Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31,630, Richard Cox, N.C.
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N.C. 
Cox, Richard
S 31.630
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Paid at the Treasury under the act of the 6 April 183? from 4 Sept. 1837 to 4 March 1838. Agt. notified 13 Dec. 1838

Paid as above from 4 Sept. 1838 to 4 March 1838 - Agt. notified 20 Dec. 1839

Georgia 30289
Richard Cox
of Habersham Co. in the State of Georgia who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Cowing of the Reg't. commanded by Col. McDowell No. Ca, militia of the state of N.C. 7 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Georgia at the rate of 23 Dollars 33. Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 day of  Dec'r. 1835 and handed Geo. Owen. House Representation
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1835 $105.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 36  11.66=
$116.66
{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Henry H. Sylvester, Clerk,
Book E Vol. 6 Page 87
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Declaration in order to obtain the Benefit of the Act of Congress passed from 7th 1832 viz.

Georgia} On this the fourth day of March 
Habersham County.} Eighteen hundred & thirty three personally appeared in open Court & before Absolam Holcombe from H. [illegible] & James Williams of Big Chastain the Justices of the Inferior court sitting as a Court of Ordinary of said County now in Session Richard Cox Senior a resident of said State & County aged abut Seventy two years who being duly sworn according to Law does on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the Benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. viz. That he entered Services of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated; To wit He entered Service according to the best of his recollection in the month of May; the day he does not remember, in the year Seventeen hundred & Seventy Seven as a volunteer in the Infantry under Captain Cowing in Rowan County. State of North Carolina his Lieutenant was named Nox. [Knox]
They marched first to Charlotte in said State of North Carolina & lay then Several weeks under Col. McDowell & then marched into South Carolina & through that State to Augusta Georgia thence down the Savannah River on the Georgia Side three days march & crossed over again into South Carolina & proceeded to a  place called Stono on the Said coast of the State to last aforesaid - that He was in a Battle at that place under Generals Butler & Lincoln was soon after discharged having served three months the time for which he had volunteered. The discharge he has lost & has no documentary evidence relative
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to his service in this tour. That some time thereafter, how long he does not remember he was drafted & served a tour of one month against the Tories under Capt. Lopp in the upper part of North Carolina & while out on that tour was again drafted for a three months tour & served that time under Capt. Smith Lieutenant Smith & Ensign Miller. He marched them down to Wilmington in North Carolina & lay then & about there during the said three months & was commanded by General Rutherford & does not remember the name of his Colonel. He was in this Tour when he heard of the Surrender of Lord Cornwallis & until the British vacated that part of the Country. He was then discharged but if he received any written discharge he has lot it & has not documentary evidence by which he can prove his Services. That in all he served Seven months first as a volunteer & then as a Drafted man & that he knows of no person except Benjamin Page that he can procure who can testify as to his services, whose affidavit is attached to this Declaration. That He was long in the County of Rowan in the state of North Carolina according to his best information in the year Seventeen hundred & Sixty & that he has no record of his age. That He was living in the said County of Rowan at the time he entered the service & for many years afterwards that from thence he moved to Randolph County remained there about twenty years then moved to Iredell County North Carolina & remained there about Six years & the moved back to Rowan again & remained about Eleven years. He then moved to Habersham County Georgia where he has remained ever since & still resides.
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that he is acquainted with the Rev. Evan Pearson a Clergyman of the Baptist Denomination & with Jehu Starritt who know him - who resides in the neighborhood in which he lives & who can testify as to his character for veracity & their belief of his services as a Soldier of the Revolution. He hereby relinquished every claim whatever to a pension or annuity other than this & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any State. Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid,
[Signatures] Tho. J. Rusk C.C.O.  Richard Cox

Georgia}
Habersham County.} We Evan Pearson a Clergyman residing in the County of Habersham & said State & John Starritt residing in same hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with Richard Cox Senior who ha subscribed & Sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be about Seventy two years of age; that he is reputed & believed, in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion.
[Signatures] Evan Pearson John Starritt
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid. 

Georgia}
Habersham County.} And he said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the war Department, that the above named applicant was a a Revolutionary Soldier & served as he States. And the Court do further Certify that is appears to them that Evan Pearson who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman, resident in the County of Habersham
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and that John Starritt is a resident in the same & is a credible person & that their Statement is entitled to credit.
[Signatures] Absalom Holcomb J.J.C.
John H. Jones J.J.C.
Benj. Chastain J.J.C.

