Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20,910, William Cogswell, Continental (N.H.)
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SERVICE                                              NUMBER 
Continental (N.H.) Cogswell, William W. 20.910
                                          Judith            B.L. Wt 1273.-300
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New Hampshire Portsmouth
Judith Cogswell
widow of William Cogswell
WH
who served in the Revolutionary war, 
as a Hospital Surgeons Mate

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
600 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the
10th day of June 1848
and sent to
Joseph B. Cogswell
Atkinson
Rockingham Co. N.H.

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 63, Vol. 1


1890 Dec11
Reported
Hon Wm Coggswell [history] [    ]
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'---
No. of original payment 872
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
1174
29 January 1829
William Cogswell of Atkinson in the County of
Rockingham in the State of New Hampshire 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 Surgeons Mate in the Hospital 
[crossed out: line; and that he received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the
solve 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 A Dickins

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
2nd February 1829
[crossed out: It appears by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for -
the commutation of five years full pay to -
the - in - line, amounting to - dollars.]
It further appears that William Cogswell is not now on the pension list of any agency, and has not been since the 3d March 1826 [crossed out: at the rate of - per month.]
William Cogswell was returned, as being entitled to land, as mate of the General Hospital.
Peter Hogmer [Amy]
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Received 26 Jan 1829                  1474
for the purpose of obtaining the Benefit of an act entitled an act
for the relief of certain Surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army
of the Revolution approved on the 15th day of May 1818-
I William Cogswell of Atkinson in the County of Rockingham
and State of New Hampshire, do hereby declare that I was
Appointed a [supernumary] Surgeons mate in the Military
Hospital of the United States of America, on the nineteenth day
of July one thousand seven hundred and Eighty one and continued
as such untill January first one thousand Seven hundred and
Eighty two, at which time I was appointed a Surgeons Mate
in the said Military Hospital of the United States of America
and continued as such untill January the first, One thousand
seven hundred and Eighty four, when I received a special
Order or Warrant of the then Commanding General, Henery
Knox to take charge of the [remaining] Hospital for the
Garrison of West Point and continued with the charge
of it untill September one thousand, seven hundred and
Eighty five, then with leave retired from service.closing
at West Point, as he presumes, the last remaining Hospital of the
War of the Revolution - Witness my hand this nineteenth
day of January in the year One thousand Eight hundred
and twenty-nine
William Cogswell
Before me Benjamin George a Justice of the peace in
the County of Rockingham in the State of New Hampshire
Personally appeared this day Samuel N. Little and
Nathaniel Clark of the said County who did severally
make oath that William Cogswell, Esqr by whom the
foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reputed
and believed to have been an officer in the army of the
Revolution in manner therein stated.
Witness my hand this Nineteenth day of January
in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine
Benjamin George Justice of the Peace
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham ss}
I Nathaniel Adams Clerk of the Superior
Court of Judicature for the County of Rockingham in the State of New Hampshire do hereby
certify that Benjamin George Esquire before
whom the within affidavits were sworn was
at the time a Justice of the Peace for the County
of Rockingham aforesaid and was duly empowered to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof I have here
unto set my hand and affixed the seal
of said Court this nineteenth day of
January in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred & twenty-nine
Nathl. Adams
[seal]

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The following is an extract from the Records of Gilmanton

Doctor William Cogswell of Atkinson and Judith Badger
of Gilmanton were joined together in Marriage July
twenty second one thousand seven hundred and
eighty-six " Pr Revd Isaac Smith

I hereby certify that the above extract is a true
Copy of the record with the exception of the date
which is expressed on the Record in fair legible
figures as follows 
"July 22d 1786"
Josiah Parsons Town Clerk
I Josiah Parsons depose and say that I hold the
office of Clerk in the town of Gilmanton, County
of Strafford and State of New Hampshire and
that the above is a true extract from the records of said
town with the exception above named as certified
by me
Josiah Parsons
Town Clerk
of Gilmanton
State of New Hampshire Strafford ss. August 7th 1838
Then personally appeared Josiah Parsons and made 
affirmation that the above certificate by him signed
is true-
Before me
Thomas Cogswell, Jus. Peace



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executed is now and was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid and that his signature is genuine. 
[court seal] Given under my hand and seal of office this seventeenth day of April 1844. 
/s/I. B. Hoitt Clerk 

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Judith Cogswell
NH
Increase
Enter'd 1. Jany 82 - Hospital Surgeon's mate - 
To 3 Sept. 83. 20 mo. 3 ds
adm'd $502.50 Hosp'l Surgs Mate
Issue certificates under both acts and deduct what has been paid under each 
F. A. Dickens Present
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Declaration. In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832. 
State of New Hampshire
County of Rockingham}ss. On this fifteenth day of April in the year eighteen hundred and forty four personally appeared Judith Coggswell of Atkinson in the county and state aforesaid, of lawful age, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832. That she is the widow of the late William Cogswell a Surgeons Mate in the Hospital during the latter part of the War of the Revolution. For evidence that she is the widow, she refers to the documents filed in support of her claim to a pension under the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838
They also show that her said husband died on the first day of January in the year 1831. She also refers to the particulars of his service to those papers and also to his own papers upon which he received a pension under the act of Congress of the 15th May 1828. 
/s/Judith Cogswell
Subscribed and sworn to this 15th day of April
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in the year eighteen hundred and forty four, before me one of the Justices of the peace in and for the county aforesaid.
/s/Greenleaf Clarke Jus. Peace
State of New Hampshire
County of Rockingham} ss. I I. B. Hoitt clerk of the county court of the County and state aforesaid, do hereby certify that Greenleaf Clarke before whom the foregoing declaration was executed is now and was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid and that his signature is genuine. 
[court seal] Given under my hand and seal of office this seventeenth day of April 1844. 
/s/I. B. Hoitt Clerk
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216
Widow Judith Cogswell 
Declaration 
N.H. 
Act 7 July 38
5 years
married in '87
adm'd 
2 years Surgeon's Mate
480$
no deduction 
Francis Coggswell
Guilford N.H.
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Declaration 
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled, "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows. 
State of New Hampshire
County of Strafford ss - 
On this eighth day of August A.D. 1838, personally appeared before the Justice of the Court of Common Pleas in Session at Gilford in and for said County Judith Cogswell, now a resident of Gilmanton in the County of Strafford aforesaid aged seventy two years, who, being first duly sworn according to Law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows"
That she is the Widow of Doctor William Cogswell, who, according to the best of her information and belief, was a "Surgeon's Mate in the Military Hospitals of the United States of America" - That he entered the Service on the nineteenth day of July one thousand seven hundred and eighty one and served in the capacity of Surgeon's Mate until reduced at the close of the War - all which will appear by the two Warrants signed by John Cochran - one dated 19 July 1781, the other dated 1 January 1782 and said Cochran's certificates on said Warrants. 
That her Husband's services as Mate as aforesaid were at West Point - 
That her said Husband was born at Haverhill in the State of Massachusetts but that at the time of the Revolution his Parents lived
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in Atkinson in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire at which last place he lived from the time he left the service until his death - 
That her said Husband was a Pensioner under the act of 1828 and continued such until his death - and she would refer to his declaration for a more particular account of his Revolutionary Services - 
She further declares that she was married to the said Doctor William Cogswell at said Gilmanton by the Rev. Isaac Smith then the Congregational Minister in that town on the twenty second day of July seventeen hundred and eighty six - That her Husband the aforesaid William Cogswell died at said Atkinson on the first day of January 1831.
That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the Service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at the time above stated. That her maiden name was Judith Badger and that she was never married at any time nor to any other person than as above stated. 
/s/Judith Cogswell
