Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35,855, William Cornwell, Continental New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental New York
Cornwell, William Cornell or Cornwall, Deftus
S. 35,855
Wt. No. 6994-100 issued to Thomas Russell assignee - June 24, 1893
CONTENTS

Salton 2 d Jan. 1835 to Hon. J. Barr H. R. & P. agt.
Joseph [unclear] in [unclear] found 1 July 1822 and sent to A. G. Anderson Esq. Louisville Ky
William [unclear] sent to [unclear] 1820 to [unclear]
15-1777  Kentucky
William Cornwell
of [unclear] in the state of Kentucky who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Samuel of the New York line, for the term of 3 years .
Inscribed on the roll of Kentucky at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 23 d of July 1819 .
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 nd of Octo 1819 and sent to Rev. R. C. Anderson  Louisville Kentucky .
  Arrears to 4th of  Sept 1819  $11 38    Semi-ann. all'ce ending  4 Mar! 1820  48     59.38  
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. }
[Large stylized letter R]

5 th Judicial District of Kentucky Simpson County Ky
On the 23 rd day of July 1879 before me the subscribers solemnly swore up the aforesaid lieuten- ant colonel, colonel, major and colonel for the and  deceased personally appeared Wil- iam Leornwell aged fifty eight years resident in the County of Bullitt, in the said District who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, oaths, makes the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States in the revolution- ary war" that he the said William Leornwell enlisted for the term of during the War on the 17 th day of March 1781. in the County of Orange in the State of New-York in the company comman- =ded by William Stevens of the Regiment commanded by Colonel John Lamb in the line of the State of New-York being the Second Regiment of Artillery, on the continental establishment. that he continued to serve in the said Corps or in the service of the United States until the end of the War, when he was discharged from service in Orange County at West Point in the State of New-York, that he was at in the battle at York in Virginia at the taking of Leornwell, & that he is in and circumstances, and states in the need of

the assistance of his legislature for support; & D that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services, I move to D declared before me, the day & year aforesaid
Also personally appeared before me at the same time & place Capt John Nelson a citizen of Louisville and declared upon his oath that the said William born well did serve as a common soldier in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration from the Spring of 1781. until the end of the war, given under my hand & seal this 23 rd day of July 1819.
Jno P Oldham Esq
I Jno P Oldham Esq as of No earlier that it appears to my Jails factious that the said William born well did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months at one time on the Continental Establishment

Sworn to by officers. 23 rd July 1819
John Nelson also affirmed to the same facts
And I know that the proceedings, and testimony taken that before me to the Leg. for the department of war pursuant to the directions of the above mentioned act of Congress & I am also satisfied that he needs the assistance of his country for support given under my hand & seal this 23 rd day of July 1819 J. P. Aldham Secy
I Morden Pope clerk of the Jefferson Circuit Court in the state of Kentucky do certify that John P. Aldham esquire whose signature appears to the foregoing certificate, is Judge of the fifth Judicial District in the state aforesaid and sole Judge of the said Jefferson Circuit Court in the state aforesaid District aforesaid and that to all his certificates and attestations as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Circuit this 23 rd day of July 1819 and in the 28 th year of the Commonwealth
Morden Pope
J. John P. Aldham Judge as before mentioned do

do certify that the within certificate and attestation of Worden Pope who is clerk of the Superior Circuit Court in the State of Kentucky and in the fifth Judicial District of said State, is in due form of law and entitled to full faith and credit - Witness my hand & seal This 23 rd July 1819 Jno P. Oldham
William Cornwall
on Rolls EVEN
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Hon. R. C. Anderson Middletown, Ky

State of Kentucky
On the 12 th day of September 1820 personally appeared William Cornwall in the County Court of Simpson County in the State aforesaid a Court created by the Constitution of the State and being a Court of record made so expressly by by law, which keeps a record of its proceedings and also has power to fine and imprison; and the said Cornwall, who is sixty years of age as well as he recollects and a resident of the County aforesaid and late a Farmer being first sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: In the year 1779 he performed a tour of duty of two months as a following Guide under the immediate command of General Sinclair at the time Stony Point was stormed. Also in the year 1780 he performed a tour of duty of three months under the command of Colonel John Malcolm in the State of New-York in Captain McKim's company and with three other soldiers was detached and sent to Westpoint Fort in the State of New-York at the time of Arnold's Treason that he was discharged from Malcolm's Regiment, and enlisted during the war in the Second New-York Artillery Regiment, commanded by Col. John Lamb, and in Capt. Wm Stevens's company, in which he served until the end of the said war making two years and nine months service, in the said Lamb's Regiment - And that he served at the Siege

Seige of York when Cornwallis and his Army were Captured - And that for the said Service a Pension has been granted the said Cornwall the Certificate for which is numbered 15177. The said Cornwall, alias Doctor Cornwall further declares on oath that he was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 - that he has not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of his property, or of any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring himself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18 th day of March 1818 - and that he the said Cornwall has not nor has any person for him in trust any property securities contracts or debts due him or any income whatever his course and insufficient wearing apparel excepted. The said Cornwall also declares on oath that he is infirm and unable to follow his late occupation of a Farmer - that he has a daughter aged about twenty-three years, who is a Feme Sole, and main- tains herself, and another daughter aged about 21 years, who is a Feme Covert, with whom he lives, and who are his only children and that he the said Cornwall is a widower and has been such about nineteen years -
William Cornwall

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section AWF/eel
February 13, 1929
Mrs. Clifford N. Bourne Box 375, Miami Beach Florida
Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S/35855, it appears that William Cornwall or Cornell, alias Dectus Cornwall, served in 1779 two months as a guide when Stony Point was stormed and in 1780, served three months in Captain McKinstry's Company, Colonel John Malcolm's New York Regiment. He enlisted in Orange County, New York, March 17, 1781, and served as a private in Captain William Stevens' Company, Colonel John Lamb's Regiment of Continental Artillery, was at the Siege of Yorktown and served two years 9 mos.
He was allowed pension on his application executed July 23, 1819, at which time he was living in Bullitt County, Kentucky, aged about fifty-eight years.
In 1820, he was living in Jefferson County, Kentucky, and stated that he had been a widower for nineteen years (name of his wife not given), and referred to two daughters 19 5-8 5-1

aged about twenty-three years and twenty-one years, their names are not given. The names of soldier's parents are not stated, and there are no further data as to his family.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Cornwall, William (S. 35 855) GRADE Private LINE New York
WARRANT NUMBER 6994 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED June 24, 1793 to Thomas Russell, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.

Post Office Box 375 Midway Beach Florida
May 18, 1928
U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions Washington, D.C.
The Commissioner of Pensions: Dear Sir:-
Kindly send me all information possible about William Cornwall , matross in Stevens Company, War of the Revolution. He was in the N.Y. Regiment of Artillery commanded by Col. John Lamb. He received land, about 600 acres, north east from the foot of Cayuga Lake for his services. Can you tell me when he enlisted, where he was living, when he received a pension and his parents

names or the names of any members of his family. I wish this information for a genealogy which is being written by a connection of the family. William Cornwall was a brother of my great grandfather and any information you can give will help in establishing early records of the family. Please send all material obtainable.
Awaiting an early reply Sincerely
Mabel J. Bourne
(Mrs. Clifford N.)
P.O. Box 375
Miami Beach Florida

Gainesville, Florida 552 East Main Street.
August 29-1922
Pension Office - Washington D. C.
Gentlemen; =
I see by old records that one William Connell 73 years of age at that time was a pensioner in 1819 living in Bullett County Kentucky will you kindly send me any information your records contain of this man; native place, names of children or any thing however slight it might prove a clue. Yours Truly
(Mrs) Carolyn A. Miller.

