David Coy Revolutionary War Pension, Orleans Co., NY

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Conn.
David Coy
R.2413

State of New York
County of Orleans

On the seventh day of March 1853 personally appeared before me, Cyrus Thompson, a justice of sessions of the
County of Orleans, David Coy a resident of the town of Kendall in the county and state aforesaid who says
that he was born in the year 1759 and will be ninety four years old on the 19th day of May next who first
being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the
benefits of the Act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832; that he believes in the year 1777 he being then 18
years of age, and residing in the town of East Windsor in the State of Connecticut he was drafted with others
from a Regiment of Milita to go and serve as a soldier in Rhode Island; that a company of drafted men being
made out ordered and equipped at home to serve as he believes for three months; were first under the command
of Captain Ezra Parsons and marched directly for Providence arriving there on the first day of April, which
he recollects from the following circumstance: a boy came up to the Captain and said, gentleman, you have
lost your knee buckle, the Captain looking said, "no, I have not" on the other knee said the boy
"no that is not lost" said the Captain, the boy running off said "April Fool". They
marched thence to Bristol where they were stationed in a fort near the water, Newport lying to the south of
them, the British then having possession of Rhode Island with an army and on the Island nearly opposite of
them had a fort in fair cannons shot, a circumstance occurred which he well recollects. The artillery men in
the fort called to the men standing without to come in, saying the British are about to fire on us; they all
went in except two men; one of them said, the king never had a ball to hit me. The shot was fired from the
British fort and striking the guardhouse glanced and took off both legs of one of the men close to his body.
That he served in the fort at Bristol as a private soldier, a tour which he is very positive was at least two
months; when he and his company being honorably discharged returned under the command of Captain Ezra Parsons
first to Providence and then to their houses in East Windsor and the adjoining towns. Captain Parsons had a
brother who was a captain in the Continental service by the name of David Parsons who came to Bristol when
the time of the Militia had expired to enlist men for the Continental Army. That the General commending at
the time of his serving in that station he thinks was Spencer, who was at Providence and he thinks he was not
a brave man as they used to call him Granny Spencer. That he has no dockumentary (sic) evidence that he knows
of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service. He hereby relinquishes every
claim whatever to a pension or annuity except at the present and declares that his name is not on the pension
roll of the agency of any state.

(signed) David Coy

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me, Cyrus Thompson,
Justice of Sessions

I hereby declare my opinion(?) after the interrogation of the matter and after putting the interrogation
prescribed by the War Department that the abovenamed applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he
states, and I also further certify that the applicant abovenamed (David Coy) cannot from bodily infirmity
attend the court of this county.

Cyrus Thompson
Justice of Sessions

(correction) the word "returned" on the first page on the bottom line was erased before execution.
Cyrus Thompson, Justice of Sessions