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before the Court aforesaid - 
Attest /s/Francis Cogswell, Clerk
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State of New Hampshire
Strafford County ss 
I Francis Cogswell Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings before the said Court in the matter of the application of Judith Cogswell for a Pension - 
[court seal] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court this eighty day of August A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty eight
Attest /s/F. Cogswell, Clerk
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Cogswell, William
His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of New Hampshire, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on December 31, 1794, and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 139. 
Rank: Surgeon's mate in the military hospital 
Disability: Received a fall in walking to the hospital, which has rendered him lame ever since.
When and where disabled. 1783. New Meriden. 
Residence: Atkinson
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To William Cogswell Gent. 
By order of the power and Authority to me given by an Act of Congress bearing date the 30th day of of September 1780 You are hereby Appointed Surgeons Mate, in the Military Hospitals of the United States of America, you are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of Surgeons Mate aforesaid by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging, and you to obey all such orders as you shall receive from time to time from the Commander in chief or any your Superior Officers, agreeable to the Rules and discipline of War
Given under my hand at Newburgh this 1st day of January 1782 - 
/s/John Cochran Director of y'e Military Hospitals
[stamp: THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES]
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William Cogswell
W. 20916
Continental (N.H.)
[receipt stamp: THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES] 
2
Warrant to Wm. Cogswell By John Cochran Director General of the Military Hospitals of the United States
1782.
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I certify that Doctor William Cogswell has served in the General Hospital of the United States of America in the capacity of a Mate agreeable to the annexed Warrant, until reduced at the End of the War, during which time, he discharged his Duty with great faithfulness, Diligence & uncommon assiduity, by which means, he has improved so much in medical skill & has given universal satisfaction to those Gentlemen of the Department under whom he has served 
/s/John Cochran 
Director Mil'y Hospitals 
[stamp: THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES]
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Oath of Allegiance 
1781
United States
William Cogswell, 
W. 20,910
Continental (N.H.) 
[stamp: THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES]
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William Cogswell do acknowledge the United States of America to be free, independent of Sovereign States, and declare that the People thereof owe no allegiance to George the third, King of Great Briton, and I renounce refuse & abjure any allegiance or obedience to him, and I do swear that I will to the utmost of my power support maintain and defend the said United States against the said King George the third, his heirs and successors and his and their abettors, assistants and Adherents, and will serve the United States in the office of Mate in the General Hospital which I now hold with fidelity according to the best of my skill and understanding. So help me God. 
/s/Wm. Cogswell
Sworn before me this 24th Augt 1781
/s/Alexand'r Dougall S. General}
[receipt stamp: THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES]
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Revy WIDOW, &c. 
File No. 20910
Judith Cogswell
wid of William Cogswell
Surg't Rev. War
Act: Feb. 28/48
Index: Vol. A, Page 481
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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G.O. respecting y'r Arrang't of the Hosp'l 
William Cogswell 
Cont. (N.H.) W. 20910
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Garrison Orders 1st January 1784 - 
Upon the new arrangement of the Hospital Department which takes place this Day - Dr. Cogswell is to have the Direction of the Hospital at this post - He is to be respected & obeyed accordingly - 
/s/Tim'o Doughty 
Fort Major
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Pearson Cogswell
ans'd July 25th 1845
1293
300 acres
William Gordon Esqr
Bounty Land Office
Washington D.C. 
Rec'd July 24 - 1845
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[handwritten letter]
Washington D.C. July 24th 1845

William Gordon Esqr - 
Sir, 
Will you have the goodness to inform me by letter through the Post Office in this City if ever Doctr. William Cogswell a ['Hospiple' crossed out] Hospitle Surgeon in the Revolutionary War ever received his Bounty Land or has his heirs ever Received it, the said Doctr. Cogswell lived & Died in the State of New Hampshire in the County of Rockingham ['County' crossed out] Town of Atkinson Died January 1st 1831 - in complying with this request you will much oblige a Son of a Revolutionary Officer
Very Respectfully
/s/Pearson Cogswell
[margin notes: July 25th. 45. Informed Mr. P. Cogswell, that Warrant No. 1273 for 300. acres issued the 13th March 1828 to William Cogswell, who was a Surgeons Mate in the Mass'tts Line - ]
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Free
Hon'ble David Barker Jun'r
Member of Congress
Washington
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[handwritten letter]
Atkinson February 5th 1828

Sir
I have Taken the liberty to constitute and appoint you my Attorney and have enclosed the same in reference to my Claim for Bounty Lands and Trust from which has past your Attention will be directed to the closing of the same I think nothing will be demanded at the war office more than what I have stated in my declaration, with respect to my being Attached to the line of Massachusetts I did [illegible] of any such Calculation with respect to the Hospital Department therefore hath not sworn to that part but have stated really what I were, it is True that chief on the whole of the Massachusetts Line was in or near the Vicinity of the General Hospital in which I belonged and ['at the [illegible] of which' crossed out] Doctor William Custis of Boston As Surgeon had the charge of it untill ['the' crossed out] an arrangement of the Hospital Department took place Jan'y 1st 1784 at which time he left the Service and myself came to the charge of Hospital as may be seen by the Enclosed Garrison Order of the s'd date
I have no further Evidence to shew at this late period of my claim then which you have been made acquainted with therefore I trust you will attempt to review in my Name all that may appear to be due as soon as you shall have attended to the business place to make the result known to me & if any further explanation is required I will make it is possible I dear Sir with sentiment, of great respect you Most obed't 
/s/William Cogswell
Hon'ble David Barker Jun'r
NB if a Warrant shall Issue I would wish you to state me if Convenient the Value of the property and wether the land could be ['should' crossed out] sold if wished at Washington ['and' crossed out]
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New Hampshire 168
Judith Cogswell, widow of William Cogswell, who was a pensioner under the Act of 15 May 1828. and who died on the 1st January 1831. of Strafford in the State of N.H. who was a Surg'ns Mate in the [blank] commanded by Captain [blank] of the [blank] commanded by [blank] in the N.H. line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Portsmouth at the rate of 480 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of Sept. 1838, and sent to Francis Cogswell, Guilford, N.H. 
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. $1200.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4th Mar. 240.00
$1440.00
{Act July 7, 1838.}
Recorded by R. Burdine Clerk, 
Book A. Vol. 1. Page 37.
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I Stephen Moody of Gilmanton in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire aged more than seventy years depose and say that I moved into said Gilmanton ['aforesaid' crossed out] in the year seventeen hundred ninety three and have lived there ever since. When I moved into said Gilmanton Rev. Isaac Smith was and for some years previous had been the Congregational Minister of said Gilmanton and so continued until about the year 1815. Soon after I moved into said Gilmanton I became acquainted with the Family of General Joseph Badger of said Gilmanton. From about that time until the present I have occasionally seen and am acquainted with Widow Judith Cogswell. 
She was reputed to have been the daughter of said General Badger and from my earliest knowledge of the Family said Widow Judith Cogswell was reputed to be the wife of Doctor William Cogswell of Atkinson in said State and so continued until his death about seven years since - Said Doctor William Cogswell was reputed to have been a Surgeon's Mate in the Hospital Department in the Revolution. 
Since her husband's death I have well known said Widow Judith Cogswell and am satisfied that she has never been married since said Doctor William Cogswell's Death. 
I also depose and say that I have this day seen said Widow Judith Cogswell in Court in order to make her declaration and know her to be the same person who was reputed wife of said Doctor William Cogswell - 
I have also this day seen a certificate signed by Josiah Parsons, Town Clerk of said Gilmanton and sworn to before Thomas Cogswell 7th August 1838. Said Parsons has been for a number of years Clerk of said Gilmanton and is a man of truth and veracity - I have also this day seen a certificate signed by Lewis W. Gilman and sworn
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to before Thomas Cogswell a Justice of the Peace 6th Augt 1838 - Said Lewis W. Gilman is a man of truth and veracity - 
I have not doubt that the said Widow Judith Cogswell is the same person who is mentioned under the name of Judith Badger in said certificates. 
/s/Step'n Moody
State of New Hampshire
Strafford ss - 
On this eighth day of August 1838 the above named Stephen Moody Esquire, who is a man of truth, & veracity personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed - 
Before me - /s/W. C. Clarke Justice of the Peace
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State of New Hampshire
Strafford County ss
I Francis Cogswell, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County hereby certify that William C. Clarke and Thomas Cogswell, Esquires, are Justices of the Peace for said County and that the the signatures to the affidavits of Stephen Mood, Lewis W. Gilman & Josiah Parsons purporting to be theirs are genuine. 
[court seal] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this eighth day of August A.D. 1838 - 
/s/F. Cogswell, Clerk
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[addressed envelope]
[margin notes: Apl 27, 48
act 2 Feb 48 Cole
1506 N.H]
Atkinson N.H.
April 22. ['free' crossed out]
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City.
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[handwritten letter]
Atkinson N.H. Rockingham County 
April 20th/48

Hon J. L. Edwards
Sir. I enclose my mother's Declaration, and wish you to return a Certificate to me. 
Yours respectfully
/s/Joseph B. Cogswell.
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1506.
New Hampshire Ports.
Judith Cogswell widow of William Cogswell who was a Surgeon's Mate in the N.H. line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 480 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 22nd day of August, 1843 and sent to Francis Cogswell Andover Mass'ts
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1. Page 15. 

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Rep Aug't 22
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68
New Hampshire
Judith Cogswell widow of William Cogswell who was a pensioner under the Act of 1828 and who died on the 1 Jany 1831 of Strafford in the State of NH who was a Hos. Sur. M. in the Co. commanded by Captain [blank] of the [blank] commanded by [blank] in the NH line for 20 mo 3 ds
Inscribed on the Roll of Portsmouth at the rate of 502 Dollars 50 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. Increased from $480.00 per ann
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of Aug 1844 and sent to F. A. Dickens. Present. 
Total amount, $[blank]
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by F. L. Swann Clerk,
Book D Vol. 1 Page 27
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2 Certs: for Increase. 
1838
1843} rep'd letter. 14 Aug't '44

[recto]
1506
N. Hampshire
Portsmouth
Judith Cogswell widow of William Cogswell who was a Hosp'l Surgeon's Mate in the NH Line 
Incr'd from $480: pr ann'm.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 503 Dollars 50 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of Aug 1844 and sent to F. A. Dickins, Present. 
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 Page 272
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[verso]
1506
Portsmouth, N. Hampshire
Judith Cogswell widow of William Cogswell who was a Hospital Surgeon's Mate in the Revolution
Increased from $502.50
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 600 Dollars ['blank ['Cents' crossed out]]per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 30. day of August 1844 and sent to sent to F. A. Dickins Present
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A. Vol. 1. Page 272

[recto]
Rep'd see letter
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Declaration - 
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of 2d February 1848, entitled "An act making further provision for surviving widows and soldiers of the Revolution - 
State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County ss. 
On this fourteenth day of April A.D. 1848, personally appeared before the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, Judith Cogswell, a resident of Atkinson in the said County of Rockingham Aged Eighty one years, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the act of Congress, passed on the 2d day of February 1848, granting Pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war; That she is the widow of William Cogswell, who was a Hospital Surgeon at West Point, and that the annual amount of the Pension which she received under the act of 17th June 1844 was Six hundred Dollars.
She further declares that she is still a widow - 
/s/Judith Cogswell 
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written.
Before me /s/Greenleaf Clarke Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that the above named Judith Cogswell is personally known to me and I believe her declaration is correct
/s/Greenleaf Clarke Justice of the Peace
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham ss I, Ira B. Hoitt Clerk of the Judicial Courts within and for said County hereby certify that Greenleaf Clarke Esq who has subscribed his name to the within certificate is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified; and that the signatures aforesaid purporting to be his are in his own proper hand writing and genuine - 
[court seal] In Testimony Whereof I have hereto subscribed my named and affixed the Seal of our Court of Common Pleas this seventeenth day of April Anno Domini 1848
/s/I. B. Hoitt Clerk
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Surgeon Wm. Cogswell - Surgeon's mate
He applied for pension in Jany 1829 then residing in Atkinson Rockingham County NH born in Haverhill (Essex Co) Mass but in Revy war his parents in Atkinson NH
Mar at Gilmanton July 22, 1786 to Judith daughter Gen. Joseph Badger
He died at Atkinson Jany 1, 1831 ['to Judith' crossed out]
Widow in Aug't 1838 of Gilmanton Strafford Co. NH aged 72 years In Atkinson living in April 1844 also in 1848-1843
Francis Cogswell in 1838 Clerk of Court Court of Comm Pleas Strafford County 
A son of the name was living in Dover Strafford co & in 1843 in Andover Mass
a son Francis of Dover NH of Andover 1842
A letter dated Atkinson NH April 20 1848 signed by Joseph B. Cogswell is in file 
He was appointed Supernumerary Surgeon's Mate in the Military Hospital by Surgeon John Cochran, Director of Military Hospitals bearing date at Camp near Dobbs Ferry July 19, 1781 and by the same director under date at Newburg Jany 1, 1782 he was made Surgeon's Mate, & continued to serve in the General Hospital until Jany 1 1784 when by the special order of the Commanding Gen'l Henry Knox he took charge of the remaining hospital for the garrison at West Point & continued until Sept 1785 when he retired from the Service Closing at that place as he presumes the last remaining hospital of the war of the Revolution
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[handwritten letter]
Hon James L. Edwards
I am requested to send to you the inclosed papers, by the applicant, who is my mother, in order to obtain a Pension.
It will appear by the Warrants of John Cochran and his certificates thereon that my father was in the Service more than two years before the war closed as a Surgeon's Mate. 
He in his declaration no doubt states the amount of his services - He in fact was in the service until Sept 1785 at West Point. 
I inclose the original Warrants & oath and request, if consistent, that they should be returned to me, after the Department have examined them - They were sent on when my Father was placed on the Pension list. 
I have understood, and presume that it would have been altogether unnecessary for me to sent them again - 
When you have decided on the case My Mother wishes that you would communicate the result & be directed to Dover, N.H. where I live - 
I believe I have sent all the papers necessary to establish my Mother's claim to a full Pension
Very Respectfully yr Obt Ser't
/s/Francis Cogswell
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WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Widow's Pension. 
I certify that in conformity with the act of July 7, 1838, Judith Cogswell widow of William Cogswell who was a Hospital Surgeon's mate and died on the 1st day of January 1831 is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of five hundred and two dollars and fifty cents per annum, commencing on the 4" March 1836 and terminating on the 4th of March, 1841, unless the Pensioner married or died before the above mentioned date; in which case the pension is not payable after the time of such marriage or death. Increased from $480. per ann. payments at the rate to be deducted. 
[seal] Given at the War Office of the United States, this 14th day of August one thousand eight hundred [illegible - damaged paper]
Examined and Countersigned} 
/s/J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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F. A. Dickins Esqr
Aug 26 1844
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In a return of the Officers, &c. in the Gen'l Hospital of the U.S. exclusive of Georgia, South & North Carolina, July 23d 1781, signed by John Cochran, Director Mily. Hospital, the name of William Cogswell appears as an "Additional Mate", at $50 per month, & one ration a day. - which return is on file among the archives of the Dept. of State.
/s/J. W. Dickins
Dept. of State, Aug't 26th '44.
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Coggswell - William Coggswell (Cogswell)
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[handwritten letter]
Atkinson N.H. 
April 1844

Sir, 
I have understood that under the act of Congress of the 7th June 1832 my late husband was entitled to a higher rate of pension than he received under the act of 15th May 1828. I herewith send you my application for the same, & being informed that that I am myself entitled to a higher rate than I received under the acts of 1838 and 1843 I have to request you to be so good as to sent me a certificate for any increase that I may be entitled to. Mr. Francis A. Dickins is my agent & will communicate with you upon the subject.
Yours very respectfully
/s/Judith Cogswell
James L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions.
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[handwritten letter]
Washington 23d April 1844. 

