Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 8614, Thomas Cobb, New Jersey
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(8-1776)

SERVICE
New Jersey

NUMBER
W. 8614

Cobb, Thomas
Clara R.

B.L.Wt. 10306-160-55

CONTENTS
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Lt. to Hon. L V Condict Apl 30 1838
do to Hon. J B Aycrigg Aug 23. 1842.
Do. letter H. Johnson
Jan. 16. 1846

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31389 New Jersey
Thomas Cobb of Morristown in the State of New Jersey who was a Sergeant in the Company commanded by Captain Cox. of the regt. commanded by Col. Dayton in the New Jersey line for 2 years --

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 120 Dollars ___ Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of Nov 1838 and sent to Hon. J.P.B Maxwell 

Arrears to the 4th of March 1838   
$216.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. '38
60.00
$276.00

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

Recorded by Dyer Castor Clerk,
Book E.  Vol. 12  Page. 120
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4933
New Jersey
Clara R. Cobb
widow of NJ Thomas Cobb
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Sergeant
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 120 dollars 00 cents per annum, to commence on the 3rd February, 1853.

Certificate of Pension issued 9th day of Febry, 1855 and sent to Hon. Geo. Vail H of R

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under acu[torn off] February 3, 1853, Page 91 Vol. A (32)

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L D Dawson Dec. 22, 57
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88.990}
Act March 3/5/3
April 21
Clara R. Cobb, widow of Thomas Cobb, Pvt.  Claimant states that she is a pensioner under the act 1853  
Rev. War.

no law
9 Feb 53-4933

Sergeant Col. Dayton
N. J. Line

Ab. 160 ac's Nov 20/55
Dodge
Lewis Condich
Morristown
N. Jersey
Rev War

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Vol. 62 -- 9.
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State of New Jersey}
County of Morris Ss.}

Personally appeared before me Lewis Condich, one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County and State aforesaid, Thomas Cobb, a citizen of said county resident in Morristown, who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith, that he was born in the township of Hanover -- in the said County of Morris, that sometime in the Spring of the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven as near as the deponent can recollect, he this Deponent enlisted as a Sergeant in the Revolutionary army under Capt. William Gordon in the third Regiment of the Jersey line, commanded by Col. Elias Dayton, that soon after his enlistment Captain Gordon died, and the command of said company was given to Capt. Richard Cox. And this Deponent further says that he continued in the Continental army and was regularly mustered as one of the Sergeants of Said Company until sometime in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and eighty one, when he was regularly discharged from the Service.
[signed] Thomas Cobb
Sworn & subscribed before me, this 24th day of March, Domini 1818.

[signed] Lewis Condict

New Jersey Morris County Ss:  The above named Deponent Thomas Cobb, personally came before me & being again duly sworn deposeth & saith, that by reason of his severe circumstances in life, he stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support.
Sworn & subscribed before me}
this 9th day of April, 1818.}
[signed] Lewis Condich
[signed] Thos. Cobb
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State of New Jersey}
Morris County Ss.}

Personally appeared before me Lewis Condich, One of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for the County of Morris in the State of New Jersey, Captain William Tuttle, a citizen of Morristown in said County, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that he served in the Third Regiment of the Jersey line in the revolutionary war; that he was well acquainted with Thomas Cobb, the person named in the foregoing deposition who was a Sergeant in Captain Richard Cox's company in said Regiment, that he knew the said Thomas Cobb as a Sergeant in said company, from about the beginning of the campaign in 1777 till some time in the year 1781, when the said Thomas Cobb, was to the knowledge of this deponent honorably discharged. That he has been acquainted with the said Thomas Cobb from that time to the present, and has for several years lived a near neighbor to him, and he verily believes the said Thomas Cobb is in such reduced circumstances, that he is unable to obtain a comfortable living without public assistance.
[signed] Wm. Tuttle

Sworn & subscribed before me,
this 28th day of March, Domini 1818.
[signed] Lewis Condich
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New York roll.
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State of New Jersey}
Morris County Ss.}

Personally appeared before me Lewis Condich of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Morris David Thompson [illeg.] a citizen of Morristown in the aforesaid County, who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Thomas Cobb the person named in the foregoing deposition. That the said Thomas Cobb is temperate and regular in his habits, but considerably infirm, and has no apparent means of support, but by his daily labour and the assistance of the public.
[signed] David Thompson  Jm

