Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3167, Peter Coe, New Jersey Penn.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
New Jersey Penn.
Coe, Peter
NUMBER 
S.3167

CONTENTS
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3097
Pittsburgh Agency
Peter Coe of Washington Co. in the State of Penn-a who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Dickerson of the regt. commanded by Col. Dayton in the N.J. troops for 14 months. Pa.

Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh Agency at the rate of 46 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831,

Certificate of Pension issued the 13. day of Decr. 1832 and dcld. to Honorable T. M. T. McKennan Ho. of Rep's 

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832 69.99
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4. March 1833 at 23.33 [total] $93.32

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by J. M. Duffield Clerk 
Book D Vol. 2 Page 791
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Declaration of Peter Coe
18934

14 mo.
$46:66 per ann.
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Declaration, In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 6, 1832.
Pennsylvania Washington County SS
On the 13th day of November, 1832, personally appeared before the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County aforesaid, Peter Coe, a resident of Hanover township Washington County & State aforesaid, aged seventy nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit, of the provisions of the Act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832, that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, & served in herein states.
On the month of February 1775, I enlisted for one year under Capt Peter Dickerson, in the second regiment of the Jersey Troops, & marched from Morris County N. Jersey, to Ambry where the regiment collected under the command of Col. Dayton & Lieutenant Col. White, We marched from Ambry of New York, where we remained a week or so, & then proceeded to Albany. We were then ordered to march up the Mohawk river, against some tories, near Johntown, but they had left there before our arrival. The regiment with the inception of our company, proceeded up to Fort Stoner's, & our company under Capt Dickerson, remained at Johntown by the orders of the officers. We remained here about two months at the garrison, & then our whole regiment were ordered [illegible] to Albany, & Thence to Ticonderoga where we took winter quarters under the command of Col A. Wayne. In the spring in the month of March, 1777, we were then discharged & returned to Morris County, N. Jersey. after being absent better than one year. Shortly after I removed with my family to West Moreland County Pa. when & where I was greatly humane with the Indians, In the year 1779, I volunteered for a month, & marched under Genl Hand up the Big Beaver, & killed a number of Indians, Shortly after I volunteered for another month, & marched up the Allegheny river, under Col James Smith. & returned home
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after an absence of a month, making in all a service of about fifteen months, I here made as cleer a statement of my services. as my old age, & extreme lack memory permits, I was born in Morris County N Jersey, in the year 1753. I have no record of my age. I lived in Morris County when I entered the service, & came to the Courts of Westmoreland Pa in the year 1777, & in the year 1781 I came to this County, & here resided here ever since, I enlisted & volunteered. The names of regular officers & of regiments, I am not able now to recollect. I never received a written discharge, I am well known by Enoch Wright Esqr & Alexander Duncan, James McConnell, who can certify to my character for veracity, & who believes that I was a soldier of the revolution, I have no documentery testimony to prove my services, except Elizabeth Williams where extreme old age presents her attendance. I forgot to state that I served as sergeant, during the whole of my first years service.
I do hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity in all the present & declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.  
Peter Coe
Sworn to & Subscribed this day & year aforesaid in Open Court 
Thomas Officer [illegible]
We Enoch Wright a Justice of the Peace of Hanover township in Washington Courts, & Alexander Duncan of Hanover township in the Courts aforesaid & hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Peter Coe of Hanover township, who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be about seventy nine years of age: that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides. To here been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion.
Enoch Wright
Alxer Duncan
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Thomas Officer Pro.
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In the said Court I hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the alone named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states, both about further certifies that it appears to them that Enoch Wright who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Justice of the Peace, resident in Hanover township, & as such took the deposition of Elizabeth Williams, whom the Court are satisfied, is unable to attend in open Court, & that Alexr Duncan, who has also signed the same certificate, is a resident Hanover township, & that they are all credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Thomas Office Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, to hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Peter Coe for a pension. In testimony whereof, I here hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 13th day of November 1832
Thomas Officer, Pro.

