Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34255, Joseph Coward, Continental

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental
Howard, Joseph
S. 34255
New Jersey agency and residence.
CONTENTS

34 255 Pay INVALID.
File No. 34, 255
Joseph Howard Rev W S A
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 84
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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96 New Jersey
Joseph Howard, Capt Bedkin private, Army U.S. Continental
At $8 per mo. Com d 30 March, 1818
Cert: issued 5 th April, 1818.
Sent to Hon: Wm J. Bonney, of Freehold, Monmouth Co. N. Jersey
Acct. to 4 th Sept. 1818. 5 2/8 months. $40.85
(Rev J. Clain, Act 48 th March, 1818.)
Pulaski's Legion
one year
1798
Continued
Monmouth County
Specification sent to William Van Eyck Esq. 19 April 1821 Freehold N.J.

Joseph Gouare of Monmouth Coy Ind W 15. N 2
N o 96
Sep 1818
6
Mr. Jen Gek Truckoll 98

State of New Jersey } Monmouth County } On the eighteenth day of October eighteen hundred and twenty, personally appeared in Open Court being a court of Record and the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Monmouth, Joseph Coward, aged about thirty sixty six years, a resident in the said County who being first duly sworn ac- =cording to law, does on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, that is to say as a private Soldier or Dragoon in Count Patk's Legion and continued therein one year agreeably to enlistment and obtained an honorable discharge which was afterwards lost as set forth in his Original declaration dated April 5 th 1818. - and on which he obtained a Pension Certificate No 90. And I do Solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th 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 so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" Passed on the 18 th 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 Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
Schedule.
No real or personal estate whatever (except necessary wearing Apparel)
Joseph Coward

Declarant on his oath aforesaid further saith that he hath no trade or occupation, except that of a Labourer and being a widower without a family (his children being all married or pursuing business for their own maintenance) he has for a number of years past lived with and amongst his children and friends without demanding or receiving from them any important compensation for his services except his necessary subsistence. —
Sworn to and declared in Open Court on the 10 th day of October 1920. Before Wm J Bowne, one of the Judges of said Court
Joseph Bowne
William Ten Eyck Clerk of the Superior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Monmouth do hereby Certify, that the foregoing oath and Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the files 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 _____ dollars and _____ cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Affixed the Seal of the said Court on this twenty fifth day of October A.D. 1920.
Wm Ten Eyck Clerk

Application of Joseph Howard, a soldier in the Revolutionary War for a pension under the late act of Congress.
Frederick M. Murray

New Jersey } Be it remembered that on this twenty eighth Monmouth ss: day of March in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and eighteen, personally appeared before me William J. Bowne one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth Joseph Coward sixty two years of age, who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, deposes and says that he this depon- ent enlisted as a private Soldier in the Army of the United States of America in the Revolutionary War with Great Britain some time during the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight in the Com- pany commanded by Capt. Henry Bedkin and in the Independent Legion, commanded by Count Polaski
This Deponent further saith that he served against the common Enemy in the Inde- pendent Legion aforesaid, between twelve and eighteen Months and was regularly and honour- ably discharged, which discharge he this Deponent received in writing which was destroyed by the Refugees when his father's house was robbed by them — This Deponent is now a resident in the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey and further saith that he has no property other than what he obtains by his labour and that he stands in need of assistance for his support and further saith not — Sworn & Subscribed before me 28 th March 1878. — Joseph Coward
W. J. Bowne

I William H Bowne one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth in the State of New Jersey - Do hereby certify to the Honourable J. C. Calhoun Secretary at War, that I have been acquainted with the applicant Joseph Howard mentioned in the foregoing affidavit for several years past and that it satisfactorily appear to me that he served in the Revolutionary war against the Common Enemy, is far advanced in years and is in indigent circumstances. —
W. H. Bowne
I the Subscriber Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth in the State of New Jersey do hereby certify that William H Bowne Esquire before whom the within Affidavit appears to have been made is and was at the time of the taking thereof one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County duly Appointed, Commissioned & sworn into Office, and that full faith and credit are due and ought to be given to all his Official acts as such -
Witness My hand and Seal of Office at Freehold the thirtieth day of March in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eighteen. —
J. Phillips Clerk