Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34249, John Coats, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Coats, John
S. 34249
CONTENTS

4,164 Massachusetts Roll.
John Coats, 4 Capt Allen Private Mass t Line Ward
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 23 d of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 th of Nov r 1818 and sent to John Hooker, Esq r . Springfield, Mass. —
Arrears to 4 th of Sept r 1818 . . . . $ 35. 20 Semi-ann. all ce ending 4. Mar. 1819 . . . 48. " am t 4m t 12/30. $ 83. 20
2 years { Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Middlefield, Hampshire!

I John Coats of Middlefield in the County of Hampshire & State of Massachusetts & a citizen of the United States do depose & say that I entered the service of United States as a private soldier under Colonel Simon Smith of Lenox in a detachment under Major Cady & march into Canada in the year 1776 — That afterward viz in May 1782 I enlisted into the continental army & was mustered at Springfield in Mass ts by Capt. Seth Bannister for three years & while there recd the annual order from Col Bannister — soon after I was sent to West Point & was put into Col Joseph Wood's regiment & into Capt. Allen's Company & continued in the revolutionary army at the continental establishment until after the end of the war doing service in the first Mass ts regiment until a new arrangement took place after peace was declared that on July 3. 1784 I returned to my home as appears by the attached paper — That having procured a man to take my place for the remainder of the three years on the first day of March 1784 I recd the annual discharge — and I do hereby further depose & say that I am now seventy years old & am in reduced circumstances in life & stand in need of a pension for my services in support
John Coats
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Hampshire SS. B E IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty third day of April — A. D. 1818, came before me, JOHN HOOKER, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit in said State, and including the said county of Hampshire the above named John Coats & applied for the benefit of the provisions of the late laws of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit, by him subscribed, and hereto annexed. I do thereupon hereby declare, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said John Coats the applicant did serve in the revolutionary war, against the common enemy, for more than nine months, on the continental establishment, as set forth in his affidavit aforesaid, and that he is yet a resident citizen of the United States, is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of assistance from his country for support. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the said Circuit Court for the said county of Hampshire to be affixed hereto, this 20 th day of May 1818
I do therefore hereby certify the above & annexed as the testimony and proceedings had before me on the application aforesaid and transmit the same to the Secretary of the department of War of the United States —
John Hooker

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire ss. I Josiah Dwight Clerk of all the Judicial Courts of said Commonwealth for the County of Hampshire do certify that John Sleeper Esq r is Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit that the within signature is his proper hand writing & that the seal hereunto affixed is the proper seal of said Court
Josiah Dwight

[Faint, mirrored handwritten text, likely bleed-through from the reverse side of the card.]
COATS, JOHN (MASS) 5-34249

Springfield May 26 th 1882 Ten o'clock in the Evening — you are hereby directed to take charge of James Slater and see him forth coming to this office tomorrow Morning 7 o'clock not fail — and order as many of the Lads to assist you as are necessary
Col. H. Danister Comt.
To Corp. John Cost at Fort Lamb,

John Coats of the American Reg t having procured an able bodied man to take his place is hereby discharged from the service of the United States -
Given at West Point this 2 d day of March 1854.
Wm H Hool, Comd t

34 249 Rev y INVALID.
File No. 34,249
John Coats Pri Rev Mrs
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 3, Page 8/15
[Arrangement of 1870.]

This certifies that John Coats Soldier In the 1 st Mass ts Regt has returned in his Armes & accoutrements With the Drew from the publick and ones which he then in his possession is his one private property
Elizah Rooty Secy
January 3 rd 1784
attest PMO by Capt

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Coats, John GRADE Private "in the LINE Artillery Artificers of Pennsylvania
WARRANT NUMBER 12959 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED February 14, 1791 to Alexander Porter, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.