Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,833, Elisha Coy, R.I.
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SERVICE
R.I.
Coy, Elisha Mary
NUMBER
W 23,833
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8737
New York
Elisha Coy of Tompkins Co. in the state of New York who was a Musician in the Company commanded by Captain Babcock of the regt commanded by Col Tipping in the Ct ma line for 24 mos.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 104 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of Apl 1833 and sent to L.B. Canfield Homer
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $208.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 1833 $52.00
$260.00
{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by W.L. Williams Clerk
Book E Vol. 4 Page 16
Sen Let to Ezra Ames Aug. 14th 1835
Sen Let to Pensioner Aug. 14th 1835
Sen Let to Pensioner Sept 29 1835
Sen Let to Pensioner May 3, 1836
Sen Let to Pensioner March 8, 1837
Sen Let to Hon John Young March 8, 1836
Sen Let to Pension Agent March 8, 1837
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968
New York Albany
Mary Coy widow of Elisha Coy Conn. who served in the Revolutionary war, as a musician

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 88 Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March,1848

Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of July 1848 and sent to A.J. Lyon Rushford N.Y.

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 39 Vol. 4

Let to F.M. Thayer Jany 18, 1837
Reported
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832

State of New York Tompkins County ss.
On this 13th day of September 1832 personally appeared before Nicoll Halsey one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Tompkins Elisha Coy a resident of Groton, in the county of Tompkins and state of New York aged sixty nine years on the fifth day of last June, who, 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 second eighteen hundred and thirty two. That he entered the service of the United States in the army of the Revolution, under the following named officers, and served as herein after stated. He enlisted on the sixteenth day of March seventeen hundred and seventy seven, at Stonington, in the state of Connecticut, under, Captain Joshua Babcock, V, Colonel John Toppings Regiment, & General Cornwall Brigade, of Rhode Island Troops of Militia for the term of one year, from Stonington he went to Tiverton, where he remained the whole time. He helped to build barracks there. He was acquainted with Captain Dyer, Captain Hoppins, Captain Traffin & Captain Thomas, who all belonged to the same regiment. He was honorably discharged at Tiverton aforesaid, on the sixteenth day of March, seventeen hundred and seventy eight, by Captain Joshua Babcock aforesaid having served the full term of one year, honestly and faithfully. He again enlisted into the service for the term of one year, at Tiverton aforesaid, under said Captain Babcock, on the sixteenth day of March seventeen hundred and seventy eight. He had a furlow to go home thirty days & he did go and he returned, after his furlow expired.
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to Tiverton aforesaid and joined his company. He was absent from Tiverton twenty one days, on Rhode Island in General Sulivan's expedition, and, while he was absent, he was in an action with the Brittish, at a place called Butt's hill Fort, after which he returned to Tiverton again. He was gone up fall river about two months, that summer that year, to a place called Dighton with boats to guard them from being taken as burnt by the enemy, he came back to Tiverton, and, at the close of the war, on the sixteenth day of March seventeen hundred and seventy nine he was honorably discharged by Lieutenant Andrew Staunton but did not receive any written discharge having served honestly and faithfully the full term of one year. Captain Babcock was broke, sometime before & Leiut Staunton commanded the company. He new Colonel Crary of the Rhode Island Militia. Captain Elijah Lewis of the same regiment he knew in the month of June after, he volunteered under Captain Harry Wattles, for the term of three month to go privateering, we took a letter of Morgene Sloop, from at Kitt bound to New York, & brought her into New London. She was loaded with ruin sails & riggin, for the Brittish army & shipping, which lay in New York at the time. He was discharged at Norwich Landing Connecticut, in the month of September after, having served honestly and faithfully the full term of three months. The Mates name I think was James Brewin. Henry Hewet was aboard as a hand, and one Charles Davenport & one Sanford Billings Jr. & William Billings was aboard as hands. He again volunteered in May the nex year aboard the same schooner, called the Young Cromwell and served aboard the same til the first of November seventeen hundred and eighty, he served nearly a quarter
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six months we had a number of hard scurmishes but had no success. He, the next year, volunteered again aboard the same schooner with Captain Wattles aforesaid, at two different times and was gone six months each time. The last time, we took an old Brittish ship, loaded with sea coal, sails and reggin, and brought her into New London. She was going to New York to the Brittish to furnish them. They had twenty six hands aboard. She was from London. He was discharged from the said schooner at New London, having served honestly and faithfully at least three months both times. He was born in seventeen hundred and sixty three. He has a record in the Family Bible of his age, but where the Bible now is he does not know. He lived in Stonington when he first went into the service, from there he moved an went to Arlington Bennington County in the state of Vermont. From there, he went into Middletown Rutland County & same state, from there he went into the town of Jay in Essex County in the state of New York, from there he went into the county of Tioga in the state of Pennsylvania, from there he went into the town of Locke in the county of Cayuga in the state of New York, from there he went into Guildford, Chenanga County & state of New York, from there to Groton in Tompkins County & state aforesaid where he now resides. Abijah Higgins & Silvanus Learned Esq can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier and marine of the Revolution. 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. Sworn and subscribed
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the day and year aforesaid. He also states, that he served as a fifer in said company & regiment for the [illegible] of time as above stated/to west/live wars. And that he is unable from bodily infirmity to go to Ithaca where the courts in the said county of Tompkins are held.
Elisha Coy
Subscribed and sworn Sept 13th 1832 before me
Nicoll Halsey - one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Tompkins
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State of New York Allegany County ss
On this fifteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty four personally appeared before me A.J. Lyon one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Allegany Mary Coy a residen of the town of New Hudson in said county aged eighty years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed March 3d 1843, entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows that she is a widow of Elisha Coy who was a soldier and musician in the war of the Revolution as she believes will fully appear by reference to his papers now on file in the Pension Office on which he drew his pension that her husband the said Elisha Coy drew a pension under the act of Congress passed July the 7th 1832, and that he resided at the town of Groton in the county of Tomkins and state of New York at the time he drew his pension and that his original pension certificate has been returned to the pension office.
And she further declares that she was married to the said Elisha Coy in the month of July 1789 at the town of Arlington county of Bennington and state of Vermont by Eliacum Stoddard a Justice of the peace of said town that she was not married to him prior
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to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January 1794 viz at the time above stated and that her maiden name before her marriage to the said Elisha Coy was Mary Gray.
And she further declares that her husband the said Elisha Coy died at the town of New Hudson county of Allegany and state of New York on the 21st day of May 1843 and that she is still the widow of the said Elisha Coy and has not since married, and that she has no family record of her marriage to the said Elisha Coy or the ages of her eight children which she had by the said Elisha Coy and further this deponent saith not.
Mary Coy

Sworn and subscribed before me this day and year first above written
A.J. Lyon Judge of Allegany County Courts

I hereby certify that I am satisfyed that Mary Coy the person who made the foregoing declaration in my presence is by reason of age and bodily infirmity unable to apear in open court.
A.J. Lyon Judge

Allegany County Clerks Office ss
I William Windsor Clerk of said county do hereby certify that A.J. Lyon Esq before whom the preceeding declaration was taken was at the date of the same one of the
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County Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed thereto is his genuine signature.
Witness my hand and the seal of said county this 18th day of June A.D. 1844.
Wm Windsor Clerk
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No. 12624
Elisha Coy
admitted
24 mo. musician
1c Su Bundle No 1
Sub no 9
11 mos & 4 days
14.66

24 Sep 1832
27 Dec 1832
P1811

L.B. Canfield Agent
Homer N. York
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No. 12624
Brief in the case of Elisha Coy, of Groton County of Tompkins in the state of New York
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Before a judge
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? Yes
3. How old is he? 69 Years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period. March 16 in 1777
Duration of Service. 1 Year
Rank. Fifer, [illegible[
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. Gen. Cornwalls, Capt Babcock, Col. Tipping

Period. Mary 16 1778
Duration of Service. 1 Year
Rank. Fifer
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. Gen. Cornwalls, Capt Babcock, Col. Tipping

Period. June 1779
Duration of Service. 3 Months
Rank. Seaman
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. Capt Nattles

Period. May 1780
Duration of Service. 6 Months
Rank. Seaman
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. Capt Nattles

Period. 1781
Duration of Service. at least 3 months
Rank. Seaman
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. Capt Nattles

5. In what battles was he engaged? Action of Butts Hill Fort
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Stonington, Connt.
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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11.127
Mary Coy N.Y.
Rejected
Let to A.J. Lyon Oct 26, 1844
Set. to same, 22 may 1845
Act July 7th '38
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April 10, 1845
Adal tes case
Mary Coy

FREE
Hon. J.L. Edwards
Comm of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
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Rushford April 4th 1844
Sir
Enclosed I send you aditional evidence in the case of Mary Coy widow of Elisha deceased for a pension under the act of the 3d of March 1843 which I think with the other widows now on file in your office will be suficient to establish her claim.
I am very Respectfully your obt Servant
A.J. Lyon

Hon J.L. Edwards
Com of Pensions
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FREE
Hon J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.

Aug 18, 1845
Adal [illegible]
Mary Coy
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Rushford July 8, 1845
Sir
Enclosed I send you further evidence in suport of the claim of Mary Coy widow of Elisha Coy now on file in your office for a pension under the act of the 7th July 1838 for your decision.
I have the honor  to be your Obt Servant 
A.J. Lyon

Hon JL Edwards
Com of pensions
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Free
Hon. J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.

1112
June 28, 1844
Mary Coy
7 July 1838

Rushford N.Y. Jun 24
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Rushford June 22 1844
Sir 
Enclosed I send you the claim of Mary Coy widow of Elisha Coy for a pension under the act of the 3 of March 1843. Your answer is wished as soon a convenient.
I have the Honor to be very Respectfully your Obedient Servant AJ Lyon

Hon JL Edwards
Com of Pensions

Will you have the goodness to send me the rules and forms adopted by you in the law of discussed persons who [illegible] entitled to pensions under the several laws of Congress.
Yours Truly
AJ Lyon
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Cuba Feby 3d 1837
Dear Sir
Inclosed I send you some additional pention papers of a worthy but unfortunate aged pentioner of the Revolution. It seems the department are not in possession of doctementary evidence of his entire service on which account he has had to prawn additional proof. Mr. Coy has lost aly and is poor and depends on his pention for the sustenance of him self and an aged wife & I hope & trust you will afford him every assistance in your power.
I am Sir most truly your Friend
John Griffin

Hon John Young
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Elisha Coy
Cuba N.Y.
Nov 16

Free
J.L. Edwards, Esqr.
Commissr of Pesions
Washington City D.C.

Elisha NY
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Cuba October 26th 1835
Dear Sir. I received your letter of the 29th of Sept last past, in which you stated that I could not have served but 11 months & 4 days during the time, included in my declaration. Now sir, I am not immaculate & therefore may be mistaken, but it does not appear to me that I ought to be deprived of the compensation granted by the government of my country for my early services under her banners in defence of her rights, by reason of any want or fullness in the documentary evidence in the pension office. I have proved by the statement of John Stanbury, or Stanbrew, that he was with me in the service 2 years, & such is the facts of the case. Althoug (as you say it is not so stated in those documents. I had not made an application for my pension for the last half year at the time I recd your first letter on this subject and I am unable to reconcile my self to the statement that I have not served the time that I thus proved. I entered the service as a musician & served as such under Capt. Joshua Babcock untill he was superced and sent home and then under Lieu. Andrew Staunton. I was in the engagement under General Sullivan on Rhode Isand and was with the army in their retreet from the Island to the main land & we went to Tiverton an was quartered in the barracks there which had builded the year before & we remained there untill the British Army avacuated the Island. We then went to Newport and were quarted during the winter in the barracks.
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the British had left and in the dwelling houses which the inhabitants of the city had left & I was discharged in the spring following at that place & this was the 3rd time I was discharged and the building the barracks at Tiverton the year before is a circumstance about which I think I cannot be mistaken. Now sir at the time I performed the above services I was young and active and althoug the service was severe I thought but little of it then. I have enjoid the blessings of our free government, since I assisted to gain our independence and that is some compensation for my service. I am gratefull to my government for the compensation in the form of a pension which they have granted me & it is truly my due in fact under the law but as you require my certificate to be returned that my pension may be reduced according to the present law and the evidence stated in your letter. I inclose the same to you and request you to recollect that I am now an old man and a cripple having lost one leg and unable to walk a step. My pension is a matter of importance to me to relieve my absolute necissties and I pray you sir, to make use of your influence in my favour so far as in your opinion is consistant with your duty. Yours with respect.
Elisha Coy
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Free
J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Elisha Coy
No. 8737

NY Apl 27
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Cuba April 16th 1836
Dear Sir
Soon after I received your letter of the 29th of Sept. 1835 in which you stated that on reviewing my case it was evident I could not have served more than eleven months and four days during the period in which it was stated I was in the service, and that no more could be allowed & that before drawing any thing more it would be necessary to return my pension certificate in order that a new one might be issued & as in your letter of 14th of August 1835 you had requested me to return my pension certificate in order that my pension might be reduced as then established by the proofs (above therein recited) agreeing as to time of service with the above. I did therefore direct to you a letter inclosing my pension certificate as directed by you. At the same thime hoping & and expecting that a new certificate would be forwarded to me without delay as I stated to you that I was in necessities circumstances & had not drawn any thing since March 1835. I have not received any answer from you, or from the department since. It may seem to you strang that I should say anything more on the the subject but sir the subject involved my daily support. I am therefore anxious to hear from you & learn definitely what to expect. You may think that I am more positive than I should be in the time that I served, being two years, but I am clear that I did serve so long. I know that I was engaged in the service of my country as a musician from March 1777 to March 1779. I may be mistaken about the name of the officers &c. for I do not know that they acted under commission Mr. John Stanbury or Stanbuor ( think states that he served with or knew me to have been in service two years & I think I can get further proof of the same. Now sir I am in want of something & I feel as if my case justified me in asking it of my county & I hope you as their acting agent in this matter will not neglect me.
Yours Respectfully
Elisha Coy
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State of New York Tompkins County ss.
Polly Barney of Summer Hill in the county of Cayuga in said state being duly sworn doth depose and say that she formerly lived at Arlington in Vermont. That she knew Elisha Coy and Mary Coy his wife from the time of their marriage in the year 1783 or 1784 and that she knew them previous thereto. That said Elisha Coy and Mary Coy his wife lived together as husband and wife from that time until the year 1804 at which time this deponent removed from said town of Arlington. That this deponent is of the age of 74 years. That she has occasionally seen said Elisha Coy at the house of this deponent in Summer Hill since his removal to this state and within ten or twelve years past.
Polly Barney

Subscribed & sworn June 19th 1845 before me
Alpheus West Justice of the peace

State of New York Tompkins County Clerks Office ss
I Henry B. Weaver Clerk of the said county do hereby certify that Alpheus West Esqr before whom the above declaration was subscribed & sworn & whose name is subscribed to the jurat thereto & to the certificate thereon under written was at the dates of the same & acting Justice of the Peace in & for said county commissioned & sworn & duly authorised to act as such and to take the same and further that I am well acquainted with his hand writing & verily believe that the signature thereto is genuine & of his own proper hand writing. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said county at Ithaca this first day of July A.D. 1845
Ezra Weaver Dept Clerk
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State of New York}
Tompkins County ss.}
William S. Clark of Groton in said County being duly sworn says that he knew Elisha Coy in 1796 or 1797  That said Coy then resided at Arlington in the state of Vermont and that he also knew Mary his wife that they were then living together as husband & wife & had a family of two or three children.  That this deponent is of the age of 67 years that he lived at Arlington aforesaid until 1805  Then he removed to Groton in New York.  That he has since known said Elisha Coy & Mary his wife at the said town of Groton where they continued to live together as husband & wife until within eight or ten years last past when said Coy and his wife removed to the county of Allegany New York
William S. Clark
Subscribed & sworn}
June 19th 1845}
Before me}
Alpheus West Justice of the peace}
I certify I am personally acquainted with William S. Clark and Polly Barney the persons making the above affidavits and know them to be persons whose testimony is entitled to credit and who are persons of truth and veracity.
Alpheus West
Justice of the peace
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State of New York}
Allegany County} ss.
On this 15th day of April Eighteen hundred and fifty before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Orpha Miller, one of the surviving heirs of Mary Coy, who was the widow of Elisha Coy, a soldier and musician of the War of the Revolution and a Pensioner of the United States, and died on the 22d day of May 1843.  And the said Orpha Miller further says that there are three other heirs living, of the said Elisha and Mary Coy, to wit:  Paulina Pierce, John G. Coy and Delana Fairfield, and that her mother, the said Mary Coy, was also a pensioner and received Eighty Eight Dollars per annum to the time of her death- And that she died on the 22d day of September One thousand Eight hundred and forty nine.  And the said Orpha Miller further declares that her mother, the said Mary Coy, died in the town of Cuba in said County of Allegany, and that she had formerly resided in Rushford, in said County and State- That the deponent asks for any arrears of pension that may be found to be due the said Mary Coy, under the Act of 
March 3, 1843. and 2d February 1848.
Orpha Miller
Sworn to and subscribed
the day and year above written
before me
Chapman Brooks Justice
Witness
Samuel White
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State of New York,}
ALLEGANY COUNTY,} SS.
I DO HEREBY certify, that Chapman Brooks Esq before whom the annexed Instrument in Writing was proved or acknowledged, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment & or affdavit taken a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorised to take the same.  And that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe that the signature to said Certificate of proof or acknowledgment or ^affidavit taken is genuine.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Official Seal, at Angelica, in said County, this 19 day of April 18[xx]
John J. Rockfellow Clerk of Allegany County.
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application from case of Mary Coy widow of Elisha Coy of N. Y. for increase to same amount the husband drew.
Jt. Resolution of July 1st 1848.
Mary Coy 968
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State of New York
Allegany County ss.
I hereby Certify that satisfactory evidence has been adduced before me William G. Angel County Judge & Surrogate of said County to show that Mary Coy late a pensioner of the United States at the rate of Eighty Eight Dollars per annum and widow of Elisha Coy died on the 22d day of September (1849) Eighteen hundred & forty nine in the town of Cuba in said County, and that Paulina Pierce, John G. Coy, Delano Fairfield and Orpha Miller are the only heirs now surviving her.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Surrogate Seal of said County as Angelina in said County this 16th day of April 1850.
W. G. Angel 
County Judge & Surrogate
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Cuba NY
Free
Sept 19
J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D. C.
Sep 5 25
NY
Elisha Coy
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Cuba Sept. 16th 1835
Sir
I received your letter of the 14th of August informing me that my pension has been improperly or inadvertently allowed under the act of June 7th, 1832 and your information (as you say) justifies you in saying that my service could not have been in the Regiment to which I was attached more than eleven months and four days- and you require me to return my pension certificate that my pension may be reduced as now established by the proof upon which it was granted now. Sir, although I am now 72 years old & have had the misfortune to lose my left leg which was amputated in Dec. 1830 & am wholely unable to support myself by any kind of labour or business, yet I do not wish to receive the money of my country improperly & I am unconcious of any error in my statement concerning my services.  althoug [although] it is possible my service was in 1778 & 9, instead of 1777 & 8, be that as may. I know that I served my country as a soldier & faithfully for two years.
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at this distance of time, perhaps a man of my age & infirmities may be pardoned; if I have been mistaken in the date of the year. I actually enlisted & joined the regt. on the 16th of March 1777 or 8, served one year & was discharged at Tiverton in the state of Rhode Island & I again enlisted for one year, and served the time out, & was discharged at Newport. My serving were performed when I was young to be sure & I cannot remember every particular, but I do well remember that I served the two years & was regularly discharged.
Now sir I am a criple & whole unable to get about except at great trouble & expence, & my associates of that day are mostly dead & it is verry difficult for me to get evidence to explain any apparent ambiguity that may be sudgested by an examination of the records on file in the Pension Office, and pray that you will consider my situation & remember that I have in early life faced the enemies of our common country & contributed my part in gaining our liberty & independence in all probability I shall need assistance but a short time. My country is rich & I am extremely poor and necessaryly so from a long train of misfortune & sickness & my pension as allowed is but barely sufficient to support myself, & the aged companion of my bosom. If there is any further explanation necessary, pray have the goodness write to me and direct me more particularly and you sir will much oblige your aged friend & obeient servent.
Elisha Coy

N.B. if you condsien to write me, direct your letter to Cuba Post Office Allegany County N.Y.
E.C.
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State of New York Allegany County ss.
The declaration of William Sherman taken upon his oath on the 2nd day of August A.D. 1836. Who sath, that he is now a little more than 72 years old, that he was born at Tiverton in the state of Rhod Island on the 22nd of May A.D. 1764 and he lived at that place untill the Revolutionary War, & was in the Militia service of that state in the A.D. 1777. That he knew and was well acquainted with Elisha Coy. That he was a fifer, and in actual service at that time and stationed as a place then called Howlands Ferry in the town of Tiverton about three miles from my fathers house and about 3/4 of a mile from the quarters of General Cornwall who was the commanding officer of the State troops on the State establishments at that time. I remember him well from the circumstance of his being a fifer and a verry active boy. I remember also Capt. Babcock, Lieutenant Staunton, & Timothy West who was ensign or 2nd Lieutenant in the same company with him. And also Serjent Harris & Hodge of the same company during this year 1777. The militia, and the State Troops, acted and kept guard together. I remember that some time in the spring of that year the British came off from the Island & killed a mulatoe man & took off a number of cattle and among others they took three yoke of oxen from one Ebenezer Slokum & in the fall of that year, and I think in Sept. they came off and burnt the settlement at Fall River & I further remember that about the tenth or fifteenth of March A.D. 1778, he was discharged at Tiverton Barracks on the Heights, near Howlands Ferry, and I further remember that at that time (to wit) on or about the 10th of March A.D. 1178, he (the said Elisha Coy) and myself, both enlisted for one year. He Coy, enlisted in Capt. Babcocks Company, which company at that time was under the command of Lieutenant Staunton, and I Sherman enlisted in Capt. Thomas Company, in the same regiment. We both served durring that year, were both discharged. He was discharged at Newport, and
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I was discharged at Tiverton at the same place where I enlisted and the same place where he was discharged the year before. This was some time in the fore part of March A.D. 1779.
William Sherman - X his mark

I certify that the above & foregoing declaration was subscribed and sworn to be true by William Sherman at Boliver in the county aforesaid the 2nd day of August A.D. 1836. before me Wm. Hicks a Justice of the Peace of the said county.

As I certify that the name of William Sherman above was writen by me, by the direction and request of the said Sherman and marked by him, for the reason (as he says upon his oath) that he had never learned to write.
Wm. Hicks J.P.
August 2nd 1836

We the undersigned two of the justices of the peace of the town of Bolivar do certify that we have been acquainted with William Sherman for the space of eight years and that we consider him to be a man of truth & veracity and that we can repose confidence in him and in the above statement.
Bolivar 16the Dec. 1836
Pliney L. Evans
Warren Wellman
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State of New York
Allegany County ss.
I hereby certify that Wm Hicks Esqr before whom the within declaration was made was at the time of taking said declaration a Justice of the Peace in & for said County of Allegany duly authorised by Law to take the same-
And also that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of said Justice and verily believe the signature "Wm Hicks" to be genuine and I also further certify that Pliney L. Evans & Warren Wellman Esqrs. whose names are subscribed to the within certificate were at the date of such certificate Justices of the Peace in & for said County & duly authorised as such, and that I am well acquainted with the hand-writing of said Justices, & verily believe that the signature "Pliney L. Evans" & "Warren Wellman" to be genuine-
In testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County this 19th Day of December A. D. 1836-
J. W. Sherman Clark
By Saml Van Wickle Dep. Clk
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State of New York}
Allegany County} ss.
On this eleventh day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-eight, personally appeared before me Samuel White a justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid, Mary Coy, a resident of the town of Rushford in the county of Allegany and State of New York, aged eighty four years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 2d February, 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war.  That she is the widow of Elisha Coy who was a private and musician in the Army of the Revolution, that some of the time he served in Colonel Toppins Regiment, thinks in the  State of Rhode Island, and died on the 21st day of May, 1843; and that she is the identical person  who drew a pension under the act of the 17, June, 1844, on account of the revolutionary service of her husband the above named Elisha Coy, at the rate of Eighty-Eight dollars per annum.  She further declares that she is still a widow.
Mary Coy
Sworn to and subscribed on the day}
and year above written, before-}
Samuel White Justice of the Peace.}
I certify that the above named affiant is personally known to me, and that she is the same individual who drew a pension, as stated by her in the foregoing affidavit.
Samuel White, Justice of the Peace.
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State of New York}
Allegany County ss}
I Martin Butts Clerk of the said County and also Clerk of the Courts of Record held in & for said County do hereby certify that Samuel White Esquire before whom the within the within [sic] affidavit was taken and by whom the annexed written certificate was made was at the time of taking such affidavit & making such certificate a Justice of the [sic] in and for said County and duly authorized to take & make the same-  And I further certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such justice and verily believe that his name signed to the said affidavit and certificate, is his genuine hand writing in each place-
In withess whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official seal and seal of he said Courts this thirteenth day of July 1848
Martin Butts Clerk
admitted
A. J. Lyon
Rushford
N. Y.
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Arlington August 22d 1843
Dr. Sir
I rec'd yours of the 18th Inst yesterday I made search for the Record of the Marriage of Elisha Coy to Mary Gray, in the Books of Records of this Town & can find no record of their Marriage
O. Boardman Esqr
John B Lathrop Town Clerk
Doninicus Gray has been dead a number of years but Betsey Gray his widow still resides in this Town & at present enjoys verry [very] good health-
J. B. L.
Mrs Coy says that the ages of her children are recorded in the Town of Arlington about forty years since
Daniel Coy and wife and some of his thinks Lucy and Daniel Levi Hill and Christian Hurlburt Philo Hawley were present at the marriage
Enquire for Daniel Coy
Children oldest children
Lucy Andrews
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1112
Mary Coy
N. Y.
Act July 7th 38
husband died May 21st '43
Rejected
declaration 15 June 83-
admd-
2 yrs. Fifer
$88 under Act 17 June 44 from 21 May
A. J. Lyon
Rushford
N. Y.
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Wayne County} ss
I, Philo Hawley of the town of Macedon in the County of Wayne & State of New York do certify that during the year 1784 I was a resident of the town of Arlington in the State of Vermont- resided with my Aunt Betty Hawley- that some time in the month of July of that year one Mary Gray daughter of John Gray of the said town of Arlington & one Elisha Coy were married at my said aunts, by Eliacum Stoddard a Justice of the peace of the said town of Arlington, that at the request of the said Coy I went after the said Justice to marry them- that I was present when the marriage was solemnized that some year or two after that the said Coy & his wife removed to the western country, but to what part I know not & further I certify that I was 84 years old on the third day of July last and further say not-
Philo Hawley
Sworn & Subscribed the
10th day of April 1844
before me.
Durfee Orband Justice of the Peace
I certify that I have been acquainted with the above named Philo Hawley about ten years & most fully believe him to be a man of truth & verasity [veracity].-
Macedon April 18th 1844-
Durfee Orband Justice of the Peace
State of New York]
Wayne County ss}
I Daniel Chapman, Clerk of the Courts of said County, do hereby certify that Durfee Orband Esquire was, on the 18th day of April last past, a Justice of the peace of said County duly qualified and that his signatures above written are genuine.
Witness my hand & seal of office May 20, 1844
D. Chapman
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State of New York}
Allegany County} ss
On this 27th day of [March crossed out] February in the year of Our Lord Eighteen hundred and forty five Personally appeared before me William Hicks a Judge of the County Courts in and for the County aforesaid Mary Coy a resident of the town of New Hudson in the County of Allegany and the State of New York aged Eighty one years who being by me duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provition [provision] made by the act of Congress passed March 3rd 1843 and the act of the 30th of July 1844 intitled [entitled] an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widdows [widows] that she is the widdow [widdow] of Elish [Elisha] Coy who was a private and a musitian [musician] in the war of the revolution and drew a pension under the act of Congress passed July 7 - 1832 at the rate of one hundred and four dollars per annum as she believes will appear by refferance [reference] to his papers now on file in the pension office on which he drew his pension and that he resided at that time in the town of Cuba County and State aforesaid
And she further declares that she was married to the said Elisha Coy on the 15 day of July in the year 1784 at the town of Arlington in the County of Bennington State of Vermont and that her husband the said Elisha Coy died on the twenty first day of May 1843 that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day
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of January 1794 viz at the time above stated
And she further declares that she has no family record of the date of her marriage or the ages of her eight children which she had by the said Elish [Elisha] Coy her husband and that she is still the widdow [widow] of the said Elisha Coy and has not since married and further this deponent saith not
Mary Coy.
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year
first above writen [written] before me
Wm. Hicks
a Judge of Allegany County Courts.
I Certify, that Mary Coy, who made the above Declaration before me is (in my Opinion) unable on account of age and bodily infirmity to appear in Open Court.  Cuba, Allegany Co. N. Y. 
February 27th 1845.
Wm Hicks,
A Judge of the Courts of said County.
Allegany County}
Clerks Office ss}
I hereby certify that Wm Hicks before whom the above Affidavit was taken was at the date of the same a Judge of Allegany County Courts in and for said County and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed thereto is his genuine signature 
Witness my hand and the Seal of this County
this 21st day of March 1845
Wm Windsor 
Clerk of said County
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A. J. Lyon Esqr
Rushford
Allegany County
N. Y.
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Comptrollers Office - Connecticut
Hartford, January 22, 1845.
I Certify, that on application for evidence of the service of Elisha Coy in the War of the Revolution, I have examined the documents remaining in this Office relating to that War, and do not find his name therein- there being no Pay Rolls of the companies in which he is said to have served.
There is evidence that Oliver Babcock, with whom he is supposed to have been- served in 1775 as an Ensign, & as Lieutenant from 1 July.  And in the accounts of the late "Pay Table" Office, is this entry-
"United States.....Dt
1778 Jany. 20 -- To order on Treas. pr. Mary Babcocks Loss...£15.15.0
Prisoners Wages Lt. O. Babcock, deceasd.
Tylers Regt............. 9.7.3
Also, on account with Tylers Regiment, commencing 16th Novemr. 1776, and ending 9 Decemr. 1778.
In the Journal of the "Governour & Council of Safety". under date of July 1. 1780, the "Young Cromwell", Cap. Wattles, is mentioned as having put into New London Harbour, to water, and permission is given to "proceed on another cruise".  But no Roll or other account remains, or record, shewing the duration or other particulars of this service.
It also appears in the same Journal, that information was received 16 July 1781 that the Crew of the Sloop Phoenix, Cap. Wm. Wattles had been captured, and carried unto New York and from thence sent to Halifax.  But no list of the crew has been found.
A Carrington, Comptroller
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Arlington Vt}
Mch. 24}
Abram P. Lyon Esqr.
Rushford
Allegany County
N. Y.
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Arlington Bennington Co Vt. Mch. 26. 1845
Mr. Lyon
Sir  In answer to your communication of the 17th inst (which came to hand the 21st) I would inform you that I have searched dilligently [diligently] among the records of this town for a record of the marriage of Elisha Coy & Mary Gray & likewise for the births of the children of said Elisha & Mary his wife but can find no such record of either.  Neither can I find any record touching the marriage of such parties.
Yours Truly
Cyrus Hills Town Clerk
Abram J Lyon Esqr}
P. S.  I have made inquiries of the Town Clerk in Sunderland who says that there is no record in his office touching the case
I have likewise inquired of all the old people now residing in town who were liveing [living] here at the time of the wedding- I find two persons who reccollect [recollect] the circumstances connected with the marriage but were not witnesses to the ceremony- They say that there was a stiff opposition to the match on the part of her father John Gray consequently the wedding was (they think) rather private- There is a person now liveing [living] in
(over)
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Coutreville [Courteville] Allegany County N. Y.
by the name of Philo Hawley who at the time of this marriage resided but a few rods from Grays & who is not a witness to the ceremony- might give you important information respecting the affair  Any further inquiries for information [that crossed out] will be readily & promptly attended to.  My fees are $2.00
C. Hill T. Clerk
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Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.
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Cuba Allegany Co. N.Y. Jan 14th 1837
Dear Sir.
Impelled by imperious necessity & emboldned by the Justice of my claim upon my county, under the laws which the supreme legislature of that country has passed for the benefit of its Revolutionary soldiers, I once more presume to address you sir, as the offical organ of the government of the United states in the pension department & would respectfuly request you to receive and examine the enclosed affadavit and certificates in connection with my Declaration & the evidence heretofore forwarded to your office and as you say now on file there, in relation to my right to receive a pension for serving two years as a soldier of the Revolution in the capasity of fifer. The said service was duly & truly rendered by me & I have a right in equity (at lest) under the above mentioned laws to the compensation thereby granted for two years service. It does appear to me that if a fact of that nature can be established by the testimony of living witnesses that the same is sufficently proved, in this case by my own declaration in connection with the testimony of John Stanbury, William Main & that of William Sherman, herewith forwarded to you. Now sir, will you be pleased to give the above a place in your mind & among you numerous and important duties dont forget your aged and infirm friend. and Obedent humble servant.
Elisha Coy
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I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Elisha Coy, the signer of the within letter and have been for two year or thereabouts, and that he appears to be about 73 years of age, but of sound mind & memory of good moral & religious character & verasity and his statements entitled full credit.
Wm. Hicks

January 14th 1837
To the Commissioner of Pensions

We whose names are under writen concur in the above.
Kindell Wilder
Gilbert B. Champlin

Cuba Feby 3d 1837
I certify that I am and have for some time past been personally acquainted with Elisa Coy named aforesaid also the Justice who certifies above and also the gentlemen who concur above and I am avouch for all as gentlemen of strict varasity.
John Griffin
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I Nicoll Halsey the Judge within named and before whom the declaration of Elisha Coy the applicant for a pension within named was made, and before whom the affidavit of William Main in support of said application was made, do hereby certify and declare my opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department that the said Elisha Coy was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states in his said Declaration. And I do further certify that in my opinion the said Elisha Coy is entirely unable from bodily infirmity to attend court for the purpose of making his declaration.
Nicoll Hasey
Tom. Co.  Sept 13th 1832

State of New York, Tompkins County ss
I Samuel Love clerk of said county do certify that Nicoll Halsey before whom the within a foregoing Declaration & affidavit were sworn & by whom the within a foregoing certificate was given, was at the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said county it being a court of record for said county; and also that Silvanus Larned before whom the foregoing or annexed affidavit was sworn was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said county and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge
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and also the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe that their names subscribed to the said declaration & affidavits & to said certificate are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal at Ithaca September 17 1832.
Saml Love Clk
Tompkins County
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We George White a clergyman residing in the town of Groton County of Tompkins & state of New York and Abijah Higgins residing in the same town county & state, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Elisha Coy who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration. That we believe him to be sixty nine years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
George White pastor of the first Methodist E. Church in Groton & Dryden
Alijah Higgins

Sworn and subscribed before me this 6 day of September 1832
Silvanus Larned Justice Peace
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State of New York Cortland County ss
I John Stanbro, do state under oath that I am well acquainted with Elisha Coye of Groton Tompkins County & state of New York and have been for sixty years or more and know him to be the identical person he represents himself to be. I live in the town of Cortlandville county of Cortland & state aforesaid, the said Elisha Coye enlisted under Captain Joshua Babcock, and Colonel John Topping commanded the said regiment of Rhode Island Militia. He enlisted for the term of one year, said Coye aforesaid, belonged to the same company with myself, as a fifer. The whole time of one year for which he enlisted. We were stationed at Tiverton pretty much the whole year. He helped build the Barracks there. The same year he was honorably discharged by Captain Babcock aforesaid, at Tiverton, on the sixteenth day of March seventeen hundred and seventy eight, and, on the same day, and at the same place the said Coye enlisted again under Captain Babcock aforesaid for the term of one year in the Rhode Island Militia. The regiment was commanded by Colonel John Topping. After he enlisted, we both had a furlough for thirty days & we both went home & returned at as befor our furloughs expired & he remained in the said service to my personal knowledge the full term of one year, when he was honorably discharged at Tiverton by Lieutenant Andrew Staunton, who commanded the company. Captain Babcock, having been broke some time previous. James Harriss was our orderly serjeant of the company, Uriah Bump was our serjiant major, William Smith & Benjamin Hodge were both serjiants in said company. Said Coye was a fifer in the said company & regiment two years.
John Stanbro

Sworn and subscribed before me July 30th 1832
Lazur B. Canfield Justice Peace

I certify that John Stanbro is a man of truth & veracity
Lazur B. Canfield Justice
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State of New York Cortland County ss
Know all men by these presents that I Elisha Coye of Groton in the county of Tompkins & state of New York do, hereby constitute and appoint, Lizur B. Canfield of Homer, Cortland county & state of New York, my true and lawful attorney, with a power of substitution, for me, and in my name, to demand and receive from the Secretary of War, or any other person authorized to grant the same, a pension according to the act passed June seventh eighteen hundred & thirty two, by Congress for the relief of the surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution.
Elisha Coy

State of New York Cortland County Clerks Office ss
I Samuel Hotchkiss Jr. clerk of the county of Cortland and clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said county do certify that Lizur B. Canfield Esq before whom the within affidavit of John Stanbro purports to have been sworn, was on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in said county, duly commissioned and sworn. His acts therefore in that capacity are to be regard as such. Also that I am well acquainted with the handriting of the said Justice and verily believe his name thereto subscribed is genuine. Witness my hand & seal of office this 1st day of September AD 1832
Saml Hotchkiss Jr. Clerk
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12624
Elisha Coy
admitted
24 mo Musician
See Bundle no. 1
sub 9
12 mo.
Capt Babcock
Enlisted March 28 1778
Cap Dyer
Enlisted 16 Mar 1779
1778 - 12 Cap Babcock
1779 12 Cap Dyer
in Tifn
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State of New York Tompkins County ss
I William Main being duly sworn do depose and say that I am well acquainted with Elisha Coy of the town of Groton, Tompkins county and state of New York and that I knew him for sixty years  past and knows him to be the identical person set forth in the declaration hereunto annexed & to which his name is affixed. That I live in the town of Venice, County of Cayuga and state of New York. That in February 1778 I enlisted in the Rhode Island State Troops for one year and a few days after I enlisted the said Elisha Coy enlisted into the same company and served in said company for one year under said enlistment. Joshua Babcock was our Captain and John Toppking or Topham was our colonel. That the said Coy served as fifer during the said year. We were stationed at Tiverton the whole of the year except about one month, which month we were on Rhode Island in Sullivans expedition. That the said Coy was discharged from the said service on the sixteenth day of March 1779 when I was discharged. Also we received no written discharge at the time. Andrew Stanton was our lieutenant. That John Stanbro belonged to the same company.
William Main

Sworn & subscribed the 13th day of September 1832 before me
Nicoll Halsey, a Judge of Tompkins County

I certify that William Main is a person of credibility. January 21 1833
Nathan Cranson J.P.

Sworn and acknowlledged before me January 21 1833 of the town of Venice Cayuga County state of New York
Nathan Cranson J.P.
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State of New York Cayuga County Clerk's Office ss
I Michael S. Myers, Clerk of the said county, do certify, that Nathan Cranson Esq. before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn and by whom the within certificate purports to have been made, was on the twenty first day of January 1833 a Justice of the Peace of said county; and that I am acquainted with his hand writing & verily believe his name subscribed to said affidavit & certificate, to be the proper hand writing of the said Justice. Witness my hand & seal of office this 23d day of January A.D. 1833
M.S. Myers Clerk
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7245
New York
Mary Coy,widow of Elisha Coy, who was a Musician, in the Connecticut line.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 88 Dollars 
____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 21st of May, 1843 [4th day of March, 1843 crossed out]
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of August, 1845 and sent to S. J. Lyon Rushford 
N. York
[Act of Mar 3, 1843. & 17 June, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2 Page 73
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Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 23833
Mary Coy wid of Elisha Coy
Musician Rev War
Act:  Feb 2nd 1848
Index:—Vol. _______, Page _______.
[Arrangement of 1870.]