Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,852, Ebenezer Coe, Penn.
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SERVICE
Penn.
Coe, Ebenezer
NUMBER
S.40.852
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[Bifold left side]
Let to Ha. T. M. T. McKennon
June 21. 1859
Died July 28, 1826
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From Ohio to Pennsy
15282
[illegible] send to Ephraim Rood Esqr. Nov 1820 Stuebenville Ohio

Ebenezer Coe. ___of Ross Jefferson in the state of Ohio___who was a Lieutenant i the regiment commanded by Colonel G. Baird of the Pennsylvania line, for the term of Eleven Months____
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence the 9th of November 1818___
Certificate of Pension issued the 15th of Sept. 1871 and sent to Ephraim Root Esqr. 
Steubenville___Ohio 1819
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1819. 9ms&26/30-1_73,
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th March 1820___120___
$126.93
314.33
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}

[math done on bottom of bifold]
$20 x 9mo 
=197.33 + 120= $317.33
[faded writing] Continued
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State of Ohio
Jefferson County} Ss 
Personally appeared before me one of the justices of the peace in and for Said county of Jefferson Samuel Leach who declared an oath that he knew Ebenezer Coe - to be a Lieutenant in the revolution war in actual Service for the term of eleven months or uppwards in Captn James Leachs Company and under Major Joseph Migary, the reagiment not recollected sworn to and Subscribed before me this 20th day of October A.D. 1818
Samuel X his mark Leach

Geo Day
Justice of the peace}
State of Ohio Jefferson County 

[underneath above paper]
I John Patterson Clerk of the Court of common Pleas for the said County of Jefferson do certify that George Day Esquire before whom the above deposition was taken was on the 20th day of october present a Justice of the peace within and for said County duly commissioned and qualified to whom official acts as such full faith and credit is due
In testimony whereof I have hereonto set my hand and affixes the seal of said Court at Stubenville the 29th day October AD 1828
John Patterson
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State of Ohio Jefferson County ss. Court of Common Pleas
In the matter of ⎬ Be it remembered that at the August
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In the matter of Ebenezer Coe a Revolutionary pensioner}
Be it remembered that at the August Term of the Court in the year of our Lord one 
thousand eight hundred and twenty Ebenezer Coe a Revolutionary pensioner come into Court and filed a Declaration of his service & in the words and figures following, to wit. On the 22nd day of August A.D. 1820 Personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record for
said County Ebenezer Coe, aged 82 years, resident in said County who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows; As a Lieutenant in the Company of Rangers commanded by Captain James Leech in the Regiment Commanded by Colonel George Baird of the Pennsylvania line; He has received a pension certificate from Government the number of which is 15.282. the date of his original application was the ninth day of November 1818. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day 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 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 & navel service of the United States in the Revolutionary war passed on the 18th 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- Schedule the sum of $316-- Just rec, as the amount of his pension up to the 4th March A.D. 1820} $316. One Old Watch______7.-- [Total]$323.00
I reside in Washington County Pennsylvania & Jefferson County Ohio, with a sister & my son by turns. My ocupation was that of a farmer but I am now wholly unable to work or labor and depend on Charity for support 
Ebenezer Coe 
Whereupon the said Eve being sworn to the facts above stated and and producing satisfactory evidence to the Court that the afore said Schedule contains all the property by him owned &
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and that the value thereof including the cash on hands is three hundred & twenty three dollars and no more. Therefore it is ordered by the Court that the aforesaid Declaration & Schedule be entered of Record and certified by the clerk of this Court to the war Department
Attest John Patterson Clk
State of Ohio Jefferson County ss.
I John Patterson Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas for the said County of Jefferson do certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copyed from the records of said court And I further certify that it is opinion of the Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule including the cash on hand is two hundred and twenty three Dollars.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Steubenville this 26th day of September AD 1820
John Patterson. Clk

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185. Ebenezer Coe. 15.282 15. Sept. 1819

Ephm Root Agent
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May 7, 1937
XXXXXXXXXXXX
BA-J/EEL
Ebenezer Coe-S.40853

Mrs. Alma Coe Miller
133 East Maple
Fullerton, California
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to one of your ancestors, Ebenezer Coe, a soldier of the Revolutionary War who served as lieutenant in
the Pennsylvania troops and applied for pension while residing in Jefferson County, Ohio.
The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.40852, based upon the military service in that war of Ebenezer Coe.
The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of Ebenezer Coe are not shown.
Ebenezer Coe entered the service in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, February 26, 1778, served as lieutenant in Captain James Leach's Company, Colonel George Baird's Pennsylvania Regiment, and continued in service until February, 1779.
He was allowed pension on his application executed November 9, 1818, at which time he was aged eighty years and resided in Rose
Township, Jefferson County, Ohio.
In 1820, he stated that he resided part of the time in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and part of the time in Jefferson County, Ohio, with his sister and his son, but did not give their
names nor is the name of his wife shown. In 1826, he stated that he was residing permanently in Washington County, Pennsylvania.
In 1818, one Stephen Coe lived in Knox Township, state not given and in 1819, one Benjamin Cos made affidavit in Allegheny
County, Pennsylvania; their relationship to the soldier, Ebenezer Coe, was not shown.

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Found sol. in Pa Archives VOL-4 in Westmoreland Co. found Capt Jas Leach & Capt but not Col. Geo Baird
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In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Ebenezer Coe (s.40852), you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:
Ebenezer Coe
Certificate No. 15382
Issued September 15, 1819
Rate $20 per month
To commence November 9, 1818.
Act of March 18, 1818
Pennsylvania Agency.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.

[Handwritten on left side]
As Agency Book showed date of death, July 28, 1826 and 1835 list July 25, 1827. I advised applying to C.G. for correct date of death.
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40852 
INVALID.
Revy
File No. 40.852
Ebenezer Coe
Lieut Rev War
Act: 18th March 18th
Index:__Vol. [illegible], Page 94
{Arrangement of 1870.}
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1909 May 12 Hist. to J. S. Bartlett.
(Letter in L. F. 3167)
1912 Febry 20 Hist to Mrs. C. M. Boyles. V.L.M. 
1921 Apr. 12 Hist. to W. W. Coe
1907. May 8. Hist to Mrs A C. Miller. E
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[Seal] PHIL 4 OCT
Hon.ble J.C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington D.C.
gm
For transfer
Recd. 9 Oct: 1822
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Philad.@ 4 Octr 1822
Sir,
Inclosed we hand you Ebenezer Coe's application for a transfer' which you will please effect annd inclose the Certificate to.
 Your Mo: Obt Servt.
G. Oliver  V.V. Be[illegible]
Hon.ble J.C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington
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40852 
file with 40852
Ebenezer Coe's application for transfer from Ohio to Pennsylvania___
Transfd 10 Oct. 1822.
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[Seal]WASHINGTON  JUN 18
Eb.Coe pa mil

[stamp]FREE
Th. M. T. McKennan
M.C.
J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Pension office
Washington D.C.
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Washington Pa June 17.1839
Dr. Sir,
Lieut. Ebenezer Coe some time since was a pensioner in the Pittsburg agency. He had lived in Washington County Penn when the pension afar [illegible] and has been dead for some years. 
If not incompatible with the rules of the office be pleased to send me immediately a why of the evidence which was furnished in support of his claim and upon which the pension was allowed.
I would be glad to get the copies early next week.
Yours very truly
Th. M. T. McKennan
J.L. Edwards Esqr.
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FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH 
WESTFIELD, NEW JERSEY

WILLIAM W. COE                  Rev/mk 1
March 9, 1921 

The Pension Bureau,
Department of Records,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sirs:-
Will you please send me a copy of Pension Record, Lieut. Ebenezer Coe, who as nearly as I can learn enlisted in Washington Co., Pa., Feb 26 1778, Col. Geo Baird's Regiment, Capt James Leach's Co., Penn. line. Served 11 months.  Pension allowed in 1918, "for Revolutionary service."
Sincerely yours,
W.W. Coe

[seal] PENSION U.S. OFFICE MAR 10 1921
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Fullerton, California
April 12, 37

Veteran's Administration
Washington D.C.
Sirs:
According to my information one of my ancestors-Lieutenant Ebenezer Coe served during the revolutionary war.
My information reads as follows.
Lieutenant Ebenezer Coe enlisted Washinton Co. Penn- Feb 26, 1778 as Lieutenant in Capt James Leach's Co. Col Geo Baird's regiment of the Pennsylvania Line.
Also on Nov 9, 1818, age 80, at Jefferson Co Ohio he applied for and was granted a pension for Revolutionary service. 
Will you please verify this that I may have credentials for Daughters of the American Revolution membership. 
Very truly yours,
Mrs. Alma Coe Miller
133 East Maple.
Fullerton,
California

[Stamp] RECEIVED APR 17 1937
MAIL [illegible]
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3-871.
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.

Briefed by L.D.L.
Claim No.
Certificate No.
Claimant Lieut.
Soldier Ebenezer Coe
Service P--
Additional Service Rev. War

No....claim, State records....,190...
No claim, combination records...., 190...

REMARKS:
No claim, except
I.#40852
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Jefferson county, Ohio
Ebenezer Coe
Lieutenant
Col Baird's Regiment-
Pennsylvania Line
1777-1 year

9th. November, 1818.
Service to be proved.
by two credible witnesses, and so certified by the judge-
Services proved by two credible witnesses 
admitted.
Benjamin Tappan,
Judge,
Steubenville, Jefferson County, Ohio.
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Ebenezer Coe of Ross Township in the county of Jefferson and State of Ohio, upon oath makes the following declaration;
What the said Ebenezer Coe on the 26th day of February AD 1778 enlisted as a Lieutenant in Capt Leachs company of foot, in Col George Bairds Regiment of the Pennsylvania line, in the county of Westmoreland and state of Pennsylvania. What the declarant faithfully served the term of eleven months and some odd days in said company, and was honorably discharged in the month of February AD 1779.__that the declarant received written certificates of his discharge, and that he has [illegible] the same by time and accident. ___that the declarant is 80 years of age, infirm and from his reduced circumstances in life, is now in need of assistance from his country for support: and that he hereby relinquishes his claims to every pension heretofore all owed him by the United States.
Ebenezer Coe
I Stephen Coe of known township do an oath testify that the above named Ebenezer Coe is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of assistance from his country for support
Stephen Coe

On this 9th day of November AD 1818 personally appeared before one Benjamin Tappan President Judge of the courts of Common Pleas in the 5th judicial district of the State of Ohio the afore name Ebenezer Coe and Stephen Coe and in my presence subscribed made oath to the [illegible] written declaration and affidavit by them respectively made; and it appearing to my satisfaction  that the afore-named Ebenezer Coe served for more than nine months to wit from the 1st March 1778 to the 1st February 1779 at one period of the war of the Revolution on the Continental establishment against the Common enemy, and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of assistance from his country for support. I hereby certify the testimony in the care and the proceeding, thereon to the Secretary of the  Department of War. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and secure the seal of the courts of Jefferson to be affixed on the day and year aforementioned.
Benj Tappan
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State of Ohio
Jefferson County} ss

By the direction of the Hon. Benjamin Tappan, President judge of the courts of Common Pleas in the 5th Judicial district of the State of Ohio. I have hereunto set the seal of the aforesaid county, at Steubenville the ninth day of November AD 1818
John Patterson Clerk
Com. Pleas. Jef" County
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Sir
I again send on the application of Mr. Coe accompanied with the depositions of two credible witnesses as to nine months service, there is an apparent contradiction as to the time of Coe's discharge, which can be accounted for only from the old age and extreme infirmity of the Applicant. Had he not lived at a distance from this place, I should have obtained an explanatory affidavit; there can be no question I think as to his service as the war deponents are men of Respectability and property. Had they have designed any thing wrong, policy would have dictated to them the necessity of their deposition corresponding in point of time with the declaration of the Applicant. I hope a certificate may be returned, to enable me to [illegible] the money, at the U. S. Court which sits in Chillicothe on the 1st Monday of Sept. next.
I am yours Respectfully,
Ephraim Root
Steubenville, Ohio 
July 30th,1819.
Please to inform me as to the event of the application of Henry Fisher & William Elkins, which was sent on more than a year since; E.R.
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State of Pennsylvania 
Alleghany County}
Personally appeared before me the subscriber an acting justice of the peace in and for said County Benjamin Coe and Ezekiel Day who being sworn according to law deposeth and saith that Ebenezer Coe of Jefferson County Ohio hath served in the revolutionary war as a Lieutenant in the pennsylvania line of foot or infantry in the first Company under the command of Col. George Baird Major Joseph Magarey and Capt. James Leech the No. of Regiment not recollected the time of service being upwards of eleven months ending in the year seventeen hundred and seventy eight
Benjm Coe
Ezekiel Day
Sworn and subscribed before me this 20th day of July 1819-- Robt. Boyd
I do hereby certify that the above named witnesses Benjamin Coe and Ezekiel Day are men of credit and veracity
Robt. Boyd
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Allegheny County,
State of Pennsylvania,} ss.
I, Ephraim Pentland Prothonotary of the Courts of Common Pleas in and for the County of Allegheny, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania DO BY THESE PRESENTS CERTIFY, that Robert Boyd Esquire, before whom the foregoing deposition were taken, and who has thereunto, in his own proper hand writing, subscribed his name, was, at the time of taking such depositions----and now is an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the said County, duly commissioned and sworn, to all whose acts, as such, due faith and credit is, and of right ought to be given, throughout the United States, and elsewhere. 
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Pittsburgh, in the said County, this first day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and 19, and of the sovereignty and independence of the United States of America, the 44. 
Attest, 
Pentland. Pa.
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Washington Co. Pa. July 22nd 26.

