Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2,364, John Coulter, Penn.
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Penn.               Coulter, John                   R. 2.364
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Service   Number
Penn.  Coulter, John  R.2.364

Contents
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             2364

John Coulter


REJECTED
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Service  * Number
Penn. Coulter, John R.2.364

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Washington City
April 30th 1844

Sir

I have the honor to [illegible] the application of John Coulter, for a pension.  The applicant is away [illegible], wife.  Please [illegible].

With [illegible]..

[illegible name]

[illegible name]
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Declarations - In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 State of Ohio Guernsey County on this 25th day of April 1844 personally appeared in open Court before the court of Common Pleas for the county of Guernsey aforesaid now sitting John Coulter President of W    Township in the county of Guernsey and state of Ohio aged seventy-nine years June 14th 1844 who being first duty jurors according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and serve as herein stated to wit In June 1781 he entered the service of the United States as a volunteer against the Indians under the command of Captain Boyd of Bedford in state of Pennsylvania and Bedford county. and that a few days afterwards the company to which he belonged was marched towards the clear fields and that on the third after leaving Bedford the company to which he belonged encountered a company of Indians near to Frank town -  and were defeated and that in June 1782 - he was commissioned as an Ensign in Captain Vallentine Weinick company of Volunteers In Bedford County State of Pennsylvania - and that in October 1782 under the command of  Colonel George Woody of Bedford was called into active service in the defence of stations of John Pipes on yellow Creed in said Bedford County. and James Martin Station on the Ea     town branch of Junsatta River and that continued in the service  some times employed as an Indian      and some times in the defence of said station,       sometime in the                of 1886 - that he has no evidence  and that he knows of no p          whoes testimony he can
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persons who can testify to his service [illegible] herby relinquishes
every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the
present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll
of the agency of any State
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Attest Thomas W. Peacock Clerk | John Coulter
of said Court 
we Hugh Broom a clergyman residing in the county of Guernsey and State of Ohio and Wyatt Hutcherson residing
in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted 
with John Coulter who has subscribed and sworn to the
above declaration that we believe him to be seventy-nine
years of age June 14th 1844 and that he is reputed and believed in the
neighborhood where he resides to have been in the service
of the United States as above stated and that we concur
in that opinion.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Attest Thomas W. Peacock Clerk | Hugh Broom
of said Court | Wyatt Hutcherson
[illegible] the said Court do herby declare their opinion after
the investigation of the matter and after putting the [illegible]
[illegible] [illegible] the war Department that the above
named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier
and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that
[illegible] [illegible] to them that Hugh Broom who has signed
the proceeding certificate is a clergyman resident in Guernsey
county and that Wyatt Hutcherson who has also signed
the same is a resident of the same place and is a credible
person and that this statement is entitled to credit
I, Thomas W. Peacock Clerk of this Court of Common
Pleas of Guernsey County State of Ohio do hereby certify
that the foregoing contains the original proceedings
of the said Court in the matter of the application of John
Coulter for a Pension in testimony where I have hereunto set my hand
and seal of Office this 25th day of April 1844 –
Attest, Thomas W. Peacock Clerk
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Penn.  Coulter, John   R2364
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6th
Did you ever receive a commission and if so by whom was it signed and what has become of it
Answer  I did receive a commission as Ensign & was signed by David Rittenhouse and I left it with Jonathan Arnold who reside at the time on the Monongahela River in Fayett County in the State of Pennsylvania August 1789. I was then on my way as one of a surveying crew under Gen. Irwin of [unreadable] State of Penn to make survey of country in part of what is now the State of Ohio and when I returned in the winter of 1790 I called with Arnold for it and he informed that it was lost I was not able to present it.
I state the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution
[unreadable] Hugh Brown & [unreadable] H. Hutchson
357.89
John Coulter
Ohio
Act 7. June '32
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357.89
John Coulter
Ohio
Act 7 June '32
[unreadable] Hugh Brown & [unreadable] H Hutchson