Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,854, Blaney Cochran, Penn.

SERVICE
Penn.
Cochran, Blaney
NUMBER
S. 40854
CONTENTS

40 854
Copy INVALID.
File No. 40,854
Blaney Cochran Dr. J. H. ...
Act: 18 March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 94
[Arrangement of 1870.]

3716.
Pennsylvania Roll.
Blaney Cochran, 4 Capt H and
Private
Pennsylvania line 79 - 17 months
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 20. of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17. of Oct. 1818 and sent to Jos. Housse, Esq. Register of the Treasury M. S.
  Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 . . . .  $ 36. "    Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4. Mar. 1819. . .  48. "    arr. 4 mo. 15/30.  $ 84. "  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued Southumberland Co.
Application sent November 11. 1820 to Thomas Hays, Pennsylvania Dept.

District of Pennsylvania ft
On this 20 th day of April 1810 before me the Subscriber President Judge of the S th Judicial District of the State of Pennsylvania Personally Appears Blaney Cochran Age fifty five years Resident in the County of Northumberland in the said District who being by me first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his Oath, make the following Declaration in order to obtain the Provisos made by the late 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, That he the said Blaney Cochran enlisted in Colonel Miles's Regiment and was afterwards placed in the 3 d Regiment under Colonel Butler In the Company commanded by Captain Busk of the Pennsylvania Line That he continued to serve in the said Corps in the Service of the United States for more than seventeen months until the conclusion of the War when he was discha- rged from Service in Lancaster Pennsylvania

and that his Discharge is lost and cannot now be found That he was in no general Battle but was with Colonel Butler up Suniate in a Skirmish against the Indians, And That he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of assistance of his Country for support and that he has no other Evidence now in his Power of his said services That he is allowed a Pension of forty Dollars per Annum from the State of Pennsylvania but has no Pension under the Laws of the United States heretofore his Blaney Cochran sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid mark
Jethro Chapman

I Seth Chapman President Judge &c a as aforesaid, Do certify, That It appears to my satisfaction, That the said Blaney Cashman did serve in the Rev- olutionary War, as stated in the preceding Declaration, against the common Enemy and I now transmit the Proceedings and Testimony taken and had before me, To the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid act of Congress In witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal of the said Court of Common Pleas of Northern Berland County the twentieth Day of April 1810
Seth Chapman

District of Pennsylvania Lycoming County
On this fifth Day of September A.D. 1820 personally appeared in open court of Common Pleas held in Williamsport for the county of Lycoming, being a court of record proceeding according to the course of common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and keeping a record of proceedings. Blaney Lochran aged fifty nine years resident in Lycoming County aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law on his oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the provision made by the Act of Congress of the 18 th of March A.D. 1818 and first of May 1820. That he served in the Revolutionary War in the Company commanded by Capt. Ward in the Regiment Colonel Miles in the line of Pennsylvania, and has obtained a pension under the Act of the 18 th of March A.D. 1818 his certificate being numbered 37161 and dated the 17 th Day of Oct r A.D. 1818 to commence April 20 th 1818. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 th Day of March A.D. 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 provision 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 A.D. 1818 and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any property of securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule herunto annexed to by me subscribed. Sworn to & subscribed in Open court the fifth Day of Sept A.D. 1820
Signed Blaney Lochran his mark
Thos. Hays Proty

Schedule of Property of Blaney Bochan taken the 3 Day of Sept. AD 1820
  One Ten Plate Stove &c. 1 bowl $ 26.00   One Iron Kettle. One Chest 3.50   One cupboard. Three Bots. 5.50   Two tin Pales One Table 1.75   1/2 doz cups and saucers One leather Barrel & 1/2 Bbl. 1.43   Four plates Four Knives & forks .75   Five plates Spoons & the Spinning wheel 1.75   One Coffee Mill. & One Coffee pot 1.25   Two Axes Two Iron Wedges 2.50   One Yammel One Spade one weeding hoe 2.25 
$46.68
{ I have no Debts due to me }
{ I Am Indebted as follows viz }
  { One debt of fourteen Dollars $ 14.00   One debt of thirty two Dollars 32.00   One Debt two Dollars 2.00   $48.00 
I have no trade and through age and infirmity am not able to earn my living by daily labour. I have no family residing with me but my wife Jane aged about fifty eight feeble and infirm like myself, and a son aged about thirty years disabled during his service in the late war {
Sworn & Subscribed on the 5th Day of September AD 1820. in open court.
Thos. Hays Proty.
Signed Blaney Bochan his mark

War Department
Revolutionary Claims
I certify That in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 18 th of March 1818, Blaney Cochran late a Private in the Army of the United States Revolution is inscribed on the Pension List Roll of the Pennsylvania Agency at the rate of Eight dollars per Month to commence on the twentieth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
War office Seal
Given at the War office of the United States this Seventeenth day of October one thousand eight hundred and eighteen J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War
Endorsement
Payable on the 4 th of March & 4 th of Sept r of each year at the Banks of the United States Philadelphia
Recorded No m 3716
Lycoming County ss I Thomas Hays Prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of said court. And I do further certify that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is only six dollars and sixty eight cents. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court at Williamsport the fifth day of September One thousand eight hundred and twenty
Thos Hays Proth.