Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2,357, William Cotton, N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N.H.
Cotton William
P. 2,357
CONTENTS

Wm Cotton N.H. Line - Bounty Land?
Not returned on the Records of the N. Hampshire line, among those entitled to, and who have received bounty lands from the U.S. States.
MS.

William Cotton Virginia
Rejected Lawson Annally 12 Sept 1831 2357
act 7 June 1832

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
2357
P. O.
William Cotton
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Wages: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
Recognized. _____
Contract. _____
Cert. of Dis. _____
Searched for _____, 18

William Cotton's
Declaration.
1834 Septm 8 th .
admitted Scamwell Reg 7 March 1778 for the war deserted 1 May 1780

Virginia: Chesterfield county To wit:
On this 8 th day of September in the year 1834, personally appeared before the county court of Chesterfield being a court of record William Cotton, being a resident of said county and state aged seventy three years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, oath on his oath made the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1776, in Exeter in New Hampshire under Major Leeburne, that he was attached to the 9 th company commanded by Capt. Beale, and 3 rd Regiment commanded then by Col. Scamell, and afterwards, by Col. Leeburne, and Brigade commanded by General Poor, that he was kept for sometime in Massachusetts, and then marched and joined the main Army under General Washington at Morristown in New Jersey, that he continued with the main Army for a considerable period of time, until he was sent with a Detachment under General Sullivan against the British and Indians in the upper part of New York, that he was at the battle at Chemung, that in this expedition he does not recollect who had command of his company. (Capt. Beale having been killed by one of his own soldiers near the North River,) that he continued to serve in the Army for at least three years, when he was discharged, sometimes in the year 1779, at Boston in Pennsylvania - that as well as he now recollects his Regiment was always called the 3 rd Regt. and was generally commanded by Col. Leeburne. —
That he was born in the town of Exeter in New Hampshire, that he always resided in said state until about fifty years ago when he removed to this county where he has resided ever since, that he has no records of his age, nor does he at present recollect whether he received a written discharge from the Army or not. He hereby relinquishes 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. Subscribed and sworn to the day and year aforesaid before the court aforesaid. —
William his Cotton.
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant William Cotton was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. I Parke Poindexter clerk of the county court of Chesterfield, in the state of Virginia do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of William Cotton for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand seal of office this 8 th day of September anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty four and in the 59 th year of our Lordship.
Parke Poindexter Clerk

Manchester C.H. N.H. 1834 Sept. 10 th
Wm. Cotton
Rejected
L. Mannally
Free
The Secretary of the Department of War. "Pension Office"
Washington City D.C.

Chesterfield B.N. 70
Sep. 9 th 1834.
Sir
Enclosed is another declaration of William Cotton a soldier of the Revolution, in which he has endeavoured to be more particular than in the first. - Cotton affidavit appears to be a person of bad memory and is tolerably deaf, and it is almost impossible to get any clear statement from him. - I must however request the Department to examine his application, and ascertain whether his name is upon the Rolls, or not, if his name should appear upon the Rolls of course that will be sufficient if not there, it is impossible for him to furnish any further evidence than that contained in the declaration as he formerly made in New Hampshire. -
I do think that this is an application that should be strictly scrutinized. -
Respectfully
Lawson Knapp