Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2380, Thomas Covenhover, New Jersey

New Jersey
Covenhaver Thomas
R. 2380
CONTENTS

The state of Indiana Franklin County ss
On this fourteenth day of May A.D. 1888
personally appeared before the Probate Court of the County of Franklin aforesaid - the same being a Court of Records - Thomas Wobbenhoven, a resident of the state of Indiana in the County of Franklin aforesaid, aged years , who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress, passed June 7 th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated - namely - on the day day of May A.D. 1782, he was enrolled, and entered the service as a Minuteman, in the Company of Mount Men commanded by Captain John Keaton, the Captain of the Company, which Richard Lord, the Colonel of the Regiment to which this company belonged, was by the name of Elisha Wootton, also the Brigadier General, was by the name of Isaac Hirmann; that this event took place in the County of Monmouth in the state of New Jersey; the town in which he was born, and the County and state in which he continued to reside after the close of the Revolutionary war until the year 1810; that he continued to serve in the capacity of a private soldier, in the said Company of Minutemen (as they were then called) until the conclusion of peace in the year 1783, being a term of months months; that to the best of his recollection no discharge was given, but the Company was dissolved when the necessity for their services ceased - which took place when the British forces evacuated New York and the Jerseys; that it is not in his power to state the exact day or year of his birth, his father never having kept any record of his children's births. The only circumstance from which he can draw any conclusion about that matter is that, he recollects having his father tell him that on the day the battle of Monmouth was fought he was twelve years old - and a few days after had his name enrolled in a Company for the purpose of drilling. It was customary in that part of the country to have boys of fifteen years of age placed on the Muster Roll, and drilled until they entered their sixteenth year, at which period they were sent out into active and actual service - so that he was in his sixteenth year in the month of May of the year 1782 - at least he believes so from

the foregoing circumstances - He was in no battle. Living in the vicinity of the enemy, the Country was subject to frequent and sudden incursions, from which, in which many lives and much property was taken, and destroyed. The object of the Corps to which he belonged was to be ready at a minutes warning to March to any point, where the foe made it necessary to defend the Country from his invasion. He was therefore engaged in frequent skirmishes, peculiar to such mode of warfare, but nothing more. He was very seldom beyond the limits of the County of Monmouth aforesaid, from the time he assumed the service as aforesaid until the close of the war - and the Company to which he belonged was disbanded. He has no documentary evidence nor does he know of any having existence by which the foregoing could be proved. He further states that the exact time when the Company to which he belonged as aforesaid was disbanded, he cannot recollect - all he can say is that when peace was declared, the Company was disbanded. As before stated he continued in the service of the County of Monmouth, where he entered the service as aforesaid until the year 1810 - when he moved to Warren County in the state of Ohio, where he continued to live until the year 1831 - when he moved to Hamilton County aforesaid in the state of Indiana, where he now resides.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or bounty except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any state.
Sworn to before me this day & Thomas Covenhoven Notary Public W.B. White, Clerk.
We Watson Clark a clergyman, residing in the County of Hamilton aforesaid, wife Sarah Sewell & Elias Bishop residing in the same County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Covenhoven who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that he believes him to be about sixty years of age; that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides. to have been a Revolutionary Soldier and in

Seven subscribers the day of Watson Clark Mear after since
David Lowell
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 above named appli- cant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Watson Clark who has secured the preceding Certificate, is a Clergyman, resident in the County of Franklin and that Baraboo Wisconsin who also secured the same Certificate is a resident in the same County and is a Credible Person, and that their statements is entitled to credit.
Jonathan Bird Judge of Probate
State of Indiana Franklin County ss.
I William B. White clerk of the present Court and also of the Probate Court of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Probate Court in the matter of the application of Thomas Pownhoven for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the Probate Court of said County this 14. day of May A.D. 1833.
W B White Clerk.

Rev. War Section. Q
March 24, 1920.
Mrs. C. H. Steele, 1083 W. Mercury Street, Butte, Montana.
Madam:
In response to your letter received the 20 th instant, you are advised that in the Revolutionary War pension claim, R. File No. 2,380 it appears that Thomas Covenhoven was born in May 1766 or 1767 in Monmouth County, New Jersey, and alleged that he enlisted in that County in May 1783 as a Minute Man under Captain John Walton and Colonel Elisha Walton and remained as such until the close of the War.
In 1810 he moved to Warren County, Ohio, where he continued to live until 1831, then moved to Fountain County, Indiana where he resided when he applied for pension May 14, 1833. His claim was not allowed as he failed to furnish proof of six months military service as required by the pension laws.
There is no data on file as to his family and no other soldier of this name and no Thomas Davis Covenhoven or Davis Covenhoven found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU OF PENSIONS WASHINGTON
Mar 9, 1920
Mrs. C. H. Steele 1063 W. Mercury St. Butte, Montana.
Madam:
In reply to your letter dated the 17 th   and received the 24 th ult.  , you are advised that the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau fail to afford any information in regard to Thomas Davis Covenhoven .
Very respectfully,
[Signature]
Commissioner.
From this letter there is evidently some mistake. You sent me this information that I ask for in November of last year but in sending it to another destination it was lost in the mail so I would like very much to have a duplicate. Thomas Covenhoven enlisted from Freehold N. J.
I hope you will be successful in finding it. Yours respectfully Mrs. C. H. Steele

Miss Abigail Cook -
Thanking you in advance for your favor, I remain,
Yours respectfully, Mrs. C. H. Steele -
#1063 W. Mercury St. Butte, Montana.

REJECTED
9380
P.O. Thomas Coenbaver
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: Printed list of 1852 of elections gives case of upsets
Re-enlisted: "He did not serve six months."
Attorney: _____
P.O. _____
_____ Recognized. Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18
1920 N.H. 24 H.S. & Co. 6-11-1920

D. Wallace Mar 27. 1833
etc.
Wounded - voir 25
p. 220

was a call for this service. The state at the time he entered the service had nearly ceased, and there was but little occasion for the service of the militia. He could not, therefore have been engaged in actual service for so long a period as six months, and the time in which he held himself in readiness to go against the enemy not being computed. The act of June 1832 provides for none who did not per- form at least six months service. His claim has therefore been rejected. The papers will be placed on file in this office.
CV
David Walker Esq. Conington. Indiana

Covington La Apr 12
Dear Sir,
W. B. Carpenter
1580
Rev. Mr. [?] P. O. Box 100 Washington City 28. Oct. 18 [?] Dear Sir, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th inst. and in reply to inform you that the same has been forwarded to the proper authorities for their consideration.

1825 Coovington (Fountain County Ind) Nov. 9 th
Hon Lewis Cass Secretary of War
Sir
Enclosed you will find an application for a Pension, by Thomas Brownhood a Revolutionary Soldier, of this County. We should be glad to hear the result as soon as possible.
Respectfully
W. H. St.
Daria Wallace