Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6,705, Peter Cook, Va.
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SERVICE NUMBER
Va. Cook, Peter W. 6,705
Mary
CONTENTS
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32,968
Virginia Richmond
Peter Cook decd
of Kanawha Co in the State of Virginia
who was a private in the Compy commanded
by Captain Burley of the Regt commanded
by Col. F. Taylor in the Va
line for 3 yrs

Inscribed on the Roll of Richmond Va
at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. & End 30th March 1832

Certificate of Pension issued the 3 day of January
1852 and sent to
Ed F Brown
Present
Arrears to the 4th of
Semi-annual allowance ending

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by A H Markland Clerk,
Book E Vol. 6 1/2 Page 8
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5835
Virginia
Mary Cook d
widow of Peter Cook
Va
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of 80 Dollars - 
Cents per annum, to commence
on the 4th day of March, 1848.
to 8th Apl 1848

Certificate of Pension issued
the third day of Jan 18--
and sent to
Ed F. Brown
Present

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under
February 2, 1842. Page 144 Vol. 3
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E. F. Brown, Agent
State of Virginia
County of Kanawha} Sct
On this 9th day of April 1847 personally appeared before me Jesse Hudson - the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly authorized by law to administer oaths, Mary Cook, a resident of said County, aged Eighty five years, who being first duly Sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to Certain widows, that she is the Widow of Peter Cook who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution, that the said Peter Cook enlisted in the County of Culpepper in the State of Virginia in a Company under the Command of Captain Garland Burley or Burleigh in Col Francis Taylors Regiment in the Virginia line on Continental Establishment for three years and was regularly discharged in the spring of 1781 and this declarant thinks on or about the 11th day of April, and that the time of said enlistment was in the spring of 1778 - that he the said Cook served as she verily believes and as she has often heard him the said Cook say two other tours in the War aforesaid one tour under the Command of Capt Ephraim Rucker, and another under Captain Ambrose Bohannon, and that she has often heard him say that he was entitled to
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land from the state of Virginia for his services for the War aforesaid, and that his discharge was lost long before his death - This declarant would farther say that she has often heard her late husband the said Cook speak of other and Various incidents in the War and named other officers than those before named, but by reason of old age &c are not now recollected -
She further declares that her Maiden name was Mary Carpenter that she was married in the County of Culpepper in Virginia to the said Peter Cook and about the 27th day of May 1782 by the Revd  Mr. Harrison that she was the daughter of John Carpenter, that after her marriage aforesaid she lived in said Culpeper County some twenty years, and thence removed to Monroe in Virginia and there lived some fifteen years & then to Mason County Virginia and there lived untill the death of her husband the said Peter Cook which death took place in said Mason County on the 30th day of March 1832, and she would say that the time of her removal to Kanawha County aforesaid was in the year of 1811 - that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but before the first day of January One thousand seven hundred and Ninety four viz at the time before stated as will be made to appear by testimony herewith or hereafter presented to the department, and that her husband the said Peter Cook died on the 30th day of March 1832 before
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stated - that from her marriage with the said Cook until his death she ever lived with him as wife and ever since his death has remained a widow - she therefore claims the benefit of the Act of Congress before mentioned and allso the Acts of March 3d 1843 & June 17th 1844 extending or Continuing the provisions of said Act of July 7 - 1838 - all which is respectfully submitted to the department of War-
In presence of - Mary Cook x her mark

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first before written Before me - Jesse Hudson J.P

State of Virginia County of Kanawha sct
I Jesse Hudson a Justice
of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid do hereby Certify that I am personally acquainted with Mary Cook the foregoing declarant; that she is a person in good standing and that her foregoing declaration is entitled to full confidence and credit & in my opinion she is a competent witness and that in Consequence of old age and infirmity she is unable to go to the Court House of the County to make her declaration in Open Court -
I further Certify that in the year of 1813 I removed to Kanawha County aforesaid, settled near to the place where Peter Cook the husband Mary Cook was then
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living, and that said Mary Cook was living with said Peter as his wife, was ever so regarded, and that I never heard anything to the Contrary or that they were not legally & lawfully married, and that previous to the 1st day January 1794 - I further Certify that I am sixty years of age & that the oldest Children of said Peter & Mary must be as old if not older than myself
I also Certify that Peter Cook was a man of good character and an honest and respectable man and I have often heard him say that he served in the War of the Revolution which I verily believe to be correct
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand the erasure and attestation being first made this 9th day of April 1847-
Jesse Hudson J.P
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State of Virginia Kanawha County SS.
On this seventeenth day of June, 1850, before the undersigned, a justice of the peace in, and for the County aforesaid, duly authorized to administer oaths, personally appeared Mrs. Phoebe Daggs, wife of Reuben Daggs, aged sixty five years on the 20th day of March last, a resident of said County, and made oath in due form of law, that she is the daughter of the late Mrs. Mary Cook of said County, who was the widow of Peter Cook, deceased, who was a revolutionary soldier, in the State of Virginia: That her said mother made application for a pension about three years ago, through the agency of Edward F. Brown Esq. of Washington City. That said application was suspended for want of sufficient proof of identity, as she has been informed: That her mother, the said Mary Cook, died in this county on the eighth day of April, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and that she makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the pension due her said mother, under the acts of 1838, 1843, 1844 & 1848, to which affiant believes she was justly entitled -
She further swears that she believes her father the said Peter Cook made an effort to obtain a pension some twenty years ago, probably under the act of 1818, or that of 1828, and sent many papers to the department for that purpose, and that as he died in March 1832, she presumes he paid but little attention to it. 
She therefore desires that all the said papers be re-examined
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together with such as have been filed by the member of Congress for this district, within the last three years, and that the department will allow such amount of pension as may be due her said mother up to her death, under any of the existing laws providing for her case. And also that the name of her said father Peter Cook, be placed upon the Pension Rolls, under such acts as provided for him; and that said pension be paid to Reuben Daggs, administrator.
Sworn to and subscribed the day} Pheob Daggs
and year aforesaid before me
Jesse Hudson JP
I, Jesse Hudson, a justice of the peace in and for said county, do hereby certify that Mrs. Phoebe Daggs, who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing declaration before me, is a respectable resident of this county, and the wife of Reuben Daggs, and that her statements are entitled to credit.
Jesse Hudson JP
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State of Virginia, Kanawha County Ss
I Alexander W Quarrier clerk of the
County Court of Kanawha County, do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has this day been exhibited before the said Court, by the oaths of Reuben Daggs, Phoebe Daggs, Dryden Paully, Samuel Cooke & Jesse Hudson, who are persons entitled to credit, to satisfy the said Court, that Mrs. Mary Cook late a resident of this County and widow of Peter Cook deceased died in this County on the 8th day of April 1848, and that she was an applicant for a pension on account of the services of said Peter Cook, who was reputed and bore the character of having been a revolutionary soldier. And further that Phoebe Daggs wife of Reuben Daggs, Elinor Cook, now Elinor Jordan widow of John Jordan late of Mason County Va, Polly Cook now Polly Gillespie of Putnam County Va, Hannah Cook (spinster) of Kanawha County Va, Samuel Cook of the same County, Elijah Cook of Putnam County Va, and Juliana Cook (spinster) of said last mentioned County, are the only surviving children of the said Mary Cook who are now living, Satisfactory proof has also been adduced that Peter Cook died on the 30th day of March 1832, in the said County of Kanawha, 
I also certify that Reuben Daggs a son-in-law of said Mary Cook deceased, and husband of said Phoebe Daggs has been duly appointed administrator of the estate of said Peter Cook, and aso of the estate of Mary Cook, and that he hath qualified as such.
I also certify that Jesse Hudson whose name appears to the annexed declaration of Mrs. Phoebe Daggs
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was at the time of executing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths, and that his signatures thereto are genuine
In Testimony whereof I the undersigned
Clerk have hereto set my hand & the
seal of said Court this 17th day of June
AD 1850, and in the 74th year of the
Commonwealth
A. W. Quarrier Clerk
Kanawha County Court

The Commissioner of Pensions will please make the pension payable at Wheeling Va. in Pittsburg, Pa. as it will be more convenient for me to collect it at either of these places, than at Richmond, Va.
Reuben Daggs
Admr. of Mary Cook, decd.
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New Declaration for Claim of
Mary Cook, deceased,
Widow of Peter.
Also, of Peter Cook, deceased.
Kanawha Co. Va.

Acts 1838, 1843, 44 & 48 -
Also, Acts of 1818 & 1828.

See papers formerly filed
by both Claimants.

To be payable at Pittsburgh
Pa. or Wheeling, Va. - to
Reuben Daggs, Admr. -
see within. -

Hon. J. M. H. Beale,
House of Reps.
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Virginia Kanawha County to Wit

Robert A Thompson this
day personally appeared before the
subscriber a Justice of the peace for the
County aforesaid and made oath that
he knew Peter Cook deceased late of the
County of Kanawha in his lifetime he was
reputed and believed to have been a
soldier in The Revolutionary War and
know well that this applicant has heard in
relation to the matter of the revolutionary
services of said Cook he verily believes
that he did serve in that war - Affiant
further knows that his father the late
Philip R Thompson of said County did
in his lifetime address one or more letters
to the proper department in Washington
in exhibition to the Claim of the said
Peter Cook to a pension - Affiant knows
this fact from having heard conversations between the said Cook and his father on the subject and thinks also from having heard one of the letters read by his father to the said Cook - Given under my hand this 18th day of June 1850-
R Aug Thompson
Sworn to and Subscribed before me
this the day & year above written J. Goshorn J.P.
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I Jacob Goshorn a justice of the peace
in and for the County of Kanawha State of 
Virginia do hereby certify that R Aug Thompson
the affiant to the foregoing affidavit and
whose name is thereto subscribed is a highly
respectable Citizen of Said County and was
the late representative in Congress from this
district and that his statements are in  my
opinion entitled to full Credit Given under
my hand this the 18th day of June 1850
Jacob Goshorn J.P.
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Old Case -
Return of lost
papers.
Please mark special

E. F. Brown
Washn. D.C. | Atty.
31. Oct. 1850.
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Washington City 31. Octo. 1850.

Hon. J. L. Edwards,
Commr. of Pensions.

Sir:
In the case of Mary
Cook, decd., Widow of Peter, Acts 1838 &c. I have the honor to enclose herewith the original papers, which were withdrawn by Hon. R. A. Thompson in 1848, and recently left here for me by Hon. J.M.H. Beale - See your letter to him of 5. July 1850.
From memorandums in my possession, I think that Mr. Thompson or Mr. Beale has lost some papers in the case, but the enclosed, with those filed by Mr. Beale in June last, will be sufficient to allow the claim, as Mr. Ames is now out of Office.
In your letter to Mr. Beale of 5. July last, you
do not say whether the application which Peter Cook made in his lifetime has been found - see Affidavit of Hon. R. A. Thompson, filed with other papers by Genl. Beale in June last.- The enclosed Affidavit of Jesse Hudson has no Clerk's Certificate, but you will perceive he is the Justice who took her original Declaration, and his Certificate thereto attached is nearly equivalent to the enclosed Affidavit, except not quite so explicit.
Allow me to hope that you will give this
case your Special Consideration, especially as you
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admitted the Marriage, in your letter to me of 23d. Aug 1847; and the Auditor's Certificate shows he received L48- equal to two year's Service.
I trust you will admit her and her
Husband both to the Pension Roll, and forward me the Certificates at an early day.
Very Respectfully,
Yr. Obt. St.
Edm. F. Brown
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Hon Jas. M. H. Beale
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Kanawha C.H. July 29th 1850

