Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22843, Nicholas Cobia, S.C.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE  S.C.
Cobia, Nicholas
Ann
W.22843
Born in SC
CONTENTS
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30145
South Carolina
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Nicholas Cobia
of Charleston in the State South  Carolina 
who was a private of in the compy commanded
by Captain  Livingston of the regt commanded
by Col Simons in the South Carolina 
line for fourteen months

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Inscribed on the Roll of South Carolina 
at the rate of 46 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, 
to commence on the fourth day of March, 1831. 
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Certificate of Pension issued the  1st day of Sept, 1835, and sent to 
James Jewrey  Charleston
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1835            $186.64
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept       23.33   
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                                                                           $209.97

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832. }

Recorded by Danl Boyd Clerk,
Book E Vol. 6 Page 66

Order to pay. 30 Jany 1838.
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Reported July 12, 1839
No 2706
South Carolina
Ann Cobid
widow of Nicholas Cobia Decd 
who died on the 29th October 1838
of Charleston in the State of South Carolina who was a private in the compy commanded by Captain Livingston of the Regt commanded by Col Simons in the South Carolina line for 14 months
X on roll act 7 June 1832
Inscribed on the roll of South Carolina at the rate of 46 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 30th October 1838
Certificate of Pension issued the 29th day of June  1839 and sent to P Cantwell, Charleston So Ca
Arrears to the 4th Mar 1839 $16.15
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept 23.33
$39.48
{Revolutionary Claim
Act July 4 1836
Section the }
Recorded by Wm [illegible] clerk
Book A Page 173
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The United States of America
State of South Carolina
Charleston District } Ss On this twentieth day of June in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty five personally appeared before me Eli Lee Dist V Judge for S Carolina
Nicholas Cobia a resident of the City of Charleston in the district of Charleston & State of South Carolina aforesaid aged seventy five 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 provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 That he was born in the city of Charleston aforesaid on the 8th day of December 1759 to the best of his knowledge & belief that he has no record of his age that he was living in Charleston aforesaid when he went into service & has resided there ever since & still resides there that he attached himself to and acted with the German Fusilier Company as a volunteer private & in that capacity did duty therein during the war of the Revolution that he served as aforesaid in the said corps and did actual service therein 
1.15 for the space of one month & a half in the city of Charleston aforesaid while the battle of Fort Moultrie was pending for the space 
1.15 of one month & a half in the expedition to Beaufort under General Moultri & Capt Livingston in the spring of 1779 and for the 
2- space of two months at the siege & battle of Savannah under the same captain & col M Simons for the space of more than 
5 five months from December to May in Charleston under Capt Strobel when General Lincoln was in command and for the space of 
4 four months with Gen Marion in the expedition 
14 to Black Swamp by order of Gov Mathews and he positively swears that in the different expeditions & tours of duty in which he was engaged he was fourteen months in actual service as a volunteer private in the company aforesaid & for such service he claims a pension and that during the periods when such service was performed which wa always in the field & not in Garrison he was not employed in any civil pursuit that besides the officers above named he recollects Pulaski that he has never received
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a discharge from the service that Col Jacob Tass an officer in the said German Fusilier Company during the War of the Revolution now living in Charleston & receiving a pension from the United States under the act of Congress aforesaid is well acquainted with this deponents character & can testify thereto & to the fact of deponents services as a revolutionary soldier as above set forth & that the Revd John Bachman, John Hume, Steven Thomas & Job Palmer are among other persons residents in the deponents neighborhood who are acquainted with his character for veracity & can testify thereto & to their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution And this deponent hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any state.
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid } Nicholas Cobia
Eli Lee
DJ
The state of South Carolina
Charleston District} On this twentieth day of June in the year above named personally appeared before Eli Lee Dist Judge of U States Col Jacob Tass who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he was a lieutenant in the company of German Fusiliers of the city of Charleston & state aforesaid during the war of the Revolution & that he is now resident in the said city & receiving a pension from the United States for his revolutionary services that he is well acquainted with the above named applicant Nicholas Cobia & his character for veracity & believes him to be a man of veracity & seventy five years of age & knows that he was a soldier of the revolution that the said Nicholas Cobia did duty as a volunteer private in the said German Fusilier company at several periods during the revolutionary war that to deponents knowledge said Nicholas Cobia did actual service in & with the said Corps in Charleston during the
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period of the Battle of Fort Moultrie in the Beaufort expedition at the siege of Savannah & again in Charleston while Gen Lincoln was in command but as to the expedition to Black Swamp under Gen Marion this deponent cannot speak as he was absent on that occasion and although deponent cannot recollect the particular period & duration of each tour of service he can & does swear that in different expeditions the said Nicholas Cobia was in actual service with said company of German Fusiliers for fourteen months in the war of the Revolution
Sworn & subscribed the day & year above written } Jacob Tass
Eli Lee DJ
We Daniel Cobia a clergyman residing in the city of Charleston aforesaid & Jacob Sass residing in the same place do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nicholas Cobia who has subscribed & sworn to the declaration first foregoing that we believe him to be a man of veracity & seventy five years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & we concur in that opinion
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year above written} Daniel Cobia
Elie Lee Jacob Tass
DJ
And the said court doth hereby declare the opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant Nicholas Cobia was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states and the court further certifies that Daniel Cobia who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the city of Charleston aforesaid & that Jacob Tass who has also signed the same is a resident of the same place & is a credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit
Elie Lee D Judge
So Carolina
I James Jewry clerk of the district court of the US of America for the district of So Carolina do hereby certify that
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the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Nicholas Cobia for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said court at Charleston this twentieth day of June AD 1835
James Jewry
Dist clk

Comptroller Generals office
Charleston August 8th 1835}
I hereby certify that I have examined the records in this office and do not find the name of Nicholas Cobia among those who received indents for military services during the Revolutionary War The want of this evidence is by no means a conclusive against the claims of Mr Cobia as indents were issued only to those who treferd their claims for compensation
W Laval
Comptroller General

33039
Nicholas Cobia June 29
SC 
In the militia
of Nicholas Cobia
Admt as private
14 months $46.66

Chelsed by
James Jewry
clerk dist court
Charleston 
SC
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State of South Carolina 
District of Charleston } On this 22d day of January 1839 personally appeared before the undersigned Mrs Ann Cobia, widow aged 74 years a resident of Charleston who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to be entitled to the benefit of the 3d section of the Act of Congress of the 4th July 1836 that she was married to Nicholas Cobia late of Charleston deceased who was a private soldier during the war of the Revolution and served in same under arms as deponent has reason to believe 12 months & more Deponent saith that her said husband was a revolutionary pensioner and received on account of his said services $46 66/100 per annum as will appear by reference to his certificate bearing date the 1st September 1835 issued by Lewis Cass Secretary of War & Examined & Countersigned by James L Edwards commissioner of pensions No 30145 recorded in pension Book C Vol 6 page 66 by Danl Boyd clerk Deponent further declares she was married to the said Nicholas Cobia in the year 1780 while he was so in the service of the United States as aforesaid and that her husband the aforesaid Nicholas Cobia died on the 29 day of October 1838 and that she is now his widow
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above mentioned and I also certify the credibility of the affidavit
Elie Lee Dist
Judge of US 
for So Carolina
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"Marriages in 1780"

"Feb:
" Nicholas Cobia & Ann Rumph
"(Spin) Mar."

I hereby certify that the
above is a true extract
from the Register book of
Marriages, of St Philips
Church in Charleston SC
Witness my hand
C E Gadsden
Rector of said Church
Charleston Jany 29. 1839
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Revy Widow, &c.

File No. 22.843
Ann Cobia
Wid. of
Nicholas Cobia
Priv. Rev. War
Act: July 4th 1836
Index:-Vol. A, Page 440
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Nicholas Cobia S.C. June 7
When paid HH
died 29 Oct 38 $46.66 paid to 29Oct 38-
in 1st qtr 1839
S.H. Hill
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Ann Cobia
4342

Ann Cobia
wid of Nicholas SC
Act July 4, 1836
Married 1780
died Oct 2d 1838
Allow $44.66 per annum from Oct 29 1838

P Cantwell
Charleston
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State of South Carolina
District of Charleston
on this 2nd day of February 1839 Personally appeared before the undersigned Mr Henry Muckenfuss aged 69 years a resident of the City of Charleston, who being duly sworn according to Law Deposeth that he was well acquainted with the late Nicholas Cobia of the City of Charleston, that he also knows his widow Mrs Ann Cobia an applicant for a pension, that he has been intimate in the family for fifty years that they were ever regarded by the connexions and neighbors as a respectable married couple, that Dept has reason to believe that the said Nicholas & Anne were married in the year 1780, that said Nicholas died in the year 1838, and that he statements of Ann Cobia are entitled to full credit
[signed] Henry Muckenfuss
sworn to and subscribed before me the day & year above written & also Certify the Credibility of the affiant 
P Cantwell
Not Pub & Q.M. for Charleston Dist So Car
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Planters & Mechanics Bank
Charleston 22 Jan 1838.

J. L. Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions
Washington

Sir
I forward herewith for Authority to pay
Voucher of Nicholas Cobia

I am Respectfully
Your Ob Svt
A Spears
Pen Agent
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State of South Carolina Office Court Common pleas: Charleston,
District of Charleston
I, Charles C Strohecker Clerk of the Court of Common pleas for Charleston District So. Car. hereby certify that Patrick Cantwell is a magistrate and that the signature attached the annexed papers
purporting to be his is genuine. I further certify Rev C.J. Gadsen Rector of St. Phillips Church of this City, and Mr & Mrs Muckenfuss witnesses in this case are respectable

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my Seal of my office & Subscribed my name this 6th day of February 1839
Charles C Strohecker

Clerk of the Court of Common pleas for Charleston Dist
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Ann Cobia
Afft
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State of South Carolina
District of Charleston
on this 2 day of February 1839 personally appeared before the undersigned Mrs. J Muckenfuss aged
65 a resident of the City of Charleston who being duly sworn according to law deposeth, that she was well acquainted with Nicholas Cobia dec'd and is acquainted with his widow Mrs. Ann Cobia aged about 74 years of this city that she has known them as respectable married couple for nearly Fifty years, that she has every reason to believe said Ann married said Nicholas in the year 1780, and that said Nicholas died in the month of October 1838, and that said Mrs Ann Cobia is regarded as a respectable lady whose Statements are entitled to credit.
[signed] J Muckenfuss
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day & year above written & I also certify the credibility of the affiant
the word "Fifty"- 10 line duly attested
P Cantwell
Not Pub & Refor Charleston Dist of So Ca