Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File [Blank], for Southcot Longworthy, Rhode Island
Page 1

Service
 [there is a check mark]

* Longworthy, Southcot
R. I Agency

Number.
      Dis
       No papers
Page 2

MEREDITH B. COLKET, JR.
 15 North Wyoming Ave. Ardmore, Penna.

July 28 1937.

Veterans Administration,
Washington, D. C.

Gentlemen:

  I am preparing for publication an article on Southcote Langworthy of Rhode Island who was a Revolutionary War soldier and pensioner.
I should very much appreciate every item of information you might have about this person, both biographical and genealogical.

  His given name was variously spelled 
Southcott, Southcop, Southcote, etc.

Very cordially yours,
   Meredith B. Colket Jr.

[there is a stamp]
 Received July 29 1937
 ______ _______
Page 3

August 9, 1937.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

BA-J/ day
Couthcot Longworthy
-Rev. War
Dis.

Mr. Meredith B Colket, Jr.
15 North Wyoming Avenue
Ardmore, Pennsylvania 

Dear Sir:

  Reference is made to your letter relative to Couthcote Longworthy a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
  In the report of the Secretary of War, in regard to the pension establishment, printed in 1836, the name Southcote Longworthy is recorded on a list of invalid pensioners of Providence County, Rhode Isalnd. The report shows that he received $36.oo per annum, for service as a private. The pension commenced March 4, 1789, under the Act of June 7, 1785. This pension was paid for disability incurred in line of  duty in the Revolutionary WAr. His name is not shown as Langworthy.
  This office has no further information in regard to that soldier because of the destruction of papers in his application when the War Office was burned in 1800 or when the public buildings were burned in this city in 1814.

  Very truly yours

  A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator