Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42651, Philip Coke, N.C. Pa.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
N. C.
Pa

Coke, Philip
or Cake

NUMBER
S. 4651

CONTENTS
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1888
July 19 - S F Cary - history Prior


19.563
 No date of death


Ohio
Philip Coke alias Cake

of Hamilton Co in the state of Ohio
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Kingsbury of the regiment commanded by Colonel ----   in the N. Carolina line, for the term of the war

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 27 of Decem 1825


Certificate of Pension issued the 25 of Jany 1826 and sent to Hon. J. Findlay H. R.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1826 $18.32
Semi-anl. all'ce ending



{ Revolutionary claim,  }
{ Acts March 18, 1818, }
{ and May 1, 1820. }
{ 1 March 1823 }
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19.744

Philip Coke, alias, Cake
Hamilton County
Ohio


Hon: J. Findlay
H. Rep


said Court; and I do further certify that it appeared to the court that the said Philip Coke is not possessed any property real or personal.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court on this twenty seventh day of December 1825.
(Signed)  Danl Gacco Clerk
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Original Claim

Declaration in order to be placed on the pension list under the act of the Eighteenth of March 1818

State of Ohio }
Hamilton County } ss   On this twenty second day of December 1825 personally appeared in open Court (being a Court of Record (viz) the County of Common Pleas of the State of Ohio setting within and for the County of Hamilton Philip Cake (a (illegible) called Philip Coke) resident in said County aged Seventy two years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the act of Congress of the eighteenth of March 1818 and the first of May 1820 that (illegible) the said Philip Coke enlisted for the term of one year immediately after the commencement of the revolutionary war in the year of 1776 (the particular date not recollected)  in the City of Philadelphia State of Pennsylvania in the company commanded by Francis Proctor Capt of Artillery that in third Company and under that command he deponent sailed from Philadelphia for Charlestown South Carolina for the purpose of taking possession of and defending the fort and on his passage deponent with the vessel and persons on board was taken by a twenty four gun frigate of the English named ( as near as deponant (sic)  can recollect the Scorpion) (illegible) into Cape Fear and lay just below Fort Johnson North Carolina sometime afterwards deponant (sic) was exchanged and from there he traveled to Wilmington North Carolina, the officers commanding having been exchanged earlier when deponent (illegible) not finding his officers deponent then enlisted for the term of three years in the Company commanded by Capt Griffin McRae in the North Carolina line of Continental Troops that he continued to serve in said Country until he was transferred to the Company of  artillery commanded by Captain John Vance on the same line after which (illegible) where at the said Wilminton he was ordered to march
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to head quarters accordingly he was marched from Wilmington to Kingston in the same State at which place he was attached to the tenth Regiment in the same line commanded by Colonel Shepherd in which Regiment he was marched from (illegible) to Valley Forge.  Captain John Vance having been removed from the command of the Company on the march & Lieutenant John Kingsbury took the command from there deponant (sic) was marched to Monmouth and was there in the Engagement between the Americans & English Armies in the Division commanded by Colonel Daplieg after which Deponent was attached to the North Carolina Brigade commanded by Colonel Clark having previously enlisted for during the war, after which he marched to Charleston South Carolina to reinforce General Lincoln, was there taken prisoner & the seventh day made his escape and joined the army of General Green under Capt. Jones in his company in which Company deponent was Sergeant and a short time thereafter was made a Sergeant Major in the same company and having marched to Wilmington North Carolina deponent obtained a furlough and went home when he was taken sick & resented by sickness from joining the Army at the time & place appointed and after attempting to rejoin the Army at head quarter now again by sickness compelled to return home where he was confined untill (sic) after the acknowledgment of our Independence and the disbanding of the Continental  Army, soon afterwards deponant (sic) received in Elizabeth Township Bladen County North Carolina from Brigade Major Robert Rapher a discharge from the army in the usual form which discharge from (illegible) has got lost or destroyed, deponent hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension except the present, and deponent further saith that his name is not on the roll of any State except the State of Ohio.  Deponent further saith that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension (viz) about the      day of
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October 1819 he made application which was forwarded to the pension office or other proper office at Washington by his agent Samuel F. Hunt and as deponent is informed his application was rejected for want of a witness to prove the actual service of deponent and deponent residing int eh State of Ohio did not know of a witness that survived by whom he could make the necessary proof and did not think it prudent to profer (sic) the second application on the same testimony until the recent visit of Lafayette to Cincinnati whom a meeting of the revolutionary officers and soldiers took place and deponant (sic) was recognized by Oliver Kelly who fought in the same regiment with him at the Battle of Monmouth whose deposition showing that fact is now on file at Washington as deponant is informed he having (illegible) & forwarded the same with an application which was sent on during the present year.  And in pursuance of the Act of the first of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States o the eighteenth day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person for me in trust any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income excepting a few articles of clothing necessary for myself and wife.  Deponent is a Cooper by trade and has no other dependent for a support then his labour (sic), added to the age of deponent, he is so infirm that he cannot take off his coat without assistance having been also much injured by a field piece which was over his body during the
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Service.  Deponent has no family residing with in except his wife Ann who is about sixty seven years of age and very infirm, deponent has not since the eighteenth day of March 1818 owned any property real or personal other than the proceeds of his labour (sic) since that period which has been hardly sufficient to supply him with the actual necessaries of life.
(Signed) Philip Coke

Sworn to & Subscribed in open }
Court Dec. 23rd 1825 }
(Signed) Danl Gano, Clk

I Daniel Gano Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Hamilton in the State of Ohio do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Philip Coke (illegible) called Philip Cake did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding Declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months under one engagement on  the Continental establishment.  I also certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said Court; and I do further certify that it appears to the Court that the said Philip Cake is not possessed of any property real or personal.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court on this twenty seventh day of December 1825.
(Signed) Danl Gano Clerk
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Original Claim

Phillip Cake of the State of Ohio ss

On this Sixteenth day of August 1825 personally appeared in open Court (a) [being a County of record (b) for County of Hamilton by the Laws of this State aged Seventy Years and a resident in the afd (aforesaid) County of Hamilton who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provission (sic) made by the acts of Congress of the 18th of May 1818 and the first of May 1820 that he the said Phillip Coke enlisted for the Term of during the war on the time of enlistments during the War in the year not remembered in the State of Connecticut in the Company Commanded by Captain John Kingsbury in the Regiment commanded Colonel Lamb in the line of the State of Connecticut on the continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said Corps untill (sic) war ended when he was discharged from the said Service in the said Company in the State of (c) North Carolina.  That he was in the Battles of Monmouth & in Charles Town South Carolina where he was taken prisoner and that he has not other evidence now in his power of his said Services except the affadvit of Oliver Kelly.
And in pursuance of the act of the first of May 1820 I do solemnly affirm that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th 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 with intent thereby so to diminish  it as to bring myself within the provissions (sic) of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engage in the land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have nor has any person in trust for me any property or securieties 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 (d)