Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2289, Levi Coon, New Jersey
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Service
New Jersey
Number
R 2289

Coon, Levi
Coon, Margaret
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N. Jersey
Margaret Coon
lett. to J. A. Hartwell 6.July 1839

2289

Act July 1836
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4383
NJ
Margt Coon
Act 1836

TRENTON, NJ

FEB 27

T. A. Hartwell, Somerville, N. Jersey



J.L. Edwards 

Washington
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2289
Margaret Coon

Application REJECTED
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4383
Application of 
Margaret Coon of 
Somerset County, 
New Jersey for 
a pension

Married Sept. or Oct. 1778
H died 7 Aug. 1826

The Dept. will send to 
Tho A Hartwell
Somerville, N.J.
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the nine sentries of the act of Congress of the 4th July 1836

State of New Jersey, Somerset County on this Nineteenth day of January 1839 personally appeared before me Wm. D. Stewart one of the Judges of the Court of Common please in + for said County Margaret Coon aged Seventy nine Years (being too infirm to appear in open Court) who being by me first duly sworn doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the act of Congress passed on July 4, 1836. 

That she is the widow of Levi Coon who was a Private (+ she believes was also Seargeant) in the Revolutionary War. That he entered said service on she believes in 1776 or 1777 and served five months in a Company commanded by Captain Bailey and then by Jeremiah Dunn -- She also believes that her said husband served several tours of duty besides said five months.  That she was married to Mr. said Levi Coon in September or October 1778. by Mr. Revd Wm Sutton a Baptist minister, in __ County of Somerset.  Then her said husband Levi Coon died on the 7th of August 1826 + that she has remained a widow ever since.  That she has no documentary evidence of her ___ husband's Services or of her marriage:  That she has no knowledge of her fathers family bible in which she supposes her marriage was entered.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year of above before me.
[signature]    Margaret Coon her mark

 [signature] Wm D Steward  Judge + Justice
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State of New Jersey
Somerset County,
Personally appeared before me the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for said County Nathan Coon who being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith that Levi Coon was his brother and that he was present and saw his brother the said Levi and Margaret Compton married by the Rev. Abner Sutton in September
of October in the year 1778 at the residence of the said Rev. Abner Sutton. That his brother the said Levi Coon died on the 7th of August 1821, and that his widow the said Margret has not 
since that time been married but remains a
widow and further saith not
sworn to and subscribed before
me the 28th day of December 1838
Nicholas C. Jobs
Justice of the peace

Nathan Coon

I do hereby certify that the above named deponent
Nathan Coon is a man of reputed veracity that I am personally acquainted with him and believe him fully competent to take an oath and
that his Oath is in my opinion entitled to full credit
N. C. Jobs Justice of the peace
Dec. 28, 1838
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New Jersey,
Somerset County. 
Personally appeared before me the subscribed
a justice of the peace in and for said County Isaac Smalley who being duly sworn according to law on his oath deposeth and saith that he is now in his eighty third year, has always resided in the said County, was acquainted with Levi Coon from his infancy. That on or about the fifteenth of June 1776 or 1777 said Coon and deponent enlisted for the term of five months
in the company commanded by Captain Platt Bailey by who afterwardly (deponent believes) was promoted and then the company was commanded by Jeremiah Dunn whether said Dunn was a captain or Lieutenant he does not know. Said Coon was in the battle on
Long Island and again in another battle on White Plains and served the whole five months for which he enlisted and further this deponent saith not.
Sworn to and subscribed before me
the 28th day of December 1838

Nicholas C. Jobs Justice Law
Isaac Smalley his mark X

Witness present
N.C. Jobs
W. A. Carrington
I certify that I am personally acquainted with Isaac Smalley the above named deponent that he is a man of veracity & good character and in possession of his mental facilities
His eyesight in a great measure being lost he cannot see to write but otherwise fully competent to make a deposition
N.C. John Justice Peace
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State of New Jersey
Sommerset County
I John M. Mann Clerk of the Court
of Commons of said County of Sommerset, 
do hereby certify that William D. Stewart, before whom the foregoing declaration was made, was at the time thereof or of the order of
the Court of Common Pleas of said
County duly qualified & that Nicholas Jobs, before whom the foregoing affidavits of Isaac Smally & Nathan Coon were made, was at the times of taking the same one of the Justice of the peace from
in  that said County, duly qualified to act as such
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand & seal of office at Bridgwater

This 25thday of February AD 1839 -
And I further certify the foregoing to be the 
original proceedings of the said Margaret Coon for a pension

J. M. Mann
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Power of Attorney
for examining
Revolutionary papers
case Lewis Coon
son of
Levi Coon
New Jersey

Sep 15 - 1852
Ex 3
J E Hassler
Present
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POWER OF ATTORNEY
For ascertaining whether any increase or arrears of Pension are due the Widow or heirs of Revolutionary Pensioners, &c.

STATE OF New Jersey
COUNTY OF Somerset

Be it known that before me
William Jennings A Justice of the Peace
personally appeared
Lewis Coon aged 70 years, who being duly cautioned and then sworn in due form of law, states that he is the son of Levi Coon
who was a Revolutionary Soldier
in the State of New Jersey
and that he died on the_____day of August 1826 and that his mother, named
Margaret died on the 24th day of February 1844 and that they were
married on the ____day of ______
in the year 1778 and that they were residents of Warren in the State of New Jersey and that they resided there for forty years and that he
resides in Coon Town N.J. and that furthermore he BY THESE
PRESENTS, constitutes, appoints, and fully empowers and authorizes, irrevocably and with powers of
substitution, F. E. HASSLER, of Washington City, D. C., as his true and lawful Attorney for him and in his name and stead, to examine into, to prosecute, to demand, and to receive from the U.S. Government and State officers his rights in all and in any manner of claim for increase or arrears of Pension or Land,
that may be due him as son of Levi Coon
who died leaving the same
undrawn, as in right of law he may be entitled.
In witness whereof he has on this 20th day of August 1852,
hereunto signed his name, and affixed his seal.
Witness:
Daniel Cory        Lewis Coon
Lewis Willit 


Signed, sealed, acknowledged, and sworn to before me; and I further certify, that Lewis Coon has always by the community been known as the son of Levi Coon
Dated on this 20th day of August 1852
Wm Jennings      J.P.

State of New Jersey
COUNTY of Somerset
to wit:
hereby certify, That William Jennings Esq.,
before whom the foregoing affidavits and acknowledgment were made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned
and sworn, and that his signative above written is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of Somerset 
County Court, this twenty first day of August one thousand eight hundred and fifty two
Henry D. Johnson Clerk
If a widow applies, state the date of marriage, and the date of death of her husband."
State under what act pensioned, or when pension commenced, if a pensioner and amount of pension.