Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,334, Garland Cosby, Va.
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SERVICE Va.
Cosby, Garland 
NUMBER  S. 30.334
CONTENTS [left blank]
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30640 Kentucky 3061
Garland Cosby
of Henderson Co. in the State of Kentucky 
who was a private in the company by Captain Dabney of the ________ command by Col. Mindell in the __________ _________ for 2 years for 1775.

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of 80 dollars 0 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 16th day of May 1836 and sent to A. G. Hawses N. R.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1836 $400
Semi-ani allowance ending 4 Sept.1836 $40
$440 

Revolutionary Claim 
Acct. June 7,1832
Recorded by Wm. S. Allison Clerk
Book E 2 Vol. 7 Page 9 

Dead
Letter to Hon. P. Triplett 27 __________ 
842

____ B. T. Grey _________ 5/SS

Died Nov. 28 1839 AB
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(1)
State of Kentucky
County of Henderson S.S.

On this 26th day of May 1834 personally 
appeared in open court before the Justices 
of the County Court of Henderson County aforesaid, now sitting Garland Cosby a 
resident of the said County of Henderson 
in the State of Kentucky aged 75 or 76 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 enlisted in the army of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That about the last of march or first of april in the year 1776 he enlisted as a private soldier he believes for the term of 12 months (though he is not certain as to the length of time for which he enlisted) in Louisa County in the State of virginia in a Company Commanded by James Dabney as Captain, - John Crutchfield was Litenant  and he believes one Joseph Street was ensign,

that he marched from thence to Williamsburg Virginia and from thence to Hampton virginia, that his Company was attached to a Regiment Commanded by Colo. Samuel Meredith called a minute Regiment that he was (with the Regiment) stationed at Hampton four or five months, that he marched from thence to Portsmouth or went by water, that he remained at Portsmouth in service until the 25th december 1776, and was then discharged, He can not recollect whether he received a written discharge  or not but if he did it is lost. that he was in the service at this time about nine months.

that in the year 1777 (he believes) he enlisted as a private soldier in Louisa County Va. under Captain David Anderson and was appointed orderly Sergeant to the Company by the Capt  that this Company marched to Williamsburg Va. and there Joined a Regiment commanded by Colo. Grayson, that he was soon after appointed Quarter master to Graysons Regiment  the troops were encamped in the park near Williamsburg.
One [John] Sanders was Capt Andersons 
Lieutenant- William Pettis was a major in the same Regiment- Andersons Company 

I was drafted, or called for by rotation from the said County of Louisa but he was a volunteer. he thinks he did a receive a written discharge here as Capt Andersons company were all discharged together, and he was in service at this time two months
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He further swears that about the first of the year 1778, he thinks in February or march, he was induced to go out with a Company of drafted men from Louisa County Virginia, by one William Kellis who called himself a major and promised him (said Cosby) a commission. 

That he marched to Alexandria Va. and there 
all the troops were inoculated for the small 
pox, that after he got well of the small pox, he marched from thence and Joined the main Army at the Vally Forge in New Jersey, and then he found that the said William Kellis was not a major, but only 2nd Lieutenant in a Company Commanded by Captain John Stith, and there he (Cosby) was returned as a drafted man, and placed in Said John Stiths company, 

that he was afterwards appointed orderly Sergeant for said John Stiths Company, Benjamin Lawson was said Stith's 1st Lieutenant the said Wm. Kellis 2d Lieutenant and William Morton ensign - said Stiths company was attached to the 4th Virginia Regiment and that commanded by Colo. John Nevil [Neville], this Regiment belonged to Genl [Peter] Muhlenberg's Brigade
and Major Croghorn (or Croghan) [William Croghan] was  Brigade Major, the aforesaid 
Benjamin Lawson was Paymaster and Quarter master to the said 4th Virginia Regiment commanded by Col. John Nevil [Neville]

He does not remember the term for which Stiths Company was drafted but knows he remained in the Service under said Stith until 1779 when he was appointed Forage Master to General [Peter] Muhlenberg's Brigade,
by Colo. Clement Biddle (who was 2nd Quarter master General)

Some few days after his appointment as Forage Master he (the said Garland Cosby)
drew a Horse and a sum of money for which he gave a receipt and entered upon the duties of his office. That he marched with the Virginia Troops to Charleston South Carolina and served said troops as a purchasing forage master to Charleston S.C. That he was ordered back from Charleston to Camden 
S.C. by General [William] Woodford to Capt Young a Deputy quarter master who had some charge of some stores in Camden.
That Capt Young sent him on  to Santee River to furnish Colo. [Abraham] Buford. 

That he remained with said Colo. Abrm [Abraham] acting in the capacity of Forage Master until his defeat, Called Bufords defeat [Battle of Waxhaws] in 1780. where he lost his commission or written appointment as Forage Master together with all his other papers - clothes and every thing he had except what was on his back, and after the defeat he returned home to Louisa County Va. and he was in service at this time two years & 3 months
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He further states on his oath, that: in the year 1781  he enlisted as a soldier (a volunteer) in a company of militia commanded by Capt. Hughes from Louisa County Va. and he acted as Lieutenant to the Company, that he marched to Williamsburg Va, but before starting the said Capt Hughes got into  fight (fisty cuffs) and got very much bruised and blacked up, and he (said Cosby) marched the Company Commanding as Lieutenant to Gloucester County Va. Va. opposite to little York, when Capt Hughes came up, but was so blacked & bruised up that he [side note in margin: 2mos.] was discharged by Colo. Campbell & said Cosby appointed to command the Company in  his place this company was attached to Colo. Campbells Regiment.

That a few days after this he said Cosby was detached as a Captain, tho' not commissioned, with a Company of Infantry on the Gloucester side of the James River in a regiment commanded by Colo. James Ennis (or Innis) that he remained in the service until he was dicharged, and was in service at this time two months-

He states that for the times during which the services herein before stated, were performed he was not employed in any civil pursuit; That he has no discharge or other documentary evidence, except the Depositions of Daniel Barber, John Parker and Asa Thomson which are herewith submitted and he is informed that it is probable said Depositions are not authenticated in conformity to the regulations of the war department, but he states that said witnesses live about two hundred miles from him, and he does not know whether they are still living as they are very old men. That he is old and infirm & in indigent circumstances, and therefore unable to travel to them to retake their depositions.  

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except, the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Garland Cosby

The following interrogation were then propounded by the court, to the said applicant Garland Cosby -  and to which he gave the following answers to wit.

1. Where, and in what year were you born?
Answer I was born in Hanover County Virginia in the year 1758 or 1759 but which of those years I am not positive 

2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
Answer None, but from the best information I have I was born in the year 1758 or 1759 as above stated.

3. Where were you living when called into service: where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
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Answer I was living in Louisa County Virginia, every time I was called into service; I removed from thence after the war to Fayette County Kentucky and lived there about six years - removed from thence to Franklin County Kentucky and lived there about six years - 
I removed then to Henderson County Ky where I now live and have resided for the last twenty one years 

4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a substitute, and if a substitute, for whom?
Answer: I volunteered every time, I was returned once as a drafted man in Capt John Stiths Company, but was not drafted.

5. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the Troops where
you served: such Continental and militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the 
general circumstances of your Services.
Answer I have stated in the declaration the names of most of the officers, the Regiment and the circumstances attending my services, so far as I now distinctly remember them 

6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
Answer I have no recollection at this time of having received any written discharge.

7. State the Names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify, to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the revolution 
Answer: Philip Cheaney, Joseph Crenshaw, David Wright, Thomas Hart, Thomas Turner, John Pry & John D. Anderson.

We Joel Lambert a Clergyman residing in Henderson County State of Kentucky and Thomas Hart residing in the same County & State hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with Garland Cosby, who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration; that we believe him to be Seventy five years of age; that he is refuted and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Joel Lambert
Thomas Hart

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the war department, that the above named applicant Garland Cosby was a revolutionary soldier, and Served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Joel Lambert who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the said county of Henderson and that Thomas Hart who has also signed the Same is a resident in the said County of Henderson and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to Credit. 