Georgia}
Habersham County.}
I Thomas J. Rush Clerk of the Court of Ordinary of said County do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Richard Cox Senor for a Pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & private seal there being no Seal of Office this Seventh day of January Eighteen hundred & thirty three.
[Signature] Thomas J. Rush C.C.C.

33360
application Rich. Cox Sr.
for Pension.

certif. of the O
Washington

Hon G. W. Owens
HR
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January 7, 1938.
ba-J/ILL.
Richard Cox-S.31630
Thomas Cox R. 2399

Marie Stokes
212 West Main Street
Peru, Indiana.

Dear Madam:

The records of Richard Cox and Thomas Cox are given herein as shown in pension claims, based upon their service in the Revolutionary War.
RICHARD COX-S.31630,
Richard Cox was born in the year 1760, in Rowan County, North Carolina; the names of his parents are not shown. He lived with his
father about thirteen miles from Salisbury, in said Rowan County, at the time of the Revolutionary War. Richard Cox enlisted and served as a private in the North Carolina
troops on different tours, given as follows first, three months in Captain Cowan's company of Infantry, during which he marched through
the State of South Carolina to Augusta, Georgia, then back to South Carolina and was in the battle of Stono; later, one month in Captain Lopp's Company, against the Tories; and three months in Captain Smith's company,
a part of the time near Wilmington, this service about the time of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis. The soldier resided in Rowan County, North Carolina, three or four years after the war, then moved to Randolph County, where he resided about twenty years, then moved to Iredell County, where he remained
about six years, returned then to Rowan County and resided about eleven years, after which he moved to Habersham County, Georgia. Richard Cox was allowed pension on his application executed
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March 4, 1833, at which time he resided in Habersham County, Georgia. The soldier made no reference to wife or children. In 1833, he was referred to as Richard Cox, Senior. In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name of person paid, and, possibly, the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and furnish the following Richard Cox, Certificate #30289, issued December 11, 1833, rate $23.33 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Georgia Agency.

THOMAS COX -- R. 2399,
The date and place of birth of Thomas Cox and the names of his parents are not shown.
Thomas Cox married "several years before the close of the Revolutionary War", Bethany; her maiden name and the date of their marriage
are not shown. At the close of the Revolutionary War, they had three children living, whose names were not stated, nor are other children named. 
Thomas Cox died in January 1814, the day and place of his death not shown.
June 29, 1853, Bethany Cox, the widow of Thomas Cox, was a resident of Caldwell County, North Carolina, aged then ninety-six years. She applied then for the pension which might have been due on account of the
service of her husband, Thomas Cox, in the Revoltuinoary War. She stated
then that Thomas Cox volunteered in 1777, in Randolph County, North Carolina, and served three years as a private in the North Carolina troops. She did not state the names of the officers under whom he served nor
give any details regarding his service. She submitted an official statement from the Secretary of the State of North Carolina which showed that a Thomas Cox served as a private in Captain Shepard's company, 10" North Carolina Regiment from June 12, 1777 until November 1, 1782, at which time he was a corporal in that organization, and was in service as late

[A. B. Shows death at Dec. 12 - 1835. Did not use it as papers show that he was paid on 1837 - 1838. Mrs. Finch marked A.B.  hhh]
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as 1783; also, that a land warrant was issued by the State of North Carolina, October 20, 1784, to Thomas Cox for services of three years in the Revolutionary War. Bethany Cox's claim for pension was not allowed as the submitted
no evidence to show that the Thomas Cox recorded in the official report cited above, was identical with her husband, nor any proof of his three years' service alleged by her, as required by the pension law. In 1888, Bethany Cox was deceased, date of her death not stated.
In 1853, one James Ferguson, aged seventy-two years and a resident of Caldwell County, North Carolina, stated that he was acquainted with
Thomas Cox, Bethany's husband, for many years; he did not state any relationship to the soldier's family,
Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.

[note- Mrs. Finch read this & dictated rejection - I.L.L.]
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Richard Cox
Ga
Admitted as private
7 mo. $23.37
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House of Representatives
Dec. 8, 1835

Sir:

I herewith return the documents of Cox together with the requested certificate -
[illegible] respectfully
G.W. Owens [Signature]


J.L. Edwards
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Treasury Department
Second Comptroller's Office
December 7th, 1838

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States", Richard Cox
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Savannah, Geo. Agency, at the rate of Twenty three Dollars and thirty three Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June, 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1837 to the 4th March 1838.

Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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North Carolina} I James Erwin Clerk of the Burke County.} Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions of said State & County do hereby certify that Groves Bowman an Esquire whose name
appears to the foregoing affidavit as one of the Justices of the Peace in & for said County is Justice as aforesaid that his attestation is in due form of Law & that full faith & credit ought to be had & given to it as such. Given under my hand
& seal of said Court this 23rd day of January
1833  James Erwin C.C.C. By W. C. Erwin D Clk


North Carolina} I Thomas Walton  one of the
Burke County.} Presiding Justices of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions of said County do hereby certify that James Erwin whose name appears to the foregoing Certificate is Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions of said
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said County that his attestation is in due form of Law & full faith & credit ought to be had & given to it as such. Given under my hand & Seal this twenty Second day of January 1833.
[signature] Tho. Walton J.P. [seal]
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Washington City.}
Dec. 8. 1835.} I Hesse Cleveland one of he Representatives from the State of Georgia do hereby certify to the best of my belief and Knowledge that Thomas J. Rusk was the clerk of the Court of ordinary of Habersham County State of Georgia on the Seventh day of January eighteen hundred and thirty three and that the signatures to the certificate hereto annexed is in the handwriting of the said  Thomas J. Rusk.
[Signature] Jess N. Cleveland
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Benj. Pages Deposition
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State of North Carolina}  August the 11th day 1829. this day Burke County Came Benjamin Page Before me Groves Bowman one of the Justices of the court of pleas and quarter Sessions in and for said County and being duly sworn deposeth and sayeth that Richard Cox did when a youth serve a three months tower in the militia in the time of our struggle in the old revolutionary war and near the close of the same he served a second three months tower
as well as his memory serves him at the time of what was called the Wilmington Expedition= But from the length of time and being far advanced in oldage his memory dont
serve him well enough to tell the names of the officers that the said Cox Served under nor the Regiments that he was attached to: But says that Richard Cox did live at that time about thirteen miles from Salisbury in Roan County North Carolina with his father, and the said
Cox now lives in Habersham County Georgia = the above stated facts Sworn to and subscribed this date above written
[Signature] Benjamin P. Page X his mark
Sworn to and signed before me
[Signature] Grs. Bowman JP [seal]
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TREASURE DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office,
Dec. 5th 1839.

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States. Richard Cox, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Georgia Agency, at
the rate of Twenty three Dollars and thirty three Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June
1832, has been paid at this Department, from the
4th of Sept. 1838, to the 4th March 1839.
Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris [Signature]
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Present.
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January 7, 1928.
BA-J/ILL
Richard Cox
S. 31630

Marie Stokes
213 West Main Street
Peru, Indiana.

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Richard and Thomas Cox of North Carolina, John, Andrew, George and Thomas Young of Washington County, Pennsylvania, the War of 1812 records of Richard and Elijah Cox of Tennessee, the War of 1812 and Mexican War record of Thomas Young of Kentucky, and the Mexican War records of Elijah and Richard Cox of Indiana.
There are no claim for pension on file based upon service in the Revolutionary War of John, Andrew, George of Thomas Young in which it is shown that they resided in Washington County, Pennsylvania, and no claim for pension on file based upon service in the War of
1812 of a Richard Cox of Tennessee, Thomas Cox of Kentucky, nor of any Elijah Cox. The records of Richard Cox and Thomas Cox, Revolutionary War soldiers of North Carolina, are furnished you herewith. Your letter has been referred to the proper official for reply in regard to Elijah and Richard Cox, of Indiana, and Thomas Young of Kentucky, Mexican War soldiers.

Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.

4 carbons - 1 with letter - 1 Misc. Correspondence 1 Thomas Cox - R2399.
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31630
Rev'y INVALID.

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31,630
Richard Cox
Pri. Rev War
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Act: June 7th 32"
Index:--Vol. 2, Page 88
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1938 Jan 7. Hist. to Marie Stokes - I.L.L.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51-
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
 NAME Cox, Robert
GRADE Private
LINE Connecticut

WARRANT NUMBER 5554
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED June 21, 1791
to - not shown - 


The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9,1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.