Copy of the Testimony of Asa C. Barney and Beroth Bullard, Surgeons of Greenfield, New York, Recounting their Examination of William Scott's Wounds on His Left Hand and Back That Occurred in Action During the Revolutionary War, Sworn Before Adam Comstock
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We Asa C Barney and Beroth Bullard of the Town of Greenfield in the County of Saratoga and State of New York Surgeons having been requested to examin the Wounds of William Scott of the Town County and State aforesaid, said to have received while a Soldier in the revolutionary War and Report our opinion thereon

Do depose and say that there appears to have ben a musket Ball passed obliquity through the metacarpus of the left hand, entering between the Thumb and the first joint of the first finger and coming out through the [illegible, maybe metacarpal] bone of the fourth Finger:  The said fourth Finger has ben amputated near the first joints, near the hand in consequence we are informed of this and wound-it has likewise almost-totally destroy the power of voluntary  flexuous & extension of the fingers of the said hand-The inevitable consequences of a Mussket Ball passing through the Hand in the manner that has been described has of course deprived him in a great [illegible] of the ordinary use of the Member in short this hand appears so far disorganized & essentially injured or will in our opinion ever prove an insuperable obstruction & material inconvenience to his procuring a Livelihood by any laborious pursuit or manual labour_ Moreover there are indications of a wound having been inflicted on his Back, in the region of the loins, that appear to have been produced by the point of a Bayonet penetrating to the lumbar-vertebrae-the consequence of which we concur must also augment that durability which renders him incapable of fatiguing avocations.

Asa C Barney
Beroth Bullard

Sworn the 9th day of November 
1807 before me
Adam Comstock
A Commissioner to take the testimony in the care of William Scott claiming to be placed on the pension List of the United States

A true copy compared by me Adam Comstock commissioner as aforesaid
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A Copy of A.C. Barney, & B. Bullard,testimony