Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16725, Sherman Cooper, N.H. Vt.
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Service
N.H.
VT

Cooper, Sherman

Number
S.16725

Carded
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Left Side Page

Duplicate certificate issued 18th May 1842 and sent to Hon Edmund Barber, House of Reps

Right Side Page

4571
New Hampshire
Sherman Cooper
of Sullivan in the state of H.H. who was a private in the company commanded by Captain blank of the Regt commanded by Col Start in the N.H. & Vt line for 1 mo. Corporal and 8 mo. 3 days Private

Inscribed on the roll of N.H. at the rate of 30 dollars 65 cents per annum to commence on the 4th ay of March 1831

Certificate of Pension issued 23rd day of Jany 1833 and sent Hon H Hubbard H of Reps

Arrear to 4th of Sept 1832 $45.97
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Mar 33 $15.32
$61.29

{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by J H McBlair - Clerk
Book D Vol 11 Page 148
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Sherman Cooper
8208
Sherman Cooper

on roll Capt. Hende's company for 2 months & 3 days
Service from 25 Sept 1777

Corporate 1 month 
Private 8 mo. & 3 days
Total 9 mos. 3 days

Adm

$30.65

Hon H Hubbard
HR
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DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832

State of New Hampshire
County of Sullivan

On this 23rd day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court before the judge of the Court of Probate now sitting Sherman Cooper a resident of Craydon in the county of Sullivan and state of N.H. aged 71 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as here in stated.

That he first entered into the service as a volunteer at said Craydon in the of July 1777 and entered into the company of Capt. Handy who then lived in New Hampshire that he then enlisted for the tour of two months that he went to Cavendish Vermont & from thence to Manchester & thence to St Croix and soon after to Stillwater New York & joined the continental army & belonged to General Stan and served the full time of his said enlistment of two months and that the said company belonged to Gen Arnold & General Gates and stationed at Stillwater. He was dismissed at Stillwater.

Declarant further states that sometime in the month of September 1781 he entered service as a substitute for Ezekial Rooks of Craydon who was a corporal in Capt. [illegible] company in the regiment commanded by Col Benjamin Wait of Vermont and stationed at Corinth in Vermont, that he then took the place of said Rook's as a corporal in said company at said Corinth for the term of one month more. He was dismissed at Corinth with said company. He further states that in the early part of the summer of 1780 he entered the service under a for six months and joined the company of Capt. Samuel Daniel who then lived in New Hampshire - that he joined said company at Stratford New Hampshire where one of said company by the name of Daniel Bean was taken sick and that there was no physician or surgeon then in that vicinity. I was requested by the commanding officer of said company to take charge of said Bean and help him home which was to end the time of my said six months engagement which duty I performed. He also says that a man by the name of Barlow was in the said company at Stratford.

He further states that he has no documentary evidence of his services and knows of no one who can testify to his services except Daniel Bean and Enoch Emerson & [illegible] whose depositions he has procured.

He says he was born at Hardwick in Massachusetts in 1761 - there is a record of his age (as he thinks) on the Town records in said Hardwick. He entered as a volunteer when he first joined the service and then lived in said Craydon [illegible] then ever since and now lives there.

He is acquainted with the [illegible] a Clergyman of said & Abijah Powers of said Craydon who can testify as to his [illegible] and their belief in his services as a soldier of the revolution.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.

Sherman Cooper

Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid.

Frederick A Sumner - Judge of Probate 

We Jacob Haven residing in Craydon and Abijah Power residing in said Craydon hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Sherman Cooper who has subscribed and sworn to the above obligation; that we believe him to be 71 years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.

Jacob Haven
Abijah Powers

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

Frederick A Sumner - Judge of Probate

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above-named applicant was a revolutionary solder and served as he states. And the court certifies that it appears to them that Reverend Jacob Haven who has signed the preceding certificate if a clergyman resident in the town of Craydon and that Abijah Powers Esquire who has also signed the same is a resident in the town of Craydon and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.

Frederick A Sumner - Judge of Probate

I Aaron Nettleton Register of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Sherman Cooper for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 23 day of August AD 1832.

