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From: "Sharon Murray" <>
Subject: [NJHUNTER] Affidavit: David Schomp re: Cornelius LaTourette
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 22:12:49 -0400


This was much better preserved, easier to read than the last. Hope someone
finds this interesting. What strikes me right from beginning is that the
transcriber can spell LaTourette correctly. Even though he has trouble with
other words.

Anyone have any information on the "Shugar/Sugar House" in New York that was
used as a prison. I would be interested in a little background.

Enjoy
Sharon Murray


Affidavit of David Schomp on behalf of Cornelius LaTourette
>From the pension declaration file of Cornelius LaTourette, National
Archives, Washington DC

"State of New Jersey
Hunterdon County
I David Schomp aged seventy nine years Residing in the township of
Readington in said county Leut & Capt in the Revolutionary war was well
aquainted with Cornelius LaTourette who he understands resides in the County
of Monmouth in said state and has made application for a pension that the
said Cornelius LaTourette served a tour of five months under this deponent
beginning in July 1776 about the 1st and ending the first of December same
year that this deponent then acted Lieut during said tour under Frazer Capt
and that he the said Cornelius LaTourette was a private in said company and
performed the duty of a good soldier during said tour, that the said company
a bout the first of July marched to New York to reanforce the army as part
of the Hunterdon _______(line is in the text) Regiment under Lieut Col.
Phillip Johnston and that they within the time ______ over to Long Island
with the army and where engaged in the Battle at Brooklyn where Col Johnston
was killed that the said Cornelius LaTourette continued in servis in said
company untill the first of December 1776 when he together with the
remainder of the company were discharged verbaly by the officers (no
discharge in writing being given) The deponent knows that the said Cornelius
LaTourette was not out on duty a great part of the time during the
revolution and was taken prisoner by the british in company with several
others in the county of Monmoth and conveyed to New York and confined in the
Shugar house for a considerable time where mostly all the prisoners died
________ of which whereout of the neighbourhood of deponent (viz Peter Biggs
and Uriah Chamberlin the deponent was well aquainted with the said Cornelius
LaTourette and believes him to be a man of good character for truth and
veracity and that he was always reputed and believed in the neighborhood
where he has always resided untill within the last ten years to have been a
soldier of the Revolution and deponent know the fact to be so.

Sworn to and subscribed before me
the 18th day of December 1833 His signature: David Schomp
J__ Thompson Justice Peace

I do hereby certify that I am well aquainted with the above deponent and
believe him to be a man of good carracter as to truth & voracity
J__ Thompson Just of Peace"
(John Thompson, see next affidavit)


"State of New Jersey
I James D. Westcott Secretary of State of New Jersey do certify that John
Thompson Esquire beore when the written affidavit of David Schomp was taken
and who hath attested the same was at the time _______ and now is a Justice
of the Peace in and for the county of Hunterdon in said state, duly
commisioned and sworn and that full faith and credit are to be given his
official attestions.

In testimony wherof I have _____ my hand and affixed my seal of office in
Trenton this eighteenth day of February AD one thousand eight hundred and
thirty four.
His signature: James D. Westcott"



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