Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35865, Isaac Coovert, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Covert, Isaac. or Covert or Covart
8 35865
CONTENTS

Dead. see letter Oct. 16. 1835 to John Covert.
Let Covert recd V. Kentucky 1/2 52 " same 21 " "
Kentucky. (16.404.)
Isaac Covert, (R)
of Mercer Co: in the state of Kentucky, who was a fifer — in the regiment commanded by Colonel Ogden, of the N. Jersey line, for the term of one year.
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky, at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 4. of October, 1819.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27. of Jan'y, 1820. and sent to hon: Geo: Robertson Member of Congress from Kent.
Arrears to 4th of proportion of 4. March, 7 40.26. Semi-ann. all'ce ending 1. March, 1820. } $: 40.26. 5 mo. 31. }
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }

State of Kentucky Mercer County Vez
I Isaac Coover of s d State & County for the purpose of obtain- ing the benefits of the provisions of the late act of Congress concern- ing Revolutionary Soldiers &c. do hereby state on Oath that I am at this time sixty four years of age that on the 29 th day of October 1775 at Gar- rison Tavern Somerset County in the State of New Jersey. I enlisted for the term of one year as a regular soldier in the Continental line with Capt Pahomeh of the first New Jersey Reg t Commanded at that time by Col d Winds and Lieut d Col d Ogden that I was a short time after I enlisted detach- ed from Capt Pahomeh Company and joined Capt Meeken Company of 3 d Reg t as a Fifer that I marched into Canada to the relief of Genl St. Clair Montgomery and was at the Battle of the "Three Rivers" and in many Skir- mishes during our retreat from Canada That I faithfully served out the time for which I enlisted and was honourably discharged from the 3 d Company and Reg t at Elizabeth Town in the State of New Jersey Nov 6 th 1776 That Owing to my age and many infirmities I am un- able to endure hard labour, and having no person to labor for me having but a small Farm of s d rate land I consider myself as so reduced in my circum- stances that I stand in great need of assistance from my Country for support as I am unable to labor so as to support myself That I have long since lost or mislaid my discharge and I relinquish all further claim I may have on the U States for a pension & I can further state that I was with Genl Sterling on sea off Sandy Hook in taking a British Vessel - of 4 Guns previous to my discharge in the Spring 1776 Given under my hand this 4 th day of October 1819
Albany Attest J. B. Coover Thos. Allen B.B.
State of Kentucky Mercer County Let Vez
I Daniel Coover do hereby state on Oath that I well know that my brother Isaac Coover enlisted in the Continental Service as a regular soldier in the fall 1775 and that he continued in the service twelve months during the revolutionary war Given under my hand this 4 th day of October 1819
Daniel Coover Albany Attest Thos. Allen B.B.

State of Kentucky Mercer County Set
At a County Court held for said County on Monday the 4 th day of October 1819 Isaac Powell who subscribed his name to the within (1 st ) Certificate came into Court and made Oath to the truth of the statements contained therein. And Daniel Powell also came into Court and made Oath to the truth of the statements made and subscribed to by him in the within (2 nd ) Certificate which was Ordered to be copied and forwarded to the Secretary at War.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the Office this 25 th day of October 1819 Thos. Allen C.C.

Adm l
Isaac Covert Pensioner
State of Kentucky } Mercer County ss } I Joseph Morgan presiding justice for the county court of Mercer do hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the aforesaid Isaac Covert did serve during the Revolutionary war as stated in the preamble declaration against the common enemy for the term therein stated on the Continental establishment and I transcribe the proceedings and testimony taken and heard before me to the secre- tary of War pursuant to the act of Congress in such cases made and provided and I am satisfied that he merits the assistance of his country for support I also certify that Thos Allen is Clerk of said Court and that full faith and credit is due to all his official acts Given under my hand this 24 day of Nov r 1819 J Morgan

To the Hon. J. L. Edwards Comr. of Pensions &c the foregoing affidavits it is supposed by the unassisted may be very imperfect in point of form and perhaps deficient in substance it is therefore a general statement of the claimants case submitted for your consideration if there should be any insurmountable difficulty in the way of his obtaining any thing he will be much obliged to be informed of the fact if otherwise information will be thankfully received and the favor duly acknowledged Franklin Johnson Comr. of Vets Respectfully Yours &c J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
John G. Gant By G. Hicks

In order to obtain arrears of a pension supposed to be due to Isaac Covert deceased at the time of his decease by virtue of the act of Congress passed 1818 John Covert of the County of Johnson makes the following statement Indiana to wit: on this fifth day of October Johnson County: in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty five personally came John Covert of the County and State aforesaid before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for said County who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain arrears of pension that he believes due to him in right of his deceased father by virtue of the act of Congress passed 1818 that his said deceased Father Isaac Covert in the year 1818 he thinks due forty three dollars a half years pay thinks in March of said year that the said Isaac Covert at that time resided in Spencer County State of Kentucky that he drew the said half years pay at Lexington Kentucky that soon after making said draw all the papers then in the possession of the said Isaac Covert in relation to his said pension were destroyed by fire that the said Isaac Covert after being dropped from the pension rolls on account of property never previous to his death which took place some time in the month of September in the year 1825 made any application for pension money or ever received any after the revival of the said act of 1818 that the widow of the said Isaac Covert removed to the state of Indiana Johnson County together with this applicant where she died in the year 1828 now having made any application for the pension of her said husband and never having obtained

any that he the said John Covert is the oldest son of the said Isaac Covert that he is fifty three years old that he has not received any money on account of the said Isaac Coverts pension and further saith not
John Covert
Sworn and subscribed this 5 th day of October in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty five before me
John C. Knowlton seal
Justice of the peace
Indiana to wit
Johnson County
Before me the undersigned a justice of the peace in and for said county.
Personally appeared Daniel Covert of the County of Spencer State of Kentucky who being duly sworn according to law says that he is the brother of the said Isaac Covert mentioned in the foregoing affidavit and knows the facts therein stated to be true and further states on oath that the said Isaac Covert lived in Summerville County in the State of New Jersey when he entered the service entitled thinks in November in the year seventeen seventy five as a biper served under Colonel
Wm. H. Sullivan and Gatsb marched march first Brunswick New York City from there up North River from there to Lond from there retreated to Secondaville where they were discharged in the month of October 1776 does not recollect the name or number of the regiment none particular incidents he cannot recollect from old age and consequent loss of memory after the said Isaac Covert was discharged as above stated the said Daniel Covert says he returned to the place where he entered the service where he resided but a short time before he was again called upon

and was out several Years during the war after which he removed to the State of Pennsylvania where he resided a short time and removed to the State of Kentucky Spencer County where he resided until his death and further saith not Daniel Covant
Sworn and subscribed this 5th day of October in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred and thirty five before me James Chenoweth Seal
Justice of the peace
Indiana to wit \S I Samuel Kennett Clerk Johnson County \S of said County do hereby certify that James Chenoweth before whom the foregoing affidavits were subscribed and sworn is a regular acting Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn that full faith and credit are due to his official acts as such and that the above is his genuine signature
In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix my Seal of office this 5 th day of October A.D. 1835
Sam l P. Kennett Clerk

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., July 26, 1923
In reply to your request of _____, for the history of Isaac Coover (or Covert or Covart) a soldier of the Revolutionary War, the following is taken from the soldier's claim for pension.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     ✓ Oct. 29, 1775 to Nov. 6, 1776 Fifer Polhemus Meeker Winds N.J.          
Battles engaged in, Three Rivers, many skirmishes assisted in taking a British vessel off Sandy Hook.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Somerset Co., N.J.
Date of application for pension, Oct. 4, 1819. His l. was al. ✓
Residence at date of application, Mercer Co., Ky. ✓
Age at date of application, 64 yrs. ✓
Remarks: Shortly after Rev. soldier moved to Pa. and then to Mercer Co., Ky. - where he died in Sept. 1825 leaving a widow Anna (who after his death moved to Johnson Co., Ind.) and the following children all residents of Johnson Co., Ind. in 1852: John (eldest son, living in Franklin, said Johnson Co. in 1835 and aged 53 yrs.) Cornelius, Simon, Daniel, Lemma or Lenna who mar. S. Segrance, Martha who mar. Freeman and Jane who mar. Vore - Widow died in said Johnson Co. in 1828. ✓
Respectfully, Commissioner.
not corrected by C.A.T.
(Sol. had a bro. Daniel in Mercer Co. Ky. 1819, whose service named for said sol. was not used - no officers + no details stated.)

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.
November 9, 1926.
Miss C. M. Rowell, Public Library, Los Angeles, Calif.
Madam:
While the decla. is a copy the nature is so copied from both his & brother's signatures I have to advise you, that from the papers in the pension claim, S. 35865 , it appears that Isaac Coover , (he so signed his name) while living in Somerset County, New Jersey, enlisted October 29, 1775 and served until November 6, 1776, as a Fifer in Captains Polhemus and Meeker's Companies, Colonel Windes' New Jersey Regiment. He was in the battle of Three Rivers, in many skirmishes and at the capture of a vessel off Sandy Hook.
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 4, 1819, while living in Mercer County, Kentucky, aged sixty-four years. He died there, in September 1825, leaving a widow, Anna, who died in 1828, in Johnson County, Indiana. The following children survived them, all living in Johnson County, Indiana in 1852: the oldest son, John, who signed as Covert, he was about seventy years old then; Daniel, who signed as Covart; Cornelius; Simon; Lemma, who married ---Legrange; Martha, who married --- Freeman; and Jane, who married --- Voris.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT. Commissioner.

Public Library, Los Angeles, Calif., Nov. 1, 1926.
Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sirs:-
Some weeks ago I wrote asking for the pension record of a David Morehouse who was born in Vermont, probably, about 1752, and who after the close of the Revolutionary War moved to Saratoga Co., Town of Malta, N.Y. He also resided in Ballston Spa, and Saratoga Springs. He was a surgeon's mate, and had a pension. Died in North Cohocton, N.Y. about 1860.
see negative letter in comm. David Morehouse S 35865
Will you please send me a copy of his pension record, it is very much needed.
S 35865
Also, I want the record of an Isaac Covert , Born in New Jersey in 1755(?) and died in Mercer Co., Kentucky. He married Anna Van Arsdale. He had a pension in 1820.
As I had not heard from my first letter, I thought it might have miscarried.
Very truly yours, (Miss) C. M. Powell Genealogy Dept.

