Joseph Platt Cooke and Daniel Taylor A.D.S., Danbury, Sept. 26, 1775 : to John Lawrence, Treasurer of the Colony of Connecticut.

Joseph Platt Cooke and Daniel Taylor A.D.S., Danbury, Sept. 26, 1775 : to John Lawrence, Treasurer of the Colony of Connecticut.

Pay order

Danbury, [Conn.] 1775

[2] p. ; 21 cm.

MSS L1990.1.185

"Pay out of the treasury to John Cornell Captain of the 4th military company in the 16th Regement [sic] the sum of twenty four pounds four shillings and six pence for the performance of the half days training and regimental exercise by the non-commission[ed] officers and soldiers belonging to his company, in obedience to a law of this colony past by the General Assembly in October last ...."|On verso: Please to pay on the contents of the within unto Nathaniel Ketcham the sum of twenty four pounds fore [sic] shillings and sixpence .... and you will oblige me [signed] John Cornell Capt. , Hartford 28th Septem.r 1775.|Also on verso: Received of Treasurer Lawrence twenty four pounds four shillings & six pence ... [signed] Nathaniel Ketcham|Docketed on p. [2]: Capt. John Cornell / dated 26 Sep.r 1775 ... Audited May 13 1776|John Cornell was appointed captain of the 4th Company in Oct. 1773.|One John Cornell, or Cornwell or Cornwall), a Loyalist, was born in Danbury, died in Ontario, Canada. This could be the same John Cornell, Jr. (ca. 1727-1792) who married Hannah Knapp) or his son, called John, Jr. (but actually John III?) who was born in Danbury and died in 1814.|Watermark: GR within a circle.|Vertical chain lines

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