Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16924, Timothy Courson, Mass. N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass, N. H.
Corrison, Timothy or Corrison
Nr 16924
Betsy
CONTENTS

66411
Am with N. Kamp say Garrison Garrison Garrison
who was a pensioner under the act of and who died on the 11 th May 1831 at Stafford, in the State of N. Hampshire who was in Private of the Comp y commanded by Captain Prout of the Reg t commanded by Col. Garrison in the N. Hampshire line for 12 months & 25 days
Entered on the Roll of Pensioners at the rate of 26 Dollars 12 Cents per an. to commence on the 5th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of Feb y 1836 to with  the  chara  fact Rockwell, the N. Hampshire Arrears to the 5th of March 1836 $130 00 Pension annual allowances ending
$130 00
Act July 7.
1838.
Recorded by Adams Clerk. Book 9 Vol. 1 st Page 48

State of New Hampshire } County of Strafford } ss.
On this thirtieth day of November 1841 personally appeared before me a Judge of the Court of Common pleas in & for said County, Betsey Carson a resident of Manchester in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire aged Twenty seven years, who being first duly sworn and according to law, doth, on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7 th 1836. That she is the Widow of Timothy Carson, who was a soldier in the New Hampshire Militia in Captain John Walcutt's Company in Nov r 1775. That in March 1776 he enlisted as a soldier into Captain Sinclair's Company & Colonel John Walcutt's Regiment of New Hampshire Militia for Three months & was stationed in and about Cambridge Massachusetts during said Three months. That on the seventh day of August 1776 he enlisted into Captain Caleb Hodgdon's Company and served as Corporal in that Company & in Capt. Abraham Perkins' Company & Colonel Pierce Long's Regiment of New Hampshire Troops till the 7 th day of December 1776 at New Castle in New Hampshire and that he continued in Captain Perkins' Company and Colonel Long's Regiment until some time in the summer of 1777 on the Continental establishment and was stationed at Ticonderoga & Mount Independence.

That in August 1777 he enlisted into Captain Elisha Whipple's Company & Colonel Joseph Storer's Reg- -iment of Massachusetts Militia & served three months & was at the taking of Burgoyne's Army in this Campaign. And in August 1781 he enlisted into Captain Joshua Woodman's Company & Colonel Daniel Payson's Regiment of New Hampshire Militia for six months & served on the border of the State.
She further she avers that she was married to the said Timothy Corson on the 5 th day of January A. D. 1796, and that she has remained a Widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed Richard Russell Witnesses Abigail Corson Betsey Corson mark
The figures 1821 in the second line, from the top first page and the word Timothy in the eighteenth line same page and the words, that in the 2 d Timothy Corson died May and the figures 14, 1821, in the eleventh line second page were interlined before signed
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above named, before me
H. R. Roberts, Judge of said Court
I do hereby certify that the above applicant, from bodily infirmity, is unable to attend the Court. H. R. Roberts Judge of Court Pleas for Shoffee being

8170 Eliz th Causan NH
admit 7 mo 25 ds $26.11
No deduction
Richd Russell Rochester N Hampshire

Extract from the records of the Town of Berwick in the County of York and State of Maine, under the head of Marriages Solemnized by the Rev. Matthew Merriam Minister of the Gospel in said Town is the following entry viz. "Sixteen hun- dred and eighty six January the fifth, Timothy Courson of Rochester with Betsey Clark of Berwick." I Oliver Worster Clerk of said Town of Berwick certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the records with the exception of the date which is ex- pressed on the records in fair legible words and figures as follows viz. "1786 Jan'y 5 th "
Oliver Worster, Town Clerk
I Oliver Worster above named do hereby testify and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the Town aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the Records of the same Town with the exceptions aforesaid as certified by me
Oliver Worster, Town Clerk
State of Maine County of York ss. Subscribed and sworn to by the above named Oliver Worster
Before me Thomas B. Parks Jr. Clerk H.
I Thomas B. Parks, Justice of the Peace, certify that Oliver Worster above named who is well known to me is a man of truth and veracity and his statements are in- titled to full credit
Thomas B. Parks H.

State of Maine.
Yorke ss.
I, Hiram A. Hobbs, clerk of the Judicial Court, within and for said county of York, do hereby certify that Thomas B. Parks is an acting justice of the Peace, in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the twenty fifth day of January, 1839, and will expire on the twenty fifth day of January 1846, and that his signature, with the written is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the District Court for the Western District of said State, this eighteenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty one.
Hiram A. Hobbs, Clerk

State of New Hampshire Strafford County - I. Winthrop A. Marston, Register of the Court of Probate within and for said County hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been produced and filed in the Office of the Registry of Probate for said County, which proves that Betsey Corson widow of Timothy Corson late of Rochester in said County, deceased, died at said Rochester on the twenty ninth day of January A.D. 1842 And that Abigail Corson, Widow Caroline Barker, Mary Tilton, wife of Joseph C Tilton of Sandown in our County of Rockingham, Sophia Corson and Sabina Young wife of Timothy Young of Dover in said County of Strafford are all, and the only children and heirs, at law, (now living) of the said Timothy and Betsey Corson late of said Rochester, deceased.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court of Probate, this twenty second day of March Anno Domini 1842
W. A. Marston, Register of said Court

Pension Office July 8. 1842
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Yours sincerely Rochester J. M. Courson. d 14 May '21
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did not apply under Act 1878.
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Re WIDOW, &c.
File No. 16224
Betsy Courson Widow of Timothy Courson Rev. Rev. Mar.
Act: July 7 1838
Index: Vol. A Page 129
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Samuel Tabbets of Manchester in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire in the seventy fifth year of my age depose & say that I have resided in said Manchester ever since my earliest recollection and that I was acquainted with Timothy Corson from my youth upward to the time of his death. That his Father's Farm & my Father's Farm (on which I now live) lay adjoining each other and their houses stood within forty rods of each other and that I was well acquainted with the said Timothy Corson. Ebenezer Corson & Joshua Corson and that they were all Brothers and that they were all Soldiers in 1775 and that they served in & about Portsmouth New Hampshire that year, and that the said Timothy Corson was after wards a Soldier at Cambridge Mass and at the taking of Burgoyne's army as was said by his Friends at the time & by him after his return. Close in the State of Maine After the close of the War the said Timothy married with Betty, and lived with her in said Manchester till the time he died and she remained his Widow, in said Manchester, till she died about two months ago, and that I never knew any other man by the name of Timothy Corson.
Samuel Tabbets
State of New Hampshire County of Strafford ss - Manchester March 23. 1842 Then personally appeared the above named Samuel Tabbets a credible man to me well known and made oath that the above affidavit by him signed is true.
Before me Richard Phelps Justice of the Peace

I Jeremiah H. Woodman of Rochester in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire, desire and say that under the Pension act (so called) of March 10 th 1818 I was applied to by several of my Townsmen to assist in making out their papers to obtain Pensions under said Act. The late Judge Richard Dame made the proper certificates among those for whom I made the papers were John Richards and Captain John Brewster.
Richards' certificate paper on immediately sent Captain Brewster's was delayed on account of a doubt in the War Department, whether Colonel Pierce Long's Regiment was of the Continental line. In, as I believe, 1819 that difficulty was removed and Captain Brewster obtained his certificate. Some time after Capt Brewster obtained his certificate Timothy Corson of this Town applied to me to take measures to obtain a certificate for him. Upon examination of the case I could not find that he had been in the Continental Service at any continuous term of nine months. I had no doubt from his statement and my knowledge of the man, that he enlisted some time in the Summer or Autumn of 1776 and was stationed at Great Island in Colonel Long's Regiment. That he remained there until the Winter of 1777 and when the Troops started from the Fort, as it was called to go to Tye. He had a sore leg, as he told me, and could not march, that he came home and was confined all winter with his leg. He attempted to satisfy me that he went in August 1777 to join his Regiment at Ticonderoga, met the Troops retreating, went to Bennington after the taking of Barm's Troops and then went from Bennington to Saratoga and was at the surrender of Burgoyne. After he left Great Island and returned home. He failed to convince me that he ever joined the Continental Service.
Whether he joined the Militia Company commanded by Elisha Shapleigh in Col o Joseph Hovey's Regiment. I do not know nor I do not remember any thing was said about it.
His object was to prove a continuous service in the Continental establishment of nine months.