Sir, 
Enclosed I have the honour to present to you the application of Mrs. Judith Cogswell, widow of Dr. William Cogswell for an increase of pension on account of her late husband, under the act of 7 June 1832. (he having been a pensioner under act 15 May 1828) and for an increase on her own account under the acts of 1838 & 1843. Dr. Cogswell was a Hospital Surgeon's Mate and received pay, under the resolve of 30th Sept 1780 at the rate of fifty dollars per month the pension allowed was only forty dollars per month. 
Yours very respectfully 
/s/Francis A. Dickins.
James L. Edwards Esq.
Com'r of Pensions.
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[handwritten letter]
Andover Mass. May 29, 1843. 

Hon. J. L. Edwards, 
Dr Sir, 
Inclosed is the Declaration of my Mother, Mrs. Judith Cogswell, in order to obtain the benefit of the late act of Congress. 
Will you please communicate the result to me and Much oblige
Yours &c
/s/Francis Cogswell
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War Department. 
Widow's Pension.
I certify that in conformity with the act of March 3, 1843, Judith Cogswell, widow of William Cogswell, who was a Hospital Surgeons mate and died on the 1 day of January 1831 is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Five hundred and two dollars and fifty cents per annum, commencing on the 4th March, 1843, and terminating on the 4th of March, 1844, unless the Pensioner shall marry or die before the last mentioned date; in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage or death. 
Increased from $480: pr ann. former frag'ts at that rate to be deducted. 
[seal] Given at the War Office of the United States, this 14" day of August. one thousand eight hundred and forty four
/s/Wm. Wilk[illegible - damaged paper]
Examined and Countersigned. 
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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[verso]
168
New Hampshire
Judith Cogswell widow of William Cogswell who was a pensioner under the Act of 1828 and who died on the 1st Jany. 1831 of Strafford Co. in the State of N.H. who was a Hospital Surgeon's Mate in the [blank] commanded by Captain [blank] of the [blank] commanded by [blank] in the N.H. line for 2 years 
Inscribed on the Roll of Portsmouth at the rate of 600 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. Increased from $502.50.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30th day of August 1844 and sent to F. A. Dickins Present
Total amount, $[blank]
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, 
Book D. Vol. 1, Page 27. 

[recto]
Rep'd see letter
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Declaration, 
In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 3d March, 1843. granting Pensions for one year to certain widows who have received Pensions under the act of July 7, 1838. 
State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County ss. 
On this twenty fourth day of May A.D. 1843. personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace within and for said County of Rockingham Judith Cogswell a resident of Atkinson in the County of Rockingham duly sworn, according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3d March, 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war.
That she is the widow of William Cogswell who was a Surgeon's Mate or Hospital Surgeon in the Revolution stationed at West Point, and that she received, under the act of July 7, 1838, an annual pension of Four Hundred and Eighty dollars. 
She further declares that she is still a widow - 
/s/Judith Cogswell
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written - 
Before me - /s/Greenleaf Clarke Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that the above named Judith Cogswell is personally known to me and that I believe her statement to be correct. 
/s/Greenleaf Clarke, Justice of the Peace
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham ss In Ira B. Hoitt Clerk of the Judicial Courts in and for said County certify, that Greenleaf Clarke Esq who has subscribed his name to the within certificates is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission is dated the fourteenth day of December AD 1840, and will expire on the fourteenth day of December AD 1845; and the signatures within are in his own hand writing and genuine - 
[court seal] In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of our Superior Court of Judicature this twenty sixth day of May Anno Domini 1843. 
/s/I. B. Hoitt Clerk
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O W Wid
#20.910
Allowed Act 1828
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an appointment of Surgeon's Mate in the Military Hospital dated 1 Jany 1782
Signed John Cochran 
Director.
An order from Gen'l Knox. 1 Jany 1784
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The following is an extract from the Church records ['of the' crossed out] of the first Congregational church in Gilmanton kept by the Rev. Isaac Smith Pastor of said Church at the time the record was made - 
"Doctor William Cogswell of Atkinson and Judith Badger of Gilmanton were married July twenty second one thousand seven hundred and eighty six"
I hereby certify that this extract is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows July 22 1786
I Lewis W. Gilman depose and say: that I hold the office of Clerk in the first Congregational Church in the town of Gilmanton County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Church with the exception above named as certified by me
/s/Lewis W. Gilman Clerk of the first Congregational church in Gilmanton
State of New Hampshire Strafford ss August 6th 1838
Then personally appeared Lewis W. Gilman and made oath that the above certificate by him signed is true
Before me /s/Thomas Cogswell, Jus. Peace
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No. 1273
Wm. Cogswell
Hospital Sur: Mate
Mass'tts
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State of New Hampshire & County of Rockingham} Atkinson February 29th 1828 - 
I William Cogswell aged sixty seven years on the Eleventh day of July last past, do upon Oath Testify and declare, that in the year one thousand seven hundred and Eighty one, on the Nineteenth day of July was appointed a Supernumerary Mate in the Military Hospital of the United States of America, and on the first day of January one thousand seven hundred and Eighty two was Appointed a Surgeon's Mate in the said Military Hospital of the United States and continued in the Service untill January 1st 1784 when I received a Special order from the then Commander General Henry Knox to take the Charge of the ['Hospital Remaining' crossed out] Remaining Hospital for the Garrison of West Point and Continued with the charge of it untill September 1785 and then by order of then then Secretary of War, I Closed, I presume, the last Military Hospital of the Revolutionary War, and with leave I retired from Service - 
I further declare that I have never received a Warrant for the Bounty Land promised to me on the part of the United States, nor have I ever assigned or transfered my Claim in any Manner whatsoever. Therefore, Know all Men by these presents, that William Cogswell of Atkinson aforesaid do hereby Constitute and appoint David Barker Jun Esquire to be my True and lawfull Attorney for me and in my Name to demand and Receive from the Secretary of War of the United States a Warrant for the Quantity of Land due me as aforesaid 
/s/William Cogswell
Attest /s/Benjamin George
I Samuel N. Little Aged Sixty Eight years, do upon Oath, declare that I have been long acquainted with William Cogswell who has subscribed the above declaration in any presence, and well know that he is the Identical person he therein represents himself to be, and further, I know or do Believe that he did perform the Military Service therein stated 
/s/Samuel N. Little
Attest /s/Benjamin George
Before me Benjamin George, of Plaistow in said County of Rockingham Personally appeared the above named William Cogswell Subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the Power of Attorney thereto adjoined, to be his free act and Deed, and likewise Personally appeared Samuel N. Little who hath subscribed the above Certificate of Identity, both to me well known to be men of respectability and Truth and made solemn Oath to the Truth of the Depositions by them respectively subscribed this twenty ninth day of February 1828 - 
/s/Benjamin George Justice of the Peace
In Testimony that the above Benjamin George was a Magistrate authorized to administer Oaths and Take acknowledgements &c in the State of New Hampshire in the aforesaid County of Rockingham, at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the Said County Seal and subscribed my name and Quality at Exeter the 3rd day of March Anno Domini 1828
[county seal] /s/P. Chadwick Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Rockingham in the State of New Hampshire
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To William Cogswell Gentleman
Sir
By virtue of the power and authority to me granted by an act of Congress bearing date the thirtieth day of September one thousand seven hundred and eighty; You are hereby appointed supernumerary Mate in the military Hospital of the United States of America - You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of Mate aforesaid by performing all manner of things thereunto belonging and you are to obey all such orders as you shall receive from time to time from the commander in chief or any other your superior officer agreeable to the rules and discipline of war - 
Given under my hand at Camp near Dobb's Ferry this nineteenth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty one
/s/John Cochran 
Director Mil'y Hosp'l
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Supernumerary Warrant to Wm. Cogswell by John Cochran Director General 1781
I do certify that Doctor William Cogswell in the general Hospital of the United States of America in the Capacity of an additional mate, from the 19th of July 1781 [illegible] day of December following at the pay of 50. Dollars per month 
/s/John Cochran 
Director Mil'y Hospitals
Newburgh June 4th: 1783}
William Cogswell, 
No. 20,910
Continental (N.H.)