To the Pension Office -
Rev 41
I am filling out ancestral Hanks for membership in D.A.R. am am filling them out through my Great Great Grandfather.
William Cornell - born in Feb 25 - 1762 -en enlisted in New York state in 1776. He served two yrs. - as errand boy for Geo Washington - am then

for yrs or to the close of war, was in the regular army. Drew a pension from office in Louisville. Will you please find out what Regiment he belonged - If I have written to the wrong place please advise me where I should
Hoping to hear from you soon Yours Truly Mrs Earl J. Allen Lebanon Ky 224 N. Main St - Apr 22 1921 RECORDS DIVISION

35 855
Rev INVALID.
File No. 35,855-
William Connell
His Her and
Act: 18 March 18
Index: — Vol. 2 , Page 91
[ Arrangement of 1870. ]
1921 May 14 Hist. to Mrs. Paul J. Allen. 1922 Sept. 27 Hist. to Mrs. Carolyn A. Miller. A.W.F.
1929 Feb. 13. Hist. to Mrs. Clifford H. Bourne Rev.

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
25 Feb 1829.
William Cornwall of [blank] in the County of Jefferson in the State of Kentucky has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private in captain [blank]'s company, in Col Lamb's regiment of the New York line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, Nothing.
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary F A Dickinson.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
2 nd March 1829
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to William Cornwall in the Lamb's Artillery. It further appears that [blank] is now on the pension list of the [blank] agency, and has been so since the [blank] at the rate of [blank] dollars per month.
There is now on the pension Roll of the Kentucky agency, a man by the name of William Cornwall, who has been paid to the 4 th September 1828.
Wm Hagan And

Warrant No 6994 ipd to Thomas Rupell after of Wm Cornwall of Lamb, City June 17.93

1828 papers to be filed with Aa Owens File # 35,855
Mr. A. Dickens
Masonry Dept.

Two Certificates Rec. 29 June 1822 W. Washington
John C. Calhoun esq
For the office of Mr. S. L. Edwards

Sir
Louisville May 11 1822
I send to you the affidavit of W m Cornwell for the purpose of procuring a new pension Certificate —
Yours of ol Cnt
R. C. Anarson/

Mr Cornell or Cornell - P.O. - N. York line
Washington
Kentucky
February 20th 1829
Genl. file 35,855
Dear Sir
Inclosed is the paper of Mr. Cornell or Com- =well they were designed some years since to enable me to obtain his land warrant, Upon examination it appears his land warrant has issued, I now send them to you with a request that you will cause an exami- nation to be made immediately if possible in order to ascer- tain if he is not entitled to the benefits of the law of cont. cession in favour of revolutionary officers & soldiers
Ever- wed.
I am respectfully your ob! Serv!
G. A. Wickliffe

William Lowwell must make an affidavit agreeable to the within form and trans- mit it to this Department with the official character and signature of the ma- gistrate before whom it may be made duly au- thenticated , before a new certificate can be issued.
War. Dept.
Pension Office
9 Feb. 1822.

APPLICATION FOR A NEW CERTIFICATE.
Kentucky
County of Jefferson ss.
On this tenth day of May 1822 ; before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Jefferson personally appeared William Cornwall who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain William Stevens in the regiment commanded by Colonel John Lamb 2 d N.Y. Artillery in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of Kentucky that he received a certificate of that fact, under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War; which certificate, on or about the first day of November 1820, at or near Colo: Andersons in Jefferson County Ky.
he lost by leaving it with s? Anderson to be sent to the member of congress for the purpose of being continued on the roll under the last law: and the s? certificate is altogether lost or mislaid — Sworn and subscribed to, before me, the day and year aforesaid. S
Mugison - W.P.C.
NOTES. The last four blanks are left for the applicant to set forth the time, place, and manner of the loss or destruction of the original certificate.
The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated.
¶ If the pensioner has never received a formal certificate, but has drawn his pension on a mere notification, as was the case in a few instances many years ago, he should leave out the above words in italics, and insert, in lieu thereof, "but has never received a formal certificate, and now wishes to obtain one."

