Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 1675-100, John Corrigel, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Corrigel, John or Corrigil
B.L.Mt. 16 75-100
CONTENTS

Declaration of John Con- ningham & others heirs at Law of John Conning- ham dec? a Soldier in the Rev- olution for Bounty Land.
From the Vols 10-12-1840

John Corrigil N o 1675

State of New York } Ulster County } ss:
I John Corrigan Junior son and one of the heirs of John Corrigan deceased do upon oath testify and declare to the best of my knowledge and belief - that John Corrigan aforesaid did enlist for the term of during the war and served in the Regiment number one under the command of Colonel G Van Schaik of the New York Line, and that he continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the war - I further declare that I have never received nor have any of his heirs a warrant for the Bounty Land promised to John Corrigan aforesaid on the part of the United States nor do I believe he or they have ever received it or transferred his or their claim to it in any manner whatsoever - Therefore I know all men by these Presents that I John Corrigan Junior aforesaid do hereby constitute and appoint the Revd Peter A Doerbagh of Saugerties in Ulster County my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States a warrant for the quantity of Land due to me and to others Samuel Corrigan Sally Corrigan and Zachariah Corrigan the other Heirs at Law of John Corrigan aforesaid - In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my mark and seal.
Sworn and subscribed by making his mark before me
John his Corrigan Jun r mark
State of New York } ss Ulster County } John Van Buren
Personally appeared the above named John Corrigan Junior sub- -scribed to the foregoing declaration and in my presence acknow- -edged the power of Attorney thereto subscribed to be his free act and deed for the purpose therein mentioned. Given under my hand at Kingston this 16 day of September 1835 John Van Buren Commissioner of Oaths

State of New York } Ulster County - } ss: I Adam Brink of the town of Kingston in said County aged sixty seven years do upon oath declare that I have been long ac- -quainted with John Corrige (late of the town of Kingston in said County deceased who was buried in said town of Kingston and died between thirty and forty years ago - and that the said Reponent is also well acquainted with John Corrige Senior the son and one of the Heirs of said deceased the within named Reponent who subscribed with his name the within affidavit in my presence by making his mark and that the said deceased left the said John Corrige Senior, Samuel Corrige, Sally Corrige and Zachariah Corrige his only heirs at Law and that the widow of said deceased is dead and died about four or five years since and further this Reponent saith that he knows or believes that the said John Corrige deceased did perform the military service in the within affidavit stated his Adam Brink
State of New York } ss: I John Van Buren of the town Ulster County } of Kingston Ulster County a Commissioner of Deeds do certify that on the sixteenth day of September in the year One thousand eight hundred and thirty Before me personally appeared the before named John Cargill subscriber to the aforesaid declaration and in my presence and of Levi M Osterhoudt to me well known, and the said John Cargill to me personally known acknowledged the Execution of the letter of Attorney thereto subjoined to be his free act and deed, And I further Certify, that Adam Brink who hath subscribed the above certificate of Identity and who is to me personally well known to be a man of respectability and Truth personally appeared before me, and that the said John Cargill and Adam Brink respectively made solemn oath to the Truth of the depositions by them respectively sub- scribed and I further certify that the said John Cargill is also a man of Respectability & Truth John Van Buren Commissioner of Deeds

State of New York
County of Ulster } ss:
In Testimony that the above written John Van Duren was a Commissioner authorized to administer oaths and take acknowledgments &c in the State of New York at the above date and that his name thereto subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature - I have hereunto affixed the County Seal and subscribed my name at Kingston in said County this seventeenth day of September 1830.
Jacob Snyder Clerk of the County of Ulster -
State of New York
Ulster County
Surrogate's Office ss: I, Jonathan D. Otlander Surrogate of said County of Ulster, Do hereby Certify. That satisfactory evidence has been presented to me that John Corrigan Junior, Samuel Corrigan and Zachariah Corrigan are sons and Sally Corrigan is a daughter, and the heirs at Law of John Corrigan deceased late a Soldier in the New York line of the Army of the Revolution - In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and seal of Office, at Kingston in said County of Ulster, this seventeenth day of September 1830 -
Jonathan D. Otlander Surrogate