Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2073, Henry S Cobb, Conn.
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[illegible] Cobb, Henry S .  R2073
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State of New York
County of [illegible]
On this 12th day of December A.D. 1847 personally affirmed before me Daniel Pratt Justin of the Supreme Court of said state [?] in the city of Syracuse in said County Henry S Cobb is a resident of Syracuse in the County of [?] and state of New York aged eighty eight years
and who from bodily infirmity [?] to his advanced ages is  not able to appear in [illegible] court, who being first duly [illegible] according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress [illegible] June 7 1832: that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated:
That he was born in [illegible] State of Connecticut Junne 27 11761 and [illegible] enrolled in the militia at the age of Sixteen years old in the year f1777 and served one day as a militia training and immediately thereafter   and in the same year enlisted voluntarily as a private into a company of artillery [illegible] only called the [illegible] company raised [illegible] the bounds of the 20th Regiment of militia which company was
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duration, of some of which the Records under the charge of the Comptoller of the State of Connecticut afford evidence and of some thereof appears to be no record as for instance at the burning of New London
Sept 6th 1781 at which the company was present, the depreciation of the currency at that period rendered it of so trifling value that the pay was not of sufficient importance as to be sought after. The fact of the Charter of the company by the council of Safety in July 1777 for a specific purpose, that it was constituted by voluntary enlistments; was composed of individuals of the first standing; animated with feelings of patriotism and personal honor, their being constantly from the time of their organization to the end of the war under
orders and in readiness to march to any point of danger at the first notice of alarm the absence of an individual member without an unavoidable hindrance would have been a delinquency which would have branded the individual with disgrace and subjected him to expulsion; but of this there were no examples. 

The declarant states that the exception herein before mentioned to a continuous service in the Artillery company from the time of his first enlistment into it in 1777 to the end of the war and thereafter,
was a period of three months which was occupied in the military service of the County under the following circumstances and authority. In June 1780 the Governor and Council of Connecticut on a requisition
from Genl Washington ordered three Regiment to be raised under the command of Col Hezekiah Wells for three months; that in one of these Regiment whereof B Richards, (he thinks his name was Benjamin, Richards) was Colonel and Danl Cone major and in the company of which Seth Ely was Captain, the declarant performed the entire tour of duty therein mentioned up to the disbanding of the Regiment and was paid off in the very depreciated currency of that period. Being as before mentioned, a private in the Artillery Company in 1780 at the time of raising the Regiment under the command of Col Richards by drafts from the militia the Father of the declarant was drafted and it being Impracticable impossible for both to be absent at the same time he being the only son and
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already in the service, search was made to procure a substitute but without effect, and the only alternative was adopted by the Declarant leaving the artillery Company for the time being and filling the
requisition by enlisting in the Regiment before mentioned whereof Daniel Cone was Major and Seth Ely was captain and of which he the Declarant became Sergeant by election of the company as will
appear by the warrant herewith accompanying signed by Danl Cone Major bearing date Sept 9, 1780 and certifying the appointment to have been made on the 16th of August of that year; which document the declarant says is true and genuine as expressed therein and was given him at the time of the date it bears and for the purpose therein mentioned, and the Declarant further states that the said Warrant has been in his possession since the time of its date, and that in the long lapse of time, and not supposing that they would be of any value to him has led to a want of care and all other of his papers relating to that period and service have been lost. The service performed while in the Regiment under the command of Col Richards was that of guarding the coast along Long Island sound between the Connecticut and Thomas Rivers, being ready to march to any port that might be threatened by the enemy and employed in cutting of Fascines and Gabions under the direction of a French officer of Engineers under orders from Genl Washington and by command of the Grant Council of Connecticut. In corroboration of this declaration the Declarant accompanies herewith an affidavit of Capt Bela Peck of Norwich Connecticut, a living witness, aged 91 years, a fellow townsman and comrade in arms in the artillery company of whose character and credibility the declarant desires that enquiry may be made in order to give strength to the testimony contained in his affidavit. The Declarant further states that of his companions in service in the Regiment of troops under the command of Col Richards of whose names he recollect and could now mention a number but does not know of nor does he believe any one is now living.

In further corroboration of this declaration the Declarant accompanies a certificate of the Comptroller of the State of Connecticut of surely extracts from the records of that state in which some of
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the services of the Artillery Company, and the tour of duty of Col Richards Regiment are shown and that taken altogether the Declarant believes that he was in service at least six months & believes, that he will have satisfied the Commissioner of Pensions that he has established his claim to a pension for six months or more
service and is entitled to a pension under the act passed June 7, 1832 taking effect from the passage of said act, and 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 the Agency of any state or Territory of the United States. - In answer to the interrogatories propounded in the Executive regulations the declarant has already stated and now repeats that he was born at Norwich State of Connecticut June 27. 1761 of which he has a record now in his possession, that he was living at Norwich at the time he was called into service and continued to reside there until the year 1801. when he moved to Stonington in the same state and County and was there at the defence of that place in 1814 and moved from Stonington to Madison in the County of Madison State of New York in the year 1820, and from thence to Chittenango in the same County in 1833 and from thence to the place he now resides in 1845, how he was called into the service has been already stated and the names of the officers under whom he served also in the relation of the circumstances of the service are also that he continued in the Regiment of Col Richards until it had completed its of service and was disbanded and in this Artillery Company from the time of his voluntary enlistment with the interval he was in the Regiment above stated, during the entire duration of the war and thereafter until the 1797 when he retired from its Captaincy as will be seen by the Connecticut Register of that period, the Declarant further states that Captain Bela Peck who resides at Norwich and whose affidavit accompanies this declaration was Sergeant of the Artillery Company at the burning of New London and during the tour of one month's duty performed subsequent thereto under the order of the council of safety of Sept. 12, 1781 the company being at New London he thinks at the time this last mentioned order was received and also states that according to his imperfect 
recollection of names Col McClellan commanded the detachment
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and Col Rodgers (Zebie I.E. Zebdiel or Zebediah) was colonel of the 20th Regiment of Connecticut militia who resided at Norwich (Bran Hill) Genl Jabez Huntington who resided at Norwich was a member
of Govr Trumbull Council and he believes had charge of the Powder House.

The Declarant further states that he has not hitherto made application for a pension because of the extreme difficulty as he supposed of establishing his claim. The long period of time which had passed away
and with it as he supposed all his companions in arms having for a great number of years lived for away  from the locality of those with whom he was associated in the service as also from the records of the State of Connecticut as to preclude his access to them except at great expence, and being informed of the now existence of the Muster and pay rolls of the troops with which he served together with the loss of his own memorandum and documents relating to the events of that period, except the Sergeants warrant herewith accompanying, that he was apprehensive that he should be unable to present satisfactory evidence to corroborate his own statement of his services; but within the present year he has learned that Capt Peck still survives and has obtained his affidavit, and has also but recently for the first time had access to the act of
June 7 1832 and the Executive regulations accompanying it which have led him to make an examination of the records and papers in the archives of his native State and with what success the certificate of the Comptroller accompanying this application will show

Among the persons to whom the Declarant is known he would mention the following viz. At his former residence at Chittenango Madison County Revd James Abell Pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church. Samuel
Fuller M.D. late Postmaster, Hon Peter Vn Valkenburg and Samuel French Esqr and at his present residence at Syracuse Revd John W Adams D.D. Pastor of the 1st Prest Church, Rev Alfred Finney of the 2nd Baptist Church, Revd Joseph Myers, Israel Huntington, D. H Redfield Abram Bartlett & Pling Dickinson Esquires.
Henry [illegible] Cobb [signature]

Sworn to & subscribed before me Dec 12. 1849
D Pratt Justice [illegible]
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2
We Joseph Myers a Clergyman, residing in the City of Syracuse in the State of New York, and Lewis H Redfield, residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Henry S. Cobb who has subscribed the foregoing declaration; that we believe him to be Eighty Eight years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of
the Revolution; and that we concur in that opinion
Joseph Myers
Lewis H. Redfield  [signatures}

Sworn and subscribed before me this 28th day of December 1849
D. Pratt Justice
Supreme Court

State of New York
County of Onondaga ⎬ S.S.
On this 28th day of December 1849 personally appeared appeared before me Daniel Pratt Justice of the Supreme Court of said State residing in the City of Syracuse in said County: Alfred Cobb a  resident of said Syracuse who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say: that he is of the age of Fifty years and upwards, is a son of Henry S. Cobb who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration: that the history of his said Father's services during the war of the Revolution as familiarly related in the family in his presence and in the presence of others is the same substantially as contained in the declaration aforesaid and this deponent has never heard them disputed or doubted but from his childhood to the present time have been cherished as family history and are firmly believed to be true
Alfred Cobb  [signature]

Sworn & subscribed before me this 28th day of December 1849
D. Pratt justice
Supreme Court
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WH

And I do hereby declare my 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 I further certify that it appears to me that Joseph Myers who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the City of Syracuse in this State and that Lewis H. Redfield is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit
December 28. 1829
D Pratt Justice
Sup. Court N.Y.

State of New York
Onondaga County,
Clerk's Office,
I certify that Daniel Pratt Esq. is one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, residing in the said County of Onondaga, and that his signatures to the foregoing affidavits and
certificates are genuine of said County, 
Given under my hand at Syracuse, this 28th day of December 1849
Vivus W. Smith Clerk of the said County, an ex Officio Clerk of Sup Court
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By General order of Commandant of the second battalion raised by the State of Connecticut

To Henry Cobb Greetings

Reposing special trust confidence in your [illegible] Conduct and Fidelity Do by [illegible] of the powers
vested in me. Certificate and appoint you as full and appoint you to be a Sergeant in the regiment under my command your are therefore [illegible] and diligently to discharge the duty of Sergeant by doing and performing all manner of things belonging and duly charged under your command to be obedient to your orders as Sergeant and you are to observe and follow such directions from time to time as you shall receive from me or any other superior officers. According to the discipline of War and this is your sufficient warrant [illegible ] August 1780
Given under my hand and this Ninth Day of Sept 1780
Daniel Cone 


COBB, HENRY S, Con R 2073
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The enclosed letter should have accompanied the case of Henry S. Cobb whose papers were sent to the Dept on an appeal this morning
Pension Office
Sept 25 1850.
J. D. Wilson in the absence of the law


No. 37724
Henry S. Cobb

Letter Hon. D. Gott 30 Jany 1850
Decision affirmed by Sec [illegible] June 24 , 1850
See his letter filed with decision

2073
Act 7 March 1832
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2073 
P.O.
Henry S. Cobb
Service;
Enlisted:
Discharged:
Application filed:
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.
Recognized. Contract
Cert. of Dis.   Searched for
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p. 20
J.L.  Edwards
Com of Pensions
Washington D.C.
September 25, 1850
Relative to the case of Henry S. Cobb, Papers enclosed, five in number
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Pension Office
September 28th 1830,
Sir, 
I have the honor herewith to transmit the papers relating to the case of
Henry S. Cobb, on which Mr Alfred Cobb appeals

A brief of the evidence and a report on it was transmitted to the Secretary of the Interior on the 4th May last, and my decision was by him affirmed on the 24th June last, No new proof has been adduced but the appellant desires a revision of that decision, on the ground which he chooses to assume, that gross negligence was manifested in the examination of this case here, and by implications at the Department of the Interior also.

By comparing the original papers with the brief of evidence now in your Department, it will be seen that it is clear and full, that he characterizes as a "brief of evidence" is evidently the report, and whether that be "unfair" can be adjudged of by
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weighing it with the facts disclosed by the claimant and his witnesses.

I have the honor to be Very respectfully,
Your Obd Servant
J. L. Edwards
Com of Pensions
by J. D. Wilson

Hon A. H. H. Stuart,
Secretary of the Inter
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(Copy)
Department of the Interior
June 24, 1850
Sir, 
I return herewith the papers relative to the claim of Henry S. Cobb, and have to inform you that your report thereon has been affirmed by this Department
I am very respectfully
Your Obt Sert
(Signed) T. Ewing
Secretary


J. L. Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions
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Syracuse Jan 10, 1850
Dan Gott Esq.
Dear Sir. I duly recd your favour of the 16th inst as also within a day or two the communication to you from the Pension office dated the 23d instant, for which attention please accept my thanks

The communication referred to evidently shows a very hasty and imperfect examination of the declaration and documents presented in behalf of the claim of my Father Henry S. Cobb for a pension

The objections pointed our are these
1st "We are not satisfied that Claimant rendered as much as six months service"
Had it been required to produce positive proof of six months actual service in the field by documentary evidence of by living witnesses and no weight to be given to the statement of the applicant himself on oath, nor any allowance to be made for the long intervening period and imperfection of human memory this application would not have been made, but the regulations accompanying the pension laws speak a different language, and in conformity to these the applicant has made his declaration under oath, and as the regulations require such a declaration for what purpose is it, unless it be that a man who has fought for our independence, arrived
at the last stage of life, having always sustained a moral character without blemish, which is testified to as required, by his family clergyman and neighbours who have known him long and intimately is to be believed at any rate when his statement is so strongly corroborated by history and other exhibition of facts. The declaration sets forth that he performed six months service and he shows when and where viz Three months in a regiment of State troops raised by the State of Connecticut on the requisition of General Washington, said Regt was commanded by Col B Richards and the particular company to which he was attached by Capt Seth Ely. The collateral proof is a Sergeants warrant signed by Danl Cone Major of the Regt which document bears on its face the evidence of its authenticity, and also all
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certificate of the Comptroller of Connecticut showing by extract from the records of his office that the Regiment was so raised, for special service so officered, for three months service which it did perform, and was so paid in almost worthless paper money.- Again as a member of the Artillery company of Norwich Connt the place of his birth, specially chartered as should by certified extract from the records, several of its tours of service paid off is shown by the same authority, that it was held in readiness and always alert for active service and was out on every occasion of emergency held Bela Peck thou whom a more patriotic and respectable man does not live on the face of the earth, a living witness and companion in arms says in his
affidavit ten to fifteen times one of which was of a month's duration. In this company the applicant enlisted in 1777 and served in it (with the exception of the three months he was in Col Richards Regr) the whole time
to the close of the war as a private and thereafter until he retired from it as Captain. Now there has been shown positively by the declaration and by documentary evidence first three months actual service in the Regt  whereof Col Richards was commander, and by the same kind of evidence as also the testimony of a living witness and contemporary Bela Peck at one tour of duty one month's service making together four months, and for the remaining two months, if the various tours of the artillery company stated in the declaration, corroborated by the extracts from the records of the state showing payments to that compy on several occasions, and sworn to by Capt Peck to that compy having been out on duty two to 15 times (and my Father belonging to it) as also as holding themselves as minute men the whole period of four to five years are not sufficient, then it was unnecessary to say in the regulations issued by the Pension office page 97 what is there said of the traditionary evidence &c to which I by to ask your attention

2nd His declaration is also defective in this, that he has not specified the commencement and duration of his several tours of service as required by the regulations. Bela Peck the only witness testifies that he with applicant belonged to a company of Artillery which was held
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n readiness to be called into service at a minutes warning, that they were on duty for one month and that to the best of his recollection he was out at alarms from ten to fifteen times. The statement of this witness is not sufficiently definite to be received as evidence in this case."

The Declaration set forth a very full account of his services in a remarkably connected narrative so far as a man of 88 years of age could remember events which transpired 70 years ago. To expect anything more definite, particular and positive would be to disbelieve in the infirmities of age, or in the possibility of an applicant compromising truth for an overpowering desire to get a monetary reward. This remarks is applicable both to the declaration of the applicant and the affidavit of Bela Peck who is 91 years of age, any more definite particulars do not exist in the memory of Either.-- President Taylor when passing through this place the last summer and shaking my Father by the hand believed him when he told him that he had been a Revolutionary soldier

3."The warrant signed by Danl Cone, shows that Henry Cobb was appointed a Sergeant in August 1780 but long he served as such the evidence now furnished does not show"

The declaration corroborated by the Extracts from the Records in the archives of the State of Connecticut as certified by the Comptroller show that this corps was raised for and served three months when it was paid off and discharged 

4th "before a pension can be granted in this case, applicant must specify clearly the commencement and the duration of each tour of service, with the names of his company and field officers, and produce satisfactory
evidence of his having rendered as much as six months service."

It has already been said that this cannot be done. The muster and pay rolls it is understood have been lost. It is said they were sent by the state of Connect. to the seat of the Lieut Govr in order to settle the claims of the state and were lost in the burning of the Treasury Buildings, of this the applicant does not know but were they in existence they would afford and the evidence required, the records of Connecticut as shown by the certificate state the sums paid to the Corps at different times but not of course to each individual soldier, and
to require more under the circumstances is unreasonable and in effect rejects all
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the evidence given, though it is simple connected and authentic There is not in this case any thing more to be obtained from the memory of the applicant or his very respectable living witness, nor elasticity of
conscience to supply the deficiency

I trust these remarks will show you that the case has not been carefully nor favourably examined and that you will be able to obtain a reconsideration, but if you should not succeed, then I should advise the withdrawing of the papers and we will retain them until should my Father survive a change in the administration of the Department they may again be presented, or if not, we will treasure them up as records of family history on which to base our title of nobility and hand them down to our successors that they may retain a memory
of an ancestor whom we venerate and of whom they will be proud to boast,
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Alfred Cobb


[sideways].
Albert J. Cobb
Pension Claim
of Henry J. Cobb
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Sir
I send this by request of M Cobb & ask
[illegible] to its contents of  yours [illegible]
Respectfully D Gott
Honb AHH Stewart

p.17 Syracuse
Sep. 16 1850
Alfred Cobb
Appeals from the decision
of the Comr of Pensions in 
the case of Henry S. Cobb
who applies for a pension for
Services during the Revolution

Refd to Commr of Pensions
Dept of Interior
Sep 21 1850

Honb Alexr H, H, Stewart
Secy of the Interior
Washington City
D.C.
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p.17 Syracuse
Sep. 16 1850
Alfred Cobb
Appeals from the decision
of the Comr of Pensions in 
the case of Henry S. Cobb
who applies for a pension for
Services during the Revolution

Refd to Commr of Pensions
Dept of Interior
Sep 21 1850

Honb Alexr H H Stewart
Secy of the Interior
Washington City
D.C.

Sir
I send this by request of M Cobb & ask
[illegible] to its contents of  yours [illegible]
Respectfully D Gott
Honb AHH Stewart
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Syracruse Sept 16, 1850
To the Honb Alex H H Stuart
Secretary of the Interior

The undersigned respectfully requests of the Secretary of the Interior a reexamination of the decision and evidence on which the decision is founded, touching the claim of Henry S Cobb who applies for pension in consideration of services rendered as a soldier during our Revolutionary war, which decision of the Comm of Pensions is dated May 4 last and the approval thereof by the late Secretary of the Interior the 24th June, by which decision the applicant suffers a very grievous injustice and all arising as he conscientiously believes from the [unk] and very imperfect examination of the documents presented and consequent very insufficient and unfair brief of evidence furnished the Head of the Department. This appeal has been permitted to remain unpressed upon the attention of the Department because of the vacancy so long existing in the Secretaryship of the Interior and it is hoped that this delay may not prejudice this claim as was supposed to do the circumstances of the applicants delay in forbearing his application for seventeen years after the passage of the act of 1832 to last year, almost amounting to an cowalidation of his right under that act. The Declaration of the claimant sets forth the reasons why his application was so delayed and those reasons should have been declared sufficient. The muster and pay rolls were not to be found, they were sent by the State of Connect to Washington to settle the acct with the Genl Govt and supposed to have been burned in the conflagration of the Treasury buildings and it was not until the "execution regulations" regarding testimony to be taken under the pension laws published and issued by the Department in 1849 was served, that the claimant was encouraged to apply and for the very reasons and difficulties that are [unk] in the 7th sections on page 97 to which your attention is very respectfully asked.

The Comm of Pensions in his brief of evidence states briefly, that "claimant [unk] continuous service of three months, another of one month, and a number
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of irregular terms which he claims he mist have been equal to two months work. The first term of three months service was in a Regt of State troops of which Col. Bery." Richards was commander and Danl Cone Major raised for special service. The copy of the record ordering the raising of the Regiment for three months, the record of the payments of the Regt for three months service and the declaration of claimant substantiated by the original sergeant's warrant this proving his connection with the Regiment, are a part of the documents presented.

The second term of one month was in the artillery compy of Norwich Connt, specially ordered out for that term and paid off for that term as appears from the [unk] from the records of the State of Connt certified by the Comptroller and the claimants membership in that company proved by the declaration of Capt Bela Peck who was also a member of the Compy and is still a most respectable living witness, these documents are among the papers presented by the claimant.

The remaining two months claims for a number of irregular terms performed in the same artillery company, specially chartered by the Governor in council and composed of young men of known patriotism   and honor and only from the most respectable families of that Town, and held in readiness to march at any moment to any parish threatened with an attack, To this company the claimant belonged and was out in all its tours of duty from 1777 until the end of the war one of which being the occasion of the burning of New London in 1781. The services in this company for more than four years subject to be called out at a minute's warning, and was so called out as qualified to be Capt Peck, not stating as the memory could not state after so long an interval of time definitely the number nor duration of terms, but he says fifteen times, a number of which terms were paid off as appears by the certificate from the records of Connt accompanying the application of claimant. Now the Comm of Pensions says that "he (ie the claimant) brings no evidence to support this persumtion" ie of the required length of service, and further he says "it is not borne out of the payments made to the company as certified by the Connecticut Comptroller." It is not sustained by Bela Peck his only witness who speaks vaguely of several times they turned out on occasional alarms but gives no opinion of the number of days occupied by them." On their statements of evidence we are at variance and firmly
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believe that the Comm of Pensions is in an error and therefore ask a reexamination by yourself of the declaration of claimant and accompanying proofs.

Very respectfully your obt servt

Alfred Cobb
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37724
Henry S Cobb
NY
act 7 June 1832


A


Daniel Gott
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State of Connecticut
County of New London } ss. Norwich Oct 5th 1849

Personally appeared Capt Bela Peck signer of the foregoing deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same to the best of his knowledge and belief. Before me

Ebenezer Learned
Justice of the Peace


State of Connecticut
County of New London} ss.

I, JAMES STEDMAN, Clerk of the County Court in and for said County, do hereby Certify that Ebenezer Learned [unk] whose name, in his own proper hand writing, is subscribed to the Certificate on the Instrument hereto attached, was, at the date of said Certificate, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly empowered to take Depositions, administer Oaths, &c.

In TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my name and affixed the Seal of said Court, on this 5th day of October AD 1849.

James Stedman Clerk
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State of Connecticut
Comptrollers Office
Hartford, January 3d 1850

I certify that on application for evidence of the service of Henry Cobb, in the war of the Revolution, I have examined the Books & Documents remaining in this Office & find the following, 
1st An entry in the Journal of the Gov & Council of Safety, under date of July 22d 1777, "It was resolved that a company of Artillery of thirty four men, including officers, should be raised within the 20th Regiment of Militia in this State. The non-commissioned officers and privates were to be raised by voluntary enlistment, to exercise the mounted field pieces at Norwich, &c &c. Jacob DeWitt was appointed Captain of said company, Joseph Howland, Captain Lieutenant, Isaac Abel, Lieutenant," &c &c.
2nd On Haskells Receipts, I find the following entry " 1777 Nov 1st Jacob DeWitt, patrolling guard at Norwich Amt pd L 41.15. Specie value L 34.11.2." 
On the Book of the Pay Table Office, I find a corresponding entry as follows ,"Warr Dr, To order an Treasr to Jacob DeWitt, for a Guard at Chelsea in Norwich L 41.15."
3d In Journal of Council of Safety, July 9th 1777, "orders sent to Capt DeWitt of yr. Artillery Company at Norwich, to march with his lev. & train to N London & to apply to Genl Huntington for what powder he may want for yr. cartridges."

