Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2720, Isaac Cook, Mass.
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I Tristam Moore of the Parish of Saint
Davids in the County of Charlotte &
Province of N. Brunswick on oath do
testify & say--That during the winter
of 1796 And 1797 A.D.  I was in the 
employ of my brother Robert Moore
who is now dead & worked with Isaac
Cook who was also employed by my
brother Robert.  Emma Dusten was then
a servant girl in the employ of my
brother Riobert & it was during the aforesaid
winter of 1796 & 1797 that the courtship
of Isaac Cook to Emma 
Dusten & his engagement to marry her
took place.  I distinctly recollect that
the aforesaid winter was the winter of 1796 &
1797 from the fact that it was the first
winter I had ever worked away from my
fathers house being then myself seventeen
years old.  Isaac Cook was Married
the December after I worked with him
for my brother.  I know it was the 
Dec 1797  because a few days
after their marriage I hauled some 
furniture to their house for them to keep
house with & this was the December
after I was seventeen years old when I
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first worked away from my fathers house.
Isaac Cook from the time of his marriage
lived a near neighbor of mine until the
time of his death & I have often heard him
recount some of the scenes through which
he passed in the Revolutionary War.
Among the other things he told me he was 
present at the battle of Trenton & gave me
some of the particulars as follows:  In the 
fore part of the day previous to the battle
there was a cold snow storm & it rained
during the latter part of the day.  The army
was marching through a wood in the night
& came to a place where there had been
a small clearing made.  The rain had
then ceased but they were very cold &
the ceased but they were very cold &
drenched with rain.  Washington ordered
the soldiers to take all the fences posts & dry
wood they could find in this clearing & to
make a long fire for the men to warm themselves
& dry their guns.  The next morning they 
marched to Trenton & surprised & took
prisoners the greater part of the British
Army.  I think he said they were Hessians,
then returning the next day as I understood
him passing & the same place
he saw one of the American soldiers (who
had lain down as he supposed & was
asleep when the army marched) lying
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where the fire had been with his feet
stretched out towards it & had frozen to
death with his gun across his arm.  He
also told me that he was also present
at the surrender of Burgoyne
& that previous to the surrender the two armies
commenced fighting about 12 o'clock &
continued till about four o'clock or nearly
night, when they ceased fighting.  He
said that subsequently on the day of
surrender he was present when the British
atacked their army on the margin of a
stream.
I know that I was 17 years old
the first winter I worked away from my
fathers house which from my present age
would make it the winter of 1796 & 1797,
That same winter Emma Dusten engaged
herself to Isaac Cook & the following December they were married.  I am able 
to fix the time of the marriage by the fact
that I had my fathers oxen the winter after
I worked for my brother aforesaid &
hauled some furniture for Isaac & Emma
Cook who had been married.  I was then
eighteen years old.  I have given my deposition in
this case before.
(signature of Tristam Moore)