Sworn & subscribed before me, this 24th March, Domini 1818
[signed] Lewis Condich

State of New Jersey}
County of Morris} Ss:

I Lewis Condich of Morris Town N. Jersey, one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of common pleas of said County, do hereby certify to the Honorable J.C. Calhoun, Secretary of the War Department, that on the 24th day of March last past, Thomas Cobb, a soldier of the Revolution, appeared before me, & claimed the benefit of the Act of Congress granting pensions to certain persons serving in the Revolutionary War, passed March 18th, 1818, that from the depositions of said Cobb & of Captain William Tuttle, both of whom are personally & intimately known to me. I am satisfied that he the said Thomas Cobb, did serve the United States, in the War of the Revolution, against the common enemy, for the term, & in the manner stated in their respective depositions, which are hereunto annexed, for the purpose of being transmitted to the Department of War.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name at Morris Town aforesaid, this ninth day of April Domini Eighteen hundred & eighteen.
[signed] Lewis Condich
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New Jersey
Morris County
Thomas Cobb

159 Morris

Con

April 18

Sept '18
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[State Seal of New Jersey]

District of New Jersey,}
Morris County} ss.

On this Eleventh day of July, 1820, personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, holden at Morris-Town, in and for the County of Morris, in the term of July, in the year aforesaid. [The said court being a court of record, possessing a seal, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping records of its proceedings, and its Judgments being removeable by writ of error only]
Thomas Cobb aged sixty years, resident in the township of Morris in said county, who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare, that he enlisted in the 3rd New Jersey Regiment commanded by Col. Dayton in Capt. Wm. Gordons Company and served afterwards in Capt. Wm. Coxes' Company in the latter part of the year 1776 or the beginning of 1777, and Continued to serve in that company until the year 1781. That he made his original declaration or application for a pension on the 9th of April 1818. That he has received a pension certificate which is mustered 159--

And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other that what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. That I am now in the sixty first year of my age, by occupation a laborer, but am necessarily incapacitated from performing active hard labor by reason of my age. That I have obtained a support for some years past by working land on shares, but have frequently been under the necessity of asking and receiving aid from my friends and connections. That I have a wife aged about 34 years named Clarissa, but who is enabled [unable] to support herself by her labor, that I have one daughter residing in my family names Louisa aged about 14 years, that I have four other children two of which do not reside with me to wit, Luciana aged about 33 years, William Archibald about 24 years, one other Sylvester Russell aged about 23 years on board the United States Ship Columbus, and one daughter, a widow with two small children, named Mary Smith who makes her residence with me, and is supposed to be laboring under a deep consumption __

Sworn and declared to this 11th July AD 1820. 
Before [signed] Gab H Ford
[signed] Thomas Cobb
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SCHEDULE referred to in the foregoing deposition of Thomas Cobb --

1 old cow, half 1 young sow, 4 small pigs, 1 young sow, 1 ax, 1 hoe, 1 wheel barrow (old), 2 garden scrapers poor, 1 small box of old iron about 30 lbs., 1 watering pot, old, 10 earthen plates (5 broken), 2 earthen dishes, 5 old knives and forks, 1 small dish kettle, 1 iron kettle, 3 tin basins, 6 old silver tea spoons, 2 kitchen tongs, one 1/2 gallon tin measure, 2 earthen jars, 2 old jugs, 6 tea cups, and saucers, ten which were cracked -- He has also the following property, under execution on a judgment against him/and his son Enoch who is dead leaving no property at the suit of Icanna word viz., 1 cow, 15 year old, 2 stands, 1 tea kettle, 1 small looking glass, 2 old chests, 2 broken trunks, 4 old window curtains, 1 old homespun carpet, 1 large spinning wheel, 1 small spinning wheel 40 years old, 1 reel 34 years old, 1 old shovel near worn out, 1 broken spade, 1 old brass kettle full of holes, 1 hoe, 1 small tin oven, 1 pair broken cast end irons, 1 old pitch fork, 1 old Guthreries Geography, 3 volumes of Robertsons Charles the 5th, much worn and injured by use and worm eaten, 2 old Bibles, covers off and leaves torn out, 4 old barrels, 1 old wash tub, 1 pair old broken candlesticks, 6 common chairs, 1 dining table out of repair, 1 old kitchen table, 1 still head, unfinished, 1 large copper kettle--
Chauncy Newcomb, of Pennsylvania is indebted to him $17.50, considered desperate he having applied for the benefit of the Insolvent Law of that State.
Peter Gallegher/who has run away is indebted to him about $30.00; John Vail is indebted to him $4.50; Charles N Burnet is indebted to him about $5.00;
There is a judgment against him in this court and his son Enoch H. Cobb who is dead, at the suit of Johanna Wood debt [illeg.]  $380.44 both intent upon from August 1815 which remains unpaid [illeg] due by him.
John Johnson and David Johnson obtained a judgment against him and his son Enoch forthwith [illeg] from 19th Dec. 1815......$120.53
Interest from 19th Dec. 1815... $41.60.  [Total] $171.13

