Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 28, John Catesby Cocke, Va Sea Service
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Fauquier County Court. 28th April 1851 [or 7]

It was this day proved to satisfaction of the Court by evidence produced before it, that John Catesby Cocke, formerly of Culpeper County, Virginia, who was a captain of Marines in the Virginia State Navy, died in a lower part of the State of Virginia, after the year 1807, intestate. That at the time of his death, said Cocke resided in that portion of the (then) County of Culpeper, which by an act of the Legislature of Virginia passed in the year 1832, was made, and has since continued to be, the County of Rappahannock . That the said John Catesby Cocke at his death, left the following children - his sole heirs and distributees, him surviving, to wit: Thornton Cocke, Peter Cocke, Alice Edmonds, wife of Elias Edmonds, who afterward intermarried with Joshua Jennison, and _____ Cocke, who intermarried with _______ Fitzhugh. That Thornton Cocke removed from the County of Culpeper, Virginia, where he had previously resided, to the State of Mississippi in the year 1835 or 1836, and then died, leaving Henry Cocke, his son, his only heir surviving. That Peter Cocke removed from the County of Loudoun Virginia, to the State of Ohio, or Indiana, in the year 1837 or 1838, and has since died, leaving children, whose number and names are not known. That Elias Edmonds, and Alice, his wife, are dead. That Alice Edmonds aforesaid, died in Fauquier County, Virginia about the year 1807, leaving Alice Edmonds, now the wife of Alexander Edmonds, both of whom reside in said County.  Helen Edmonds, who afterwards intermarried with B. R. Bradford, and has since died, leaving a son (B. H. Bradford) and her said husband, both of whom ^now ^ reside in said County, her surviving. Margaret B. Edmonds, widow of Sydnor Edmonds dec'd, who lives in said County, and John F. Edmonds, now believed to be living in the state of Missouri, her heirs and distributees. That Joshua Stevenson and _____ his wife, aforesaid, are both dead, leaving  a daughter, Margaret A. Jennison, who resides, alternately, in Fauquier and Loudoun Counties in Virginia. A daughter _____ who had intermarried with _____ Myers, both residing in Washington City, and a son _____ Jennison, now a Lieutenant in the United States Navy, her only heirs and distributees, her surviving.That _____ Fitzhugh and _____ his wife, aforesaid, are both dead, and that her distributees whose names are not known, are believed to reside in Ohio. That the aforesaid Children (or their descendants) of said John Catesby Cocke, dec'd, are the only heirs and distributees of said Cocke, dec'd, and that under the Rules and Regulations of the Department of the Interior in the matter of the settlement of halfpay claims of Virginia, arising under the act of Congress passed July 5th 1832, said Alice Edmonds, wife of Alexander Edmonds, or said Alexander Edmonds, in right of his said wife, are entitled to administration of the Estate of said John Catesby Cocke, dec'd. All which is ordered to be Certified.
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William A. Jennings, C.C.