STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF OTSEGO, SS:

 

On this 18th day of January, A.D., 1905, personally appeared before me, a Notary Public within and for the County and State aforesaid, John Lunn, a resident of the town of Pittsfield, County of Otsego and State of New York, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is the identical John Lunn who was enrolled about the month of October, 1863, at Owatonna, Minnesota, as a private, and afterwards served as Coporal in Co. C. 2nd Regt., Minnesota Calvary, in the war of the Rebellion, and served not less than ninety days, and was honorably discharged about August, 1865 at Fort Wadsworth, Dakota.

 

That under date of July 12th, 1890, he received pension certificate No. 264,754, for disability named as chronic Rheutism and diarehoea and disease of mouth and skin, result of scurvy. which certificate was issued in lieu of pension certificate dated may 6th, 1884, and that he is now enrolled at the Buffalo, New York, at the rate of six dollars per month.

 

That he became sixty eight years old on the 6th day of September 1904, and that he is advised that under the order of the Commissioner of Pensions, approved March 15th, 1904, he is entitled to an increase of two dollars per month, and he hereby makes appliction for such increase.

John Lunn

 

Also personally appeared Myrtly A. Pope, residing at Edmeston, N.Y. and Theron Dyer residing at Burlington, N.Y., persons whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit, and who, being duly sworn, say that they were present and saw John Lunn, the claimant, sign his name to the foregoing declaration; that they have every reason to believe, from the appearance of said claimant and their acquaintance with him, that he is the identical person he represents himself to be, and they have no interest in the prosecution of this claim.

Myrtle A. Pope

T. A. Dyer

 

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day of January, 1905, and I certify that the contents of said declaration were fully made known to said claimant and witnesses before signing, and that I have no interest in the prosecution of this claim.

Arthur A. Pope

Notary Public