Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2383, Tunis D Covert, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Covert, Tunis D.
R. 2383
CONTENTS

No 35.955 Henry C. Covert Left Michigan Mar. 10. Grand Haven 18th 45
Rejected.
did not serve six months
Act Mar 7th 1842

35.955
Yunis P. Covert Michigan
Act 7. June '32
rejected - did not serve as much as Comv.
2583

2383 am
P. O. Tunis James C. Covert Service: _____
REFUSED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
not identical with Wd. 7201
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

State of Michigan
County of Oakland ss. On this twelfth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty four personally appeared in open court before the Circuit Court held in and for the County of Oakland now sitting Tunis D. Covert a resident of Milford in the said County of Oakland and state of Michigan aged eighty years and upwards who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
That he was born in the County of Monmouth  Somerset in the state of New Jersey on the sixth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty four in a place or division of country called Lower  Shipton  Freehold . That when he was of the age of fifteen  fourteen years he entered the service of the United States as a soldier in the Revolutionary Army at Monmouth Court House in the state of New Jersey, that he went in as a volunteer and relieved his father Daniel Covert and remained as said substitute at said Monmouth Court House one month, that when he was of the age of fifteen years or thereabouts he went to work in a shop in the said Town of Lower Freehold in the said state of New Jersey and worked in a shop under the superintendence of a person by the who called himself Matthew Wilson (but who afterwards was called Blason in the city of Philadelphia) at the business of making guns for the Revolutionary Army; that he worked under the superintendence of said Wilson at said town of Lower Freehold for term of one year, that immediately after the said term of one year

he worked in the said shop in the said business of making guns for the said Revolutionary army for two years, said shop was conducted and carried on under his own superintendence and control, that when he was of about the age of fifteen  sixteen years he went as a soldier in said Revolutionary army on an alarm to New Brunswick in said state of New Jersey for the purpose of driving the British from said place, that in going to said New Brunswick he passed through English  English Town and Shottsfjord and that said town of New Brunswick was situated about forty miles from said Monmouth court house, that General Furman accompanied the militia to said New Brunswick at the time above mentioned, that he cannot now remember the name of the Colonel or Captain who accompanied them to said New Brunswick, but thinks that Elisha Preston was captain That John Reed, James Smalley and James or William Hankerson served with him as privates in his expedition to New Brunswick aforesaid, that he was out one week at and in going and in returning from New Brunswick aforesaid. - And this deponent further says that he did not receive a written or any other but a verbal discharge at said New Brunswick - And this deponent further says that in  in the year 1778 he went as a volunteer and as a private soldier in the army of the Revolution to the Battle of Monmouth in said state of New Jersey, that he served during said engagement at Monmouth as a picket man and about a mile or a mile and a half from the general engagement, that he started from his home which was five miles from the Monmouth battle ground on Friday, that the on Saturday the army which according he accompanied was on the look out and that the Battle took place on Sunday in June (I think the 28th) ; that he was about a week at and in going and returning from said Monmouth battle - This deponent further says that General Furman commanded when he first went to said Monmouth battle and that Elisha and  was captain  then  was lieutenant subsequently superseded the said General Furman - And this deponent further says that he does not remember the Colonel of his regiment

at Monmouth but that John or Elisha Walton was the name of the captain of the company in which he was engaged at said Monmouth battle - that James Shively or Robert Cummings, Burgund Covert and Kenneth Hankerson accompanied him in his expedition to said Monmouth battle grounds - that he did not receive any written discharge from said Battle at Monmouth
And this deponent further says that since the Revolutionary war he has resided at Little York County, in Pennsylvania Fayette County, and Monmouth County in New Jersey in Seneca County in the state of New York and now resides in Oakland County in the state of Michigan and that he resided in the said during the said Revolutionary war at in Monmouth County New Jersey. And this deponent further says that he has a record of his age in his family Bible at the place of his residence in Westford aforesaid - And this deponent further says that he was not engaged in any civil pursuit at the time of his service at Monmouth County New Jersey actual service in the army of the United States above mentioned - And this deponent further says that Elijah Weaver along with Sibley who reside near this deponent are acquainted with his character who can testify as to his veracity and their belief as to his services as a soldier in the Revolution
And this deponent further says that he does not know of any person now living who can testify as to his services as a soldier in the Revolution - and further that it is now impossible for him to state the precise time at which his services as a soldier were performed but that the times above mentioned are as near as he can remember
Sworn and subscribed before me this 12 th day of Dec. 1844
James Covert
in open Court Joseph R. Monroe Clerk of the Circuit Court for the County of Oakland Mich.

We Elijah Weaver - a clergyman residing in the town of Commerce in the County of Oakland and state of Michigan and Alonzo Sibley residing in the said town same State hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Tunis D. Covert who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, that in his firm belief eighty years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Given and subscribed the 5 day and year aforesaid in open Court. Elijah Weaver Alonzo Sibley Joseph R. Bowman Clerk of the Circuit Court In the County of Oakland Michigan
Hon. B. Green H.R.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the within named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Elijah Weaver who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Commerce in the County of Oakland and state of Michigan and that Alonzo Sibley who has signed the same is a resident in the same town and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
John Northfield Pres. By R & P
State of Michigan County of Oakland ss. On Court Motion of Joseph R. Bowman Clerk of the Circuit Court for the County of Oakland do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Tunis D. Covert for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of Office at Pontiac this 12 th day of December A.D. 1844 Joseph R. Bowman Clerk