseph Corbin a resident in the town of Meriden in the County of New Haven in said State, and exhibited and subscribed the following Schedule, and made solemn oath that the same is a true and perfect Schedule of all his income and property, necessary cloathing and bedding excepted, viz:
One old chest $0.50 four old chains 50 one old table 25 two old pails 34 Three knives and forks 12 One short Storge 75 $2.46
Joseph Corbin

District and State of Connecticut, ss.
Be it Remembered, That in the County Court, held in and for the County of New Haven , in the District and State aforesaid, on this 6 th day of July 1820, the same being a Court of Record, and having a Seal, under the authority of said State, personally came and appeared in open Court, Joseph Corbin aged sixty one years, resident in the Town of Meriden in the County of New Haven 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: That he enlisted into the revolutionaries at Meriden in the state of Connecticut, into Capt Phelps Company and Col Return J. Meigs Regt in the month of May A.D. 1777. during the revolution, and served in said Regt untill the year A.D. 1781. when I was honorably discharged.
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 17 th day of April 1818; that in pursuance thereof he was entered in the list of Pensioners, and received a Pension Certificate No. 345 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 Schedule hereunto annexed, and by me subscribed. And I do further declare that my occupation is that of a day labourer to those that will give me employ, having never learned any mechanic art or trade and that I have in my family residing with me my wife Sarah Corbin who is in her sixty first year of her age and is quite infirm and unable to do but little. Joseph Corbin
all which is subscribed by me the day and year aforesaid.
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
2 Dollars and 46 Cents, and doth order these proceedings to be entered in the records of said Court.
Attest, Henry C. Hase CLK.

District of Connecticut, ss.
I, Henry C. Hagg Clerk of the County Court in and for the County of New Haven in the State and District of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing and the Schedule thereunto annexed, are truly copied from the records of said Court: and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount, in value, of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is
two Dollars and forty six Cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said Court on this
10th day of July 1820.
Henry C. Hagg
I, Isaac Mills presiding Judge of the County Court in and for the County of New Haven in the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that Henry C. Hagg is Clerk of said Court, and keeper of the Seal and Records thereof; and that the preceding Certificate, under his hand, and the Seal of said Court, is authentic, and in due form of Law.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in New Haven
this 10th day of July 1820
Isaac Mills chief Judge of said Court

Application for a Transfer.
State of Connecticut } ss: Hartford County of Hartford }
On this 20 th day of March A D 1827. before me, the subscriber, a Notary Public for the said County of Hartford, personally appeared Joseph Corbin of Westfield, in the County of Hampden, in the State of Massachusetts, formerly of Meriden in the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut, who on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Leavenworth, in the regiment commanded by Colonel the Miley, in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Connecticut, from whence he removed about four months since, that he now resides in said Westfield in the State of Massachusetts where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future; and that his reason for removing to the State of Massachusetts, were to live with a son residing in that place. having been his wife - in Meriden - } Joseph Corbin Sworn & Subscribed to, before me. } the day and year aforesaid. - }
Samuel Parsons Notary Public.

State of Connecticut } ss. Hartford County of Hartford }
On this 20 th day of March 1827, personally appeared Rhodolphus Corbin of Westfield in the State of Massachusetts. I made oath that he well knows Joseph Corbin a revolutionary pensioner of the United States to be same person described in the within affidavit. That said Joseph Corbin was a resident of Meriden in the State of Connecticut, but since the death of his wife, a few months since, he has been visiting his son Calvin Corbin in said Westfield & has declared his intention of residing permanently in Massachusetts -- and I further certify that the deponent is a credible person before me.
Samuel H. Parsons Notary Public

I Then as Day Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and Keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify, That Samuel H. Parsons, whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificates, in his proper hand-writing to me well known, is, and for more than one year last past has been, a Notary Public within and for the county of Hartford in said State, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified; that the seal affixed to said certificates is his genuine seal of office; and that full credence is due to his official acts and attestations.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of said State, at the city of Hartford in said State, the twentieth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.
Thomas Day

O. W. & N. Division.
F.S.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.,
November 14, 1894.
Madam:-
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of JOSEPH CORBIN a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. 834601
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     May, 1777, to June, '83 Pri. David Humphrey Joan Mansfield Dimon Meigs Conn.  
Battles engaged in,
None mentioned.
Residence of soldier at enlistment,
Town not stated.
Date of application for pension,
April 4, 1813.
Residence at date of application,
Berlin, Conn.
Age at date of application,
Fifty-nine years.
Remarks:
Mrs. Moses Hallett, #900 Logan Ave., Denver, Colo.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

