Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15785, Thomas Coghill, Va.
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(8-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
Va. Coghill, Thomas S. 15785 [lines beneath]
Carded
CONTENTS
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Virginia      23.516
Thomas Coghill
of Carolina in the State of VA who was a 
Private in the Company commanded by Captain Upshaw of the ____ commanded by ____in the VA Line for 1 year
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Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia
at the rate of 50 dollars-------Cents per annum
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Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of February 1834
      and sent Hon. M. J. Taylor   Ot. R.
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1833    125.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending             25.00
 June 1834                                     ________
                                                   $  150.00
[Revolutionary Claim]
[Act June 7, 1832]
Recorded by Nath. Rice, Clerk
Book C Vol/ 64 Page 6


Illegible section contains these words:

...of Virginia  1838...
of 4 March 1838...
...1888. Agt. notified 30 July 1839
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State of Virginia, County of Caroline S.S. 
On this 6th day of december 1833 - personally appeared before me Thomas H Pitts - a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Essex in the state of Virginia, Thomas Coghill, a resident of the United States in the County of Essex and State of Virginia, aged over seventy years 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, passed 7th June 1832-
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated viz - that he joined a volunteer troop of cavary for twelve months, in the month of october 1780 commanded by Capt Jas Upshaw, liuetenant Spencer [unclear] & Ensign [unclear] Cornett Wilham Jones - He joined the [unclear] company at Frank Ramsay's old Field in Essex County and marched from thence to Fredericksburg in vis, where he remained with sd troop during the winter. Early in the spring of 1781 the sd troop was attached to a regiment of cavalry commanded by col John Mercer and May See, & marched to Hanover Court house, thence to old James Town va, where they had a battle with the enemy under [unclear] - The enemy proved too strong for us, & we had to retreat and went to Hickory Neck Church, where we remained about 4 weeks - thence we marched to Hubbard's old field in Gloucester County va, thence to Gloucester Court House & thence to Sowel's Tavern in the same County - Here we met the enemy and had a skirmish with them and Cornett Jones was taken [unclear], and Lee [unclear] Dangerfield, was appointed in his place - about two miles from Sowel's Tavern
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we had another skirmish with the enemy and forced him to retire into Gloucestown on York (illegible)- Myself, Servis Evans & Richard Kay, were carried by the enemy to York town, where they (illegible) us one night & then put us in the poisin ship in which we were kept 'till the surrender of Cornwallis in October 1781- A few days after his surrender, we were discharged by the enemy & I returned home , having served twelve months, including the time of my imprisonment- He states that he received no discharged from his officers- that it was about the middle of August when he was captured by the enemy; that he has no record of his age, but was born as he has always understood on the 9th May 1763 in the County of (illegible) State of Virginia and has resided there ever since with the exception of the time he was in service, and one year immediately after the close of the revolution, which he spent in the adjourning county of Caroline & State aforesaid. The (illegible) hill states that he recorded at the time of his entering the service on the same spot in county of (illegible) & state of Virginia where he now resides, that he has documentary evidence of his service and that he knows of now person now having who can testify to his service from a personal knwledge of it, but there are many person now living advanced in life, who can testify that they have always heard of his services- He hereby relinquishes every  claim whatever to a pension or an annualy, except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of he agency on any state

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me

Thomas Coghill

Tos H Pitts JP
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State of Virginia, (illegible) County, (illegible)

I Samuel Dishman a resident of (illegible) County & State of Virginia, and a near neighbor of the Thomas Coghill, do hereby certify that I am now near 61 years of age, that I have known Thomas Coghill, by whome the foregoing declaration is made from my earliest recollection, and that I have always understood that the  so Coghill was a soldier in the revolution, & that he was taken prisoner in the revolutionary war_ Mr. Coghill has supported a good character all his life, & I have no doubt but that he is as old as he reperesents himself to be- I farther state that his servoces in the revolution is a subject of general  (illegible), & I have no doubt but his declaration foregoing is strictly true in every part. 
Samuel Dishman

State of Virginia, (illegible) County

Samuel Dishman who has subscribed the above certificate personally appeared before me Thomas H Pitts a justice of the peace in & for the County aforesaid & made oath that the said certificate contains the truth, to the best of his recollection & belief; and I further certify that the Dishman is a resident of (illegible) county that I believe him to be as old as he represents himself to be, and I have known him for many years, and that he is a person of good character & undoubted credibility, sworn under my hand this 6th day of december 1833
Tho H Pitt JP
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I, James Taylor a resident of the County of Essex in the State of Virginia do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with
Thomas Coghill who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration
& believe him to be upwards of seventy years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to
have been a soldier of the Revolution; and in addition to the general belief, I can safely state of my own personal knowledge that Mr.  Coghill was in service; having performed duty myself but not in the same company, but I was raised in the same neighborhood with T. Coghill, & was well acquainted with his having performed service.
Sworn to & subscribed
James Taylor
This 7th day of Dec. 1833
Thomas H. Pitts, JP

And I Thos H. Pitts, Justice of the Peace
 as aforesaid do hereby declare my 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 I further certify that neither Samuel Dishman nor James Taylor who have signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman, & that it is out of the power of Thomas Coghill to get a clergyman there being none residing near him
who is acquainted with the public opinion as it regards his services. 
But I certify that the said Samuel Dishman & James Taylor are credible persons & that their statements are entitled to 
full credit - I also certify that the said Applicant Thomas Coghill is unable from bodily infirmity to attend Court, which
is as a considerable distance from his residence.
Given under my hand this the 7th day of December 1833
Thomas H. Pitts, JP
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Washington August 17, 1931.

Mr. Leon French,
530 DeYoung Building,
San Francisco, California

Rev. &1812 Wars Section.
ADY

Dear Sir:

You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claims, S. 15785, that Thomas Coghill was born May 9, 1763 in Essex County, Virginia.

While a resident of Essex County, Virginia, he enlisted in October 1780 in Captian James Upshaw's Volunteer Troop of Cavalry and later was attached to Colonel John Mercer's Virginia Regiment; was in the battle of Jamestown and in a skirmish at Sowel's Tavern in Gloucester County, Virginia; about the middle of August, was in a second skirmish near said tavern, was taken prisoner, carried to Yorktown and held on a prison ship until the surrender of Cornwallis, a few days after which he was discharged and returned home; having served twelve months.

Soldier always lived in Essex County, Virginia, except one year immediately after the Revolution he lived in Caroline County, Virginia.

He was allowed pension on his application executed December 6, 1833 while a resident of Essex County, Virginia.

He died January 17, 1851.
There are no family data.

Very truly yours,

A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator.
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                  1883/Aug 17 Hist. to Leon French
                                                                ANJ
15.785

INVALID.
File No. 15.785
Thomas Coghill
Private Rev. War

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Act: June 7" 1832
Index: --Vol. 1, Page 439
Arrangement of 1870.}
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Thomas Coghill
Va
N. 29.020
Admit as a private
Cer. @12 mo $50=
Adm
Hon. W. P. Taylor
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John Megow, a Clergyman residing in the County of Caroline in the State of Virginia, and in the neighborhood of Thomas Coghill of the County Essex hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Thomas Coghill of Essex County and have been all my life, who has subscribed the declaration hereon annexed, and sworn to the same, & I state that I believe
him to be upwards of 70 years of age - that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, & that I concur in that opinion-
John Micow

Caroline County State of Virginia
Personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace for the County, the Rev John Micow & made oath that the foregoing certificate contains the truth to the best of his knowledge & belief, & I also certify that the said Micow is a clergyman & that full faith & credit are due to his statements.
Given under my hand this 9th day of December 1833
M. A. Jones J.P.

Virginia,
Caroline County to wit
I, John L Pendleton, Clerk of the Court
of the aforesaid County do hereby certify that M. H. Jones whose name is annexed to the foregoing certificate is and was at the time of signing the same a Justice duly commissioned and qualified according to law. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of the said County this 10th day of December 1833.

John L. Pendleton
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State of Va
Essex County Court 
I, James Roy Micow, Jr. Clerk of the said County
in the State aforesaid, do hereby Certify, that Mr. Pitts whose name is signed to the foregoing declaration of Thomas Coghill, and
before whom the accompanying certificate of Samuel Dishman was sworn to and whose name is signed to his Certificate of such oath
whose name is also signed to the annexed Certificate of James Taylor, and also to his the Mr. Pitts on Certificate immediately following
thereafter, is and was at the time of his signing the same, and doing the said several acts, one of the Commonwealths Justices
in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified as such, according to the laws of the state aforesaid, and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts as such.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and caused the seal of my said
Office to be hereunto affixed this 11th day of
December in the 58th year of December in the 58th Year of the Commonwealth.
James Roy Micow Jr. Clerk
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office,
January 26th, 1839
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Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April 1838 entitled "An
act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Thomas Coghill, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Richmond, Va Agency, at the rate of
Fifty Dollars and -----Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th of June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Set., 1837, to the 4th of March 1838.

Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.



To the Commissioner of Pensions
Present.
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The California Society of the
Sons of the American Revolution

Officers
WESLEY G. CANNON, President
ORRA E. MONNETTE, Vice-President
THOMAS A. STETSON, Vice-President
PETHE M. WEDDELL, Vice-President
HERBERT M. LEE, Secretary
JOHN R. McKEE, Treasurer
MAJOR LEON FRENCE, Registrar
F. HOWARD SEELY, Historian
REV. FRANK S. BRUSH, Chaplain
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Office and Library
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TELEPHONE DOUGLAS 0609
530 DE YOUNG BUILDING
July 24th, 1931.
Honorable Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Board of Managers
GEORGE C. BOARDMAN
HUGH T. DYER
FRANKLIN J. SHEEHAN
ALLEN H. WRIGHT
Past State Presidents and active
Chapter Presidents are members of
the Board of Managers ex-officio)
National Trustee
EDWIN E. Cox
Room 49, City Hall
Los Angeles
The name of Thomas Coghill is carried on the
Pension Roll of 1834 as a Revolutionary Pensioner,
then living in Essex County, Virginia.
I shall greatly appreciate it if you will be
enough to furnish me with an abstract of the information disclosed by his application for pension, particular with regard to any genealogical facts concerning his wife, children, and grandchildren that may appear therein.

Very truly yours,
Leon French
LEON FRENCH, Registrar.

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