Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 1889-100, Joseph Coger, Continental (Conn.)

SERVICE
Continental (Conn.)
Conger, Joseph
NUMBER
B.L.Wt. 1889-100.
CONTENTS
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Joseph Coker Kins
State of Connecticut

Joseph Cogen e. 1889.
Joseph Cogen

State of Connecticut
Probate Court District of Woodbury
October 4 1832
Be it remembered that on the day above year aforesaid competent and sufficient proof has been advanced before said Court. That Joseph Cager and Philo Cager of Woodbury in the county of Litchfield in said State and Eli Cager and Nathaniel Cager of Southbury in New Haven County in said State are the Heirs at law and the only Heirs at law of Joseph Cager formerly of Oxford in said New Haven County now deceased. who was a Soldier in the Army of the Revolution in Sheldon's Regiment in the Connecticut line
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court on the day above year aforesaid
W B Phelps Judge of Probate for the District of Woodbury

Albany N.Y. Nov 2 2 o 1832
Received of William Gordon Ely, Bounty Land Warrant Number 1889. issued to the Heirs at law of Joseph Coger, who was a private in the Connecticut Line of the Army of the American Revolution
Levi Wakeley

State of Connecticut } County of Litchfield } ss.
I Philo S Coger Grand son and heir at Law to Joseph Coger late of Oxford (deceased) in said State do upon oath testify that to the best of my knowledge and belief Joseph Coger aforesaid about or in the Year 1777 Entered & enlisted into the service of the United States for the term of and served during the war in the Regiment of the Connecticut Line Under the Command of Colonel Sheldon of the Dragoons and that he continued in the service aforesaid untill the close of the war; when he was regularly discharged from the Regiment of the Connecticut Line commanded by Colonel Sheldon and that to my knowledge he has never received the Bounty Land promised to him on the part of the United States nor in any manner transferred his claim therefor and further that he died in the Year Eighteen hundred and one in the Town of Oxford in said State. Therefore I now all men by these presents that I Philo S Coger aforesaid do hereby constitute and appoint Lewis Wakely of the City of Albany in the State of New York to be my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States a warrant for the granting of Land due to me and to the other heirs of Joseph Coger aforesaid In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this fourth Day of October A D 1832
Horatio A. Hartland
Philo S Coger
H B Phelps
Litchfield County ss Woodbury Oct 4 1832 Personally appeared Philo S Coger the signor and real holder of the foregoing instrument and acknowledged the same to be his free act and deed before me
H B Phelps Notary of Peace
On the same day and place Personally appeared Philo S Coger who subscribed the foregoing instrument and made solemn oath that the facts therein set forth are true before me
H B Phelps Notary of Peace