I am acquainted with the character of Peter Coe the above applicant and believe him to be a very correct, conscientious man. He has been a long time a professing member of Presbyterian Church at Brueland's cross roads Washington County and in good standing. 
Th. M. T. McKennan
Decr: 12, 1832.
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W.C.S.
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
January 19, 1926

Mrs. William J. Carpenter
737 N. Boulevard
DeLand, Florida

Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 3167, it appears that PETER COE was born in 1753 in Morris County, New Jersey.
While a resident of said county, he enlisted in February, 1776, served as sergeant in Captain Peter Dickerson's Company, Colonel Dayton's New Jersey Regiment, and was discharged in March, 1777. Having moved with his family, whose names are not given, to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, in 1777, he served one month in 1779 under General Hand on the Big Beaver River where they killed several Indians. Shortly after that he served one month under Colonel James Smith on the Allegheny River.
He was allowed pension on his application executed November 13, 1832, at which time h was a resident of Hanover Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania.
There is not further data on file relative to his family.
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For the date of last payment of his pension and possibly date of his death you should apply to Record Section, Civil Division, General Accounting Office, 1800 E St., N. W., Washington, D. C., citing all of the following date: PETER COE, Certificate 3097, issued December 13, 1832, rate $46.66 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Pittsburgh Agency. 
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
2094
P.O. Peter Coe
Service:
Enlisted:____,18
Discharged:____,18
Application filed:____,18
[stamp]REJECTED
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Hanover Morris County in the State of East New Jersey the [illegible Barior] hear of Peter Coe Aged about twenty four years, of a lite Complextion About a middle Stature with a fammaly teem wagon and Lodeing of said wagon A travelour to fourt Pitt [illegible]permission to pass the said place with his fammily be haveing him self lively. 
July 7th 1777
Matts Burnet Justes

The Above mentied Peter Coe has taken the oath of Alliance of the United States & he served one year In the servis of the United States. I was bourn and brought up in the County of MOrris and is a young Man of a good fammily & of a good Carrecter him self
Matts Burnet Justes
[STAMP] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES

Mors: Pension of July 1777
The above allowed Saml. Thuthitt Justice : & Judge of the Court common Pleas
Morris County

COE, PETER
(J.J., PA.) W18953
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Washington county and commonwealth of Pennsylvania ss
Before the subscriber ones of the Justice of the peace in and for the county of Washington Personally appeared Peter Coe and being sworn in due form of law deposeth and saith that he is the same person named in a certificate to which this deposition is attached given by Samuel Tuthitt Justice of the peace and Judge of the court of common pleas Morris county and state of east New Jersy and also a certificate from Matt Burnett July 7, 1777 and further this deponant saith that that he served one year in the service of the united States army from February 1776 untill april 1777 under the command of colonel Dayton and that saw deponant is in his 80th year and is very frail and infirm
June the 18th 1832 
Peter Coe
Before me
James Proudfoot

I do certify that I have been acquainted with Peter Coe for a number of years and have no hesitation in certifying that he is of good charactor and entitled to credit and that his present appearance corresponds with with the description in the certificate to which this is anexd. 
John Proudfit
James Proudfoot
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Th. M. L. McKennan
M. C.

J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Pension Office.
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Dr Sir;
I send you the enclosed papers of Peter Coe an applicant for a pension. 
Theu are not I suppose sufficient to entitle him to a pension, but I have them with you to be filed. We will furnish additional evidence in the form directed by the Department. 
Yours very resps.
Th. M. T. McKennan
Hall of Rep July 7, 1832

J. L. Edwards. Esqr:
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Peter Coe
Pens Act June 7, 1832

Surpd. See letter 20 July 1832 to Hon. T. M. T. McKennan. 
Washington Pa.

2094
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Washington County Penna.
personally came Elizabeth Williams before me Enoch Wright a Justice of the peace in and for the County a aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith she is well acquainted with Peter Coe of Hanover Township Washington County State of Pennsylvania, and that she the said Elizabeth well remembers that the said Peter Coe did Inlist in the revilutionarey service of the United States Under Captain Peter Dickison in Morris County and state of New Jersey about fifty five or fifty six years ago. as a sergaent in said Companey. The said Peter Coe Inlisted in the above Companey in the Month of March and did not return home Untill he had served or been away from home about a full year. and further saith not Sworn and subscribed to this tenth day October in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred & thirty two 1832.
Elizabeth herXmark Williams
Before Me
Enoch Wright

[subtraction equation on bottom right] 72-16=56
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I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Elizabeth William she is a verrey old woman and and verrey [ink blot illegible]sum and unable to attend at court to give her testimoney in any case certifyed by Me this 10th day of October AD. 1832
Enoch Wright

I am well acquainted with Enoch Wright Esqr: and hear him to be an acting Justice of the peace [illegible] for the 60 of Washn. Pension- The above is his signature
Th. M. T. McKennan
Dist. [illegible] 1832.