He is indebted to Amelia Tabari...$80.00
to Lewis and Sally Mills... $20.00
to Peter Freeman... $9.00
to Daniel Casterlem about...$4.75
to Lewis Hayden...$2.00
to Colin Roberson...$14.00
to D. William Whilpley about...$5.00
to Aaron Bound...$6.00
to Daniel Tingley a judgment & Court...$6.20
to Isaac Stephens a judgment about..$5.00

Sworn and declared to this 11th of July AD. 1820 before Gab. H. Ford

[signed] Thomas Cobb
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State of New Jersey
County of Morris
I, Robert H. M. Carter, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Morris, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said [] that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is sixty eight dollars and seventy five cents 68.75
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name affixed the seal of said Court, this fifteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty.
Robert H. M. Carter, Clerk of the Court, for the County of Morris
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Declaration for Pension.
Clara R. Cobb, widow of
Thomas Cobb, of N. Jersey
Law of Febry 3rd,1853
Return to Lewis Condict
Morristown
N. Jersey
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the 2nd section of the Act of February 3rd 1853.
State of New Jersey
County of Morris
On this 19th day of October, 1854, personally appeared before the Circuit---- Court of said County + State, New Jersey, Clara R. Cobb, a resident of Jersey City, in the County of Hudson + State aforesaid, aged 67 years, who first being duly sworn according to the Law, doth, on her oath, make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, pages on the 3rd February, 1853, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war:
I am the widow of Thomas Cobb, who was a sergeant in the Revolutionary Army, + for his services was placed on the Pension List by the Act of March, 18th 1818 at the rate of $8 per month, was paid at the Agency of New Jersey: + after the Law of June 32, was enacted, he claimed it; benefits, as a sergeant, + obtained an Increase of Pension at the rate of $120 per annum, according to the best of my recollection, which Increased pension was paid at the New Jersey Agency to the time of his death. My belief is, that my said husband enlisted + served in the New Jersey line of the Continental Army, that he served in Captain Anderson's company in Dayton's regimt. + probably under other officers. I believe he was present at the siege of Yorktown, + at the surrendering of Lord Cornwallis + his army. I refer respectfully, to his Declarations + the various testimonials of his services, now on file in the Department which I presume will show the various details + circumstances required as to the precise time + place of his enlistment service +:
I was married to the said Thomas Cobb, by Revd John J. Bergen, a Presbyterian Clergyman, on the 7th day of April Domini, 1816, at Madison, in Morris County, New Jersey, + now am 67 years old, and my said husband died on the 17th day of January, eighteen hundred + forty five.
I was not married to him prior to the second day of January, eighteen hundred, but at the time above stated. And I
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I further declare, that I have never been married but once, & that I am now the widow of said Thomas Cobb.
Sworn to & subscribed in open Court, at Morristown, in said County & State, this 19th day of October 1854
Before me,
[signed] David Haines
Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey
[signed] Clara R Cobb

I, Albert H. Stanburrough, Clerk of Morris [illeg.] Court, and Clerk of Morris Count, certify that Daniel Haines Esqu. before whom the preceding declaration of Clara R. Cobb was taken & subscribed, is one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the State of New Jersey & is now presiding Judge of the Circuit Court, in person in said County of Morris. & that the signature of his name thereto, "Daniel Haines" is in his own proper hand writing.