Be pleased to say to what time Isaac Coover, formerly on the Kentucky roll under the act of March 18. 1878 was paid?
Respectfully Oct. 16. 1835.
1 st March 1820

Office of Edwin H. Sturges, Secretary  First National Bank OF OAK GROVE Oak Grove, Louisiana
June 12, 1928.
Pension Com. Dept. of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:-
I would like information regarding an "Isaac Gouge" who was a filter in the Rev. War, and who was on Pension Roll in January, 1880, in Mercer County, Ky., and I think he enlisted from Somerset Co., N.J. The information I would like is names of his parents, wife, and children, if the Pension Records give them. Please give any other information you have that bears on his family. This Isaac Gouge was born Dec. 5, 1755, but I have not found where. This information would be thankfully received.  (or "Gouge")
Very sincerely,
Rufus T. Peep
185-2 1835 1881  5-3 1-55
185-2 1835 1881
1879 5-6 1881

Office of Rufus P. Roope, Receiver First National Bank OF OAK GROVE Oak Grove, Louisiana
June, 12, 1923.
Pension Com. Dept. of Pensions, Washington, D.C.,
Dear sir:-
(or "Covert")
I would like information regarding an "Isaac Covert", who was a Fifer in the Rev. War, and who was on Pension Roll in January, 1820, in Mercer County, Ky., and I think he enlisted from Somerset Co. N.J. The information I would like is names of his parents, wife, and children, if the Pension Records give them. Please give any other information, you have that bears on his family. This Isaac Covert was born Dec. 5, 1755, but I have not found where.
This information would be thankfully received.
Very Sincerely,
Rufus P. Roope

1923 July 26 - Hist. of Rufus C. Rootes mnt. to C.W. Rowell. As 1926 Nov. 9. Heir. to Miss C.M. Rowell.
35865
INVALID.
Rev
File No. 85,865
Isaac Rowert
Hefer Rev. 182
Act: 18 m March 18 m
Index: - Vol. 2 , Page 91
[Arrangement of 1870.]
✓

FREE
Wm. A. C. Heath Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.

Franklin Jan 6/52
Hon. J. C. Breath.
Sir
Isaac Covert was a pensioner for services during the revolutionary war, He made an draw and recd half his annual allowance and never drew any more. The payment he rec d was in 1817. or 1818 according to the best information
He said Isaac Covert died in September 1835 in Mercer County Kentucky. He drew his pension at Lexington, in said State. He left at his death a widow and several children. The widow without receiving or applying for any part the pension due and in arrears died in 1838. The children are still living and wish to draw the amount which their father was entitled to at the time of his death that is from 1817-18 up to 1835 except the one payment. He had a certificate of a Pension but that Certificate is lost. Will you please inform us what it will be necessary to prove to enable the children to obtain the amount due them
Respectfully Yours &c
Overstreet & Hunter
Franklin
Johnson County Indiana

Isaac Covert May 1818
J. C. Heath Commpioneer of Pensions Washington D.C.
FREE

Franklin Indiana Feb 17th 1882
Sir
Enclosed is a certificate of purchase and other matters in Case of the heirs of Isaac Court. for an annuity of pension If anything is wanting please inform us also what disposition is made of the claim aans
Owensheet & Hunter Franklin
Johnson County Indiana
J. H. Heath Court Pension

State of Indiana County of Johnson Set
I Jacob Silver Clerk of the Probate Court held at Franklin in and for Johnson County in the State of Indiana do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that Isaac Covert deceased was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of eight dollars per month, That he was a Resident of the County of Mercer in the State of Kentucky and died in the County of Mercer in said State on the _____ day of September AD 1825, That he left a widow Anna Covert who was afterwards married and who died on the _____ day of
AD 1828 That said Isaac Covert at the time of his death left the following named persons his Children all of whom reside in Johnson County Indiana to wit John Covert, Cornelius Covert, Simon Covert, Daniel Covert, Jennie LeGrange (late Jennie Covert), Martha Freeman (late Martha Covert) and Jane Norris (late Jane Covert) That the pension Certificate of said pensioner has been lost and after due search and inquiry therefor it cannot be found. That said pension was for Revolutionary Service that said pensioner never received but one payment on the same which was for six months and was made at Lexington Kentucky in the year 1817 or 1818 That neither his said widow nor any one of his said Children ever received any portion of the pension due said pensioner at the time of his death.
In testimony Whereof I have hereunto set My hand and the Seal of the Johnson Probate Court at Franklin in said County this 2nd day of February 1852
Jacob Silver Clerk of the J.P.C.

Franklin Ind Oct 7 th 1855
Free
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Washington D.C.
Isaac Coles Ken. 1818 Brook B. 24 Jan 20
Q Oct 16 Mason Appalachian