Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 12607, Benjamin Coykendall, New Jersey
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(8 -- 1776 )

SERVICE
New Jersey

Coykendall Benjamin
or
Coykendoall

NUMBER
S12607

carded
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CONTENTS
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[cut off]E Ames 8th Oct 1833
A. H. Markland No 5 /5[cut off]

J Rowe, Sept. 17/59
1883 Oct 15 George Coykendall -that 
No Samul Coykendall Pound & that Capt
Benjamin Decd a pension until his
death in 1837 - also that moved to NY in 1800

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[cut off]jamin Coykendall
[cut off]Tioga in the State of New York
as a Serg. & Capt in the compy comman[cut off]ptain, of the regt. command[cut off]
services in the Militia for 1 month and 12 days Sergeant 17 months and 12 days Captain
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Benjamin Coykendall
N.J. Records corrected Nov. 13/05
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Reduced from $476.66
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[cut off]scribed on the Roll of New York
[cut off] the rate of 355 Dollars --- Cents per annum, [cut off] commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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[cut off]tificate of Pension issued the 6th day of  Oct 1835 and sent to Thomas Maxwell Elmira NY
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1835
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept [cut off]
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B. Coykendall
114.58

Post office Elmira N.Y
care Thos. Maxwell agent
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State of New York
Tioga County SS. } Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for said County Benjamin Coykendall of the town of Veteran in said County who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that by reason
of old age and consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods
mentioned below and in the following grades viz
In 1775 under Capt. Wilson, in Col. Ephraim Martins Regiment in service at Perth Amboy & South Amboy                                   Mo. days
          as a Lieutenant                          1.15
1776 winter at Springfield N.J. as 
guard, Captain                                     1.00
      "Spring at Pompton & Paramus 
                Captain                                 2.00
"1777 May and June at Pompton & 
               Paramus Captain                  2.00
      Octr & Novemr in the Regt 
       under Col Seward in Gen Winds
       Brigade to Newburgh & thence 
        to Red Bank Capt                        1.15
1778 June & July under Maj Meeker
        at Monmouth & Elizabeth Town 
        as Captain                                    1.00

Services on the Minisink of Delaware frontier

In 1777 as Captain under Maj 
         Meeker.                                       5.00
    1778 as Captain in Winds 
           Brigade--                                  5.00
    1779 as Captain                              6.00
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                                                           25.--

making in all 25 months- 1 ½ mo as Lieutenant & 23 1/2 mo as Captain for which he claims a pension
Benj. Coykendall

Sworn & subscribed
the 30th day of May 1833
Before me }
W. Maxwell Justice of
the peace Tioga N.Y.

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State of New York
Tioga County SS ⎬ I Green M. Tuthill Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that William Maxwell Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit was made was when the same bears date a Justice of the peace in & for said County duly qualified and that his signature subscribed to the proof thereof is genuine. 

Witness my hand & the seal of
my office the 30th day of May
1833
Green M. Tuthill Clk
of
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At a Court of Common pleas held at the Village of Elmira in and for the County of Tioga in the State of New York Commencing on the First Tuesday in September 1832, the same being a Court of Record so declared by the Constitution & laws of the said State by which it is constituted and having a Seal and Clerk

Present
Hon E B Baldwin first Judge }
Darius Bently }
J L Darling }              Esquires
Elijah Shoemaker }   Judges

State of New York 
Tioga County SS }  Personally appeared in open court before the above named Judge now sitting, on the 5th day of September 1832
Benjamin Coykendoll a resident of the Town of Veteran in the said County aged eighty three years and upwards who 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 June 7, 1832. That he was commissioned as a Lieutenant by Gov. Livingston of New Jersey in the fall of 1775 in a company of Militia in the County of Sussex then commanded by Capt Henry Snook in Col. Ephraim Martins Regiment - That soon after he was ordered out, as Lieutenant in a company then commanded by Capt John Wilson, to Perth Amboy, and thence to South Amboy near the British lines. The British forces then lay on Staten Island. That he was in service at that time in guarding the ['Lieutenant' crossed out] lines as Lieutenant
under the said Commission for a little more than six weeks, which was all the service he rendered under the said Lieutenants Commission.

Immediately thereafter Capt Snook having resigned he was commissioned by Gov. Livingston as the Captain of the said Company & in January 1776 he was called out at the head of the said Company to Piscataway in New Jersey & afterwards to Springfield to guard the
lines near the American Army. That at this time the regular troops were so much in want of clothing, that it was necessary to call on the Militia
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to guard the lines & the weather was extremely cold- Sullivan's division was then in that neighborhood in a suffering condition-  The British were then at Amboy. That he continued in that service at that time for a month-

In the spring of 1776 he was again called out as captain with his said company when he was attached to the Regiment commanded by Col
John Seward in Gen. Heard's Brigade-- That he was then in service at Pompton & Paramus for about eight weeks-

In the spring of 1777, early in May, the deponent was again called out with his company to Pompton where he remained a month, & thence to Paramus where they continued another month. That in this service Col Seward commanded the Regiment about half the time & having taken the small pox the command of the Regiment was assigned to Col. Frelinghuysen by order of Gov. Livingston.

In October 1777 in consequence of the alarm caused by the movement of the British troops from the City of New York to attempt a junction with Gen. Burgoyne who was marching from the north towards the Hudson, the militia of New Jersey were ordered to march to the Hudson, when the deponent proceeded with his company under Col John Seward in the Brigade commanded by Gen William Winds, & proceeded as far as New Windsor in the State of New York where they saw the British fleet
on its return passage to New York, having proceeded up the River to Esopus, or a part of it) and burnt that place, after which they
returned to New York. The necessity for further progress up the river being thus obviated, the said troops received orders to march immediately to Red Bank on the Delaware, when the deponent with his company marched to that place where they arrived a few days after the defeat of the Hessians at that place under Col Donop. While at Red Bank he witnessed the surrender of Mud Island fort (to the British) which was built on an Island in the Delaware, near its junction with the Schuylkill & was
surrendered in the month of November 1777. he remained at Red Bank under the
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command of Genl. Varnum until the fort was demolished & evacuated by the American 
troops, when the Regiment under Col. Seward (to which he belonged) was ordered to return to New Jersey, when his said Company was discharged, having been in service over six weeks.  About the 20th of June 1778 in consequence of the operations of the American & British armies near Monmouth N.J. two companies of Sussex Militia (one of which was the deponents) were ordered to march to Monmouth; the Deponent being the Senior Captain took the command of both. The weather being excessively warm at that time, they could proceed but a few miles each day, and arrived at Monmouth the day after the battle, June 29 '78- They had been joined the day previous by Maj. Samuel Meeker who took the command. From Monmouth they marched to Elizabeth Town, attached to a Brigade commanded by Gen Wm Winds. Here the deponent remained until about the 20th of July when this company were permitted to return to cut their harvest having been in service about a month - Between the periods above related & during the years 1777, 1778 & 1779 the Company under the deponent was engaged in service on the Minisink frontier as rangers. In these services the said Company (when there 
was more than his company out) were under Col Seward's command, but frequently the company under the deponent were the only troops called. In these services on that frontier during the three years above mentioned he was
out fifteen months. After the Minisink frontier was cut off by the Indians under command of Brandt & Butler an order was issued to Major Samuel Meeker, by Gov. Livingston of New Jersey to raise a company of Rangers for the protection of the Inhabitants in the County of Sussex which composed a part of that frontier. The deponent was appointed to the command of the Company. The Inhabitants erected a stockade fort around the house of Josiah
Decker at the Cove in the Town of Wantage in the said County of Sussex, and the deponent with the Company of Rangers under his command were employed principally in scouting through the woods, about the Shawangunk mountains, & the neighborhoods where
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the Indians resorted for one month. The expedition under General Sullivan against the Indians in the State of New York in August 1779, received the Inhabitants in the neighborhood of the Minisink frontier from alarms in consequence of Indian Depredations and the services of the deponent therefore ceased. The deponent has detailed such of his service  as now occur to his memory. He has no doubt
that he served more than two years as a Captain. The services as above mentioned make about twenty five months, of which a
month & an half were as a Lieutenant in 1775. His occasional services in sudden alarms for a few days at a time are not given: That his commission as a Lieutenant & a Captain to
which he has above particularly referred, were lost with a trunk containing other papers & documents, (many of which would throw light upon the transactions connected with his services) while removing from the County of Sussex to the County of Tompkins N.Y

In answer to such of the Interrogatories, as the War Department have requested the Courts to propound to applicants for the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832, and not
included in the foregoing declaration, the deponent states that he was born at the Town of Wantage in the County of Sussex in the State of New Jersey, on the eighteenth of July in
the year one thousand seven hundred & forty Nine (1749) as he verily believes, and as appears by the Records of his birth among the records of the Dutch Church kept in the said
Town of Wantage. That he has a copy of this record now in his possession, extracted by himself many years since from the said records, which were then kept at Wantage by the Revd Elias Van Benschoten.

That in all his services above mentioned he entered
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the service at Wantage aforesaid. That he continued to reside in the County of Sussex until the year 1800 when he removed to Ithaca in the then County of Cayuga (now Tompkins) New York and two years since he removed to the said County of Tioga-  That the continental officers with whom he was acquainted were Colonels Spencer, Ogden, Martin & Livingston of New Jersey-  That the only persons in the neighborhood of his latter residences who can testify to his services are Micajah Dean late of
Milo, County of Yates N.Y. & John Swartwood & Benjamin Westbrook of Cayuta in the County of Tioga aforesaid-  The latter of whom is in such feeble health as to be unable to attend this Court - That the persons to whom he would
refer for his general character & the belief in regard to his revolutionary services are Theodore Valleau Esqr of Veteran, in the said County of Tioga, & Ben Johnson and David Woodcock Esqrs of Ithaca in the County of Tompkins.

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.
Benj. Coykendall

Sworn & Subscribed
the day & year aforesaid
Green M Tuthill Clk

On the day and year aforesaid, in open Court before the Judges aforesaid, personally appeared Micajah Dean late of Milo, in the County of Yates N Y. now of Elmira in the County aforesaid, aged Seventy nine years
and upwards who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath say that during the Revolutionary war he resided in the County of Sussex in the State of New Jersey &
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was well acquainted with Benjamin Coykendall who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration- that the said Coykendall then resided in Wantage in the said County of Sussex, that he knew at the time of the
appointment of the said Coykendall as a Lieutenant which he held but a short time, when he was promoted to a Captaincy: that he knew said Coykendall in service as a Captain for about six months at Amboy, Piscataway,
Bergen County, Redbank and Monmouth in the years 1776, 7 & 8 and also on the Minisink or Indian frontier as it was then called he knew said Coykendall in service as a Captain about three months in the year 1778, that was in service himself under the said Captain Coykendall in several expeditions, and from his personal knowledge & acquaintance with the said Coykendall & the general reputation of the said Coykendall in the State of New Jersey during the war of the Revolutionary war, he has no doubt of the truth of such parts of his services as above related which did not come
under the personal observation of this deponent.
Micahgah Deen

Sworn & subscribed
the day & year aforesaid
Before me -
Green M Tuthill Clk

We Simeon R. Jones a clergyman of the Town of Southport in the said County and Theodore Valleau of the Town of Veteran in the said County do hereby certify that we are
acquainted with Benjamin Coykendall who has
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subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration: that we believe him to be of the age he represents, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Simeon R. Jones
Theodore Valleau

Subscribed & Sworn the
day & year aforesaid
Before me
Green M. Tuthill Clk

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 certifies that it appears to them that Simeon R. Jones who has signed the preceding certificate of a man residing in the town of Southport in said County & that Theodore Vallieau Esq who has also signed the same is a resident of the town of Veteran in said County and is a credible person & that their statement is entitled to credit as also the above named Micajah Dean who has made the foregoing affidavit, confirmatory in part of the relation of the said applicant-
B. Baldwin First Judge

I Green M. Tuthill Clerk of the said Court do hereby certify that the foregoing are the original proceedings of the said Court in the application
of Benjamin Coykendoll for a pension. Witness
my hand & Seal of office the 5" day of Sept. 1832
Green M Tuthill Clk
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State of New York
Tioga County SS }  David Depue of the town of Romulus in the County of Seneca and State of New York aged seventy three years and upwards being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he was well acquainted with Capt Benjamin Coykendall now of Veteran in the County of Tioga State of New York, during the Revolutionary war; that they
lived near neighbours together in the town of Wantage in the County of Sussex and State of New Jersey. That he well recollects when the said Coykendall was appointed a Lieutenant in a company of Militia then commanded by Capt
Henry Snook in Col Ephraim Martins Regiment, that the said Coykendall was frequently out during that fall and the succeeding year 1776. In the year 1777 early in the spring the deponent was called out in the company then commanded by Capt Coykendall, to Pompton where they remained about a month; and at Paramus a month in the said Company; Col. Seward commanded the Regiment about half the time, & he having taken the Small Pox the command of the Regiment was assigned to Frelinghuysen - That he knew the said Coykendall while in service on the Indian frontier- that he was himself in service, under Captains, Coykendall, Beckwith & Bockhover in all fifteen months at different periods in the
years 1777, 1778 and 1779, and that on all these occasions the said Coykendall was also out in service. That he lived near the said Coykendall during the war, knew much of his service personally, & is well acquainted with the belief on the subject in the neighborhood and has no doubt on his mind in stating that the whole services of the said Coykendall during the war, would make a term not
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less than two years and he believes more--
David Depue

Sworn & Subscribed
the 23d day of August 1832 
before me--
W. Maxwell Justice of the peace
Tioga Co. N.Y.

State of New York 
Tioga County SS }  I William Maxwell a Justice of the peace in & for the County of Tioga do hereby certify that the above named David Depue who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing affidavit before me this day is in my opinion a reputable & disinterested witness & that his statement is entitled to full faith & credit
Dated Aug 23 1832
W. Maxwell Justice of the
Peace Tioga Co. N.Y.

State of New York
Tioga County Clerks office SS }  I Green M. Tuthill Clerk of the said County of Tioga do hereby certify that William Maxwell Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit of David Depue was taken was when the same bears date a 
Justice of the peace in & for the said County duly commissioned Sworn & authorized by law to administer oaths: that I am well acquainted with this handwriting & verily believe the signatures of W. Maxwell subscribed to the proof of the above affidavit & the certificate accompanying the same are genuine, and in the proper hand writing of the said Justice. Witness my hand & the seal of the said County the 5th day of September A.D. 1832.
Green M Tuthill
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State of New York }
County of Tompkins  

Be it Knoon that on this Thirdday of April A. D. 185 before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared, Thomas Welch, Executor &c. of Benjamin Coykendall of Ithaca
in said County, and made oath according to law that he is the Executor of the identical Benjamin Coykendall whose name under Act of 7th June 1832 has been placed on the New York Pension 
Roll at the rate of Dollars per annum. 

That he is credibly informed that the said Pension may and ought to be increased from its commencement and during its continuance; that he is directly interested as a claimant in said increase, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional  evidence as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.

Countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney and authority heretofore given, I hereby constitute and appoint A.H. Markland of 
Washington City, my true and lawful Attorney to prosecute the claim of Benjamin Coykendall
for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or INCREASE OF PENSION that may be due; and for the purpose of establishing additional service by the soldier for whose military duty in the Revolution the aforesaid Pension was granted, I hereby authorize my said Attorney to apply for and obtain from State archives or  other sources, certified proofs of such service.  To examine all papers or documents in relation to said service on file in the Departments at 
Washington City or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive for my benefit the Certificate for INCREASE which may be issued in satisfaction of said claim, which certificate I wish made payable at the Pension of this State; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present.  Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Agent and Attorney shall lawfully do in the premises.
Thomas Welch &c.

Sworn to, Subscribed and Acknowledged before me the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that I believe the said Thomas Welch Ex. &c. to be directly interested in said claim as set forth, and to be thev identical party therein alleged, in whose claim I am in no wise interested.
Caleb B Drake J.P.

State of New York }
County of Tompkins }
It is Hereby Certified, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me, Clerk of the Court of Tompkins County that Benjamin Coykendall was a Revolutionary Pensioner of
the United States, at the rate of $355 per annum*, and that he died on the 12th day of March Eighteen Hundred and thirty Seven
leaving surviving the following named (widow and) children and none other, to wit:
Amos Coykendall
Benjamin Coykendall
Susan Shepard
Catharine Giltner

It is further certified that Caleb B. Drake Esq. before whom the preceding spirit and Power of Attorney were made and acknowledged, was at the time of so doing a duly authorized Justice of the Peace in and for said county, and that the signature purporting to be his, I believe to be genuine; and further, that in the within claim for Increase of Pension I am in no degree interested.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office, this Fifth day of April 1855.

Ezra Weaver
Clerk

1. Claimant's name or names in fu., 
2. Post Office address.
3. "That he is the," or "that she is the "or "that she is the widow of," or "that he, she, or they are the child or children of," &c.
4. Pensioner's full name. 5. State the Act if known.  6.  Give the State where pensioned.  
7. Name the yearly amount received.
8. "He is," "she is," or "they are."
9. Claimant's signature.  10. Magistrate's signature. *If the Pensioner be living, this part of the Clerk's certificate should be omitted.
11. Here name each of the survivors. 
12. Magistrate's name. 13. Clerk's signature.
N. B. Should two or more heirs join in the foregoing, the plural should be substituted for the singular number.
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No 11458.

Benjamin Coykendall
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Admitted
['Lieutenant' crossed out]
Captain 23 ½ mo
Lieutnt.    1 1/2  "
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               25 mo.

Readmitted Sept. 30. 1833
  Sergeant 1 mo 12 days.  $1.93
  Capt. 17 mo 12 days     348.
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                                        $349.93

I sent a New Certificate & [illegible] the old one

5 lb.
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Capt. proof of 9 mo
further proof reqd.

8 Sept. '32
19 Dec.

P. 166

Thos. Maxwell Agent
Elmira
Tioga County
New York

126.13 [illegible]
306.92
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No 11456
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BRIEF in the case of Benjamin Coykendall of Veteran, County of Tioga in the State of New York
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
In Open Court.

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
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3. How old is he?
83 years.

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
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[table follows with 4 columns; column headings as follows:]

(1) Period.
(2) Duration of Service. {sub-headings:  a. Years, b. Months, c. Days.
(3) Rank.
(4) Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.

[text beneath column headings as follows:]
(1) Fall In 1775, Jany. 1776, Spring  ",   "  1777, October  ", June 20 1778.
(2) Little more than 1. & 14, ---- 1. ----, about 2. ----, ----2 ----, over 1. -- 14. --, about -- 1. ---; States that he served more than 2 yeats, as Capt.
(3) As a Lieutenant, Captain, ", ", ", "
(4) Gen. Capt. Henry Snook Col. Martin; -----; 
Col. Seward, Genl Heard; Col Frelinghuysen; 
Genl Winds, Col Seward; Genl Winds
[end of table]

5. In what battles was he engaged? -----------
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?     Wantage
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?      By two living witnesses
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? ------------

I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
James Ord
Examining Clerk.
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June 26, 1934.

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BA-J/MMHF/ady
Benjamin Coykendall
S. 12607

Mrs. Clarkson A. Potter
33 Unionville Avenue
Sussex, New Jersey

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter with which you enclosed for verification and certification, two copies of part of an affidavit made by Benjamin Coykendall (S. 12607 ) when he made
application for pension, as shown by your copy, in Tompkins County, New York. The affidavit referred to pertains to the house of one Josiah Decker.

The Revolutionary War pension claim, S.12607, of Captain Benjamin Coykendall has been examined carefully for you.

It is shown in the above named claim that Captain Benjamin Coykendall appeared in open court before the judges in Tioga County, New York, on September 5, 1832, and in his declaration before said judges he made the following statement:

" After the Minisink frontier was cut off by the Indians under command of Brandt and Butler, an order was issued to Major Samuel Meeker, by Gov. Livingston of New Jersey to raise a company of Rangers for the protection of the Inhabitants in the County of Sussex which composed a part of that frontier. The deponent
was appointed to the command of the Company. The Inhabitants erected a stockade fort around the house of Josiah Decker at
the Clove in the Town of Wantage in the said County of Sussex, and the deponent with the Company of Rangers under his command were employed principally in scouting through the woods, about the Shawangunk mountains, and the neighborhood where the Indians reported for one month."
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Your two copies and two stamps are returned herewith.  No charge is made for this report, nor is your postage necessary.

Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.
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The People of the State of New York by the grace of God Free and Independent

To all to whom these presents shall come Greeting

Know Ye, That we have nominated constituted and appointed, and by these presents do nominate constitute and Appoint

The following named persons to be Notaries Public in and for the County of Tompkins.

Francis M Finch of Ithaca
Marcus Lyon of Ithaca
Henry D Barlo of Trumansburgh

hereby giving and granting unto the above named persons all and Singular the powers and authorities to the said office by law belonging or appertaining. To Have and to Hold the said office together with the bus., profits and advantages to the same belonging for and during the time limited by the Constitution and
laws of the said State.

In Witness Where of We have caused these
our letters to be made patent and the Great Seal of our said State to be hereunto affixed. Witness Edwin D Morgan Governor of our said State with the consent of our Senate, at our city of Albany the Sixteenth day of February in the year
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of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and fifty nine
E. D. Morgan

SS.

Attested by
S.W. Morton
Dep. Secretary of State.

State of New York
Tompkins County Clerks office} I the undersigned do certify that I have compared the preceding with the original Commission now on file in this office and transmitted here by the
Governor of the State of New York, and that the same is a true copy of such original Commission and of the whole of the same.

And I further certify that the within named Notaries have each taken and subscribed their respective oaths of office which are also on
file in this office, and I am well acquainted with the hand writing of Frances M Finch and of Marcus Lyon two of the within named Notaries and I certify that the signature of each written below is his genuine signature.

Witness my hand and the seal of this office
this fourteenth
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day of September in the year 1859--
P.B. Nagad Dep. Co. Clerk
[seal affixed at left]

Marcus Lyon
Notary Public

F. M. Finch
Notary Public
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Benj. Coykendall's case-
Brief
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5th

Westbrook declared that in 1779, including
some service in the winter in purchasing his service amounted to 10 months.

John Swartwood, one of his witnesses, testified that Westbrook served as he stated & that deponent was in 1777 under command of Capt Coykendall.

Daniel Swartwood also testified to being in service under Westbrook from the year 1780, inclusive, to the close of the war.

James Swartwood, testified the same as Daniel.

Case of Jonathan Catterlin - Tompkins Co. N.Y. and 32 - $80 - 2 yrs. service - served under Capt Cole & Lieut. Solomon Middaugh every alternate fortnight from 1777, inclusive, to
close of war.

Do of Danl. Swartwood NY. - '32 ad $80. - 2 yrs.  commenced in 1778. Sussex - was in the same kind of servic - served 9 mos in '79 from March 1st.

Do of John Swartwood - N.Y. ad '32 $320, 2 yrs. Lieut.   Served in '77 under Capt Coykendall.
In '78 as Lt. in Hoovers Co.-  In '79 as Ranger on
same frontier, 7 mos &c to '82 inclusive, & in
83.
Commission dated Sept 2d 1782.
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Case James Swartwood - N.Y. - ad $80.
Served on same frontier. 7 mos in 79. most
of his service after '78.

Do of Henry C.T. Middaugh-Pa-Ad 32 $80-
Served from Pa on Delaware river. 6 mos
in 79-. 5 or 6 in '80- &c.  Same frontier nearly.

As to to the service as Lieut 1½ months, this was properly reduced to the pension of a Sergeant, as there is no documentary or record evidence that he held a commission as Lieut.

For the service in '79 there is the testimony of
David Depue pensioner for 2 yrs service in
N. J. Militia, but whose papers have not been
found. And the confirmation furnished by the testimony of Capt Coykendall in Solomon
Middaugh's case, in which he testifies, from
personal knowledge, to Middaugh's service until Sullivan drove off the Indians, in Augt of that year. If Coykendall served from March
1st '79 to and through August, it would make up the 6 mo's claimed & specified in that year.

The very imperfect condition of the N. J. records
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of militia service, and the almost total absence of any record evidence of the ranger service, furnish no justification for the statement in the letter of May 1st 1835- that the rolls or abstract disprove Capt C's alleged service in '79. It is a historical fact that up to the time of Sullivan's Indian expedition the frontier service of the rangers was- except in winter-- almost constant, and of the most harassing nature.

The fact too that the frontiers men's service was a very active one until nearly the close of
the war, is manifest from the numerous
provisions of the Legislature and authorities
of N.J. for that kind of service in the latter years of the war, up to and including 1782.

If, in the review of Coykendall's case, the examiner had looked into the numerous cases of contemporary service, and had considered the condition of the public records of N.J. I am satisfied the pension would not have been reduced- (unless as to the 1/2 month service as Lt.-

Dodge
Oct 8th 1855
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Washington DC. Sept 28th 1855

Hon. J. Minot
Commr of Pensions

I enclose power of Attorney &c in the case of Capt Benj Coykendall, NY 1832 admitted, I ask that the case may be restored to the former pension of $476.66 on the ground that the evidence in the office is sufficient to justify such an allowance, as additional evidence I
beg to refer you to the case of Solomon Middaugh of NY 1832 admitted. Mr Middaugh was a Lieutenant under Coykendall, and was pensioned for two years service as a Lieut. under said Coykendall, I also refer to the case of Saml. Westbrook of NY 32 ad which will show the character of the service on the frontiers, that portion of the service under Col. Meeker was cavalry service.

Very Respectfully
Your obt. svt.
A H Markland
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State of New York }
Tompkins County } 
Sela T. Benjamin being duly sworn deposes and says that he has visited the Cemetery in the Village of Ithaca and knows when Benjamin Coykendall was buried and the following is the inscription on his tombstone and a true copy.

Captain Benjamin Coykendall
died at the Horse Head March 12 1837
aged 88 yrs
S. T Benjamin

Subscribed and sworn before me
this 21st day of September 1855.
Caleb B Drake

And I certify that I am acquainted with Sela Benjamin and he is entitled to full credit
and belief.
Caleb B Drake J.P.
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State of New-York, }
Tompkins County Clerk's Office. } ss.
I, EZRA WEAVER, Clerk of said county, and also Clerk of the Courts in and for said county, do hereby certify that Caleb B. Drake Esquire before whom the preceding affidavit was subscribed and sworn, and whose name appears thereto, was at the date of the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly elected, sworn, and authorized to act as such, and to take the same: And further, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such Justice, and verily believe that the signature to the preceding Jurat is genuine.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of the said county and Courts, at Ithaca, this twenty first day of September 1855.
Ezra Weaver Clerk
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Joseph Lewis's Abstract of Pay Rolls.

[table with 7 columns follows; column headings are:]
(1) No.
(2) Date
(3) Regt. or Batt. 
(4) Officers names 
(5) Where served
(6) Under whom
(7) L, S, d.

[text beneath columns:]
(1) 88, 312
(2) Apl. 19, 1777, July 10, 1778
(3) Hankinson's Sussex,  do.   do
(4) Capt Boykindale, do.  do
(5 & 6) Guard Minisink, Delaware Maj. Meeker
(7)  15, 12, 9; 239, 11, 8
[end of table]

Abstract of Bounty rolls discharged by Joseph Lewis
[table follows, same column headings as above; text below headings as follows:]
(1) 55. 55., 209., 210.
(2) Nov. 19. 1777; Oct 11, 1777;  July 8, 1778; May 10,1778
(3) Hankinsons' Sussex, do  do, do  do, do. do
(4) Capt Coykendall, do  do, do  do, do. do
(5) Red Bank, Pennsylvania, Elizabethtown, Minisink
(6) Col. Seward, Brig. Forman, Brig. winds, do
(7) 141, 15, 0; 75, 19, 0; 11, 12, 0; 65, 19, 0.

State of New Jersey
I, James D. Westcott, Secretary of the State of
New Jersey do certify that the foregoing are true extracts from an account headed "Abstract of pay Rolls discharged by Joseph Lewis paymaster to the militia of the counties of Morris, Sussex, and Bergen," and an account headed "Abstract of Bounty Rolls discharged by Joseph Lewis" recorded from page 51 to page 58 of Book A of Auditors Accounts remaining in
my office. and I further certify that there is no regular record book of military commissions issued during the Revolutionary war in my office, and that there are not twenty of such commissions recorded in any books therein.  

In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of my
said office this twentieth day of May, 
A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty three.
James D. Westcott
[seal affixed at left]
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Benjamin Coykendall

Act 1832-

Declared Sept. 5, 1832-

[column on left of page:]
In classified militia the }
Capts of different Comps }
Commanded alternately }

Lieut ½ mo 1775
Capt. 3  "     '76
  "      8½ "   '77
  "      6   "    '78
  "      6   "    '79

Lieut. 1 1/2 - Capt. 23 1/2 mos.
[end of that column]


Was commissioned Lieunt in fall of 1775, by Govr. Livingston, of N.J. in a Compy of Sussex Co. Militia, under Capt Henry Snook, in Col. Ephm. Martin's Regt.  Ordered out and served under Capt Jno Wilson 1 ½ mo. at Perth Amboy & So Amboy.

Capt Snook having resigned, declarant was
Commissd. Capt. In Jany '76 called out & served 1 mo as Capt.-
In Spring of '76 about 8 weeks
In Spring of '77 2 mos
In Oct '77 over 6 weeks
In June '78 1 mo. 

Between these periods, and in '77-'8- & '9 was
in service with his company; as rangers on the Minisink frontier, as much as 15 mos.

After the Minisink frontier was cut off by the Indians, under Brandt & Butler (in '79) Govr Livingston ordered Maj. Saml Meeker to raise a compy. of rangers to defend the
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County of Sussex, which was a portion of the frontier, and declarant was made Capt of that Company. A stockade fort was erected in Wantage and declarants company were engaged in scouting the woods about the Shawangunk mountains &c for 1 month.

The expedition under Sullivan, in Augt 1779, relieved the frontier.

The services above detailed the declt. estimates at about 25 months, of which 1 1/2
was as Lient. Declt. thinks he served over 2 yrs
as Capt.

In a subsequent affidavit he makes an abstract
statement of his services in conformity with
the above.

David Depue of Seneca Co. N.Y. sworn Aug 23d '32.
Testified to all this service, in substance, and
in part particularly - and that he was for a portion of the time in service under Coykendall, & the remainder under other officers. Then  resided in Wantage.
(Pensioner N.Y. '32, for service in N. J. Militia
but papers cannot be found)
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Certificate of Secy of State of N.J. Dated May 30th 1833.
Transcript from Abstract of pay rolls in his
Office, showing payments to "Capt Coykindahl
in Apl, July, Oct. & Nov. '77 and May & July
'78.

On this evidence Coykendall was pensioned for
23 1/2 mos as Capt. and ½ mo as Lieut. at $476 66/100 per annum, under a Certificate issued Sept 4, 1833.

In May 1835 the payment of the pension at this rate was suspended, and on the 6th of Oct
1835 a new certificate was issued at the rate of $355 per annum from 4th March '35 - being for 17 months 12 da[y]s Capt. and 1 mo. 12 da's sergt.

This reduction was made on the grounds stated
in the letter to the pensioner of May 1, 1835;
namely, that there was no adequate evidence
of his appointment as Lieut., and that the
abstract furnished by the Secretary of State
showed that he did not serve as he had alleged, 6 months in 1779.

The present application is to have the pension restored to its former rate. He died May 12/1837.
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Reference is made to the age of Soloman Middaugh of Tompkins Co. N.Y. who declared that himself served 3 mos as Ensign in 1776 and 8 1/2 mos as Lieut in 1777 & '8 and as Lieut in Scouting as a ranger in '79 -'80-'81 & '2 - 3 years, in almost constant service.

In that case Coykendall testified that he lived 8 miles from Middaugh and both served on the
frontiers and that to his knowledge Middaough served until Sullivan drove off the Indians in '79 - (August).

Middaugh was pensioned Jany 27, 1834 at $212.20 per annum for 2 mo service as private, 1 mo Ensign & 14 mos 20 da[y]s Lieut. and increased to $320 per annum, for 2 years service as Lieut Sept 18th '54, on the evidence furnished by the declarations and testimony
furnished in the cases of Coykendall & Jona. Catterlin & John Swartwood of N.Y. and Barnabas Swartwood & Henry C.T. Middaugh of Pa. all pensioned under the act of 1832, for the same or similar contemporary service.

Reference is also made to the case of Saml Westbrook of Tioga Co. N.Y. pensioner under the act of 1832, at $600 per annum, who was a Major of militia, of and from Sussex Co. N.J. from 1776, inclusive, to the close of the war,
and was from 1778 to '83 was in service on the
Sussex frontier, as major, performing a portion of the time the duties of purchasing  Commissary.
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Elmira July 6. 1835

Sir

I have just recd from Capt Benjamin Coykendall
your letter addressed to him under date of May 1, 1835, stating that an error had been committed in allowing him for more service than he alleges that he performed. I have no copies of the papers in his case, having destroyed most of such as had been acted upon &
allowed, as they were accumulating upon my hands.

I have however a copy of the certificate of J.D. 
Westcott Esqr the Secy of N. Jersey in which he
gives copies of Joseph Lewis' pay rolls, & in all the entries therein made Coykendall is named as a Captain and payments were made to him for the services rendered at Red Bank, Elizabeth Town and on the Minisink. It is true the last payment here referred is of the 10th May 1778, but it is not evidence as a matter of course that he was not in service after that period. He proves that he was so in service-- The Secy, if you will examine his certificate says that "there is no record book of military commissions issued during the revolutionary war" in his office and that there are not twenty of such commission recorded in any books therein, of course it is not in his power to shew record evidence of his commission as Lieut-  The
object of the certificate of Mr. Westcott is to shew that he was recognized as a Capt. by the State records & pay rolls, tho' the record of his commission cannot be found; and not to prove the precise length of his service. The certificate is enclosed, and the matter submitted to your discretion.

Respectfully
Yr ob Sevt
Th. Maxwell

J.L. Edwards
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Elmira May 30. 1833

Dr Sir

I forward the papers of Capt Coykendall with
a supplementary affidavit detailing definitely
his services. Also a certificate from the Secretary of New Jersey shewing that he recd pay for service at the several places and under the officers alleged in his declaration.

I think there can be no question as to this case now. He is well sustained by oral testimony and also by ancient documents from the State Records-

Yrs &c
Th. Maxwell

J.L. Edwards Esq.
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Ithaca Sept 14 1859

Dear Sir

Mr Benjamin Coykendall a Revolutionary
Soldier was pensioned and placed on the Pension list probably of the Albany Pension Agency.

The Executor whose power of Attorney of attorney is enclosed and the heirs suppose that there is some arrears of pay that is passed upon and is in such shape that the decision of the Pension Department deciding against paying heirs such claims as their ancestors should
have received does not bar it
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I can conceive of such a case, & suppose that if Mr Benjamin Coykendall made his declaration & claimed as a Captain the deponent found a record of his service as Lieutenant and should
grant him a pension for that rank on discovering
subsequently a Record of his services as Captain the difference in pay would constitute an interest that would be paid to his heirs or Executors.

I therefore at the request of the Executor ask to be informed in what shape the claims (if any)
of Mr Coykendall rests with the department and
whether it is exempted from the effect of the
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decision of Attorny General Black of Sept 19 1857 and the subsequent repeat advance to certain pension claims made in that year by the secretary of the Interior.

And if it is a subsisting claim will the department please say whether the proofs
and papers filed by the Executor Mr Welch and
the heirs lately or within the last few years are
sufficient proof and if not what if any further
proofs are needed, and if upon the proof filed
a certificate is or should be issued will the commissioner please forward it to me in the matter of the enclosed pensioner.
Yours &c.
Jennie Rowe

Hon. Geo. C. Whitney
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12. Coy Benjn. Capt-
12043  Saml Coykendall His widow Margaret
(in Mexican War)
R13.406 Amer. Coykendall 1812 militia Ensign
R13.554  do.          do.             do        do.

Waverly N.Y. Oct 10 1883

To the Commissioner of Pensions

Dear Sir

The records at Trenton New Jersey show that
Samuel Corkendall of Sussex County New Jersey - was enrol[l]ed as a Private Soldier at the commencement of the Revolutionary War
in the third Battalion Sussex Militia, that he was
promoted Ensign in Captain Benjamin Coykendalls Company second Regiment Sussex Militia afterward was promoted Captain of the same Company & Regiment (Benjamin Coykendall who was his brother got killed).
The name Coykendall is
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spelled in different ways, Kirkendall, and other ways, but it means the same name.

Will you please let me know if the Records show
that he ever received any pay and oblige
George Coykendall
Waverly
Tioga County
New York

P.S. Does the name of Samuel Coykendall of
Sussex County New Jersey appear on the
Pension Records at Washington. Please give
me the desired information,
Geo. Coykendall
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Elmira NY Sep 30 1835

J L Edward Esqr

Dir

Will you do me the favor to inform me whether the papers in the case of Benj. Coykendall, have been examined. His pension was suspended
& his certificate forwarded about 2 months
since for reexamination-

Yours &c
Tho. Maxwell
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No 20375
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, Benjamin Coykendall of the State of New York, who was a Lieutenant and Captain during the Revolutionary War is entitled to receive Four hundred & Seventy six dollars and Sixty six cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.

Given at the War Office of the United States, this Fourth day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
Lew Cass
Secretary of War.

Examined and }
Countersigned. }
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.
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New York 20375
-----------------
Benjamin Coykendall
Tioga in the State of N.Y.
who was a Captain in the ----  commanded
by Captain ---- of the Regt commanded
by Col Seward in the Militia
line for 23 1/2 months Capt. 470.00 
                    ½ month- Lieut.      6.66,
                                                 _______
                                                  476.66
----------------------------
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 476 Dollars 66 Cents per ann
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
---------------------------
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 day of Sept
1833 and sent to
Th. Maxwell, Elmira, Tioga Co.
---------------------------
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 33.               1191. 65
Semi anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 34.   238.33
                                                                ________
                                                               $1.429.98
{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832. }

Recorded by F.T. Franciosi Clerk,
Book E.   Vol. 4    Page 52

New Jersey
Records corrected Nov. 13/05.8


Reported to Agent for paying Pension N York 27 Sep 33
See letter to Pension May 1 1835
  "       "      "    Ezra Ames Esq. 1. "
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March 31, 1934.

XXXXXXXXXXXXX

Mrs. John E. Woolverton
124 West State Street
Trenton, New Jersey

BA-J/MMHF/ady
Benjamin Coykendall
S. 12607

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request verification of a statement on file in the Revolutionary War pension claim of Benjamin Coykendall, which you state was certified April 5, 1855 in Tompkins County, New York, in regard to a fort around the house of Josias Decker.

The pension claim, S.12607, of Captain Benjamin Coykendall has been carefully examined for you.

It is shown in said claim that Captain Benjamin
Coykendall appeared in open court before the judges in Tioga County, New York, on September 5, 1832, and in his declaration before said judges he made the following statement:

"After the Minisink frontier was cut off by the Indians under command of Brandt and
Butler, an order was issued to Major Samuel Meeker, by Gov. Livingston of New Jersey to raise a company of Rangers for the protection of the Inhabitants in the County of Sussex which composed a part of that frontier. The deponent was appointed to the command of
the Company. The Inhabitants erected a stockade fort around the house of Josiah Decker at the Clove in the Town of Wantage in the said County of Sussex, and the deponent with the Company of Rangers under his
command were employed principally in scouting through the woods, about the Shawangunk mountains, and the neighborhood where the Indians reported for one month".
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No charge is made for this report, nor is your
postage necessary.  Your three cent stamp is enclosed.

Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator,
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Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C

Gentlemen:

I am enclosing 2 copies of of part of an affidavit made by Benjamin Coykendall for Revolutionary Pension.

This affidavit, I understand, was copied from 
records in Washington by Mrs. G.B. Kuykendall.

I would like this verified if possible and the two copies
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returned to me certified.  Any fees will be paid.

I am interested in the paragraph concerning Josiah Decker.

