HomeMy WebLinkAboutBiographies of Revolutionary War Veterans of Tompkins Co Michael Dunning
Name: Michael Dunning, Jr.
Date of birth:August 20, 1750
Birthplace:Norwalk, Fairfield, CT
Parents: Michael Dunning and Hannah Green
Spouse:Hannah Gregory b. Jan.29, 1764, d. Dec. 10, 1840 Enfield, Tompkins, NY, daughter of Reuben Gregory and Hannah Dunning
Marriage date:Nov. 18, 1784
Place of marriage: Stillwater, Saratoga, NY at the home of Ebenezer Patrick
Date of death:Sept. 28, 1837
Place of death:Enfield, Tompkins, NY
Place of burial:Old Log Meeting House Cemetery
Children: (from Widow’s Pension File)
Tirzah Dunning b. Oct. 23, 1785 d. Mar. 29, 1820
Terah Dunning b. Mar. 31, 1787 d. June 17, 1789 bur. Dunning Street Cemetery, Saratoga Co., NY
Left 3 children
Harriot Dunning b. Apr. 19, 1789 had children
Mahlah Dunning b. Mar. 10, 1791
Beulah Dunning b.Jan. 6, 1795
Mariah Dunning b. Apr. 4, 1797
Michael Dunning, 3rd b. Nov. 28, 1798, d. Aug. 28,1857
Urbane Dunning b.Mar. 2, 1801m. Eliza Egan
Alvah Gregory Dunning b. July 5, 1805
Samuel Sheldon Dunning b. May 10, 1808Fabius, Cayuga, NY m. 1) Lucinda Crawford 2) Lydia Ann Aleer 3) Augusta Lee Getchell
Pension File #:W16245/BLWT51-200
Place of enlistment: Stillwater, Saratoga, NY
Service record:
State of New York
Tompkins County
On the fifteenth day of April eighteen hundred and eighteen, before me, the subscriber, one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Tompkins and state of New York,
personally appears Michael Dunning, aged seventy years, resident in Ulysses in said county, who being by me first duly sworn doth on his oath make the following declaration in order
to obtain the provision of the late act of Congress.
That he served in the war of the revolution for a term of at least four years, in the New York line of the continental establishment-that he entered the service early in the spring of
seventeen hundred seventy seven as first Lieutenant of Capt. McLune’s company belonging in the Regiment commanded by Col. Seth Warner, that he served in that capacityuntil commissioned
Captain Lieutenant in the fall of seventeen hundred and seventy nine, that previously to the close of the year seventeen hundred seventy nine he was taken prisoner in the vicinity of
Fort George, and was in captivity until June seventeen hundred and eighty two when he was exchanged, that the commission of Captain Lieutenant directed to Mitchell Dunning, Esquire ought
to have been directed to Michael Dunning, that the said Michael Dunning was the one meant by Mitchell Dunning, Esquire, That while in the service, the said Michael Dunning received it
and served as Capt. Lieutenant, allowing to the intent of his appointment and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said service and he now stands in need of his country
for support.
Thomas White, Judge
State of New York
Tompkins County
Testimony of May 23, 1821, of Michael Dunning, aged seventy years, resident of Ulysses, Tompkins, New York
That he enlisted into the Continental line as first Lieutenant in the year one thousand seven hundred seventy seven into Captain McLune’s company and in a Regiment commanded by Co. Seth
Warner of Vermont, (Green Mountain Boys)that he continued to serve in said company and Regiment about three years when he was taken prisoner on an island in Lake George by the British
and Indians, that he was carried by the Indians to Montreal and delivered up to the British as prisoner and that he was held about three years when he was exchanged and returned home,
though he never afterwards served in the army, that when he was a prisoner he was raised to the grade of captain, but having been exchanged he never took command as a captain, that he
was in the Bennington Battle and Hubbarton Battle.
That he is a farmer but through age and infirmity is unable to labour, that he has a wife fifty seven years old who is also unable to labour but little, and two sons, one fifteen and
the other thirteen, healthy and probably able to earn their support which is the whole of his present family, that his declaration was made on the fifteenth day of April eighteen hundred
and eighteen, that his certificate numbered five thousand thirty nine bears date December 23rd 1818.
Signed Michael Dunning
NEW YORK IN THE REVOLUTION AS COLONY AND STATE
Rank: Lieut.
Name: Michael Dunning
New York Pensioners, 1835:
Michael Dunning
Captain
Tompkins County
Received an annual allowance of $480.00 and a total of $2,160 in his lifetime.
He served in Warner’s Regiment and was placed on the pension rolls March 25, 1835 with pension commencing Mar. 3, 1826.
1830 US Federal Census: Michael Dunning Enfield, Tompkins, NY
DAR Record:
DUNNING, MICHAEL
Ancestor #: A035053
NEW YORK: Lieutenant
QM SGT,COL VAN SCHAICK,LINE;
CAPT McCUNE,COL SETH WARNER'S CONT.REGT,CAPT-LT (Known as the Green Mountain Boys)
Notes: Michael Dunning’s property was in the town Ulysses in 1818 but that area was later taken to form part of the new town of Enfield.
Sources:
Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War 1775 to 1783
Published by Authority of the Legislature Compiled and Edited by John E. Goodrich
A Member of the Vermont Historical Society Rutland, Vermont
The Tuttle Company
1904
Index to Special Persons and Subjects
(excerpt following pertinent subject)
p.831
New York in the Revolution as Colony and State, Vol. I -: J. B. Lyon Co. Albany, NY, 1904
DAR Genealogical Research System (GRS) online at www.dar.org
Ancestry.com. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
Original data: Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files (NARA microfilm publication M804, 2,670 rolls). Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Record
Group 15.National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Ancestry.com. New York Pensioners, 1835 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1998. Original data: United States Senate. Report from the Secretary of War,
in Obedience to Resolutions of the Senate of the 5th and 30th of June, 1834, and the 3d of March, 1835, In Relation to the Pension Establishment of the United States. [New York Section].
Washington, D.C.: Duff Green, 1835.
Jackson, Ronald V., Accelerated Indexing Systems, comp..New York Census, 1790-1890 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999.
Original data: Compiled and digitized by Mr. Jackson and AIS from microfilmed schedules of the U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census substitutes.