This day personally appeared before me [Edward Stewart] the undersined [Jus]tice of the peace in and for this County and State aforesaid William Haddox age 75 years and made oath that he [is] well aquainted with Benjamin Copelin the present Applicant for a pension that he is well known & that the said Benjamin Coplin was a soldier in powers fort in 1777 and served six months under Capt. William Lowther and in the year 1778 he was a soldier at Powers Fort and served six months under the said Capt William Lowther a militia Captain.
_FOOT: Ohio Department of Health, Death Certificate (Columbus, Ohio: Bureau of Vital Statistics, 1989), 125. _ABBR: Ohio Department of Health, Death Certificate (Columbus, Ohio: Bureau of Vital Statistics, 1989), 125.