Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43384, Elkanah Corbin, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Corbin, Elkanah
NUMBER
S. 43384
CONTENTS
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10. 254. New York R
Elkanah Corbin
of Charleston in the State of N. York who was a private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Smith of the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 10 of April 1810.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 th of Aug. 1821. and sent to John L. Lobdell, Esq. Johnstown, N. York.
Arrears to 4th of March 1821- 270. 68 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept: 1821 40. 00 2 yrs 10 mos \frac{21}{30} \cdot \frac{4}{31} $:324. 68
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
21 May 1820.
W. S. Hye 206.
Montgomery County.
Death not in Q B.

State of Massachusetts ss,
Personally came before me Ephraim Corbin & did solemnly swear that he was acquainted with Elkanah Corbin & knows that the said Elkanah Corbin named in the within affidavit did do duty as a regular soldier in the United States service in the years one thousand eight hundred & seventy five & six for eleven months —
Subscribed before me this first day of December one thousand eight hundred & nineteen
County of Worcester } Town of Dudley }
J. P. Gediah Marcos one of Justices of the Peace
Ebenezer Fairbanks New Hampshire - Keene Bureau

State of New York Montgomery County
Town
Pursuant to an act of the Congress of the United States of America entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States in the revolutionary war passed March 18 th 1818" I Elkanah Bobb of the town of Charlton in the County of Montgomery do make a declaration under oath before the Honorable Alexander Sheldon Esquire First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in the County and State aforesaid (the said Court being a Court of Record of the County and State aforesaid in which I do reside in the terms following that is to say - I do solemnly and sincerely swear and declare that I am a resident Citizen of the United States to wit in the Town County and State aforesaid and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I am in need of assistance from my Country for support. I do further swear that I served in the wars of the Revolution against the common enemy in the Capacity of and being a private Ensign Bolkir for the space of nine months - that in the month March in the year 1776 I enlisted for a year under Captain Bolton then of old New Marlborough Massachusetts & Smith of of Lincenborough Massachusetts Colonel, Massachusetts line - That I served until some time in the month of December (during which time I was engaged in presently opposing the entrance of the enemy into New York) and was then on account of ill health & the want of clothing obliged to leave the Army and return home - I did not obtain return to obtain my discharge - - - - -

And I do further declare that pursuant to the act of Congress aforesaid I do freely and voluntarily relinquish all and every claim I have to any and every pension which has or might hereafter have been allowed to me by the laws of the United States of America - In witness whereof I have here- -bed this declaration in the presence of the said Judge at the town County and State aforesaid this tenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight- hundred and eighteen. J. Remak Corbin Alex d Sheldon
State of New York } Montgomery County }
I Alexander Sheldon Esquire First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Montgomery and State of New York (The said Court being a Court of Record of the County and State aforesaid in which the Ethan Corbin Esquire in the aforesaid declaration otherwise do certify to the Honorable the Secretary of the War Department of the United States of America agreeable to the act of Congress entitled "Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United

States in the revolutionary War" passed March 18 th 1818 that the said Elkanah Bobb personally appeared before me the said Judge on the tenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and in my presence subscribed the aforesaid declaration and at the same time in due form of Law took an oath before me on the holy Evangelist of Almighty God that the said declaration was true and I having examined the said Elkanah touching the matters contained in the said declaration contained and I also having taken the deposition of Philip P. Radford too concerning these papers and being satisfied that such deposition was the best evidence in the power of the said Elkanah Bobb to produce I do further certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Elkanah did serve in the Revolutionary War as aforesaid against the Common Enemy in the manner and for the time stated in his declaration that the said declaration and is in other respects true all which proceedings had before me and the testimony produced in this case. I do respectfully certify and transmit to the honorable the Secretary of War according to the act given under my hand and seal at Charlestown this tenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Alex. Shetson First judge of Montgomery County

State of New York Montgomery County ss:
I hereby certify that Alexander Sheldon Esquire whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate was at the time the said certificate purports to have been made and long before and ever since hath been first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Montgomery in the State of New York and that the said name is in the proper hand writing of the said Alexander Sheldon as appears from the inspection of the Records of the said Court now remaining in the office of the Clerk thereof The witness whereof the seal of the said Court is here unto affixed this 12 th day of June 1818
Thos. Cavery Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the said County