I Warden Pope Clerk of the County-Court of Jefferson County in the State of Kentucky do certify that James Ferguson Esquire who has signed the within instru- ment or affidavit is a Justice of the peace in and for said County and of the said County duly commis- -sioned and sworn which appear of record in the said Court and that his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit - In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and the seal of the County aforesaid this tenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two and in the thirtieth year of the Common weath
Warden Pope
att

Jan 17
Woburn Mass Oct 18
15-
James L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

Office Bank United States Lexington Jan'y 10 th 1835.
Sir
Your letter of the 2 nd Inst is received. William Cornwell a pensioner on the Roll at this Agency under the Act of March 18 th 1818, referred to in your letter, has received the full amount due to him up to the 4 th Sept 1834. We have no recollection that he, or any person for him, ever applied at this Office without receiving what was then due - by reference to the receipts accompanying our Quarterly report of the 30 th Sept last, you will see his receipts for the semiannual payments due in March & Sept 1834 -
Very respectfully
Yours at Sent
John Selford Best by M. P. Scott Cash
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington.

William Cornwall 3
Sched.
15.177
March 1820

State of Kentucky.
At a County Court held for Jefferson County in the State aforesaid at the Court House in Louisville on the twelfth day of September one thousand eight hundred and twenty and in the twenty-ninth year of the Commonwealth
I the clerk of the said Court do hereby certify that the foregoing oaths and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court there being no property mentioned in the said schedule except wearing apparel - In testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County Court on the day month and year aforesaid
W. D. Updegraff Clerk

Before me James Ferguson a Justice of Jefferson County, personally appeared the above named William Connell or Connell, subscribed to the foregoing Declaration and in my presence acknow- ledged the Power of Attorney thereto sub- scribed to be his free Act & Deed. and likewise personally appeared John Wilson or Neilson, who hath subscribed the above certificate of Identity, both to me, well known, to be Men of Re- spectability and truth, and made solemn Oath, to the Truth of the Depositions by them respectively sub- scribed, this twelfth Day of September 1826
James Ferguson
Justice of the Peace
I Warden Pope, Clerk of the County Court of Jefferson County, in the State of Kentucky and Keeper of the Seal of the said County, do certify that James Ferguson, whose name is above subscribed, is a Justice of the Peace of said County and a Judge of the said Court. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the said Seal this 12 th day of September 1826 and in the 50 th year of the Commonwealth.
Warden Pope

Wentworth N.Y. about Sept 18th 1843
Rev. J. H. Pringle, Manchester Washington at the City Hall St. Lawrence Church

State of } Jefferson County to wit Kentucky
I William Connell, or William Connell aged Sixty four years do upon Oath Testify and declare that in the year one thousand Seven hundred and eighty one I enlisted for the term of "during the War" and served in the Regiment No Second New Yorks Artillery Regiment under the command of Colonel John Lamb, of the New York Line, and that I continued in the Service aforesaid until the close of the War, when I was regularly discharged from the said second Regiment, commanded by Colonel John Lamb, I further declare, that I have never received a Warrant for the Bounty Land promised to me on the part of the United States, nor have I ever assigned or transferred my claim, in any manner whatsoever, therefore I know all men by these presents that I William Connell, or William Connell aforesaid, do hereby constitute

and Appoint Charles A. Wicheloff to be my True & Lawful Attorney, for me, and in my Name, to demand & receive of the Secretary of War of the United States, a Warrant for the Quantity of Land, due to me as aforesaid, and my said Attorney is hereby fully authorized & empowered, to constitute & Appoint one or more Substitutes or attorneys under him for the Special Purpose, above expressed.
attest
William Cornell
John Nelson
Hargraves
I John Nelson or Neilson aged fifty seven years do upon Oath declare, that I have been long acquainted with William Cornell, or William Cornell who has subscribed the above Declaration in my Presence, and will know that he is the Identical Person, he therein represents himself to be, and further I know & do believe that he did perform the Military Service, therein stated.
attest
John Nelson
Hargraves