In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name, & affix my official seal at Morristown, this 19th day of October 1954.
[signed] A. H. Stanburrough  Clk
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8 8.900
Bounty Land Claim.
Clara R. Cobb
Widow of 
Thomas Cobb, Rev. Soldier
Law of March 3rd 1855.

Return to Lewis Condict
Morristown N. Jersey.
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State of New Jersey}
County of Morris} Ss

On this 7th day of April one thousand eight hundred and fifty five, personally appeared before me Lewis Condict a Notary Public within and for the State of New Jersey, Clara R Cobb, aged 68 years a resident of Jersey City in the State of New Jersey, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Thomas Cobb deceased, who was at the time of his death a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States under the law of 1818, at the rate of eight dollars a month, afterwards increased under the law of 1832, to the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars a year, as a Sergeant, that she is herself a pensioner of the United States under the law of 1853, and that she is now a widow.
For proof of the services of her late husband, and also of the time of his death and of her marriage to said Cobb, she would respectfully refer the Commissioners of Pensions to their respective declarations & the vouchers attached thereto.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3, 1855. She also declares that she has not received a warrant for bounty land under this or any other act of Congress, nor made any application therefore.
[signed] Clara R Cobb

We Arnold G. Mason & Monroe Howell residents  of Jersey City, N.J. in the State of New Jersey, upon our oaths declare, that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Clara R Cobb in our presence, and we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be
[signed] Arnold G Mason
[signed} Monroe Howell

The foregoing declaration and affidavits were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I hereby certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this claim. The said Clara R. Cobb is a woman of excellent moral character & worthy of full belief. In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix my notarial seal April 7th 1855.
[signed] Lewis Condict  Notary Public
[paper seal in lower left corner of document]
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I, George Vail, a Representative in Congress from the State of N. Jersey, do hereby certify to the Commissioners of Pensions, that Lewis Condict, whose genuine signature is subscribed to the withing Declaration of Clara R. Cobb, is a Notary Public in & for said State duly commissioned & authorized by law to administer oaths & take acknowledgements. I have seen & read his Commission, which from date Sept. 29th, 1836, & is signed by Peter D. Vroom, then Governor of N. Jersey, & now Minister [illegible] at the Court of Berlin.
17th April 1855.
[signed] Geo Vail  UC

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Declaration of Clara B
Cobb for Bounty Land
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No. 88990
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
Received Apr 21st, 1835
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Thos. Cobb Pri- Dec
N. J. Line, Rev. War
Col Dayton


10306-160-55


Lewis Condict
Morristown
N. J.
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10.306

Rev Army
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To be transferred
to the N.J. roll
by order of J.L.E.

EeAlS
Nov 1819

    27
      8
    ___
31|216 | 696
     186
     ____
       300
       279
     _____
         210

9.4
4.8
____
4.27 |
8.     |
_____
$32
     6.96
__________
$38.96


notification sent Sep. 18 1820 to 
Lewis Condict
Morristown N. JERSEY

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([illegible]594)  Transferr3ed from
*New York to
New Jersey
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Thomas Cobb
New Jersey line - 1777 - 4 years.
Sergeant, Army U.S.
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At $8 per mo: Comd. 9th April, 1818.
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Cert. issued 14th April, 1818, and
sent to Honble Mr. Bateman
House of Representatives U.S.
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Ans. to 4th Sept 1818.   4 27/31 mos. $38.96
(Rev Claim, Act 18th March, 1818)

10.1701
Transferred from New York to New Jersey agreeably with the regulations of Dept which require that the pensions U.S. shall be paid in 
the states in which they respectively reside.
13 November 1879
.------------------

Morristown Morris Co.
continued
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House of Reps
Dec 17, 57

Dr. Sir,

Will you be good enough to examine the accompanying paper & return with your decision in the case to my address.