Elhanah Boston

Present the Honorable Aaron Haring Esq r first Judge. Montgomery County ss. Be it remembered that on the thirteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one, personally appeared in the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Montgomery and State of New York in open Court the said Court being a Court of record for the said County of Montgomery proceeding according to the course of the Common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount keeping a record of their proce- edings and having the power of fine and im- prisonment. Eschafah Corbin aged sixty seven years resident in Charleston in the County aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows in the capacity of and being a private soldier for the space of Eleven months; that in the month of March in the year 1776 he enlisted for a year under Captain Hotten then of old Marlborough Major Charles Colwell Smith of Lanesborough Regiment and Massachusetts Line and left the army in consequence of ill health and the want of clothing after serving out the said Eleven months. And that his original declaration is dated the tenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner dis- posed 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 18 day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

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 hereto annexed and by me subscribed to wit:
Sworn to & Subscribed in Open Court this 13 th day of February 1828
Elkanah Corbin
En. M c Carthy Clerk
Schedule. Four chairs one great chair one old case and drawers one iron pot. one iron kettle one frying pan. 6 Earthen Plates two Pewter plates one lb Andersons one lb shovel and tongs one water pail one wash tub three Milk keels one meat barrel one drawing knife one adze one shovel. I have a wife named Hannah aged sixty eight a cripple and not able to do any work who depends on me for support. I am by occupation a Cooper but have to walk on Crut- ches and cannot work at his trade And further saith not.
Elkanah Corbin.

I John M c Carthy Clerk of the Court of Common pleas for the County of Montgomery in the State of New York Do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration and the schedule thereto annexed are true copies 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 Twenty Dollars. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 18 th day of February 1821. John M c Carthy

February 11, 1937
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Elkanah Corbin, S. 43384
Seth Sterling, S. 15994
Mary Morningstar R.F.D. #1, Box 799 Orange California
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter of January 26th, requesting the Revolutionary War records of Elkanah Corbin and any Sterling from Lyme, Connecticut.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 43384, based upon the military service of Elkanah Corbin.
He enlisted in March, 1776, place not given, and served until sometime in December, 1776, as private in Captain Holton's company in Colonel Calvin Smith's Massachusetts regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 10, 1818, at which time he was living in Charleston, Montgomery County, New York.
In 1821 he was living in Charleston, New York, aged sixty-seven years and referred to his wife, Hannah, as then being sixty-eight years of age.
One Ephraim Corbin was living in 1819 but it was not shown that he was related to the soldier and there are no further data relative to the family of Elkanah Corbin.
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The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 15994, based upon the military service of Seth Sterling.
Seth Sterling was born March 18, 1763, at Lyme, Connecticut. The names of his parents were not given.

In 1779, while residing with his father in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut, he belonged to Captain William Perkins' company of Connecticut militia and about the first of May, 1779, he was drafted from said company and served six months as private in Captain Lee's company in Colonel Wells' Connecticut regiment and was engaged in building a Fort and barracks at New London.
Seth Sterling was allowed pension on his application executed June 11, 1833, at which time he was living at Woodstock, Windsor County, Vermont, having moved there from Lyme in April, 1782.
There are no data relative to the family of Seth Sterling.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Orange, Calif. R.D.#1, Box 799.
Jan., 26, 1937.
Veterans Administration, Washington, D.C.
To fill out records for the D.A.R.
Would like war record of Elkanah Cerbin , born Oct., 23, 1752, in Dudley, Mass.
Soon after 1778 he moved to Charleston, Montgomery county, N.Y.
Yours truly,
Mrs Mary Morningstar.
P.S. Have you any Revolutionary record of any Sterling from Lyme, Conn.?
Thank You
Mary Morningstar