Thank you-

Kate C. Potter
Mrs Clarkson A. Potter
33 Unionville Avenue
Sussex 
New Jersey.
April 24th 1834
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MRS. JOHN E. WOOLVERTON
124 WEST STATE STREET
TRENTON, NEW JERSEY

Jan. 15, 1934

Pension Bureau
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sirs:

In the History of the Kuykendall family by George Benson Kuykendall on page 337 I find

"Among papers relating to Benjamin Coykendall's pension claim Certified April 5, 1855, one makes reference to a stockade fort around the house of Josias Decker at the Clove in the town of Wantage in the County of Sussex N.J.

State of New York }
County of Tompkins } ss

Can you verify about this stockade fort around the house of
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Josias Decker?  If so is it permissible for me to have a copy for a fee?

Respectfully yours
Savilla S. Woolverton

Mrs. John E.

[stamp:]  RECEIVED JAN 16 1934 MAIL SUB-DIV. VETS, ADM. READER #65
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[left side]
1912 May 10. Hist to Mrs.
Melissa P. Densl, letter in
W.F. 20,964 Micajah Dean

1934 Mch. 21- Mrs. John E. Woolverton MMHF
adv. rel. is certain data in claim.

1934 June 26, Mrs Clarkson A. Potts
adv. rel. to certain data in claim.

[right side]
12.607
Rev War INVALID.
-------------
File No.  12. 607
Benjamin Coykendall
Capt. Rev. War
---------------
Act:  June 7" 1832
Index:-Vol. ___, Page ____

[Arrangement of 1870.]

Benjamin Coykendall
Records corrected Nov. 13/15.8.
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The People of the State of New York To all
to whom these presents may come or may concern send Greeting:

Know ye that at the Village of Elmira in the County of Chemung on the 6th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred & thirty eight, before Lyman Covell Surrogate of our said County the Last Will and testament of Benjamin Coykendall deceased a copy whereof is hereunto annexed was proved and is now approved and allowed by us; and the said deceased having while he lived and at the time of his death goods chattels & credits within this State by means whereof the proving & registering of said will & granting administration of all and singular the goods
chattels & credits of and also the auditing allowing and finally discharging the account thereof doth belong unto us; the administration of all and singular the goods chattels & credits of said deceased and any way concerning his said will is granted unto Thomas Welch and Tobias I. Giltner Executors in the said will named
they having first taken and subscribed an oath
before the said Sungate faithfully and honestly
to discharge the duties of such executors hereby requiring you the said Thomas Welch and Tobias I Giltner to make or cause to be made a true and perfect inventory of all and singular the goods chattels and credits of the said deceased which have or shall come to your hands possession or knowledge as also to make or cause to be made duplicates of such
inventory and cause the same who signed by the appraisers, and the same so made and signed that you make return thereof to the Surrogate of said County within three months from the date thereof.

In Testimony whereof we have caused
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the seal of office of our said Surrogate to be
hereunto affixed. Witness Lyman Covell Esquire Surrogate of the said county at the Village of Elmira in the said County on the 6th June in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight Lyman Covell Surrogate
[seal at left]

State of New York
Chemung County Surrogate office } SS
I Ariel S. Thurston County Judge and ex officio Surrogate of the County of Chemung Do hereby certify that I have compared the foregoing copy of Letters testamentary with the original record thereof remaining in my office and that the same is a true copy thereof and of the whole of said original record. And I further certify that the said Executors named in said letters duly took upon themselves the execution of the Will of the testator.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto affixed my official seal at Elmira in said County this 19th day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty five.
Ariel S. Thurston,
[seal affixed at left]

State of New York, } 
Chemung County Clerk's Office, } ss.  I, ALBERT F. BABCOCK, Clerk of said County, and also Clerk of the Courts in and for said County, do hereby certify that Ariel S. Thurston whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgement of the annexed instrument, and thereon written, was at the date of the said certificate of proof or acknowledgemnet, County Judge & Surrogate
in and for said County, dwelling in said County, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorised to take the same; and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge & Surrogate and verily believe that the signature of the said certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine.   In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my
name and affixed the seal of the said Courts and County, at Elmira, this 19th day of Sept
1855.
A.F. Babcock Clerk
[seal affixed at left]
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POWER OF ATTORNEY.
------------------------
Know all men by these presents: That I, Thomas Welch of Richford of the county of Tioga and State of New York the Executor of Benjamin Coykendall whose claim for pension under the act of Congress, approved the [blank] day of [blank] 18[blank] granting Revolutionary Pensions, he having been pensioned as a Revolutionary soldier or officer has been made 18[blank], do hereby constitute and appoint Jerome Rowe of I Mald my true and lawful Attorney, irrevocably for me, and in my name and place, and with power of substitution to examine all the records, letters, affidavits, and other documents and papers connected with the aforesaid claim now on file in the Pension office as well as all the Muster Rolls and other records that may show the Revolutionary services of the said Benjamin Coykendall and generally to do all lawful acts and things whatsoever, touching the premises, in order to prosecute said claim to some result, and to receive the Certificate when issue: hereby revoking all power of attorney heretofore given for a like purpose, and confirming whatsoever my said attorney shall, in my name, legally do in the premises: In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and seal, this 14th day of September 1859. Thomas Welch [SEAL.]

Acknowledged and subscribed before me, a Notary Public in the aforesaid county of
Tompkins and State of New York and I do certify that of my own personal knowledge the aforesaid Thomas Welch is the individual
described in & who executed the foregoing instrumen.
,
Witness my hand and seal this Fourteenth day of September 1859.
F. M. Finch
Notary Public


STATE OF New York }
County of Tompkins } ss.
I do certify, that [blank], Esquire, bef[covered] 
going acknowledgment was made, was, at the time of it being made, a Justice of [covered]
county, duly commissioned and qualified, and that the above is his genuine signature.

Witness my hand and the seal of the [blank] court for said [covered] 
this [blank] day of [blank] 18[blank]
[blank] Clerk.