That he is the same man who was born on the rolls of Colonel Dangs Regiment as Timothy Corson of Rochester I have no doubt.
I moved into this Town in 1806 and never knew or heard of any other person by that name. The name is not very common in this section of the country except those who have descended from the Grandfather of said Timothy.
J. H. Woodman
State of New Hampshire Strafford County p. } Rochester March 5 th 1842
Then personally appeared the above named Jeremiah H. Woodman a reputable Councillor at Law to me well known and made oath that the above affidavit by him signed is true.
Before me Richard Phillips Justice of the Peace

James L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions Washington City

Shoeburster N.H. May 6. 1842
Sir
Your letter of Sept. 2 in relation to the service of Timothy Corson has been rec d . and the rolls at Concord has been examined by the Secretary and no further evidence can be found in relation to Timothy Corson. A Muster Roll of Capt. Michael Sinclair for 1780 is found but no roll of Capt. Sinclair for 1776 - on the papers returned from your Office. Among the old papers which had remained in the Office, was found an old roll of Caleb Hodgdon's Company dated August 23-1776 for a small bounty & 2 dollars for a blanket & receipted by each man & among the list Timothy & also the pay roll of Abraham Perkins' Company dated January 14. 1777 for one month's pay from Jan y 7 th to Feb y 7. 1777 being the name of First Corson an authentication of these two papers will be furnished if this fact will be the basis of pension. I have seen Mr. Abraham Perkins who states that Timothy Corson served with him in Capt. Sinclair's Company & he says his testimony is true.
If it be indispensable that a copy of the roll must be furnished to establish the claim we must accept the time which you have allowed. Other testimony probably might be permitted with no rolls -
Mr. Henry Braggall died Oct. 14. 1841 & no other evidence has been sought except I find the following Record on the Town books of Portsmouth Viz
 "Town accounts for the year 1781"  "To Spence Nine Soldiers a Bounty of 60/ per man for two months service"  "To Spence 9 Soldiers 12/ per man for traveling money"  The above corresponds with your answer.
I also find the following -
 "Town accounts for the year 1780"  "a Bounty per share of Soldiers for six months 1200 Dollars each" 
If testimony without the copies of the rolls will be considered, will you be so kind as to inform me - but if otherwise we will accept such pension certificate as the evidence already presented will justify.
I am Sir, with respect your obedient Servt Richard Prapple

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FREE
Whaley Crossore
James L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington city

Providence R. I. April 6. 1842
Mr. Edwards.
Sir.
On the 25 of March I forwarded additional evidence in support of the claim of the heirs of Peter Corson for a pension and remarked that I had requested Mr. Stevens, our Secretary, to examine the Records in his Office for the rolls of the Capt. Sinclair's Company in 1776 & Capt. Woodman's Company in 1781. to which he has favored me with the following answer "Sir. I do not think that there is any evidence of the service of Lieut. Corson which has not been trans- mitted to Mr. Edwards. in this Office" In the affidavit of Mr. Ruben Patten I wrote the name Capt. Sinclair according to the import of the word. his name might be Sinckler. There was such an Officer in this vicinity in the year 1775. and I find by inquiry of a Soldier in this neigh- borhood who was in service on the frontion of this State in the year 1781. that there was a Captain whose name was Nicholas Woodman & that might be the name of the Captain instead of Josiah Woodman as testified to by Mr. Buzzell for the service in 1781.
Mr. Buzzell is dead & I know of no other Soldier, at present, to inquire of. Will you please to examine the case again & report again & such further evidence as may be re- quired, shall be forwarded, if it can be obtained.
Your obtd. humble servt
Richard Patten

Sec'y of State Office Concord N.H. Jan 1-1842 Hon J. L. Eastman, Sir,
I have the honor to enclose you the remains of some letters.
I forward these papers at the request of Hon. Nicholas Chaplin of Portsmouth who wishes that the contents may be forwarded to Mr. Hazell at Portsmouth
I am Sir your obedt Servt
Jonathan Hovey

