Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,843, Edward Cobb, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Cobb, Edward Hannah
it 23,843
CONTENTS

Maine 4169
Rep 2 .
Hannah Cobb
widow of Edward Cobb
Mass
who died on the 27 th October 1819
of Cumberland Co. in the State of Maine
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Nye of the regt. commanded
by in the Mass. Troops
time for 9 months, 22 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 33 Dollars 14 3/4 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 14th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 th day of February
1845 and sent to Hon. R. P. Linsley. Name of Representatives
Arrears to the 14th of Sep r . 1844 450 : 44
Semi-annual allowance ending 1/4 45. 16 : 72
$467 : 16
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3. }
Recorded by D Brown Book C. Vol. 1.
Clerk, Page 3,

Hannah Cobb
On this 20 th day of December in the year of our Lord 1844 personally appeared before me the subscriber Hannah Cobb a resident of Portland in the County of Cumberland aged 89 years who upon oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836.
That she is the widow of Edward Cobb who was a soldier in the Army of the revolution and as she believes, served as follows.
That he entered the service in 1775 and was stationed in the vicinity of Boston and she believes was employed in erecting fortification around Boston at the time the British troops occupied that town. She is unable to state under what captain he served during this service.
In the year 1776 she believes he served in Capt Elisha Styer's company about six months, and in the year 1778 in Capt George Lewis company and Capt Nathaniel Lothrop's company more than two months. She believes from what she has heard her husband & others say that he served at least eleven months in the whole.
She further declares, that she was married to the said Edward Cobb on the 29 th day of Jan'y in the year of our Lord one thousand eight  seven hundred & seventy eight  eight that her husband the aforesaid Edward Cobb died at Westboro State of Mass; on the twentysecond day of October

in the year 1819 and that she has remained a widow ever since that time. That the marriage took place before the last period of her husband's service. She therefore claims a pension under the act aforesaid from March 4, 1831 to be computed agreeably to the evidence in her case.
Witnesses Elisha Clark
Hannah her Cobb mark
The above named Hannah Cobb appeared on the day and year first above written, before me Barrett Patten, Judge of the Court of Probate for said County of Cumberland, said Court being a Court of Record, and made solemn oath to the foregoing declaration to which her mark is affixed. And I further certify hereby that the said Hannah Cobb is in my opinion unable, by reason of sickness and bodily infirmity, to attend Court.
I further certify that it has been proved in open Court before me that Edward Cobb above mentioned died at Westborough, in the County of Worcester, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the twenty seventh day of October A.D. 1819. and that Hannah Cobb, the declarant aforesaid, is the widow then left by said deceased, and that she now remains his widow aforesaid.
In witness whereof I hereunto place my hand and seal official this twentieth day of December A.D. 1831. — Barrett Patten Judge

State of Maine.
Cumberland ss.
I, Wm Appleton, Register of the Probate Court for said County, certify that the Honorable Barrett Potter is Judge of said Court, as stated on the page preceding; that he is duly qualified to act as such; and that the signature to the foregoing declaration of Hannah Cobb, purporting to be his, is genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court, this twentieth day of December Anno Domini Eighteen Hundred & forty four. —
Wm Appleton, Register.
  Memo. In capt Elisha Nyes company  mos 5-  21 days    " capt George Lewis   7 "    " capt Nathl Lothrop $ 3. 16 =   57 "     7 =  25 "  

I Allen H Coble of Durham in the county of Cum- berland aged sixty four years of age on oath testi- fy & say That I am the son of Edward Coble late of Westboro in Mass. My mother Hannah Coble is now living and is his widow and the same person who made the foregoing declaration for the benefit of the act of 1836. I have heard my father say that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and have frequently heard him repeat the incidents of his campaigns and particularly of his services in the vicinity of Boston while the British had possession of that town. I have no doubt that my father and mother were married as is set forth in my mother declaration to wit on the 29 th of Jany 1778 - and I have no doubt that my father served at least two campaigns after his marriage. I have no record of the marriage of my father and mother, but among the papers of my father which has come into my hands, since his decease I found the paper hereto an- nexed marked A, which paper is in the hand writing of my father and contains the names or list of all the children of my mother and the time of their births.
Allen H. Coble
Cumberland ss. January 22 d 1845 Then personally appeared the above named Allen H. Coble known to me as a person of Truth & made oath to the above affidavit by him subscribed
Before me Freeman Bradford Justice of Peace

A
Barnstable
Gershon was Born March y e 28 th 1779 on Sunday about four o'clock in the Morning
Allen was Born November y e 21 st 1780: on Tuesday = = about Eleven o'clock in the Evening
St. Johnsburg
Third Son Born July y e 23 rd 1782: on Tuesday about Sunrise Died on Sunday morning y e 25 th only six Days Old
Edward was Born Oct. y e 10 th 1783: on Sat. About Day morning Brake
Harry was Born Oct y e 16 th 1785 on Sunday about four o'clock = = Afternoon
John was Born Sep t y e 25 th 1787: on Tuesday about four o'clock = = Afternoon
Sallay was Born March y e 6 th 1790: on Sat. about five o'clock = = Afternoon
Thatcher was Born Novem r y e 1 st 1793: on Fri d about half after one } = o'clock afternoon

Josiah Bunn and January
Josiah was Born January y e 5 th 1796 on Tuesday Eleven o'clock
in Evening
Charles was Born January y e 5 th 1800 on Sunday four o'clock in the morning, —
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Hannah Cobb widow of Edward Cobb
married 29 January 1778
husband died 27 October 1819
served as a Private in Massachusetts
Troops 9 months 22 days
$33:44 per annum
under act 4 July '36
com: pen: 4 March '31
Mass Roll
E
cont: to the
Hon. Dunlap
H. Rep

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 23843
Wannah Cobb Wid of Edward Cobb Br Rev War
Act: July 4 th 1836
Index:—Vol. _____, Page _____
[Arrangement of 1870.]

6.389.
Mr Dunlap M.C. from me.
F. Bradford Restera Adam

State of Maine.
CUMBERLAND, ss.
I — Charles Cobb — Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in said County, certify that,
Freeman Bradford esq. is a Magistrate as appears by the paper hereto annexed; that he is duly qualified to act as such; that his Commission is dated February 12th 1839 and will expire February 12th A.D. 1846
and that the — following — signature purporting to be his — is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said State, this twenty second day of January Anno Domini 1845.
Charles Cobb CLERK.

W Barnstable Jan 17
1814
Freeman Bradford Esq Portland
Me

Barnstable Jan'y 14 th 1845
Sir,
Yours of the 31 st ult was duly received, in compliance with your request I called on some of the oldest people of this place, some of which ver remembered Edward Cobb & Hannah Hollett at the time of their marriage, but could not testify to the fact. I also examined the Parish records but found no marriages recorded of so early a date. — It is believed Mr Hilliard has children now living in Cambridge Mass. Their address to me unknown. — I therefore send the certificates as requested.
I remain very Respectfully
Your Obedt Servt
Redd Parker
Freeman Bradford Esqr Portland Me

I Frederick Parker Town Clerk of Barnstable in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on oath depose & say that I have in my custody & keeping the records of said Town. In one of the ancient Books of records in which is recorded intentions of marriages. I find the following entry - Ednard Cobb of this town & Hannah Hallet of Yarmouth Dec r - six th Seventeen hundred and seventy-seven. — and I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true Copy from the records with the exception of the date which is written in fair legible figures thus "Dec r 6 th 1777" •
Signed
Frederick Parker
Barnstable ss. January 14 th 1845 Then appeared Frederick Parker Town Clerk of Barnstable and made oath to the above affidavit by him subscribed.
Before me
Lothrop Davis } Justice of the Peace •
Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Barnstable ss I Timothy Reed Clerk of the Court in and for the said County hereby certify that Lothrop Davis Esq of Barnstable in said County is a Justice of the Peace in and for said

Courtly duly commissioned and qualified and that the certificate on the next preceding page of this sheet purporting to have been made by him is his genuine signature — In witness whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas this fourteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty five
Dorothy Shad. Clerk etc

So. Yarmouth Me 12 th No 2 nd St
18 3/4
Mr Freeman Bradford Portland Maine
William J. Davis Dec 28 th 1844 Four blocks of Monument Hancock Street to old room

South Yarmouth Dec 27 th 1864
Sir
I received your letter of 21 st inst last evening & according to the request therein contained have examined the old books of record in this office, but find no record of the marriage of the parties named in your letter -
The record of their intentions of marriage appears upon the books in the following words viz - "Edward Cobb of Barnstable & Hannah Hallett of Yarmouth intend marriage - Entered Dec 6 th 1777 and published Dec 7 th 1777 - Seth Tobey Town clerk"
I find the record of the marriage of a couple who were published on the same day & records of the marriage of those who were published about that time. I should therefore infer that they must have been married in some other town -
I am respectfully
Your friend
William P. Davis
Town Clerk
of Yarmouth Mass
To Mr. Freeman Bradford Portland Maine

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
Sept 12 1811.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Edward Cobb is borne upon the pay rolls of Capt Elisha Myles at Elizabeth Islands from Janus to Nov 21 1778 5 mo 21 days; upon a pay roll of Capt Geo. Linn, Col Freeman at Falmouth from Sept 6 1778 7 days; upon a pay roll of Capt Nathaniel Lathrop, Col Freeman dated Nov 9 1778, Service not stated, but paid £3. 16. from Barnstable

And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G. Sawyer, Secretary of the Commonwealth.

To the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Mass
The undersigned Hannah Cobb widow of Edward Cobb late of Westboro Worcester County Mass. requests the Secretary of the Commonwealth to furnish from the rolls in his Office evidence of the service of my late husband Edward Cobb, in the war of the Revolution. She believes that he served in the eight months service in 1775 but does not know under what captain. She recollects that her said husband was paid for some service in the war by Capt George Lewis and her impression is that he served under said Capt Lewis sometime during the war. She believes that her husband was called out at various times during the war and that his service was performed at or near Plymouth Mass. as a sea coast guard. She requests that an examination be made of all the rolls that bears the name of her husband as she is unable to specify the Captain under whom he served or the length of each term of service. My husband was a resident of Barnstable Mass. in the time of the Revolutionary War.
Cumberland ss. Sept. 5. 1844 Hannah Cobb Signed in my presence Charles Cobb Jus: P.

State of Maine.
Cumberland ss.
I Ezhiel Whitman Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Maine, hereby certify, that Charles Bell Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the paper hereto annexed, is Clerk of all the Judicial Courts for the County of Cumberland, and that he is also a Justice of the Peace, within and for said County of Cumberland, that his Commission as Justice of the Peace is dated February the tenth A.D. 1842 & will expire February the tenth A.D. 1849, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of said Court to be hereto affixed, this twenty first day of December Anno Domini One thousand eight hundred and forty four, and in the sixty ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America.
Ezhiel Whitman