Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 907, John M Covenhoven, New Jersey

New Jersey.
or bovenhoven, John M. boonover.
W. 907
B. L. Wk. 16278-160-55
Ann.
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17.106 New Jersey
Louis Overenkoven Freehold in the Pte of Ser - He was a Ser of the New - command by Captain Randolph of the Co in command in the Brigade State Troops - 19 Mch Sept of Superior - 5 mo
56 a 55
Inserted on the Roll of N Jersey at the rate of 120 Dollars Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1832.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of July 1833 and sent D. R. Wyall Freehold N.J.
Amount to the 4th of March 32 $ 24 0 Semest. allowance ending Sept 11 6 0 $30 0
{ Revolutionary Claim, No June 7, 1832.
Recorded by CD Burrock Clerk Book 6 Vol. 3 Page 105

Declaration of Lewis Bowen howd in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 State of New Jersey County of Monmouth
On this day personally appeared Lewis Bowen before the Magistrate of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Monmouth sitting at Freehold Lewis Bowen being a resident of the township of Freehold County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey aged seventy nine years on the first day of September last past 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 7th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the follow- ing named officers and served as herein stated:-
That he entered said service as a Militia man sometime in the month of October 1775 in a company commanded by Captain Nicholas Bancroft for the term of one month he being Captain in said company George Taylor of Middletown was the Colonel, this was the fall before the British landed at Staten Island, and from that time until a few days after the Battle of Red Bank when the Americans were then taken he was at every other month in the service under Captain Bancroft, after and he acted as a substitute during

all the summer months of that year for others whom he had not to perform the duties for himself, that a few days after the battle of Trenton as before stated he joined Captain Ran- dolph's Company of Troops at Trenton Falls in Trenton Township in Monmouth County and remained in his Compa- ny for at least seven months in the Revolution at the time as a volunteer the members of the said Company funding their own dress horses and accoutrements, after the expiration of about seven months Captain Ran- dolph left the State of New Jersey of New Jersey and William Renner was appointed the Captain after Jacob Covenhoven who was appointed Captain after Randolph (Removal had been taken prisoner) Basil Covenhoven Lieutenant and Barnes Simock Cornet and he this deponent remained a member of said Company until the spring of 1780 at which time when he moved with his father to Laurensburg in the County of Hunterdon in the State of New Jersey and that during all that time he served every other month in actual service, during the time he served in said troop Abner Holmes was then Colonel after his removal to Laurens- burg in 1780 in the fall of the year he performed one month's duty in the Company of Captain Call, Major Phillips the Colonel, that he was out in the main of his country from the beginning to the close of the Revo- lutionary War altogether at least four

years, that he cannot state with greater particularity than he has herein the particular times he entered and left the service, but he is confident that four years of his time at least was spent in the service of the Country; that he served in the township of Shrewsbury in the said County of Monmouth when he entered the service of his Country, that he served under the monthly calls or drafts as a volunteer and substitute as herein before mentioned, during said term he was in a skirmish at Clinton town in Shrewsbury and in the battle of Mon- mouth, that the Country through which he marched was from Manasquan in Monmouth County to Middletown Port in said County guarding the Shore and intermediate Points from the inroads of the British and Tories, that the Country through which he marched when under Captain Cook was from Laurenceville to New Brunswick & from there to Woodbridge and Rahway, that he never found with any Continental regiments or companies and that he was not acquainted in the service with any of the regular officers of the army not having acted with them, that he has no documentary evidence of his services further than his name is on some of the Payrolls now in the possession of Col James J. Snook who was a Colonel and afterwards a lieutenant in the troops to which he belonged, that he was in the the whole time he was in the troops to which

he belongs, that he was born in the township of Tuckahoe where he now resides and that he has always lived there except about four years in Humboldt County; that he can prove his services by William Anderson and Nicholas Mowle and Wm Brinley with whom he was out in the service, that before the officers above named he served under Col Daniel Henderson and Col Oakey Nickoff who he thinks was a major - now to be submitted the day of year aforesaid John Patterson Lewis Covenhoven
Now I certify that in Monmouth County towns Nicholas Mowle and Wm Brinley being solemnly duly sworn depose and say that they are well acquainted with Lewis Covenhoven who has signed the above declaration that they believe he is of the age above mentioned and that he served as above stated, that they know he was in the service as he belongs to the same troop of horse to which they respectively belong commanded by Captain Randolph or Randle, that he has been known by William Renner and Lieut Barry of said troop and that in said troop they believe he served upwards of two years that he was always a good soldier on all occasions doing his duty now to be submitted the day of year aforesaid John Patterson Nicholas Mowle William Brinley

And the said board do hereby announce their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served in the states; and the further certify that it appears to them that Nicholas Poulter and William Brealey Osgood, who have signed the foregoing certificate are residents of the said county of Monmouth and that they were respectively soldiers of the revolution in the service of the United States, and that they are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
By order of the board M c Dowd Judge
I Daniel H Ellis Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Monmouth at Freehold in the state of New Jersey do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said board in the matter of the application of Lewis Coover for a pension.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this thirty first day of July Anno Domini Eighteen hundred and thirty two.
D. H. Ellis
I Daniel H. Ellis, Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Monmouth, at Freehold, in the state of

New Jersey, Do hereby certify that the forgoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, on the thirty first day of July last, in the Term of July of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Lewis Levenhoven for a pension -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this twentieth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three -
R. H. Ellis
Monmouth Place July 31st 1832 Application of Lewis Levenhoven
No 4062

Supplemental affidavit of Lewis Borralho - now an applicant for a pension under the act of June 7th 1832.
New Jersey Monmouth County ss. Personally appeared before me the undersigned as Justice of the Peace of the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey Lewis Borralho who being duly sworn according to law deposes and saith that he made his original declaration for a pension under the act of June 7th 1832 before the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Monmouth on the thirty first day of July last past that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot draw a particular to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the period mentioned below, and in the following grades, For one month beginning the fifteenth of October 1775 and ending the fifteenth of November the same year served as a corporal in a company of Grenadiers commanded by Captain Nicholas Bont Bryant under the monthly call or drafts by the then authorized authorities of the State of New Jersey, it being one of the first companies called out in the service; For six months from the fifteenth day of November 1775 to as few days after the Battle in Trenton served as a sergeant in the same company in tours of duty of one month each alter- nately that is the first month commenced on the fifteenth day of December 1775 and the last month ending about the twenty eighth of December 1776 being as few days over six months, that during that period of time in two of the intermediate months served as a private in a com- pany commanded by Captain Benjamin DeLois as a substitute, that is I think the first month commenced the fifteenth of June 1776 and ended the fifteenth of July of same year when served as a substitute for one Joseph Dennis the other month commencing the fifteenth of September and ending the fifteenth of October of the same year served as a private as a substitute for one Robert White that I may receive

any Certificate of my appointment as corporal and sergeant in said Company that I have any recollection of and believe none such were ever given at that time if they were they have escaped my memory and are long since lost - For eleven years and seven months commencing in the first week in January 1778 and ending in the mid- dle of December 1778 I served as a sergeant in a Voluntary Company of Dragoons stationed at Trenton Falls in Shrewsbury township whose duty it was to guard the shores from the incursions of British and tories, said Company was when I first joined it commanded by Captain Benjamin Randolph or Randle as he was sometimes called, afterwards when Randolph removed to Pennsylvania William Ritten was the Captain, he becoming sick and deranged Captain Jacob Bloomfield was appointed Captain and took the com- mand, after he was taken prisoner the Command devolved on Lieutenant James Smock who had the Command, that du- ring that period I was only absent two months from the service namely the months of July and October in 1778 when I was engaged in Hay and Harvest at home and in gathering wood being in full active service during that time as sergeant one year and seven months, that I have no recollection of ever having received any Certificate or paper showing my appointment as sergeant of said Company I do not believe any such was then given - For seven months and a half from the middle of December 1778 until the first of April 1780 I served in the same Capacity of sergeant of said Company in tours of duty of every other month commencing the middle of January 1779 and ending the first day of April 1780 when I removed with my family to Laurenceville in Hamilton County in this state as before stated - For one

I was born in Freehold Township & Monmouth County where I now reside and where I have always resided except about four years when I lived in Laurensville now so called I was born on the first day of September 1752. That I have no other record of my age except that my mother by myself in my own family Bible under the direction of my mother who was then living about fifty years ago, that I was while in the service in the field and not in garrison at any time, and that during the time I was engaged in the service as before stated I was not employed in any civil pursuit, that I am known in my present neighborhood by the Reverend Samuel A. Van Brink and James Craig who can testify as to my character for veracity & the belief of my service as a soldier of the Revolution - that I believe my name is to be found on some of the old payrolls submitted to the War Department by Barron I proceed with her own my own original decla- rations for years in August last - sworn and subscribed before me { Lewis Cavenhary one of the Justices of the Peace in for the County of Monmouth this 20 May A.D. 1833. -
William Lloyd
We Samuel A. Van Brink a clergyman residing in the Township of Freehold County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey and James Craig a soldier of the Revolution residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Lloyd who has subscribed and sworn to the above decla- rations, that we believe him to be eighty years of age and upwards; that he is upright and

believes in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion; and the above named James Craig do further testify that I know he was a soldier of the Revolu- tion and that he was a sergeant in Captain David Brant's Randolph's Ranging Column and Lieutenant Bane's Company having frequently seen him in the service and acting in the capacity of sergeant in said company and that I was a lieutenant and afterwards a captain in the militia service of New Jersey during the Revolution, and that I do not think there was any written evidence or certi- ficate then given to the corporals and sergeants when appointed, and that I believe the said Lewis Bownhoeve served the period of time or other stated from my knowledge of being there so frequently in the service. - Sworn to and subscribed before me one of the judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Monmouth this 20 May 1833 The name Lewis Bownhoeve just interlined.
S. A. Van Klief James Craig
William Lloyd
New Jersey Monmouth County I, Joseph Bane of Red Bank in the township of Free- hold in said county of Monmouth being duly sworn according to law do depose and say that on or about the first day of November 1777 I joined the troops of stone that were commanded by Lieutenant Bane and were stationed at Newton Falls in Shrewsbury township Monmouth County New Jersey and that at that time Lewis Bownhoeve who has sworn and subscribed the foregoing supplemental affidavit was sergeant of said Company, and that from that time until the spring of 1780 when said Bownhoeve moved into Hunterdon County he was a sergeant in said Company, and that during said period of time this deponent was out in the service every other month and when so out that he was and served with the said Lewis Bownhoeve in same troop and that he always performed his duty as a good soldier, and that he has no doubt that he served the periods of time he has stated above. Sworn and subscribed before me one of the judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth this 20 May 1833.
Joseph Bane
William Lloyd

1. 501. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
June 17th, 1896.
Sir:-
Replying to your request for information concerning the military record of Lewis Covenhoven, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that he made an application for pension on July 31st, 1832, at which time he was residing at Freehold, N. J., and 78 years of age, and his pension was allowed for two years' actual service as a sergeant in the Conn. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Capt. Nicholas Van Brunt and Col. George Taylor. He enlisted at Freehold, N. J.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Mr. Theodore Conrow,
33 Baskin St., New York City.

Supplemental offi- cial list of Lewis Co. N.Y. showers = 41162
Lewis Co. N.Y.
Admitted
Single Dragoon - 10 yrs 7 mos 1 day - $95.00 Single Inf'ty - 5 mos 25 days - 25.00 $120.00
Daniel B. Ryals Freehold New Jersey

the said Lewis Coonhouse and certificates of Samuel H. Brant and James Brant and affidavit of Joseph Brant, were respectively submitted and I do hereby certify that it appeared to me and that I personally know the fact that Samuel H. Brant who has signed the preceding certificate is a bona fide resident in the township of Freehold in said county and state and that James Brant who has also signed the same is a resident in the same township and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit; and also that Joseph Brant who has signed the annexed affidavit is a resident in the same township and that his statement is entitled to full credit; and also that I have personally known the said James Brant and Joseph Brant since the Revolutionary War and that they have always been respected and believed in the neighborhood where they respectively reside to have been soldiers of the Revolution. Dated Freehold N.J. May 20th 1833.
William Lloyd
I Daniel H. Ellis clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Monmouth and State of New Jersey Do hereby certify that William Lloyd Esquire before whom the annexed amended declaration of Lewis Coonhouse was subscribed and sworn to on the thirty first day of July last past as a member of the said Court before whom the original declaration of the said Lewis Coon- house was made subscribed and sworn

of the assumed appearance of Queen Victoria having a photograph of her at Balmoral and later on the assumed appearance of the Prince of Wales to the assumed appearance of the said William Lloyd & again himself and subsequently the professed handwriting of the said William Lloyd, and that false prints and credit are to be attributed to this and not to the original subject -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Frederick this fifteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
Levi L. Clark

Supplemental affi. idavit of Lewis Covington Novem = 41162
Lewis Covington
Admitted
Leigh's Dragoon - 1 reg. 7 Mo 1 — $95.00 Leigh's Inf'ty — 5 Mo 25. on $120.00
Daniel B. Ryale Freeholder New Jersey

CONROW BROS.,
SUCCESSORS TO J. B. AVRES & CO.
(ESTABLISHED IN 1892.)
DEALERS IN PAPER
AND PAPER MANUFACTURERS' SUPPLIES,
33 BECKMAN STREET.
P. O. Box 2278.
NEW YORK,
June 11 1896
IN REPLY TO YOURS OF.....
For Genl Pensions Washington D.C. Will you kindly mail to me - transcript, of Record of Lewis Covenhoven Monmouth Co. N.J.
a soldier in the Revolutionary War for Independence, My desire is to use it in application for membership in

 1.  "ON-THE-HILL" SANATORIUM WATERTOWN, CONN. DR. CHARLES WARREN JACKSON LITCHFIELD CO. 
Lewis Coenhoven born in Shrewsbury, N.J. on Sept. 9 th 1752 and died near Freehold N.J. May 27 th 1843
See New Jersey in the Revolutionary War, Stryker Page 463
Lewis Coenhoven, Sergeant of Infantry also " in Foot Light Horse { Battle of Monmouth, Bearer of dispatches for Gen Washington Sergeant in Capt. th Remsen's Troop of Light Horse
Also served two years with Connecticut Troops as Sergeant Part of the time he was under the Command of Col. Nicholas

"ON-THE-HILL" SANATORIUM WATERTOWN, CONN. DR. CHARLES WARREN JACKSON LITCHFIELD CO.
— Van Brant Esq Col. Geo —
— Taylor
Was granted a pension made July 31 - 1832 being a nephew of Freehold, N. J.