Very Respecty.,
J.D. Clawson

Hon. Comr. Pensions
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5399

Clara R. Cobb
Wid. of
Thomas

Lt. to L. COndict Jany. 18"/55

Act/53
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Clara R. Cobb
widow
Thomas

['Stuart' crossed out]
Boynton
Jan 17/55

[stamp:] MORRISTOWN N.J. JAN 15

FREE

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Pension Office, Official Business
L PWaldo, Commissioner.
Lewis Condict, Esq. Morristown, New Jersey.
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Commissioner of Pensions
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Morristown N.J. January 13th '55

Commissioner of Pensions,
Herewith you will receive the Pension Claim of Clara R. Cobb, widow of Thomas Cobb a soldier of the Revolution + pensions under the Act of March 1818, enlarged by the subsequent Act of June 1832.
   His widow is a claimant by the 2d section of the Law of February 3d 1853.
   Please notify me the result of your examination.
Very respectfully 
Lewis Condict.
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[illegible] Office
Feby 17" 1855.

Sir,
 
Please certify the time to which the within
named pensioner was paid or the date of his death.

Very Respectfully
17 Jany. 45
L. P. Waldo
Commissioner


R. J. Atkinson Esqr
Third Auditor, Treasury


Thomas Cobb died 17 Jany 1845. paid in
full
Robt. J. Atkinson
Auditor
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1 pres: 1 report Co:
2 death 17 Jany. 45.
2 to [illegible]

"Boynton"

Send to Hon. Geo. Vail
Ho. of Reps.
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Pension Office February 7, 1855
I am personally acquainted with Wm N Wood of Morristown New Jersey and know that h now is, and for a long time, has been a Notary Public and, commissioned + sworn and that he has long officiated in that character. Geo Vail MC

Examine a report to Hon Geo Vail Clara R Cobb widow of Thomas, N.J.
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Brief in the case of Clara R. Cobb, wid. of Thomas
Hudson County and State of New Jersey
act 3d Feby. 1853
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Claim, ("original," ['for increase' crossed out]

Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was pensioner under the act of 7 June, 1832, as a Sergeant (at the rate of $120.00 per an: One Witnesses testifies he was present at the marriage & one testifies to general reputation of marriage & cohabitation. Pensioner died 17 January, 1845, as per the
Affidavits of two witnesses report of the Third Auditor.
Two
Witnesses testify to the widowhood of the applicant.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?

Hon. Geo. Vail
Ho. of Reps.
Name and residence of Agent

S.C. Boynton
Examining Clerk.
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 8614
Clara R. Cobb Wid
Thomas Cobb
Sergt Rev. War
Act: Feby 3d 1853
Index:--Vol. A, Page 145 [Arrangement of 1870]
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House of Rep N.J. August 22d 1842
J. L. Edwards Esq
Sir
The Thomas Cobb family of Morris County N.J. has applied to me to ascertain the amount that has been yearly paid to him as a pensioner as he is doubtful whether his agent has paid him the amount accrued from government. You will oblige me by furnishing a comment as early as convenient respectfully Your Obd Servt Jno B Aycrigg
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3 cases for Hon.
Mr. Bateman of
New Jersey
-------
Apr 14 1818
-------

George Boyd
Pension Office
Dept of War
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April 13th 1818
D. Sir
I send you three additional applications for Pensions under the act of March 18 and last past viz.
Thomas Cobb, who desires to be inscribed on the New York Roll
Henry Fawner Nathan Tarble} on the N J. Rev
Yours respectfully Ephm Bateman
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Thos Cobb's Warrant 
Payable on the 4th of arch & 4th of Sept. in each year by the Agent at the Branch Bank U.S. City of New York.
aomd as Sergt under act of 7 June 1832.
2 yrs Sergt
_________
  120
deduct what has been paid him under the act of 1818 since the 4 March 1831-- Hon. J P. B. Maxwell
Recorded.
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War Department, 
Revy Claim

1. CERTIFY, That in conformity with the law of the UNITED STATES, of the 18th of March 1818, _,_,_,Thomas Cobb, _ late a Sergeant in the Army of the Revolution, _, _,_ is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New York Agency at the rate of Eight dollars_,_cents per month, to commence on the 9th day of April one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen.

Given at the War Office of the United States this 14th, day of April one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen. 

