Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2411, Nathaniel Cox, Md
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(3 - 1776)
Service
Md
Cox, Nathaniel
NUMBER
R. 2411
Contents
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit
of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832
⎬
State of Indiana
Tippecanoe County

On this 14th day of August 1838 personally appeared in open Court before the Probate Court of said County now sitting the same being a Court of Record the Hon. John Killgore being sole Judge thereof Nathaniel Cox a resident of Tippecanoe township in the said County of Tippecanoe and State of
Indiana aged Seventy eight years on the 25th day of October last, 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 entered passed June 7, 1832-
that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated, viz that he entered the service as a militiaman in June 1777 as a volunteer to satisfy a requisition made on the company to which he belonged. Applicant then resided on the Eastern Shore in Dorchester County State of Maryland, was mustered into service in a town called Cambridge in said County -- the officers of the company when he was mustered into service were Captain Ezekiel Vickers -- the first lieutenant was Nathaniel Manning --  the Colonel of the Regiment was named Jones but his christian name is not remembered. During that tour deponent was stationed with  fellows in arms at
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said town of Cambridge the most of the
time- during part of the time however we
marched about nine miles further up the
Choptank river to keep guard when an
American Vessel was building which the
British had threatened to burn. There were
generally about one hundred men of us keeping guard then at Cambridge. After keeping guard about a week or ten days we were allowed to go home to attend to our crops, when another division of men would relieve us. until the whole battallion had had their turn - Deponent was frequently, from the
time of his first enlistment throughout the
whole period of the war called to the same
service, the intervals between the terms of
Deponents service each summer were about
three weeks. In the winter we were not
called out on account of the British having
left the bay - We continued however on
caucin during the winters-- Deponent served
about three years in this battallion, when
he was thrown into another battallion commanded respectively by Colonel Joseph Richardson & Col. John Dickerson his captain's
name in the last company was Roger Hooper
In this last named company he served also
about three years & until the end of the war
Deponent was actually engaged in this service
at Cambridge & in that neighborhood whenever it was suspected the British would attempt a landing, he thinks as much as one sixth of his whole time during the six years above named, and during the residue of the time
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They were generally residiness at home
frequently exercising -- He was not thrown into injunction with any of the Continental troops except that occasionally we were reviewed by some of the Continental officers one of whose names & titles he thinks was Genl Lloyd -- His engagements were for no particular period but to keep guard from time to time until relieved - he was in no battles - After deponent left the
first company, a British
vessel sailed up Nanticoke river to
take 700 bushels of corn lying at
a town called Vienna
this first company among others
was called out to repel them, the corps commanded by Col Dickerson- the British however effected a landing under the
fire of their guns, killed a militiaman
of the Company to which deponent
had belonged & took the corn
Deponent has no documentary evidence
to prove his service & knows of no person
when testimony he can procure who can
testify to the same - Deponent served as a
private soldier, & the full term of one
year in all, keeping guard at the several
military posts at & near Cambridge as
aforesaid  -- these corps with whom he served
were regularly embodied & called into the
service by competent authority. Deponent 
would have applied for a pension before but until lately his circumstances were
not such as to make it necessary. He
is now needy, & appeals to the justice of his
country, into whose service he entered same
months sooner than by law he was a
compelled to- He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present,
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and to any other annuity,
and declares that
his name is not on the pension, all of the
Agency of any state deponent never applied for a discharge. There is no clergyman in his
neighborhood, who can certify to the tradition of his service 
Nathaniel Cox  his mark
Sworn & subscribed to
the day & year aforesaid
in open Court this 14th day August
1838
Saml Hoover, Clerk 

We John Becker & Joseph Garrott residing in the township of Tippecanoe County
of Tippecanoe & State of Indiana aforesaid do
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with
Nathaniel Cox who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him seventy eight or seventy nine  years of age; that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion

Joseph Garrett
John Becker his mark

Sworn & subscribed the
day & year aforesaid
mark
Same Hoover Clerk
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And the said Court do hereby declare
their opinion after the investigation of the
matter after putting the interrogatories
prescribed by the War Department that the
above named applicant was a revolutionary
Soldier & served as he states; and the court ┃
further certifies that it appears to them that ┃
John Becker & Joseph Garrott who have signed the preceding certificate as credible persons residing in the neighborhood of said applicant & that their statement is entitled to credit & that there is no Clergyman
resident in that neighborhood
Jno Killgore
I Samuel Hoover Clerk the Probate Court
of Tippecanoe County & State of Indiana the same being a Court of record, John Killgore Esq being
be certifes that the foregoing
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Prescribed by the War Department that the
above named applicant was a revolutionary
Soldier & served as he states; and the court
further certifies that it appears to them that John Becker & Joseph Garrett who have signed the preceding certificate are credible persons residing in the neighborhood of said applicant & that their statement is entitled to credit & that there is no Clergyman resident in that neighborhood
Jno Monore

I Samuel Hoover Clerk of the Probate Court
of Tippecanoe County & State of Indiana (the same being a Court of Record, & John Killgore Esq being sole judge thereof, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Nathaniel Cox for a pension

In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand & seal
of office this 14th day of August
A.D. 1838
Saml Hoover Clerk

34601
Indiana
Nathaniel Cox
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July 27, 1931
Mr, John F. Clearwaters
Battle Ground
Indiana 
Rev.& 1812 Wars Section
MLB
Dear Sir:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R. Ball, that Nathaniel Cox was born October 28, 1783, place not stated. 

He applied for pension August 14, 1833, while a resident of Tippecanoe Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, and
alleged the following service -- that while living on the Eastern Shore in Dorchester County, Maryland, he enlisted in June, 1777, in Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland, and served in the Maryland Militia at various times during the war doing guard duty, as a private in Captain Peel Vickers' company, Colonel Jones' regiment, Captain Roger Hooper's Company, Colonel Joseph Richardson's and John Dickerson's regiment, was in no 
battles; length of serving about one year in all.

The claim was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of six months service as required by the pension law.

There are no family data.

The above noted is the history of the only soldier named Nathaniel Cook that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.

Very truly yours
D MILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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Battle Ground, Ind. July 10 /1931
Commissioner of Pensions
Dept of Interior, Washington, D.C.
On November 27,1896, there died in Tippecanoe Township, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, a man named Nathaniel Cox. The inscription on his tombstone in the cemetery of the Pretty Prairie Methodist Episcopal Church reads as follows.

"Nathaniel Cox
Died Nov. 27, 1846
aged 89 years."

His grave has been known as that of a Rev. soldier for many years and decorated as such but no record of his service or origin remains as far as  I can learn.
I wish to ask whether he appears on your
records as a pensioner on applicant for a
pensioner, and if so what data to source, family and service.
Thanking you I am
Sincerely yours
Jno. F. Clearwaters
Battle Ground
Indiana
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1878.
REJECTED
2411
P.O. Nathaniel Cox
Service:
Enlisted:______, 18
Discharged:_____, 18
Application filed:____,18

Alleges: Printed list of 1852 shows
reason of suspension "He has not
established six months service.
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O.
Recognized.
Cert. of Dis. Searched for_____, 18
Contract.

1931_-July 27-ofist to John F.  Clearwaters
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Lafayette (Ind.)
Aug 20. 1838
Herewith I transmit to you the declaration of Nathaniel Cox an applicant for pension under the act of 1832

Be pleased to communicate to to me
the result of his application, which
I hope may be successful

my Resply
yr ob sevt
Alf. White

J. L. Edwards Esq
Comr of Pensions
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Nathaniel Cox

Indiana
Suspended
1838
A. V. White
2411
 Act of June 1832
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War Dept. Pen. Office
Oct 5, 1838

Sir,
The declaration of Nathe Cox has been [ILLEGIBLE] filed with suspended cases. He alleges to have served as a militia man of Maryland for a period of six years, in [ILLEGIBLE] of [ILLEGIBLE] seven to ten days, being principally stationed at Cambridge as a guard. Each town of actual service [ILLEGIBLE] [ILLEGIBLE] [ILLEGIBLE] and for what particular cause he was called out in each town should be specified. It is believed to be doubtful whether his actual service amounts in all to six months.

Albert V. White Esq
Lafayette
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