Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2409, Solomon Cox, N C
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(8-1776)

SERVICE
NC

Cox, Solomon
Mary

NUMBER
R. 2409

CONTENTS
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31.461
South Carolina
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[So]lomon [Solomon] Cox 

Edgefield in the State of So. Ca.
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Hadley of the Rgt. commanded by Col. Armstrong in the No. Ca. line for 9 months
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Inscribed on the roll of So. Ca. 
at the rate of 30 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 2d day of July 1836 and sent Hon. F.W. Pickens Ho. of Reps.
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1838     $210.00
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Sept "  15.00
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                                                        225.00
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 { Revolutionary Claim,  Act June 7, 1832. }

 Recorded by Dnl. Addison Clerk,
 Book D          Vol. 6              Page 66




Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6. April 1838 from 4 March 1838 to 16. July 1839. The day of his death. Agt notified 17. April 1840
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Set Hon. F. W. Pickens  June 23 1841
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                    Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed 7 June 1832.

State of South Carolina }
Edgefield District } 
On This 7 day of June 1838. Personally appeared in open court, before the court of Equity, now  sitting, Solomon Cox, a resident of the District aforesaid ^& state aforesaid aged Eighty three or Eighty four. Who after 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 7 June 1832.

The applicant states that he was borned [born] in Cumberland County in the State of North Carolina. that he was borned [born] in the year 1752 or 53. That he had a record of his age but that it was burnt in his Fathers house by the British during the Revolutionary War. That he first volunteered ^in the year 1778 in Cumberland County North Carolina under Capt. Thomas Hadly for three months. that said company was attached to a Regiment commanded by Col. Thomas Armstrong. That said company was employed by the Col. as a scout for the county during the term of three months. That immediately after his discharge from his first tour of duty that he volunteered under Capt Jacob Duck for three months that said company was attached to a Regiment of Militia commanded by Col. Philip Alston on said county. that during that term of service that he was taken a prisoner with several others of said [crossed out: of] company by a British company commanded by a Captain McIver. that a few days afterwards, that he was retaken by Capt. Ducks company. That he was discharged by said Capn. after having served his three months. and immediately after volunteered under the same officers for three months more. That he afterwards volunteered under Captains, that he does
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not recollect the names of the different Captains that he served under afterwards, but that the campaigns to which he was attached, were attached to regiments commanded by Col Thomas Childs Col. - Mathews and Col. Wade. That while under the command of Col. Wade, that he was in an [crossed out] attack made by said regiment against the British & torys [tories] on Drowning Creek. The British & torys [tories] command by a Col. McNeil. That after that he was taken at Hillsborough while on duty. at the time that Governor Burk [Burke] was taken by the British. That he was handcuffd [handcuffed] and marched with the other prisoners for Willmington [Wilmington] in North Carolina. that on the third or fourth day, that a Capt. William King, a citizen of North Carolina, but attached to the British service [crossed out] assisted him in making his escape, by passing him by the sentinels at night - The applicant further states that he had the commanded a scout, sent in pursuit of Capt. de Cloud a tory, that he succeeded in capturing him with seven others, and carried them over to Salisbury Court House and there put them in Jail -

The applicant states that he continued in actual service as a volunteer with the militia from the year 1778 to the close of the War [.] That his services was confined to [crossed out] the state of North Carolina. That he was in one instance sent as a pilot to a Majr. Lewis. to South Carolina 

The applicant states that he moved from the state of North Carolina to Edgefield District in South Carolina in the 1798. That he has resided there to the present time. The applicant herby [hereby] relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roles [rolls] or agency of any state
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Whatever. Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open Court before me }
S/Solomon Cox
S/Wm. Harper -


Mr Hollis Dunton P.M. and Abel Skannal residing in the District and State aforesaid do herby [hereby] certify that we are well acquainted with Solomon Cox who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration. that we belive [believe] him to be upwards of Eighty years of age. That he is reputed and belived [believed] in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
S/H. Dunton P.M.
S/Abel Skannal M.D.

Sworn to before me this 7th day of June 1838.
S/John Chatham JP


South Carolina}
Edgefield District }
Personally appeared before me - William Dawson ^aged Seventy nine years, a soldier of the revolution and now a pensioner of the state of South Carolina for Military services rendered during the revolution, and makes oath that in the year [crossed out: 79 or 80] seventy nine or Eighty, that he was residing in the District and state aforesaid. and went to Cumberland County in the state of North Carolina where he then saw [crossed out] the applicant above named (Solomon Cox) doing duty in a company of mounted militia commanded by Cap. Thomas Hadley. That after the close of the war he was again in the state of North Carolina in the county aforesaid. that he there heard Joshua Hadley who was also an officer frequently mention the above named applicant as having done service from the latter part of the revolutionary war, and that he belives [believes] all the statements set forth in his declaration are facts

Sworn to before me this 7 June 1838 - 
S/T.H. Nixon J.P.
S/William Dawson


And the said Court do herby [hereby] declare their opinion on, after the investigation of the matter, and after
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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 the said Hollis Dunton and Abel Skannal who have signed the preceding certificate are credible persons; and their statements are entitled to credit.
S/Wm. Harper. -

South Carolina }
Edgefield District }
I James Terry Commissioner in Equity of the Court of Equity for the District & State aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Solomon Cox aforesaid for a Pension - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 7th day of June 1838
S/J. Terry
C.E.E.D.


South Carolina }
Edgefield District }
personally appeared before me H. Dunton & A Skannal who deposeth that they have known William Dawson whose affidavit in favor of Solomon Cox is hereunto annexed for a number of years, that we believe him to be a man of truth and that his statement is entitled to credit
sworn to before me this 9th June 1838
S/John Cheatham JP
S/H. Dunton P.M
S/Abel Skannal M.D.
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 July 1838 entitled, An act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows. 


State of South Carolina }
Edgefield District }
On this 26 day of March 1841
Personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas & Gen'l [General] Sessions for the District & state aforesaid. Mary Cox a resident of the District & State aforesaid. age seventy six or seventy seven years. Who being 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 the 7th July 1838. entitled, "An act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of Solomon Cox. Who was a private in the Revolutionary War. And hear [here] refers the department to his application, as a Pensioner for the Proof of his services. She further declares that she was married to the said Solomon Cox on the 14 March 1784 or 1785. and that [crossed out: the said] her Husband the aforesaid Solomon Cox died on 16 day of July 1839. that she was not married to him previous to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first January seventeen hundred & ninety four vz [viz] at the time above mentioned. and that she has never married Since. Sworn to & subscribed on the day and year above written.
Before me.
Mary [her mark X] Cox
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I. Josiah J. Evans. . one of the associate Judges of the said state. do hereby certify that the within named Mary. Cox. did this day appear in open. court. & made subscribed the within Declaration. In testimony whereof I have. hereunto subscribed my name. and. Caused. the seal of the said. Court. to be hereunto affixed. on the day & year. within written.
S/Josiah: J. Evans

In obedience to the above order I ^have hereunto affixed my name and the seal of the Court Edgefield Court House This 26th day of March A.D. 1841.

[seal]
S/Geo: Pope
C.C.P.
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Mary Cox
S Ca.
Suspended =
__________
for
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State of South Carolina }
District of Edgefield }
Know all men by these presents that we Sarah ^Cox & Elizabeth Cox heirs and legal representatives of Solomon Cox deceased of the state and District aforesaid do hereby Constitute and appoint Thomas P. Morgan of the City of Washington District of Columbia our true and lawful Attorney and Agent, to prosecute any claim which we may have upon the government of the United States for Revolutionary Pension due or which may have been due, in consideration of the Services of the aforesaid Solomon Cox. And we hereby authorize our said Attorney and Agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Departments at Washington City or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments. and which may be issued for said claim, And ^we do hereby authorize our said Attorney and Agent to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that [crossed out: I] we might or could do were [crossed out: I] we personally present
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Hereby ratifying and confirming all that our said Attorney and agent shall lawfully do in the premises 

Witness our hand and seal this 8th [crossed out: month] day of January Anno Domini 1853

Signed and sealed in the presence of us 
S/John Brunson 
S/Benj Roper
Sarah [her mark X] Cox
Elisabeth [her mark covered with ink blot] Cox


State of South Carolina }
Edgefield District }
John  Brunson personally came before me, and testified that he witnessed the due execution of the above Power of Attorney; and that Benjamin Roper was also a witness of its due execution

Sworn to before me, This 12th January 1853
S/Tho. G. Key.
M.E.D.
S/John Brunson
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State of South Carolina }
Edgefield District }
I, Thomas G. Bacon Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions for the district and state aforesaid, and as such officer. keeper of the Rolls of Magistrates, do hereby certify, that Thomas G. Key whose name appears annexed, is a Magistrate, duly commissioned and sworn for said district; and that the signature purporting to be his, is genuine.

