Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3170, Edward Cox, N.C.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Nb.
box, Edward
S. 3170
CONTENTS
carded

Southwestern Agency 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
of Sullivan and the Free of ... who was admitted to the Company ... by ... of the ... by ... in the ... 2 years
Issued on the 10th of ... at the rate of 100 Dollars ... on the 10th day of March, 1831.
Response of ... the 29 day of May, 1831 and ... Rock ... Store
Amount to the 10th of Mar 1832 $ 320:00 Amount, advance ending 1/ Sep 33 50:00 $ 370:00
Reserve ... June 7, 1832
Recorded by Geo. B. Whiting Clerk Book 6 Vol. 6 Page 123

State of Tennessee Tullahoma County, ss. August Session 1832
On this 28 day of August personally appeared open courts before the justices of the courts of pleas of now sitting Edward Cox an indent of the state of Tennessee aforesaid aged twenty three years who being duly sworn according to law Doh on this oath make the follow- ing Declaration in order to obtain the be- nefit of the act of congress passed 9th June 1832
That he enlisted in the year 1805 on volunteer which he is not certain in Col Blitch's Regiment Capt Robertson Lieutenant senior company from Tullahoma Warren County then Washington County North Carolina went to Mobile where he built fort & guarded the frontier the fort was attacked by the Indians fought a bout three hours after Rec'd very rein- forcements pursued the Indians 50 or 60 miles then returned to Mobile & stayed another fort he served one year
In 1776 volunteered under Col Morton for three months marched into the Cherokee nations to release prisoners who was like to be overpowered by the Indians Burned their towns and killed many of the enemy held the rank of lieutenant
In 1777 had the command of Lieute- nant under the State of North Carolina & was sent into service with very short in- tervals served as near as can recollect about eighteen months was engaged in building fort at Shells Ford near along the frontier acting as an Indian spy with small parties went ordered to station on Pigeon Creek Back gaps
In 1780 as lieutenant volunteered in Capt Waller's company Col Shelby & Blitch for a four months tour in

south Carolina fought the enemy on or near the Innerseer to Beat them and was principally engaged During the four months after the Tories in South Carolina to part in north Carolina.
In 1781 volunteered as a volunteer under the last mentioned officer from Sullivan County then Washington to serve and assist Gen. Marion in South Carolina. Gen. Marion on the Santee river was a considerably fort on below Monk's corner & made 18 or 20 prisoners then sent on with the letter to the enemy's fort on or near the Bay found the fort partly burnt & vacated returned to camp got the news of the surrender of the British army at Yorktown and was discharged by Col. Blitch which is lost as monument as well as the Santee north Carolina and does not know of any person to establish the facts by except Mr. Carr who was a sergeant in the company the last four months service total service upwards of three years of that time upwards of two years a Lieutenant.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in this state or else where and that this is the first effort that he has made to have his name enrolled on the pension list.
Edward Cox

William Lloyd John Harrington
Notice of Resignation I do hereby certify that J. S. Richardson is the lawful clerk of the County of Placer & has the right to the office of said clerk and is now the lawful holder thereof. I do hereby resign the office of said clerk and the proceedings of the said County in the matter of the application of Calvin Fox for appointment as my successor. Witness my hand and seal this 30th day of August 1832.
Richard Hartshorne Clerk By G. Hartshorne Clerk

On this 21 st August 1832 personally appeared in open Court William Law a citizen of Sullivan County and made oath that he was a long and near Lieutenant Major of the 1st Regt in the four months term of 1830 now on duty at Marion in South Carolina and knew that his statement of fact given in the foregoing declaration is exactly & truly as forth mentioned to the best of his knowledge in open Court. Date above.
William Law
Edward F. Jones Clerk of Court
11370
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State of Tennessee Sullivan County
Suppliment to Edward Cox' pension claim
On this 25 th day of March 1833 personally appeared Edward Cox before me W m Ratchford justice of the peace for the county aforesaid and on his oath Deposes and saith in an s to objection 11 th there is no minister of the gospel amediate in his neighbourhood whose attendance he can procure in his original pension claim the court of Sullivan he thinks has clearly shown that fact, an s to objection 12 th the ministers of the gospel that preach amediate in this neighbourhood are circuit Riders locals and strangers here it would be matter of Delicacy to ask the affidavit of men who are only on the circuit one year & then removed and strangers follow him &c. &c.
Deponant further saith that that he thought & believed that he fully an s the seven Interrogatories presented by the War Department and that the court certified that fact as per original papers, but Does humbly beg leave to amend as follows
Deponant saith that he was in the year 1758 born in Talbot County state of Maryland when he was a small boy his parents emigrated to Sullivan County (then North Carolina) where Deponant has ever since unless now reside, an s to 3 rd Interrogatory Dep s saith that he has seen the record of his age in his fathers Bible many years back but has none in his possession and does believe if there is any one in the original pension claim that he is rather older than there stated and Does not know what has come of the record kept by his father
an s to 6 th Interrogatory he says that he recollects of being Discharged on some terms Directed to come home but what has come of them he cannot say but does believe they are large loose disordered and that there is none of them in his possession and that he has doctors all he knows on that

Subject on his original pension claim, further Deponent saith that he well recollects he was elected Lieutenant of the Natalia before he was grown and was commissioned by the then Governor of North Carolina his name not recollects which is lost or worn out as he supposes and even after his promotion to the Lieutenantcy when in the service he always held two ranks as per original pension claim and that he does not know of any living witness that he can prove his commission by
As to the Interrogatory Dep. says he does believe there is none that is acquainted with him in his neighbourhood that doubts his veracity and if there is any he is at a loss to name them but will say that he has been acquainted with the following persons fifty odd years say Joseph Wallace Esq. Wm Carr Esq. and Abraham Crops and almost every grown person in the county Deponent further says in course of of answer at the time of the war some three or four years back together with the infirmity of age his memory is much gone but is per- fectly satisfied as to the truth of the foregoing facts
Edward Cox
Joseph Wallace Esq. Wm Carr Esq. of Sullivan county personally appeared before me and acknowledged that they have both been acquainted with Edward Cox whose name appears to the above statement fifty odd years and do know him to be a man of veracity and that he has always supported Edward Cox in his neighbourhood and has always since the revolution been recog- nized to have rendered much service in the war both as a private and as a lieutenant

and further saith that any statements made by him on oath or otherwise is entitled to credit and the said Joseph Wallace further saith that of his own knowledge he knows that the said Edward Cox was March under his brother Capt. Thos. Wallace and held the rank of lieutenant in either the Gen. Marion's Camps in South Carolina as to his commission he does not recollect to have seen it but does believe he was commissioned by the then Governor of North Carolina, and the said Mr. Cox says that he served upon muster in command of sergeants under Thos. Wallace and Edward Cox and that the said Cox held the command of lieutenant and was recognized as such and that he believes he was commissioned by the then governor of North Carolina and we both do presently say that he is recognized in his neighbourhood to have rendered the service in the revolutionary war both as private & officer as set forth in his statements given under our hands this 25 th March 1853.
Joseph Wallace William Cox
State of Tennessee Sullivan county } I do hereby certify that Joseph Wallace & Mr. Cox esq. who sign the above certificate is Respectable citizens both men with whom I have been acquainted with upwards of forty years and that they stand fair on society as men of veracity, truth and their statements are entitled to credit and that the above affidavit was sworn to before me & signed in my presence and I do further certify that there is no Regular minister of the gospel Resident in this neighbourhood whose attendance could with

commencement be procured and I do further certify that Edward Cox the applicant and Joseph Wall -law & Wm Carr are all Respectable members in three different branches of the church) say presbyterian Baptist & Methodist churches,
Giving under my hand and seal this 25 th day of March 1833 Wm Lockhart (Secy) Trustee of the Pres.
I John Blair do certify that I am personally acquainted with William Lockhart Esqr who attested to the above affidavit and the same is in his own proper hand writing, Interlocutor Joseph Wallace & William Carr Esqrs are also known to me as men of veracity & known resp- ectability. 26 th March 1833. John Blair, M.A.

Edward Cook Supplement
Communications To
Rockhills Store Sullivan County Tennessee & to be placed on the Jones borough agency & John G. Goss W. Hooker

I know all men by these presents that I John Leon, of Sullivan Co. Tenn. son, and one of the heirs at law of Banard Leon, dec d , of said County, late a revolutionary pensioner of the United States, for divers good and sufficient causes me hereunto moving, have constituted, & appointed, and by these presents do hereby constitute & appoint "Edwards & Smith", Pension Agents, at Washington City, D.C. my attorneys in fact for me & in my name & stead to make an examination into the original papers, and all papers, filed in my grandfather's application for a revolutionary pension, and whatever documents, or necessary to be examined, or records in the Departments at Washington City, having, in any wise, any connection, in the matter, for the purpose of ascertaining if there are not arrearages still due & unpaid to sd Banard Leon, in his lifetime, (who died 20th Nov. 1858,) or if an additional pension, or an increase of pension rec d , cannot be obtained for myself, and the other heirs at law of the sd Leon, to wit, Meredith, (who moved this fall to Arkansas,) Elizabeth Vincent, formerly Elizabeth Leon, of sd Sullivan Co., Jacob & John Leon (both of Arkansas,) Jane McAlister, formerly Jane Leon (of Kentucky,) Sarah Leon, of sd County, and Catherine Dugan, formerly Catherine Leon, (of Indiana,) hereby ratifying & confirming all such acts, & deeds as said attorneys may lawfully do in the premises in and about the foregoing. Witness my hand & seal on this 9th Dec r 1858.
Attest George Pile
John Leon Seal

State of Tennessee      Personally appeared before the un- Washington County      dersigned, Notary Public in affidavit known to me      and the foregoing to be true and correct and personally acknowledged      and who acknowledges the same to be her act & deed for the purposes therein contained.
Given under my hand & seal of office at office in Forest on the day & date of said Power of Attorney J. B. Graham Notary Public
Copy of this Power of Attorney to Edwards Smith

See enclosure at 10/10/1861
Pass of the John Brown Edward Smith
John Brown, son of Edward Brown, on Revolutionary Pension
To Edward Smith
Power of attorney
We desire to see the Papers in the within case.
23 Dec, '87
Edward Smith
W. C. O.

Rev. & Rel. War Section WCB/eel
January 24, 1929
Edward Cox S. 3170 am
Frances Dale Neopetson Illinois
Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.3170, it appears that Edward Cox was born in 1758 in Baltimore County, Maryland.
While residing in Washington County, North Carolina (later Sullivan County; Tennessee) he enlisted and served in the North Carolina Troops as follows:
From 1775, one year as private in Captain Robison's Company, Colonel Bleicher's Regiment.
In 1776 for three months in Colonel Martin's Regiment.
He was commissioned Lieutenant in 1777 and served at various times, about eighteen months in all, guarding the frontier (officers not stated).
In 1780 he served four months in Captain Thomas Wallace's Company, Colonels Bleicher's and Shelby's Regiments; he was in an engagement "near the Innersee".

In 1781 he served as lieutenant under the same officers as preceding enlistment and was discharged on receiving news of the surrender at Yorktown.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 21, 1832, while residing in Sullivan County, Tennessee.
He died November 30, 1850, leaving several children. His son, John, then forty-eight years of age and a resident of Sullivan County, Tennessee, stated that his father left the following heirs:
Elizabeth who married --- Vincent, Jane who married --- McAllister, Catharine who married --- Dugan, Meredith, Jacob, Abraham and Samuel Cox.
The Revolutionary War records of this bureau fail to afford any information in regard to Stephen Strange as described by you.
In order to make a search of the records for a particular soldier named William Nelson it is necessary that you state the war in which he served and furnish as much as possible of the following data: approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service and given name of widow.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.

