Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,130, for Charles Mc Coy, Pennsylvania
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SERVICE
Penn.

McCoy, Charles

NUMBER
S.40.130
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No 19804

Pennsylvania

Charles McCoy

of Peny County in the State of Pennsylvania 
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Burke of the regiment commanded
by Colonel Brodhead in the Pennsylvania 
line, for the term of two years
from 1778 to November 1780

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania 
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 9th day of August 1827

Certificate of Pension issued the 23rd of August 1827 and sent to William Ramsey Esq. Carlisle

Arrests to 4th of Sept. 1827  $6.99
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1828 $48.00
$54.99

Revolutionary Claim,
Acts March 18, 1818, and 1 March 1823

File Sept '29

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Hon. D. F. Robison
March 14, 1856
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Mr. Gedders please answer to Mr. Robinson 
Aug. , 1827

Private. L.D. Robinson


Hon. J. Minot
Com of Pensions
Washington DC
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From the Pension Office

To Hon.
James (illegible)
Sect of State
Washington City
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From Pension Office

To Hon. 
James (illegible)
Secty of State
Washington City
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Carlisle 19th August 1827

The Honorable Secretary of War

Dear Sir,

    I hope that with the additional affidavit of Charles McCoy the applicant for a pension that he may be placed on the pension that I am confident he is entitled to the pension and that he is one of those persons contemplated by the Act of Congress which was passed I have frequently conversed with others on the subject & some are (unintelligible) can recollect of his (unintelligible) and in the service of his country in the American Revolution but they cannot tell whether he a militiaman or in the Regular Service.  I hope this proof will be sufficient.  All his comrades in arms that he knows of is dead or gone and of his (unintelligible).

                                          Your Humble Servant
                                                //s//
                                            Wm Ramsey

My address
Wm. Ramsey Esqr
Carlisle
Pennsylvania
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19.984
Charles McCoy
Pennsylvania Penn.

A. G. Miller Esq.
Landisburg Pen.
May 11, 1876

Hon. Ja. Wilson H. R.
Feb 8, 1827
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   At a Court of Common Pleas began and held at Landesberg in and for the County of Perry on the first Monday of April A.D. 1826 before the Honorable John Reed Esquire, President and William Anderson and Jeremiah Maddens Esquire Judges of the same court, it is these contained -  
    A declaration of Charles McCoy in order to be placed on the pension list of the United States according to an Act of Congress passed the 18th March 1818 and its supplements -
    
State of Pennsylvania
County of Perry} ss

    On the 7th day of April in the year of our Lord in open court (being a court of record in and for the Ninth Judicial District of the said state of Pennsylvania) Charles McCoy resident in said county aged seventy four years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the Act of Congress made the 18th March AD 1818 and the 1st May 1820 -
That he the said Charles McCoy enlisted for the term of nine months on or about the twelfth of June in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six in the state of Pennsylvania in the company commanded by Captain Doyle in the Regiment Commanded by Col. Frederick Watts on the land continental establishment in the line of the State of Pennsylvania that he continued to serve in the said corps and in others into which he was ordered successively for the space of nine months and that he enlisted a second time in the State of Pennsylvania some time after the expiration of the aforesaid term and continued in the Pennsylvania Line for nearly two years and was under the command of Captain Burks and also in the Company of which McCurdy was a Lieutenant, but does not recollect the Colonels or officers generally as he was transferred to different Regiments commanded by different officers and his memory has failed him so much, that he cannot recollect distinctly important circumstances of a recent date.  He continued in the service till in November one thousand seven hundred and eighty or thereabouts when he was discharged from the service in Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania - that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present - that his name is not on the roll of any state except Pennsylvania and that the following are the reasons for his not making application for a pension earlier. (Next page)
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That he was able to support himself and family by industry until lately, and from his advanced age and a would he received when in the Revolutionary service he is now entirely unable to procure a subsistence by labour, and that he never intended to make application for assistance to his government while he was able to pursue honest industry for a pursuance of the maintenance - and in pursuance of the Act  of the 1st May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any other manner whatever disposed of my property or any part thereof with the intent thereby to diminish it so as to bring myself within the provisions of the 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 18th day of March 1818.  And that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me - nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. 
   A list or schedule of applicant's property on the 18th of March 1818:
    Two cows (young) nine sheep - one stove, one case of drawers, three chairs (bad), a little kitchen furniture.  Bedding and wearing apparel.
    That since the 18th March 1818 the following changes have been made in my property viz. one cow exchanged with John Diven for leather and wheat - about April 1825.
   The applicant has no occupation - was a daily labourer and is near entirely unable to pursue it. 
    He has a wife named Nancy aged 54 years.
one daughter - Julianna aged 12 years
one son - Creigh - aged 9 years, one son - George aged 6 years.
to support and one of his sons Creigh is now Campos and all are unable to contribute to his support.
                               Charles (his mark) McCoy
Sworn to & subscribed on the
7th day of April 1826
before 
               //s//
        Wm. Mitchell 
                        Prothonotary
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    I William B. Mitchell Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Perry County, being a court of record do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the said Charles McCoy did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months under our engagement on the Continental Establishment.
    I also certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of said county and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property established in the foregoing schedule is twenty dollars. 
    In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of sad court the 7th day of April 1826.

                                             //s//
                                     Wm Mitchell
                                                   Prothonotary

    In addition to the foregoing declaration Charles McCoy states on oath in open court that during his continuous (time) in the army under the continental establishment referred to in the foregoing declaration that he served a part of the time in the Regiment No. 8 commanded by Col. Broadhead & had of the 

2 makes had of his declaration to obtain a pension; declared states that he is seventy-seven years of age and is so poor that he must have support from charity or from the time in the Regiment now Commanded by Col. Butler.  This declarant states & makes had of his declaration to obtain a pension; declarant now states that he is seventy-seven years of age and is so poor that he must have the support from charity or from the government.
                                             his
                                  Charles X McCoy
                                             mark
Sworn & subscribed in open
court 9th August 1827.
             //s//
       Wm. Mitchell
                  Prothon.
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Pennsylvania
Perry County ss

    I do certify that the addition to the foregoing declaration was made and sworn to in open court the 9th day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven.

    In testimony whereof I have hereunto sent my hand and affixed the seal of the said court at Bloomfield in the 9th day of August AD 1827.

                                                //s//
                                         Wm. Mitchell
                                         Prothonotary
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40130

INVALID.

File No. 40.130
Charles McCoy
Pri Rev. War

Act: 18 March 18

Index-Vol. 8, Page 319

(Arrangement of 1870)