Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 20342, Benjamin Coe, Penn.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE Penn.
Coe, Benjamin
NUMBER R.20342

CONTENTS
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Rejected
......Exx'r. OLD WAR
File No. 20342
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
Benjamin Coe
Lieut.
8th Pa Line

[stamped] REJECTED

Died at.......other claim......,187 . .....Clerk.
Application filed:....,18  .
Attorney:......
P.O........

[Written across document] Evidence insufficient Act 1828

[Written across side of document] 1928-Nov. 8-Hist. to Mrs. John J. Foster aws.
Correspondence file   2721-April 29, 1829-1828 Registry Book- JL/5-16-41-
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1495.
For the purpose of obtain the benefit of
an act for the relief of certain surviving officers
And soldiers of the army of the Revolution approved on the 15th of May 1828 I Benjamin Coe Deer township In the County of Aligheny and State of pensylvania Do hereby Declare that I enlisted in the continental Line of the army of the Revolution for and During the Ware and continued in its service untill its termination at which period I was a second Lieutenant in Captain Leitchs company in
the 8th Regiment of the pensylvania line
And I also Declair that I afterwards recived a Certificate for the reward of eighty Dollars
to which I was entitled under a resolve of
Congress passed the 15th of May 1778
And I further Declare I was not on the
fifteenth Day of March 1828 on the pension
List of the united states
Signed Benj Coe 

Before me Robert Boyd a Justice of the Peace in the County of Alligheny in the state of
pensylvania personally apeared This Day Ezekiel Day and William Critchlaw-- Day being of Aligheny  county and Critchlaw of Butler county Who did severally make oath that. Benjamin Coe By Whom the foregoing Declaration was--subscribed is generally reputed and Belived to have been an officer in the army of the Revolution in Manner as therein stated.
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Witness my hand and seal this 27th Day
of January in the year of our lord one
Thousand eight hundred and twenty nine
Signed Ezekiel Day William Critchlaw
Robt. Boyd {Seal} 

Allegheny County
State of Pennsylvania

I William McCandless Prothonotary of the
Court of Commons [smeared out with black ink] Allegheny County, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do by these presents Certify that Robert Boyd Esquire, before whom the foregoing deposition was taken and who has thereunto, in his own proper hand writing, subscribed his name, was at the time of taking such deposition 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 are, 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 twenty ninth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred twenty nine and of the sovreignty & Independence of the United States of America the fifty third.
Attest Wm. McCandless  Pn
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1495
Revolutionary Claims.
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Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 2 March 1829
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The annexed paper, relating to the claim of Benjamin Coe under the abovementioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with a request that he will be pleased to cause me to be informed whether it appears, by any
records in the War Department, that the claimant has received, or is entitled to receive,
the bounty in land granted by Congress for service in the Continental line of the Army
of the Revolution; and, if so, whether he became entitled to the same by service to the
termination of the war, or in what other manner.
R. Rush
The Hon. the SECRETARY OF WAR.

War Depart:
Bounty land office
The records of this office do not show that
Benjamin Coe as an officer of the Penn.
line ever received or is entitled to bounty
land of the United States.
Robert Taylor
6 Mar 1829
of
No Record LDS
Evidence insufficient act 1828
Nov 4/80
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1495
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
7 Feb 1829.
Benjamin Coe of ------ in the County of
Alleghany in the State of Pennsylvania has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled ""An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution,” approved on the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he was as an officer on the Continental line, and served as such to the end of the war,
at which period he was a lieutenant in the Eighth regiment of the Pennsylvania
line; and that he received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the resolve of 22 March, 1783; and, further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing.
[crossed out: 'dollars, paid to him by the agent in the State of']
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated
by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary,
F H Dickens.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
9th February 1829
It ^does not appear by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for the commutation of five years full pay to Benjamin Coe, Lieutenant in
the Pennsylvania line, [crossed out: 'amounting dollars.']
It further appears that Benjamin Coe is ^not on the pension list of any----agency, and has ^not been since the 3d. March 1826
The Revolutionary records in this
office furnish no information whatever in relation to the services of Lieutenant Benjamin
Coe of the Pennsylvania line-
Peter Hagner Aw
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Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir: Will you kindly send me the Military history of Benjamin [inserted above name 'only'] Coe Senior be about 1709 in Jamaica L.I. and died after 1791 in Allegheny Co. Pa. 
His son Benj. Coe. Jr. is listed for taxes same Co. and year in Pa Archives. the latter also served in the Revolution. I have his military history.
Do you have date of death of Benj. Coe Senior?
I shall be most grateful

[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE FEB 2. 1928
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for an early reply.
My truly Yours-
address: Mrs John J Foster
207 So. 35 ave Omaha Neb. 
Jan. 31, 1928.
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
AWF/eel
November 3, 1928

Mrs. John J. Foster
207 South 35th Avenue
Omaha, Nebraska

Madam;
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R. 20342, it appears that Benjamin Coe applied for pension January 27, 1829, at which time he was living in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and alleged
that he enlisted and served to the close of the war at which time he was Second Lieutenant in Captain Leetch's Company in the Eighth Pennsylvania Regiment. 
His claim was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of the alleged service.
There are no data as to family.
This is the history of the only soldier named Banjamin Coe found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.
Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.