Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12574, Robert Covenhoven, Penn.
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SERVICE   Penn.
Covenhoven, Robert
NUMBER   S.12574
carded
Born in N. J.
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1838 Agt. [agent] notified 2 Jany 1839 
Date of death not on AB. [agency book]
by Captain Cooksey pf the Regt commanded by Col. Murray in the Penna Troops line for 2 years Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania the rate of 80 Dollars – cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
Certificate of Pension issued on the 15 July 1833 and sent to A. V. Parsons Jersey Shore Pa.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 160.00 
Semi-anl. allowance ending Sep  80 00 
$200.00
{Revolutionary Claim Act 1832}
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk
Book E. Vol. 5 Page 9
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State of Pennsylvania 
County of Lycoming SS.  
On this fifth day of September Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open Court before the Honorable Seth Chapman and his associates, Judges of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting Robert Crownoven [Covenhoven] a resident of Mifflin Township in the County of Lycoming State of Pennsylvania aged seventy six years, who being duly sworn according to law doth upon his oath make the following the declaration in order to obtain the benefit of act Congress passed June 7th 1832. 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. In the autumn of 1776 he volunteered in a Rifle company commanded by Captain Cooksey Long in the Regiment commanded by Col. James Murray of the State Troops of Pennsylvania, he was then living at Fort Muncy in Northumberland County, marched to Philadelphia, and thence to Trenton in the State of New Jersey, where they fought and defeated the Hessians, under the command of Gen Washington about the twenty fifth of December 1776. He then marched to Princeton where they took three hundred Hessians prisoner he then marched to Shanks mills near the month of Millstone river, near which place they took from the enemy three hundred waggons laden with plunder & forage thence they marched to Morristown where Washington stoped and order the volunteers to march to Piscatagua, Short Hills, whence the said applicant marched under the command of the said Capt Long & Col Murray and remained there untill they were discharged having been in actual service four months - He then volunteered in the Company of Captain
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William Hepburn in the Battalion of Col. Dr. Plunket in the spring of 1778, for the purpose of protecting the inhabitants from the depredations  of the hostile Indians. He the said applicant being all acquainted with the surrounding country, and the location, strength & mode of warfare of the Indians, he was appointed by Capt Hepburn leader of the scouting & spying parties, that were constantly on the alert, and watching the movement of the enemy (when the inteligence of the massacre at Wyoming reached the troops stationed at Sunbury, Col Hunter who had the command at said place issued orders Cap Hepburn to repair to Sunbury.  He said applicant carried said express, to Antes’s Fort, and they the repaired to Sunbury. They there rec’d reinforcement for the Eastern counties, and returned to Muncy & built a Garrison. Col Broadhead came of their assistance from Fort Pitt, & then the malitia were drafted & taken from them. He the applicant was continued by Col. Broadhead as a guide to all Scouting parties expresses &c. That he frequently guided scouting parties to Jenkins's Fort and also to the Fort at Wyoming & carried expresses from said places to Col. Hartly who succeeded Col. Broadhead at Fort Muncy.   After Col. Hartly had completed the fortifications at Muncy he rec’d orders from Col Hunter to March to Tioga Point for the purpose heading Butler who was carrying off the plunder from Wyoming.  He the said applicant resided the troops under the command of Col Hartly to said Point, where they met the enemy & took from them all their Cattle and plunder and brought them back to Wyoming.   He the said Applicant was then sent (at the peril of his life) with an express to the Fort at Muncy to apprise them of a party of Indians that
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that we had pursued Col. Hartly to Wyoming were then in the neighbourhood that he was then sent from the Fort at Muncy to Sunbury with an express requesting an immediate reinforcement to defend the country, and that he again returned to the Muncy Fort with the information in reply, He then returned to Sunbury and met Col Hartly with troops, there, that a reinforcement was dispatched and led by the said applicant to Fort Muncy - The said applicant was out with scouting parties & at various times afterwards, at one time his party were every man killed except himself and that he alone escaped the massacre - In 1779. Col Hartly left the Fort Muncy and Joined in General Sullivans Compaign, the Fort was left in the care of Capt Hepburn, and the said applicant remained with Capt Hepburn & defended the Fort, & protected the inhabitants against the savages, with a small body of men, they rec’d intelligence of a superior force coming upon them and were compelled to retreat carrying with them the defenseless inhabitants to the Fort at Sunbury, He was thus in actual service in the State Troops of Pennsylvania for a term exceeding two years and in answer to interrogatories proposed by the Secretary of war the said applicant saith as follows 
Quest 1 Where, and in what year were you born? 
Ans. He was born near Princeton in the State of New Jersey, in the year of our Lord 1755. 
Quest 2 Have you any record of your age, and if so where is it?  
Ans. The record of my age is in my fathers Bible.  Not got it my father has it.  
Quest 3d Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the revolutionary war, and where do you now live? 
Over
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Ans. In Northumberland County in the State of Pennsylvania, and have lived there & in Lycoming County in said state ever since the Revolutionary War – 
Quest 4th  Were you called into service?  
Ans. volunteered 
Quest 5. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served; such continental and malitia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service? 
Ans.  I can State no more fully then in the foregoing declaration which I have made 
Ques 6  Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given, and what has become of it?  
Ans. I received a discharge from General Washington, at the expiration of the first four months service, never rec’d any other, and that is now lost.
Quest 7.   Bush State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the revolution -  
Ans. I am known to the Revd John H. Grier the Clergyman of the Society to which I belong to, Samuel Stewart who is my neighbour to Henry Centis & also to Henry Hill whose deposition is hereunto attached taken before Simon Schutzler Esqr of the Court of Sept Inst. & hereunto attached – 
He hereby relinquishes any claim whatsoever to Pension or annuity except the present & certifies  that his name is not on the pension rolls of any State or Agency 
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court the day year aforesaid 
Robert Covenhoven
Wm. Brown Clerk
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State of Pennsylvania   
County of Lycoming} SS 
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Robert Covenhoven the applicant for a pension named in the foregoing declaration who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below in the following grades – 
For the full period of four months in the company command by Captain Cooksey Long in the regiment command by Colonel James Murray as stated in his foregoing declaration - That I served under Captain Wm Hepburn in the Battallion command by Colonel Plunket and as a guide to Colonel Broadhead & Colonel Hunter and Colonel Hartley in carrying expresses & as guide to Scouting Parties as stated in his declaration in the spring of the year AD 1778. To the following spring of the year AD 1779 - and during the winter season he was employed by the commanding officers in carrying provisions for the army and was then in actual service one year. - And as stated in my declaration I was in actual service under Captain William Hepburn from the spring of the year AD 1779 - until the Spring of the year AD 1780  - a period of one year I was actually engaged with the army as a soldier either out on scouting parties
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or acting as a Guide to the Army or as a soldier stationed in some of the forts that were built to protect the Inhabitants from the Indians  - and was pursuing no business but that of soldier in the defense of my country for the said periods mentioned in this deposition and as stated in my declaration & for the said period of four months and two years service I claim a pension.  I will further state that on various other occasions was called out in defense of my country but the periods were shorter than those above stated. And further saith not. 
Robt Covenhoven
Sworn & Subscribed before me the 30 day of April AD 1830 
John Pursel   
State of Pennsylvania 
County of Lycoming} SS
 I Joseph Wood Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that John Pursel the above named magistrate is a regular Justice of the Peace for said County & that full faith & credit are given to his official acts and that I verily believe the above signature to be his having frequently see him write 
In testimony whereof I have unto set my hand affixed my seal of office this 5th day of April AD 1833 
For J. Woods Prothy  
J. L. Massim  Depty
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February 22, 1933
ROBERT COVENHOVEN  
S. 12574
BA-J/MLB   OWN
Mr. G. A. Barber 
The N. Y. Genealogical and Biographical Society 
122-124-125 East 58th Street 
New York City   
Dear Sir: 
Reference is made to your letter of recent date, in which you request information relative to Robert Covenhoven who served in the Pennsylvania troops, and applied for a pension.  You desire to know whether a Bible record as attached to the papers in his claim,    
You are furnished herein the record of Robert Covenhoven as found in pension claim, S.12574, based upon his service in the War of the Revolution. 
Richard Covenhoven was born near Princeton, New Jersey, in 1755; the names of his parents were not given. 
While residing at Fort Muncy, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Robert Covenhoven enlisted in the autumn of 1776, served as private in Captain Cookson Long's company, Colonel James Murray's and Potter's Pennsylvania regiment, was in the battles of Trenton and Princeton in which he assisted in capturing three hundred Hessian prisoners, then marched to Shanks Mills near the mouth of Millstone River, where they took from the enemy three hundred wagons loaded with plunder and forage and was discharged after having served four months, then returned to his home in Pennsylvania. He volunteered in 1777, served as private Captain William Hepburn's company under Colonel Plunkett in the Pennsylvania troops, was appointed “guide” to Colonels Hunter, Brodhead and Hartley on scouting parties and expresses on the frontier between Sunbury, Muncy, Jenkins and Wyoming Forts, assisted in the work upon Fort Muncy, was in the battles of Short Hills, Ash Swamp and other skirmishes, in one of which Robert Covenhoven alone survived the massacre by Indians, and was discharged after having served more than two years in this tour.
