Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1654, Frederick Cobler, N.C.
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SERVICE   N.C.

Cobler, Frederick

NUMBER.  S.1654

Carded
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8042

Tennessee West

Frederick Cobler
of Davidson Co in the State of Tenn.
who was a private in the Company commanded
by Captain Dillon of the Reg. commanded
by Col Martin in the North Carolina
Militia for 6 months from 1776

Inscribed on the Roll of Tennessee
at the rate of 20 Dollars ~ Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of March 1833 and handed to 
Wm B Lewis Esq

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833    40.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 1833     10.00
Died  Sept 21, 1840                                    $50.00

{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }

Recorded by Henry H. [Syiurta?]  Clerk,
Book D  Vol. 9  Page 145
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Frederick Cobler
Pension Claim


The within Declaration of Frederick Cobler
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State of Tennessee
Davidson County
District of West Tennessee

On this 27th day of October A.D. 1832
personally appeared in open court, before the Justice of the county of Pleas & Quarter Sessions now sitting Frederick Cobler, a resident of the County of Davidson & State
of Tennessee aged Seventy four last August, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7th of June 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herewith stated. 

He first entered the service in March 1776 he was under the command of Col. James Martin and Alexander Martin was then General and highest in command. he was a regular officer, Declarant entered as a volunteer for a three months tour which he served & was regularly discharged
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by -- Dalton his captain, at the time he entered the service he lived in Guilford County State of North Carolina, he was in no 
engagement during his service not arriving in time for the battle of Cross Creek [now Fayetteville, North Carolina] to which place they marched.

He entered the second tour of his service in March 1781 his residence was then as before stated, he entered as a volunteer. This second tour and was on his way to the battle of Guilford.  at the time it was fought John May was then his captain, James Martin was again his Colonel, they were near enough to hear the firing at the Battle of Guilford [Battle of Guilford Courthouse, North Carolina] but could not arrive in time to participate 

there were about three hundred men with him who joined the army under General Green [General Nathanael Greene] about two days after the battle of Guilford; Several companies were then detached after some tories to and of which this declarant belonged and was engaged in that [illegible] service . 

most of the time of his service at the end of which he was regularly discharged this was also a three months
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3  He continued to reside in Guilford until after
the war when Guilford County was divided
he then resided in Rockingham which was
taken off Guilford until he moved to Davidson
County Tennessee in the year 1806 and on
his way to Tennessee he got his two discharges
with some other papers so badly wet that
they are at this time perfectly unintelligible
     He knows of no one by which he can now
prove his service except one Walter Creek
who resides as of he beleeves [believes] in Rutherford
County in the State of his record but he knows
of no one by whom he could prove the 
second.
     He hereby relinquishes any claim
whatever to a pension or annuity except
the present and declares that his name is
not on the pension roll of ^the agency of any
State.
Frederick Cobler   his  X  mark
Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid
October 30 the 1832    Test Henry Ewing Clerk of Davidson County Court
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4   We James Whitsell a clergyman residing in the
county of Davidson & state of Tennessee and Willoughby
Williams residing in the
same state and County hereby certify that we are well
acquainted with Frederick Cobler who has subscribed
his name and hand to the above declaration that
we believe him to be seventy four years of age : that
he is respected and believed in the neighborhood
where he resides to have been a soldier of the
Revolution and that we co[??] in that
opinion.
  Sworn and subscribed the day & year
aforesaid   Henry Ewing Clerk of Davidson County Court

James Whitsell
Wm Willoughby

October 30 " 1837


The following questions were prepared
by the court and answered as follows
    1st Where and in what year were you born
Ans. I was born in Culpepper County in VVirginia on the 14th of August 1755
  2nd Have you any record of your Age
Ans.  My age was recorded in the family
Bible which fell into the hands of my brother
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5   who resides in Rockingham County North Carolina
_I have no other record of my age.

   3. Where were you living when called into service
where have you lived since the Revolutionary
war and where do you now live.

4. How were you called into service were
you drafted did you Volunteer or were
you a substitute and if a substitute 
for who?

Quest 5th.  State the names of some of your
regular officers who were with the ttroops when you served, such continental and
militia regiments as you can recollect
and the general circumstances of your
service.

6th  Did you ever receive a discharge 
from the service and if so by whom was iit given and what has become of it.
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[ILLEGIBLE] state the names of pensions to whom you and known in your personal neighborhood And who can testify as to your character For veracity and their belief of your service As a soldier of the Revolution.
[ILLEGIBLE] James Whitsett, Robert C. Foster, [ILLEGIBLE] William Lytle [ILLEGIBLE] Ephraim H. Foster [ILLEGIBLE] and many others. 

The affairs made to the third, fourth, fifth and sixth questions profounded by the Court and in accordance with the statements in the body of the declaration of the [ILLEGIBLE].