Hon Jas M H Beale

Dear Sir
The papers referred to in
the enclosed letter were withdrawn by
me for the purpose of making them
the foundation for a petition to Congress
on behalf of the widow of Peter Cook, but
in consequence of her death the petition
never was presented - They have been in
my possession ever since - At the
request of Mr. Reuben Daggs I now enclose
them to you subject to the order of Mr.
Edmd F Brown who is prosecuting the
claim for Mr. Daggs - He desires I
believe to appeal from the decision
of the Commissioner to the Secretary
He either has or will inform you
what disposition he wishes made
with the papers
Respectfully your Obt St
R Aug Thompson
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Cincinnati, Ohio, 20. July 1850
Hon. J. M. H. Beale,
House of Reps.
Washington City.} Sir,
The letter from the
Pension Office to you, dated 5th inst., enclosed in your frank postmarked 14th, (presume you had been absent) relative to the Claim of Mary Cook, decd., Widow of Peter Cook, was received yesterday by me, having been delayed in the mail somewhere two days.-
I am much disappointed that Hon. R.A. Thompson never mentioned to Mr. Daggs or myself that he withdrew the papers, presume they are on the Files of the House of Reps., and will thank you to call on Mr. Buck, in the Clerk's Office, who will find them for you, if there.
Please examine the papers yourself, and, if after comparing them with the enclosed objections of the Pension Office, you are of opinion the case should be allowed, I will thank you to withdraw them from the files of the House and also those you recently filed in the Pension Office, and close them to the Secretary of the Interior, asking his revision and allowance of the case.
In the enclosed you will perceive that she was
required to make further statements which it would be morally impossible for a woman 85 years old to make.
In their letter to you of 5th. inst., they say nothing about the original application of Peter Cook in 1831 or 2, whether they searched, his papers were found or not found, or were good, bad, or indifferent. It looks as if they
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were determined not to allow it, altho' the papers would satisfy any Jury that it is a just claim.
They ought to allow her 10 years' pension, and her Husband one year and 26 days, if not 6 years and 26 days. On examining the papers, I doubt not you will be satisfied that she could not have given the names she did if her Husband had not served; and if you can secure the attention of the Secretary I believe he will allow it upon its own merits, free from prejudice against the Claimant or any other person.
Please give me your views on the case, and say what disposition you have made of it; as early as your convenience will permit.
Hoping you will excuse my troubling you in this case; that I may some day have power to reciprocate your favors; and that a decision may be had before Congress adjourns,
I have the honor to remain,
Most Respectfully,
Your Obliged and Ob. Serv.
[signature] Edm. F. Brown
P.S. I believe Congress would allow it, but as it would probably occupy years, am willing to take it there if possible to do otherwise. E.F.B
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EDMUND F. BROWN, Attorney and Agent for Claimants, Notary Public and Commissioner for Virginia, Illinois, and Alabama, &c, continues to attend to the settlement of business before Congress and the several Departments of the General Government, and particularly claims for Pensions, Patents, Lands, Contracts, &c.
Office on Seventh street, two doors above the City Post Office.
Letters (postage paid) may be addressed, E. F. Brown, Box 100, P. O. Washington City.

U. S. Agency, Notarial, and Commissioner's Office, Washington City, 3d. Septr. -; 1847.} Established in 1843.

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commr. of Pensions.
Sir:
The enclosed additional Deposition
of Reuben Daggs Esq. in case of Mary Cook, Widow of Peter, will, I trust, enable you to trace his services, as suggested in your letters to me of 26 May and 23. Aug. 1847, so that you can allow her a Pension.
As there is no Clerk's Certificate to this Deposition, I presume you will find one among the other papers, and if you should not, as it is only an explanation to aid you in searching the Rolls, you will probably dispense with it in this case, especially as you have clear proof of the character of Squire Daggs the Deponent.
Very Respectfully, Yr. Ob. St.
Edmd. F. Brown
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EDMUND F. BROWN, Attorney and Agent for Claimants, Notary Public and Commissioner for Virginia, Illinois, and Alabama, &c, continues to attend to the settlement of business before Congress and the several Departments of the General Government, and particularly claims for Pensions, Patents, Lands, Contracts, &c.
Office on Seventh street, two doors above the City Post Office.
Letters (postage paid) may be addressed, E. F. Brown, Box 100, P. O. Washington City.

U. S. Agency, Notarial, and Commissioner's Office, Washington City, 11th. October; 1847.} Established in 1843.

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commr. of Pensions.
Sir:
To aid in a further search
to trace the services of Peter Cook, whose Widow, Mary Cook, is applying for a Pension, I will thank you to examine the papers of a Mrs. Cook, Widow of John Cook, who is or was a Pensioner in Greenbrier Co. Va.
Claimant says she thinks
her husband, Peter, served in the same Company with the said John who was his Brother, and hopes you may find in his Brother's papers, some data, by which Peter's services may be traced.
Very Respy. Yr. Obt. St.
Edmd. F. Brown
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Paid}
Edmund F. Brown Esq.
Washington City.
Box. 190. D.C.
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Mr. Brown,
I have recd
your claim letter from
New Jersey since which time,
I have not heard from
you,
I am anxious to know
what progress you have
made in getting the pension
due to Peter Cook.
Please Sir inform
me soon as convenient.
Yrs truly Richard Daggs
Kanawha,
A.SC. Decr, 27th, 1851
Augt. 24. Nov. 1851,
that I will appeal
to the Secretary.
E.F.B.

The above named Reuben Daggs
Esq. is a respectable Justice of the
Peace in Kanawha Co. Va. and
Husband of one of the Daughters
of Mrs. Mary Cook, decd. Widow of
Peter Cook.
E.F. Brown
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Peter Cook decd.
Va.
Act 7 June 1832.
2 yrs pri - $80 per
ann to 30 March 1832
when he died.

Payable to
Reuben Daggs Admr.
for the benefit of-
Phebe Daggs, Eleanor Jordan,
Polly Gillespie, Hannah
Cook, Saml. Cook,
Elijah Cook, and Juliana
Cook only children.
Cert to
Edm F. Brown,
Present,
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Mary Cook decd.
wid of Peter,
Va.
Acts 7 July 1838 &C.
2 yrs pri - $80. per
An: to 8 Apl. 1848
when she died.
2 years excepted,
Payable to
Reuben Daggs Admr.
for the benefit of
Phebe Daggs, Eleanor Jordan,
Polly Gillespie, Hannah
Cook. Saml. Cook, Elijah
Cook and Juliana Cook,
only children.

E. F. Brown.
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House of Reps Jan 31 1848

Col J.L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions
Sir
Will you be so
good as to send me the papers
filed in your office in the
application of the widow of
Peter Cook for a pension - The
papers were I believe presented
sometime during the last year
and the application rejected
Respectfully your Obt St
R Aug Thompson 
M.C.
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EDMUND F. BROWN, Attorney and Agent for Claimants, Notary Public and Commissioner for Virginia, Illinois, and Alabama, &c., continues to attend to the settlement of business before Congress and the several Departments of the General Government, and particularly claims for Pension, Patents, Lands, Contracts, &c.
Office on Seventh street, two doors above the City Post Office
Letters (postage paid) may be addressed, E. F. Brown, Box 109, P. O. Washington City.

U. S. Agency, Notarial, and Commissioner's Office, Washington City; 5. Augt., 1847.} Established in 1843.

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commr. of Pensions.
Sir:
Enclosed I hand you three
Depositions in the case of Mary Cook, Widow of Peter, and trust they will answer the objections in your letter of 26 May last.
To require her to say who was Capt.
when Burnley was Lieut. appears to be equal to a rejection of her claim, after she has told all she can remember, and I trust you will, on a re-consideration, and re-examination of her papers, rescind that requirement.
Very Respy,
Yr. Obt. St.
Edm. F. Brown
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Washington June 27th 1850
To J. L. Edwards
Comr. Pensions
Sir, Enclosed is the new
declaration for claim of Pension on the part of Mary Cook Decd,
You will please give it
examination & report to me the result
I am very respectfully
J.M.H. Beale