Hon. James Barbour
Secty. of War, 
Having seen a notice that conformably to the act of Congress of the 20th day, all Pensioners residing in the county of Allegany, Washington Co, Pa, are in future to be paid at the [illegible] S. Branch bank in Pittsburgh, and directing those concerned to report themselves immediately to the War Department. I hereby comply with the direction. 
I now reside in Washington County in the State of Pennsylvania.
Ebenezer Xhis mark Coe
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APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER.
County of Washington ss. State of Pennsylvania
On this fourth day of September 1822, before
me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Washington personally appeared Ebenezer Coe who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain James Leach in the regiment commanded by Colonel George Baird in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of Ohio from whence he has lately removed;
that he now resides in the state (district, or territory} of Pennsylvania where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future.
Ebenezer Coe
Sworn and subscribed to, before
me, the day and year aforesaid.}
James Proudfoot

NOTE. The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official
character and signature must be properly authenticated.
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Pennsylvania 
Washington County} ss
Thomas Morgan, [illegible] of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that James Proudfoot Esqr. before whom the within deposition of Ebenezer Coe appears to have been taken then was & now is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County & that full faith & credit are due to his official acts.
Given under my hand & the seal of said Court the 6th day of September A.D. 1822
Thomas Morgan
[illegible]
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C. M. Boyles
Agent for International Realty Co.
Waupaca, Wis.
Feb. 12, 1912.
U. S. Pension Office,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sirs;
I desire evidence from Pension Office that
Ebenezer Coe, (Lieut.) on Nov. 9th 1818, aged 80 yrs, of Ross Township Jefferson County Ohio applied for a pension for Revolutionary service, having enlisted in Washington County Pennsylvania Feb. 26, 1778 as Lient. in
Captain James Leach's Company, Col. George Baird's regiment of Pennsylvania Line, and served eleven months, and his claim allowed.
This record is desired in order to establish
right of his decendants to become Daughters of the Rev.
This trouble incurred will be paid on receipt
of bill and will be reciprocated even if no bill.

Very truly,
Mrs. C. M. Boyles,
Waupaca, Wis.
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[partial half of document missing] application for pension on file in this Bureau. Ebenezer Coe Inv File 40852
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. Feby 26, 1778/LENGTH OF SERVICE. 11 mos./RANK. Lieut/OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. CAPTAIN. James Leach and COLONEL. George Baird/STATE. Penn.

Battles engaged in,.....
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Enlisted in Westmoreland Co. Penn.
Date of application for pension, Nov. 9, 1818, this  I was al
Residence at date of application, Ross Twp. Jefferson Co. Ohio
Age at date of application, 80 years. Died prior to 1839
Remarks: In 1820 Soldier lived in Washington Co. Penn. and Jefferson Co. Ohio with a sister and his son by turns. No names are stated or other family data. No date of birth and death.
1835 list gives death as July 25, 1827__Agency Book: July 28, 1826