Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2076, John Cobb, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Cobb, John Mary
A. 2076
CONTENTS
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State of Vermont } District of Chittenden } ss }
On this tenth day of September A.D. 1839, personally appeared before the Probate Court for the District of Chittenden and State of Vermont, Mary Cobb, a resident of Shelburne in the County of Chittenden, and State of Vermont, aged seventyfive years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of congress passed July 7. 1838, entitled, "An act granting half pay to certain widows". That she is the widow of John Cobb who was as she believes a private and corporal in the Connecticut line of the continental army in Colonel Swifts regiment, that he served Three years, five months and one day as a private and one year five months and twenty one days as a corporal, in said regiment as will more fully appear by the certificate of Henry Kilbourne, Comptroller, of the State of Connecticut, accompanying this declaration.
She further declares that she was married to the said John Cobb, at Rupert in the County of Bennington in the State of Vermont, on the 25 th day of September 1783; that she has no record of her marriage; that her husband, the aforesaid John Cobb died on the 16 th day of December A.D. 1815. that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred ninety four, viz; at the time above stated.
Mary Cobb
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me, and I certify that the said

Mary Cobb is a person of truth and credibility, Charles Russell Judge of Probate

6207 Mary Cobb. H. John act. 7 July 38.
Samuel B... Mary B... Dec 75
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We Benjamin Everest and Martha Everest of Addison in the County of Addison and State of Vermont of lawful age testify and say, that we were present at the Celebration of the Marriage of Capt John Cobb and Mary Fuller (who is the only Sister of the said Martha and that Capt John Cobb was the Son of Gideon Cobb of Canterbury in State of Connecticut) — That this Marriage was Consummated at Ripton in the County of Burlington and State of Vermont, and from our best recollection in the Month of October One thousand seven hundred and eighty three — We further say that we have never known the said Mary Fuller before since her union with the aforesaid Capt John Cobb to have been united in Marriage to any other man and that she is now the Widow of the said Capt John Cobb and that from the early period of the settlement of the State of Vermont, at the time this Marriage took place, that there is but little probability that there were any Records of Marriage in Ripton, nor in any other towns in this State — Further where the deponents say not —
Benj: Everest
State of Vermont } Addison County }
Martha Everest
Addison November 7 th 1838
The personally appeared Benjamin Everest and Martha Everest the signers of the above disposition, and after being duly cautioned and carefully examined made Oath that the same contains the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Before me Sarah Crane Jus- Peace

Addison County ss
I certify that I am, and long have been personally acquainted with Dea o  o Evans and Martha o Evans the signers of the foregoing deposition, and that they sustain fair and unimpeached character for honesty + truth and morality — Addison 7 th Mo o 1838 — Sarah Crane See- o Peace
State of Vermont Addison County ss
I, Samuel Swift Clerk of the County Court for the County of Addison, do hereby certify that Abijah Crane before whom the within affidavits of Benjamin o Evans and Martha o Evans was made was at the time a Justice of the peace for said County, and his name subscribed to the within and foregoing articles is his own signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 26 th day of September 1839.
Sam d Swift Clerk

6207 Mary Cobb. St John act. 7 July 38.
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Rev. War Section.
September 30, 1913.
Mr. Philip L. Cobb, 1566 Mistletoe Drive, Cleveland, Ohio.
Sir:
In response to your letter dated the 21" and received the 23" instant, you are advised that in the papers in claim R. File No. 2,076. Rev. War , alleged it is stated that John Cobb, son of Gideon Cobb of Canterbury, Connecticut, served more than four years in the Connecticut troops in the War of the Revolution. place of enlistment not given.
Soldier married at Rupert, Bennington County, Vermont, September 25, 1783, Mary Fuller. He died at Orwell, Vermont, December 16, 1815. (age not stated) and she applied for pension September 10, 1839, while seventy-five years of age and a resident of Shelburne, Chittenden County, Vermont, but her claim was not allowed, for the reason that she failed to furnish satisfactory proof of service required by the pension law 5 under which she applied.
Very respectfully,
G. M. Saltzgaber.
Commissioner.

6207.
Ref. 2076
Let. to Wm. Weston
Jan'y 9, 1840.
do to Hon. S.S. Phelps, June 23. 1840.
Mary Cobb.
ack. 7. July 38

Burlington Vt. Oct. 9. 1839
Sir
I forward herewith the application of Mary Cobb for a pension under the act of July 7. 1838- If the proofs are satisfactory please enclose to me her pension certificate.
I am very respectfully Your obt servt. Wm Weston
Jas. S. Edwards Esq Comrs. of Pensions.

William Weston
January 9, 1840.
O. C.

War Dep 107 Pen: 74 Jany 9, 1880
Sir
In the case of Mrs Mary Cobb it appears that the declaration was made in respect to the service by the Comptroller's certificate - The name of John Cobb is a common one and the claimant cannot be allowed for any service credited to that name without satisfactory evidence showing the identity of the late husband with the soldier on the rolls.
The relation of husband & wife prior to Jany '94 should be established by that grade of evidence which is so universally afforded by the Registers of Towns Churches & families as well in relation to births & baptisms as to marriages.
Yr Weston etc Burlington Vt

Pension Office June 23 1840.
Sir,
No. Weston's letter relative to the case of Mary Cobb, widow of John Cobb, deceased, is herewith returned, and in reply I have the honor to state that I cannot consistently with our rules return the papers. I however enclose herewith a copy of the Certificate of the Comptroller of Connecticut as to the services of John Cobb, and state in addition that it  in the declaration of the widow that he was a private and Captain in the Regiment of Col. Swift, and that he served 3 years 5 months and 17 days as a Captain, private, and 1 year 5 months and 21 days as a Captain, as appears from the Comptroller's Certificate.
alleged
Hon. S. S. Phelps, Senate U.S.

REJECTED
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1913 Sept. 30 Mar. to Philip L. Cobb & 1908 Sept. 28. Hist. to Chas. A. Catlin A. E. P. 1922, Jan. 18 " " Jennie C. C. Sherman
P. O.
May Cobb
Service: mil. of John
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: The printed list of 1852 gives cause of suspension as
Re-enlisted: "suspended for proof of identity with the soldier of the same name in Col. Swift's Regiment, calling for four years, ten days service"
Attorney: _____, _____ days service "
P. O.
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

State of Vermont } Chittenden County } }
I Henry Mayo of Burlington in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont, aged fifty eight years, do testify and say that I was well acquainted with John Cobb in his lifetime, and with his wife Mary; that the said John Cobb died at Orwitt in the State of Vermont sometime about the year 1815 or 1816, From the lapse of time since his death I am unable to state the precise time of his death. I attended his funeral. I have been acquainted with his widow Mary Cobb, ever since the death of her said husband and know that she has ever remained and still is his widow. She now resides in Killburne and is an applicant for a pension under the law of congress passed July 7. 1838. The word "has" intulined before signing
Henry Mayo
Sworn to and subscribed this fifth day of October 1838, before me, and I certify that I am acquainted with the said Henry Mayo, and that he is a man of truth and credibility. The words "before me," in this certificate, intulined before signing. Appm d Weston Justice Peace

State of Vermont District of Chittenden ss }
I William Weston Register of the Probate Court for the District of Chittenden and State of Vermont, do hereby certify that Charles Russell before whom the foregoing declaration of Mary Cobb was made and sworn to was at the time of taking the same and still is Judge of said court and that his signature thereto is genuine.
I also certify that William Weston before whom the foregoing affidavit of Henry Mayo was made and sworn to, was, at the time of taking the same and still is a justice of the peace in and for the County of Chittenden, duly commissioned and sworn and that his signature thereto is genuine
In testimony whereof I do hereunto affix the seal of said Court and subscribe my name at Burlington in said district this eighth day of October A.D. 1839.
Wm Weston Register

Comptroller's Office
Hartford Aug 12 1839
I certify that on application for evidence of the services of John Cobb. I have examined the records of settlement made with the Connecticut Line of the Continental Army, and find his name in a settlement with the 7th Connecticut Regiment, known as Swift's Col. before 1780 where he is entered as a private and commenced service July 9 1777. First of settlement Jan'y 1 1780 having served Two Years Ten months 22 days Again same Regiment continued service as a private Jan'y 1 1780 First of settlement July 9 1780 having served Six months 9 days and as Corporal Commenced service July 10 1780 First of settlement Jan'y 1 1781 having served Five months 21 days and in the same Regiment for 1781 Commenced service as Corporal Jan'y 1 1781 First of settlement Dec 31 1781 having served One Year.  As private 3 5. 1 as Corporal 1. 5. 21
Henry W. Gibson Compt.

CHARLES A. CATLIN, 133 HOPE ST. PROVIDENCE, R. I.
September 16, 1908.
Pension Bureau, Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:
I am desirous of securing definite proof from your department that either John Cobb, who enlisted from Plainfield, Conn, see "Connecticut Men of the Revolution," or his widow received a pension in recognition of his services during the Revolutionary War. His wife, Mary Fuller Cobb, tradition and also the records of the "Governor Council of Vermont," state positively as his widow received a pension during her life. John Cobb died in Orwell, Vt. in December 1815, as I have the record, and his widow, Mary Cobb, afterwards removed to her son's home in Rochester, New York where she died a number of years afterward.
I presume there is some definite course to be pursued in obtaining official certificates from your bureau. Will you please inform me what steps are necessary that I may obtain the desired certificates?
As I have John Cobb's record he enlisted at Plainfield, Conn. in the Lexington Alarm Co. and again enlisted May 8, 1775 in Gen. Putnam's Third Co. as corporal to be discharged Dec. 17 th 1775, and again enlisted at Bennington, February 9, 1777 as a corporal for the war, For some reason he again enlisted apparently in Hill's Co. February 28, 1778 and is described as having enlisted at Kent, Conn. in Gen. Putnam's Co. August 7, 1778 into the Seventh Regiment of the Connecticut line, and commissioned as corporal August 20, 1780.

Tradition confirms the fact that he served throughout the war, and after his death it is recorded that his wife received the pension through the remainder of her life.
Will you kindly indicate to me what course to pursue to obtain official confirmation of the fact either of John Cobb's service or the pension of his widow?
Yours truly,
Chas A. Catlin

1566 Mistletoe Drive. Belmont, D.C. Sept. 21, 1913.
Commissioner of Pensions. Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
Can you furnish me any information concerning the following Revolutionary War soldiers?
(1) John Cobb, born in Norwich, Vt. 1744, lived in Plainfield, Vt. Poultney, Vt. Orwell, Vt. d. 1815. His wife was Mary Fuller, b. 1762, d. 1849. (2) Joshua Cobb, brother of the above, b. in Norwich, Vt. 1751, lived in Canterbury, Vt. Poultney, Vt. and Vernon, N.Y. His wife was Hannah Edgerton.
Yours very truly, Philip L. Cobb.

Rev Sec
9 College Ave, N.E. Grand Rapids, Mich. Dec. 31, 1921.
Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir, -
Will you kindly give me a copy of the application for pen- sion that was made by Mary (Fuller) Cobb wife of John Cobb. - pensioner in Vt. He was 1 st Corporal.
And will you also write me whether Jacob Fuller , (b. in Ipswich Mass. d. in Orwell Vt. lived in Canterbury Conn. during the Rev. He was a Private, Paid to Jan 1781) had a pension.
and oblige
Jennie Cobb Cole Sherman