Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 11985,100, Spencer Cooper, Va.
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(3-1776)

Service 
Va.

Cooper, Spencer

Number
B.L.Wt 11,985,100_Matross
Issued Aug 27, 1800
No papers.

Contents
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Pension Office
APR 
26
1917
U.S.
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Rev Sec

611 West 156th Street,
New York, N.Y.
April 25, 1917.

Commissioner of Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:-

     In connection with my application for membership in the Sons of the Revolution, I need a certified copy of a record in your office relating to my great-grandfather, Spencer Cooper of Virginia.
     Will you kindly let me have a certified copy of the record and notify me what the charge will be and I will forward the fee forthwith.
     The record in question refers to a bounty land warranty No. 11985 issued to Spencer Cooper August 27, 1800 for services as Continental in the Virginia troops Revolutionary War.  I may not have the number of the warrant correct but the matter is on record in your bureau somewhere.  If there are additional records will you not kindly include them in your certified copy.

Very respectfully,
Thomas C. Shotwell
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Rev. War Section.

April 27, 1917.

Mr. Thomas C. Shotwell
611 West 156 St. 
New York, N. Y.

Sir:
     In reply to your letter of the 25" instand, you are advised that the records of this Bureau show the the Warrant No. 11,985, for one hundred acres of bounty land was issued August 27, 1800, on account of the services of Spencer Cooper, a Matross, of the Virginia Line, War of the Revolution.
     There is no further data on file relative to said soldier, owning to the destruction of papers when the War Office was burned in November 1800.
     For the location of said land warrant you should consult the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Washington, D. C.

Very respectfully,
G M Saltzgabor
Commissioner.