Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 1796-100, John Cochran, Continental
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(3-1776)

SERVICE     Continental

Cochran, John

NUMBER     B.L.Wt. 1796-100

CONTENTS
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John Cochran
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State of Vermont    }
Rutland County ss  }
I Asa Brown of Whiting in the State of Vermont, aged 69 years, being duly sworn, do depose & say that John Cochran, a soldier in Col. Hazen Regt. (called the Congress Regt.) in the Revolutionary war, was  [illegible] at York town in Pennsylvania in the spring of 1783, when & where I became acquainted with him; that soon after he was discharged & we traveled together to Connecticut - and about 3 years afterwards we both came to Vermont.  I understood he belonged to the Congress Regt. at the time I first saw him, & afterwards I saw him have a discharge from said Regt. but do not recollect by whom it was signed.  I think however I cannot be mistaken as to his belonging to said Regt.  I have been acquainted with him ever since, until the winter of 1816, when said Cochran died at Brandon about ten miles from where I lived - and that I never knew of his being a Pensioner
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of the United States & believe he was not - that I am well acquainted with his son John Cochran, who has applied for bounty land, & have known him from a boy.  I further say that I have frequently heard said John Cochran deceased say, that he employed some person, whose name I do not recollect, to get his pay & bounty land, but that he had never received any thing for them, & had never heard from his agent, & supposed he had been cheated out of it - and further the deponent saith not 
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Subscribed & sworn      }
before me this 18th       }
day of November. 1831 }
R. temple
Jus. Peace
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John Cochran
No. 1796
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State of Vermont   }
Rutland County ss }

I John Cochran of the County of Rutland [illegible] aged 38 years, do upon oath testify & declare, that I am the son & only heir at law of John Cochran who entered the service of the U. States in the war of the Revolution for the term of during the war in the congress Regiment commanded by Col. Hazen, and who continued therein until the close of the war in 1783 & was discharged from said Regiment.  I further declare that I have neither received, assigned or transferred my claim in any manner whatsoever.  Therefore I request the Secretary of War to have the [illegible] sent to me at Rutland Vermont, to the care of R. Temple and this shall be his receipt for the same.
John Cochran
Subscribed & sworn this 12th Sept. 1831
R. Temple J.P.

Before me Robert Temple a Justice of the Peace personally appeared John Cochran subscriber[?]  to the above & acknowledged the declaration & letter of order to be his free act & deed for the purpose therein mentioned.  At the same time also appeared Asa Brown a person of truth & respectability who upon oath deposeth & saith, that he
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was well acquainted with John Cochran deceased, father of the aforesd John Cochran that said deceased was a soldier in the Regiment commanded by Col. Hazen, and who he has every reason to believe, did perform the service as mentioned by his son as aforesd.
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Rutland Sep. 12th 1831
R. Temple, J.P.

In testimony that the above named Robert Temple was a magistrate duly authorized to administer oaths & take acknowledgements I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed my seal of office this 28th day of Sept. 1831
R. Pierpont
County Clerk

State of Vermont   }
Rutland County ss }
I Obadiah Noble, Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Rutland do certify that satisfactory evidence has been produced to me to prove that John Cochran who signed the foregoing is the only child & legitimate heir at law in fee of John Cochran late a soldier in Col. Hazens Regt. in the Revolutionary war, who [illegible] since the war, and who was discharged from said Regt. in 1783.
Given under my hand & seal of office this [illegible] day of Oct 1831
Obadiah Noble