Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 10675 1/2, William Coates, Va.

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SERVICE      Va.	                                                                  NUMBER     W.10675½
	Coates  William                            
		or
		Coats                                   
                                          Susannah

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(left hand side)
 Let to Ezra Holstead
 Aug’t. 19, ‘45

     (right hand side)
18217
      West Tennessee
William Coates
of Davidson County in the State of Tennessee
who was a Sargent  in the Regiment  commanded by Colonel Febiger in the  Virginia line for  the term of the war
 
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Inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee
at the rate of    8  dollars   per month
to commence on the  19th day of May, 1820.
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Certificate of Pension is issued on the 12th  of July 1821  and sent to T.H. Claiborn, Esq.
 Nashville, Tennessee
Arrears to the 4th of March 1821            76.38
Semi-anl. all’ce ending 4 Sept  1821      48.00
	9 mo. 17/31 -			      $ 124.38
                                     Revolutionary Claim
			Act 18th March 1818 
			21 May 1820
Davidson County

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165
Tennessee
Susannah Coates
 widow of William Coats
who was a private
in the Virginia line
Nashville roll
Inscribed on the roll at the rate of 80 Dollars
cents per annum to commence on the 
4th day of March 1844   (scratched out)
6th October, 1844
Certificate of Pension issued the 
4th day of April, 1846
and sent to Ezra Holstead
 South Harpeth
Tennessee

[Act of JUNE 17 1844.]
Recorded in Book  D
Vol. 1   Page 343.-

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Left side:   Address upside down: 
  John C Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington
City
 
Middle:
  William Coates
Virginia line
Fall 1775  2 years
Reenlisted          3 years
Col Spotswood  Regiment
in Col Phebigon Regiment
                  war

(sideways)
    17,019 -
Wm Coates
Davidson Cty. Tenn
Jno. McNairy
Jud
Nashville Tenn

Right side
  This declaration is not in form under the law of  1st May 1820 a proper form + (illegible) is herewith sent in order to be filled up + duly  (illegible)

             16 June 1820

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I certify that William Coats was a soldier in Capt Samuel Hawes Company of the 2nd Virginia Regiment in the Continental establishment and that he served three years in the said regiment which was the term of his enlistment and that at this time, he is old, poor + infirm and that he stands in need of aid of his Country for Support.

				Tho. Overton
				(illegible - ?Late?) Captain in 
                                 the Continental army
				of the United States

On the 19th day of May 1830 
Thomas Overton came before and made oath that the contents of the foregoing certificate are true.

John McNairy
District Judge.

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District of West Tennessee
 On the 19th day of May 1820, before me, the subscriber, a judge of the courts of the United States for the Districts of East + West Tennessee, personally appeared William Coates, aged fifty nine years, resident in the county of Davidson in said District, who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth, on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the late Act of Congress, entitled  An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval Services of the United States in the revolutionary War.  That he, the said William Coates, enlisted for two years, and the next enlistment for three years, and during the War, that first enlisted in the fall of the year 1775 in the State of Virginia in the company commanded by Capt. Samuel Hawes in the 2nd Virginia Reg. commanded by Col. Spotswood in the line of the State of Virginia or the Continental establishment.  That he continued to serve both of his said terms faithfully and that he was discharged after the battle of Eutaw Springs, that he was in the Battle of Germantown, Brandywine, Monmouth at the taking of Stony Point and many other battles. That he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support that he has no other evidence now in his possession of his said service

Sworn to + declared before
me on the date above                              Wm  Coates
John McNairy
District Judge

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I John McNairy, Judge aforesaid, do  certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said William Coates did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in his declaration against the common enemy for the term of 9 months at one time in the continental establishment.  I am also satisfied that he needs the assistance of his country for support.  And I (illegible) the proceeding + testimony for the Secretary for the department of War.  Witness my hand, this 19th May, 1820

			   John McNairy
			    District Judge

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 William Coates
      Sergeant _
  No evidence of being a
Sergeant
Col. Febiger’s
   Va.  Reg’t.

in fall of 1775 for 2 yrs
in Col. Spottswood Reg’t.
Afterwards in Febiger’s
for 3 yrs.

words scratched out
Found on rolls
---------------
 Service proved by certif.
of Capt. Overton -  3yrs

1st.  disch.  19  May 1820
2nd   26th July 1820 -

(sideways):  Wm Coates

Sched.   nothing
 whole service about 5 years

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District of West Tennessee, Sct.

  On this 26th day of July 1820, personally appeared in open court in the court of Pleas and quarter Sessions for Davidson County in the state of Tennessee, it being a court of record, William Coates, aged fifty nine years and seven months, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Acts of Congress of the 18th of March, 1818 and the 1st of May, 1820, that he, the said William Coates, enlisted for the term of two years, the first time in the fall of 1775, in the state of Virginia, in the company commanded by Captain Samuel Hawes, in the regiment commanded by Colonel Alexander Spottswood, in the line of the state of Virginia in the continental establishment; that before the first enlistment, was quite expired, he enlisted again, for the term of three years in the state of Pennsylvania at Vally Forge camp, in the company of the said Sam’l Hawes, in the regiment commanded by the said Col. Alexander Spottswood, in the line of the state of Virginia in the continental establishment; that after serving about two years of the second enlistment, he enlisted again for a term during the war in the company of Cap’t. Wm. Bentley, in the regiment commanded by Col. Christian Phebigger in the line of the state of Virginia in the continental establishment, which last enlistment also took place in Pennsylvania at Valley Forge camp; that he continued to serve in said cmps. until the fall of 1781, having before that period exchanged his last term of enlistment with an eighteen months man, when he was discharged from said service, at Thompson’s Farm in the state of South Carolina.  That he was in the battles of Brandy Wine, the taking of Stony Point, in the battle of Guilford, in the battle of Campden, in the siege of ninety six, in the battle of Eutaw Springs, and that he has not other evidence now in his possession of said services, except his own oath.  And in pursuance of the Act of the 1st of May,1820, I, the said Wm Coates do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818 and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby as to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of

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an act of Congress, entitled, : An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary War” passed on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me;
nor have I any income other than what is contained in the following schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed – that is to say, not one article of property either real or personal in the world.  My occupation has been that of a planter which I am now unable through age and infirmity to pursue any longer.  My family consists of myself + wife, and we subsist at present upon the bounty of our son, Austin Coates, who has no family of his own, who is the owner of two slaves and a few horses, but who is about to leave this state + fix his residence in Virginia this ensuing fall.  I was an orderly sergeant for the last eighteen months of my servitude.
                                          William Coates

         Sworn to and declared on the 26th day of July, 1820,  and year first above written before us: Th.Claiborne; Th Edmiston + Rob. Foster, Justices of said court of pleas + quarter sessions of Davidson County  Tennessee, in open court, it being a court of record. -  as declared by Statute of the State of Tennessee

Th.Claiborne
Th Edmiston 
 Rob. Foster

I, Nathan Ewing, clerk of the court of Pleas + quarter Sessions of Davidson County in the state of Tennessee, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule herein annexed, are truly copied from the records of said court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is nothing at all.  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this the 26th day of July, 1820.
					Nathan Ewing

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        215
Susanna Coates

Ten

Act 3 March 117
June 44
(illegible)
2 years pri-

80

from 6 Oct 44, the
day of husband’s death

Ezra Holstead Esq
Sth Haspeth
Tennessee

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State of Tennessee
County of Davidson

                 On this the 8th day of November 1845, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, Mrs. Susannah Coates, formerly Susannah Dismukes, a resident of Tennessee in the County of Sumner, 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 the 17th of June, 1844, entitled an act to continue the pensions of certain widows – That she is the widow of William Coates, who was a pensioner and drew at the agency at Nashville, Tennessee at the rate of ninety six dollars per annum until his death which occurred on the Sixth day of October, one thousand Eight hundred and forty four.  She further declares that she was married to the said William Coates in Spottsylvania County, State of Virginia, by a parson named John Waller on the 4th day of March one thousand seven hundred and eighty two and furthermore that the cause of making her Declaration out of the County wherein she resides is that the dividing line between the Counties of Sumner, wherein she now lives, and Davidson, is in a very short distance, and that all business she may have to transact in relation to a pension will be more convenient in Davidson County, the distance to Nashville, Davidson County being nearer

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than it is to Gallatin, the County seat of Sumner.  Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written

			Susannah Coats
Before me
E P Connell, Justice of the Peace
for said County

I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with Mrs. Susannah Coates for the last twenty years and that from the old age and bodily infirmities, she is unable to attend in open Court, and that she still continues to be the widow of William Coates.   E  P  Connell


	State of Tennessee, Davidson County
I Robert B. Castleman, Clerk of the County Court of said County, do hereby certify that E.P. Connell, whose name is signed to the foregoing affidavit & statement is and was at the time of signing the same, an acting Justice of the Peace in & for said county duly elected & qualified & that the signature thereto purporting to be his is genuine.  I, as clerk as aforesaid, do hereby further certify that the said statements were, on this day, submitted to the said Court, the same being a court of record then in session for approval & the same was examined by the members of said court & approved by them unanimously.   
         Given under my hand & the seal of said Court at office in Nashville, this 2nd day of Nov. 1845

				Ro. B. Castleman
				Clerk of said Court

(St)ate of Tennessee
(Da)vidson County      I   Josiah Ferriss, Chairman of the County Court of Davidson County, do hereby certify that Robert B. Castleman is and was Clerk of the County Court of said County at the time of making out and signing the foregoing certificate and that the same is in due form of law, given under my hand and seal. –

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This 3rd day of December, 1845

       Josiah Ferriss
 Chairman of Said Court

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May 21, 1782

Sir
         If you have not received a list before of the following marriage celebrated by me, you may register it in your Book as follows:

	Married by Parson:  March 4th, 1782.  William Coates to Susannah Dismukes of Beckley Parish

				John Waller, Bapt. Minister

Mr John Chevy D. Clk
Spotsylvania Court

State of Virginia
 Spotsylvania County Sct.

I, Stapleton Crutchfield, Clerk of the County Court of Spotsylvania in the state aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing certificate is a true Copy of the Marriage (illegible) of William Coates and Susannah Dismukes as fully and wholly as the same among the records of my office do exist.

       In testimony whereof, I have herewith set my hand and caused the seal of my Office to be hereto annexed this 29th day of September, and in the 70th year of our Independence.
			Stap. Crutchfield, clerk
			Spotsylvania County Court

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J.L. Edwards  Esq.
    Pension Agent

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				Nashville, 30th March 1821
Sir
        Enclosed you have returned to you the original application & certificates of Wm. Coates for a pension.  You will also perceive that under your instruction, an additional declaration has been made and formerly forwarded to you in such manner as is supposed to be entirely conformably with the Law and the requisitions of the Secretary of War, which are also now again forwarded to you.

	From your endorsement made on the back of these papers, it is manifest that a mistake has occurred for you seem to think it an application for a transfer, whereas it is an original application for Pension.  It is therefore no perceived that any alterations are further necessary to support the application, if however there are any deficiencies, this is no

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doubt but they may be supplied, with a view to your satisfaction all the papers are returned to you.  Your early attention is solicited for this application

			Very Respectfully,
				Yr Ob’t Ser
			   Th. Claiborne

P.S.  Mr. Coates lives near this place and of course if he succeeds in his application, he will be placed on the Rolls of West Tennessee.

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Revolution
        Virginia

WIDOW & c

File No    10675½

Susannah Coate
Widow of
William Coate
Pri. Rev War

Act  June 17, 1844
Index  Vol.  A   Page 146
 (Arrangement of 1870)

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Written sideways:
  215   Dec. 20, 1845

Susanna Coate
June 17 1844

J.L. Edwards
Comm.s of Pensions
Washington City
 D. C.

So. Harpeth
December 10

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South Harpeth Tennessee
Dec 9th, 1845

Dear Sir
  Enclosed you will receive the application of Mrs. Susannah Coats of Sumner County, Ten. for a pension.  When you decide in the case, please write to me at South Harpeth, Davidson County Ten and oblige

			Yours Respectfully
			Ezra Holstead

If the testimony is sufficient, remit the Certificate to me.
                          E.H.