Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 24966, Robert Cozby, S.C.
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(8-1776)
SERVICE                          NUMBER
S.C.      Cozby, Robert.   S.24966   

CONTENTS
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780 [illegible]
Alabama.   
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Robert Cozby,
Private SC Militia
Captain Langdon's company
of So. Carolina and by Genl. William
the Revolutionary War.
_____________
Ratio of disability,--------Total
have of claiming testimony,
Date of last affidavit. 14 Febuary, 1824
________________
Inscribed on the roll of Alabama
at 8 Dollars  per month, to commence on the 14th day of February, 1821.
_______________
Certificate of Pension issued the
15th day of May, [illegible]
and sent to
Henry Minor, Esq
Huntsville, Alabama.
_________________
Arrears to 
4th Mar. 1821 15/28 4/31 m $5.31
Semi-anl All'ce ending
                      4th Sept 0821  $48.00
                                                     ______
                                                     $53.31
Acts of 10th April, 1806,
15th May, 1820
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I do hereby certify that I have this day examined a wound on the left knee of Robert Cosby which I conceive to be of such a nature as to render him unfit for any kind of business, or so much so as to obtain a livelihood by the usual means. From my examination I find his knee perfectly stiff and his thigh & leg of the same side considerably emaciated. It has the appearance of
having been in this situation for a
number of years. Given under my
hand this 16th day of Novr. 1818.
Alexer. Erskine

Sworn to & subscribed before me the said
day and date above
David Moore J.L.

By virtue of the annexed commission prior to me 
 directed I have this 16th day of November 1818
at Newtonville, proceeded to take the examination of Robert Cozby, who being
duly sworn deposes & says
That on or about the 20th day of November 1775, as said he engaged in the actual Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, at the Battle
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of Ninety six in South Carolina, he was
wounded in the left knee by a rifle
Bullet- He was then serving as a
Lieutenant in the Company of Volunter
Militia commanded by Capt. Thomas
Langdon and in the in the Regiment commanded by Col. Andrew Williamson. He was not commissioned as Lieutenant but acted a such at the request of the Captain & men of the company. He was disabled by his wound, so that his left knee ever since the wound healed has been stiff & his left leg has considerably withered.  He has never received any other wound in his service, and his present appearance and Stiffness of it, proceeds instinctly from said wound. The day after receiving said wound he was taken to the house of Doctor Martin about thirteen miles from the town of Ninety Six and put & remained under his care for about six months, when he was removed to the house of John Cozby his father in Calhouns Settlement, Ninety Six District. Here he remained Eight or Nine months, and was thus removed to the Stone Fort on the Savannah river & put under the care of Doctor Bigby at the Military Hospital. Here about two years after he received his wound he became able to walk on Crutches
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for the first time after receiving his wound. From the Stone Fort he returned home to his father and it was nearly four years after receiving the wound before he became able to walk without Crutches. After the first surrender of
Charleston to the British; the Tories obtained
the ascendancy in this part of the Country and the arms were generally given up to them, this affiant being unwilling to give up his arms, removed to the State of Virginia--There he married in the year 1782. The Spring following he removed back to his fathers in South Carolina. The next year he removed to the State of Georgia where he resided. New Years when he removed to Blount County Tennessee & continued to reside in East Tennessee untill the year 1816, where he removed with one of his sons to the Alabama Territory where he now resides in Madison County. That he did not obtain a written discharge from the Service and believes that is the confusion in which in the country this was, never were given to any of his company or regiment. He did not desert his service as he believes all the officers & men who served with him can prove and ever since receiving his wound he has been incapable of doing Military duty.
 After recovering from his wound so as to be able to sit he learned
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the Taylor's trade which he has plied for a livelihood ever since.
This application to the State of South Carolina for a pension, the fate of this application and his former applications to the United States, as shown in the proceedings had before the Honorable Hugh L. White of Tennessee which as herewith sent to the War Department. He cannot say whether he is now on the pension list of South Carolina, but he has received no pension from that State or in where since the month of March 1785 and at his last application for this purpose at Columbia in South Carolina. He was told as he believes by the process officer & at the office there) that he could receive nothing more from the State of South Carolina. That his remote situation from the New Seat of Government, this discouragement his former applications had met with and his want of money to pay the expenses of them & evidence have prevented his renewing his renewing his application since 1804 with now and that he now hopes to obtain his Justice which has been so long Delayed.
Robt. Cozby

Sworn to & subscribed This for me at Huntsville the 6th Day of November 1818
David Moore J Quorum
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118
Robert Cozby

Recd 8 Jany 1821

[Reversed]

Washington 
D o c 


FREE
John C Calhoun Esq
Secretary of War
Washington City
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State of Tennessee

This ninteenth day of June in the year 1820 came before me John Cozby one of the Judges of the quorum Court of Rhea County and State aforesaid at my office in aforesaid Count. Doctor James Cosby and his wife Isabella Cosby of Rhea County and State aforesaid, said James Cosby aged about Sixtynine years, being first duly sworn deposes & says, that early in the revolutionary war Robert Cosby his brother entered as a volunteer in the militia of South Carolina into the service of the United States, the expedition was commanded by Andrew Williamson, who this deponent believes was a Brigadier General, and as well as this deponent recollects said Robert served in a company
commanded by Capt Robert Anderson, and while he served in this company and some time in the winter of seventeen hundred & seventy seven & eight, as well as this deponent recollects, this deponent & said Robert both under the command of said Williamson, were
in a battle with a party of Loyalist at Ninety Six
in South Carolina, in this battle said Robert was
shot by a bullet through the right knee, and
in consequence of the wound the received left the service, and as this deponent believe, was never regularly discharged, but this deponent knows that said Robert continued in the service from the time he entered it until he received said wound. It was two or three years before the wound was healed, and the muscles of the knee have ever since until the last time this deponent saw said Robert, which was in the year 1815 or 1816 as well as this deponent recollects, & his
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been so contracted that the leg was crooked & stiff at the knee joint, and said Robert was thereby rendered incapable of active employment.  After the wound was healed he learned the Tayloring business by which he in some measure supported himself. Since he was wounded he has resided in the State of South Carolina, Georgia & Tennessee from which in the year he moved to Alabama where, as this deponents were informed & believes, he now resides. He has never had much property and would often have been in want had it not have been for the aid of this deponent & his other friends. This deponent was well acquainted with
his habits until his removal to Alabama and he
has always been temperate, and further this deponent saith not.

Isabella Cosby being first duly sworn, and the
foregoing statement of James Cosby being read to her, deposes and says that she believes the same to be correct that she was the wife of the said James at the time of the before mentioned battle at Ninety Six, and that they then resided about twenty five miles from the battle ground. She has been acquainted with said Robert Cosby and in habits of intimacy with him, for some years since said battle, and she knows him to have been disabled in the manner above stated which disability she always understood & believer proceeded
from a wound received in the manner above described and further this deponent saith not.
James Cozby
Isabella Cozby

I certify that the foregoing depositions were duly taken
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sworn to & closed before me at the day and place first above mentioned, and that I am well acquainted with the said Doctor James Cosby & Mrs Isabella Cosby his wife and that in my opinion they are persons of credibility.
John Cozby
Justice of the Peace

State of Tennessee
I, Daniel Rawlings, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quorum Sessions of Rhea County do certify that John Cozby esq. before whom the foregoing affidavits were made and whose signature appears to this same inasat the same time a Justice of the Peace in and [illegible] said County & Court duly commissioned.

Sworn and acting under my hand & private 
Seal (there being no official Seal) at office in Washington the 19th day of June 1820.

D Rawlings, Clerk
circled - MS
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We Alexander Erskine and Miles S. Watkins practicing Physicians residing at Huntsville, Madison County State of Alabama have this Seventh day of June 1820 just examined a wound on the left knee of Robert Cozby of said County and find the wound to be such as described in the certificate of said. Erskine dated 16th day of November 1878 and that in consequence & by the effects of said wound. Said Cozby is & we believe ever since & before said 15th day of November 1878 has him totally disabled from obtaining a subsistence by manual labor.
Said Erskine positively affirms   said Watkins believes that the person now examined by them is the same Robert Cozby when wound was examined by Said Siskins as stated in his Certificate of 16th day of November 1818 hereto answered.

Alesd. Erskine
W S. Watkins

State of Alabama Madison County
This day before me, David Moore, one of the Judges of the County Court of said county the above named Alexander Erskine and Miles S Watkins, as they are judged to have subsen had the above certificate & made oath that the same is true as above stated. Given under my hand at Said County the 21st day of June 1820.
(Crossed out LeRoy Pope G.J.
M.C.)
David Moore   J.M.C.C.
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Henry Minor of Huntsville, Alabama being duly sworn, deposes that he be as well acquainted with Robert Cozby the applicant above named since the summer or fall of 1818 (crossed out - and from his appearance & the evidence before) untill now during all which time as this affiant has been informed I believe said Cozby has resided in this county with one of his sons, William Cozby. This affiant has several times passed the residence of said William and that he does not recollect to have seen said Robert Cozby there. He has frequently had business with him & has always recounts a plus from said Robert to communications addressed to him at William Cozbys' & has frequently seen him (sd. Robert) in Madison during the [ illegible ] show [illegible] & verily believe that he now is a resident of Madison County and from his appearance & the evident difficulty with which he moves this affiant is satisfied that he is unable to obtain a subsistence by bodily labor.
Henry Minor
Sworn to & subscribed before me
this 21 day of June 1820
David Moore J M C C

State of Alabama
Madison County Set
I, David Moore one of the Judges of County Court of said County certify that the signatures to the General instruments of writing hereto annexed viz. Robert Cozby to his affidavit dated 16th November 1818. Reuben Simmons to his affidavit dated 23d January 1817. John Cozby to his affidavit dated 23d January 1819. Alexander Erskine to his affidavit dated 16th November 1878. Alexander Erskine & Miles S. Watkins to their Certificate and affidavit dated  __ day of June, 1820 & Henry Minor
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his affidavit dated
day of June 1820 are genuine & were made & acknowledged by said several affiants at the respective date thereof in my presence.
I further certify that each of the above named same persons is entitled to full credit when on oath. That the above Doctors Alexander Erskine and Miles S. Watkins are practicing Physicians of said Town of Huntsville and that each of them is reputable & esteemed & persons of skill in said profession and that I am personally acquainted with said Robert Cozby & am satisfied that he is a resident of Said County and that by his laming (apparently providing by his wound) he is totally unable to obtain Subsistence by bodily labor.
Given under my hand at said County of Madison the 21 day of June 1820.  
David Moore J M C C  Seal

I Thomas Brandon Clerk of the County Court of Madison County State of Alabama & having custody of the records of the County Court of said County during the period of the Testimonial Government Certify that David Moore Esquire who has subscribed & attested the several Certificates hereto annexed is & was at the date of his several aforesaid
official acts one of the Judges of the County Court of said County duly commissioned and Sworn. That is to say on the 16th day of November 1818 and 23d day of January 1817 he was one of the Judges of the County Court of said County under and by authority of the Government of Alabama Territory and on the ___ day of June he was & from the constitution of the court under the State
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government to the present time [lilegible] yet
of the Judge of said county court as organized under
the State government

In Testimony of all which I hereto affix
the Seal of said court and subscribe my
name at Clerks office the 21st
day of June 1830

Thos Brandon Clerk of the county court
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Robert Cozby
application for Pen
sion
 See Act
25    Apl 1812-V 4- 421
25    Apl 1808      4- 177
18th Apl 1814-V 4- 695
10    Apl 1806-V  4- p32,33
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War Department
1st February 1804

Sir, 
I duly received your favor of the 9th ultimo covering sundry documents exhibited in support of the claim of Robert Cozby  to a pension in consequence of wounds stated to have been received in the late revolutionary War. These documents are essentially defective inasmuch
as they do not prove that the claimant continued his services to the close of the war or was discharged therefrom in consequence of disability. Nor are any reasons assigned for delaying his application to this late period. The documents wherewith returned. 
I am, Sir, 
very Respectfully, 
Y. obt. Servant 
H. Dearborn
Hugh L. White Esq.
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David Moore Esq
Huntville Madison
County A. T [or H T]
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Obadiah Jones one of the Territorial Judges of the Superior Court of the Alabama Territory

To David Moore Esqr of Madison County

By virtue of the Act of Congress
passed 18th day of April 1806, entitled An Act to
provide for persons who were disabled by known
"wound received in the Revolutionary War"
which was covered and continue in force
by an Act passed 25th day of April 1872 and
reposing full confidence in your prudence
and integrity, I by this Commission authorise you to examine such Witnesses & take such
Testimony as Robert Cozby (who claims the
right to a pension under said Acts of Congress) shall bring before you in support of his claim
which Testimony you will duly take on the oath or affirmation of the several persons coming before you for that purpose and I further give you full power & authority to do all things which by the Virtue of Said Acts of Congress.  I can by this Special Commission authorize to be done. Given under my hand & Seal at Madason County in said Territory this 13th day of November 1818.
Obadiah Jones a Judge
of the Territory aforesaid   L.S.
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I find the name Robert Cozby, appears in the 
Books of this Office as an  annuitant of this 
state in the year one thousand seven hundred
and ninety five, that it is unual to place  annuitant on the pension roll of this state , by
Revolution of the legislature & not to  on briefs the
reason why they are so placed there on_
That he received the sum of twenty one dollars & forty two cents per annum from that time until the first of March Eighteen hundred & five_

Since which time he has received no pension 
from this office  the  reason why does not appear but I presume it was owing to his removal from the state.

The State of South  Carolina  

Treasury Office
Columbia 8th May 1821

I certify the foregoing contains
a correct Statement from the Book,
in this Office

Given under my hand and 
Seal of Office on the date above
John Cunningham
Treas. Upper Div

Certified by
Beaufort V Walts
Secretary of State_
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War Department
Pension Office,
April 23d 1821

Sir,
A person of the name of Robert Cozby, who it appears belonged to Capt Thomas Langdon's Co. of the regiment of South Carolina militia commanded by Col Andrew
Williamson, during the Revolutionary War, and who is an applicant for a pension on account of wounds received while in service, having stated, that he was formerly allowed a pension by the State of South Carolina; I have to request, should this be a fact, that you will please to transmit to this
Department, at as early a period as may be convenient, a certificate embracing answers to the following interrogatories Viz:- On what account was he placed on the roll of the State of South Carolina as a pensioner? At what date was his name so inscribed? What rate of pension was allowed him per month in dollars and cents? At what time was his name discontinued on the list, and for what reason?-- In order that you may be in possession of all the information, that the documents transmitted to this Department in relation to this case afford, they, with a letter from Henry Minor, Esq. the 11th [illegible] are herewith enclosed to you. Be pleased to return these papers with your certificate to the Department.
I am, very respectfy
Your obed. Sent.
J.L. Edwards

The Secretary of State of
South Carolina at Columbia
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United States of America
To the Honorable Hugh L. White esq.

Putting full and entire Confidence and trust in your at __nd integrity, and in virtue of Acts of Congress passed the third day May eighteen hundred and three ??ntributed" an act to make processes for persons that have been disabled known wounds received in the actual service of the United States during the revolutionary war" I have commissioned and appointed you to causes to come before you such Witnesses as Robert Cozby (who claims right to a pension under said law
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shall deem necessary to support
claim and on Oath or affirmation
you will take their depositions hereby giving you full power and authority to do and transact every _____ required by the law aforesaid.
  
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed my seal as Judge of the United States, [illegible] for the District of East & West Tennessee this 30th day of November 1803.

John McNairy
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[Vertical]
Robert Cosby (Cozby)
9 mo
Recd 15 May 1821

Stamp
COLUM
S C
[illegible] 

[Horizontal]
The Hon: John C Calhoun
Sec of War
Washington
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[Horizontal]

Received 31 Mar
Answered and the
papers of Cozby sent
to Secy of State So. Carolina 
23rd April 1821

[Vertical]
John C Calhoun
Secretary of the War Depart
Washington City
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Huntsville, Alaba.  March 10th 1821

Sir,
By request of Mr. Cozby, I herewith send the documents relating to his application for a pension, and the affidavits of James N. Martin & Wm. Hutton proving his service & time, place of receiving the wound.
Application by Letter was made some months since to the Secretary of State of South Carolina, (& again during this week)  for the certificate required by the note from the Pension office dated Decr 32d 1820.  No reply has yet been received. The Secretary was requested to forward the information directly to the War Department and to give meme information thereof. Mr Cozby has no acquaintance near Columbia nor has he the means of employing an agent there. The pressures (on faith of the notice of the heads of Departments of May 1818) to request that applicates to the Secy of S. Carolina for the certificate required, may be made by Letter from the Pension Office, which will probably be more promptly attended to than Letters from him. 
Communications to him will be promptly conveyed to him thro me.
 I am, Sir very respectfully 
Henry Minor
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Afft of Wm Hutton
Jany 1831


[illegible] 3 March 182  1
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State of Tennessee
Franklin County 
This day personally apeared before me William Hulton and being of sound mind after being duly
Sworn deposeth and saith. That in November in the year 1775 as he has reason to believe he was with Robert Cozby in a battle at Ninety six and that said Cozby was a private in Capt Thomas Langdon's Company under General Williamson and received a wound by a ball through his knee whilst fighting in the defence of his Country.
His mark - William Hutton
Taken and subscribed before me this 19th January in the year of our Lord 1821
Jas McCord
Justice of Quorum

I do certify that the above William Hutton
is entitled to full faith and credit where on oath given under my hand and Seal the 19th Jany. 1821

Jas. McCord  Seal
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State of Tennessee 
I Edmond Russell, Clerk of the 
Court of pleas and quarter sessions for
 Franklin county do hereby certify 
James Mc Cord whose name is signed to
the within deposition and certification is and was at the
time who signed this James an acting justice 
of the [illegible] are and for the county of Franklin
and that faith and  one date is due and aught to be genuine to all his official acts as such

In Testimony  Whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed  my formal 
Seal of office  at office in Winchester
this 19th day of January 1821

E Russell Clk
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State of South Carolina
Pendleton District
I do hereby certify 
that  Robert Cozby was
 wounded at Ninety Six in the State  foresaid in the Year one Thousand
seven hundred and seventy five
being then under the command of
Major Williamson fighting for this
country in her struggle for 
Independence, and so disabled in knee
that he is un[illegible]  incapable of 
labor for a livelihood

Certified this 29th day of
September one thousand eight
hundred and three
Andw Pickens
Late Major General
of the Militia
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24 966
Revy INVALID
File No. 24 966
Robert Cozby
Pri   Rev  War
S.C Militia
Act: April 10   06 & May 
16" 20"
Index: - Vol. 2 , Page 79

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Robert Cozby being duly sworn, deposeth & sayeth, that in the year One Thousand Seven Hundred & Seventy Five, whilst engaged in the actual service of the United States in the District of Ninety Six, of State of S. Carolina, received a wound near the joint of the left knee, in consequence of which, he has ever since been, & still remains, incapable of obtaining his livelihood.
Robert Cozby
Knoxville, Dec. 16th 1803

Test Frus. May
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In the case of Robert Cozby an applicant to be
placed on the pension list.
William Hutton of the County of Blount in the District of East Tennessee of full age and sound mind being solemnly sworn in due form deposeth and saith, That in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy five this Deponent was in the battle fought at Ninety Six in the State of South Carolina. That he was on the American side of the question and in the Battle aforesaid was under the command of Major Williamson that this Deponent then was and still is acquainted with Robert Cozby the applicant aforesaid that he well remembers that the said Robert Cozby was engaged in the American side of the question in her struggle
for Independance and that he was in the said engagement at the place aforesaid and also  under the command of said Williamson, and this Department knows that said Cozby was wounded in the left knee in said engagement and that he has been from that time and yet is disabled by said wound in such a manner that he walks with great difficulty and further this deponent said not.
William Hutton

Sworn to and subscribed 
this 24th December 1803
Before me Hugh L. White

James Cozby of this county of Knox in the District of East Tennessee of full age and sound mind of being solemnly sworn in due forms of Law deposeth and saith that he is the
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brother of, and well acquainted with Robert Cozby this Applicant that this said Robert and the Deponent were both in the battle fought at Ninety Six in the State of South Carolina in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five. That they were both engaged in the cause of America during the Revolutionary war and in her struggle for Independance. That in the battle aforesaid they were both under the command of Major Williamson. That during the said Battle the said Robert received a wound in his left knee in consequence of which he was three years without being able to walk one step - That in consequence of said wound the said Robert has been receiving the same and yet is a cripple, and disabled in such a manner that he walks, with great difficulty.- This Deponent further saith he well knows the said Robert did not desert the service of the United States at any time during the revolutionary war but continued firmly attached to the American cause till the and
of the war, altho' after receiving said wound he was disabled from doing much active service for the United States. This Deponent further saith that since the time of receiving said wound the said Robert has principally subsisted on property furnished by his relations and which is now almost entirely exhausted and that the said Robert has not been in a situation from any employment he cant possibly follow to procure much property for himself. - And further the Deponent saith not.
James Cozby

Sworn to and Subscribed
Before me this 2nd day
January 1804
H.L. White
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Robert Cozby an applicant to be placed on the Pension list
being solemnly sworn in due form of Law states the following as the
causes why he did not obtain a pension under the act of Congress which
passed previous to the year one thousand eight hundred and three.
That some time previous to the year one thousand seven hundred and
eighty five (but what particular year he cannot remember) be applied
to the State of South Carolina for an allowance or pension and
received eight pounds sterling as the sum he was entitled to for one
year and was then told he would have at the same time receive
for several years then in arrear but that there was no more money
at that time in the Treasury to be applied to such purposes. That
he made a second application to the same state in the year one thousand seven hundred and [eighty five?] and could receive
nothing. That in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine
he made a third application to the same state, and was then told all
matters of that kind were removed to the war Office and that application
must be made there. That some time in the year one thousand
seven hundred and ninety seven, as well as he remembers, he had some depositions
and other papers put into the hands of David Henley Esquire
who was then Agent for the Department of war and resided in Knoxville
that the said Agent told this Deponent that he believed there were sufficient
evidence of his right to a pension and that he would forward them
to the proper Office. The said Agent afterwards informed the applicant
that he had forwarded the said papers and applicants' claim to a
pension and had received for answer that the claim was bound by
length of time. Applicant further states that he has him been
always in low circumstances as to property living in a remote part of
the country and had few opportunities of information, and that he had
no knowledge when the limitation would expire, and in truth
very little information of the act of Congress on the subject of
pensions
Sworn to and Subscribed
this 9th day of January 1804
Before me
H.L. White
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In pursuant of the assessed  commission to me directed
the within  Depositions of William Hutton a
the  within affidavit of Robert Cozby; and I have also taken the [illegible]  Deport of Doctor Francis May on oath.  Each Deposition affidavit and. Report was taken on Oath pn the day mentioned at the foot hereof_

Given under my hand in the State of Tennessee and District of
East Tennessee  the 9th day of January in the year of our
Lord 1804-          

H L White
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[Left Side]

Robert Cozby
Private under the Command
of Capt Thomas Langdon
in the reg & of South Carolina 
militia Comm by Col
Andrew Williamson during
the Revolutionary war.

If David Moore, Esq before when
apart of this testimony was taken
is a Judge in any of the Courts in
Tennessee , it will be necessary to obtain a certificate of the clerk of the same county court in which the said D Moore Officiates with his seal of Officer announced to 
prove that such is the fact & that
the signatures to the several instruments of writing are genuine

If not , the evidence taken before
this gentleman as well as that 
made before Daniel Rawlings, Esq
(should the latter gentleman not & be to Judge) must agreeably to the law of 18th of April, 1814, be taken before a Judge [illegible symbol] and be made in conformity with the enclosed rules of regulations under the
law of the 10th of April, 1806.

War Department
Pension
Nov 26

vide (provide) blank form
of surgeon's certification 
he enclosed

[Right Side]

 Robert Cozby (118)
It will be necessary for the party to obtain a 
certificate from the Secretary of State of South Carolina as required by the within endorsement and the evidence of another credible and disinterested witness to prove his service, the time, place and manner of his receiving the wound, an account of which he now claims a pension and to send the same properly with all of these papers to the War Dept.

Pension Office
December 2nd 1820

Further Suspended see
letter to the Secretary of State of South Carolina  and Henry Minor, Esq 23
April 1821.__

Henry Minor, Esq
Hunterville
Alabama

[Left Margin - Right Side:}
7th June 1420 (1820)
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State of Tennessee
Rhea County, February 1st 1819
In pursuance to the enclosed Commission
I have cause to come before me Doctor
James Cozby and his Wife Isabella Cozby who
after being duly sworn Doct. James Cozby
deposeth and saith that Robert Cozby
his Brother volunteered himself with others
the Militia of the State of South Carolina
in the service of the United States in
time of the Revolutionary war and in the
early part of said war that the
particular year is not recollected. The
Expedition in which the said Robert Cozby
volunteered himself was commanded by
Andrew Williamson, who this Deponent
believes was a Brigadier General in the
Militia of the State of South Carolina.
A Battle ensued between this expedition and
a party of Loyalists collected at Ninety Six
in said South Carolina This Deponent
and his said Brother Robert were both in
the Battle and the said Robert Cozby was
shot thru the right knee, in consequence of
which wound he left the service. It was
two or three years before the wound was entirely cured
and after the wound was healed the tendons
and muscles of the knee ever so contracted that
the leg was rendered very crooked & stiff at
the knee joint which then did and now does
render him incapable of active employment
It is the impression of this deponent that
the said Robert Cozby belonged to the Company
Commanded by Capt. Robert Anderson
This deponent knows that the said
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Robert Cozby continued in service from
the time he entered until he was disabled
by the wound aforesaid - This deponent believes
that the said Robert Cozby was left by the
army in consequences of his disability and
that consequently he never was regularly
discharged - The said Robert Cozby
after recovering from his wound learned &
has since in some measure supported
himself by the Tayloring business. This mode
of life has always been temperate, he has
never possessed much wealth & would frequently
have been in want had it not been for
the aid he received from this depont & from
other friends - He has resided in the States
of South Carolina, Georgia & Tennessee and
now resides in the Alabama Territory
This Deponent is strongly under the
impression that the Battle of ninety six at
which Robert Cozby was wound was in the
winter of 1777 & 8 and further this Deponent
saith not
James Cozby

Issabella Cozby after having heard
the foregoing Statement of James Cozby
read deposeth & saith that she believes
said Statement to be substantially correct
that she was the wife of said James
Cozby at the time of said Battle of ninety six
that they resided in ninety six District and
within about twenty five miles of the Battle
ground. And further this Deponent saith not
Issabella Cozby
her X mark
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I Daniel Rawlings before whom the 
aforegoing   Depositions were taken do certify that
I have known the said deponent to wit [illegible word]
James Cozby  & his wife Issabelle for a long
time and that they have during said time
sustained the [illegible ] respectability 

Given under my date aforesaid
D Rawlings
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Robert Cozby
App& Laws 16th Apl. 1806 & 3 March 1819

Recd. May 6t 1819 At [illegible]

As this applicant states that he was once a pensioner of the State of South Carolina a certificate from the Executive Department of that State to prove this fact to the satisfaction
of the War Department & must be obtained. It is requisite that the Cert. contained information on the following parish viz: on what account was he placed on that roll? at what date was his name so inscribed? what was the rate of pension in
dollars & cents allowed him by that state? and at what period was his name discontinued per the Pension roll of the said state of South Carolina?
Present rate of disability agreeably to the enclosed form must be certified to by a reputable Surgeon or Physician authenticated
agreeably to the enclosed regulations.

War Dept. Pension Office Nov. 24 1819

Deposition of James Cozby & Isabella Cozby
On the petition of Robert Cozby for Pension
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By Obadiah Jones on the Testimonial [Torn paper] of the Superior Court of the Alabama Territory of the United States.
To Daniel Rawlings esquire of Rhea County in the State of Tennessee
By virtue of the act of Congress passed 11th day of April 1806 intitled "An Act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wound received in the Revolutionary War" Which was revised and continued in force by an Act passed 25th day of April 1812 and having full confidence   in your prudence and fidelity. I by this commission  authorise you to examine such witnesses as Robert Cozby who claims rights to a pension under said act of Congress shall being before you in supply of this claim. You are required to take said Testimony on the oath as affirmation of the Several Witnesses commit the same to Writing and transmit it to the Secretary of the Department of War. Given under my hand and Seal at said County of Madison the 13th day of November 1818.
Obadiah Jones a Judge
of the Territory aforesaid  S.S.
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David Henley, Esq alluded to in the within statement made by the applicant is at present in this City and confirms the said statement so far as it relates to himself.---
These papers with the other evidence will be returned to the "War Department"
24 Nov. 1819

Robert Cozby private under the command of Capt. Thomas Langdon in the Regt. of South Carolina Militia command. by Col. Andrew Williamson during the Revolutionary War. 
If David Moore esq. before within a part of this Testimony was taken is a Judge in any of the Counties in Tennessee it will be necessary to obtain a certificate of the Clerk of the same county Court where the said D. Moore Officiates with his seal of office annexed, prove that such is the fact and that the signatures of the several instruments of writing are genuine, if not the evidence taken before this gentleman as well as that made before David Rawlings (Should the latter gentleman not be a judge) must agreeably to the law of 18th of April 1814, be taken before a Judge to and be made in conformity with the enclosed rules & regulations under the Law of the 10th of April 1806-- 
War Department Pension
Nov. 26

Vide blank form of surgeon's certificate is enclosed.

Robert Cozby   118
It will be necessary for the party to obtain a certificate from the Secretary of State of South Carolina, as required by the within endorsement, and the evidence of another credible and disinterested witness to prove his service, the time, the place, and manner of his receiving the wound an account of which he now claims a pension and to send the same , properly authenticated with all of the papers to the War Dept. 
Cousin Office 
December 2d 1820

(further suspended see letter to the Secretary of State of South Carolina and Henry Minor esq. 23 April 1821

 Henry Minor, Esq. Huntsville, Alabama

This date was in the middle of this doc. 7th June 1820
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State of Alabama
Lawrence County

This day personaly appeared before me Wm. Sharpe an acting Justice of the County Court of Lawrence County James N. Martin, who deposeth and saith that Robert Cozby was a private in Capt. Thomas Langdon's Company, under the Command of Gen Andrew Williamson in the
State So Carolina, during the Revolutionary War in Sd. State in a battle fought at a place called 
Ninety Six now Called Cambridge between the troops of the United States and the Torys in the service of "His Brittanic Majesty George the Third" And that sd. Robert Cozby was then and there wounded whilst engaged in battle in the Service of the United States, in the left knee, in consequence of which would his knee was so fractured that
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he was in Consequence thereof and still continues unable to make a support for himself by his personal labor, and that the sd. Cozby is a poor man and has not the means of procuring a Comfortable living without the friendly assistance of his government.
James N. Martin
Sworn to and subscribed
before me in due form of Law and I
believe the sd. deponent is entitled to full credit.
February 14th 1821
William Sharpe 
Justice of the Cty Court

State of Alabama
Lawrence County

This to certify that William Sharpe before whom the above deposition was sworn to was at the time and is an acting Judge of the County Court of sd. County and all his acts as such are intitled to due faith and credit.  Given under my hand and private seal there being no Seal of Office this 14th day of February 1821
Daniel W. Wright  C.C.C.
Seal
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The Deportion of Reuben Simmons, of
Madison County Alabama Territory, aged 62
years & upwards, taken by virtue of the commission aforesaid at Huntsville the 23d day
of January 1879 before me the above named
David Moore. 
Said Reuben Simmons being duly sworn says, that about sixteen years since when he lived in Sevier County Tennessee, he became acquainted with Robert Cozby who then resided in Knox County Tennessee - Said Cozby was then lame & disabled in the left knee to all appearance the effect of a wound, He was then able to work a little at the Taylor's business, but as this affiant was informed & from the appearance of his leg
believes he could not Sit long at a time at his business. In or about December 1808 this affiant removed to Madison County & has resided in said County ever since - In January or February 1816 said Cozby came to the house of this affiant
& informed him that he & two of his sons were removing to the South side of the Tennessee river in this Territory. This affiant is informed & believes that said Cozby continued to live on the South side of the Tennessee near Flint river
about Eight months, where with two of his sons who had families he removed to a place on Limestone river North of
the Tennessee. After the Land Sales
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at Huntsville in February 1878 said Robert Cozby removed to a place in said county of Madison which his son William Cosby had purchased at said & settled as this affiant has him informed & believes-- This affiant since then has frequently him to said place where as he well knows said Robert Cozby now resides with son William
and continues to do a little work at the Taylors business,  but as this affiant believes he is
now able to do but very little work of this or any other kind.
his mark - Rhuben Simmons
Sworn to & subscribed before me the day & year first aforesaid.
David Moore J.Q.

The Deposition of John Cozby taken at Huntsville on said 23d day of January 1819 by Virtue of said
Commission - - said John being 34 years old & upwards.
Said John Cozby Says that as far back as he can  first recollect any thing & when he was
about four years old he resided with his
Robert Cozby in Elbert County, Georgia, who
was then lame in the left knee & has so continued ever since. - To all appearance
& as this affiant always understood said
lameness was the effect of a wound received
while in service in the Revolutionary
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David Moore, Robert, Robert, J

war - This applicant continued to live in the 
family of his father[until  the month of June 1809
when he removed to Madison County now Alabama
then Mississippi Territory - From Elbert County Georgia
Said Robert removed to[illegible name] County Tennessee 
hence to Blount County then as back to 
[illegible]   Hence to Bledsoe county, where this
Applicant left him and  where he has been  
informed & believes he continued to reside
until 1870 when he removed to the South
side of Tennessee [illegible word]& near to Flint [illegible word]
Ever since this applicant recollects said Roberrt
has been a cripple, disabled by said wounds
& unable to do any laborious work & has
worked a little at the Taylors trade occasionally 

Sworn to & subscribed
before me at Huntsville with on said 23rd day of January 1819
 David Moore J P    John Cozby
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I David Moore acting by virtue of the aforesaid
commission, hereto annexed, certify that the
above named Doctor Alexander Erskine is
a resident & practicing Physician of said
Town of Huntsville reputable in his
profession and that said Reuben
Simmons & John Cozby, whose affidavits
above written are resident citizens
of said County of Madison, Credible as witnesses
& of respectable characters - given under
my hand at Huntsville the said from
the third day of January 1879 - when &
where the Testimony on the aforesaid
application being completed I transmitted
to the Secretary of the Department of
war the proceedings & evidence had
therein
David Moore
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By virtue of the amen'd Commission form the 
Honorable John Mcnairy, I have exmin'd Mr.
Robt Cozby; I beg leave to report, that said Cozby
has received a wound near the joint of the left 
knee, which joint is rendered in consequence
thereof, entirely useless together with the limb measurably.  Hence it appears that he is incapable of
 obtaining his livelihood in the usual mode,
for example, by [illegible]
Frus May

Sworn to before me
this 9th day of January 1804

H L White
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To Doctor Francis May  at Knoxville  Putting full and inner confidence in your ability  and integrity  as a Physician and in   ... ( illegible ) of an Act  of Congress passed the third of March eighteen hundred and three entitled an act to make provisions for persons  that have been disabled  by known wounds  in the actual service of the United States during the revolutionary war. I have commissioned and appointed you to examine on oath  Robert Cozbey  touching a wound, which he says he received in the revolutionary war and with that together with your
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inspection to report in writing  to the Hon. Hugh L  White  as soon as may be  , your opinion both on the nature  of his the said Robert Cozbey's  disability  and in what degree the wound aforesaid  prevents the said Robert Cozbey  from  obtaining his  livelihood . Witness John McNairy  District Judge  of the Courts of the United States for the Districts of East & West  Tennessee . Given under my  hand and seal this 30th of November  1803. John McNairy ( signed / sealed )
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Divison of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME   Cozens.,Mathew  

Grade Private

Line New York

WARRANT
NUMBER  6947

ACREAGE  100

ISSUED   Oct.  11, 1790

[hand written Note:] to --not shown--

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are 

registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates.

Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.

Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.