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Robert Covenhoven was allowed pension on his application executed September 3, 1832, while a resident of Mifflin Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, 
No Bible record is on file in this claim, nor are any family data shown.  
In order to obtain date of last payment of pension, the name and address of the person paid and possibly the date of death of Robert Covenhoven, you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data: 
Robert Covenhoven 
Certificate No. 11935 
Issued July 28, 1833 
Rate $20 per annum 
Commenced March 4, 1831 
Act June 7, 1832 
Pennsylvania Agency. 
Very truly yours A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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February 13, 1936
ROBERT COVENHOVEN 
S. 12574
BA-J/MLB
Mr. Frank Tade 
Rooms 301-3 Farmers and Mechanies Building 
Sacramento, California 
Dear Sir: 
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Robert Crownober or Covenhoven, who served in the Revolution and received a pension in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. 
You are furnished herein the record of Robert Covenhoven, the only soldier of that name under any spelling, found in the Revolutionary War records of this office, the date of which were found in the papers on file in pension claim, S. 12574, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
Robert Covenhoven was born near Princeton, New Jersey, in 1755; the names of his parents are not given, 
While residing in Fort Muney, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Robert Covenhoven enlisted in the autumn of 1776, served as private in Captain Cookson Long's company, Colonels James Murray's and Potter's Pennsylvania regiment, was in the battles of Trenton and in Princeton in which his assisted in capturing three hundred Hessian prisoners, then marched to Shanks Mills near the mouth of Millstone River, where they took from the enemy three hundred wagons loaded with plunder and forage and was discharged after having served four months, then returned to his home in Pennsylvania. He volunteered in 1777, served as private in Captain William Hepburn's company under Colonel Plunkett in the Pennsylvania troops, was appointed guide to Colonels Hunter, Brodhead and Hartley on scouting parties and expresses on the frontier between Sunbury, Muncy, Jenkins and Wyoming Forts, assisted in the work upon Fort Muncy, was in the battles of Short Hills, Ash Swamp and other skirmishes, in one of which Robert Covenhoven alone survived massacre by Indians and was discharged after having served more than two years on this tour.   
Robert Covenhoven was allowed pension on his application executed September 5, 1832, while a resident of Mifflin Township.
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Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. 
Bible [uneadable] 
No reference was made in the claim to wife or children of Robert Covenhoven, 
In order to obtain date of last payment of pension, the name of the person paid and possibly the date of death of Robert Covenhoven, you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following: 
Robert Covenhoven  
Certificate #11935 
Issued July 15, 1833 
Rate $80 per annum  
Commenced March 4, 1831 
Act June 7, 1932 
Pennsylvania Agency. 
Very truly yours A. D. HILLER 
Executive Assistant to the Administrator 
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Rev. War Section
March 1, 1915  
Mrs. E. L. Coates, 
Boulder. Colorado.
Madam:- 
In response to your letter dated the sixteenth ultimo, you are advised that Robert Covenhoven, Sur. File No. 12,574 Rev. War, was allowed pension on his application executed September 5, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Mifflin Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. 
He stated that he was born in 1755, near Princeton, New Jersey, and resided at Fort Muncy, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, when he volunteered in the autumn of 1776, and served four months as a private in Captain Cookson Long's Rifle Company, in Colonel James Murray's Pennsylvania regiment. and was in the battle of Trenton and taking of the Hessians at Princeton; that he volunteered in the spring of 1778, in Captain William Hepburn's company, under Colonel Plunkett, and was appointed aside to scouting parties and expresses, and served under Colonels Hunter, Brodhead and Hartley, on the frontier between Sunbury, Muncy, Jenkins and Wyoming Forts for more than two years
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the date of soldier's death is not shown. For the date of last payment of his pension, and to whom paid, application should be made to the Auditor for the interior Department, U.S. Treasury Department, giving him all of the following data: 
“Robert Covenhoven  Certificate No. 11,935, issued July 15, 1833, for $80 per annum from March 4, 1831, under the Act of June 7, 1832, at the Pennsylvania Agency." 
Very respectfully, 
G. M. Saltzgaber, Commissioner.
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July 19, 1913
Hon. Peter G. Ten Eyck, 
House of Representatives. 