I William D. Allison clerk of the court of Henderson County in the State of Kentucky do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Garland Cosby for  pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this  26th day of May 1834
Will D. Allison clerk 
of the Court of Henderson County, Ky
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Garland Cosby a resident of Henderson County, State of Kentucky a soldier of the Revolution, who made oath to and exhibited in the County Court of Henderson County aforesaid on the 26th day of May 1834 his Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832: being informed that it is necessary to state under oath his reasons for not renewing or prosecuting his claim until this time.

Now upon oath given the following as those reasons - That he confided and entrusted the management of his claim to his friend William D. Allison, clerk of the Henderson County Court Ky. That his agent the said Allison informs him that he sent his declaration and depositions to the War Department immediately after May 26th 1834; that he heard nothing more of them until the next Spring 1835 when he rec'd them, with instructions that his proof was not Satisfactory by a letter from the Honble [Honorable] JL Edwards date 2d July 1834. 

He further states that he then had hopes of obtaining further proof of his services in the war of the Revolution, and wrote letters to such of the surviving officers & Soldiers of the Revolution as he could hear of and with whom he was acquainted amongst others Colo. [William E.] Buford and Presley Nevil [Neville] which said Presley Nevil [Neville] was aid to General [William] Woodford on his march from near Morris Town to South Carolina Charleston

That he received information that they were dead. that said Allison informs him he has written several times to the War Department Since the return of his papers, but receives no answer.

He states that he has not been placed on the pension roll of any agency in any state, and that he has near abandoned his claim, but has hitherto been trying to prepare his Case with sufficient proof to entitle him to the pay he Justly deserves
Garland Cosby

Sworn to & subscribed before me this 15th day of March 1836
Joseph Cowen J.P.
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State of Kentucky
Henderson County Sct.
I Joseph Corwan a Justice of the peace for the County of Henderson on the State aforesaid, do certify that Garland Cosby who this day made oath to & subscribed the within and foregoing affidavit before me is the identical Garland Cosby who swore & subscribed the original Declaration now before me dated the 26th day of May 1834. That I have been personally acquainted with him for the last 24 years, and know him to be the same Garland Cosby therein named 
Given under my hand this 15th day of March 1836
Joseph Cowan [hand drawn seal]

I William D Allison clerk of the County Court of Henderson County in the State of Kentucky do certify, that Joseph Cowan is a magistrate as above, in & for the said County of Henderson and that full faith and Credit ought to be given to all his acts as such & that the above Signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In  Testimony whereof I have here unto Subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of Said Court this 15th day of March in the year 1836.
Will D Allison
clk of the Court of Henderson County 
[hand drawn seal]
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July 20, 1934.
Miss Virginia Cosby
328 Sterling Place
Brooklyn, New York.
BA-J/ILL
Garland Cosby
S. 30334


Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the
Revolutionary War records of Charles Cosby, Garland Cosby, Anthony
Sydner Cosby, Thomas Firth, and Samuel Firth.
A search of the Revolutionary War records of this office has
been made and there are no claims for pension or bounty land on
file based upon service of any Anthony Cosby, Charles Cosby, Thomas
Firth or Samuel Firth. Pension and bounty land claims which have
been made to the United States are the source of Revolutionary War
data furnished by this office.
The record of Garland Cosby has been found and is furnished
herein as found in the papers on file in his claim for pension,
S. 30834, based upon his Revolutionary War service.
Garland Cosby was born in the year 1758 or 1759, in Hanover
County, Virginia
While a resident of Louisa County, Virginia, he enlisted about
April 1, 1776, served as a private in Captain James Dabney's company,
Colonel Samuel Meredith's Virginia regiment and was discharged December
25, 1776. He enlisted in 1777, date not given, served as private
and orderly sergeant in Captain David Anderson's company, Colonel
Grayson's Virginia regiment and shortly after, was appointed quarter
master of Colonel Grayson's Virginia regiment, length of service two
months; he enlisted in February or March 1778, served as orderly sergeant,
Captain John Stith's Company, Colonel John Neville's 4th Virginia regiment
until 1779, was then appointed forage master to General Muhlenberg, marched
to Charleston, South Carolina, and served in the Virginia troops as pure
chasing forage master, also served under Captain Young, deputy quarter
master, and under Colonel Buford, with whom he remained as forage master
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until Buford's Defeat, after which he returned to Louisa County, Virginia, having served at this time two years and three months. In 1781, dates not shown, he acted as lieutenant in Captain Hughes' company, Colonel Campbell's Virginia regiment, and, after Captain Hughes left the service, acted as Captain of said company and was detached in command of a company of infantry under Colonel James Innis on the James River in Virginia, length of service two months.

After the war, Garland Cosby moved to Fayette County, Kentucky and resided six years, after which he lived in Franklin County, for six years, then moved to Henderson County, Kentucky.

He was allowed pension on his application executed May 26, 1834, at which time he resided in Henderson County, Kentucky; he had lived in that county twenty-one years.

It was stated that solder married "about the close of the war", also, that he moved with his family to Kentucky, but the names of his wife and members of his family are not given.

He died November 28, 1839.

Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.
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admitted
2 yr pr
$80

Hon. A.G. Hawes
HR
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To the Honorable Senate & House of Representatives of the U States of America in congress convened your memorialist Garland Cosby of the County of Henderson in the State of Kentucky would respectfully represent; That in order to avail himself of the benefit of the act of your Honorable Body entitled "an act supplementary to the " act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution" approved the 7th June 1832. 

Your Memorialist did on the 26th day of May 1834 exhibit to the County Court of the County aforesaid a Declaration of his services as a soldier of the Revolution together with the depositions of Daniel Barbee, John Parker, and Asa Thompson in  support thereof which Declaration & Depositions are marked 1, 2, 3, &4 and hereto appended as part of this memorial .

Your Memorialist would further state that shortly thereafter he caused his said Declaration (which was sworn to by your memorialist and Sanctioned and Sanctioned 
and certified by the said County Court ) and the said depositions to be transmitted to the War Department at Washington where the claim of your memorialist was rejected by the officer depicted to examine the same at least so far as the same is founded on his services in the Virginia continental line and his papers aforesaid together with the letter hereto appended marked (5) returned to him.

Your memorialist would not impugn the Decision of the examing [examining] officer.
under the rule adopted by the Department he believes the decision was correct. He understands the rule to be this in relation to continental Troops - "If the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department he must prove his services by two credible witnesses  who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time
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of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same as well as the Regiment Company, and line to which he belonged. Now your memorialist admits that his name may not be found on  the records of the Department and that he has not proven his whole service by two credible witnesses, but it is not his fault that his name is not be found & he insists that the above recited rule is altogether two rigourous under the circumstances for it cannot be reasonably expected that one applicant in ten can after the lapse of more than half a century proove all the minutes required by the rule by two witnesses even had not the spirit of emigration prevailed in these limited States to the extent it has particularly 

Since the termination and immediately on the heels of the Revolution, whereby the actors of that eventful period have been scattered over the whole western & South western Country - but your memorialist will not further animadvert on the justice or propriety of the Rule in question, he believes it originated in the best of motives.

That is to say, in order to guard the government against the fraudulent attempts of the unprincipled, and he also knows that your Honorable Body is not bound to observe it, and that you are disposed to lend a willing ear to the Petitions of all your Fellow Citizens and to render prompt justice to those whose claims against the Government are 
founded in justice, whether that justice is made apparent by the  Testimony of Two witnesses or in any other unquestionable manner. 

Your memorialist thinks if the testimony of Barbee is to be credited, the facts that he your memorialist, was a Sergeant in the 4th Virginia Regiment in 1778 and a Forage Master in [Brigadier General John Peter] Muhlenbergs Brigade in 1779
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are established beyond. Your memorialist has with some surprize noticed an endorsement on Barbee's deposition made he presumes by the examining officer in Washington intimating in Pretty Strong Terms that there is some discrepancy between the Statement of your memorialist and the Testimony of Barbee as to the manner of your memorialist entering the service in the 4th Virginia Regiment.

Yet if there is such discrepency your memorialist confesses it requires an accumin [acumen] more acute than his to discern it - He states now for the third time that he left home with Kellis voluntarily under the promise of a Commission when he should reach the army, but was on his arrival at Valley Forge fraudulently reported by Kellis as a drafted private Soldier; he then had no alternative left him but to subject himself to the penalties & ignominy of desertion, or do duty as a private, and trust to his good conduct for promotion, he choose the latter and was promoted accordingly. 

