Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21,233, Daniel Cobia, S.C.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE S. C
Cobia, Daniel
Gruber, Margaret B
Former widow
NUMBER W. 21.233.

CONTENTS
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3144
Margaret Cobia wid of Ban Cobia S.C.
Married 1777
Died 1794
Allow 9 Mo. $30 per ann no deductions

S.C. Militia
Cap. Washington
Gen Moultrie
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Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 21233

Margaret Gruber
Wid of
Daniel Cobia
Priv Rev War
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Act: July 4th 1836
Index: --Vol. A, Page 29
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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House of Reps
April 3 38

Sir,
I enclose some other papers [illegible] the claim of Mrs. Cobia [illegible] I beg leave respectfully to call your attention

An answer to this at your perfect [illegible] will much oblige
Sir
Your Obed Servt
H.S. Legare

J. L. Edward Esqr
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2015
South Carolina
Margaret B. Gruber, formerly widow of Daniel Cobia decd S.C. who died on the 28 January 1794 at Charleston the State of S. Carolina
who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Luskington of the Regt commanded by Genl Moultrie in the So Ca. line for 9 months

Inscribed on the Roll of So. Carolina at the rate of-30 -- Dollars - Cents, per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8 day of May and sent to the Hon. H.L. 

Arrears to the 4th of March 1838 $210.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept 15.00=
$225.00

Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3rd & Mar 3 39


Recorded by. D.H. Addison Clerk
Book A Vol. 2 Page 172
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The State of South Carolina
City of Charleston
On this tenth day of April personally appeared before the Recorder of the said City at the City Court of Charleston now in session at Charleston Margaret B Gruber a resident of the said City of Charleston in the District of Charleston and State of South Carolina aforesaid, aged Seventy eight 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 by the act of Congress passed the fourth day of July Eighteen hundred and thirty six and the act explanatory of said act, passed the third day of March Eighteen hundred and thirty seven; That she was married to Daniel Cobia who was drafted on or about the twenty fifth day of January Seventeen hundred and seventy nine into the service of the State of South Carolina during the revolutionary war and sent out of the City of Charleston towards Beaufort in a
Company commanded as this deponent believes by Captain Lushington, that he continued in service, until the third day of February in the same year, and was on that day engaged in the battle at Beaufort under Genl Moultrie, and from that time continued in said service, out of the City, until he returned with Genl Moultrie's Army retreating before Genl Provost into the City, and from thence until after the said Genl Provost had retired from the neighborhood of the City of Charleston until after the attack made by Genl Lincoln on the British Lines at Stono, which happened
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on the twentieth day of June in the same year. This deponent says she doth not know and does not think that the said Daniel Cobia was with Genl Lincoln Army at the attack on Stono but believes he marched out of the City under Genl Moultrie when he landed on James Island to cooperate with Genl Lincoln but arrived too late

And this deponent further saith that the said Daniel Cobia was in the City of Charleston during the whole of the siege of the said City by Sir Henry Clinton, and did duty as a Militiaman during the whole siege, until within a few days of the Surrender just before which he was taken prisoner over at Haddrell's point whither he had been sent under the orders of the Military authority in the said City and that he remained a prisoner of war until after the fourteenth day of July Seventeen hundred and eighty when he took protection in consequence of having taken the small pox and this deponent further saith, that she is very old and her own memory does not furnish her with the dates above mentioned, but she is informed that the histories of her country show the said dates to be correct
and that she knows the facts stated to be correct and that she claims a pension for the whole time of such services to wit, five months the first term in seventeen hundred and Seventy nine (1779), and four months the second term in seventeen hundred and eighty (1780), in all nine months service

She further declares that she was married to the said Daniel Cobia on the Seventeenth day of June Seventeen hundred and Seventy seven that her husband the aforesaid Daniel Cobia
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died on the twenty eighth day of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four; that she was afterwards married to the Christian Gruber who died on the -- day of December Eighteen hundred
and thirteen, and that she was a widow on the fourth day of July Eighteen hundred and thirty six
and still remain a widow, as will fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed-
[signed] M B Gruber
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before
Jacob Axson
Recorder of the City of Charleston and Judge of the City Court

The State  of South Carolina
City of Charleston
Personally appeared before me Joseph Johnson and William Kenhardt, who being duly sworn say that they are well acquainted with the above named Margaret B Gruber, who has made and subscribed the foregoing Declaration in order to obtain a pension and that she is well worthy of credit and they verily believe her declaration to be true from their perfect confidence in her respectability character and veracity
[signed]
Jos. Johnson
Will'm Kenhardt
Sworn to before me this 19th April 1838
Jacob Axson
Recorder of the City & Judge of the City Court
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I Francis S. Ward Clerk of the City Court of Charleston a Court of Record certify that Jacob Axson Recorder of the City of Charleston before whom the foregoing Declaration of Margaret B Gruber, and the affidavits of Joseph Johnson and William Reinhardt, were made, is Judge as aforesaid. I also certify
that Edward McCrady before whom the affidavits hereunto annexed have been made is a Notary Public and by act of the General Assembly of this State ex officio a Justice of the Quorum

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at the City of Charleston
this -- day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight
F S Ward CCC
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State of South Carolina
Charleston District
Personally appeared before me Nicholas Cobia a resident in the city of Charleston in the District and state aforesaid, aged Seventy eight years, who being duly sworn saith he was engaged as a militiaman under the [illegible] on the third day of February seventeen hundred and seventy nine as this deponent very well knows and recollects as this deponent was the time of same engagement with another regiment of the same army, on the opposite side of the river. and this deponent further says that he understood at the time and verily believes that his said brother Daniel Cobia, was out near Stono at the time of the action there, in service as a militiaman; the he was [illegible] a time with Genl Lincoln and at the [illegible] militia he landed in James Island under General Moultrie and marched to Stono, he thereafter cannot say as he this deponent was at that time in another part of the Country

And this deponent further says the said Margaret B. Gruber was the wife of the said Daniel Cobia and was married to him sometime before the engagement at Beaufort and that his said brother Daniel Cobia died sometime in the year seventeen hundred and ninety four; and that his widow Margaret
afterwards married Christian Gruber, who died many years before the year Eighteen hundred and thirty six.
[signed] N Cobia
Sworn to before me this 9th March 1833
Edward McCrady
Not. Pub. Q Q U
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I Edward McCrady Notary Public and ex officio a Justice of the Quorum do hereby certify that the word "militia" interlined after the and me Charleston, on the 18th line of the preceding deposition, was interlined by me, after the same had been subscribed by the Deponent, but that the said deposition was read aloud to the said Deponent by me, as if the said word, had already been
interlined before he subscribed the same. And I further Certify that the said Deponent Nicholas
Cobia, is of good fame credit and repute, and worthy to be believed
Edward McCrady
Not. Pub. L Q U