1937, Feb. 11. list. to Mary Morningstar chcd.
43 384 INVALID.
Rev
File No. 43 384
Elkanah Corbin
Br. Her Ind
Act: 18 March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8, Page 96
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Elkanah Corbin -
Priv.
10 th April 1810.
Col. Smith's
M ch 1 st Regt.
1776 -
Served 11 M th
See certf. of his Lieut. proving that service
- too early for rolls -
Wife & self - both cripples
Sched: $20. -
Adm y & con y
J.L.E.
Charleston, Montgomery Co. N.Y. -

State of Massachusetts County of Worcester
John Godfrey of the town of Westbury and County aforesaid being duly sworn doth depose and say that he was a Lieutenant in the Massachusetts Line under Captain Hotten Ridgment commanded by Colonel Smith in the years one thousand seven hundred and seventy six and seventy seven that he was well acquainted with Elhana Corbin late of Charleston in the County of Montgomery and State of New York and that he the said Elhana Corbin did serve for eleven months at one time as a soldier in the Revolutionary war in the Company commanded by Captain Hotten and that the said Elhana Corbin was then discharged in consequence of ill health that the said Elhana was a good and faithful soldier during said enlistment and further sayeth not. Sworn and subscribed this tenth day of January 1821
John Godfrey
Before me
Elisha Subbs
Justice
I Elisha Subbs
the justice aforesaid do hereby certify that John Godfrey the above witness is a credible man and full reliance may be placed on his testimony - Date this Tenth day of January 1821
Elisha Subbs Justice
I Migeal Bigalow Clerk of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Elisha Subbs the foregoing justice was a justice of the County of Worcester at the time of taking said affidavit and that above is his signature In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this Twelfth day of January 1821
Migeal Bigalow

Hon The Secretary of War
Sir
Enclosed are the papers of Elkanah Cobbin. he has supplied the place of the Christian name of the Colonel as required which is Calvin as he states. you will find that the other papers are correct agreeable to the requisitions of the War department. This old man is really an object of charity and clearly comes within the provisions of the Act. he is not able to move without crutches from disease which he contracted when in the service of the United States I am Sir with high Consideration
Johnstown Montgomery County 18 th June 1821 Yours &c
John P. Lobdell

State of New York } Montgomery County } to wit:
Philip P. Rockefeller of the town of Charlton in the county of Montgomery & State of New York being duly sworn deposes and saith that he has been acquainted with Elkanah Corbin named in the foregoing deposition and has ever entertained a good opinion of his honest character for honesty & good morals and further that he this deponent has during said acquaintance understood from the said Corbin and believes it is so understood among his neighbors that he the said Corbin was a soldier in the revolutionary war and further saith that he gives full faith to the statement made in the foregoing deposition and further saith not. Dated Apr. 10 th 1818
Sworn this 10 th day of April 1818 before me
Philip P. Rockefeller
Hon. S. Hooton } First judge of Montgomery County

Thomas Thompson
Elkanah Corbin
Declaration
Elkanah Corbin private Colonel
First Regt Massachusetts Line
1778 year
The evidence of two credible and disinterested witnesses of an officer of the regiment duly taken and authenticated is required.
Wanting the judges cer- tificate of the required circum- stances of the applicant.
12 May 1819
Returned in order that the christian names of the Col. may be inserted in the declaration.
2 May 1821

Montgomery County p p
Elkanah Corbin being sworn doth further declare that the foregoing Refore Decla- ration is the truth as is testified by this deponent and proved by Lieutenant Godfrey and that from the best recollection of this deponent the christian name of his Colonel was Calvin but as he was not certain of the christian name he did not insert it in the original declaration on that account - but on mature consideration and reflection he thinks the name of his Colonel was Calvin Smith as before stated. And further saith not
Subscribed & sworn before me Elkanah Corbin this 10th day of June 1820
Aaron Haring First Judge of Montgomery County New York State
State of New York Montgomery County
I Peter H. Bostwick Clerk of the County of Montgomery aforesaid do hereby certify that Aaron Haring whose name appears to the above affidavit was at the time of making the same first Judge in and for said County - that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Aaron Haring and will be sure the signature to said Affidavit to be the proper hand writing of said Aaron Haring - In witness whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the Seal of the said County this Eighteenth Day of June in the year 1820
Peter H. Bostwick