Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37050, Cornelius Hamlin, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Hamlin, Cornelius
S. 37050
CONTENTS

3,965
Connecticut Rolls
Cornelius Hamlin
Capt Rogers
Private
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 21 st of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 th of Octob r 1818 and forwarded to Augustus Pettibone Litchfield. Conn to
  Arrears to 4th of  Sep 1818  35.73    Semi-ann. all ce ending  4 th Mar 1819  48.00  
4 mo 14/30
$ 73.73
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
WAS
Not entitled
Washington, Litchfield Co.

informed May 24. 1821 that his name could not be recited & sent to D. S. Boardman Esq. New Milford, Conn.
Abigail Dyer Theodore Dyer Nathan Dyer Stephen Dyer Samuel Dyer

Notification sent October 9. 1820 to Frederick Wolcott, Litchfield, Conn.
informed May 24. 1821 that his name could not be recited of just to D. S. Boardman Esq. New Milford, Conn.

Cornelius Hamlin private, Connecticut line, 21 st April, 1818.
 found on the rolls. 
Admitted.
Augustus Pettibone Judge, Litchfield, Connect. Rec d . 30. April, 1818.

I Cornelius Hamlin of Washington in Litchfield County and State of Connecticut, on oath declare & say that in April 1777 I enlisted for three years into the 7th Connecticut Woodbridge Company in the 7th Connecticut Regiment commanded by Col. Heman Swift and by mistake I was returned as enlisted during the War, and my enlistment was lost so that I was held during the War in said 7th Connecticut Regiment in the Continental Army in the revolutionary War, at the Battle of Monmouth being much fatigued by marching all night before, and entering the field with Genl Lee at break of Day, and the excessive heat thereof together with the smoke of the battle which almost suffocated me, and exhausted me so far that it caused a discharge of blood from my lungs, these discharges of blood followed me whenever I was much fatigued, but my ambition and love of my Country prompted me to do my Duty for the most part until the Winter of 1780 my bleeding from the Lungs increased so I became unable to do military Duty, the Surgeon of the Regiment procured a furlough for me to return home some time in April 1780 to recover my Health, I remained in a weak low state unable to join the Army, some time in Sep r 1780 my Friend Col. Josiah Starr called on me and told me to remain at home until I was able to do military Duty, I remained in a weak feeble state of Health till the war ended and ever since unable to do military duty I have frequent returns of bleeding at the Lungs which kept me poor, indigent & in needy circumstances and I am unable at this time to do any labor

and am in want of help from my beloved Country for which I fought, bled and almost Died & further I say not. Cornelius Hamlin
State of Connecticut Litchfield County April 21 st 1818 Personally appeared Cornelius Hamlin & made solemn Oath to the foregoing Affidavit that the same is the Truth, the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth as he verily believes before me
Augustus Pitelone Chief Judge of Litchfield Court of Common Pleas
These certify that we are well acquainted with Cornelius Hamlin who hath given the aforesaid Affidavit, and that full faith & credit ought to be given thereto. he is poor & indigent indeed and is a man of strict integrity and was a Soldier in the revolutionary war without any hesitation whatever C W N. Himmade Elijah Haxon
These certify that the above said Cornelius Hamlin was a Soldier in the 7 th Connecticut Reg t in the Continental Army commanded by Col. Herman Swift in Camp at Woodbridge Company in which Camp I was a Sergeant and that he claim- ed to have enlisted for three years but was returned for the War and that after serving several years he was Sick Warrenton - April 1818 Ebenezer Tanner

State of Connecticut Litchfield County ss Litchfield April 21 st 1818 I Augustus Pittbore Esq r chief Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for Litchfield County, do hereby certify that I administered the foregoing oath to Cornelius Hamlin, and that full faith & credit is to be given to his certificate & affidavit, and likewise to the certificate respecting his Indigence & being a Soldier in the revolutionary War and that he comes within the Provisions of the late act of Congress making Provision for Soldiers in the late revolutionary War nine months or over, who are indigent and in needy circumstances. In testimony whereof I have caused the Seal of this Court, which is a Court of Record to be affixed this 21 st Day of April A.D. 1818 Augustus Pittbore Chief Judge
Hon ble John C. Calhoun Secretary of War.