over
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4th In Haskells Receipts is the following entry, "1779 Aug 27th Capt Jacob DeWitt, New London alarm, amount paid L 52.8.9 Specie value L 2.19.2"
On books of the Pay table Office, is the entry as follows "War Dt. to ordnon Treasr for Capt Jacob DeWitt Pay Roll, Company Matron N. Ln. Alarm L 52.8.9"
5th In Haskells Rects "1780 Dec 13th Capt Jacob DeWitt N London Alarm State money L 38.9.3"
On Pay Table Books, "War Dr to order on Treasr for Capt Jacob DeWitt Pay Roll of Matron Co, New London Alar, L 38.9.3"
6th In the Journal of the Council of Safety Sept 17th 181, "Resolved, that there be immediately raised a Regiment to consist of five hundred men, officers included, and by peremptory detachment, for the defense of the posts of New London & Groton as follows viz. From the first Brigade two companies &c . ALso that the Independent company of Light Infantry and Matron company & both of Norwich be and they are hereby ordered to march immediately to the said posts of New London & Groton, for the defense thereof, and to continue in service for the term of one month after their arrival at said Post unless sooner discharged."
7th In Haskells Receipts, under the following heading viz. " The United States Dr to the State of Connecticut for disbursements for pay &c. of three regiments under the command of Col Hezekiah Wyllis, for three months, raised in consequence of a requisition from General Washington in June 1780," I find the following accounts, viz.
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Date: 1782 Jan 10
Companies: Col. B. Richards
Regiments: Richards
Wages: 211.8.2
Rations: 102.10.8
Commission:
Amt. pd in State Bills: 313.18.10

Date: "
Companies: Capt. L. Ely
Regiments: do
Wages: 426.16.8
Rations: 18.17.4
Commissions: 11.2.6
Amt. pd in State Bills: 456.16.6

Date: "
Companies: Col. B. Richards
Regiments: do
Wages: 387.15.4
Rations: 18.17.4
Commissions: 10.3.6
Amt pd in State Bills: 416.5.8

From the Records of the Governor & Council of Safety, it appears that the above Regiment, with others raised at the same time, were employed in the cutting of Fascines & Gabious on Connecticut River, under the direction of Maj. Musnan, a French Engineer, who was directed by Genl Washington, and instructed by M. G. Howe, and the Governor & Council gave orders to said Regiment to perform that duty. They are there said have been raised for three months.

Abijah Cullin
Comptroller
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I, Bela Peck of Norwich, County of New London, State of Connecticut, of the age of ninety one being duly cautioned and sworn do depose and say that in the year 1776 there was a Matrons Company chartered by the Governor & Council of [unk] at said Norwich, that I enlisted in that company in the year 1777 and was a member of said company during the Revolutionary war & until the year 1789, and left it as Captain, which office I held for four or five years. The company was called for active service on a minutely warning, and on the [unk] made frequent demonstrations along Long Island Sound at and near New London, we were called and went to New London in duty and [unk] there several days, except in one occasion, at the burning of New London, where Arnold was there, we were on duty at New London for the term of one month. The company was at New London at the time of alarm a number of times both before and after the burning of New London, to the best of my recollection from ten to fifteen times. 
I remember that Henry S Cobb a native of
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and Norwich was residing at Syracruse in the State of New York, was a member of said company, during the war and afterwards and that he was Captain of the company [unk] years after I left it. At the times the company was called into service every man was required with great strictness to or at his post, and was discharged and another enlisted in his [unk] if he neglected to be in his [unk]. Although from the great lapse of time I cannot identify the individual of the company. I have no doubt that the said Cobb was at New London when the company was called there.

When the company was to be paid, a list of the men and the time of service was forwarded to Hartford and we were paid in "Pay Table orders," issued by the Legislature of [unk]. During the whole war Jacob DeWitt of Norwich was Captain of the company, [unk] as je was absent at sea. Left. Isaac Abel commanded.

Bela Peck