Pension Application of John Peter and Elizabeth Corn: W5885

                        Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris

 

State of No Carolina}   Court of Pleas and quarter

Buncombe County}      October term 1832

On this 6th day of October personally appeared in Open Court before the justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter-Sessions of Buncombe County State of North Carolina now Sitting John P. Corn a resident of said County and State his age eighty years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 to with that he was born in the year 1752 in the State of Virginia Albemarle County. He enlisted on the 8th day of Febr’y 1776 for the term of two years in the regular troops of Virginia. He was enlisted by Lieutenant Thompson. His Capt. Mathew Dewett. Col. Daingerfield was the commanding Col. William Neilson was his Maj.  that he served the whole time two years and received a discharge in Pennsylvania from [illegible] William Woodford at the Valley Forge Camp– He was in a skirmish near Philadelphia against the British guard. they retreated to the City with a loss of eight killed.  that they then went back to the Camp after this engagement. That his name if enrolled is with State troop of Virginia. He went after he received a discharge back to Virginia. He remained for 12 or 13 years. He went from thence to Surry County NoCa five years  He went from Surry to Wilks [sic: Wilkes] County in the said State remained there 5 years.  from thence to this County Buncombe at which place he has resided since and do at present. I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the Pension roll of the agency of any State  Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid  

John Peter his + mark Corn

 

State of North Carolina}

Henderson County}                 On this 27th day of March one thousand eight-hundred and forty four, 1844, personally appeared before me Jesse McMinn on of the acting Magistrates and a member of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in and for said County (It being a Court of Record) Elizabeth Corn, a resident of the County and State aforesaid aged seventy nine, 79, years who being first duly sworn 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 7th 1838, “Entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows.”

            that she is the widow of John Peter Corn late Revolutionary pensioner deceased of Henderson County North Carolina who was a private Soldier in the War of the Revolution and received a pension as such from the United States at the rate of Sixty dollars per annum under the act of June 7th 1832.

            She further declares that she was married to the said John Peter Corn in Henry County Virginia in the month of May in the year seventeen hundred and eighty one, 1781, or two  that her husband the aforesaid John Peter Corn died on the 14th day of October in the year eighteen hundred and forty three, 1843, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four Viz. at the time above stated.

            she also declares that she has a family Record showing the births of her children which was written many years ago and has always been considered correct and true.

            Sworn and subscribed on the day and year first above written before

Jesse McMinn J. Peace              Elizabeth her + mark Corn

 

            Copy

Adam Corn the son of John Peter Corn and Elizabeth his wife was born May 2 day in the year of our Lord God 1783. “James Scurlock his hand and pen”,

William Corn the son of John Peter Corn and Elizabeth his wife was born February 5th in the year of our Lord God 1785,

Samuel Corn the son of John Peter Corn and his wife Elizabeth was born February 6th 1787. John Corn the son of John Peter Corn and his wife Elizabeth was born in December 2nd 1789.

 

A typed summary by A. D. Hiller, Executive Assistant to the Administrator, dated 1 April 1939, gives the following additional information.

“His mother was Molley Corn.

“The soldier married in Henry County, Virginia, in May, 1781 or 1782, Elizabeth Parr who was born June 14, 1764.

“The following names of children of John Peter Corn and his wife, Elizabeth, are shown in the claims [in addition to the ones copied from the record above]

“Lot Corn, born February 24, 1792

Sarah  “        ”    May         17, 1793

“Reference was made to two brothers of John Peter Corn, other than Jesse who served with him, namely; George and Samuel Corn, no details in regard to them given.”