He here reiterates what he stated in his declaration, that his witnesses reside at the distance of Two hundred miles from him, that he knows not whether they are living at this time and should they be living, he is unable from being old age and infirmity to attend to retake their depositions in  order to remedy any irregularity there may be in the authentication of those appended hereto he believes that if he could personally attend to the retaking of the depositions of his witnesses he could establish other facts than those detailed by them important to his case. 

He States that his witnesses are credible persons, that he presumes Parker 
& Thompson are known to the Hon H. Clay & Barbee to the Hon James Harlan who will testify to their credibility - He States that by reason of old age and
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the consequent of memory he cannot state positively as to the precise length of his services in some of his tours but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned in his declaration.

Your memorialist states that when the law under which his declaration was made first passed he resolved not to avail himself of its benefits believing that he could obtain a support without the aid of his Government but being pressed by penury & seeing his compatriots who were blessed with plenty and even those who were rolling in wealth receiving their County's bounty he finally concluded to present his case.

this accounts for the late period at which his application was made. Finally your memorialist cheerfully and confidently submits his case to the decision of your 
Honorable Body, and respectfully asks that he may have muted to him the Justice that is due to those performing similar service to his Country and he as in duty bound &
17th Dec. 1835.
Garland Cosby [illegible]

Sworn to & Subscribed before me this 14th day of March 1836
Joseph Cowan J. P.

The undersigned Citizens of Henderson County Ky. do hereby certify that they have for a number of years past been acquainted with Garland Cosby who hath signed the foregoing memorial that we have ever considered him a man of strict veracity and otherwise of irreproachable character. We further certify that Mr. Cosby is in indigent circumstances, is old and infirm and does as the undersigned verily believes stand in need of the assistance
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of his country, we further state that we have 
no doubt but that Mr. Cosby rendered to his country the services in the Revolution detailed in his memorial & Declaration & should be highly gratified to learn that his case had been favorably decided on by Congress.
Saml Stiles
Owen Glass
John G. Holloway
George Morris
Will D. Allison
W. H. Ingram
Larkin  White
Benj. H Lester
Jas. E Rankin
Saml Allison
Edmund Talbot

Kentucky
Henderson County Sct
The foregoing statement of the subscribers above named was this day subscribed and sworn to before me a Justice of the peace for the County & State aforesaid & I do certify that they are known to me to be credible persons 
This 14th day of March
Joseph Cowan J.P.H.C
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Kentucky
Henderson County Sct
I Will. D. Allison do certify that Joseph Cowan 
is a magistrate in and for the County of Henderson and State aforesaid, and the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine I certify these facts as the Clerk of Henderson County Court. 
In Testimony whereof I have this day hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court 

This 14th day of March 1836.
Will D. Allison  clk
of the Court of Henderson County

[illegible round seal with ribbon attached]
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War Department
Pensions Office
July 2d. 1824

Sir
I herewith return the papers in the case of Garland Cosby the proof of his service not being satisfactory.

[illegible] evidence  should be exhibited as is required in note as in the enclosed printed sheet. Only six months can be allowed on account of his service as a minute man in 1776. This other tour of service in the militia can also be allowed on the evidence now exhibited.

I am Respectfully 
Your Obt [obedient] Servant
JL Edwards

W. D. Allison Esq.
Henderson Ky
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House of Representatives 
1st Feb 55

Hon Court of Revisions
Dear Sir
Plese cause the enclosed letter of G Cosby [illegible] to be returned to me with the information desired in regard to both the claims refered to by Mr Cosby

If the records or proof is as Mr Cosby states he is certainly entitled to more land [illegible] the amount obtained by him - I hope you will cause a careful investigation of his papers
Very respectfully 
Ben Garenaspery
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BApJ/ILL

Mrs. Minnie Cosby Whitson
Box 202
Slaughters, Kentucky.

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter relative to Garland Cosby, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.

The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 30334, based upon his military service in that war.

Garland Cosby was born in 1758 or 1759 in Hanover County, Virginia.

