Daniel
Cowgill
State
of Ohio - County of
Preble
Applicant
died in Grant County, Kentucky
On this 21st day of September in the year of our Lord 1832, personally appeared in open court before the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Preble in the State of Ohio, Daniel Cowgill, aged 76 years, a resident of the County of Preble who being first duly sworn to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress passed 7th of June 1832. That he entered for three years on or about the first of October in the year 1777 in the army of the Revolution in a light horse company commanded by Captain John Yancey in a regiment of Virginia light horse commanded by Colonel Crockett at Culpeper County, Va. That he marched with the company to ___ Virginia where they took winter quarters and remained there until the latter part of March 1778, that they were then marched under the command of Colonel Crockett into South Carolina and were kept scouting the country for the Tories and British until sometime in October of that year when deponent hired a young man to take his place whose name he cannot recollect. Deponent was permitted at that time to leave the army at the high hill ___ in South Carolina, that he obtained a written discharge signed by Colonel Crockett in October 1778 which discharge was delivered to his father in Culpeper County, Virginia, and which has been lost by time and cannot now be found, that he served during this enlistment about one year and returned home. Deponent further saith that he enlisted in Culpeper County, Virginia, some time in October 1779 under Captain Mark Thomas in the Virginia line of infantry commanded by Colonel George Slaughter, that they marched to the falls of the Ohio River where they arrived in March under General Clark, following the year of his enlistment, that they remained there guarding the settlers against the Indians until the expiration of deponent's time, when he was discharged at the falls of the Ohio by General Clark; he served two years during this period. Deponent obtained a written discharge which many years ago he placed in the hands of an attorney-at-law in the city of Cincinnati to obtain a pension, and that said attorney, whose name deponent cannot now recollect, went off and took with him his discharge. Deponent further saith that he was born in Burlington County, New Jersey on the 9th day of October 1755, that his age is recorded in a book which he has and which is taken from his father's book of records of ages. Deponent further saith that he has resided in the State of Ohio seventeen years, and in Preble County upwards of three years. Deponent has no documentary evidence, nor does he know of any witness living by whom he can prove his services; that he is well acquainted with Samuel Rhodes and John M. M. McNutt?, by whom he believes can prove his good character and that he has been reputed and believes to be a soldier of the Revolution. He duly relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, accept the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any state. Sworn and subscribed in open court the day and year both appeared. Daniel Cowgill.
We, Samuel Rhodes and John M. M. McNutt?, resident of the county of Preble in the State of Ohio, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Daniel Cowgill who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 76 years of age, that he sustains a good character for truth and veracity, that he is reputed and believed in his neighborhood to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we have full confidence in his truth of his declaration. Sworn to and subscribed in open court the day and year aforesaid. Samuel Rhoses, John M. M. McNutt?. J. C. Hawkins, Clerk.
Daniel Cowgill born: October 9, 1755 in Burlington,
New Jersey
Allowed pension on his application executed September 21, 1832
Will recorded in Grant County, Ky., Book B, Page 385
Children by first wife: Joseph, Martin and Nancy.
Children by second wife: Elizabeth, Sarah Hannah, George, Frankey and
Mary.
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