Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L. Wt-1586-100, Richard Cornwall, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Cornwall, Richard
B. L. M T 1586-100
CONTENTS

Richard Cornwall N o 1586
R. Temple as Mrs. Cornwail F. Street

State of Vermont, Rutland County ss 3
I Richard Cornwall aged seventy years, do upon oath testify & declare, that I entered the service in 1778 for the term of driving the wagons, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Knapp in the line of the State of Connecticut, and continued therein until the close of the war in 1783, when I was discharged from said Regiment. I further declare that I have neither received assigned or transferred any claim in any manner whatsoever. Therefore I request the Secretary of War to have the warrant sent to me at Rutland, or delivered to Mr. Temple, and this shall be his receipt for the same. Richard Cornwall Mark Witness Mr. Temple
Before me Robt. Temple a justice of the Peace for said County, personally appeared Richard Cornwall, subscriber to the above, & acknowledged the declaration & letter of order to be his free act & deed for the purpose therein mentioned. At the same time also appeared John Bottom a person of truth & respectability, who upon oath deposed & saith that he was well acquainted with Richard Cornwall who was a musician in the Regiment above mentioned - and who, he has every reason to believe, did perform the service as mentioned by him John Bottom Subscribed thereon before me Nov. 10. 1829 R. Temple Jus. Peace

I, Robert Peipour Clerk of the Court of the County of Hartford in the State of Vermont do hereby Certify, that Robert Temple before whom the foregoing affidavit was sworn, was, at the time, a Justice of Peace for the said County, and duly empowered to administer oaths, & take acknowledgments.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, this
10 th day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.
R Peipour