And the Court do hereby declare their
opinion after the investigation of the matter
and after [ILLEGIBLE] the investigations prevented by the War department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and
served as it states. And the Court further
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certify that it appears to them that James Whitsett who has served the proceeding certificate in a clergyman [ILLEGIBLE] in
the County of Davidson and State of Tennessee and that Willoughby Williams

Who had also served the same [‘are’ REPLACED WITH ‘in’] also residents of the County of Davidson and State of Tennessee and are credible pensions and that their statements and entitled to credit.
Signed in open court October 30” 1832
Will Williams
Ep Carnell
J. Whorton

I Henry Ewing Clerk of the Court of Glens and Quarter Pensions do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original p
roceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Fredderick Cobler for a pension.

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- for testimony whereof I have here and set
- hand and seal of office this thirteenth day of
– -1832
Henry Ewing
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November 6, 1931

BA-J/EEL

Mr. William Cabler Moore
4110 Fernhill Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter relative to Frederick Cabler, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.

The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, S.1654, based upon the military service of Frederick Cobler in that war.

Frederick Cobler was born August 14, 1758, in Culpeper County, Virginia.

While residing in Guilford County, North Carolina, he volunteered in March, 1776, and served three months as a private in Captain Dalton’s Company, Colonel James Martin’s North Carolina Regiment. He again Volunteered in March, 1781, served in Captain John May’s Company, Col-
Onel James Martin’s North Carolina Regiment, was within sound of the firing at the battle of Guilford but did not reach there in time to participate in said battle, and in about two days thereafter was detached and sent on an expedition against the Tories, length of service, three months.

After the Revolution, he lived in Guilford County, North Carolina, then in Rockingham County, North Carolina, and in 1806, moved to Davidson County, Tennessee.

He was allowed pension on his application executed October 29, 1832, While residing in Davidson County, Tennessee.

He died September 21, 1840.

It is not stated that soldier was ever married.

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator.

He had a bro..
Living in 1832 in
Rockingham Co NC, name not [ILLEGIBLE]
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November 6, 1931

BA-J/EEL

Mr. William Cabler Moore
4110 Fernhill Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter relative to Frederick Cabler, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.

The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, S.1654, based upon the military service of Frederick Cobler in that war.

Frederick Cobler was born August 14, 1758, in Culpeper County, Virginia.

While residing in Guilford County, North Carolina, he volunteered in March, 1776, and served three months as a private in Captain Dalton’s Company, Colonel James Martin’s North Carolina Regiment. He again Volunteered in March, 1781, served in Captain John May’s Company, Col-
Onel James Martin’s North Carolina Regiment, was within sound of the firing at the battle of Guilford but did not reach there in time to participate in said battle, and in about two days thereafter was detached and sent on an expedition against the Tories, length of service, three months.

After the Revolution, he lived in Guilford County, North Carolina, then in Rockingham County, North Carolina, and in 1806, moved to Davidson County, Tennessee.

He was allowed pension on his application executed October 29, 1832, While residing in Davidson County, Tennessee.

He died September 21, 1840.

It is not stated that soldier was ever married.

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator.

He had a bro..
Living in 1832 in
Rockingham Co NC, name not [ILLEGIBLE]
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‘Additional Declaration of Frederick Cobler’
The written Declaration having been sent back
by the examining officer of the Pension Department, for the want of his discharges, which he states in his declaration to be unintelligible: be how since the reception of said Declaration made diligent search for them; but not finding them has concluded that he must have lost them in coming to this County in 1806. Either at the time they got and or afterwards destroyed them on the way. (Tho he be had no recollection of this) overnight have preserved them amongst his other papers which got wet at the same time: some of which have become so Perfectly unintelligible, that not a single word Can be read upon them, many of his description, be burnt on on looking over them for his discharges-

In order to get a favorable revision of his claims,
He will if possible procure the testimony of Walter Crunk, the only living witness he has any knowl_
:edge of, who can testify as to any part of his
service_ .W Crunk resided in Rutherford
County, Tenn. some distance from applicants
place of residence, and as [‘I Have’ REPLACED WITH ‘he has’] not heard from him for six or eight months, [‘I m’ REPLACED WITH ‘he is’] not certain that he is living. shorter these fortunate as to get his certificate it shall accompany This second application_ W. Crunk was a regular soldier in the Revolutionary war, and draws a Pension_
his
Frederick + Cobler
Mark
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Since writing the foregoing applicant has gone to the late audience of Walter Crunk, for the purpose of obtaining his testimony, lent when he arrived there, the neighbors informed him that said Crunk had a few weeks back moved to some land [CROSSED OUT, REPLACED WITH: which he is entitled to in light of his past prife OR ‘life’], they further stated that they were ignored as to what front of the State the Card was located.
his
Frederick + Cobler
Mark

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“Cobbler the foregoing declarant”]

