Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 2161-300, Rains Cook, Ga.
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Service
GA

Cook, Rains

Number
B.L.Wt, 2161-300.
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Rains Cook
No. 2161.
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Representatives Hall 16th of May 1836

I certify that I have known Mrs Williamson 
from her childhood  We went to school together for two years, She was the only child of Capt Rains Cook said to be an officer of the Revolution, her father & mother died when she was very Young

She was Raised by her aunt Reese of the County of  Charlotte State of Virginia,  Joseph Reese married  her aunt his Brother James Reese Married my Aunt,  Mrs Williamson was first married to a Gentleman in  the County of Charlotte Virginia, by the name of Townes after his death she was married to Mr Williamson both of whom I well know and I know that the application is on her own account

Respectfully
A Streetman [name is hard to read]
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[Top flap - back of envelope]
Rd. July 5 1836

[Front of envelope]
No. 2
Free
June 9 [inside a seal or stamp]
The Hon. W. C Dunlap
of the House of Reps.
Washington
D.C.
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Virginia: At a Court held for the County of Charlotte at the Court home thereof, on monday the Sixth day of June 1836.

It was satisfactorily proved that Lucy Williamson of Henderson County, State of Tennessee, is the only heir at law of the late Capt. Raines Cook of the Georgia line in the Continental army of the Revolutionary war.
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I Winslow Robinson Clerk of the County Court of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing was truly copied from
the records of my office
Given under my hand and the seal of my Office this 8th day of June 1836.
Winslow Robinson
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State of Tennessee
Henderson Co
I Lucy Williamson widow and [illegible] of John W Williamson and Heir at Law of Rains Cook deceased do upon oath testify and declare to the best of my knowledge and belief that my father Rains Cook entered the service of the
United States at the commencement of the Revolutionary war for and during the term of the war but at what period or under where whose command or in what Regiment this declarant can not state as she was then not in existence but has heard her Rains Cook
Father as well as she now recollects say that it was the Georgia line and that he the said Rains Cook was promoted to a captaincy
shortly after he had entered the bency of the revolution and that he continued in the service aforesaid untill the end of the Revolutionary war
I further declare that I have never received a warrant for the bounty Land promised to the said Rains Cook in the part of the United States nor do I believe that he ever received it or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever Therefore

Know all men by these presents that I Lucy Williamson aforesaid do hereby constitute and appoint C A Harris of the City of Washington District of Columbia to be my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States a Warrant for the quantity of land due to me as aforesaid; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him for the special purposes above expressed

Attest James W Adams 

Lucy Williamson 
Personally appeared the above named Lucy Williamson subscribed to the foregoing declaration and made oath to the same and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined to be her free act and Deed
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For the purposes therein mentioned
attest
James W Adam ┃

In testimony that the above written James W.  Adams was a magistrate to administer oaths and take acknowledgements in the State of Tennessee at the above date and that his name there subscribed appears be his usual signature I have hereunto affixed the County seal and subscribed my name and quality at Office this first day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty six
Jesse Taylor Clerk
County Court of
Henderson County
State of Tennessee

The State of Tennessee}
Henderson County}

I John H Bonner Chairman of the County Court of Henderson County do hereby certify that Jesse Tayler who has signed the foregoing certificate is and was at the time of signing clerk of the County Court of Henderson County. and that full faith and credit are due to and therewith given to all his official acts as such.

In Witness hereof I have this first day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty six subscribed my name and affixed my seal
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John H. Bonner
C.C.C.
Seal