While a resident of Louisa County, Virginia, he enlisted about April 1, 1776, served as a private in Captain James Dabney's Company in Colonel Samuel Meredith's Virginia Regiment and was discharged December 25, 1776. He enlisted in 1777, date not given, served as a private and orderly sergeant in Captain David Anderson's Company, Colonel Grayson's Virginia Regiment, length of service two months; he enlisted in February or March, 1778, served as orderly sergeant in Captain John Stith's Company, Colonel John John Neville's 4th Virginia Regiment until 1779, was then appointed forage master to General Muhlenberg, marched to Charleston, South Carolina and served in the Virginia troops as purchasing forage master; also served under Captain Young, deputy quartermaster, and under Colonel Buford with whom he remained as forage master until Buford's Defeat, after which he returned to Louisa County, Virginia, having served at this time two years and three months. In 1781, dates not given, he acted as lieutenant in Captain Hughes' Company in Colonel Campbell's Virginia Regiment and, after Captain Hughes left the service, acted as Captain of said company and was detached in command of a company of infantry under Colonel James Innis on the James River in Virginia, length of service two months.

1.
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After the war, the solder moved to Fayette County, Kentucky and resided six years, after which he lived in Franklin County, that state, six years, then moved to Henderson County, Kentucky.

He was allowed pension on his application executed May 26, 1834, while a resident of Henderson County, Kentucky, having lived in said county twenty-one years.

It was stated that solder married "about the close of the war", also that he moved with his family to Kentucky, but the name of his wife and members of his family are not given.

He died November 28, 1839.

The history of Garland Cosby of Kentucky, War of 1812, was furnished you on November 13, 1931.

Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.
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328 Sterling Place,
Brooklyn, N.Y.
July 2, 1934.

Veterans Administration,
Washington, D. C.

Sirs:

I have been referred to you by Brigadier General E. T. Conley, In the belief that you might help me out in regard to several Revolutionary records. These records are those of Charles Cosby, (there may have been two of this same name, may I have both) Garland Cosby, and Anthony Sydnor Cosby.
If it would be possible, I should like to have their place of enlistment as well as their age at enlistment.
Is it possible that you have any records regards Thomas Firth and Samuel Firth.
Sincerely yours,
Virginia Cosby [signature]
(Miss) Virginia Cosby.
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Slaughters, Ky.
Nov. 14.1931.

Director of Pensions:
If one Garland Cosby soldier of the War 1812 - enlisted from Ky. was on the Pension list - please send me all the information you have about him.

If Garland Cosby (Cosbey) soldier of the Revolutionary War - (was in from Mch 16 1778 to Feb 16 1779 enlisted from Va.) was on the Pension list - would like to have all the information
you have about him.
Thanks in advance for the information.
Address, 
Mrs. Minnie Cosby Whitson
Slaughters, Ky
Box 202

[black ink round stamp]
RECEIVED NOV 16 1931
RECEIPT SECTION
PENSION FILES SUB-DIVISION
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[left hand page]
30334
Revy
INVALID.
File no. 30334
Garland Cosby
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7" 32"
Index: - Vol.2, Page 82

[Arrangement of 1870.]

[right hand page]
1931 - Nov. 21- Hist. to Mrs. 
Minnie C. Whitson- ILL
34- July 20 - Hist to Miss 
Virginia Cosby -ILL
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War Department 
Pension Office
April 13; 1836

Sir
The papers in the case of Garland Cosby have been examined and they are herewith enclosed to you upon the evidence exhibited, he will be allowed a pension for the two years services at the rate of a private pay; A pension certificate will be issued accordingly upon your [illegible] your acceptance of a pension for the applicant at the above mentioned rate.
I have the honor to be 
Very respectfully 
Your obt servt [obedient servant]
J L Edwards

Hon A. G. Hawes
House of Representatives
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J. L. Edwards Esq
Pension office
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Washington 
May 15th 1836

Dear Sir
I have concluded to accept a pension on the within case for two years services as a private. 
Do me the favour to enclose the certificate as soon as convenient as the man is here.
Yours
A G Hawes
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Fayette County Kentucky

At the Request of Garland Cosby I give the following Statement of part of his Military Services in Virginia. Sometime about the last of March or first of April 1776 Garland Cosby and myself listed as private soldiers in Capt James Dabneys Company in Louisa County Virginia 

Soon After our company was marched to Williamsburg where was several other Companys all formed a Regiment Commanded by Colo. Samuel Meredith called a Minute Regiment  
Some time after we were marched to hampton where we was Stationed Several months and Honoured the great day the fourth of July 1776 with a Regimental parade as the sun rose with our heads powdered and bush tails in our hats as Cockaids  Some time after we was taken over to Portsmouth where our regiment was discharged about Christmas  

A few days after I started to Philadelphia near the place of my birth where I got a Commission and Raised a Company of men for 12 months was Station on the Delaware most of the hear 1777 and never saw Garland Cosby until after we was Discharged some time in the year 1778

I became an Inhabitant of Louisa County Virginia 
I have understood Mr Cosby belonged to the army and was a Quartermaster to a Regiment in the Revolutionary army which he was well Qualified to perform  he is now a resident of Henderson County Ky.  near 80 years of age in moderate circumstances and truely an honest Republican old Soldier So I say and believe he was my messmate in army and when he came to this state with his Family he lived with me some years
Jno. Parker
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Kentucky Sct
Fayette County Sct

I, Charlton Hunt Mayor of the City of Lexington in the County & State aforesaid duly Commissioned & qualified according 
to Law, do hereby certify that John Parker who is personally known to me signed the preceding affidavit & made oath before me to the truth of the statements therein made

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the City of Lexington this 10th day of March 1834.
Charlton Hunt
(3)
[seal not affixed]
[written at bottom]
positive proof of Jno Parker 
that he served as minute man 
from 1st Mar to 25
DW 1776
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D Barbee swears he was 
A Regt  in [illegible] 4 Va
left sometime in 78 
A Forage Master 79 [illegible] to Dec -
yet he says to the court he was ever & all along a volunteer
(2)
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[Illegible first line]
I Daniel Barbee agro 73 years no shaw upon oath that being in Revolutionary soldier himself he knew [illegible] was acquaintances with Garland Cosby in the year 1778. That early in said year said Cosby was a sergeant in the 4th Virginia Regiment. That some time in the year 1779 he was taken from said Regiment and appointed Forage Master to Gen'l Muhlenberg's Brigade and in December of said year the Virginia troops were removed from Morris town New Jersey. From which [illegible] period. I did not again see said Cosby during the War.
Dan; Barbee
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State of Kentucky
Mercer County Sct

Daniel Barbee who is known and reputed to be a revolutionary Soldier personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace, and Notary Public in and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn, and authorized to administer oaths, and in my presence subscribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit on this 5 May 1830 at Danville in said County

In Testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed my notarial Seal the above mentioned
D G Cowan  JP & Not. Public

[illegible round]seal attached
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18 3/4

Mr Garland Cosby
near
Red Bank
Ky

Asa Thompson swears
is 75 or 6
[words too light to transcribe]

[round black ink stamp]
LEXINGTON KY
MAR 18
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In the year 1774 I lived in the County of Louisa & State of Virginia, and in that year I went to the same School with Garland Cosby & in the year 1775 or 1776 the Revolutionary War broke out & about that time Captain James Dabney Raised a Company of Minute Men in Louisa County, who enlisted for twelve months, & Garland Cosby was one of his Company— & I understood served out his term of service, & I recollect seeing him shortly after he returned—and I further State according to the best of my recollection, that in the year 1781 when Corn Wallace [Cornwallis] was marching through Virginia I think I saw Garland Cosby in the army in the defence [defense] of his Country— [.] And about the Conclusion of the War, he married in a respectable Family— [.] & some few years after, he moved his Family to Kentucky and I understood in very moderate circumstances— [.] If he is now living, he must between 75 & 80 years of age— [.] & I am told he lives in the County of Christian or in some one of the adjoining Counties & is still poor, & very dependant—given under my hand this 14th day of March 1834
Asa Thomson

State of Kentucky Fayette County Sct.
Charlton Hunt Mayor of the City of Lexington in the County and State aforesaid duly Commissioned & qualified according to the law, do hereby Certify that Asa Thomson this day appeared before me & made oath that the statements made in the foregoing affidavit are true
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affirmed the seal of the City of Lexington this 15th day of March 1834.
Charlton Hunt