LUKE COVERT REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION ABSTRACT, STEUBEN COUNTY, NEW YORK

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PLEASE NOTE: The below "are not" of my family tree, I know no further of them - 
I just posted because of the mention of Steuben Co. and in the hopes to share - 
Thanks!

COVERT, Luke; 

STEUBEN CO. NY; 
1831; 
pension 16 Oct 1832; came Luke Covert of Jersey; 74 yrs.; 

enlisted at 18 in militia; 

lived Elizabeth Essex Co. NJ with father; 

Washington had his headquarters at his Uncle Cornelius Vermulas about one mile 
from his father's residence, under the mountain and the quartermaster's store 
was kept at his father's; 

born in Elizabeth Essex Co. NJ 19 Jan 1758; 

at end of war he moved to OVID; 

for last 4 yrs. lived in JERSEY STEUBEN CO.; 

he knew Rev. Mr. Bigalow, Rev. Van Renssalaer; 

deacon Ellis and Gen. William Kernon who all Lived near him; 

witnesses: David B. Coriell, a clergyman, Moses Ellis, Silvanus Arnold of 
Tyrone; living in Jersey; 

John L. Covert of Tyrone was a brother;  John had a sore leg and was unable to 
do military duty; 

his father also served in same manner as Luke until he got rheumatism at Powles 
Hook just after the British came into NY; after that his duty was on horseback; 
as commissary or quartermaster; 

father was Luke Covert Sr.; 
Luke was living at BRADFORD Steuben Co.; 
John L. was living in READING; 

15 Mar 1836 Folkerd Sebring SENECA CO. witness for Luke Covert; both served in 
NJ militia of Essex Co. NJ; 

witness Luke P. Covert; belonged to same NJ militia as Luke Covert; witness 
Abraham Brokaw, a clergyman of Ovid; knew Luke Covert for about 25 years; good 
character;