Mar 30 1864
Mr
FREE
Department of War James L. Edwards Esq. Washington City

Rochester N.H. March 25 1842
Mr. Edwards.
Sir. Yours of the 8 th of Feby last touching the claim of the Widow Betsy Corson for a pension was duly rec d . and in relation there to. The affidavit of Jeremiah Woodman Esq r & the affidavit of Mr. Samuel Tabbets are herewith enclosed.
It is attempted to satisfy the Department of the identity of her said husband with the name of the individual found upon the rolls. That her husband did attempt to obtain a pension under the act of 1818 but failed to satisfy the Woodman that he was in service nine months at one time. That he was the same individual who resided in Rochester. That he was the same man named as from Dover. That Betsy Corson was his wife and remained his widow until her death. In relation to the service alleged in 1776 & 1781 no examination of the rolls has been made. I this day write to the Secretary to examine the rolls in relation there to and forward such evidence as may be found to your Department. I also herewith enclose a certificate from the Probate Office to show that Betsy Corson Will of Timothy Corson died in Jany last. In order that the Department may be fully apprised of the state of the case. All of which is respectfully submitted for your consideration. with a request that in the due course of business the same may be examined & an answer returned. On the first of Feby last I forwarded to your Department the: the records of the Secretary of the State. the claim of the heirs of Mrs. Deborah Davis (wid of Ensign John Davis) for a pension as a vestal right. Have not heard whether it has reached the Department shall be happy to hear in due time.
I am, Sir, with great respect &c
J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
Your humble Servt Nathaniel Prentiss

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
I JOSIAH STEVENS, JR. Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Hiram A. Asbury is an acting Judge of the Court of 6. Pleas in and for the county of Strabane duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the fourth day of Jan 1841 and will expire on the sixteenth day of May 1876 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this first day of Feb 1842
Josiah Stevens Jr Secretary of State.

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
I JOSIAH STEVENS, JR. Secretary of the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Richard Knapp is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county of said State duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the twenty first day of May 1839 and will expire on the twenty first day of May 1844 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said State this twentieth day of November 1841
Josiah Stevens Jr
Secretary of State.

I Ralph Turnham of Acton in the County of York and State of Maine eighty five years old depose & say that the last of August or the first of September 1777 I listed as a Sargent into Captain Elisha Shapleigh's Company and Colonel Joseph Storrs Regiment of the Massachusetts Militia for three or four months. I think four months, and that Timothy Comson of Roch- ester in the State of New Hampshire enlisted as a Soldier into the same Company for the same term of service and served until some time in December of the same year and then were both discharged at Hartford in the State of Connecticut Ralph Turnham
State of New Hampshire Shoeburton County Is } October 14. 1841 Then personally appeared the above named Ralph Turnham a man of truth and made oath that the above affidavit by him signed is true Before me Richard Chapelle Jus. Peace The State.

I Ruben Piker of Dover in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire eighty three years old, dispose & say that in March 1776 I enlisted as a Soldier into Captain Simonds Company and Colonel John Waldron Regiment of the New Hampshire Militia for three months and service out my time. I was well acquainted with Timothy Courson who served as a Soldier in the same Company at the same time with me, three months also Elijah Hanson for Ruben Piker
State of New Hampshire Strafford County ss. { September 22. 1841
Then personally appeared the above named Ruben Piker and made oath that the above written affidavit and signed by his request, he being blind, is just and true the said Piker is a credible witness by me known. Before me Richard Phelps Jus. of the Peace through the State

I Henry Buzzell of Rochester in the County of Strafford & State of New Hampshire being one year old, Depose & say that I was a Soldier in Captain John Bowdoin's Company of said Rochester early in the summer of 1777 our Company was at Ticonderoga and while there I saw Timothy Courson of said Rochester, a Soldier in service, on Mount Independence. Afterward in the last of August or the first of September 1781 I enlisted as a Soldier into Captain Joshua Woodman's Company & Colonel Daniel Munnell's Regiment of the New Hampshire Militia for six months. The above named Timothy Courson enlisted as a Soldier at the same time and into the same Company for six months and served as a Soldier in said Woodman's Company & said Munnell's Regiment, the full term of six months in the year last above mentioned. We were both discharged at Charleston in said State of New Hampshire
Henry Buzzell
State of New Hampshire Strafford ss. September 13, 1841. Then personally appeared the above named Henry Buzzell, a credible witness to me well known and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true.
Before me Richard Mansfield Justice of the Peace Through the State