Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43343, Benjamin Cowdrey, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Cowdrey, Benjamin
8 43343
CONTENTS

43343
INVALID.
Rey
File No.
43, 848
Benjamin Cowdrey
Rev Rev Rev
Act:
18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol.
8
, Page
95
[Arrangement of 1870.]

3086.
New York Roll
Benjamin Cowdrey
Colo Harnvert Private 4
a New York line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of New York — at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the first of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 of Sept. 1818 and sent to Richard Riker Esqr New York —
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 41.06 Semi-annuals ending 4th Mar. 1819 48.00
Arrears 5 Mo. 4/30. $89.06
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
7 years
Dead — one old roll

State of New-York.
CITY AND COUNTY OF NEW-YORK, ss.
I, BENJAMIN FERRIS , Clerk of the City and County of New-York and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the said City and County,
Do hereby certify, That Richard Riker, Esq. before whom the annexed affidavits were made, and who hath subscribed his name to the Certificate also hereto annexed, was on the day when the said Affidavits were made, and the said Certificate signed, Recorder of the City of New-York, and a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, called the Mayor's Court of the City of New-York, and duly commissioned and sworn. And further that the said Court is a Court of Record of the State of New- York; and that the signature of R. RIKER subscribed to the said Certificate is the proper hand writing of the said Richard Riker.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, this fourteenth day of April 1818
Benj m Ferris Clerk

Benjamin Coadney Soldier Correct C. M. Willett's att. attached
New York roll.
Adm d .

State of New-York, ss.
To the Hon. Richard Parker
Recorder of the City of New-York, and one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, called the Mayor's Court of the City of New-York, which is a Court of Record of the State of New-York.
The Declaration under Oath of Benjamin Cowdrey of the City of New York formerly a Soldier engaged in the Service of the United States during the Revolutionary War, now a Citizen of the United States and resident of the City and County of New-York, respectfully sheweth,
THAT the said Benjamin Cowdrey sometime in the year 1776 enlisted into the Third New York Regiment commanded by Col Ganzevort and afterwards by Col Maninus Willet and continued in the Service until the Close of the War in 1783 and was honorably discharged from the Service at Newburgh in the State of New York — which discharge is lost —
Benjamin Cowdrey
And the declaration further sheweth, that the said Benjamin Cowdrey is now a citizen of the United States, resides in the city of New-York, and is, by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, in need of assistance from his country for support —
Therefore the said Benjamin Cowdrey conceives himself entitled to the benefit of the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," approved 18th March, 1818, and requests your Honor will examine into the truth of the matter aforesaid, certify and transmit

the testimony in the case, and the proceedings had thereon, to the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War, to the end that such relief may be had in the premises, as is by law in such case made and provided. And in support of the facts above set forth, the said Benjamin Cowdrey refers to Col. Marcus Willett or set forth by him Oath of
Benjamin Cowdrey
City and County of New-York, ss.
Benjamin Cowdrey —
of the City and County of New-York, being duly sworn, saith, that the matters by him set forth in the foregoing Declaration, are in all respects just and true.
Sworn before me this first day of April — 1818, }
PK  Benjamin Cowdrey Recorder of the City of New York
City and County of New-York, ss.
of acquainted with
being sworn, saith, that
well
Sworn before me this day of
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The bearer Benjamin Cowdrey was a corporal in the Third New York regiment in the revolutionary war and continued in service to the end of the war.
Marinus Willett
New York
April 1. 1810
WHEREUPON I being satisfied that the said Benjamin Cowdrey did serve in the War of the United States in the Revolutionary War, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months and longer, to wit: for the term and the manner stated in the Declaration of the said applicant; and that the said applicant is fairly and justly entitled to the benefit of the Act aforesaid. THEREFORE I DO HEREBY CERTIFY and transmit the testimony in the case, and the proceedings had thereon, as before set forth, to the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War.

City and State of New-York, ss.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this first day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen before me Richard Piiker Recorder of the City of New-York, and one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, called the Mayor's Court of the City of New-York, which is a Court of Record, personally appeared the aforesaid Benjamin Cowdrey
who being by me duly sworn to the truth of the facts stated in the foregoing Declaration and also by the affidavit of Col. Willett well known by me and his certificate thereunto annexed and the said applicant is sixty five years of age
WHEREUPON I being satisfied that the said Benjamin Cowdrey did serve in the War of the United States in the Revolutionary War, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months and longer, to wit: for the term and the manner stated in the Declaration of the said applicant; and that the said applicant is fairly and justly entitled to the benefit of the Act aforesaid. THEREFORE I DO HEREBY CERTIFY and transmit the testimony in the case, and the proceedings had thereon, as before set forth, to the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War.
GIVEN under my Hand and Seal of the said Court, in the City of NEW-YORK, this first day of th in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
R Piiker