Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 2333-100, Joseph Cogswell, New Jersey
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(3 - 1776)

SERVICE
New Jersey

★ Cogswell, Joseph

NUMBER
B.L. Wt.  2333-100

CONTENTS
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Union Town May 16. 1844

Dear Sir
I enclose to you two forms that were sent me (& endorsed on the back) from Washington City long ag; I  believe I once showed you this form I presume their cannot be any difficulty in getting one hundred acres of land for the old Mountain friends of yours, John Castell & wife.
It may be these forms are not filled up to the letter of the law, and if not the nature only is, I do not know what else to insert these being the first forms I ase undertook to fill up, it must naturally be expected that I will miss it some what, however, I think there is enough to show that Cogswell Dec'd is entitled to the land. please to have this matter attended to as soon as possible.
[signed] A. Stewart
Respectfully your obt svt
[signed] M. H. Jones

House of Representatives
Washington City
D.CH. .

Please to remember me when you an sending documents to your whig friends,
M. J.
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Joseph Cogswell
No. 2,333.
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[printed form, blanks filled by hand]

STATE OF Pennsylvania.
At a court held for Fayeth county, March Term 1844
satisfactory evidence was adduced in court, to prove that Margant Casteel
the wife of John Casteel & late Margaret Cogswell is the Daughter of the late Joseph Cogswell deceased who was a soldier of the Revolution in Capt. Daytons Company under Col Mathias Ogden of the first Jersey Regiment and that the said Margaret Casteel is the only surviving child and heir at law in fee to the aforesaid Joseph Cogswell late a soldier in the first New Jersey Regiment. under the command of Col Mathias Ogden and the Company of Capt Dayton -
I, James Raine Clerk of the county court, do certify that the above evidence is taken from the records in my office.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my official seal, this 16 day of March 1844
[signed] D. Kaine
Prothonotary
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☞ The above form will answer for the States of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio. Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and other Western States.
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For Declaration and Powerof Attorney -- this may be made by Any of the heirs at law --
Evidence of identity to be furnished in the form of Affidavits
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[printed form, blanks filled by hand]

DEPARTMENT OF WAR.
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Regulation for the heirs of Officers and Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army, who were slain by the enemy, or who have died since the war, and have not received land from the United States.

By an act of Congress of the 16th September, 1776, it is provided that the Officers and Soldiers who engaged for, and continued to serve during the war, or until discharged by Congress, and the heirs of such Officers and Soldiers as shall be slain by the enemy, shall receive land in proportion to their rank.
N. B. Those who engaged for three years, or for any other period than during the war, or who died of sickness, fatigue, or casualty, are not entitled to land from the United States.
The following declaration (and enclosed blank form of heirship) must be filled up and signed by the proper authorities:

State of Pennsylvania County of Fayette }
I, John Casteel heir at law of Joseph Cogswell dec'd do, upon oath, testify and declare, to the best of my knowledge and belief, that Joseph Cogswell did enter the service in 17__,  for the War and served as a drummer in the Regiment No. one under the command of Colonel M. Ogden, of the New Jersey line; and that he continued in the service aforesaid until discharged according to law
I further declare that I have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to Joseph
Cogswell on the part of the United States; nor do I believe that he ever received it, or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever: therefore,
[right] his
[right] John   X   Casteel [X being his mark in lieu of signature]
[right] mark

Sworn & Subcribed the 2 March 1844 Before [signed] Clement Wood J. P

Know all men by these presents, That I, John Casteel aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint Morgan H. Jones  to be my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, a warrant for the quantity of land due to me as aforesaid; and my said attorney is
hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes above expressed.
[right] his
[right] John   X   Casteel [X being his mark in lieu of signature]
[right] mark

Attest,
[signed] J.P. Sturges

Personally appeared the abovenamed John Casteel the subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and made oath to the same, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined to be his free act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
[signed] Clement Wood 
Justice of the Peace.

Attest,
J. P. Sturgis

In testimony that the above written Clement Wood [?] was a magistrate authorized to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c., in the State of Pennsylvania at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the county seal, and subscribed my name and quality, at Morton[sp]  this 16 day of March 1844
[signed] D. Kaine C. Clerk, &c.