Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 13353, John Cornell, New York

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SERVICE
New York

Cornell, John

NUMBER
R 13353

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[a circular stamp]

The Amended Declaration of John Cornell of Clifton Park Saratoga N York as taken before Joseph Reed on of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County on the 10th day of June
1833 [VIZ?] In the year 1778 in the month of [blank] he entered the Service of the United States in the militia of the State of N. York in a
Company commanded by Lieut. Thomas Humphrey William Humphrey was Col of Said Regt- James Van Denburgh Lieut. Col. & William Clark was Major. Entered as a [unclear] marched to a place called Oswego from there to the nine Partners was dismissed with the remainder of the Company 
Claimant tour of Service for said year was from two to six days served during said year two months in a regularly organised company as above stated independant [sic] of patroll [sic]
guard. In the year 1779 at the commencement of the Spring Campaign Claimant was again ordered out in a company of Militia under the command of Captain --- Morey in the regt-above named one tours of duty during
said year was from three to fourteen days during said Year Claimant was at West point. At Oswego at Nine Partners at Dover, and many other places on the Hudson and on the Enemies Line Served this year three months and over independant [sic] of patroll [sic] as a private --
In the Year 1780 Claimant was again ordered
out as the opening of the Campaign under the command of Captain Aspenwell Cornell Scent [Sergeant?] Benj Rose Roants in the Regt- first mentioned one tours of duty was from four to six days during that season our march was generally to Dover, Franklin, Oswego Nine Partners & [cut off] and the term of service during said year was two [months]

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in a regularly authorised company of Militia--
Claimant was again ordered into service in the
year 1781, under Capt Asperwell Cornell and others in said Regt- as first mentioned service was from two days to six during said year places to which claimant was marched was those named in the last mentioned service claimant continued to Serve untill Nov 1782 the following year Claimant services for
the two last years was one month and a half and over
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Saratoga N York John Cornell who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the ┃
precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the
following grades for Six months and over I served as a private and for six months service I claim a pension, that my service as above stated was performed in a regularly embodied
and organised Company of Militia of the State of New York called into service by competant authority and that I served the full amount of six months and over in the field at which
time I was not employed in any civil pursuit
John Cornell [signature]
I Joseph Reed certify that the above named John Cornell appeared before me on the 10th day of June 1833 & Swore and subscribed to the above declaration and I am personally acquainted with the said John Cornell and believe he is a man of truth & [veracity?] Joseph Reed Justice Peace
Dated June 10th 1833

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State of New York
Saratoga County ⎬ ss: I Alpheus Goodrich Clerk of the County of Saratoga do certify that Joseph Reed before whom the foregoing affidavit of John Cornell purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same arm of the Justice of the peace in and for the said County, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing & verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit and the Certificate following the same to be his proper hand writing and signature-
Witness my hand and Seal
of Office the thirteenth day of
June 1833-
A Goodrich Clerk

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State of New York
Saratoga County

On this fifth day of September 1832 personally appeared in open court before ___,, ___,, ___,, ___,, ___ The court of common pleas of the County of Saratoga ___,, ___,, ___
Now sitting John Cornell, a resident of the town of Clifton Park in the county of Saratoga and State of New York aged 68 years, who being first sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed Jan 4th, 1836 
That he entered the Service of the United States the following named officers and served as herein stated. That in the year 1780 on the first of June he this deponent was drafted [unreadable] company of militia of the State of New York which company which company was commanded by Captain Wheeler and [W.?] Hale was a Lieutenant that the Regiment then called out was under the command of officer William Clark and was directed to march to West Point fort on the Hudson river when General Knox had the command that we even stationed on the opposite side of the river to defend that post against the Invasion of the British the lying in the River below the Fort that one term of service was from twelve to fifteen days that from the age of fourteen to sixteen years I volunteered to go on Patrolling Parties through different parts of the town & County where I then resided and that after the month of June 1780 to the close of the war I was not in any important engagements but my service was that of Scouting Patrolling - that the County in which I resided was near the [illegible] and otherwise by my Uncle Colonel Humphrey to go and defend the life and property of the inhabitants of the town and County that during said revolutionary war that is from this age of 14 years when I volunteered to the age of 16 years and [illegible] that to the close of the revolutionary war I was called on by alarm and otherwise as often as from one to four times in a week for many weeks in the year that our tour was from one day

and the terms of service during said Year was two months

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in a regularly authorised company of Militia--
Claimant was again ordered to

[text crossed out] might to three days that at the time I belonged to a company commanded by Captain Roger Morey in which
Company Mr Hall was a Lieutenant - I assisted in [illegible] by the name of Duncan who was executed at Poughkeepsie
That I have no means in my power to whereby I can determine the length of time I served in said Revolution nor is there any other person living to my knowledge except those whose depositions are hereunto attached that can testify to my service yet I [verily?] believe
that during said revolutionary war I was in the Service as above stated at different times in the manner above stated at least six months in actual service of the United States as a Soldier--

I was born in the town of Beekman in the County of Dutchess and State of New York on the 18th day of March 1764 I have in the
said town of Beekman in the County aforesaid at the time I entered the service and lived in said town of Beekman during the Revolution and after the close of the same, that I moved to the town of Clifton Park in the County of Saratoga and State of New York where I now reside and have resided ever since

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State [text crossed out: illegible... of the State of New York]

To the interrogatories propounded by the Court, I answer as follows.
1. I was born in Beekman Dutchess County N.Y. in the year 1764.
2nd I have no record of my age, but there was a record kept in my father's bible which is now in the possession of one of my brothers in Dutchess County & I have not the means of producing it.

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3rd I lived in the town of Beekman aforesaid when called into service & since the revolutionary war I lived in the same town and for the last forty four years I have lived in the town of Clifton Park Saratoga County N.Y and still live there.
4th I was drafted in the first period of my service and in the remaining period of my service I was a volunteer.
5. I knew General Knox who had the command of the American forces at West point - the names of other continental officers I cannot recollect, Maj William Clark commanded a detachment of five militia companies stationed
opposite West Point - to one of which I belonged. Capt Wheeler was my Captain, Gideon Hall was Lieutenant one Downing was a Sergeant. Captain Van Wick commanded a company from Fishkill at this time which
was stationed near my Company - the general circumstances of my service are stated above in my declaration as [word "nearly" crossed out] [unclear]getly as I am able to.
6. I never received a written discharge from the service, but when the British retreated down the Hudson river, the company to which I belonged was dismissed & we had permission to return to our homes.
7. I would name Benjamin Chadsey, Seth W. Higgins and Elder Abijah Peck -- -- as
persons to whom I am known in my present neighborhood, and who can testify as to my character for veracity, and their belief of my
services as a soldier of the revolution - there is no clergyman living in my immediate vicinity

and the term of service during said Year was two months

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in a regularly authorised company of Militia ---Claimant was...

I have no documentary evidence, and I knew of no persons whose testimony I can procure who can testify to my service except James Smith whose attendance I cannot obtain in Court & have accordingly procured his affidavit to be taken before a Justice of the peace. 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 in open Court 
Thomas Palmer
Clerk
John Cornell

We [crossed out: Benjamin ?] Isaac E. Garnsey and Seth W. Higgins of Clifton Park in Saratoga County NY. hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with John Cornell who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be sixty Eight years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn & Subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Sworn in open Court this
5th day of September 1832
Thomas Palmer
Clerk
[crossed out: Benj. ?]
Seth EW. Higgins
Isaac E Garnsey

And said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court
further certifies that it appears to them that there is no cler --

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[cler]gyman living in the immediate vicinity of said applicant whose attendance can be procured in court and that Seth W. Higgins and Isaac E. Garnsey who have signed
the preceding certificate are [crossed out: clergymen] resident in the town of Clifton Park Saratoga County N.Y and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Thomas Palmer Clerk of the Court of Common pleas of the County of Saratoga, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Cornell for a pension -- And I further certify that Joseph Reed who has signed the jurat of the annexed affidavit is and was at the date thereof a Justice of the peace of the term of Clifton Park in said County and that the name of Joseph Reed thereto subscribed is in the proper handwriting of the said Justice. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal of office this 7th September 1832 --
Thomas Palmer
Clerk
- LCS

[illegible] 
and the term of Service during said Year was two months

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in the County of Saratoga and State of New York aged 69 years on oath depose and Say that I am well acquainted with John Cornell of the town of Clifton Park in the County and State afore mentioned that during the Revolutionary war the Year & month this deponent does not now recollect I entered the Service of the United States as a [military?]
man in the New York Militia in a company under the command of Captain Wheeler of which company ---- Hale was Lieutenant in a regiment commanded by Major William Clark [I?] entered said service as above stated as a Substitute for Charles Newton who was drafted, at the time I entered the service as above Stated I lived in the town of Beekman
in the County of Dutchess and the said John Cornell lived in the same town the time I served I do not recollect but think from ten to fifteen days that John Cornell was a private in the same company entered the same time I did and we dismissed at one time we were stationed on the Hudson river opposite West point to guard that post the British fleet laid in the river below the fort at that time. I was never with the said John Cornell in any expedition but the above to my recollection but have served with him as a patrolling guard to defend the life and property of the inhabitants in that section of the County then near the [Enings?] line as numberless times during said war and I further State that I have been called out on guard and alarms with the said John Cornell for two or three days and nights [section crossed out] at a time for many times during said war that I lived in the said town of Beekman in the County of Dutchess in the State aforesaid in the nabourhood [neighborhood] with the said John Cornell during said Revolutionary war and was well acquainted with him during the same and further this deponent saith not
James Smith [signature]
Sworn and subscribed before me
this 29" day of August 1832 Joseph Reed Justice
I do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with this Deponent and know him to be a man truth and verascity [veracity] Joseph Reed Justice

generally to Dover, Franklin, Oswego Nine [Partners?] & [cut off]
and the term of service during said year was two months

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State of New York
Saratoga County


I Alpheus Goodrich Clerk of the County of Saratoga do certify that Joseph Reed before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date thereof one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said County, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit, and to the certificate
thereunder written, to be his proper hand writing and signature -

Witness my hand and seal of
Office this fourth day of February
1833 - A Goodrich Clerk

10954
John Cornell

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[left page:]
1st Brief
No 10954
John Camell
Cornell
Susp?
4.5.
15 Sep 1832
10 Dec 1832
P 143.
Seth W. Higgins
Half Moon
Saratoga Co
NY

[right page:]
Cornell

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BRIEF in the case of in the case of John Cornell of Clifton Park County of of [sic] Saratoga -- in the State of New York.
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
    In Open Court. --
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
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3. How old is he?
   68. Years. --
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
   Period. 
      June 1st In 1780
   Duration of Service. 
      Years, -- Months, -- Days. from 12 to 15.
      length of service at least 6. months.
   Rank.
      As a private
   Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
      Gen Knox. -- Capt Wheeler
5. In what battles was he engaged?
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6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
   Beckman County of Dutchess. N.Y. --
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
   By One living witness & traditionary Evidence. --
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
   They appear to be in due form. --
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

James Ord [signature]     Examining Clerk.

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[Revo?]:
New York

Suspended [act?] [18th?] '32
letter 18 Oct 1833
Seth W. Higgins

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13353

P. O.

John Cornell

Service: Revy war Col. Humphrey
Ny Militia

Enlisted: , 18

Discharged: REJECTED , 18

Application filed: , 18

Alleges:

Re-enlisted:

Attorney:

P. O.

Recognized.
 
Contract.

Cert. of Dis. 

Searched for , 18.