Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31,632, Avery Cornwell, Del.

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SERVICE | | NUMBER

Del. | Cornwell, Avery | S. 31.632
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CONTENTS

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31 632
Revy INVALID.
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File No. 31.632
Avery Cornwell
Pri Rev War
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Act: June 7 32
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 83

[Arrangement of 1870.]

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26.267

Delaware
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Avery Cornwell
of Sussex Co in the state of Del
who was a Pr in the company commanded by
Captain Vaughn of the Regt commanded 
by Col Hels in the Delaware
[crossed-out line, for] [illegible]
2 Ys [illegible] $80.00
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Inscribed on the Roll of Delaware
at the rate of 80 Dollars --- [crossed-out Cents] per annum, 
to commence on the 4th of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 22^d of April
and Sent to
[illegible] C. S. Layten, Geo Town Del.
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Arrears to the 4th of Mar 31  | $240.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept | 40.00
| $280.00

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by J. F. [illegible] Clerk,
Book C Vol. 5 Page 127

[in pencil]
Duplicate Me [checkmark]

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Application
of 27.844
Avery Cornwell
for a
Pension

Adm 2 years

$80.0

Caleb L. Layten
Geo. Town
Del&a

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Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th. of June 1832.

{The State of Delaware,
County of Sussex} xx.

On this fourteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty three, personally appeared before the Honorable Thomas Clayton, James R. Black and Samuel M. Harrington, Judges of the Superior Court of the State of Delaware at George Town, now sitting, in and for the County of Sussex, aforesaid, Avery Cornwell, a resident of Nanticoke Hundred, in the County of Sussex aforesaid, and State of Delaware, aforesaid, aged seventy four years, two months and five days who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the fall, or autumn of the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven, with Colonel David Hall, Commanding officer of the Delaware Regiment, and served in the Delaware Regiment, under the following named officers - to wit. David Hall, Colonel Commanding said Regiment. John Patten, Major, Joseph Vaugh, Captain; that Mitchell Keuhaw held some office, or [illegible] in his said Company [illegible, page torn] what office, he does not now remember. That he [illegible] [illegible, page torn] Captain Kirkwood, & Captain Adams of said Delaware Regiment: That he enlisted for and during the continuance of the Revolutionary War, and served as a private soldier in said Regiment, until the sixteenth day of January in the year seventeen hundred and eighty, at which period, in consequence of then being severely afflicted with the white swelling in his left hip, he found, a substitute in the person of a certain John Griffin, or Griffith, and therefrom obtained a written discharge from the said David Hall, Colonel which has been duly proved and is hereby annexed, marked as M. [illegible] with the letter A. of which the following is a true Copy. - "To all whom it may concern know ye that Avery Cornwell an inlisted Soldier in the Delaware Regiment of the Foot is hereby fully discharged from his service in the same he having procured a substitute in his stead. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this sixteenth day of January 1780. D. G. Call Colo. D Reg." that he served as aforesaid for the term of two years and three months, but he does not recollect the precise day or month on which he enlisted. That he resided in Broad [illegible] Hundred, iun the County of the Sussex aforesaid, in the State of Delaware, aforesaid, when he enlisted or entered the service, as aforesaid. That he was never in any battle. that he marched through Delaware and Pennsylvania,

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into the State of New Jersey, as far as Elizabeth Town - that he was at Elizabeth Town about nine months in Philadelphia about three months - that he assisted in the repairs and work upon the Fort at Red Bauk - that he was stationed in Wilmington, Delaware, several months, but he did not recollect the precise terms - and that he thence returned to Lewes, in the said State of Delaware, where he received his aforesaid discharge. That He hereby Relinquished every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State. Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
before George R. Fisher Pro

Avery Cornwell


And the said Court do hereby declare their Opinion that the above named Applicant was a revolutionary Soldier, and served as he States.


{State of Delaware
Sussex County ss.}

I George R. Fisher Prothonotary of the [crossed-out State of Del] Superior Court of the State of Delaware, for Sussex County, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Avery Cornwell for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 14th day of October Anno Domini 1833

George R. Fisher Pro.

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To all whom it may concern know ye that Avery Cornwell an inlisted soldier in the Delaware Regiment of Foot is hereby fully discharged from his Service in the same he having procured a Substitute in his stead. In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand this sixteenth day of January 1780.

D. Hall [illegible]

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This is the Certificate of Discharge awarded to [illegible] [illegible] affidavit & declaration of Avery Cornwell [rest of the next two lines illegible]
A

CORNWELL, AVERY
(DEL) S-31623

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State of Delaware,
Sussex County, ss.

Be it remembered, that on this 14th day of October in the year of our Lord 1833 in open Superior Court personally appeared Peter Robinson Esquire, who being duly sworn on the holy Evangels of almighty God saith on his oath, that the signature to the within discharge of Avery Cornwell, purporting to be the signature of David Hall, he believes to be in the [illegible] hand writing of the said David Hall. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office, at Georgetown, the 14th day of October Anno Domina 1833.
George R. Fisher Pro

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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES