Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2372, Jacob Cousins, Vt
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VT  Cousins, Jacob   R. 2372
Bethia
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No. 15120

Bethia Cousins
Widow of Jacob
Ohio

Act July 7, 1838
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State of Ohio ⎬
Lorain County⎬
On this sixth day of December in the year one thousand Eight hundred and fifty three, Personally appeared before the undersigned Probate Judge within and for said County of Lorain, Mrs. Bethiah Cousins a resident of Elyria in the said County of Lorain aged Ninety years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 Entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows

That she is the widow of Jacob Cousins who was a private in the company commanded by Capt. Smith in the - Regiment commanded by Colonel Ethan Allen Vermont Troops, that he
enlisted at Manchester in the State of
Vermont, sometime in the year Seventeen
hundred and Seventy Eight, as near as the
can recollect and continued in actual
service for nine months or more, the
precise time she cannot now tell. That he was stationed at Fort Miller any part of his said service, and that he was honorably discharged.
That she has no documentary evidence
and that she knows of no person whose
testimony she can procure who can testify
to his service. That he resided when he
entered the service in the town of Dorset
in the County of Bennington and State of
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Vermont. She further declares that the
was married to the said Jacob Cousins onthe
26th day of July A.D. 1780 and that her name before her said marriage was Bethiah Barto, and that her husband, the aforesaid Jacob Cousins, died on the seventeenth day of July in the year Eighteen hundred and nineteen, in Ferrish
and that she has not intermarried, but continues the widow of the above mentioned Jacob Cousins: That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen
hundred and ninety four. Viz. at the time
above stated. The refers to the army rolls and
other evidence in the possession or control of
the Pension department.
Wm  P Bliss
Bethiah [her X marks] Cousins

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day
year first above written.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal at Elyria in said County and State
P. Bliss Probate Judge

[and that the to her hereton
hereof fast by North R]
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State of Ohio}
Cuyahoga County}
.
On this second day of February in the year Eighteen hundred and fifty four Personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace in &
for the County and State aforesaid Abraham Cousins aged Seventy four years, a resident of the Town of  Dover in the State of Ohio, who after being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he knows and is a son of Mrs. Bethiah Cousins, who resides in Elyria in the State of Ohio. That she is now ninety years of age, and that she was legally married to Jacob Cousins deceased, as he is informed and verily believes, on the Twenty sixth day of July, in the year 1780, in the town of Dorset in the State of Vermont. 
That her name before her said marriage was Bethiah Burto That the said Jacob Cousins, deceased was this affiants Fathers, and that they the said Jacob Cousins, deceased and Bethiah Cousins, lived together as lawful husband & wife up to the year Eighteen hundred and nineteen, at which time the said Jacob Cousins died and that this affiant never knew or heard of their marriage on the legality thereof being questioned by any one, and that the said Bethiah Cousins has not again married since, the said Jacob Cousins decease in A.D. 1819, but yet remains his widow. and that he know of no records of said marriage, and further saith not. 
Cousins

Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year first above written, and I do further certify that Abraham  Cousins is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit.

A.S. Faw, Justice of the Peace
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Bethiah Cousins, lived together as lawful husband & wife up to the year Eighteen hundred and nineteen, at which time the said Jacob Cousins died and that 
The State of Ohio,}
CUYAHOGA COUNTY, SS}

I, JAMES D. CLEVELAND, Cat of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for said County, do hereby certify that A. S. Barry before whom the ,  thereunto was taken and who has thereunto subscribed his names officially in his own proper handwriting, was at the date of the said Affidavit and now is an acting Justice of the Peace.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of said Court at Cleveland, this Sixth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four

J. D. Cleveland Clerk.
By Geo Bingham Depute
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State of Ohio}
Cuyahoga County}ss

On this second day of February in the year Eighteen hundred and fifty four.
Personally appeared before me, a justice of the Peace within and for said County and State aforesaid, Sally Cousins aged Eighty five years, a resident of the town of Dover in the State of Ohio, who after being duly sworn according to
law, deposes and says that she knows and a Sister to Mrs. Bethiah Cousins, who resides in Elyria, in the State of Ohio, That she is ninety years of age, and that she was legally married
to Jacob Cousins, now deceased, on the Twenty sixth day of July in the year seventeen hundred and Eighty, as near as she can remember, in the town of Dorset in the State of Vermont
That her name before her said marriage was unto, as also was this affiants, and that the said Bethiah Cousins and this Officer married brothers. That the and that they
the said Jacob Cousins and the said Bethiah Cousins, lived together as lawful husband and wife, from the time of said marriage, up to the time of the said Jacob Cousins deceased, in the year Eighteen hundred and nineteen
That she never heard the legality of said marriage questioned, and that the said Bethiah Consies, has not since married, but yet remains his widow. That she does not know of any records of said marriage. 
Sally [her X mark] Cousins

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year first above written, and I do further certify that Sally Cousins is a credible person and that her statement is entitled to credit
A.S. Faw, Justice of the Peace,
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Ages of Jacob Cousins' familys
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Benjamin Borto was Born October 1 1735
Mary Williams was Born December 30 1741 and
Bethiah Barto was Born April 9th 1763
Margarah this Born June 1st 1764
Ann Banto was Born August 11th 1766
Sarah Barto was Born September 6th 1768
John Barto was Born August 16th 1871
Gilburt Barto was Born September 17th 1774
Abigal Barto Was Born May 27th 1778
David Barto was Born December 16th 1781
Benjamin Barto died September 13th 1825
aged eighty nine years and eleven month -89 Abigail Gaye died in March 1813
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The Family Record of Jacob Cousins

Cousins was Born March 16th 1756
Bethie Barto was Born April 9th 1763
Jacob Cousins was married to Bethie Barto July 26th 1780
Joshua Cousins was Born April 28th 1781
Abraham Cousins was Born March 8th 1780
Sarah Cousins was Born October 22th 1785
Polly Cousins was Born March 25th 1788
Abel Cousins was Born July 26th 1790
He died August 18, 1792
Daniel Elott Cousins was Born July 1st 1793
Pinetta Cousins was Born February 24th
1796
Ida Cousins was Born Febuary 24th 1799
Abel Cousins was Born December 15th
1801
Irena Cousins was Born March 29 1805
Charles N Cousins was Born June 9th 1810
Abel Cousins died February 11th 1811
Jacob Cousins died July 17th 1819
Ida Fletcher died September 11th 1829
Sarah Kellogg died October 14th 1834
William Kellogg died June 16 1834
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The State of Ohio}
Lorian County ss}
I Irene Kellogg of said York County being duly
son this 19th day of April AD. 1854 do upon my oath say that the annexed Paper a him copy of the Family Received of Jacob Cousins and of Purisburg Vermont that said copy was made by me and my brother Daniel Cousins in the year 1827 in order to present the entries on said Read from destruction. that the original  record and had been in the family of said Jacob Cousins deceased from my earliest recollection which be for back as the year 1808 and was in the family Bible and was usually treated by the said Jacob, by his wife the said Bethia Cousins, and by all the members of the saints, as a hen family Record and I have doubt was a then said-that latter said year 1827 it was present by said widow Bethia Cousins when it had become so worn out that it became necessary to copy it in order to presence in which was accor duly done us above stated, that sin and who made the signal and has been lost or destroyed, Deponent further say that copy is in the hand writing of my said brother and that we and both children of the said Jack consin, and I was present as above sall saw each name copied and how the annexed to be a him copy the further says that subsequent to her best recollection he entries an said original family record were made as they occurred this deponent being continually a member of the family and cognisant both of the facts and of their family as aforesaid                 
 Irene [her X mark] Kellogg

The foregoing affidavit and original
writing by me to dictated by the deponent Irene
Kellogg, and by her subscribed and some
to in my presence & before me this 18th day
of April A.D. 1854    P. Bliss Probate Judge of admin Lorian County}
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State of Vermont
Secretary of States Office
Montpelier, Mar 18, 1844

I hereby certify that there is in file in this office, "A Pay Roll of Capt. Abraham Underhill's company and Col. Ira Allen's Regiment of Militia,
for service done in defence of the Frontiers of the State of Vermont in the alarms which commenced the 12th 1781 in which are in name of Jacob Cousins, with an allowance for
six days service and for thirty miles trane

Given under my hand and the seal of this office
this the 18th day of March, A.D. 1854

Daniel P. Thompson
Secretary of State
per George R. Thompson, Deputy,
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The State of Ohio}
Lorain County }
Joseph Kellogg of the town of Elyria in the County of Lorain and State of Ohio after being duly sworn according to law deponent and say: That from the line of him with in 1798 to the year 1831 he resided in the Town of Bogennes in the County of Addison and State of Vermont, that from the then he was about six years of age in the year 1804 of the year 1819 and during that time and all of said time he was acquainted with and Jacob Cousins who lived in the
law of Ferrishing from which said Vergennes was in part taken) with this affiant that said Jacob Cousins was about 500 years of
when this affiant became the first acquainted with him in the year 1804 and that he the said Jacob Cousins was real and believed in the neighborhood when he lives, to have been
Soldier of the Revolution and that he concur in that opinion and that the belief that the said Jacob Cousins was a revolution holden was sensual and no doubts existed upon the subject
and that the said Jacob Cousins did in the year 1777 a widow Bathier Cousins who now resides in Elyria, Lorain County Ohio, and further saith not-

P. Bliss.                      Joseph [his X mark]Kellogg

Subscribed and sworn to before in this 7th day of August 1854 and I further certify that Mr Joseph Kellogg the affiant is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to it.

In testimony I have hereto as clerk of the Court
of Probate of Lorain County set my hand and the Seal of said Court this 17 day of August
AD 1834
P. Bliss Probate Judge Clerk
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State of Ohio}
Cuyahoga County}ss

Moses McKillips, aged nearly seventy years
the town of Olmsted in the County of Cuyahoga Ohio. After being duly sworn according to law, deponent and says, that from me the year 1779 or 1800 to the year 1835, he resided in the town of Vergennes in the County of Addison and State of Vermont and that during said time, and all of said time he was acquainted with one Jacob Cousins who lived in the same town neighborhood with this affiant, that the said Jacob Cousins was about 35 or 40 years of age when this Affiant first become acquainted with him in the year 1799, 1800, and that he the said Jacob consent was reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resided to have been a soldiers of the revolution, and that he concur in that opinion. And that the belief that the said Jacob was and that no doubts existed upon the subject and that the said Jacob Consins died in the year 1819 leaving a widow Bathier Cousins who now resides in Elyria Lorain County Ohio, Further this affiant saith not 
                                       Moses McKillips

Subscribed and sworn to before me this 7th
day of August 1854 and I further certify
that Moses McKillips is a credible person
and that his statement is entitled to credit

C. Phillips Justice of the Peace⎬
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The State of Ohio,}
CUYAHOGA COUNTY, SS.}

I JAMES D CLEVELAND, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for said County, do hereby Certify, that Phillips before whom the foregoing Deposition was taken, and who has thereunto subscribed his name officially in his own handwriting, was at the date of the said
Deposition and now is an acting Justice of Peace within and for said Cuyahoga County, authorized by the laws of the State of Ohio, to take and duly commissioned and sworn, and to all whose official acts, il dit are due and ought to be given throughout the United States and elsewhere, [and that said laws of the State of his executed and acknowledged according to the]

In Testimony Whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said Court, at Cleveland, this 19th day of August in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four

Jas V. Cleveland Clerk
By J. M. Adams Deputy Clerk
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No. 15,120
Bethia Cousins 
Widow of Jacob Ohio

Henry Cousins March 2, 1852
To the same June 24, 1854
Same Sept. 4, 1854

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July 7, 1838
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East Troy, Wis. Aug. 26th 1854
The Hon Commissioner of Pensions
Sir Enclosed I send the further evidence
in support of the application of Bethia Cousin of
Elyria, Ohio, and hope the same may be sufficient to entitle her to a pension
I am unable to find a contemporary survivor, although I can get many who have been acquainted and lived in the neighbor have with him (the said Jacob Cousins, whose Deportions, to the same effect of these now sent would readily be given, his thinking two would be sufficient have not procured any more.
yet should it be necessary can get them hereafter,

Very Respectfully your
Obedient Servent
Henry Cousins,
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East Troy VT June 15th 1854. 
To the Hon Y. P. Waldo

Dear Sir. In the matter of this application of Bethia Cousins for a Pension under act of July 7th 1838. I send a copy of the family Records
showing the marriage &c. which I send herewith
There appears to be no proof of record in the
Office of the Secretary of State of Vermont of his service as set forth in her declaration. There is however a second in said office of Jacob Cousins being in service a short time under Capt Abraham Underhill's Company and Col. Ira Allen's Regiment in the year 1781. Done in defence of the Frontiers. He was in the service several different times, I also send the record received from the Secretary office
If the above is not sufficient proof, Please
inform whether the same kind of proof which is
admissible under act passed June 7th 1832. will be admitted in this case. That is in cases with respect to the State Troops and militia, where there is no record to advert to and no presumption to be rebutted

Very Respectfully
Henry Cousins
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2372
Bethia Cousins
Wid. of Jacob

Rejected