District of Connecticut ss. County of Litchfield, County Court.
On this 4 th day of July 1820 personally appeared in open Court, being a court of RECORD for said county in said district, having the power to fine and imprison Cornelius Harriman
aged 61 years resident in Washington in said county, who being
first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows :
I enlisted in April 1776 in Capt e Edward Rogers' company in Col. Gaye's Reg t in the Connecticut line for the term of eight months. I was in the Battle at Flatbush on Long Island and at the battles in New York. & at Harlem Heights I was discharged at North Castle the 25 th day of Dec r 1776 - the 29 th of Dec r I enlisted again for 2 months in Capt e Bolin's company & Col. Hooker's Reg t & was discharged at Morristown about the first of March 1777 - the 18 th of March 1777 I enlisted for three years in Capt e . Theodore Woodbridge's company Col. Heman Swift Reg t . (Through mistake or design I was returned as having enlisted during the war) I was in the Battle of Germantown the Battle at White Marsh & the Battle at Red Bank. In the last I acted as a Sergeant tho' only a corporal I commanded a platoon in which 10 out of 16 were killed - the heat & fatigue of that day brought on a bleeding at the lungs which commenced the very day after - and with which I have been troubled ever since at times - I continued in the army nearly two years after & in Oct r 1780 I was transferred. - I have a wife, aged 60 years a feeble & infirm woman unable to earn anything for her support. - I am a carpenter by trade. I can work but a small part of the time, and for two years past have done very little labour - My constitution is broken I have had more than 20 attacks of Pleurisy which I attribute chiefly to my sufferings in the Battle of Red Bank. - I have received a pension certificate No 3965 and dated the 21 st day of April 1818
And I do solemnly Swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ; 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 provision 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 th 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, con- tracts or debts due to me ; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.

Inventory of Cornelius Hamlin's property  Schedule
  Small house & barn & \frac{1}{2} acre of land appraised at $ 250-00   1 Cow 13-00- 1 Pig 3-00- 2 old tables 2-00- one stand 0-75 18-75   8 chairs 1-34- 1 old wooden wheel & clock 2-00 3-34   1 cupboard 2-00- 3 old chests 1-50- 12 cups & saucers 0-42 3-92   2 tea pots 0-50- sugar bowl & milk cup 0-17 0-67   4 \frac{1}{2} pt Tumblers 0-16- 1 \frac{1}{2} gill glass 0-04- 12 plates 0-36 0-56   1 pepper box 0-04- 2 pewter platters 0-67 0-71   8 pewter plates 1-34- 2 glass bottles 0-14- 7 do 0-58 2-06   1 Tin canister 0-10- 6 earthen bowls 0-36 0-46   5 tin pans 0-83- 1 dipper & 2 cups 0-18- 4 enamel tubs 0-67 1-68   1 Iron pot 0-50- peat tongs & old andirons 1-00 1-50   Cram & hooks 1-00- toast iron 0-50- 2 pails 0-34 1-84   Old wash tub 0-17- old brass kettle 1-50 1-67   Part of a set of Carpenter's tools very old & poor 10-00   1 Wheel & Reel 1-00- cheese press 1-00 2-00   1 Bible, 1 Testament, 1 Bayliss saints Rest 1-00 1-00   Psalm book & stow 0-75   2 old chairs 1-50   11 lb Wool 3-67   Appraised by M. P. Fowler & D. B. Brimman July 3 rd 1820 Total $ 306-08 
When I rec d my pension from the Government I was in debt for my house, but with that money I paid the debt. - I am now indebted to the amount of $150 - which is my Physicians bill & other bills for necessities and unless I receive my pension I shall have to be supported by others  Cornelius Hamlin

Sworn to and declared on the 4 th day of July before Tail Court
A. D. 1820
Asst. Frederick Wolcott Clerk
not entered Mark 3965 John H. Allen
I, Frederick Wolcott, Clerk of the County Court, in the county of Litchfield, and State of Connecticut, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the court ; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court, that the total amount in value of property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is three hundred and six dollars and eight cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this 14 th day of July 1820
Clerk of the County Court for the County of Litchfield.
Frederick Wolcott, Clerk

Hamlen Cornelius
His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the Circuit Court for the district of Connecticut, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on Dec. 14, 1792, and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 65.
Rank : Corporal
Regt. : Col. Swift's Invalids
Disability : Disabled by dangerous epileptic fits and inward bleeding, occasioned by hardships and fatigues.
Date of certificate : Oct. 4, 1792
Monthly allowance : $ 5. 50
Arrears due : $ 150. 00

Hamlin, Cornelius
His name appears on a list of claimants to be placed on the pension list returned by the Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on April 25, 1794, and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 115.
Rank: Corporal
Regt: 17 th Connecticut.
Disability: Diseases contracted in the service, from hardships suffered.
When disabled: 1780
Residence: Washington
Monthly allowance: $ 5.50
Arrearages: $150.00
Remarks: This man was transferred to the invalids, October 23, 1780.

Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D. C., _____, 189__
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Charles Haulin a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will please find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Apr 1776 8 mos. Pri Ed. Rogers Gen Conn.   Jan. 1777 2 mos. " Robins Hooker Conn.   Mar 1777 2 yrs. " Woodbridge Swift "  
Battles engaged in, Flat Bush, Harlem Heights, White Marsh & Monmouth Residence of soldier at enlistment, Town not stated. Date of application for pension, Apr 2, 1818. Residence at date of application, Washington, Conn. Age at date of application, 60 years.
Remarks: _____
Very respectfully,
_____ Commissioner.

Connecticut Cornelius Hamlin
Private
Send from 77, 3 years
His age 61. Carpenter - can work but little - had more than 20 attacks of Pleurisy, which he attributes chiefly to his sufferings in the Battle of Monmouth. Wife 60 - infirm
Schedule dated July 5. 1820.
Small House & Barn & \frac{1}{2} an acre of Land $ 250. Cows $13, Tools $10 and sundry Articles of furniture Total $306.00
Application for restoration made & rejected May 1821
2 d Schedule dated Dec r 29. 1820. amt. $43.95. His Creditors have taken the

House and Land mentioned in 1 st Schedule
David
S Boardman New Milford, Cont
Reftore
Restored Mch 31 st 1823

37 050 INVALID. Rev
1894 Sept. 20 H. H. D. Hon. H. F. Andrews Audubon, Iowa
File No. 37,050
Cornelius Hamlin Rev Rev. H. H. D.
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 176
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of Connecticut ss.
County of Litchfield
At a Court of Common Pleas, held at Litchfield, in said County, on the second Tuesday of December 1820, the same being by law a Court of Record, personally appeared in open Court Cornelius Hamlin, aged sixty two years, resident in Washington in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, vizt: That in the month of April 1778 he enlisted into a company commanded by Capt. Edward Rogers in the Regiment of Connecticut Troops under the order of Col. Gay, for the term of eight months, and was discharged the 25 th day of December following, & four days afterwards enlisted for a further period of two months into a Regt. of Conn t Troops commanded by Col. Wooster, & Company of Capt. Robin, which said period he also served out & was discharged therefrom at Morristown in the State of New-York, and on the 18 th of March 1779 he enlisted for three years (limit was returned as having enlisted for the war) into a company under Capt. Sherwood Woodbridge into the Regt. of Continental Troops commanded by Col. Heman Swift of the Conn t line, & served therein until some time in the month of October 1780, when on account of continued inability of body he was transferred to the corps of Invalids, with liberty either to join said corps or remain at home, & I preferred the latter course, & never after rejoined the Army. —

That during the first aforesaid period of enlistment he was in the battle at Flatbush, & other less considerable actions, particularly the one at Harlem heights, and that during the last of the aforesaid periods of his enlistments, he was in the battle at Germantown, the action at White Marsh, and the battle at Monmouth, in which latter battle he suffered 20 extremely from heat and fatigue, as in his apprehension radically to affect his constitution, which has ever since been feeble, & is now almost broken, by the frequent recurrence of bleeding at the lungs, with which he was at first visited immediately after the sufferings of the day last mentioned, & the numerous attacks of sickness which he has sustained since that time, — that he is by occupation a Carpenter, but from age & multiplied infirmity is able to do but little labour, by no means sufficient for his support, that he has a Wife aged about sixty years, who is very infirm & capable of contributing nothing to his support — and that he has no Child living or other person by law bound to support him — That for the foregoing services he has been placed upon the pension list, of the Connecticut Agency, as a Revolutionary Pensioner, the Certificate whereof bears date the 28 th day of October 1818, and is numbered 3965, & was granted pursuant to the provisions of the Act of Congress of the 18 th of March 1818, that in conformity with the provisions of the Act of Congress of the 1 st of May 1820, he the said Hamlin, on the 4 th day of July 1820 exhibited & made Oath to a List of all his property, both real & personal before the Court of Common Pleas then held at Litchfield aforesaid, & caused a copy thereof & of the proceedings had before said Court to be transmitted to the Secretary of War, by which it appeared that the whole amount of

of his property at that time was three hundred & twenty Dollars & eight cents, & no more, the greater part of the value of which was in a small house in which he resided, and about half an acre of land on which it stood, - It also appeared from the affidavit connected with said schedule that he was then indebted to the amount of One hundred and fifty Dollars. - that he has since been informed by official communication to him from the War department, that on account of the amount of property contained in said schedule it was deemed improper that he should be continued upon the Pension list - Now the said Hamlin upon his Oath further saith that since the proceedings aforesaid in regard to his said Pension, the Creditors to whom he was indebted at the time of so making his former affidavit as aforesaid and other Creditors have prosecuted their respective claims against him, and have by force of Execution seized upon said House and land & taken and disposed of the same, according to law - which said claims were just & bona fide claims - and that he is now wholly destitute of property except as is herein after mentioned.
And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818, & 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 provision of an Act of Congress entitled an Act to provide for pensions persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War - passed the 18 th of March one thousand eight hundred eighteen - & that I have not, nor has any person in

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 herunto annexed, & by me subscribed. Cornelius Hamlin. —
Schedule of the property of Cornelius Hamlin 9 Chains $1. 20 - one Table $1. - one old wooden Clock $1. - One iron pot & small kettle $0. 70. - Shovel, Yoke, and iron & tram mill $0. 75 - One old traps kettle $2. Garther Ware valued at $1. - eight pewter plates & two platters $1. 50 - Three tumblers - one foot & one quart glass $0. 30 & tin pans $0. 50. - two cedar bbls $1. 25 1 meat bbl. $0. 25 - one old Chest with drawers $0. 75 - one old trunk $0. 75 - part of a set of carpenters tools $7. - One Cow $12. - One hog, fatted, $7. - One Bible, a testament & two other books $1. - One Stone & one stand & two rails $1. 50 - One very old table $1. - One little Wheel, one bed, & one Chair legs $2. - Total $43. 95. —
Cornelius Hamlin. —
State of Connecticut, County of Litchfield ss. County of Connecticut ss. Docket D. 1820. Personally appeared in open court, (the same being a court of record) Daniel B. Bainsmade, Esq. of Washington in

in said County, & being duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath declare that he is a Justice of Peace for said County & the Town Clerk or Register of said Town, that as such Justice he did in the month of November last under judgments against the said Cornelius Hamlin, in favour of Samuel and William Leavitt, Warren P. Fowle, Connecticut - time Mr & Mosen D.D. and M. Bains made to the amount in all of One hundred eighty six Dollars - and thirty Cents - including legal costs, and did grant Execution therefor in due form of law - which said Executions have since been returned to him as such Register or Town Clerk of said Washington, to record, from which it appears that the whole of the Estate, interest and property of the said Hamlin in & to about half an acre of Land with a small Dwelling House & Barn thereon, being the same mentioned in the foregoing Declaration of the said Hamlin, has been levied upon, taken, appraised by Appraisers under Oath, & set off upon said Executions to the Creditors named therein, in satisfaction of said Debts, & of the additional costs of levying said Executions. R

That it does not appear by the registry of lands in the Office of him the said Town Clerk, nor is it otherwise known to him the Deponent that the said Hamlin is the owner of any real estate whatever, either in said Town of Washington or elsewhere, nor does the Deponent know of any other property to the said Hamlin belonging than that contained in the preceding Schedule. (necessary bedding and clothing excepted) The several articles of which have this day been appraised by the Deponent at the prices thereto annexed - which this Deponent believes to be the full value of said property. And this Deponent further says, that he has for many years past been well acquainted with the said Hamlin & knows him to be very indi- -gent & infirm. —
(Daniel B. Brinsmade)
Sworn in open Court,
Testified by
Frederick Wolcott, Clerk

The preceding Declaration and Schedule which are respectively subscribed by the said Cornelius Hamlin, were sworn to and declared by him on this 29 th day of December 1820 before the said Court.
Certified by
Frederick Wolcott, Clerk.
I Frederick Wolcott, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oaths and the Schedule & also the Affidavit of the D. Danl. B. Brinsmade Esq. thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the Court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is forty three Dollars ninety five Cents —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court on this 10 th ninth day of December 1820.
Frederick Wolcott.