Aaron Nettleton - Register of Probate
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16725
INVALID

File No 16725
Sherman Cooper
Pri Rev War

Act June 7th, '32
Index Vol 1 Page 439
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Original certificate destroyed by fire - see proof on file with the papers of Nathan Carr N.H. Roll Act 1832 No 3084.
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I Enoch Emerson of Rochester in the county of Windsor & state of Vermont of the age of seventy-seven years do testify & say that in the month of July or August AD 1777 I enlisted into Capt. Handy's company of New Hampshire in Croydon in the then county of Cheshire & state of New Hampshire & that Sherman Cooper of said Croydon enlisted at the same time & in the same company with me ,that we enlisted for the term of two months & that we marched to [illegible] in the state of Vermont & from thence to Manchester & from thence to St Croix & soon after to Stillwater New York & joined the continental army & belonged to General Strack's brigade & that said Sherman Cooper & myself served the time of two months & that I was then discharged.

I further testify & say that the time of our enlistment expired but a short time previous to the surrender of Gen Burgoyne & that said Sherman Cooper served in the same company, Regt & Brigade with me.

Rochester VT July 5, 1832

Enoch Emerson

State of Vermont 
Windsor County

Rochester July 5th 1832 Then Enoch Emerson personally appeared and made oath to the foregoing deposition before me.

Lyman Emerson - Just Peace
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Enoch Emerson
Affidavit

This certifies that the within named Enoch Emerson is a man of truth and veracity.

Lyman Emerson - Justice of Peace

State of Vermont
Windsor County

Woodstock County Clerk's Office August 1, 1832

I Benjamin Swan Clerk of Windsor County Court do hereby certify that Lyman Emerson is one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said county and that he above and within are his signatures.

In testimony whereof I hereto affix the seal of said court & subscribe my name the day & year last above - Benj Swan

SEAL
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Daniel Bean
Affidavit
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I Daniel Bean of Springfield in the county of Sullivan and state of New Hampshire aged seventy-five years depose and say that I am acquainted with Sherman Cooper of Croydon in said county of Sullivan & state aforesaid and know that he served in the revolutionary war as a private in Capt. Samuel Paines company of militia which was stationed at Stratford in Upper Coos in said state, that he entered the service sometime in the month of May or June 1780 - that he performed a six months tour of duty in said company, that the reason of my knowing of his performing said service is that I performed the duty of a soldier in said company myself at the same time and place.

Daniel Bean

State of New Hampshire
Sullivan Co

Aug 21, 1832, That Daniel Bean who is a disinterested and credible witness personally appeared and makes solemn oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him certified.

Before me - Isaac Cooper - Justice of the Peace

I Aaron Nettleton Jr register of the court of Probate within & for the county of Sullivan & state of New Hampshire do hereby certify that Isaac Cooper is a justice of the peace & that the foregoing signature as such is genuine.

Witness my hand & the seal of said court this twenty0first day of August AD 1832.

Aaron Nettleton, Jr - Register of Probate
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I Aaron Whipple of Croydon in the county of Sullivan & state of New Hampshire of the age of Seventy-one years do testify & say that I am knowing that Sherman Cooper of said Croydon did the duty of a soldier in the revolutionary war in Capt. Nelson's company of New Hampshire militia in Col Benjamin Wait's Regt of Vermont and that he enlisted about the last part of August or first part of September AD 1781 & performed the duty at Corinth in the state of Vermont according to the best of my recollection about the time of two months.

Aaron Whipple

State of New Hampshire
Sullivan County

Croydon Aug 16, 1832, then Aaron Whipple personally appeared and made solemn oath to the truth of the above declaration by him subscribed.

Before me - Isaac Cooper Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that the above-named Aaron Whipple is a disinterested and credible witness.

Isaac Cooper - justice of the peace
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Aaron Whipple
Affidavit

I Aaron Nettleton Jr Register of the court of Probate for the county of Sullivan & state of New Hampshire do hereby certify that Isaac Cooper is a Justice of the Peace and that the within signature purporting to be his is genuine. Witness my hand & the seal of said court this 23rd day of August AD 1832.

Aaron Nettleton Jr - Register of Probate