Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3168, Thomas Cox, Md.
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Service
MD

Name
Cox, Thomas

Number
S.3168

Carded
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19408
Jonesborough Agency

Thomas Cox
of Sullivan Co in the state of Tennessee who was a Pvt & Sgt in the Company commanded by Captain Gill in the reg't commanded by Col Cocky in the Maryland Militia for 8 months from 1777.

Inscribed on the roll of Jonesborough Agency at the rate of 56 dollars 66 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 4 day of Sept 1833 and sent to Hon. J Blair Jonesborough Tennessee

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 $141.66
Semi-anl allowance ending March 1834 $28.33
$170.00

{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832}

recorded by Wm S Allison - Clerk
Book E Vol 6 Page 123
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Thomas Cox
Pension Claim
Under act of 1832

In the matter of the application of Thomas Cox for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office in Blountville this 29th day of March 1833

Wm Anderson - Clerk

To
Jno Blair
Jonesboro
E. Tennessee
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State of Tennessee
Sullivan County

March Term 1833

On this 27th day of March 1833 personally appeared in open court before the Judge of the Circuit Court of said county Thomas Cox a resident citizen of said county aged eighty 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 act of congress June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated to wit. That being a native of Baltimore County Maryland born there in 1753 and raised therein at the time that he first was called into service he was drafted as a militia man for the term of three months in Captain Gill's company of Maryland Militia, the Col of the said regiment was Col Cocky that said company rendezvoused in the city of Baltimore and was there placed with his aforesaid officers under the command of Gen Samuel Smith & from Baltimore was marched to the head of Elk & thence up the Delaware River & after being there stationed for some time was returned to Baltimore & his term of three months enrollment having expired was discharged by Captain Gills & returned to his place of residence said enrollment was in the summer of 1777 as well as now recollected and was to attack the British under Howe at Elk that eight or ten months after the close of the
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above service he was again required to perform a tour of duty in the company to which he belonged in the meantime having been elected Lieutenant in said company before he was called upon was in that capacity enrolled under the command of the aforesaid Capt. McGill under whom he had serve his first tour as a private. This declarant he [illegible] at the time called upon to perform said second tour of duty been commissioned by the Governor or Maryland as Lieutenant. That he again rendezvoused at Baltimore City under the same officers as before named in his first tour and was taken to Philadelphia & there stationed for more than a month, the British army being in that vicinity but the two armies did not meet that at said point near Philadelphia the militia to which he belonged joined the main army under Gen Washington & remained in said service until the time for which the militia had been called out has expired which as before stated was for three months - that during the time that the British army or fleet was in on the Bay on several occasions the whole militia of Maryland had been indiscriminately called out for instant or immediate defense and he on the several calls their made was out for a week or some and ten days other occasions in irregular tours amounting with whole to at least two months. That in the whole he served five months as a private and three months as a Lieutenant in the
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whole eight months in the Revolutionary War
and for which he claims a Pension.  

That he has no 
documentary evidence by which he can establish 
his said service, having lost both his discharge 
as a private & commission as a Lieutenant 
nor does he know of any person by whom he can 
establish his said service otherwise than by 
reputation, but that William Rutledge & William Deery 
are persons known to him & he to them and by 
whom he can establish the reputation of his 
service.  He hereby relinquishes every claim 
whatever to a pension except the present 
and declares that his name is not on the Pen
sion roll of the agency of any state, that there 
is no minister of the Gospel by whom he can prove reputation.
Sworn to & subscribed 
in open Court this 27th | Thomas Cox
March 1833
Wm Anderson Clk

We William Rutledge & William Deery residing in 
the County of Sullivan State of Tennessee do 
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with 
the above named declarant Thomas Cox that we 
believe him to be eighty years of age, that he is 
reputed & believed in the neighbourhood [neighborhood] where he 
resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution 
and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn to & subscribed | Wm Rutledge 
in open Court 27th March 1833 | William Deery 
Wm Anderson Clerk
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And the said Court do hereby declare 
their opinion, after the investigation of the 
matter, and after propounding the interrog
atories prescribed by the War Department, that 
the above named applicant was a Revolu
tionary soldier and served as he states and 
the Court further certifies that it appears to them 
that William Rutledge & William Deery who 
have signed & sworn to the within affidavit 
are resident citizens of said County and are 
reputable and their statement entitled 
to credit.
E Walcott one of the Judges of the Circuit 
Courts of Law & Equity in & for the State 
of Tennessee aforesaid

