Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 39353, John Cockran, Va.
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SERVICE NUMBER
Va. Cockran, John S 39353
CONTENTS
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39 353 1927, June 22 hist
Revy INVALID. to Miss Pauline E. Young. M.C.S.
File No. 39 353
John Cockran
Pri Rev War
Act: 18" March 18"
Index:-Vol. 3, Page 94
Arrangement of 1870.
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19,927
Virginia
John Cockran
of Campbell Co in the State of Virginia
who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Bohannon of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Davis in the Virginia line, for the term of eighteen months, from March 1781 to August 1782.
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia
at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 8th day of May 1828.
Certificate of Pension issued the 13th of May
1828 and sent to James
Benagh Esq Clk. Co. Lynchburg, Va.
Arrears to 4th of September, 1828, $31.24
Semi-anl. all'ce ending
died Nov. 13, 1830 $31.24
Agency Book
Revolutionary Claim,
Acts March 18, 1818,
and May 1, 1820.
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20,638
Pens. Office
12. May.
John Cockran
Act 18 March 1818.
Campbell Co
Va.
James Benagh. Esq
Clk. Co.
Lynchburg, Va,

LYNCHBURG, VA. MAY 9 Free
James Barbour
Secretary of War
Washington City
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At a court of Hastings held for the corporation of Lynchburg at the courthouse on tuesday the 4th day of March 1828
Corporation of Lynchburg On the fourth day of March 1828 personally appeared in open court being a court of record for the Corporation of Lynchburg in the County of Campbell in the state of Virginia
John Cockran resident in said Corporation aged seventy six years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of the 18th of March 1818 and the 1st of May 1820 that he the said John Cockran enlisted for the term of eighteen months on the day of March 1781 in the state of Virginia in the Company commanded by Captain Buckhannon (or Bohannon) in the regiment commanded by Colonel Davis in the line of the State of Virginia on the continental establishment that he continued to serve in said Corps until August 1782 when he was discharged from the service in Fluvanna County in the state of Virginia that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present that his name is not on the roll of any state except Virginia and that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension that he has been labouring under a Rheumatic affliction not able to travel or employ any person to do the business nor did know that he could obtain any aid from the Government, and in pursuance of the act of the 1st of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18 day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed that since the 18th day of March 1818 no changes have been made in my property
Schedule One iron pot about three gallons one dutch
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oven one and a half gallons books an axe two chairs flat bottoms No other property the Court values the said property at two dollars and fifty cents Sworn to and declared on the 4th day of March 1828 before the Court of the Corporation of Lynchburg in the County of Campbell in session
John Cockran x his mark

At a court of Hastings continued and held for the Corporation aforesaid at the Courthouse on Wednesday the 5th day of March 1828
Upon the further application of John Cockran it is ordered that the following be added to his certificate made yesterday
Viz That the declarant is by trade a lawyer but so warped drawn up decrepit and lamed by a Rheumatic affliction that he is scarcely able to do any thing at this business that he has no family nor any person to aid in his support
Capuo Teste
James Benagh clk

State of Virginia
Corporation of Lynchburg to wit
I James Benagh clerk of the Hastings Court of the Corporation of Lynchburg in the State aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing are full and true Copies of the order of Court made upon the application of John Cockran for a certificate by which to obtain a pension from the United States government In testimony whereof I hereunto sign my name as clerk of the Hastings Court of Corporation of Lynchburg and annex the seal of my office this 8th day of May 1828
James Benagh Clk
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6320 Glenwood Ave.
Chicago, Ill. Nov. 20, '26
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C., 
Dear Sir;
Will you kindly let me know the fee attached to looking up the Pension Record of John Cockran of Virginia, soldier in Revolutionary War. He was in Col. Campbell's Company. According to Va. State Library Report, - Pen. 2,48 - also SF W. 1835.
Am very anxious
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to get this report in order to join the D.A.R. Thanking you for your trouble I am 
Most sincerely yours
Pauline E. Young.
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MCS
Rev. & 1812 War Section

January 22, 1927

Miss Pauline E. Young
6320 Glenwood Ave.
Chicago, Ill.

Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 39353, it appears that JOHN COCKRAN enlisted in Virginia in March, 1781, as a private in Captain Bohannon's Company in Colonel Davis' Virginia Regiment and was discharged in August, 1782. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed March 4, 1828, at which time he was seventy-six years of age and was a resident of Lynchburg, Campbell County, Virginia. He died November 13, 1830.
There are no data on file relative to his family.
The above noted is the John Cockran that is quoted on page 48 of volume 2, List of Pensioners, published by Secretary of War in 1835.
Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner