Pensions for James and Robert Cosby

Item

Type

Autograph Letter Signed

Title

Pensions for James and Robert Cosby

Description

Deposition for invalid pensions for James and Robert Cosby for wounds received in action at Ninety Six in 1775

year created

1797

month created

08

day created

05

author

sent from location

Knox County, Tennessee

recipient

in image

notable person/group

James Cosby
Robert Cosby
Joseph Greer
justice of the peace
Captain Thomas Lagdon
Captain Thomas Lagdon's Company
General Andrew Williamson
Doctor N.H.S. Fournier
Thomas A. Claiborne
surgeon
Third Regiment of the United States
soldiers
Congress
William Burton

notable location

Knox County
Tennessee
Ninety Six

notable item/thing

oath
wounded
1775
wound
certificates
pension
1785
application
law
February 1793
relief
Revolutionary War

document number

1797080556501

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Document instances

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[view document] (3 pages) cde07 (4 pages) Collection: Miscellaneous Numbered Records (Manuscript file) 1775-1790's. (RG93) (M859) B:170

Document names

Type Name Location Notes
Author Joseph Greer Knox County, Tennessee [n/a]
Recipient War Department [unknown] [n/a]