J.C Calhoun
Secretary of War.
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May 6, 1820 paid to Mar. 4 1820
Mar 21, 1821 Paid to Mar 4 1821
Sept 18. 1821 pd to Sept 4 1821
Apl. 1, 1822 paid to Mar 4 1822
Sept. 20. 1822 pd to to Sep. 4. 1823
Mar. 20. 1823 pd to Mar 4, 1823
Sept. 23 1823 Pd to Sept 4 1823
Mar 18, 1824 to Mar 4 1824
Sept 9. 1824 pd to Sept 4, 1824
Apl 18. 1825 pd to Mar 4 1825
Oct 5 1825 pd to Sept. 4, 1825
Mar 21. 1826 pd to Mar 4 1826
Sept 20. 1826 Paid to Sept 4 1826
Sept 25 1827 pd to Sept. 4 1827
Mar 13. 1828 pd to Mar 4. 1828
Sept 24 1828 pd to Sept. 4 1828
Mar 23. 1829 pd to Mar 4, 1829
Sept 29, 1829 paid to Sept 4 1829
Mar 12. 1830 paid to Mar 4 1830
April 6, 1831 paid to Mar 4 1831
Sept 30. 1831 pd to Sept 4. 1831
Mar 27 1832 pd to Mar 4 1832Sep 18
Sep 8 1832 pd to Sep 4 1832


159
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Mar 22. 1833 Paid to Mar 4, 1833.
Oct 24. 1835 paid to Sept 4, 1833
Apr 8. 1834 Paid to Mar 4, 1834
Sept 25, 1834 Paid to Sept 4, 1834
June 15 1835 paid to Mar 4 1835
Oct 28 1835 Pd to Sep 4 1835
Mar 22 1836 paid to Mar 4 1836
Dec 4 paid to [illegible] 1836
Mar 28 Paid to 4 Mar 1837
Paid to Apr 1837
.
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J. Cobb

Apl. 10
D. Crump
Jun att.

J.L. Edwards
Commr. of Pensions
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H. R. Ap 9. 1838
D Sir
I send you enclosed a note recd from D Condict requesting information respecting the case of Thomas Cobb
Very respectfully yours J P B. Maxwell
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Comm of Pensions
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Morris town 31 March, 1838
Honl J. P. B. Maxwell Hose of Reps. U.S.
P.S. May I ask the favor of you to enquire of Col Edwards what is the result of the Relinquishment of Sergeant Thomas Cobbs pension under the act of March 1818, with a view to the benefit of the act of June 7th 1832? It was presented by me through Dr. McChesney. Mr. Cobb has written to me urgently expecting it, desiring an answer through me. L.C
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Jany 14 1835 [or 1855]
Clara R. Cobb
 wid. of
Thomas
Hudson Co. N.J.

Act /53
$120.00 per An.
Com: Feby 3 1853

Revy

Lewis Condict,
Morristown


DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Pension Office, Official Business
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State of New Jersey County of Morris Ss}
I Robert H McCarter Clerk of the County of Morris do certify that Lewis Condict Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavits were made, is, and was at the doing thereof duly enrolled as one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common pleas of the said County of Morris and that full faith and credit is due and ought to be given to his official acts as such
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said County of Morris the ninth day of April in the Year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and Eighteen
Robert H McCarter
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Apl 30
[illeg.] ab. to-day
31389 
Tho Cobb
James L Edwards Esqr. Commissioner of Pensions
War Department Washington
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Morris-town, N.J. April 27  '38
Dear Sir,
I recd by Mr Maxwell yesterday, a Certificate in favor of Sergeant Thomas Cobb, which I return for the purpose of having the name correctly written. It now reads Thomas Cobbs + it should  read Cobb, without the s[underlined] final. The error is a trifling one it is true, + from the excessive tremor of his hand, I do not wonder, that the Clerk should mistake it. I know however, that on former occasions you have required that all errors of this type should be rectified in your office, + this is my apology for returning it. Such are Mr. Cobbs necessities for his "daily bread," that I hope you will return it to use by the next mail.
With much esteem, Your friend + obt. Servt. Lewis Condict.
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N.J.  Feb 22d

4   Tho. Cobb
Act 1818, for
increase act 1832

James L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Washington
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State of New Jersey, Bergen County Jersey City, February 4th 1838.
To James L. Edwards Esqr. Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir,
Under the Pension Law of the U.S. of March 1818, I was enrolled on the Pension list, Roll of the New York Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, as a Sergeant in the Revolutionary Army + have received my pay as a pensioner at that rate, as will appear; as I presume, by the accounts of the Department. I have been lately informed, that a regulation now exists, in virtue whereof, as a Sergeant in said army,  am entitled to receive a Sergeant's pension upon surrender of my original Certificate + of my claim to a pension thereupon. You will please accept this letter as a surrender + relinquishment of my said Certificate + of a pension from the United States, under the same, for the purpose + in the hope that you will take the proper measures to place me on the pension list roll of the New Jersey agency, at such rate as my rank may entitle me to receive. My pension Certificate will accompany this letter, + I trust you will so direct, that I may receive all measures to which I may fairly be entitled. Very respectfully Your obt. Servt. Thomas Cobb
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New Jersey. Supplemental Declaration of Clara R. Cobb Widor of Thomas Cobb. Sergeant in the Revol'y War
Claims that her Pension may commence at the death of her Husband.
Title + date of the Act not known. Pensioned by Act Feby 3rd 1853.
Return to Lewis Condict Morris Town, N. Jersey
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Declaration  to obtain an increase if Pension State of New Jersey, viz:
Be it known that on this 12th day of December in the year of our Lord 1857, before me, Lewis Condit, a Notary Public in said State, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally appeared Clara R. Cobb of said State, well known to me personally, as a woman of truth + unblemished character, who having been by ne duly sworn according to Law on her oath makes the following Declaration, in order to obtain such increase of her Pension as by existing Laws of the United States, she may be entitled to receive, the dates + titles whereof are to her unknown. 
I am the widow of Thomas Cobb, who was a sergeant in the war of the Revolution in the Continental Army + was pensioned by the United States for his service + paid by the Pension Agent of N. Jersey to the time of his death, which occurred on the 17th day of January ADomini 1845. I was married to said Thomas Cobb on the 7th day of April 1816 + remain his widow to this day. I am the same Clara R. Cobb who as the widow of said Thomas Cobb, have been admitted as a pensioner of the United States on the Roll of New Jersey, at the rate of $120 per annum, commencing on the 3rd day of February 1853, which has been regularly paid to me, to 4th Sept. 1857 and the object of this Declaration + Claim is, that my said pension may be considered as commencing with the date of my said husband's death in conformity with an act or joint Resolution of Congress to that effect, the date whereof is to me unknown + the benefit whereof I respectfully claim.
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For proof of the revolutionary services of my said husband as well as for the time of his death -- the evidence of my marriage with him + of my admission to the Pension Roll: I respectfully refer to the evidence Declaration of my husband + myself on the files of the Pension office + the Testimonials accompanying them. And I trust that my ignorance of the date + little of the law, on which this claim is predicated, will not debar me from its benefits inasmuch as this must be perfectly familiar with his Commission of Pensions, in the discharge of his official duties. 
Sworn + subscribed the date find mentioned  Clara R Cobb
before me, Lewis Condict Notary Public + in presence of Phebe F. Cobb, Silas L Condict
We the subscribers, residents of Jersey City + neighbors of Mrs. Clara R. Cobb, hereby testify that we are personally well acquainted with her + know her to be the identical person she represents herself to be in the preceding declaration signed before in our presence + that we believe the facts therein stated to be true. Sworn + subscribed at Jersey City, this 12th day of December 8, 1857 before me. Phebe F. Cobb, Silas L. Condict Lewis Condict, Notary Public
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Jersey City | 
Hudson Co. N.J. | ss.
Be it known that before me David
Bedford - a Justice of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid 
personally appeared William A. Cobb who being duly
sworn did depose & say, that he is now & for [illegible] year last
past, has been a resident of Brooklyn, N.Y. that his Father, the
late Thomas Cobb died in Jersey City, in January 1845, when
he had resided for some seven or eight years & that immediately
prior think he had always resided in Morris Co., NJ and that for
many years he had statedly received a pension from the United 
