Morrison's Pensions
Pension Application for Richard Coppernoll
W16542
State of New York
Montgomery County
On this
twelfth day of December one thousand eight hundred the thirty-six personally
appeared before the Hon. David F. Sacia a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas
of the said County of Montgomery being a court of record, Elisabeth Coppernoll
a resident of the Town of Palatine in the County of Montgomery and State of
New York aged eighty three years who being first duly sworn according to law
doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit
of the Act of Congress passed July 4th 1836.
That she
is the widow of Richard Coppernoll who was a Sergeant, Ensign and Lieutenant
in the Militia of the State of New York during the Revolutionary War and served
as herein after stated that on the 9th day of August 1776, then a resident
of the said Town of Palatine he entered the service of the United States as
a Sergeant in the Company of Rangers commanded by Captain Christian Getman
(1) within the bounds of the regiment commanded by Colonel Jacob Klock in General
Nicholas Herkimer’s Brigade and served therein for a term of nine months
(as this claimant verily believes in actual service) being ordered and marched
to Stilwater [Stillwater] and Ticonderoga which tours if her memory serves
her more than three months and the remainder in garrison at the forts in the
valley of the Mohawk and ranging in scouting parties for the protection of
the inhabitants of the frontier settlements of Tryon County for the proof of
which service the muster and pay roll of the company will prove and which as
this claimant has reason to believe are now on file at the War Department.
That at
the expiration of his service in this company, he received a commission of
ensign and of [???] and Second Lieutenant in Captain Andrew Dillenbach’s
(2) Company in the Regiment of colonel Klock where he was actively engaged
during the whole period of the war but to specify the particular tours or the
period of each she cannot of her own knowledge and recollection particularly
specify, but must depend on what proof she has been able to collect for her
proof she has been able to collect for her hopes of obtaining the provision
provided by said act.
That claimants husband held the offices stated in this declaration in the
records in the Secretary’s office of this state fully prove except
that captain of which this claimant has reason to believe is omitted the
through mistake or else he was rec’d [received] his commission as
such from the Committee of Safety of the County. The office of Captain
must have been presumed by the witnesses from the service of 1st Lieutenant
performed by claimant’s husband. That he was in the Battle
at Johnstown and at Stone Arabia as set forth in the proof hereto annexed
and had the command of the company she well remembers to have heard stated
at the time but that he held a commission of Captain at that time she has
reason to doubt as the records above stated do not prove that his commissions
have been lost and as this claimant believes were burnt with the fort at
Stone Arabia and that she has no other documentary evidence in support
of his claim except the rolls and state records above mentioned.
She further declares that she was married to the said Richard Coppernoll
on the 28th day of March seventeen hundred and seventy five that her husband
the aforesaid Richard Coppernoll died on the 14th day of July one thousand
eight hundred and twenty two and that she has remained a widows since that
period as will more fully appear refferance to the proof hereto annexed..
(Signed with her mark) Elisabeth Coppernoll
Sworn to
and subscribed on the day and year above written before D. F. Sacia Judge of
Montgomery Courts.
Richard Coppernoll W16542
[Two pages from the family Bible were also included in the pension application.]
1775 March the 28 |
Rich’d Coppernoll Maried [sic] Elizabeth Lous [Loucks, Laux etc.] |
1776 July the 11 was borne |
My son Georee [George R.] |
1778 April the 11 war borne |
My son Henrick |
1780 January the 1 Meria [Maria] |
My touter [daughter] was borne |
1782 September the 6 was Borne |
My son Rich’d |
1785 February the 24 was Borne |
My son Adam |
1788 November the 16 |
My touter Eve was Borne |
1790 February the 6 |
My touter Elizabeth was Borne |
1794 September the 21 war Borne |
My son Jacob |
April 23 In the year 1748 |
Rich’d Coppernoll was Borne |
|
My wife Elizabeth was Borne May the 22 1753 |
On
the bottom of the second page which had his wife’s and his date of
birth are entries for an account for various things but there are no dates.
3 ½ Laves
Broat [Loaves Bread] --.0—3—6
To a Hors[e] for your wive –2—
4—0—6 3—4—[sic]
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To—1 Load of Fier Wood 0—3—0
To Billing [building] Fence Bess [Posts?] half a day 0—5—0
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End Notes for Richard Coppernoll W16542