My dear Mr. Ten Eyck: 
In response to your letter dated the sixteenth and received the seventeenth instant, I have the honor to advise you that Robert Covenhoven, Sur. File No. 12,574, was allowed pension on his application executed September 3, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Mifflin Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. 
He stated that he was born in 1755, near Prineston, New Jersey, and resided at Fort Muncy, Northumberland County , Pennsylvania, when he volunteered in the autumn of 1776, and served four months as a private in Captain Cookson Long's Rifle company, in Colonel James Murray's Pennsylvania regiment , and was in the battle of Trenton and taking of the Hessians at Princeton; that he volunteered in the Spring of 1778 in Captain William Hepburn's company, under Colonel Plunkett, and was appointed Guide to scouting parties and “expresses” and served under Colonels Hunter, Brodhead and Hartley, on the frontier between Sunbury, Muncy, Jenkins and Wyoming Forts for more than two years.
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February 8, 1938
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Washington, D. C. 
Gentlemen:  ROBERT COVENHOVEN, pr., P.T. Lycoming Co. Pa  No 78 7/15/1833, Mifflin Pa.
The above mentioned soldier in the Revolution applied for a Pension, 
Would you kindly advise me whether a Bible Record is attached to his papers, if so the names mentioned therein especially the names of his parents? 
Appreciating a reply, I am, 
Yours very truly,
G. A. Barber
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D. F. DRIVER
FRANK TADE
ROBERT G. DRIVER
LAW OFFICES OF DRIVER DRIVER & TADE ROOMS 
301-2-3-4-5 FARMERS AND MECHANICS BUILDING
TELEPHONE MAIN SO SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA 
February 3, 1936 
U.S. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C. 
Dear Sir:
At your early convenience will you please cause to have searched the records in your office and give in whatever information you may find upon the following: 
About the year 1832 Robert Crownober, who sometimes spelled his name Covenhoven, applied for and received a pension for service as soldier and scout during the Revolutionary war. The matter was handled, we are advised, by James Gamble,  an attorney at Law, at Jersey Shore in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania.
Whatever data you can give, as shown by the records in your office, will be appreciated. 
Yours very truly, 
Frank Tade
FD:EK
RECEIVED FEB 7 1936 MAIL SUB-DIV VETS ADM READER #8
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W1 
Boulder, Colorado 
February 16 - 1915
Commissioner of Pensions 
War Department, 
Washington, D.C 
Dear Sir: 
Will you kindly send me the Revolutionary record of and the number pf the pension granted to Robert Crownover in 1832 by the U.S. Government for his arduous services as a soldier and scout during the Revolution?  Descended from Wolfert Gerisse Von Kouwenhoven who emigrated to New Netherlands in 1630 and three generations lived on Long Island, New York.
The third generation was -
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2.
William Gerritson Von Kouwenhoven who had five sons, Robert being one & them, and the name was translated “Crownover”. Four of these sons moved to Monmouth Co. New Jersey, Robert Crownover was born in Monmouth County N. J. December 7, 1755.  From here he went to West Branch Valley on the Susquehanna river, Pennsylvani. Here he followed hunting and chipping timber, and learned all the paths of the wilderness so that he became fitted as a scout and Guide to military parties during the Revolution. By 1776 he joined the campaign under General Washington. He was at the battles of Trenton and Princeton. He was married 1798 - Sept. 22 He was the principal guide to
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3 
Col Hartley when he made his famous march up by coming Creek in September 1778/  
He died in 1846, aged 90 years 10 months and 22 days, and his tombstone stands now in the common near Northumberland. 
This much I have gathered from our family record, but I am anxious to get some proof of the same. Thanking you for a reply, 
I am Very truly yours Florence E. W. Coates 
Address  Mrs. E. L. Coates
Boulder, Colorado
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PETER G. TEN EYCK
1ST DISTRICT NEW YORK
GEORGE J. BEST
SECRETARY
House of Representative 
Washington D. C. 
July 16, 1913
Commissioner of Pensions, 
Washington, D. C.
Sir:  
Mr. Robert Covenhoven, of Conquest, Lycoming County, Pa., in 1834 applied for a pension having served as a scout and Indian hunter during the Revolution. Will you kindly forward to me all information you may have relative to this gentleman's application for pension and his war service? 
Thanking you in advance, I am 
Very truly yours, Peter TenEyck
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1913 –[unreadable] Peter Ten Eyck HR
1915  –[unreadable] Mrs. E. L. Coats
1938 Feb 13 Hist to Frank Tade
[unreadable] Feb 28 Hist to W. A. Barber
[unreadable]
Rev War 
12574
INVALID.
