Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2375, Isaac Covell, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Covell Isaac
R. 2375
CONTENTS

In the Month of December 1775 - it being the same year of a Lexington Battle I enlisted from the town of three Months under Capt 2 Richard Hambleton of Barnstable Massachusetts my Regiments name was Dole of Sandwich I served the full term of three months and was discharged on Dorchester Point after which time I received one pay of a Regiment Dole for the three Months service - When I first enlisted I was marched to Cambridge Street, & there quartered for about three weeks, was then marched to Dorchester near William River on the Main Road and there staid I should think about six weeks, until the forces were ordered to go on to the Point, When we were marched from our Barracks we went directly towards the Point this was near the Neck at night and arrived near the gate leading to the Point where we were ordered in a hollow square to sit down and wait to have a line word spoken, we did so & waited until the Moon was fairly in sight, we were then ordered by Major Green which was recommended of course to the other to march, we then marched through the gate to the Point. The Enemy at this time lay in Boston, there was some of our troops stationed in Cambridge, Dorchester, Winter Hill etc who kept up a continual fire during our March up to the Point for the purpose of distracting from the Point to which we were marching, and the enemy kept up a continual fire during

return until near day light; the same night Saint Hoken was killed by a cannon ball in Roper Street, and one was killed in the port by the burst of a mortar. Some time after some of our men went down near the water in the masonry built piers and lay down, the enemy soon seeing the light from Boston Neck fired from their Black House and killed two or three men. The night following one of our men was killed by the discharge of a field piece which he was loading, this was at the Point.
During the time  When we lay at the Point there were several vessels lay on the horizon but none were there they went out and lay in what was then called Weymouth Roads and while we lay there the enemy burned the fort. (Castle William is now called Fort George as I understand) — I was discharged on the Point at the expiration of my three months for which I enlisted — The next year 1776 Admiral Wallis having fired into the town of Bristol understood and hearing of the truce next afterwards, an enlistment for three months was called for forth with — I was one who enlisted, a and entered for three months & served as a sergeant the whole time — my Captain's name was Patridge. My Serjeant's name was Girtly, whose Christian name I have forgotten. Genl. Spencer from Connecticut was the acting Genl. at this time. After I first enlisted I was marched directly to Bristol where I staid about two months when some men were called for to man

Some aboard vessels which lay in New Bedford men were taken from the Penins, to which I belonged at which I was on - we went on board the ship Warren commanded by Cambridge Hopkins, his son was a Capt. we tarryed on board 16 days then returned to our resident and staid until in three months I found when I was discharged & after weeks and so forth during my last three months service there was nothing of great interest to mention, while we lay at Bristol we was fired upon in the night by a vessel from a Bangor but missed us - I was born in the town of Chatham in the State of Massachusetts, lived there until I was 19 years old then moved to Middle- bury in Mass & there remained until I was about fifteen years old & went to sea. I followed the sea about four years, I then found in my room at the house of my mother - I was then 19 years old I was about 20 years old when I went to Concord where I lived until I was 24 years old when I moved to Cohasset & H. where I have lived ever since. I have a son who was known to you part of my services in the Revolution. Do you have any documentary evidence - I think when I was a child I was taken to a part of the country & left the present and I think I think that we were not on the plantation of the Plymouth State.
Isaac Doolittle Isaac Doolittle Ment

Declaration,
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed June 4. 1832.
State of New Hampshire County of Coos ss.
On this first day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty nine, personally appeared before me Joshua Marshall one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Coos in the State of New Hampshire, Isaac Covel, a resident of Colebrook in said County, aged eighty, eight 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 act of Congress passed June 4, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated:
That he enlisted as a volunteer in a company called the volunteer company, under Capt. Zachariah Hemenlin in November 1775 in the town of Sandwich in the State of Massachusetts, but did not march from that place till the first of January 1776, that he then marched to Roxbury Mass. and was quartered in a house in that place for a short time, but the enemy fired on that place and the troops were ordered to march out and marched out to near Milton river, and were again quartered in houses near that river, but whether in Milton or Dorchester he cannot tell but thinks it was in Dorchester, where they remained some time; thence they marched in the night to Dorchester Point so called and in marching they were halted at a gate on the road leading on to the Point, close by the causeway for some time, and no one was allowed to speak a loud word, and after the Moon came in sight over the height, they were ordered by a whisper to march which was communicated by whisper from one to the other, and as they marched he saw large bundles of pressed hay lying two bundles a breadth at the left hand all the way across the low ground to the foot of the height, and just after they had marched through the gate on the low ground a cannon was fired a short distance off, for what purpose he did not know, but a cannonade began all around the circle into Boston, except on the side where they were marching on to the Point, that they marched on, and by the place where the fort was built to the place where the second fort was built and then put up their frames, and put in bundles of brush and sticks called fascines and then went to work and broke up the ground and threw up a breast work against them, and spears with wood handles were placed in side the fort along the sides with their points up about the distance apart that men would
Declaration Isaac Covel
34532 Isaac Covel N.H.

Stood side by side and apple trees were cut and drawn and laid side by side without the intrenchment the tops outward and the butts close to the intrenchment all round said fort except the Gateway.
That night a shot was fired on them that night on the height but I said, Mayhew was killed that night in Roxbury Street by a cannon ball which struck a cherry tree and glanced in a direction that hit him and took his thigh most off, close to his body, and by the bursting of a Mortar in a small fort in Roxbury, another man was killed that night, as the report was at that time, and after this, several days he thinks two men built a fire close down to the water in the night and the enemy fired and killed them both, and the next morning several men went down to the water, to fire at a small vessel that was passing out of Boston harbour, and one of them was killed by their own  not holding the vent own gun, and his body with the bodies of the other two were brought away at the same time.
That Castle William as it was then called, was burned while he was there, and while it was burning a great many people went down towards it, and Gen. Thomas came to them and told them there was danger for the black house was on fire and there were cannon there and they might be pointed for that place and soon after these cannon were moved off and tore up the dirt where the people had been standing.
That Gen. Thomas ordered Col. Barratt to take two boats and go on to the Island the next morning after it was burned, and he being a sailor was ordered to select men for one boat and go on with Col. Barratt and Gen. Thomas said it might be that there were some of the enemy skulked there and if there was to give it to them all, and when they had got on to the Island they discovered a pile of goods down by the shore and Col. Barratt said there is some goods, and all of you have an equal right to them and who among you has had the small box? and there was but two that had had it and the goods were carried over in an other place that when they got to the Castle it was still burning and the flag staff was still standing but almost burned off and they pushed it over.
That there were two subaltern Officers with them that would not let them bring away any plunder from the Island and when they returned Gen. Thomas stood on the shore where they landed and saw their boats empty and said, could you find nothing to load your boats back? he was answered that there was enough but those subaltern Officers from Connecticut would not let them bring it off. Why said Gen. Thomas it was yours it belonged to the first boats that went on to the Island and you had

a right to it but now it is too late, you cannot get it now.
That he served three months at this time and received his pay for that term of time.
That a Lieut. Toby belonged to the company in which he was enlisted; he recollects a Capt. Bridgman was there, and a Major Sproat, and a Doctor Mackey who was chief surgeon of the Regiment, that he is not distinct in his recollection about the Col's name but thinks it was Col. Barst. There was a Captain Benson there and Gen. Washington was there some of the time.
That in November 1776 he again enlisted under Capt. Patridge and Lieut. Shurtleff in said town of Plymouth Mass. and marched thence to Bristol in the State of Rhode-Island and arrived there soon after Admiral Wallis had fired on the town as he was then informed. Gen. Spencer had the command at that place, there was a Col. Colonel Winslow there, but he did not belong to the Regiment that he could, did; he recollects a Captain Shaw was there, and Lieut. Chubbick but he cannot recollect his own Col's name. There was nothing of importance took place during this term of service; but soon after they arrived the Guard house was burned and they were fired upon with a several from a British barge in the night but no harm was done except some shot holes in the house were they quartered - That there was one hundred and ten men called for while he was there, to man the ship Warren, and himself and eight seven others turned out of his company and remained aboard sixteen days helping fix the rigging and prepare her for sea and two other fire ships as they were then called; that they then returned to their company again and remained in that service until some time in March when he was discharged. That he did not serve less than three months in this term.
That he was afterwards enlisted as a minute man and was called out several times, once to Plymouth Shore, a few days, cannot tell how long, and several other times when he found his own rations and very thing; he thinks that on these calls he spent not less than two months time in the whole - That he lived in Plymouth Mass. at the times he entered the service -
That he was born in Chatham Mass. 6th April 1749 - he has run a record of his age in said Chatham in the Town Clerks Office which was then kept by his Uncle who was John Clarke he has no other record - he moved from Plymouth to East Windsor in Connecticut and resided there and in Ellington Conn. until the year 1791 and there he moved into Colebrook N.H. where he has since resided. That he volunteered in the service each time and served as a Third Sergeant, in each term of service that he never received a written discharge - That he served as he thinks in the Militia each time but he cannot tell but they were State troops -

That he knows of no person living whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service, and no document any evidence whatever -
That there are Joseph Loonin Esquire, Benjamin Brainard Esquire, Daniel Harvey Esquire, David Bunce Esquire, Nathaniel Parsons Esquire, Ephraim W. McKim Esquire, Frederick G. Messer Esquire, Israel Young Esquire and Capt. Hobart - who can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a Soldier of the Revolution -
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State -
That he made his declaration ad a Probate Court held in Colebrook in January 1833 - and it was said that was not right, and in January the next year he made another ad said Probate Court for that year, and Gen. Loonin had undertaken to make out the whole of the papers necessary, and forward them, that he never has been informed what objections were made, or what the situation of his papers was, and does not know now why his name has not been placed on the Pension Roll -
Isa Olcomb
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid -
And the said judge does hereby declare his 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 as he states. And the said judge further certifies that there was no Clergyman residing in the town at the time the above declaration was made - and that the declarant from old age & infirmity of body cannot attend the Court and the above and foregoing declaration was taken at his dwelling house in Stanton Colebrook
Joshua Marshall Judge of the Court of Common Pleas
Coos Co
State of New Hampshire
I William Farrar Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the said County of Coos, certify that Joshua Marshall Esquire is a justice of the said Court, the same being a Court of Record, that the signature purporting to be his is genuine, and that to all acts and attestations of his, as such, full faith and credit ought to be given.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this sixth day of November Anno Domini 1837
Wm Farrar Clerk

AFFIDAVIT AND POWER OF ATTORNEY.
STATE OF New Hampshire } ss. COUNTY OF Coos }
Be it remembered, That, on this 15th day of January A. D. 185 3 , I, Ebenezer Coosell do make known and declare that I am the son and heir-at-law to Esther Coosell who was the lawful wife of Isaac Coosell a Revolutionary soldier, who served one or more years, under the command of in the forces raised by the State of Massachusetts and that he and his said wife were married about the month of A. D. 1843 that he died about the month of March A. D. 1843 and that his said wife also died about the month of April A. D. 1827 and that a pension of no dollars a year was drawn by said on account of said services, and so continued until the year A. D. 18 — , since which time nothing has been received by either, or the heirs of either of said parties.
And that claimant is now 66 years of age; and it is understood and believed that there are arrearages of Pension, and other claims due for said services: Now, THEREFORE, the true intent of all this is to qualify and irrevocably appoint and empower ALFRED J. WORKS, of New Haven City and County, State of Connecticut,
as my Attorney, with power of substitution, to investigate, substantiate, demand, and receive the avails of, said claim or claims, and to say and do all things relative thereto, as amply as I might do: hereby ratifying every thing said or done by my said Attorney, or his substitute, in virtue hereof; ALSO, revoking all Powers of Attorney, or other authority previously given for any such purposes.
Attest, Andrew Bloodgett } In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and Frederick Stevens } seal, day and date first above named. Ebenezer Coosell He is Mark  L. S.
Subscribed, sworn to, and acknowledged before me, the day and year first above indicated.
D. Albin Rogers Justice of the Peace

I James M. Rig, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for the county of Coos, State of New Hampshire, do hereby certify that D. Allen Rogers, is a Justice of Peace, within and for said County as within, and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this eighteenth day of January, Anno Domini 1853.
James M. Rig Clerk.

Isaac Covel (Revised)
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Affidavit Adul Noburd loan Isaac Covel

I Abel Hobart of Columbia in the County of Coos in the State of New Hampshire aged sixty four seven years do testify and say that I have been acquainted with Isaac Cook of Colebrook in said County of Coos over forty years and that his character for truth and veracity is good and that I believe he is eighty four eight years of age and that he was a revolutionary soldier and served as has stated in his declaration and that his testimony is entitled to credit.
The words I believe and eight were interlined before signed The word seven was likewise interlined before signed.
Abel Hobart
State of New Hampshire Coos County ss
August 2 d 1837. Then the above named Abel Hobart
Subscribed and made oath to the above affidavit
Before me Joshua Marshall Justice of the Peace
I further certify that the above named Abel Hobart is a credible person, and a person of Respectable Standing in society and his testimony entitled to credit
Joshua Marshall Justice of the Peace
I William Ferriss Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in the County of Coos and State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that Joshua Marshall before whom the above Affidavit was sworn was a Justice of the Peace at the time duly qualified to administer oaths; and that the signature annexed to the same and purporting to be his, is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court
This - eight th day of November Anno Domini
1837
Wm Ferriss Clerk

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Isaac Boyd, N. H.
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1832

Isaac Hamlin Capt 76 - 3 mo - not in any roll Capt Patridge 76 3 mo no officers observed two months on alarm & report they
Isaac Gove sent Vol 22. 1814 - Park Ave Yaka

Affidavit Samt Harvey. Can I see back

I Samuel Harvey of Columbia in the County of Coos in the State of New Hampshire aged sixty two years testify and say that I have been acquainted with Isaac Cope of Colebrook in said County more than thirty five years past, and that his character for truth and veracity is good and I believe him to be eighty eight years of age, and that he was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he has stated and his testimony is entitled to credit. Samuel Harvey
Coos-ss August 2 d 1837 Sworn to and submitted
Before me Joshua Marshall Justice of the Peace
I further certify that I have been acquainted with the above named Samuel Harvey, more than twenty years that he is a person of respectable standing in society and a credible witness.
Joshua Marshall Justice of the Peace
I William Farrar Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Coos in the State of New Hampshire do certify that Joshua Marshall before whom the foregoing affidavit was sworn, was at the time a justice of the Peace duly appoin- ted to administer oaths and that the signature annexed to the same and purporting to be his is genuine -
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court this sixth day of November Anno Domini 1837
Wm Farrar Clerk

Affidavit Daniel Harvey Coar Isaac Coombs

I Daniel Harvey of Colebrook in the County of Coos and State of New Hampshire aged sixty four years do depone and testify that I am well acquainted with Isaac Cavel of said Colebrook and have been for more than thirty five years past, that his character for truth and veracity is good and I believe he is eighty eight years of age and that he was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he has stated and that his declaration is entitled to credit -
Daniel Harvey
State of New Hampshire Coos ss.
August 1 st 1837 Then the above Affidavit was subscribed
and sworn to, Before me
Joshua Marshall justice of the Peace
I further that the above named Daniel Harvey is a justice of the Peace and one of the most respectable men in Colebrook and a credible witness.
Joshua Marshall justice of the Peace
William Ferrar Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in the County of Coos and State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that Joshua Marshall is a justice of the Peace for said County and duly empowered to administer oaths; and that the signature annexed to the above affidavit purporting to be his is genuine -
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court this sixth day of November Anno Domini
1837
Wm Ferrar Clerk

I Joshua Marshall testify that I took from the Probate Registers Office in Lancaster on or about the 27th day of July last past a paper purporting to have be the declaration of Isaac Cook dated the ninth day of January Anno Domini 1884 which appears to be in the hand writing of Gen. Lewis Loonis of Colebrook. That the said Cook made his declaration before me on the first day of August from his own recollection without any aid from his former declaration whatever which was done in order to test his recollection. That the said Cook is very illiterate and appears to be unable to read a word of writing either from the loss of eyesight or want of education and I read on his former declaration in order that it may be compared with the one taken before me more than three years after the former was made as I believe he had not seen the first declaration from the time it purports to have been made until I showed it him after he had made his said declaration before me on the first day of August last. That I have written to the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and his answer relating to said Cook's record is included in a letter of the 4th of October 1887 enclosed with the declaration of Jonathan Bancroft which it may be referred to if necessary. I further state that my absence from home has delayed the forwarding of these papers at an earlier day.
Joshua Marshall
Coos Co. State of New Hampshire Lancaster Jan'y. 25. 1888
The above sworn and subscribed to Before me Reuben Stephenson Yes Occur

I James M c Roy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Coos in the State of New- Hampshire; do hereby certify that Joshua Stratton Reuben Stephenson before whom the foregoing affidavit was sworn was at the time a Justice of the Peace duly empowered to administer oaths: and that the signature within purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this twenty fifth  seventh day of January. Anno Domini 1838
James M c Roy Clerk.

Affidavit of John M. Wells

Northumberland Feb 1832
Free
Isaac Covel Ms. B. 1. 6 v. 8, p. 16 N.H. June 1832 7 X Pension Papers
Gen. James L. Edwards
Commissioner Pensions Pension Office City of Washington D.C.

Stratford December 30th 1887
Hon. James L Edwards,
Commissioner of Pensions
Respected Sir,
Enclosed are the papers in the case of the application of Isaac Coe for a Pension, who, as appears from his declaration made before me on the first day of August 1887 and the papers I found in the Office of the Regr. of Probate at Lancaster in July last. has made a declaration in January 1883 and another on the twelfth of January 1884 which is herewith enclosed; but no certificates of the Judge of Probate or Register are made on said declaration. And I have no doubt of the fact that said Coe made his declaration at the times he has stated at the Probate Court held at Colebrook at the times he has stated. I attended those Courts and the applicants were sworn and made their declarations and the Judge at one time took said declarations with him to Lancaster, (The Regr. not being present at that time.) to have the Regr. make the proper certificates and forward them to the Commissioner of Pensions, and it was not known by the applicants that their papers had been properly authenticated and forwarded to the proper tribunal to decide upon their claims — some were sent without the proper certificates and returned and a mandat as will be seen in the case of Jonathan Bennerott while others remained in the Regr. office neglected. such has been the situation of all those that were under the care of Gen. Lewis Domine

who is now and has been absent from Leedsbrook the greatest part of the time for three years past -
I have been particular in making out these papers so that the commission of Pensions may see why these Cens have so long been neglected -
Mr Cavel is very illiterate in deed, but a man of very strong Constitution and from appearance was once a very powerful man, and possessed a strong mind and retentive memory, has become very confounded, and unable to attend to any business - is poor and in need of all that he is entitled to
With due Respect and esteem
I am Sir Your Obedient Servant
Joshua Marshall

Affidavit Joseph Loomis Can. Isaac Coad

I Joseph Loonin of Colebrook in the County of Coos and State of New Hampshire do testify and say that I have been acquainted with Isaac Cook of said Colebrook for thirty nine years past and that his character for truth and veracity is good and I believe him to be eighty eight years of age and that he was a revolutionary Soldier of the United States as he has previously represented to me to his having any expectation of receiving a pension and I have no doubt of that fact of his being a revolutionary Soldier as he has stated - Joseph Loonin
State of New Hampshire Coos County ss - August 22 1837. Then the above named Joseph Loonin made oath to the above affidavit Before me Joshua Marshall Justice of the Peace
I further certify that the above named Joseph Loonin has been a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Coos; and that he has been a Justice of the Peace for said County more than thirty years and is a respectable, credible witness - Joshua Marshall Justice of the Peace
I William Farrar Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Coos in the State of New Hampshire do certify that Joshua Marshall upon whom the foregoing affidavit was sworn was at the time a Justice of the Peace duly empowered to administer oaths and that the signature annexed to the same purporting to be his genuine -
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal affixed the Seal of the said Court This sixteenth day of November Anno Domini 1837
Wm Farrar Clerk

Affidavit Barzillai Brumard born Isaac Lovel

I Barzilla Brainard of Stewartstown in the County of Coos- and State of New Hampshire aged fifty one years do testify that I am well acquainted with Isaac Gavel of Colebrook in said County of Coos and that his character for truth and veracity is good and I believe him to be eighty seven years of age and that he was a Revolutionary Soldier and much as he has stated and that his testimony is entitled to credit.
Barzilla Brainard
State of New Hampshire } July 31-1857- Coos County. ss.
Subscribed and sworn to before me Joshua Marshall Justice of the Peace
I further certify that the above named Barzilla Brainard is a justice of the Peace and of the Inferior for said County of Coos and one of the most Respectable citizens of Stewartstown and a credible witness - Joshua Marshall Justice of the Peace
Clerk of the within and for the County of Coos in the State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that Joshua Marshall, before whom the fore- going affidavit was sworn was at the time a Justice of the Peace duly qualified to administer Oaths; and that the signature annexed to the same and purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court. This

Ex'r.
OLD WAR.
No. 2375
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
Isaac Lovell
P. O. _____
Service: Rev War
Enlisted: REJECTED _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____