State of Tennessee
Davidson County Circuit Court - November Seven 1832. The said Frederick Cobler appeared in open court and made oath that the foregoing statements by him made, are True to the best of his knowledge and belief and
I Thomas Stuart are one of the Judges of the Circuit Courts of Law and Equity, in and for the state of Tennessee, now heading said Court for the County of Davidson do hereby certify To the Honorable the Secretary of War that I have examined on their oaths assertable and credible witnesses to me personally known As such in relation to the standing and veracity of Frederick Cobbler the foregoing declarant, and from such examination I am satisfied. That said Frederick Cobler is a man of character and veracity. I am further of the belief from the declarations of the applicant and his general good character, that he served in the Revolutionary war as he has stated. In Testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and cause the seal of said boast to be affined this 21 of December 1832.
Thos Stuart
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...Cobbler the foregoing declarant, and from such examination I am satisfied. That said Frederick Cobler is a man of character and veracity. I am further of the belief from the declarations of the applicant and his general good character, that he served in the Revolutionary war as he has stated. In Testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and cause the seal of said boast to be affined this 21 of December 1832.
Thos Stuart

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State of Tennessee to
I Jacob McGavock Clerk of the Circuit Court
of Law and Equity for the County of Davidson in the State aforesaid, do certify that the foregoing heeded “additional declaration of Frederick Cobler contains the original Proceedings therein before said Court in the matter of the Application of said Frederick Cobler for a pension that said Cobler qualified thereto in after fowl, and that the above is the proper signature of the Honorable Thomas Stuart Judge of said Court.
The Testimony whereof I have here and set my hand and offend the seal of said Court at office in Nashville this 28 day Of December AD 1832 and of the Independence of the united States the fifty seventh
Jacob McGavock

[STAMP READS: “NASH DAVIDSON COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT”]
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[PAGE: 1]
1931. [ILLEGIBLE] 6 - Hist. to
Wm Cabler Moore EEL
1932- Jan 30 Hist to
Mis E C. Patton EEL

[PAGE: 2]
Rev War. 1654.
INVALID
File No. 1654
Frederick Cobler
Davi. N. C. Louie
Act: June 7, 1832.

Index:-Vol. A, Page 72
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Nashville, Tennessee.
January 9, 1932.

“The Pension Bureau”
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

Will you kindly give me the record you have of a revolutionary soldier who was pensioned about 1840 at the age of 82.
Living with one John Corbitt.
/- Private-Frederick Cabler - Cobbler (82)
I would like to have his Revolutionary history - family and whatever Records on this man the records in Washington may have. I know that he was a Private - living in North Carolina at the time of the war.
Do the records kept on these soldiers show who their wife may be, parents etc. I would appreciate any help that you may give me on this man in the Pension Department then if you cannot give his revolutionary history then will you kindly turn this letter over to the Department that may have this data.
I understand that this soldier Frederick Cabler fought at the Battle of Guilford Court House.

Thank you for help that you can give me

Yours truly,
Mrs EC Patton
[STAMP READS: “REVOLUTIONARY AND 1812 WARS - SECTION - JAN 11 1932
DEPARTMENT OF PENSIONS”]
Mrs E. C. Patton,
Tennessee Railway Co.
1st Ave So. Office of the Supt
Nashville, Tennessee.
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4110 Fernhill Ave, Baltimore, Md.
Oct 24, 1931
[RECEIVED OCT 26 1931. - RECEPT SECTION - PENSION FILES SUBDIVISION]
Director of Pension,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

I am interested in securing information about Frederick Cabler (Kobler, Kabler or Cobler), who was, I understand, in the North Carolina line
in the War of the Revolution. I understand
he was on the pension list in 1833 or 1835.

If you have any information concerning him I shall be obliged If you could let me have it. I am Particularly interested in the names of his Father, wife, and children, also if he Ever lived in Virginia or in Tennessee.
Very Truly,
William Cabler Knoore
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January 30, 1932

BA-J/EEL

Mrs. E.C.Patton
Superintendent’s Office
Tennessee Railway Company
1st Avenue South
Nashville, Tennessee

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter relative to Frederick Cabler, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.

The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for
pension, S.1654, based upon the military service of Frederick Cobler, the only soldier of that name or similar spelling, found on the Revolutionary War records of this office.

Frederick Cobler was born August 14, 1758, in Culpeper County, Virginia. The names of his parents are not given.

While residing in Guilford County, North Carolina, he volunteered in March, 1776, and served three months as a private in Captain Dalton’s Company, Colonel James Martin’s North Carolina Regiment. He again volunteered in March, 1781, served in Captain John May’s Company, Colonel James Martin’s North Carolina Regiment, was within sound of the firing at the battle of Guilford but did not reach there
in time to participate in said battle, and in about two days thereafter was detached and sent on an expedition against the Tories, length of service three months.

After the Revolution, he lived in Guilford County, North Carolina, then in Rockingham County, North Carolina, and in 1806, moved to Davidson County, Tennessee.

He was allowed pension on his application executed October 29, 1832, while residing in Davidson County, Tennessee.
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He died September 21, 1840. 
It is not stated that soldier was ever married. 
Soldier's brother was living in Rockingham County, North Carolina, in 1832, name not given.

Yours very truly,
A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator