Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8224, Joseph Cox, Penn.

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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE  | NUMBER
Penn |   Cox, Joseph
S 8224
(B.L.W. 438-200- Lieut
Issued Feb. 14, 1791 to
Alex Power assoc
No papers.

CONTENTS
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33.418

Pennsylvania
Joseph Cox decd
of  in the state of 
who was a Lt of Infy in the - commanded
by Captain of the commanded
by in the [star symbol]
line for Revolutionary war.

Inscribed on the Roll of Philadelphia
at the rate of 320 Dollars 00 Cents
per annum, to commence on the 4th day of
March, 1831 and end 4th June 1832

Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of March 1861 and sent to H. Longwell,
Gettysburg, PA
Payable to administrator
for the surviving child and grand children
Revolutionary Claim,
Acts June 7, 1832. & July 4th 1836
Recorded by
G. T. Getty Clerk
Book H, Vol 1 Page 53.
Pa. Line
Records completed
Oct. 21, 1904

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Jacob Cox
Harrisburg
Penn

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Berks Co Penna from the end of the war until he died as above stated, this deponent knows of no discharge his father had nor does he know of any person by whom he can prove his said Fathers revolutionary services unless by a Mr Boas if he is yet living who is a very old man in Reading, and was well acquainted with his said Father and a near neighbour, since this deponent recollects, anything, nor did this deponent ever see his commision but often heard him speak of his Revolutionary services, knows that he drew donation Land from Penn one tract No 1766. and one No 1037.
The land lies somewhere in the western part of Penn. The Bible above alluded to he knows to be his Fathers Bible, as well as if it was his own Bible. This deponent makes the above declaration for the purpose of obtaining anything that may be legally
due him under the act of 1832 or any other act that may entitle him to anything of account of his Fathers revolutionary services,

Sworn and subscribed by the deponent before me in open court February 24, A. D. 1860 

Jacob Cox
*State grants

Jno. J Pearson Prest Judge
State of Pennsylvania
Dauphin County
SS I William Mitchell Prothonotary of the
Court of Common Pleas in and for said County and
State aforesaid Do hereby certify that John J Pearson
Esquire by whom the above and foregoing acknowledgement was was taken in open court is the President
Judge of the Twelfth Judicial District of
Pennsylvania imposed of the counties of Dauphin
& Lebanon and for the County & State aforesaid
duly commissioned & qualified and that full
faith and credit are and ought to be given
to all such his official acts accordingly and
that the foregoing signature purporting to be
his is genuine
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court at Hamby
this twenty fourth day of January AD 1860
Wm Mitchell
Witness

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State of Pennsylvania
Dauphin County
On this 22nd day of November in the year Eighteen hundred and fifty Eight, Personally Appeared in Open Court before the Court of Common pleas now sittingin Harrisburg Dauphin County and state of Pennsylvania aged 53 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his Oath make the following Declaration in order to Obtain the Benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.  that he is a son and only heir at law, of Joseph Cox, Deceased Who was a Lieutenant, in the war of the Revolution, and served in the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment that he was a prisoner of war in the year 1778.  that he received a Land warrant from the United States being (?) 438, and four hundred acres of land from the State of Pennsylvania, also, did receive         pounds      shillings        Pence for his service during the Revolutionary War, that he died in or near Reading Berks county Pa about the 14th day of June in the year 1833, that he left no (?) He hereby relinquishes every claim whateven to a pension, or an annuity except the present, and he declares that his fathers name is not on the pension Roll of any agency in any state by Refererance to the proof as above stated herewith transmited will now -fully appear,
Jacob Cox
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in (?)

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State of Pennsylvania
Dauphin County
I William Mitchell, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the County & State aforesaid do certify that John L. Pearson Esquire whose name is subscribed to the within and foregoing  proceedings is the President Judge of the Twelfth Judicial District of Pennsylvania composed of the Counties of Dauphin and Lebanon and for the County & State aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to all such his official acts and that the signature  purporting to be his is genuine.
Witness my hand and the Seal of the said Court of Harrisburg the 22nd day of November 1858
Mitchell Prothy

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State of Pennsylvania
Berks County, City of Reading [illegible] On this 25th day of
January A.D. 1860. before the subscribed and
Alderman of the City of Reading, and ex-officio [illegible]
Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Berks
aforesaid, personally appeared Catharine Reifsnyder
the City of Reading, aforesaid, who being duly
sworn according to law, doth depose and say 
that she is about fifty-three years of age and that
she is a Grand daughter of the late Lieutenant
Joseph Cox, deceased, that she made an affidavit
it in the month of December A.D. 1858, in which
she stated that Lieutenant Joseph Cox did in
the month of June A.D. 1833, but that having now
seen her grandfather's (Joseph Cox's) Bible
she discovers that she made a mistake in said
affidavit of restated, respecting the death of said
Joseph Cox, that she now finds an entry made
in said bible in the handwriting of Adam
Herbold, that said Joseph Cox died on the
4th day of June A.D. 1832, which convince
this deponent of her mistake in her former
affidavit that she was well and intimately
acquainted with said Adam Herbold, now
deceased, that said Adam Herbold was often
at her grand father's Joseph Cox's house, and
that said Adam Herbold was at my grand father 
Joseph Cox's house at the time said Joseph Cox
died - deponent states that she cannot say what
age her grand father Joseph Cos was when he died
but that he was a very old man, and as far

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as she knows he lived in or near Reading up to
the time of his death, that she had often heard
Joseph lex spoken of as having been in the
Revolutionary war
, and has often heard her
grand father
Joseph Cox speaking of his having been
in the Revolutionary war, and often heard
her neighbors speaking of his having been in said ┃
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war and that it was
believed by all of the neights
that said Joseph Cox had been in the service
of the
United States in the Revolutionary war
That she knows Jacob Cox of Harrisburg Pa. and
knows him to be the only
surviving child of her grand
father
Joseph Cox
Sworn and subscribed
Catharine Reisinger
mark
before me this 25 day of
January AD. 1860, and do
hereby certify that I am
Witness
Present.
personally acquainted with the
Frank L. Miller
said deponent, & that she is a person
of
truth and veracity
Frank B. Miller
Alderman.
Ex Officio a Justice of the Peace
Download

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State of Pennsylvania
Berks County, City of Reading [illegible]. On this 25, day of
January A.D. 1860. before the Subscriber an
Alderman of the City of Reading ex officio a Officer a Justice
of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared John Boas, Senior, of the City of
Reading aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say, that he makes
this affidavit as a supplement to the affidavit her
made in the month of December AD. 1858 respecting the time that Lieutenant Joseph Cox died
that he then stated that said Joseph Cox
died in the month of June A.D. 1833. that by
the Bible of the late Lieut. Joseph Cox he sees
that he has made a mistake in said Affidavits
that in said Bible he sees in the handwriting
of Adam Herbold, an entry made that said
Joseph Cox died on the 4th day of June A.D.
1832, that he was well acquainted with said
Adam Herbold, since deceased, and acquainted with
the handwriting of said Adam Hebold, and
from his knowledge of the said Adam Hebold's handwriting, believes the entry made of the death
of Joseph Cox in said bible to be the hand
writing of said Adam Hebold. That deponent
know the late Lieutenant Joseph Cox, that said
Joseph Cox was in the war of the Revolution, that
he does not know when said Joseph Cox entered 
the service of the United States, but saw him when 
he returned after the close of the war, that he had 
often heard Joseph Cox spoken of as having been in

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the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war, and never heard it doubted by any one in the neighborhood where he lived, that Joseph Cox was a near neighbor to deponent from the time of his (Cox's) return from the Revolutionary war
to the time of his death as within stated.
Deponent further states that he is now about
Eighty six years of age, that he was born in the
City of Reading and continued to reside here since the time of his birth, that he was well acquainted with
Lieutenant Joseph Cox's family, and the he
knows Jacob Cox who now resides in Harrisburg Pa. to be the son of said
Joseph Cox, that said
Joseph Cox lived in or near the City of Reading aforesaid from the time of the close of the Revolutionary war
to the day of his death as within stated
that said Joseph Cox and deponent had always
been intimate friends, and knew him as well as
he knew any person that said Joseph Cox
was a very old man when he died. That he is
well acquainted with Jacob Cox at Harrisburg
Pa. a son of said
Lieutenant Joseph Cox and
knows him to be a man of truth and veracity
Sworn and Subscribed
this 25th day of January AD 1860
John Boden
before me, and I do certify that said deponent is personally known to me that he is a
man of truth and veracity
Frankn B. Miller
Alderman of
Exofficio a Justice of the Peace

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State of Pennsylvania,
County of Berks, SS.
I, David Fister, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said county, Do
CERTIFY, that Franklin B. Miller Esq
before whom the annexed Affidavits
was made, is an Acting Alderman
and ex officio Justice of the Peace of the city of Reading, county of Berks, duly commissioned
and qualified to administer oaths and affirmations, and to take acknowledgments, &c.
and to all whose acts, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, as well in Courts
of Judicature as elsewhere, and that his signatures ^are genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
the Seal of said Court, this 25th day of January A. D. 1860
David Sister Prothonotary
[Seal and ribbon in lower left corner, illegible printing on seal]

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Deposition of Sarah Nice
No 5

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State of Pennsylvania
Berks County, City of Reading P
On the 22d day of June A.D. 1860. before the subscriber an Alderman of the City of Reading, in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Sarah Nice of the City of Reading aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to law, says, that she is about forty three years of age, that she is a grand daughter of Lieutenant Joseph Cox, that her mother's name was Barbara Katzeunezer and a daughter of said Joseph Cox deceased, and a sister of Jacob
Cox now residing at Harrisburg Pa. that deponent's mother in her lifetime told her that she had got her
father Joseph Cox's bible after his death, that deponent has often seen said bible in her mother's house. the bible was a german bible of rather small size, that in said bible was an entry which she had often seen, and that deponents Mother had often told her that said entry in said bible was a record of her father's death. the entry was written in German, and that deponents mother told her that said entry was made by Adam Harbold at the time of her father Joseph Cox's death. Deponent further states that said Adam Harbold died about eleven years ago, that said deponent attended the funeral of said Adam Herbold, and knows that Adam Harbold died about the time stated, from the fact that deponent was married about one year after the time of his death. The bible above alluded to

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went into the possession of her uncle Jacob Cox of Harrisburg Pa. some time last Summer
or fall, that Jacob Cox of Harrisburg Pa. is the only surviving child of said Lieutenant Joseph
Cox, deceased. that she has often heard her mother speaking of the services of her father Lieut Joseph Cox, deceased, in the revolutionary war and that her (deponents mother) had said that her father Joseph Cox aforesaid had got land for his services but that it had never done him much good, that he always remained poor. that deponents mother died a little over a year ago.
Sworn and Subscribed
this 22 day of June
A.D. 1860. before me.
and I certify that deponent
is a credible person
Frank B. Miller
Alderman

Sarah [her mark] Nice

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State of Pennsylvania,
County of Berks, ss..
I, David Fister, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said county, do
CERTIFY, that Frank B. Miller Esq
before whom the annexed acknowledgement was made, was an acting Alderman and ex-officio Justice of the Peace of the city of Reading, County of Berks, duly commissioned and qualified to administer oaths and affirmations, and to take acknowledgments, &c. and to all whose acts, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, as well in Courts of Judicature as elsewhere, and that his signature thereto is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
the Seal of said Court, this 22 day of June
A. D. 1820
David Fister Prothonotary
on the 22nd day of June A.D. 1860

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Rev War
8224
INVALID.
File No.
8224

Joseph Cox
Lieut of [illegible] Rev War
Act: June 7th 32
Index: --Vol. 1st, Page 74
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Jos. Cox dec
Act 1832
Please reexamine this case & let me know the result
G.C.W.
Special
Feb. 15 /61
filed
Hon Jas Cooper
[strike through: Mr. Cooper]
National Hotel

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Harrisburg, Dauphin County
January 22d 1861,
Personally appeared before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the peace in and for said County Pa.,John Manish, who after being duly sworn according to law, does say that he is as now about fifty one years old, that he is well acquainted with Jacob Cox of Harrisburg, formerly of Reading Penn. whoes Father-Joseph Cox always had the reputation of being a lieutenent in the Revolutionary war, this deponent has often been in Reading, has herd the said Joseph Cox spoken of as being a lieutenent in the said war, this deponent resides now in Harrisburg, and is very well acquainted with Jacob Cox, the son of the above named Joseph Cox, that sometime in the fall of 1859, the said Jacob Cox, shoed this deponent an old German Bible that he said was the Bible of his Fathers. Lieutenent Joseph Cox, that he had just got it home that it had been in the possestion of his sister, that had died sometime previous to that, that said Jacob Cox toal him that it had the record of his Fathers death in it, it was rather an old and soiled Book, this deponent opened the Bible, he saw no entry in it but one that was on the left hand side of the lid of the bible when it was open the entry was in german writing, it appeared to this deponent to be in a very poor hand writing.

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it looked to very old and sailed, this deponent recollects well the date of the entry, it was 1832, in figure the 4th June, this deponent had often seen it afterwards and is perfectly certain that he is correct as to the date of the entry, this deponent can read the German writing, the above named Jacob Cox had brought the book to him at first when he got it home to get him to read it, this deponent is a very near neibor of Jacob Cox in Harrisburg, and has often seen the above named bible and remembers the date of the entry as well as he remembers anything, the deponent further says that the above named Joseph Cox lived and died in Reading Berks County in the early part of the summer of 1832,
Sworn & Subscribed 
Jany 22, 1861
Before
M Kline
John Minick
I do certify that I believe the deponent to be a man of truth and veracity 
M Kline
State of Pennsylvania
Dauphin County S.S. William Mitchell Protonotary of the County of Common Pleas of said County Do hereby certify that Wm Kline Esq before whom the above and forgoing affidavit was made is an Acting Alderman of the City of Harrisburg and Ex officio Justice of the Peace in and foresaid County and State, duly commissioned & qualified and authorized by law to administer oaths and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine witness my hand and the seal of said Court Jany 22, 1861
Wm Mitchell Protny

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Certificate from the Land Office 
Pennsylvania 
No. 6

No. 1766
District No. 1
200 Acres

Joseph Cox Lieutenant
January 17th 1789

Feed 50 cts Pd. 4

Patent and draft done

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[Drawing at the top of the page is a rectangle with writing inside and outside the rectangle,
inside the rectangle]
West 130 ps.
MDCCLXVI
200 Acres Jallers
S 261 1/2 ps.
N 261 1/2 ps.
East 130 ps.
[outside the rectangle]
Lot No 1779
PJW.O [illegible]
Lot No 1765
Lot 1767
Hicks  W.O
Lot No 1763

In pursuance of an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Pennsylvania
passed the 24th day of February, 1785, entitled, "An Act for directing the mode of
distributing the Donation Lands, promised the troops by this Commonwealth,"
and by order of the Surveyor General,
with the approbation of the honorable the
Executive Council, I have surveyed, on the 7th day of June, 1786, the above described
Tract of Two hundred Acres of Land, and allowance for roads J No 1766.
situate in District No 1, on the west side of the Alleghany river, in the County
of Westmoreland

To John Lukens, Esquire    G. Evans
Surveyor General    D Surry

In Testimony that the above is a copy of the original on file in
the Surveyor Generals Office, I have hereto
set my hand and the seal of said Office,
at Harrisburg the 21st day of June 1860.

[Seal marking in lower left corner, illegible]

[illegible signature] S.G.

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State of Pennsylvania
Berke Country p3

           On this 15th day, September RO, 1858

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State of Pennsylvania
Berks County p. 3

On this 15th day of September A.D. 1858, before the Subscriber an Alderman of the City of Reading, and ex-officio a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared John Boas, Senior, aged eighty four years, known by me for Twenty five years, a person of respectability, deserving full faith and credit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say, that he was intimately acquainted with Joseph Cox in his lifetime that he was a Lieutenant of the Old Sixth Regt of the Pennsylvanian line that he died in the City of Reading aforesaid, some time in the month of June A.D. 1833 and that Jacob Cox is his son, and only surviving heir at law of Joseph Cox aforesaid deceased – 

Sworn and Subscribed this 15th day of September A.D. 1858, before me 
Frank B. Miller 
Alderman, ex-officio 						John Boas Senior
Justice of the Peace

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State Of  Pennsylvania,
County of Berks, ss.
David Fister,  Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas and said county, Do Certify, that Frank B. Miller
Before whom the annexed Acknowledgement was made, is our acting Alderman and ex-offico Justice and the Peace of the city of Reading, county of Berks , duly commissioned to all whose acts, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, as well in Courts of Judicature as elsewhere, and that his signature thereto is genuine.IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto setmy hand and affixed the Seal of said Court this 15 day of Sept A.D. 1858
 David Fister 
Prothonotary.

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Letters of Administration on the estate
of Joseph Cox died
Fees $4.31 paid by Man , Esq

Stamp: Pension Office Mar 14 1861

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Dauphin County, SS:
I, Samuel Marquart Register for the Probate of Wills, and granting Letters of Administration
in and for the said county, to
Hamilton Longwell
GREETING:
Whereas Joseph Cox lately died intestate
(as is affirmed,) having whilst he lived, at the time of his decease, divers goods and chattels,
rights and credits within the said county, by means whereof the disposition and power of granting Letters of Administration thereof, is manifestly known to belong to me: I, therefore, desiring that the goods and chattels, rights and credits, which were of the said deceased, may be well and truly administered, converted and disposed of according to law: Do hereby grant unto the said
Hamilton Longwell
(in whose fidelity in this behalf I very much confide,) full power, by the tenor of these presents, to administer the goods and chattels, rights and credits which were of the said deceased, within the said county; as also to ask, collect, levy, recover and receive the credits whatsoever of the said deceased; which at the time of his death were owing, or did in any way belong to him and to pay the debts in which the said deceased stood obliged, so far as the said goods and chattels, rights and credits will
extend, according to the rate and order of the law, especially of well and truly administering the goods and chattels, rights and credits which were of the said deceased, and making a true and perfect inventory and conscionable appraisement thereof, and exhibiting the same in the Register's Office, at Harrisburg, on or before the eighth day of April next ensuing; and, also, a true and just account, calculating and reckoning of your administration, upon your solemn oath or affirmation render at or before the eighth day of March in the year of our LORD, one thousand eight hundred and sixty two AND I DO, by these presents, ordain,
constitute and depute the said
Hamilton Longwell

Administrator of all and singular, the goods and chattels, rights and credits which were of the said deceased, within the limits aforesaid, saving, harmless and forever, indemnifying me and all other officers against all persons, by reason of your administration aforesaid, and saving all others their rights, &c.
In Testimony Whereof, I have caused the seal of the said office to be hereunto affixed. Dated at Harrisburg aforesaid, the eighth day of March in the year of our LORD one thousand eight hundred and sixty one

Samuel Marquart
Register

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Deposition of Daniel Westley Ne

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State of Pennsylvania
Berks county,  City of Reading (SS.) [ means regard to]
On the 8th day of March A.D. 1860 before the (Berk Citizens and Alderman) of the City of Reading, in and for the County of aforesaid, personally appeared, David Westly of (Cumru) Township, near the City of Reading aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to the law, say, that he is now near Sixty three years of age. That he was well acquainted with Lieut (Lieutenant abbreviated) Joseph Cox. dec'd (abbreviation for deceased in his lifetime. And often heard him spoken of  as having been in the Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War. And that he had never heard it doubted that Lieut (Lieutenant abbreviated) Joseph Cox had been in said war by any persons that knew him. Deponent further states that he knew said Joseph Cox from his (deponents) you up to the time of his death. That said Joseph Cox lived in Reading for a great many years and that he died there. That he had heard said Joseph Cox say that he had a son Jacob Cox, but deponent never knew said Jacob Cox personally. Deponent further states that he was intimately acquainted with Adam Herbold of the City of Reading & now deceased &. always knew him to be a very honest & upright man. Deponent states that he cannot recollect the precise time when said Lieut. Joseph Cox died. But, thinks it took place about twenty eight years ago as near as he can recollect. Deponent states that he has been living in the

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neighborhood of the city of Reading aforesaid for the space of thirty years or more of further saith not.
Sworn & subscribed this 8th day of March A.D. 1860 before me & I certify that said Daniel Westley is a credible person.

Frank B. Miller                     Danial Westley
        Alderman

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[on the visible portion of a partially covered page, hand-written]
neighborhood of the City of Reading [illegible]
for the space of thirty years or more, ____ the saith not.

[on the front page, typed]
State of Pennsylvania,
County of Berks, SS

I, [crossed out name not legible], David Fister [added by hand], Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of said county, Do Certify that Franklin B. Miller Esq
before whom the annexed Acknowledgement [added by hand] was made, is an acting [added by hand with one word crossed out, illegible] Alderman and ex-officio Justice of the Peace of the city of Reading, county of Berks, duly commissioned and qualified to administer oaths and affirmations, and to take acknowledgments, &c., and to all whose acts, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, as well in Courts of Judicature as elsewhere, and that his signature thereto is genuine. 
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, this 8 day of March [added by hand] A.D. 1856
[signed] David Fister Prothonotary

[Seal of the Court affixed lower left]

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Gettysburg August 24, 1860
Edmund M. Stanton Esq.

Dear Sir,

    I addressed you a few lines with additional proof in the case of Jacob Cox for a pension under the Act of 7th June 1832 and having not heard from you since I have become doubtful whether you ever received it or not. Please le me know upon the receipt if said papers came to hand and what is done in the case (unintelligible) if you think it necessary that I should be there when the case comes up. Please let me know the documentation above alluded to were forwarded by mail early in July.

    Very respectfully yours

                 H. Longwell

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Harrisburg November 22nd 1858

Sir I Enclose the Declaration of Jacob Cox for a Pension pleas [please] Inform [illegible] Jacob Barrick my agent as to the Claim at Harrisburg and oblige yours Respectfully
George C. Whitney
Commissioner of Pensions   
Washington City
D.C.            

  [signed] Jacob Cox

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                                               [ unknown]
                                             Feb. 16th 1860

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Gettysburg  Penna (Pennsylvania)
March 12, 1861
Geo. C. Whiting Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions 

I send herewith the (unknown) 

(unknown) segments by year to be presented in the case of Leut. Jos. Cox, in even that the pensioner certificate might appeal to me as a witness -trustee-  You will release pension it to me at this place.

Yours very truly 
Hamilton Longwell (per R. G Mc Creary)

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Joseph Cox, deceased, Dauphin County, Penn
Admitted. Act June 7, 1832 and July 4, 1836. (Sect. 2d rate of $320 pr annum, commencing 4th March, 1831, and ending June 4, 1832,
when he died. Payment to be made to Hamilton Longwell, Administrator upon the Estate of said Joseph Cox, one half for the benefit of Jacob Cox, his only surviving
child, and the other half to the surviving children of Barbara Cotsmoyer (now deceased) who was
over
the daughter of said Joseph Cox, deceased, viz: Catharine Rafesunder, Sarah Miller, Eliza, (born
Cotsmayer) Samuel Cotsmoyer, and George
Cotsmoyer.
Service, Lieutenant of Infantry, two years,
Continental line. 
Certificate to
H. Longwell,
Gettysburg,
Penna

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No. 39.152
Joseph Cox ( illegible)
Penn a

Liu. Jacob Barrick
December 1/58
H. Longwell Feb 20/60
(illegible) 7.1832
H. Longwell , Gettysburg ( pa)

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Hand my proof to Mr. Gedder who will examine my case since until he (unknown) (unknown) cases (unknown) member
GCW 
Feb (February) 16, 1860

Hon (honorable) G. C. Whiting present

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Reading March 20th 1860
M.H. Longwill
I received yours to day and with please answer it.
Reading March 20th 1860
Catharine Refischneider wife of David Richard of the City of Reading and granddaughter of Joseph Cox Deceased whose deposition is now at the Pension office
I hereby certify that I know the above mentioned Cathering Reifschneider and believe her to be a woman of truth and
veracity
Chas A Paul
Minister of the Gospel
of the City of Reading
If the above does not meet with satisfaction answer and I am willing to give you all the information I possibly can
with respect
Yours
Chas. A. Pauli
Mr H Longwell
Gettysburg

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I have knowen (known) Rev ^D (reverend) McPauly many years and his word I would at all times take as truth. 

Jno Schwartz
{ unknown},
8th {unknown} Penn

Certificate of the credibility of Mrs. Raef Pnider
NO. 3 (number)

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State of Pennsylvania
County of Dauphin, ss

    I, John J. Pearson, President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said county, (the same being a court of record of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, ) upon due, full and satisfactory proof of the here inaffix stated facts, submitted to me, do hereby certify that Jacob Cox, of the City of Harrisburg in the State aforesaid, is the only son and child now living of Lieutenant Joseph Cox, deceased, who was an officer in the Sixth Regiment of the United States Army during the Revolutionary War, and that Catherine Rafesnyder, Sarah Miller, Eliza (born Cotsmoyer) Samuel Cotsmoyer and George Cotsmoyer, children of Barbara Cotsmoyer, who was a daughter of the said Joseph Cox, deceased, and the only grand children of the said Joseph Cox, deceased, now living and entitled to inherit from the said Joseph Cox, deceased. 

    In testimony whereof, I, the said John J. Pearson, President Judge as aforesaid, have herewith signed my name, and caused the seal of the said court to be affixed the 6th day of March, A.D. 1861.

                                  John J. Pearson

State of Pennsylvania
Dauphin County s.s.

    I William Mitchel Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the county and state aforesaid do hereby certify that John J. Pearson Esquire whose name is subscribed to the above is the President Judge of the Twelfth Judicial District of Pennsylvania composed of the counties of Dauphin, Lebanon (unintelligible) for the county and state aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to all such his official acts and that the foregoing signature (unintelligible) to be his and genuine. Witness my hand and the seal of said Court at Harrisburg this 6th day of March A.D. 1861.

                                        Wm. Mitchell
                                                //s// Prothy.

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Brief in the case of [handwritten] Joseph Cox, deceased
Dauphin [end handwritten] County and State of [handwritten] Pennsylvania [end handwritten]
act [handwritten] June 7th, 1832 and 2nd Section of Act July 4, 1836. [end handwritten]

Claim, ("original," or "for increase)

Proof Exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
[handwritten] Joseph Cox is shown to have been a Lieutenant of Infantry in the Pennsylvania Continental line, revolutionary war, for more than two years, by record evidence certified by the Auditor General of that State. Heirship of the parties claiming proved by parol and certificate of a court of record. Claim allowed, and the amount [end hand written] (If for increase) [handwritten] due, accruing from 4th March, 1831 to 4th June, [end handwritten] Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what? 
[handwritten] 1832, (the date of Joseph's death) ordered to be paid to Hamilton Longwell, Administrator for the benefit of the surviving children and grandchildren. [end handwritten]

Name and residence of Agent
[handwritten] Hamilton Longwell, Esq
Gettysburg, Pa. [end handwritten]

[handwritten] R. Geddes [end handwritten]
Examining Clerk.

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Pension Office
Augt. 20/58

Sir,
Your letter of the 7th inst. addressed to the Third Auditor, has been referred to this Office, and in reply to your inquiry relative to Joseph Cox, who, it appears upon examination was a Lieutenant of the Old Sixth Regt. of the Pennsylvania Line, and left the service as a supernumerary officer, prior to the year 1780, I have to inform you that, Lieut Joseph Cox, was, when he left the service, as a supernumerary officer, entitled to "one years full pay" and bounty land, but not to the commutation of 5 years full pay promised by Congress to those officers who served to the end of the war, or who became supernumerary after the 1st of January 1781.
The records in this office show that land warrant 438. for 200 acres, issued Feb 14th 1791 to Alexander Power, assignee of Lieut. Joseph Cox, aforesaid, and that he received the "one years full pay" to which he was entitled.

Very Respectfully,
J. Cox


Jacob Cox Esq
Harrisburg --- Penna.
[illegible]

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No 530 } Certificate £ 210.18.0. Specie

We do certify that the State of Pennsylvania is indebted to Joseph Cox, late a Lieut. of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment in the sum of two hundred and Ten Pounds, Eighteen Shillings Specie being the amount of the Depreciation of his pay from Feby 1st, 1777 to August 1st, 1780
pursuant to an Act of Assembly passed at Philadelphia the 18th of December 1780
Philada.
Feby 1st, 1782

Ja. Stevenson
Jno. Nicholson
Pennsylvania S.S. ________
Auditor General's Office
Harrisburg January 26 1860
I Certify the above to be 
a true copy of the original
remaining on file in this department the the date aforesaid
Witness my hand and the official seal
Jacob Fry Jr
Auditor General

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No. 530 } Certificate for £ 210.18.0 Specie.

We do certify that the State of Pennsylvania is indebted to Joseph Cox late a Lieut. of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment in the sum of two hundred and ten pounds, eighteen shillg. specie being the amount of the depreciation of his pay from Feby 1, 1777 to August 1st, 1780, pursuant to an Act of Assembly passed at Philadelphia, the 18th of December 1780 [illegible].
Philada.
Feby 1st, 1782
Ja Stevenson 
Jno. Nicholson } Audrs.

Auditor General's Office
Harrisburg Nov 17, 1858
I certify the above to be a true copy of the original remaining on file in this department.
Witness my hand and seal of 
Office the day and year aforesaid.
Jacob Fry, Jr.
Aud. Genl.

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No. 220 } Certificate for £ 67.8.10 Specie

We do certify, that the State of Pennsylvania, is indebted to Joseph Coxe, late a Lieut. of the 6th Pennsylvania Regiment in the sum of Sixty Seven pounds, eight shillings, and ten pence Specie, with lawful interest from the tenth day of April 1781 being the amount of the Residue of the Depreciation of his pay pursuant to the Acts of Assembly passed at Philadelphia the 18th of December 1780 and the 10th of April 1784, [illegible].

Philada.
May 25, 1782

Jno. Nicholson
Compt. Genl.
Auditor Generals Office
Harrisburg Nov 17, 1858
I certify the above to be a true copy of the original remaining on file in this department.
Witness my hand and seal of Office the day and year aforesaid.
Jacob Fry Jr.
Aud Genl.

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know all men by these presents that I Jacob Cox of Dauphin county son of Joseph Cox deceased late of Berks County Pennsylvania and who was a Lieutenant in the Army of the United States in the Revolutionary War do hereby constitute and appoint Hamilton Longwell my lawful attorney in fact for me and in my name and stead to take and use all lawful means to recover any pension, back-pay, commutation, or other monies that may or might be, now or hereafter legally [illegible] or recoverable from the United States for or on account of the said Revolutionary service of the said Joseph Cox; hereby granting to my said attorney my full power to do whatsoever may be necessary and proper to be done on the grievances in my name and hereby revoking any power or power of attorney hereafter given by me in the relations thereunto to any other person or persons whomsoever - 
witness my hand and seal this day
13 1857
attest
Carroll McClean      
Jacob Cox    
["seal" written by hand and encircled]

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1832 June 4
Joseph Cox Pa.
58224
Died.
Adam Herbold

Translation of record in German Bible on file in this Bureau - no other family data in said book
Oct. 11, 1912.
Wilson