States Govt for services rendered during the Revolutionary War.
This deponent further states that he is now in the 56th year of
his age that he has a perfectly distinct remembrance of the [illegible]
ceremony when his father the said Thomas Cobb was united a
Clara R. Tabarie & who shall remains Clara R. Cobb the widow
of his father aforesaid. Said marriage was performed at the house
of Benjamin Burroughs in Columbia, Morris Co. NJ in the year
1816 and as he believes in the month of April-- that he distinctly
remembers the marriage & that, altho but 16 or 17 years of age, he acted
as groomsman at request of his father, & that Susan a daughter of
Benjamin Burroughs stood as with him as Bridesmaid.
He further deposes to his distinct recollection of visiting with his father
upon the marriage, at the house of said Burroughs, repeatedly, & was
then introduced to his future Stepmother- that he then resided
with his father in Morristown, & for several years after said marriage.
Sworn & subscribed before me this 13th December 1854. | William A. Cobb
affirmed and subscribed before me this | 
13th day of December 1854 | 
David Bedford Justice of the Peace
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To all whom it may concern,
This will certify that I, David
Bedford, before whom the deposition on the opposite page was taken
& to which I have affixed my name officially, am [illegible] well
satisfied that William A. Cobb, whose signature is appended to
said deposition, is a man of [illegible] good character, & that his
deposition is most justly entitled to full faith & credit.
In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature, this 15th
day of December 1854, in Jersey City N.J.
David Bedford
J. P.
I, Robert Gilchrist, Clerk of Hudson County in the State of
New Jersey, hereby certify that David Bedford, before whom
the deposition of William A Cobb, in the preceding page, was
taken is a Justice of the Peace in & for the said County
of Hudson. that his commission as Justice [illegible] date on the
first day of May one thousand eight hundred and
fifty three, and will expire on the first day of May
one thousand eight hundred and fifty eight
signatures, both to said deposition, and to the
above certificate are genuine & officiate-
[seal affixed] In testimony thereof, I hereunto affix my
name & the seal of said County, this
fifteenth day of December 1854 Hudson, N.J.
R Gilchrist Clk
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I, Lewis Condict of Morristown, New Jersey, [crossed out] by whom
the Declaration of Clara R. Cobb, widow of Thomas Cobb, a soldier
of the Revolutionary Army & a Pensioner of the U. States by the act of March 18
1818, was drawn up & prepared, & was taken before the Honorable C.B.D.
Ogden, one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of N. Jersey, on the __ day
of October 1854 do hereby certify to the Commissioner of Pensions & to the Secretary
of the Department of the Interior, as follows
viz: I was intimately acquainted with Thomas Cobb the husband of said Clara
R. Cobb, many years before their intermarriage, & whilst said Thomas Cobb
was living with his first wife; that he was my near neighbour & I was his
family Physician many years, both before & after the death of his first wife;
as well as after his marriage with his second wife, Clara R. whose fathers name
was Tabary, (or Taborie, a French family) that by said second marriage, he had
2 sons, who were twin born, & are both living & in active business; that the
said Thomas Cobb, & Clara R. Cobb, lived together as husband & wife until
his death reputed as such by all who know them; that I never doubted
their marriage myself, nor ever heard a doubt as to their marriage, expressed
by any person. I have caused the records of the Church of which Revd Mr Boyer
of Madison & also the record in the Clerks office of Morris County to be searched,
& am convinced there is no record to be found of their marriage in either place.
I well know, that Clara R. Cobb whose declaration for a pension as above
stated was taken before his honor Judge Ogden as aforesaid, is the identical
woman who was the second wife of said Thomas Cobb, & that she remains
his widow.  I have no interest whatever in the pension claimed by her
except what she may deem to be a reasonable compensation for preparing
her papers, & for expenses actually incurred & per paid by me to the Court & Clerks
no verbal or written provision or understanding, as to any compensation whatever
has been made by her to me, on the subject
12th 1885.
Lewis Condict
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State of New Jersey ss:
Be it known that before me, William N. Wood, a Notary Public in
said State, personally appeared Lewis Condict, the subscriber to the
certificate on the preceding page, well known to me as a man of
veracity & entitled to belief, who being by me duly sworn according to law
on his oath declares, that the statement of facts so by him subscribed, [illegible]
as he verily believes.
[seal applied] In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name
and affix my Notarial seal at Morristown this
the tenth day of January, AD. 1855.
W. N. Wood
Notary Public