 Deposition of Elizabeth William
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737 N. Blvd.
DeLand, Florida

Pension Office
Dept. of The Interior,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir.;-
I wish to make inquiry concerning Peter Coe who served in Revolution as sergeant from Sept. 1776 to March 1777 in New Jersey Reg. and in two Indian expeditions in W. Penns. for which services he was pensioned in 1832.
Can you give me exact date of birth and of death? Would you have the name of his wife and of his children?
I shall greatly appreciate a prompt reply.
Yours truly,
Agnes Coe Carpenter
Mrs. Wm J. Carpenter.

[stamp] PENSION U.S. OFFICE DEC 7 1925
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Ap 30, 1909   Rev War

Hon. Commissioner of Pensions 
Washington, D.C.
Sir;
I desire to secure the military record of two ancestors Ebenezer Coe and Peter Coe pensioners of the Revolution; also what genealogical data may be on record of them in regard to their births and deaths and parentage especially. 
Ebenezer Coe was lieutenant in the Penn line and ended his days about 1830, I believe, in Ohio.
Peter Coe was a private in
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the New Jersey line, [illegible] after the War lived in Washington Co. Penn. 
Lt. Ebenezer Coe had a son Silas Coe who lived in Ohio whose youngest son Samuel Coe married a granddaughter of Peter Coe
Respectfully yours
JS. Bartlett
9 Ware St
Dorchester Mass
[Stamp] PENSION A U.S. OFFICE. MAY 3 1909
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Mrs. Wm. James Carpenter
737 North Woodland Boulevard
Deland, Florida
Feb. 27, 1927.
Pension Bureau
Dept. of Internal Affairs,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Mr. Secretary:
May I trouble you for a copy of the Pension application Paper for service in the Revolution, made by Peter Coe of Hanover Co., Washington Co., Penn. 1832.
You have already sent me some of the data; but I still hope to find in the original papers the names of his children. 
Very truly yours,
Agnes Coe Carpenter
(Mrs. Wm. J. Carpenter)
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[bifold-left side]
INVALID.
Rev War 3167
File No. 3167
Peter Coe
Pri. N.J. troops

Act: June 7, 1832
Index:--Vol. A, Page 73
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Pa also

[Bifold-right side]
1909 May 12, Hist to J. S. Bartlett V.L.M.
1926 Jan 19 hist to Mrs. Wm. J. Carpenter W.C.S.
1927 Apr. 27. Mrs Wm. J. Carpenter adv. no data as to wife & children W.C.S.
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W.C.S.
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
April 27, 1927

Mrs. William J. Carpenter
737 N. Woodland Boulevard
DeLand, Fla.

Madam: 
I have to advise you that papers in the pension claim of PETER COE, S. 3167, contain no data relative to the wife and children of said soldier.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner
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[top half of document not shown]
widow s) application for pension on file in the Bureau. Peter Coe Sur. File 3167
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. Feby 1776/LENGTH OF SERVICE. Mch. 1777/RANK. Sgt/OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. CAPTAIN. Peter Dickerson COLONEL. Dayton & A. Wayne/STATE. N.J.
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. 1779/LENGTH OF SERVICE. 1 mo./OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. under Genl Hand [illegible] the Big Beaver where they killed several Indians and 1 mo. upper Allegheny River under Col. James Smith.

Battles engaged in, See above.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Morris Co. N.J.
Date of application for pension, Nov 13, 1832. His [illegible]
Residence at date of application, Hanover Twp. Washington Co. Pa.
Age at date of application, born in Morris Co. N.J. in 1753
Remarks: Soldier moved with his family to Westmoreland Co. Pa. shortly after 1777, no names stated nor further family data.