File No.  12,574
Robert Covenhoven
Pri  Rev War
Act:  June 7th 1832
Index:- Vol. A. Page 78
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office 
December 24th 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”, Robert Covenhoven, - Pensioner on the Roll of the Philadelphia Agency, at the rate of Eighty Dollars 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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Adm 2 yrs $80
J. L. City Commissioner
Pa. Act
July 30
[Unreadable]  MAY 27 Pa.
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Jersey Shore 27th of May 1833 
Sir
I enclose you the application of Robert Covenhoven for a Pension Corrected & amended in pursuance of intentions enclosed.  I trust that there was none he no objections to granting him a certificate.  Please enclose the same to me.  
I am respectfully yours 
A. V. Parsons
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before me the 9th day of April 1833  William Fitzsimmon 
Samuel Shoemaker  
I Do Certify that William Fitzsimmons the subscriber to the above Deposition is well known to me and has been for nearly thirty years past that he has always been reputed to have been in the service of the United Stated in the revolutionary War and that he is a person of good Character and that his statements or any Statement he would make would be worthy of credit 
In Witness whereof I have hereunto place my hand and seal the 9th day of April AD 1833 
Saml Shoemaker
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State of Pennsylvania 
Lycoming County} SS I Joseph Wood Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Lycoming County do Certify the Court of Lynn that Samuel Shoemaker Esqr. before whom the within Deposition purports to have been taken is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Lycoming and that full faith and credit are given to this official act, and that I truly believe the same to be his signature being seen him write – 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court at Williamsport the 17th day of May AD 1833 – 
for J. Wood Prothy
J. G. Massina Depty
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were embodied and organized into Companies this deponent and the said Robert Covenhoven belonged to the same Mess in the Company commanded by Captain Cookson Long under The Command of Lieut Colonel James Murry that marched from thence to Reading thence to Philadelphia thence to Trenton from thence to Princeton/  The battles of Trenton & Princeton were fought while they were at Reading from Princeton they marched to Morristown where they joined the main Army under the command of General Washington the next day their detachment was ordered to the Piscataway short Hills and placed under the command of Colonels afterwards General Potter under whose command the remainder of the term of their engagement (to wit 3 months, and at the request of General Washington they stayed one month Longer Deponent and the said Robert were in several
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before me the 9th day of April 1833  William Fitzsimmons  Saml Shoemaker
I do Certify that William Fitzsimmons the subscriber to the above Deposition is well known to me and has been for nearly thirty years part that he has always been reported to have been in the service of the United States during the Revolutionary War and that he is a person of good character and that his statement or any Statement he would make would be worthy of Credit In Witness whereof I have hereunto place my hand and seal the 9th day of April AD 1833 
Saml Shoemaker Prothy
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Robert Covenhoven
Pension Application
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acted as a guide to the scouting parties not engaged in that capacity and assisted the building of Fort Muncy. I frequently accompanied the said Covenhoven on scouting parties. The said Covenhoven and I remained at Fort Muncy till fall, when I was drafted to go to Baldeagle under Capt Newman and Capt Hepburn's company was ordered to Pine Creek.
In the same fall I volunteered under Col Hartly to Go in to the Indian County on the Tioga river. The said Covenhoven accompanied the expedition as guide.  We returned to Wyoming. At which place the said Covenhoven, Eben Green and myself were ordered as an express to Muncy to apprize them of the approach of the enemy. We travelled together to Fort Brady. After this time we were frequently on Scouting parties together 
Harry Hill his mark
Sworn & Subscribed Sept. 4. 1832 Before me S. Schuyler Justice of the peace
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I Simon Schuyler the Justice above named do hereby certify that Henry Hill the above named Witness is a credible person & that his statements are entitled to credit 
Witness my hand & seal the day of May 1833 
S Schuyler
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We John H. Grier a clergyman residing in the County of Lycoming and Samuel Stewart residing in said County of Lycoming here by certify that we are well acquainted with Robert Crownover who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy six years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion 
John H. Grier
Sam Stewart
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open Court J. Wood Prothy
Certificate of the Court 
And the 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 revolutionary soldier, And served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that John H. Grier who has signed the preceeding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the County of Lycoming and that James Stewart who has also signed the same is a resident in the County of Lycoming & is a credible person and that their statements is entitled to credit 
Seth Chapman 
John Cumming 
A Davidson 
I Joseph Wood Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Lycoming County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Robert Crownover for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this day of Sept  Anno Domini 1832  
J Wood Prothy