Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8425, for Samuel A Mc Coskry, Pennsylvania
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( 8 - 1776 )

SERVICE
Continental (Pa.)

McCoskry Samuel A.
or
McCoskey Alison

NUMBER
W8425.
B. L. Wt. 1458_400_Surgeon
Issued July 26, 1789.
under name McCoskey
No papers

CONTENTS
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Rep [illegible]

23 [illegible]

[illegible]
who [illegible] the Revolutionary
war as a [illegible]
[illegible] the Roll [illegible] 
[illegible] Dollars
[illegible] per annum to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the
19th day of [illegible] 48.
and sent to [illegible]

[illegible] on Roll of Pensioners under act
[illegible] 1848, Page 177 Vol 1
[illegible]
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No 1
Declaration
Mrs Samuel A
McCroskey for
Pension
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State County and City of New York }
Personally appeared before me the Subscriber Mayor of the City of New York Mrs Allison Mc Cosky a resident of the City of New York aged Seventy five years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by act of Congress passed at its last Session for the benefit of the Widows of certain Officers and Soldiers of the War of the Revolution. That she is the Widow of Samuel A McCosky who was a Surgeon in the Pensylvania line of the Army of the Revolution. That she has no record or documentary evidence to sustain her claim but must rely wholly on the rolls or records to be found at Harrisburg Pena or in the departments at Washington City. She further declares that she was married to the said Doctor McCosky on the twenty fifth Day of December Seventeen Hundred and ninety four and that her said husband, the aforesaid Doctor McCosky died on the Sixteenth day of September Eighteen hundred and Eighteen - And that she has remained a
Widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereunto annexed
Sworn to and subscribed before me on this thirtieth day of August 1848
Alison Mc Coskry
W F Havemeyer Mayor of the City of New York
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State County and City of New York }
Personally appeared before me the Subscriber Mayor of the City of New York, the Reverend Erskine Mason a person well known to me, and who I hereby certify to be a person of undoubted credibility who being duly sworn according to Law says that he well [illegible] Doct. Samuel A McCosky of Carlisle in Cumberland County Pa was reputed to have been a Surgeon in the Pensylvania line of the Army of the Revolution and ^knows his wife Allison McCosky - That Doct. Samuel A McCosky has now been dead about thirty years, that he has been most intimately accquainted with the Widow [crossed out: ever since the death of Said McCosky] for the last twenty seven years and that she is his Widow not having again married since his death and that she now at this time resides with him in the said City of New York and has resided with him for several years
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this 
[illegible]
and fifteenth
[illegible]

I, James Conner, CLERK of the City and County of New-York, and also CLE
Court of Common Pleas for said City and County, DO HEREBY CERTI
Wm F Hanemeyer Esq before whom
deposition was taken, was at the time of taking the same, Mayor of
City in and for the said City and County, duly commis
sworn, and that I believe the signature of said mayor
subscribed is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal
Court and County, the 30 day of August
James Conner
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State County and City of New York }
Personally appeared before me the Subscriber Mayor of the City of New York, the Reverend Erskine Mason a person well known to me, and who I hereby certify to be a person of undoubted credibility who being duly sworn according to Law says that he well [illegible] Doct. Samuel A McCosky of Carlisle in Cumberland County Pa was reputed to have been a Surgeon in the Pensylvania line of the Army of the Revolution and ^knows his wife Allison McCosky - That Doct. Samuel A McCosky has now been dead about thirty years, that he has been most intimately accquainted with the Widow [crossed out: ever since the death of Said McCosky] for the last twenty seven years and that she is his Widow not having again married since his death and that she now at this time resides with him in the said City of New York and has resided with him for several years
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this
[illegible]
and fifteenth
[illegible]

I, James Conner, CLERK of the City and County of New-York, and also CLERK of the
Court of Common Pleas for said City and County, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That
Wm F Hanemeyer Esq before whom the annexed
deposition was taken, was at the time of taking the same, Mayor of Said
City in and for the said City and County, duly commissioned and
sworn, and that I believe the signature of said mayor thereunto
subscribed is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said
Court and County, the 30 day of August 1848.
James Conner Clerk.
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State County and City of New York }
Personally appeared before me the Subscriber Mayor of the City of New York, the Reverend Erskine Mason a person well known to me, and who I hereby certify to be a person of undoubted credibility who being duly sworn according to Law says that he well [illegible] Doct. Samuel A McCosky of Carlisle in Cumberland County Pa was reputed to have been a Surgeon in the Pensylvania line of the Army of the Revolution and ^knows his wife Allison McCosky - That Doct. Samuel A McCosky has now been dead about thirty years, that he has been most intimately accquainted with the Widow [crossed out: ever since the death of Said McCosky] for the last twenty seven years and that she is his Widow not having again married since his death and that she now at this time resides with him in the said City of New York and has resided with him for several years
Sworn to and subscribed before me this thirtieth day of Aug. 1848
Erskine Mason
[illegible] in the ninth [illegible]
and fifteenth [illegible] before [illegible]
W F Havemeyer
Mayor of the City of New York

STATE OF NEW YORK,
CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW YORK } S