Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 16197, for Robert Mc Coy, Virginia
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(8-1776)
SERVICE						NUMBER
Va.		McCoy Robert		S16197

Carded

CONTENTS
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(Left side of page) 
4101.
Indiana
Robert McCoy
of Knox Co in the State of Indiana 
who was a private in the Company commanded
by Captain Lockridge of the Rev. commanded
by Col. Dickensen in the Virginia
militia for six months from 1777 –

Inscribed on the Roll of Indiana 
At the rate of 20 Dollars – cents per annum,
To commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 10th of January
1833 and scbt Hon W McCoy

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832     	30.00
Semi=anl. Allowance ending 
4 March 1833                                  10.00
Dollars			                        40.00

{Revolutionary Claim,}
Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Henry H Sgluzhy Clerk
Book D Vol. 4  Page 189

(Right side of Page)
(illegible)
Letter to J C Lea of 3rd Auditor
March 1841

Said at the Treasury under 
Act of the 6th Spril 1838
From 4th March 1839 to 4th 
March 1840. Agt notified
April 1841

Date of death not 
Act AB
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Hon. Wm McCoy’s
Affidavit
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On this 13th day of October 1832, Genl Wm McCoy came before the subscriber a Justice of the peace for Pendleton County Virginia & made oath to the following statement in relation to the services of Robert McCoy of Knox County Indiana. In the Revolutionary war, he states that the declaration of said Robert McCoy who is brother to this deposed & that he has enclosed to him his declaration made in the Superior Court of Knox County in the state of Indiana that he has (illegible) with attention the Statement of Declaration made by said Robert McCoy, who at the time of the services of which he speaks was a citizen of Augusta County Virginia: this deponents well recollects all the Tours of Duty of which he speaks. That he went out & returned home was saith of them but as to the length of time he served he is no so certain, the two first tours of duty of which he speaks, this deponent recollection in that they were for three month saith, that to North Carolina when in the battle at Gilford (sic) Court house, deponent think was between six &
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Seven weeks & that while under orders of Col. Smith as Express on bearer of order to deposit father Capt John McCoy on the waters of Monongahela was for a short time. I think not more than fifteen days, deponent has repeatedly heard the applicant and others who served with him talk over these campaigns & has no reason to doubt but he performed all the service of which he speaks faithfully nor has he any reason to doubt but in these different tours of duty he served upwards of eight months.
Wm McCoy

Sworn to and subscribed this 13th day of October 1832 before me Wm McCoy Jr a Justice of the peace in & for the county of Pendleton/State of Virginia

Wm McCoy Jr.
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Virginia Pendleton County Set

I Zebulon Dyer clerk of the county aforesaid do certify that William McCoy Jr before whom the foregoing affidavit of Genl William McCoy appears to have been taken is a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid and that due faith and credit ought to be given to all his official acts as such
In Testimony whereas I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this 13th day of October 1832 and in the 57th year of the Commonwealth

(Seal)
Z Dyer
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Robert McCoy
Pension Case
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Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832.
State of Indiana
Knox County } SS

On this 7th day of September 1832, personally appeared in open court before the Honorary Armory Kinney, President Judge of the Circuit Court of said count, now sitting.  Robert McCoy a resident of said county, aged upwards of seventy years, who being first duly worn according to law, doth, on his oath make the following declaration That he was according to family record, born in Augusta county, Virginia, on the 25th day of November 1761: that in the year 1777, he volunteered, in said county and state, to serve in a company under the command of Captain Andrew Lockridge, Lieut Kincaid and Ensign Wright, on an expedition against hostile Indians; and intended to scout and to visit fort on the head waters of Greenbrier: That said company performed a tour of duty, and on his return home, he was, with the other members of said company verbally discharged: That in 1778 he again volunteered to serve in a company under the command of the said Captn Lockridge for the relief of Donally’s fort on Greenbrier, towards which place the company marched with other troops, under the command of Col Dickenson, but on approaching the fort, information was received of the departure of the Indians, and the differ companies were detailed in squads to visit and garrison different forts; and after some time, Captn Lockridge visited his men, dismissed them verbally and all returned home: That in 1779, he was called into service by Colonel Abraham Smith, the commandant of said county of Augusta, and was ordered
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To proceed as an express bearer of orders, to the West fork of the Monongahela river, where his father Capt. John McCoy, was then stationed with his company, which duty he performed and returned home with his father and the men of said company: That in 1781, he volunteered in a rifle company raised in said county of Augusta, under Captain David Gwinn, and marched with other state troops, and joined that army commanded by General Green, near Guilford court house, North Carolina; that he served in said rifle company, sationed (sic) on the left flank of said army in the battle of Guilford, and said company lost many in killed and wounded and was the last portion of said army to quit the field of battle. That in a short time after said battle the said company returned home and was dismissed. That he cannot state the precise time of his various services during the revolutionary war: but he is conscious he rendered upward, of six months service altogether: that he never had a written discharge, and all his services commenced in said county, Virginia. That he will forward this declaration to said state, to be corroborated by testimony of some of his old associates; and that the evidence that may be transmitted with it, from thence is the only testimony he can now procure: That he removed from Pendleton County
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Virginia, formerly a part of Augusta County aforesaid, to Knox County, Indiana, in the year 1806, and has up to the present time resided in said county of Knox: That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any state.

Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open court} Robert McCoy

A. Kinney

We William Gamble and Samuel Adams residing in said County of Knox hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Robt McCoy who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy one years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood (sic) where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court
Wm Gamble
Saml Adams

A. Kinney

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
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certifies that it appears to them that Wm. Gamble & Saml Adams who have signed the preceding certificate, are respectable citizens of Knox county, and their statement is entitled to credit.

H. Kinney
State of Indiana
Knox County  SS

I Daniel C. Johnson Clerk of the Court of Knox Cunty do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Robert McCoy for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of our said court this seventh day of September 1832

D. C. Johnson Clerk
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January 11, 1936
xXxxxxxxxxxxxx
RA-J/HEL Ou
Robert McCoy-S.16197

Mrs. George W. McCoy
719 Busseron Street
Vincennes, Indiana

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the pension record of Robert McCoy, who served in the Revolutionary War, was State Commissioner of Virginia, and later removed to Knox County, Indiana.

The data which follow are obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 16197, based upon the military service in that war of Robert McCoy.

Robert McCoy, the son of John, was born November 26, 1761, in Augusta County, Virginia. The name of his mother is not given.

While residing in said Augusta County, Robert McCoy volunteered in 1777, and served in Captain Andrew Lockridge’s Virginia Company for three months: he enlisted in 1778, and served three months in Captain Andrew Lockridge’s Virginia Company, Colonel Dickenson’s Virginia Regiment: in 1779, he was ordered by Colonel Abraham Smith, commandant of Augusta Count, to carry an express to his (Soldier’s) father, Captain John McCoy, who was stationed on the West Fork of the Monongahela River: he performed this duty and returned with his father and the men of the latter’s company: length of service about seven weeks: he volunteered in 1781, served in Captain David Gwinn’s Virginia Company, marched to North Carolina and participated in the battle of Guilford: length of service about fifteen days. It was not shown that he revived a wound in this battle. (NOTE handwritten in margin: “Could not identify these officers.”)

After the Revolution, he lived in Pendleton (that part which was formerly Augusta) County, Virginia, until 1806, when he removed to Knox County, Indiana. It is not stated that he held the office of Commissioner of Virginia.

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 7, 1832, while residing in Knox County, Indiana.
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There is no reference to the wife or children of Robert McCoy.

In 1832, General William McCoy, a brother of the soldier, resided in Pendleton County, Virginia. In same year, William McCoy, Junior, was a Justice of the Peace for Pendleton County, Virginia, no relationship of William McCoy, Junior, to General William McCoy was shown.

There are no further family data.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pension, Robert McCoy (S.16197). you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:

Robert McCoy, Certificate No. 4101, issued January 10, 1833, rate $20 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Indiana Agency.

Very truly yours

A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.
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16.197
INVALID
File No. 16.197
Robert McCoy
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7" 32
Index:-Vol. /, Page 248
[Arrangement of 1870]

May 28 1901
Mrs. S. R. Green 8
May 9, 1907 History to
Chappell
1935 Jan qq Hist
to Mrs. Leo W. McCoy
EL
6 Jan 23 E. Rudolph McKay
adv cost of photos. Hist. let. 
Darby McGannon S 36104
MHF
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25 March 1841
J C Lea
G.C.
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195
Pension Office
25th March 1841.

Sir
I have referred the papers in the care of Robert McCoy to the Head Auditor of the Treasury that the pension may be paid in conformity to the Act of the 6th April 1838.
I am 

J. C. Lea Esq
Madison
Indiana
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Hon. Wm. Hendricks
Mar 24th ‘36

G.C.