Sullivan County I William Anderson Clerk of the 
Circuit Court of Law & Equity for said County do 
certify that the foregoing contains the 
original proceedings of the Court in 
the matter of the application of Thomas 
Cox for a pension.  In Testimony whereof 
I have hereunto set my 
hand & affixed the seal 
of my office at Blountville the 29th day 
[Blurred seal of office] of March 1833
Wm Anderson Clerk

[Written vertically right margin]
Thomas Coxs
Pension Claim 
under act of 1832

[Written vertically left margin]
To
Jno Blair 
Jonesboro 
E. Tennse.
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MCS
[illegible initials]

Rev. & 1812 War Section

May 21, 1924

Thomas Cox
S. 3168

Mrs. Lee James 
1220 Madison, Apt. #2
Memphis, Tenn.

Madam:

I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolution
ary War pension claim, S.3168, it appears that Thomas Cox was born 
in 1753 in Baltimore County, Maryland, and while residing there he 
enlisted and served in the Maryland Troops as follows:

In the summer of 1777 three months as private in Captain Gill's 
Company, Colonel Cockey's Regiment.

Eight or ten months later he was elected Lieutenant and served 
three months under the same officers as in previous enlistment.

When the British were in the Chesapeake Bay he served as pri
vate on various short tours, amounting to two months in all, officers 
not stated.

He was allowed pension on his application executed March 27, 1833, 
while residing in Sullivan County, Tennessee.

There is no data on file as to his family.

Respectfully, 

Commissioner
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Memphis Tenn.

Pension Dept.

Will you kindly send 
me military record 
of the following soldiers 
who drew pensions  
from revolutionary 
service - Sullivan Co. Tenn.
Thomas Cox
Ezekiel Cox - and 
any family data 

[Circular mail receipt stamp]
PENSION
E
APR
U. 17 2.
1924 
OFFIC.
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[Two panels]
[Left panel]

1924, May 21. Hist to 
Mrs. Lee James, M.C.S.

[Right panel]

[Written vertically left margin]
Rev War

3168
✓ INVALID.

File No. 3168
Thomas Cox
Lieut. Md. Mila.

Act: June 7" 32
Index:--Vol. A, Page 73

[ Arrangement of 1870. ]
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Thomas Coxes evidence
in amendment of his 
Pension claim 

from 1777 private 
& Lieutenant 8 mths
Pr. 5 ms. - 16.66
Leut 3 do.  40.00
$56.66/100
for Jonesborough agency 

[math calculation left margin]

113.32
  28.33
______
141.66

Sent by John Blair
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State of Tennessee }
Sullivan County } 

Be it remembered that on this 21st 
day of August 1833 personally appeared in open 
Court the subscriber Joseph Cox and after 
first being duly sworn before this Court (being 
the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions, the said 
Joseph Cox deposed & stated that in the 
year 1778 he knew of Thomas Cox who is now 
personally present and who is an applicant 
for a pension, having acted as a Lieuten
ant in the Maryland Militia, at the time 
the British fleet was in the Bay.  That 
he saw him in service and saw him mustering 
the men as Lieutenant well knows the fact 
of his going out in that capacity under a 
commission from the Governor of Maryland 
& serving a tour of duty as such
Sworn to & subscribed in open 
Court the date above written
SW Netherland Clerk | Joseph Cox

John Lowry a resident citizen of said 
County also appeared in open Court and made 
oath that thirty years ago he resided in the 
vicinity of Thomas Cox the applicant for
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a pension and there heard him ofttimes speak 
of having served in the Revolutionary war 
in the capacity of a Lieutenant, of the Mary
land Militia, for three months and as a 
private the remainder of his time, said service 
was said by him to have been performed when 
the British fleet was in the Chesapeake Bay 
& he verily believes the statement of said Cox.
Sworn to & subscribed in open Court 
this 21st August 1833 | John Lowrey
G W Netherland Clark 

State of Tennessee }
Sullivan County }

I George W Netherland Clerk 
of the Court of Pleas &c for said County do 
certify that on the day of this date Joseph 
Cox & John Lowry were sworn to & subscribed 
the above affidavits, & that they are reputable 
& entitled to full credit, which was ordered 
to be certified to the Commissioner of Pensions 
for the United States.
[Blurred seal of office] Given under my hand & seal 
of office at office this 21st day 
of August 1833.
G.W. Netherland Clerk