Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File Covert, Bergun Covert, New Jersey
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was named John, and that he is now living. Has no knowledge of the existence of any record of the marriage aforesaid. Subscribed & sworn to this day & year aforesaid before me Note - The name of Catherine [underlined?] over the work Ann before execution the name of Ann being written by ? Peter P. Runyon Justice of the Peace Ann Thompson her mark.

State of New Jersey Middlesex County } SS: On this 19th day of January 1837 before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared John Covert and Isaac V. N. Covert Known to me as credible persons, who being duly sworn on their oath respectively saye: The said John for himself saith, that he is the son of Burgun Covert, later of the county of Somerset, N. Jersey, decd & of Catherine his wife;  that according to a family record now in his possession and which he has known to be the true record of the family so long as he can remember he was born of said Burgun & & Catherine Covert on the 19th day of May 1779; that said record was kept in an ancient family bible, and is now to be forwarded as he understands with this affadavit; that it contains the record of the birth of six children and of the death of two, one in infancy; that at the request of the agent drawing up this affidavit, he has made enquiry of the successor of the Rev. Mr. Light (the said Mr. Light being long since dead) for a record of marriages by said Light, and was informed that if any such record had ever been kept, it was not now in existence. This deponent has no knowledge of any such record. Deponent further saith that his late father the said Burgen Covert, was a pensioner under the law of 1832 and
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drew a pension of eighty dollars a year - that he departed this life on the twelfth day of March 1835, and left a widow, the said Catherine Covert, that said Catharine is now living, still his widow, not having intermarried since the death of the said Burgan. And the said Isaac V.N. Covert for himself says that according to the family record referred to by the said John Covert, and which he has always been instructed to believe and does believe to be a true and authentic record he is now in the 44th year of his age - that his father, Burgun Covert, died on the 12th March 1835 and that his mother Catherine still lives, and is the widow of the said Burgun not having intermarried since his death. Subscribed & sworn to the day and year aforesaid before me Peter P Runyan, Justice of the Peace. John Covert Isaac V.N. Covert I Nicholas Booraem Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Middlesex, New Jersey, do hereby certify that Peter P Runyan before whom the foregoing affidavits of Ann Thompson & John & Isaac V.N. Covert were taken, is a Justice of the Peace, duly commissioned & sworn decd that his signature thereto is in his own [?] handwriting. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this twenty first day of January Eighteen hundred & thirty seven. N. Booraem Clk
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34259 Revy INVALID. See Wid. File 6740. File No. 34259
Bergun Covert Pri Rev War. Act: 18th March 184 Index: Vol. 8, Page 84
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B. Covert
Payments to be made at Trenton by the Prost Trenton Bkg. Comp V Agent for paying Prensioners, in the Agency of New Jersey 
80
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Mar 14 1833 Paid to Mar 4 1833
Sept 5 1833 Paid to Sept 4, 1833
Mar 20. 1834 Paid to Mar 4. 1834
Sept 10, 1836 do to Sept 4 1834
Mar 19, 1835 do to Mar 4, 1935
No. 5861
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Sept 7, 1819 Paid to 4 Sept 1819
May 8 1820 Paid to Mar 4 1820
12738
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Pension Pens. Office
11 March 1829
Revolutionary Claim War Department City of Washington
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D Sir I omitted to inclose the certificate of Bergun Covert, a few days since with his declaration for the purpose of being restored to the pension. It is herewith sent - Yr respectfully Tho. A Hartwell Somerville N.J. 5th March 1829
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Pension Office 11 March 1829 Bergun Covert Act 1 May 1820 N. Jersey Sept 1819 Revolutionary Claim Department City of Washington
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Somerville New Jersey 2 March 1829 D Sir. I have endeavored to prepare this included pursuant to the late regular your department - If the law has ?  with ? to forward the certificate to me. Yr respectfully Tho. A. Hartwell Hon. Secy. of War