Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34706, Dominick Coins, Md
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
MD

Coins Dominick S.34706
or Dominic

Contents
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12.611
Maryland R
⎬
Dominick Coins
of Harford Co. in the State of Maryland
who was a Private
in the regiment command
Colonel Ford of the Maryland
line, for the term of 3 years, to $0
Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on
the 29th of May 1818-
Certificate of Pension issued the 22d of July 1819
and sent to Applicant, care of
Thos Bailey Esqr Baltimore
order on the testation
Arrears to 4th of March 1819 - 9 7/31 73. 80
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819 48.00
$121.80
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
Continued
[Illegible] Harford
hell may my son
Notification sent November 9, 1820 to
Stevenson Archer Belle Air, Maryland
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State of Maryland
City of Baltimore So.
On this 29th day of May in the 
year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen personally appeared before me the undersigned
Dominic Coins a resident of Harford County in the State of Maryland aged about Sixty five years an applicant for a pension under the late act of Congress entitled An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the "United States in the Revolutionary War," and then
and there made the following declaration
on Oath by me administered that he enlisted
in the year 1777 in Harford County, marched to Baltimore and there mustered in Capt Robert Harris' Company attached to the 6th Maryland Regiment commanded by Col Williams or rather by Lt Col Ford, Col Williams being at that time a prisoner at New York; ordered to Head Quarters at Bonbrook, where the Company joined the regiment soon after passed over from Hanover near Morris Town to Staten Island, thence on various duties until the battle of Brandywine. Was also at the Battle of German Town, after which Capt Harris resigned and the company was called Orrendorf, but Orrendorf never joined
the Company, they were under the command
of Lt. Col Ford, with Lieut Scott  [illegible] Daugherty marched with the Maryland line to the Southward, was present at the battle of
Camden, the Cowpens, Eutaw Springs and
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finally at the seige of York, from whence
they were marched to Head Quarters at
Snake Hill on the North River and there
encamped during the Winter, and in the spring
of 1783 was marched to Baltimore where he
Received a written discharge, which discharge
he sent to Anapolis for the purpose of obtaining pension from the State, and supposes it may
be filed in the Office there 

[illegible, crossed out]

and from his extreme
reduced circumstances he needs the assistance
of his Country for support.
Subscribed & Sworn
to before me
N. Brice
Chief Judge Balt City
Court-
Dominic Corns
His Wife
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Auditors Office Annapolis March 17th 1819
I hereby certify that it appears from the Master Rolls remaining 
in the Auditors office that Dominick Coyn enlisted as a
private in the sixth Maryland Regiment on the 21st of
May 1777 and was discharged Jan 7 1780

Thos Karney Aud
State Maryland
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State of Maryland
City of Baltimore Sc.
I Certify that from the foregoing
declaration, taken before me this day on Oath, it
appears to my satisfaction that the said
Dominic Coins served in the Revolutionary
War on the Continental establishment, against
the common enemy, and from his extreme
poverty ^[illegible] is entitled to a pension under the late act of Congress
Given under my hand
at the City of Baltimore this 29 day of
May Eighteen hundred and Eighteen
⎬
N Brice Chief
Judge Balt City Court

 I do further certify that the said Dominic
Coins produced to me his Land.
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Certificate, signed by the Register of the Land
Office for the Western Shore of Maryland for
fifty Acres of Land, as a County granted him
by the said State for revolutionary services
May 29. 1818
N. Brice Chief
Jude Balt City Court

City of Baltimore SC
I Thomas Harwood Clerk of Baltimore
 City Court do hereby Certify that the Honorable Nicholas Brice Esquire before whom the forgoing proceedings
were taken and certified and who hath thereto subscribed his name, was at the time of taking and certifying the same
and still is Chief Judge of Baltimore City
Court, duly commissioned and qualified and to all his acts as such full faith and Credit is and
ought to be given. In testimony whereof
thereunto subscribed my name and
affixing the seal of the said Court
the Twenty ninth day of May Eighteen hundred
and Eighteen.
Th Harwood Clerk
Baltimore City Court

To the Hon J.C. Calhoun
Secretary of War

When you are pleased to grant
my pension certificate please forward the same to me care of Thomas Bailey Esquire Baltimore MD
Test P.G. Hand

Dominic Coins
My Mark
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Dominic Coins
12. 611
Sept 1819
Stevenson Archer
Belle Air
MD
9th Nov
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Harford County
Sixth Judicial District of Maryland Towit
On this 31st day August Eighteen
hundred and twenty personally appeared in
open Court being a Court of Record in Harford
County for said District Dominick Coin
aged sixty seven years resident in Harford
County in said District who being first
sworn according to law doth on his oath
declare that he served in the Revolutionary
War as follows. I enlisted in Harford County
under Capt Robert Harris in the year
Seventeen hundred and seventy seven and
served until the conclusion of the war
which was in 1783. ^12611 No Carter And I do Solemnly swear
that I was a resident citizen of the United States
on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I
have not since that time by
gift sale or
in any manner disposed of my property
or any part thereof with intent thereby to
diminish it as to bring myself within the
provisions of an act of Congress entitled
an act to provide for certain persons
engaged in the land and naval service of the
United States in the Revolutionary war
passed on the 18th day of March 1818, and
that I have not nor any person for me any
property or security contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than
what is contained in the Schedule hereto
annexed and by me subscribed
Schedule 
Wearing apparel
$
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My occupation is a weaver but from old age
and Infirmity I am unable to pursue it-
I have no family except a wife who does not
reside with me and who is now a pauper in
the alms house of Harford County. 

His mark Dominick Coins

Sworn in open Court before W. W. Harfor this day
Henry Dorsey Clerk of Harford County do hereby
Certify that the foregoing oath and schedule
thereto annexed are truly copied from the record
of the said Court. And I do further certify that
it is the opinion of the said Court that the total
amount in value of the property [illegible] in the
aforesaid Schedule is $ and conts


In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of
the said Court on this
Henry Dorsey Clk
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34706
INVALID.
Rev Y


File No. 34,706
Dominick Coins
Pri Rev War

Act: 18 March 18

Index: -- Vol. 8 Page 84

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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To all whom it may Concern-
I do hereby certify that Dominic Koin [sic Coins]
a United States Pensioner is in great poverty and
very distressed circumstances, and is in
great need of immediate assistance from
the Government, being old, infirm, & decrepid

Baltimore 1st May 1819.

John Montgomery

In addition to the above certificate of the late Attorney General, I
Thomas Bailey a Justice of the peace in and for Balt County do certify that
each time [illegible] Dominick Coins has come to Balt for the purpose of looking
after his pension, I have been obliged to support him, and also to furnish him
with as much money as would carry him back to Harford County to get
clear of him-- Given under my hand at that this 1 May 1819
Th Bailey
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Dominick Coins 
Priv:
Lt. Col. Ford's
Maryland Regt
1777-3 years-
29th May 1818
Admitted
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State of Maryland, Baltimore County
Be it remembered that on this tenth day of April
1819, personally appears before me the undersigned Justice
of the Peace in and for said County Major George
McCausland of Harford County and State aforesaid
who being by me duly sworn deposeth and saith, that he
hath been personally acquainted with Dominick Coins who
is an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress of
the 22nd March 1818, for nearly thirty years, saw
him sell his final settlement certificates to Colonel Ignatius Wheeler of Harford County soon after his first acquaintance with
said Coins, & he is well assured said Coins was a solder in the Revolutionary War
That said Dominick Coins is at this time, and has been for some years part in extreme penury, dependent [crossed out] mostly
on the bounty of his fellow Citizens for support,
being an entire cripple deponent further saith
that said Coins has been a half pay invalid ^pensioner of the
State of the State of Maryland for many years past did further saith not.
G. W. Causland
Subscribed and sworn to before
me the undersigned Justice of the
Peace in the Balt. County this tenth
day of April 1819
Tho Marky