Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16930, Samuel Covell, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Govell, Samuel Govill
W 16930
Jerusha
CONTENTS

New York 4044
Jerusha Covill widow of Samuel Covill
who died on the 27. June 1825 of Broome Co. in the State of New York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Breer of the regt, commanded by Col. Jackson in the Mass. line for 8 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 th day of July 1844 and sent to Miss s Ellis & Bullard, Waterford, N. York
Arrears to the 4th of March 1844 346 : 58 Semi-annual allowance ending 4. Sep. 13 : 33
$359 : 91
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3. }
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk. Book C. Vol. 1. Page 109
Col to ad. R (war) Nov. 16. 48

Declaration,
In order to obtain the benefit of the 8 th section of the act of Congress of the 4 th July 1836.
State of New York Broome County } ss.
On this 24 th day of April in the year Eighteen hundred and forty four, personally appeared before me William Seymore, First Judge of the County Courts in and for said county of Broome, Jerusha Covill a resident of the town of Chenango, in the county of Broome and State of New York aged ninety one 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 4. 1836: That she is the widow of Samuel Covill a soldier of the Revolution that the said Samuel Covill enlisted from the town of Chatham in the County of Barnstable and State of Massachusetts in the year 1777 as a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Brown in Col. Henry Jacksons 9 th Regiment of Massachusetts 8 Months men and served from the summer of 1777 to May 1778 when he was discharged at Valley Forge in the state of Pennsylvania. That her said husband also served at Roxbury under Capt. Godfrey in 1776. but that her memory does not enable her to state more fully her husbands services. She further declares that she was married to the said Samuel Covill on the first day of March in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy that her husband the aforesaid Samuel Covill died on the twenty seventh day of Jan in the year 1825 and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof herewith annexed.
Jerusha Covill mark Sworn & subscribed on the day and year above written before me
Wm Seymore first Judge of Broome County Courts
I do hereby certify that the above named Jerusha Covill is a credible person and that from age & bodily infirmities she is unable to attend the County Court. Wm Seymore
Binghamton April 24 th 1844.

State of New York Broome County ss
I George Rum, Clerk of the said County of Broome, do hereby certify, that William Seymour before whom the within declaration or affidavit, was sub- scribed and sworn to First Judge of Broome County, Common Pleas, and duly authorized to take the same, and that I am well acquainted with his handwriting and merely believe the signature within written to be genuine. In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the County aforesaid this 24 th day of April 1840.
Geo. Rum Clerk

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Joshua Coville
NY
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W. L. Miller Nov 2

State of New York } Broome County } I, Enusha Corell being duly sworn deposes and saith that she is now in the ninety first year of her age, that before her marriage she lived in the town of Sandwich Barnstable County in the State of Massachusetts. That her Fathers name was Gershon Hall and her Mothers name was Mary Hall — That she first became acquainted with Sam- uel Corell at Sandwich aforesaid — He at that time residing in the town of Chatham in the county of Barnstable aforesaid and that she resided there when the Revolution war commenced — That she was married to said Samuel Corell at Sandwich aforesaid on the first day of March A.D. 1770 — That she resided with her said husband at Chatham aforesaid at the time of the breaking out of said war at Boston — That she recollects well that she served as a centry or guard and did other military duty at or in the vicinity of Boston at the time of the Battle of Bunker Hill and after that time while the army was at that place — and continued to act as such and perform various military services from time to time until he afterwards enlisted in the regular army. That sometime in the year 1776 or 1777 but at what particular time this deponent does not recollect, the said Samuel Corell enlisted in the regular army (they then residing at Chatham aforesaid) and immediately after he enlisted he went to Lancaster in the State of Pennsylvania. That said Samuel Corell served in the regular army from the time he enlisted to the close of said revolutionary war, when he returned home

As soon as he was able to travel - He being very dangerously sick at the time he obtained his discharge - That she recollects the names of Joseph Payne & Bezekiah Done and Samuel Cash as persons who enlisted at the time her said husband enlisted - That she thinks Joseph Done was an officer of the company in which said Samuel Cove enlisted but of this she is not certain - That she does not know what route the said Samuel Cove took after he enlisted, to reach Lancaster except that he afterwards informed her that he struck the North River at Fishkill - That she recollects hearing her husband say after his return home that he had a written discharge and that the officer who gave it to him told him at the time - "That he looked fitter to go to the hospital than he did to start on a journey" - That she does not know what has become of the discharge or other papers relating to the services of her said husband - That he served as a private in the Army and she does not know whether he ever held any office in the Army or not -
And this deponent further saith that the marriage service between herself and said Samuel Cove was performed by the Rev d Jonathan Mills of Harnick  Chambersburg aforesaid - And this deponent further saith that she had two children before her husband enlisted - to wit Brissilla Cove born 16 September 1772 and Jerusha Cove born 11 February 1774 -
And this deponent further saith that said Samuel Cove died in Dutchess County N.Y. on the 27 th day of June A.D. 1825 aged 77 years

and 36 days - And that the said respondent has never intermarried since his death but still remains his widow -
Dated December 22. 1843
Fernha Leonard
Sworn this 22 nd day of December A.D. 1843 before me
H. Collier J. Peace
The word chatham erased - and Harnick written above before signing - H. Collier J.P.
State of New York, } Broome County ss. } I, John K. Moore, Clerk of said County, Do hereby certify, that Hamilton Collier, Esq., whose name appears above, & before whom the above affidavit, purport- to have been sworn, was, at the time of swearing or taking said affidavit, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly elected and sworn, and authorized to do the same, And that I am well acquainted with his handwriting, and believe his signature, above, to the jurat of said affidavit, purporting to be his, to be genuine. Given under my hand and official Seal, at Binghamton, in said County, this 22 nd day of December, A.D. 1843.
John K. Moore, Clerk

January ye twentieth one thousand seven hundred and seventy
Then Samuel Lovil of Chatham entered his intentions of marriage with Jerusha Hall of Harwich in order for publishment in Chatham
By Nathan Basset Town clerk
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true extract from the Chatham Town records with the exception of the date which is expressed in fair and legible figures January ye 20th 1770
Attest Ephraim Taylor Town clerk Certified at Chatham April 23 1844
I Ephraim Taylor depose and say that I hold the office of Town clerk of the town of Chatham in the county of Barnstable and state of Massachusetts and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town as certified by me.
Ephraim Taylor -
Sworn to before me
Josiah Maye Justice of peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Barnstable ss I Timothy Read Clerk of the courts in and for said County of Barnstable hereby certify that Josiah Mayo Esquire of Chatham in said County is a justice of the Peace within and for said County duly commissioned and qualified and was so at the date of the within certificate and that the within signature purporting to have been made by him is his genuine signature
In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas this twenty fifth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundreds and forty four Timothy Read Clerk

Marryed in Haverwick by the Rev d Jonathan Mills Mr Samuel Covil of Chatham Is le Miss Jerusha Hall of Haverwick March the fifth in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy.
Attest John Allen Town Clerk
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true extract from the Haverwick Town Records with the exception of the date which is expressed in fair and legible figures March 5 th 1870
John Allen Town Clerk
I John Allen depose and say that I hold the Office of Town Clerk of the Town of Haverwick in the County of Barnstable and State of Massachusetts and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said Town certified by me
John Allen Town Clerk
Certified at Haverwick April 22 1844
Sworn to before me
Obadiah Taylor Justice of peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Barnstable ss
I Dorothy Reed Clerk of the Courts in and for said County of Barnstable hereby certify that Ephraim Taylor Esquire of Chatham in said County is a justice of the Peace within and for said County duly Commission- ed and qualified and was so on the twenty second instant and that the within signature purport- ing to have been made by him is his genuine signature
In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court at Common Pleas this twenty fifth day of April A.D. one thousand eight hundred & forty four Dorothy Reed Clerk

Dunella Wiley Cyba David

State of New York, Dutchess County on the 25 th day of January 1842, before me came Drusilla Wilby and made oath to the following facts viz that she is the daughter of Samuel and Jerusha Covel and is now seventy one years of age and remembers her father Samuel Covel returning home to his mother Jerusha Covel from the war of the Revolution of this country after the close of the war and this deponent says she was between 9 and ten years of age and well remembers her father saying the war was over and he had got his discharge don't remember from what officer did not know her father when he returned Home he had been gone so long can not say how long he was gone from home her father said he had travelled from Lancaster in Pennsylvania home to Chatham in the State of Massachusetts or Pocumtuck and was very much fatigued Elizabeth Dole came with him in company all the way and lived neighbor to him afterwards remembers her father and mother moved from Massachusetts to this state and settled in Dutchess County and lived together until the death of her father knows they had a family Bible has seen the said Samuel and Jerusha Covel's marriage recorded in it the Bible has since by some accident been destroyed since his death her mother

Then broke up keeping house his father died June 27 th 1824 Lived and died in the town of Clinton in Dutchess county in this state
Sworn and subscribed before me this 25 th day of January 1834
Samuel A. McCord Justice of the Peace for said County
his Brother in Law M. Wiley
STATE OF NEW-YORK, } ss. County of Duchess.
I, Robt. Hitchen — Clerk of the County of Duchess, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That Samuel A. McCord Esq r whose name is subscribed to the annexed affidavit was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace, duly elected & sworn in and for the County aforesaid, dwelling in the said County.
AND FURTHER, That I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice — and verily believe that the signature to the said affidavit is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said County, the 27 th day of January — A. D. 1844.
Robt. Hitchen Clerk

16930 Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 16930
Jerusha Covill Widow of Samuel Covill Rev Rev War
Act: July 4th 1836
Index:—Vol. A Page 150
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I the subscriber being Eighty one years of age do depose and say that I was a private soldier in the Regiment of Col Henry Jackson 9th Massachusetts Regiment in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy seven I did enlist in Chatham for Eight months after I enlisted the Selectmen did notify me that I must be ready to march in twenty four hours after notice but did not receive marching orders until about four weeks after that but held myself in readiness to march during that time but after joining the Regiment the Col refused to discharge me until I had served Eight months after I joined the Regiment making from the time of first enlistment nine months I was in Capt Brown Company I further testify that Samuel Cobell that I did and served during the time that I served in the same Regiment and was discharged at the same time that I was at Valley Forge in Pennsylvania in the month of May one thousand seven hundred and seventy Eight Joseph Young
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Barnstable ss.
Be it known that on this second day of April in the year one thousand Eight hundred & forty four before me Ephraim Taylor Justice of the peace for the said county personally appeared the above named Joseph Young and made oath to the truth of the above statement by him subscribed and I further certify that I am acquainted with said Young and that he is a man of truth and a creditable witness Ephraim Taylor Justice of peace

In charge of 6 Ellis,

State of New York
Saratoga County ss Be it remembered that on the sixth day of January in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & forty four before me person- ally came Solomon Gany and made oath as follows: I am eighty four years of age and am a Revolutionary Pensioner under the act of 1832 as I believe I have been a Pensioner 12 years I knew Samuel Covill he entered the Service with me under Captain John Pender at Sharon in the State of Connecticut we marched from Sharon to Danbury from Danbury to Norwalk this was subsequent to the time that Norwalk & Danbury had been burnt and in the summer of the same year the name of our Colonel was Canfield of New Milford We marched from Norwalk to Northcastle at Northcastle we joined Col Webb's Regiment we then went to Horseneck & were stationed there we marched from there to Piskitack and arrived there not long after Arnold's treason we mar- ched from there to Fishkill & then heard of Burgoyne's surrender we then returned

To Horace Meek We were together engaged in the service as aforesaid at least nine months a number of our company enlisted into the Standing Army I was discharged at Horsemeek many years since that time I do not recollect of having been laid off
Subscribed & sworn before me the 6 th day of January 1844 I certify that I am personally acquainted with the said Solomon Young & that his character for truth & veracity is fair & his statement in my opinion is entitled to credit. J. Meek Minister of the Gospel
STATE OF NEW-YORK, } ss. Saratoga County Clerk's Office.
I, HORACE GOODRICH, Clerk of the County of Saratoga, Do Certify, That J Meek before whom the annexed affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit, to be his proper hand writing and signature.
WITNESS my hand and seal of Office, the 6 th day of January 1844
Horace Goodrich Clerk

Jas L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.

Boston June 21 st 1848
Dear Sir
Herewith I transmit to you a certificate of the revolutionary services of Samuel Coville.
His widow Jemima Coville has drawn a pension for services of said Coville, not set forth in this certificate.
Please transmit to me such papers as may be necessary to secure an additional pension, and much oblige
Yours ob t serv t A. L. West
47 Court St.
Boston, Mass.
Jas L. Edwards Esq. Washington. D. C.

Feb. 1844
My. Mr. Hovious S.
Edwards.
Pearson Min. Hm
6 days, E. Ellis M.D.

Sir
You will oblige me by your early attention to the enclosed
3 rd Wm
Yours sincerely C. Ellis
Rev. R. R. R.

Waterford 18 th June 1884
Sir,
Your letter directed to my Ellis dated 13 th inst. had been forwarded to me. You say in that letter that "Eight months services in Henry Jacksons Regiment is Established". Now we understand that when we establish 6 months service it is sufficient and the widow is entitled to as much pay as if she had Established 3 years service. Is this right?
2 o . In regard to the marriage we think you must have overlooked the papers on that point or otherwise they never reached you. You say there is still an objection in regard to the date of the marriage.
Now I sent you a certificate off the Town Clerk of the Town of Harwich in the County of Barnstable. Mass. dated April 22 nd 1844 signed by John Allen Town Clerk and duly sworn to and certified. By which certificate it appears upon Town records of that Town that widow was married to the soldier Samuel Covil. March 5 th 1770.
We thus produce record evidence of the fact. The highest evidence known to our laws and we cannot imagine what more could be required. I suppose you must have not seen or not read that paper. I will wait for a reply which will much oblige.
J. L. Edwards Esq. Comm. of Pensions
Yours very respectfully Ellis & Bullard per E. A. Bullard

Admitted Under act July 4. 1836, at $26.66 per Annum from 4 March 1839
(8 Mo. Scars)
Messrs Ellis & Bullard, Waterford, New York

In matter of Dereshia Covill }
Watford July 1 st 1874
Sir
We have the act of 1836 but that I see refers to act of 1832, which we have not got, when does her pension at $26. 00 commence?
She is willing to accept the \frac{1}{2} pay now provided it will not prejudice her right to establish further time to receive the remainder of the Pension.
Is this a sufficient acceptance or must we get one duly acknowledged by her? Can you spare a copy of the act of 1832. Your answers to the above enquiries this week or as soon as possible will much oblige the widow as she is very old, & also
Hon. J. L. Edwards, Comr. &c
Yours & Ellis O'Callaghan

May 13 '44
My lady's dress not estimated for
J. L. Edwards Esq
Pen. Court Washington
6 Ellis, H. C. Ellis MR

I have read the entire certificate applicable to the case of Jessica Ladd.
6 Ellis
11-11-01

In matter of Application of Jerusha Covill for Pension. Setty Mass. City

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office: Boston,
May 9. 1842.
Dear Sir,
I have examined the rolls of service in this Office and can find only 6 days service of Saml Corliss in Capt Benj Godfrey's in 1778. I do not find any rolls of Capt Brown in Col Jackson's regiment of 8 months service in this Office.
Respectfully your obed Servt for order Secretary
W. S. Lane
Mrs. A. Ellis Wadsworth N.Y.C.

Apr 29 '44
Mr Covert
John L. Edwards
Camp Springs 4 Pensylvania
H. B. Ellis M.R.
11-

hi In the case of S. Covill whose widow applies for a pension, I send you additional evidence to call your attention
Yours truly C. Ellis.
No. 110, 28 April 44.

18 1/2
Wm B Ellis Hon. B Ellis M.C. Waterford State of New York
Lovee Mutter Panton

Losses matter Pension
State of New York
Watertown
Hon. B. Ellis M.P.
Hon. B. Ellis
1874

Chatham April 3 - 1844 Dear Sir
Yours of 21st ult came only to hand the records of this town gives an account of the names of the men that enlisted during the War of Independence after examining and not finding any thing that would be of use I found by inquiring that the acts of the enlistments were kept by an agent that agent having died some years ago and it was stated by those that knew that the accounts were taken away by some one that wished to get evidence to obtain a pension I next called on Joseph Young and Silathiel Nickerson Revolutionary patriots and the only ones living in this place Mr Young gave so exact account of the services of S Cobble and having been in the service himself at the same time & place I thought after consulting a gentleman that has had some experience in getting pensions that it would be for your advantage to take his statement under oath I have done so and inclose the same you will see by the statement that he served in the Regiment Eighth months and held himself in readiness to march one month before he received marching orders making nine in the whole Mr Silathiel Nickerson thinks

but could not give oath (he being) 85 years old and something forgetful) that S r Covill served with him previous to serving with Young six months commencing Feb 1776 at Roxbury and Dorchester under Gen t Washington at the evacuation of Boston by Gen t Gage and if Covill served at that time he served in Capt Benjamin Godfrey's Company if the Rolls are preserved you will find this is all the evidence that can be had here I have been particular to get all that could be found Nathan Covill a brother of Samuel is now living at Bath. State of Maine he may know something respecting the service of Samuel in 1776 I spent one day in collecting this information paid 37 1/2 cents postage of your letter 42 cents to Mr Young and the fees for taking 50 cents $2.75 will pay me for fees time & expense
Yours with due respect
Ephraim Taylor Town Clerk

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston:
June 20 1848.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Samuel Covill is borne upon a Pay Roll of Capt Thomas Hamilton's Company for service in the County of Barnstable as a Captain from July 8 to December 31 1775. 6 months and 9 days so stated upon the roll.
Upon a Pay Roll of Capt Benjamin Godfrey's Company in Major Jonas Winslow's Regt in the alarm at Bedford and Falmouth in September 1778, as a Sergeant 6 days.
Not upon Rolls of Capt Brown, Col. Jackson's Regt.
The preceding is all the evidence of service of any one of the name, shown by the military records in this Office.

And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Wm. T. Fitzgerald Secretary of the Commonwealth.

To the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The undersigned, daughter of Samuel Covill, a soldier in the war of the revolution, deceased, and of Jerusha Covill late of Binghampton N. Y., deceased, widow of said Samuel, and a pensioner under the acts of the U.S. granting pensions to widows of Revolutionary soldiers, respectfully requests evidence of her father's (said S. Covill) services in said war.
She believes that he enlisted from the town of Otham, in the County of Barnstable in said Mass. in the year 1776 or 1777 and served as a private in Brown's Company or Jackson's Regiment - thinks it was the Mass. 8 months' men.
She thinks that he also served under Capt. Godfrey in Roxbury in 1776
She therefore desires an examination of the revolutionary documents, in the premises, and requests a certificate of all the services of said Samuel Covill.
Jane Shaler Carpenter
Binghampton Broome Co. N. Y. June 13 th A.D. 1848
Signed in my presence
Advena P. Boyd
Justice of the Peace

N Let to Hon. C. Ellis 12 March 1844 let to same June 12. 1844 to same June 18. 44 " Ellis & Bulmer June 20 1844.
Jerusha Lovell New York.
Act 4 July 1836.