Given under my hand and seal of office, at Edgefield C. H., this the twelfth day of January A.D. 1853.
[seal]
S/Tho. G. Bacon
Clk.
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Robert Loftins
Affidavit
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State of South Carolina }
Edgefield District - }
Personally appeared before me Robert Loftin, Seventy two years of age. who after being duly sworn, sayeth that, he has known Mary Cox (who now applies for a Pension on account of services rendered during the revolutionary war by her Husband Solom Cox.) that he has been intimately  acquainted with the above named Mary & Solomon Cox. from fifty five to Sixty years [.] that when he first became acquainted with them that they were living together in this District as Man & Wife. that they continued to live together as such until his death. which was in the year 1839. That he never heard during that period. the legality of their marriage questioned. And believes them to have been such. That the above named Mary Cox has never married since. And that her Husband Solomon Cox, was a Pensioner of the United States

Sworn to before me this 5 April 1841
S/John Kirksey J.P.
Robt. [his mark X] Loftin


I certify that I have known the subscribing witness above, [crossed out: and any of his] for a number of years, and that he is entitled to full faith & credit
S/John Kirksey
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Affidavit of 
William Dawson
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State of South Carolina }
Edgefield District }
Personally appeared before ^me William Dawson ^a pensioner of the United States who after being duly sworn, Sayeth on his oath that he knew Solomon Cox and Mary Cox, who is now an applicant for a Pension, as Man and Wife in the year 1786. That he was not present at the marriage. but has no doubt but what they were legally man & wife. That he also knows her husband to have been a pensioner of the Government of the United States. That her Husband Solomon Cox died in the year 1839. That Mary Cox the applicant is a widow at this time, and has never married since the death of her Husband the above named Solomon Cox. and that the said Mary Cox the present applicant is and has since the time above mentioned allways [sic: always] been reputed as the Lawful wife of the above named Solomon Cox
S/William Dawson

Sworn and subscribed to before me this 30th day of March 1841
S/Aaron Hill Magistrate
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[letterhead] TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office, [letterhead]

April 1st, 1840.

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," The widow of Solomon Cox, a Pensioner on the Roll of the S. Carolina Agency, at the rate of Thirty - Dollars [crossed out: and [blank] Cents] per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1838. to the 16th July 1839. the day of his death.

Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.


To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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[crossed out: Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 8, 1873. ]
C31461  [stamp: REJECTED]
2409 OM
P.O.  Mary Cox
Service: widow of Solomon of Edgefield District S.C.

Enlisted: ____________, 18  .
Discharged: _____________, 18  .

Application filed: ________________, 18  .
[stamp: REJECTED]

Alleges: ________________________

Re-enlisted: _____________________

Attorney: ________________________
P.O. ______________________________
____________ Recognized.  ____________ Contract.
________ Cert. of Dis.    Searched for _______, 18  .
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Solomon Cox.  d. 16 July 1839
Mary Cox  m. 1785
Pen. S.C.

Rejected.







2409
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No 7874
Mrs M Cox
application for a Pension
S. Ca
Act 7 July 1838






Hon. F. W. Pickens
HR
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The State of South Carolina }
Edgefield District }
I Geo: Pope Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas & General Sessions for the District & State aforesaid: Do hereby Certify that Aaron Hill & John Kirksey who have signed the foregoing affidavits were at the time of signing the same and are now Magistrates for the District of Edgefield and that due faith and credit are and of right ought to be given to their attestations, Magistrates aforesaid ~

[seal] 
In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal of Office at Edgefield Court House This 17 day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred & Forty one ~
S/Geo: Pope
C.C.P.
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34,563
Solomon Cox.


allow 9 mos pri [months private] $30 per ann, [annum]


N.C. milit [militia]
Capt Hadley




Hon. F. W. Pickens
HR
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State of South Carolina
I Geo Pope Clerk of the Court of Edgefield District: Do hereby Certify that John Cheatham & Thomas H. Nixon are Magistrates for said District and that the signatures purporting to be theirs is genuine

In testimony thereof I have affixed my Seal of Office & Subscribed my name this Eleventh day of June A.D. 1838
S/Geo: Pope
Clerk of the Court of Edgefield District


I A.P. Butler one of the associate Judges of So Ca. do certify that Geo Pope is clerk of the Court of Common Pleas on which I [illegible] and that his signature to the above Certificate is genuine - 
S/A.P. Butler
Associate Judge
June 19th. 1838