Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 1796-100, John Cochran, Continental

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental
Cochran, John
B.L.W. 1796-100
Residence Vt. in 1876
CONTENTS

John Cockran

State of Vermont Rutland County ss 3
I Asa Brown of Whiting in the State of Vermont, aged 69 years, being duly sworn, do depose & say, that John Cochran, a soldier in Col. Haren's Regt. (called the Congress Regt.) in the Revolutionary war, was with me at Yorktown in Pennsylvania in the spring of 1783, where where I became acquainted with him; - that soon after he was discharged, & we traveled to- =gether to Connecticut - and about 3 years afterwards we both came to Vermont. I un- =derstood he belonged to the Congress Regt. at the time I first saw him, & afterwards I saw him have a discharge from said Regt. but do not recollect by whom it was signed. I think however I cannot be mistaken as to his belonging to said Regt. I have been acquainted with him ever since, until the winter of 1816, when said Cochran died at Brandon, about ten miles from where I lived - and that I never knew of his being a prisoner

of the United States, & believe he was not. That I am well acquainted with his son John Cochran, who has applied for county land, & have known him from a boy. I further say that I have frequently heard said John Cochran deceased say, that he employed some person, whose name I do not recollect, to get his pay & county land, but that he had never received any thing for them, & had never heard from his agent, & supposed he had been cheated out of it. And further the deponent truth not —
Asa his Brown mark
He described Samuel before me this 18 th day of March 1831
R. Temple Mrs. Pierce

John Coehran N. 1796

State of Vermont Rutland County ss }
I John Cochran of the County of Rutland aforesaid aged 38 years, do upon oath testify & declare, that I am the son & only heir at law of John Cochran who entered the service of the U. States in the year of the Revolution for the term of during the war, in the Congress Regiment commanded by Col. Hosen, and who continued therein until the close of the war in 1783, & was discharged from said Regiment. I further declare that I have neither received, assigned or transferred my claim in any manner whatsoever. Therefore I request the Secretary of War to have the warrant sent to me at Rutland Vermont, (to the care of R. Temple) and this shall be his receipt for the same.
Subscribed & sworn to This 12 th Sept. 1831
John Cochran
R. Temple H.
Before me Robert Temple a justice of the Peace, personally appeared John Cochran, subscriber to the above, & acknowledged the declaration & letter of order to be his free act & deed for the purpose therein mentioned. At the same time also appeared Asa Brown a person of truth & respectability, who upon oath deposed that he

was well acquainted with John Cochran deceased, father of the above. John Cochran - that said deceased was a soldier in the Regiment commanded by Col. Hosen, & also, he has every reason to believe, did perform the service as mentioned by his son as above.
Rutland Sep. 12 th 1831
Asa X Brown mark
H. Temple J.P.
In testimony that the above named H. Temple was a magistrate duly authorized to administer oaths & take acknowledgments, I hereunto subscribed my name & affixed my seal of office this 28 th day of Sept. 1831
Rufus Root County Clerk
State of Vermont, Rutland County ss
I Theadiah Noble, Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Rutland do certify, that satisfactory evidence has been produced to me to prove, that John Cochran who signed the foregoing, is the only child & legitimate heir at law in fee of John Cochran late a soldier in Col. Hosen's Regt. in the Revolutionary war, who died since the war, and who was discharged from said Regt. in 1783 -
Given under my hand & seal of office This 3 rd day of Oct. 1831 Gladiah Noble