Record of 31 page 810
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War Dept
Pen. Office
Mar. 24 1836

Sir,
I have the honor herewith to return the letter of Mr. Robert McCoy to you of the 9th instance. It appears from the semi-annual report of the UStates Pension Agent at business with this affair for the half year ending on the 31st of December last, that Mr. McCoy is already arranged for payment at that Agency

Hon. Wm Hendricks
U. S. Senate
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller’s Office
March 29th, 1841.
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 Treasure of the United States,” Robert McCoy, - a Pensioner on the Roll of the Indiana Agency, at the rate of Twenty Dollars and -------cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1839 to the 4th March 1840.
Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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(Left side, written vertically) 
Robt McCoy
Free
Pension case

(Center)
Allow
6 mo.
$20 per anu
Hon. W. McCoy H. R

(Right side, written vertically)
Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
War Department
Washington City, D. C.
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Franklin  October 15th 1832
Sir,
enclosed you will receive the application of Robt. McCoy for a pension under the late act of Congress, if further Evidence should be wanting. Enclose it back to me, there are Two person yet living in the County of Bath who each served with him a tour of Duty of which he speaks, but they live remote from each other & from me
respectfully your
obedient servant
Wm McCoy

Hon: Lewis Cass
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Postmark: (O.W.&N. DIV  APR 22 1907)
Postmark: (U.S. PENSION OFFICE  F  APR 22 1907)

Petersburg, Ind.
R.F.D. #1 Apr 18, 07

Dear Sir,
Please send me the Revolutionary War record of one Robert McCoy, who was drawing a pension in Knox County, Indiana in the year 1834 or 1835.

Very truly
Mrs. S. W. Chappell
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Mrs. George W. McCoy
719 Busseron St.
Vincennes, Indiana

(Handwritten: 719 Busseron St., Vinecennes, Ind. Dec. 12-, 1935)

To
Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.

Please send me at your earliest convenience the number of pension claim of Robert McCoy, state commissioner of Virginia, (Later removed to Knox County, Ind.) with data of record of military service in the war of the American Revolution. – Was he wounded and in what battle?
Very sincerely,
(Mrs George W.) Jeannette G. McCoy

(Postal seal: dated Dec 13 1936)
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O.W. and N. Division. 	3—525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.,
V&M
Ind. File 16197.
Rev. War
Madam:
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Robert McCoy, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow’s (crossed out) application for pension on file in his Bureau.
(The following is in chart form with headings)
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT
LENGTH OF SERVICE
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED
    CAPTAIN.                  COLONEL.           STATE.
1777 Pvt	Andrew Lockridge		           VA.
1778	Andrew Lockridge  Col Dickinson “
1779	Express bearer of order to his father Capt John McCoy         Abraham Smith	    “
1781		David Guion	
Total service 	6 mos

Battle engaged in, Guilford
Residence of solder at enlistment, Augusta Co VA.

Date of application for pension, Sept. 7 1832

Residence at date of application, Knox Co. Ind. 
His claim was allowed.				 
Age at date of application, Born in Augusta Co. Va. Nov, 26, 1761.
Remarks: In 1832 Soldier had a brother Gen Wm McCoy. No further data as to family.

Very respectfully,
Mrs. S. W. Chappell	
Petersburg Ind. 
R.F. D. #1

20581b3m11-05  	Commissioner
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January 23, 1936

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Mr. E. Rudolf McKay
29 Meredith Street
Springfield, Massachusetts

William Clifford, S. 45681
Robert McCoy, S. 16197
Darby McGannon, S. 36104  (Note to left: “his letter in)
BA-J/MMHF:MLB

Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request prostatic copies of all papers on file in Revolutionary War claims for pension based upon service of William Clifford, S. 45681, Robert McCoy, pensioner in 1835 in Knox County, Indiana, and Darby McGannon, pensioner in 1819 in Gallatin County, Kentucky,

The number of pages to be copied in these claims is:

Willian Clifford (S. 45681)  7 pages
Robert McCoy (S. 16197)  12 pages
Darby McGannon (S. 36104) 10 pages

The cost of photostatic copies per page in the above-cited claims is twenty-five cents, making total cost of the twenty-nine pages, $7.25.
Please make remittance by money order drawn to the order of the Treasurer of the United States.

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAN-51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD

Division of Veterans’ Administration Archives

NAME McCoy Roderick        Grade Corporal            Line Pennsylvania
WARRANT NUMBER 9963      Acreage 100     ISSUED  July 16, 1789 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.