Let to Wm. Rockhold
Ap. 10 '47
to Wm August 4th 47
let to Wm Aug 26 47
to Wm Andrew Johnson
May 23 '48
let to Wm June 2 1848
Suspension removed Letter to Wm Andrew Johnson & Purvis agt 27 Feb 1849
Same 27 Feb
let to Wm Ap. 17 1849
Wm Graham 29th Dec. 1849.
John Cook, Nov 24/50.
let to Wm Andrew Johnson May 22 48

Jan 1880
April
2nd to 6th
Inform Mr Johnson that Cox's pension was increased
Yours & J. Johnson Jan 1880

Pension Office, May 22nd, 1845.
Sir,
I have the honor to return, herewith, Mr. Cox's letter, and to enclose you a copy of my report of the 14th of August last, which will show you the condition of the case of Edward Cox, and what is required to justify a resumption of the payment of his stipend.
I have the honor to be Very respectfully, Your Ob. Servt. J. B. Edwards
Inform Mr. G. C. Dewey that
Wm. Andrew Henson Wife of Representative.

Apr. 13
Rev. Hon. Mr. R.R.
L. L. Edwards Esq. has a paper for persons city of Washington

Rockholds Store 27th March 1853
Wm. Bk. L. L. Edwards
Sir
In closed is Mr Cox's pen- sion papers with his supplement Will you be so obliging as to attend to it as early as con- venient & shall his pension pay have him placed on the Limerick agency John Fox's pension claim at your office if post also place him on the Limerick agency. Any communication Return of papers for amendment, etc etc please send to Rockholds Store post office recently established in Limerick county Kerry.
Every mail day they send for the news & soon time charge me that I have not been preparing here you will excuse me when I ask the favour of your early attention
Very Respectfully Yours etc. J. H. M c Lockhold

Nov. 4 1912 War Section
W.P.A.
May 22, 1924
Mrs. L. V. Stratton 2219 Vinton Ave. Memphis, Tenn.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.3170, it appears that Edward Cox was born in 1758 in Baltimore County, Maryland.
While residing in Washington County, North Carolina (later Sullivan County, Tennessee) he enlisted and served in the North Carolina Troops as follows:
From 1775, on, served as private in Captain Robinson's Company, Colonel Blitcher's Regiment.
In 1776 for three months in Colonel Martin's Regiment.
He was commissioned Lieutenant in 1777 and served at various times, about 18 months in all, guarding the frontier (officers not stated).
In 1780 he served four months in Captain Thomas Wallace's Company, Colonels Blitcher's and Shelby's Regiments; he was in an engagement "near the Innarsee".

In 1861 he served as Lieutenant under the same officers as preceding enlistment and was discharged on receiving news of the surrender at Yorktown.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 21, 1882, while residing in Sullivan County, Tennessee.
He died November 20, 1880, leaving several children. His son, John, then forty-eight years of age and a resident of Sullivan County, Tennessee, stated that his father left the following heirs:
Elizabeth who married --- Vincent, Jane who married --- Mallin- ter, Catherine who married --- Dugan, Marywith, Jacob, Abraham, and Daniel Cox.
Respectfully,
Commissioner

March 1, 1910.
Hon. Walter F. Brownlow,
House of Representatives,
My dear Mr. Brownlow:
In response to your letter dated the 25 th and received the 28 th ultimo, requesting information for the Hon. James B. Cox of Johnson City, Tennessee, I have the honor to advise you that the Revolutionary War pension records of this Bureau fail to afford any information relative to Abraham or Abrum Cox, John L. Cox, William Cox, and John Cox of Watauga, Tennessee, or William Cox of Va.
From the papers in the claim, Ser. File No. 2,170, it appears that Edward Cox was born in 1752 in Baltimore County, Maryland, and when a small boy emigrated with his parents whose names are not stated, to Sullivan County, Tennessee which was then Washington County, North Carolina, and volunteered from said County in 1775 under Lieutenant Sevier, Captain Robison and Colonel Fletcher, and guarded the frontier for a year during which time he aided in building two forts, one at Watauga and the other on the Nolichucky, in which last they were attacked by Indians. In 1776 he volunteered for three months under Colonel Martin and marched to the relief of Sevier who was in the Cherokee Nation. In 1777 he held a commission as Lieutenant in the North Carolina Militia and guarded the frontiers at various times amounting in all to eighteen months. In 1780 he

volunteered as Lieutenant under Captain Thomas Wallace and Colonels Bletcher and Shelby for four months, went against the Tories in North Carolina and South Carolina and was in one engagement "near the Immature." In 1781 he volunteered as Lieutenant under the same officers, went to the aid of General Marion in South Carolina and was discharged on receiving news of the surrender at Yorktown.
He continued in Sullivan County, Tennessee and resided there when he was allowed pension on an application executed August 21, 1832. He died November 30, 1850 leaving several children. His son John then forty-eight years of age and a resident of Sullivan County, Tennessee, stated that his father left the following heirs: Elizabeth who married ---Vincent; Jane who married ---McAllister; Catherine who married --- Jaxon. Heredita, Jacob, Abraham, and Samuel Cox.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
2 enclosures.

Hoopston, Illinois
April 16, 1928.
Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D. C.
Sir,
About two months ago I wrote inquiring about certain records. Although you are very busy, I hope that you can find the following records for me:
sent June 1928
(1) Squire Dale of Tennessee served in the War of 1812. He married Elizabeth Smith. later moved to James town, Indiana. What service did he give and when in Tennessee did he live?
(2) What records do you have of Stephen Strange of the American Revolution? He lived in Va. near Culpeper Court House (I think). What was his wife's name?
(3) Edward Coy of Sullivan Co, Tenn. married a Meredith and served in the N.C. Militia as a lieutenant?
Revolution

(H) Wm Nelson of Washington Co. Tennessee Do you have any records of him?
I hope that you can investigate these records at once.
Very truly yours
Frances Pale

Memphis Tenn.
Pension Dept -
Will you kindly mail me military record of two revolutionary soldiers
Joseph Cox -
Edward Cox -
born near Maryland. Baltimore Co - later moved to East Tennessee.
Resp't.
Mrs L. W. Stratten 1319 Union Ave. Memphis Tenn.

SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
JAMES A. JARNEY, MICH., CHAIRMAN HENRY K. SHAW, PA. WALTER P. BROWNLOW, TENN. WASHINGTON GORDON, MICH. FREDERICK H. GILLET, MASS. WALTER I. SMITH, IOWA. JOSEPH V. GRAY, ILL. WARREN KEITH, OHIO. HOWARD H. SNAPP, ILL. EDWARD L. TULLEN, JR., OHIO. GEORGE R. MALBY, N. Y.  LEONARD F. LIVINGSTON, GA. JOHN J. MYERS, N. Y. ALBERT S. BURLESON, TEX. SWAGER BRADLEY, KY. EATON J. POWERS, MASS. JOHN A. KELDER, MASS.  JAMES C. COURTS, CLERK. FRED P. FELLOWS, MARCELLUS G. SHIELD, ASSISTANT CLERKS.
COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. WASHINGTON, D. C.
Feb. 25, 1910.
Hon. J. L. Davenport, Commissioner of Pensions.
My dear Davenport:
I herewith hand you a letter from Hon. J. B. Cox of Johnson City, Tenn., asking for certain information. It is suggested by the Adjutant General of the Army that your office may be able to give me something on the subject, and I therefore write to you to ask that you investigate the matter and let me hear. Please return the inclosures.
Yours truly,
W. P. Brownlow
2 inclosures returned

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3170
INVALID.
File No. 3170
Edward Roy
Leah M. Allen
Act: June 19th
Index - Vol. 4, Page 73
[Arrangement of 1876]

Upon a representation made in writing and now on file in this office by the Attorney Johnson, the pension of Edward Gore has been restored and the agent of Southwestern Van Horn instructed to resume the payment of the same.

Will the Agent be refused the payment of this Mortgage by the A. Johnson

Inverness Penna 21 Dec 54 Sir;
Edmond Coss, of Sullivan Co. was pensioned as a Veteran of the Revolution under the act 7 June 1832, but at a less rate than he claimed in his declaration. He claimed as a Lieutenant for 2 years, and over, but he was pensioned for less. He has been dead several years, but he leaves several children, who are entitled to the difference (I presume) of the pay he received, and that to which he was entitled. A large number (as your experience, no doubt will attest) of the Veterans of the Revolution, when they applied under the act aforesaid, make their declaration, & then furnished what proof could be had in the neighborhood from their comrades in service. This was often fragmentary, & he knew it, in the opinion of the Dept't sustain the full service claimed; hence a claim was now made for a shorter term. It

doubt your bills will show more services for Mr. Cox than that person by his intrepidity; & if so, the late acts of Congress on that subject will grant their full benefit to the heirs, if I am not in error. If so, will you please to state whether the claim can be preferred for the difference in pay, to the heirs, or the steps necessary to procure it? But if I am mistaken, will you be kind enough to suggest in what public office the necessary steps in this claim may be formed. In making this request, I hope I am not transcending the bounds of your duty upon the subject, & anticipating a reply.
I remain,
Very Respectfully,
Your obedt servt
A. G. Matthews
Hon. S. P. Wells,
Postmaster,
W. City.
W. City.

Johnborough Newcastle,
12 November 1900.
Sir,
My father, David Lloyd, when I was a boy, was a pensioner in the Newbridge area and was paid at the place of birth. He claimed pension as a lieutenant for two years and was but was promised for a life term, say 12 years at £100 per annum, which was paid to day of his death - 2 October '90. I think I can get proof from N.C. to show his additional service, and I shall be glad to know exactly what his service was, you will please give me a leaf of his declaration filed when he applied for a pension. I wish it nearly as in reference. Please say what is necessary to establish a claim to pension of pension, which is based on the claim. What amount would be due if he served 2 years or less? I would feel that he was paid and still.
Yours truly,
Wm Cox.
Minister of War Office

2011 OKLAHOMA DEC 22 1893 2c Edward Chase President Washington City D.C.
Edward Chase President Washington City D.C.

Rockledge
New Rockledge P.M.
27th June 1888
Fla.
June 16. 48
Engineer Rockledge
Dear Sir,
J. I. Edwards Esq. American agent City of Washington
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Sir Your favour of the 9 of last month is before me in which you advise me that you decline further action on the American claim of Edward Lee which decision to me is extraordinary as his losses was well authenticated by respectable witnesses in the first application and the part of the disparity in his history of the war services which giving testimony in the case of Richard Gregg has been well ascertained for by respectable testimony hence it can not be seen why he does not get something on the test of the notes you are requested to hand over the whole file of Mr Lee's papers to the chairman of the committee of pensioners say original declaration with all subsequent papers & correspondence & let his case have a investigation before the Board if we can get it there upon some definite compliance will greatly oblige us.
Respectfully oblige. T.W.L.
Wm Rockholts
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July 11th 1847. Nichols office
Free
addres. Columbus
Hon. J. F. Edwards City of Washington

Washington 9 th July 1847-
In enclosed is affidavit & certificate on the subject of terminating Edward Cox on the grounds that the sick leave of him would be cutting him of intels, I hereby hope the evidence offered will be satisfactory to the fact that applicant is now capable of giving a narration of his services as evident the persons who procured Mr Cox's Testimony in the Gregg case was in error but as Mr Garrison's agreement by the rules Mr Edwards pledge from his early attention and if it is found on a review that the applicant was not an officer for all the time he claims to have been an officer of his pay will be the consequence I suppose it will not be doubted that the said three years or upwards and a portion of not all the time was an officer if my recollection of his services is correct, at all events he will not be an expense to his country very long the Hon. Agents will recollect my claims from the time his pay was suspended, the evidence is not before me of the time he claims to have been but I suppose as he has 18 months or two years Very Respt ly etc. etc.
Wm. Rockhold
your communications will be forwarded to Rockhold after following committee then W. R.
Hon. J. T. Edwards Esq.

Rockhold The March 1847
Pension Mississippi free
March 26/47
Rec'd of Edward
Edwards Esq. Pension agent City of Washington

Rock Hold Post Office 13th March 1847 Tullowancy Tennessee
Sir
Your letter under date 12 May 1846 to Edward Cox petitioner in which you have advised him his petition is stopped until he furnishes other proof grade names of officers etc I will as the att. for Mr Cox say at once if there M c Neis is re-quested & none other supply the place it will and to cutting him from the list of pensioners at once I suppose he is nearly 80 years of age & the mind seems to be worn out he says he has no recollection of giving testimony in the case of Rachel Gregg to which you allude in your letter gave rise to an examination of his original declaration, Justus Wallen & Carr who was Mr Coxes witness is long since dead & all others that have any knowledge of that loved companion with Mr Cox: recollectionary services as above I would not draw an affidavit for him to swear to unless I knew the facts my self or that they could be attested by others whose mind would be free from like objections as I would urge against him absence of mind hence all that I can think think of to supply the place of deceased testimony as his honor veraciously his peers character & by those who have heard him speak of his recollectionary services his loss of mind by reason of age etc I my self have heard him relate his services fifty years ago any proof of that kind can be furnished that may be required to satisfy any reasonable man that he was as old as an officer for a considerable time Mr Cox has supported the character of an honorable member of the church for sixty years fifty of that time I have never known where he had the means to my knowledge was forsook in its support has seen better days as to pecuniary matters

but by endorsing for his friends, has lost all his only chance for support as the charity of the people or his pension. It cannot be pos- -sible that the congress that part the love granting pensions ever intended for the soldiers to be thus cut off from their rights will you please on rec d advise what can done in the premises I need not call to your notice the instructions for those whose money has paid there is ample pro- vision by calling in their friends. I will you please say what can be allowed from the proof before you in great haste &c your ob t serv t Wm Rockhull

State of Tennessee
Sullivan County
I Reuben Hicks an acting justice of the peace for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that Andrew Riley Adam Boy and Andrew Boy did personally appear before me and on their oaths did depose and say that the facts contained in the foregoing affidavit to the best of their knowledge and belief, and I do certify that they are men of truth and that faith and credit are due to their statements given under my hand and seal this 26 th day of June 1847
Reuben Hicks (seal) justice of the peace for Sullivan County
State of Tennessee
Sullivan County
I Jacob J. Messick do certify and attest that Reuben Hicks Esq. whose name is attached to the foregoing certificate is and was at the time of executing the same an acting justice of the peace and that faith and credit are due to his official acts as well out as in court and that I am the clerk of County court of Sullivan it being a court of record and that Esq Hicks name appears to be in his own proper handwriting I do further say that Andrew Riley Adam Boy and Andrew Boy whose names appear to the foregoing affidavit are men of veracity and respectable farmers of this county and that they reside immediately on the neighbourhood of Edward Coxes residence given under my hand and seal of office at office in Blountville this 29 th day of June 1847
Jacob J. Messick clerk

State of Tennessee. Whereas Edward Cox heretofore Sullivan County Tenn a Pensioner and more recently has been stricken off of the Pension lists. The honorable Agent Mr. Edwards, has assigned his reasons for so doing. That certain testimony given by Edward Cox did not correspond with the number & with the dislocation made at the time he was placed on the Pension list. a Period of time having elapsed of making the declaration, and the alleged testimony in the case of Rachel Gregg, must have been given twelve to Eighteen years by computation. the original papers not being before me.
The undersigned William Rockhard aged Seventy years the fifteenth day of last may. and has been a citizen of this and the Adair County for the last fifty Eight or sixty years. and during the whole Period of time, has been well and intimately acquainted with Edward Cox. and in that Period of time, has had large commercial transactions with the said Edward Cox, and deponent is free to bear testimony to the good Character of the said Edward Cox, for truth and honesty not withstanding the alleged discrepancy. to the statement made in his declaration and the Gregg lease. Deponent well knows for several years back from the infirmities of age and loss of memory it would be imprudent to call on Edward Cox to give testimony who knew the state of his mind. Deponent thinks he understands the Pension law, and the case of Mr. Cox through out his Pension matters, does positively believe that he ought to be Reinstated as a Pensioner, and does thinks if he is not Reinstated it will be a hard case, as he has had much conversation with the said Cox and has heard him often relate

his Revolutionary services in the war, defendant drew up the said originals declaration and does know that it corresponded with his aft. words declaratory. As is sustained by the testimony of Esays Wallace and Carr which accompanied the originals declaration, further the defendant sayeth not.
This 16th Decr 1840
Wm Rockbross
John Lee aged forty six years past the son of Edward Lee, with whom the said Edward Lee his kind some twelve years or more deposith and sayeth that he has reason to believe and sayeth that there was some unfairness exercised by Mr Duncan in taking Mr Lee's testimony, as defendant was from home at the time of taking said testimony and defendant has inquired of his family who was at home and they heard nothing of the taking of the testimony at that time but admits that Mr Duncan was there about the time, as some business but knew not what, it all seem to be private with my father as the family has stated, defendant further sayeth that his father does say he has no recollection of giving any testimony in the Gregg Case, as is the deliberate opinion of defendant that my father is not capable now has been for eight or ten years as he is the vice of ninety years of age and labours under the loss of mind. Col. Duncan, same time deceased, might not have known my father's situation, hence I am willing to throw the mantle of charity a mind a departed citizen, further defendant sayeth sayeth not
John Lee

State of Tennessee
Sullivan County On the 16 th day of December 1848 Personally appeared before me Caleb Morrell a Justice of the Peace for said County William Roachfield and John Log Logg. and made oath in due form of law that the facts as stated respectively in the foregoing affidavits are just and true to the best of their knowledge and belief.
Caleb Morrell Justice of the Peace
State of Tennessee I The undersigned Clerk of the County Sullivan County Court for said County do certify that Caleb Morrell whose name appears to the foregoing affidavits was at the time of signing the same and is now an acting Justice of the Peace and for said County and that his signature appears to be in his own proper hand writing that he is duly Commissioned and sworn according to law and that full faith and credit should be give to all his official acts.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office at office in Blountville this 19 th day of
the current year Thos P Ford Clerk of the County Court

State of Tennessee Sullivan County
On this 26 th day of June 1847 personally appeared before me Ruben Hicks an acting Justice of the peace for said County and upon their oath deposith & saith that they are, and have been acquainted with Edward Cox of this County from their childhood and that they have frequently heard him speak of his services in the revolutionary war and that they have also heard it from his neighbors both before he was on the Pension list and since and that they are perfectly confident that Mr. Coxes statements made in his declaration filed at the Pension Office upon which he was placed upon the Pension list was correct as at the time he made said declaration his mind was sane and that he was capable of giving a correct statement and that we do know it to be a fact that he has always been esteemed as a man of truth and veracity and has always been esteemed as an humble pious Christian and that we believe while he possessed his proper mind that he was incapable of deposing facts that he did not know to be correct and we further say that Esqrs Wallace & Carr who we are advised were Mr Coxes witnesses were men of veracity and good standing in the country and we do believe that they were incapable of deposing to any facts without well knowing they were correct We further say that a letter has been exhibited to us under date 12 th May 1846 from the Pension agt at Washington to wit the Hon J. L. Edmonds in which letter the Hon agent complains of the disparity of Mr Coxes declaration and his testimony given in the case of Rachael Gregg for which error seems to have stricken from the list of pensioners Now we have no hesitation in saying that we believe Mr Cox

is ninety years old, or upwards and that he is in his second childhood that his mind appears to be lost on any subject, except on religious matters and that we believe that he is wholly incapable of giving testimony in any fact and has been so for the last four or five years. We further say that we do not believe that there is any person who has ever had the pleasure of Mr Cox's acquaintance, that doubts for one moment the correctness of his declaration at the Pension Office, and that we do believe that he served both as to grace and time as we are advised set forth in said declaration. There is none of us that is related to Mr Cox either by affinity or consanguinity & that we are not interested in any wise whether he Mr Cox is reinstated on the Pension list or not, any further than that justice may be done an old veteran soldier. We further say from the lapse of time and the numerous deaths that we do not know of any individual in the bounds of our acquaintance who lived cotemporary with the alleged services of Mr Cox. Hence we regard him as entirely cut off from any proof of individuals who served with him in the Revolution and are Deborah Riley in my 71 st year of age, Adam Boy in my 69 th year and Andrew Boy in my 51 st year of age all of whom of us have been raised in this neighbourhood immediately in the neighbourhood of the aforesaid Edward Cox's residence and on our oaths do say the facts stated as of our own knowledge we know to be true and those from information we believe to be true and further deponents saith not.
Deborah Riley
Adam Boy
Andrew Boy