WASHINGTON'S ARMS
Henry Dyer Vester
Juniper and Genealogist
111 N. Court St.
Richmond, Va.
ENGRAVERS OF OLD COPIES, INSCRIPTIONS, PORTRAITS, AUTOGRAPHS, COATS OF ARMS, CRESTS, ETC. FURNISHED ILLUSTRATIONS OF FAMILY HISTORY.
189. 4. New York City. 189. London, England, Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Will you kindly send me a statement of the military record, as a pensioner, of Joseph Corbin, in Captain Samuel Chandler's company of the Rensselaer Connecticut Line, Revolution.
I know nothing of his place of residence while a pensioner, only that he is mentioned as such in the Roster of Conn. State troops.
Very respectfully,
328, 17th St.
Henry Dyer Vester
Handwritten notes at the bottom of the page, including names and dates.
Gen. John Dyer Vester
HELIE, COUNT DE MAINE, A. D. 1087. Ancestor of the Flanders, and the first to adopt the name as a family name.
CAVE CASTLE, YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND. Residence of Col. John Washington, Great Grandfather of Gen. George Washington.
The sacred tie of FAMILY, reaching backward and forward, binds the generations of men together, and draws out the plaintive music of our being from the solemn alternation of cradle and grave. EDWARD EVERETT.

Cruz Mihi Certa Salus.
HELIE, COUNT DE MAINE, A. D. 1097. Ancestor of the Plantagenets, and the first to adopt the cross as an armorial bearing.
CAVE CASTLE, YORKSHIRE, ENGLAND. Residence of COL. JOHN WASHINGTON, Great Grand Father of Gen. GEORGE WASHINGTON.
'The sacred tie of FAMILY, reaching backward and forward, binds the generations of men together, and draws out the plaintive music of our being from the solemn alternation of cradle and grave.'
EDWARD EVERETT.
Henry Dudley Teator, Lawyer and Genealogist.
A. B. AND A. M. OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
Nec Gladio Nec Arcu.
ST. LT. COLONEL U. S. VOLS.
ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF FAMILIES A SPECIALTY.
ENGRAVINGS OF OLD CASTLES, MANSIONS, PORTRAITS, AUTOGRAPHS, COATS OF ARMS, CRESTS, ETC.,
FURNISHED AS ILLUSTRATIONS OF FAMILY HISTORY.
WASHINGTON'S ARMS.
London, England, 189..... Edinburgh, Scotland, 189.....
Denver, Colo., Oct 12, 1894. New York City, 189.....
Hon.
Commissioner of pensions, Dear Sir;--
Will you kindly send me a statement as to the military record, as a Pensioner, of Joseph Corbin , in Captain Samuel Chandler's company of the Eleventh Connecticut Line, Revolutionary War?
I know nothing of his place of residence, while a pensioner, only that he is mentioned as such in the Roster of Conn. State troops.
Very respectfully,
Henry Dudley Teator
328, 17th st.
328 17th Street Denver
P.S. This application is made in behalf of Mrs. Judge Moses Hallett. Also Colorado also made in behalf of Mrs. Judge Moses Hallett. No 900 Logan Ave. Denver Colo. Visited by H. D. Teator

34601 INVALID. Ray
File No. 84,601
Joseph Corbin His Rev Mrs
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 84
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1894 Nov 14 Wish to Mrs. Moses Hallett Denver, Colo.

371 Dan J. L. Edwards Esq. Pension Office War Department Washington

Hartford March 20. 1827
Sir,
I herewith enclose an application in favour of Joseph Corbin, to be transferred from the Connecticut to the Massachusetts agency. Will you have the goodness to direct your reply to him at Westfield, in the County of Hampden and State of Massachusetts.
I am Sir very respectfully J. L. Edwards Esq. Your obedt Servt. Warrenton Washington Samuel H. Parsons

I The subscriber do certify that Joseph Cobin a Private Soldier in the Fourth Connecticut Regiment served in the Continental Army, from May 1777 till June 1780 enlisted for the war, in Captain David Humphreys company in the Conne- cticut Lines no property, in poor circumstances, dependent on the inhabitants for support — John Crafts Lieut. in S. Major
Berlin March 30 th 1818
Sir Haven County ss. Meriden April 3 rd 1818 — This may certify that I am acquainted with the circumstances of the above named Joseph Cobin & that he is poor and stands in need of Relief from his Country
Gard. Benham
Isaac Lewis
Samuel Yale
Ebenezer Johnson

I John Mansfield of Wallingford in The County of New Haven and State of Connecticut do hereby say that I am well acquainted with Joseph Cohn of Berlin in The County of Hartford in said State; late a soldier in the Army of the United States; That he served in the fourth Regiment of the Connecticut Line; in the Revolutionary war, during two years or more, on the continental establishment.
Wallingford April 1. A. D. 1818
Signed John Mansfield
State of Connecticut
New Haven County ss. Wallingford April 1. 1818
Personally appeared John Mansfield whose name is subscribed to the foregoing deposition I made oath to the truth of the same
Before me George 64 Stanley his officer