Please return such of the papers as may be necessary to me for refference
JMHB
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48.
Atty. for Claimant.
Washington Novr. 27/51
Edmund F. Brown
Appeals from the
decision of the Comr:
of Pensions in the
Case of Mary Cook
widow of Peter Cook.
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Washington City, 27 November 1857
Hon. A.H.H. Stuart, Secretary of the Interior.
Sir:
More than four years age I presented to the Pension Office the claim of Mary Cook, Widow of Peter Cook, for Revolutionary Pension under Acts of 7. July 1838, 1843 and 1844, and at various times since have urged its allowance. She dies on 8th April 1848, and her children are still desirous to obtain the amount due her, as will be seen by the enclosed letter just received from Reuben Daggs Esq. her Son-in-law.
Believing that the claim is a just one, and that the objections of the Pension Office are unreasonable, I am compelled to appeal to you for a revision of the case, and to state the following facts, viz: 
On the 9th of April 1847, Mrs. Cook, then 85 years old, made a Declaration setting force her husband's service as well as her memory enabled her, stating that her Husband enlisted in Culpeper Co, Va under command of Capt. Garland Burnley for three years, was discharged in the Spring of 1781, and she believed he served two tours afterwards; that she was married on 27th May 1782, and her Husband died on 30. March 1832. The Declaration, with sundry testimony as to her
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Marriage, the character her Husband bore of having been a
Revolutionary Soldier, and a certificate of the Auditor of
Virginia of a payment of L. 48. 4.11, to Peter Cook, a
soldier of Infantry (being payment for a little over two years
service) were filed in the Pension Office on 10. May 1847;
and on the 26th May 1847, the Office reported on the case,
and acknowledged there was a Capt. Garland Burnley in
service towards the conclusion of the war, but required her
to give the name of the Captain under whom Burnley served
as a Lieutenant, a requisition which they might have known
it was impossible for an old lady to comply with.
I then filed such additional testimony as could be
obtained, on which they admitted the marriage, but
persisted in the above unreasonable requisition.
In January 1848, the Hon. R. A. Thompson withdrew her papers for the purpose of applying to congress, but on hearing of her death, did not pursue it.
Last year, I filed, thro' Hon. J. M. H. Beale, proof of her death, Administration, & and they still pertinaciously
cleave to their old objections.
They argue that Peter Cook was a common name, and in reply to that it may be argued justly, that as there was but one Peter Cook on the Rolls of the Auditor
at Richmond, that Peter must have been Claimants husband;
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and he must have served more than two years, as the Certificate of L48.4.11, was on final settlement, and entirely silent as to previous payments.
You will readily admit, Sir, that it could not be expected that a lady 85 years old, who had lived most of her life, as it were in the Wilderness, could recollect the names and Grade of different Officers at different dates; and that as the evidence proves that many years before the passage of Pension Laws he bore the character of having done "service in the times that tried men's souls," and she has named Officers who were in service, and produced proof of payment to her husband, the fair presumption is, that her claim is honest and just.
I therefore respectfully claim an allowance
to Peter Cook, deceased, under Act of 7. June 1832,
of $80- per year, from 4 March 1831, to 30. March 1832, and to Mary Cook, deceased, under Acts of 1838, 43, 44, & 48,
of $80- per year, for 10 years, 1 month, & 4 days, to her death on 8. April 1848; to be paid at Wheeling, Virginia, to Reuben Daggs, Administrator, as the papers on file show that he has been duly appointed.
Allow me urge an early decision in this case, and to add, that if you will call
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48.
up all the papers, and examine them carefully, your conviction will doubtless be that like many others, her claim ought to be paid.
Please send her Certificates to me at this City.
I have the honor to be,
Very Respectfully, Yr. Obt. St.
Edm. F. Brown
Atty. for Claimant. 

Washington
Nov. 27/51
Edmund F. Brown
Appeals from the
decision of the Comr:
of Pensions in the
Case of Mary Cook
Widow of Peter Cook.

Referred to the Comr of Pensions
for a Report.
Dept Intr
Dec. 8. 1851
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EDMUND F. BROWN, Attorney and Agent for Claimants, Notary Public and Commissioner for Virginia, Illinois, and Alabama, &c, continues to attend to the settlement of business before Congress and the several Departments of the General Government, and particularly claims for Pensions, Patents, Lands, Contracts, &c.
Office on Seventh street, two doors above the City Post Office.
Letters (postage paid) may be addressed, E. F. Brown, Box 100, P. O. Washington City.

U. S. Agency, Notarial, and Commissioner's Office, Washington City, 10th May, 1847.} Established in 1843.

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commr. of Pensions.
Sir:
Enclosed I hand you the
Pension Claim of Mary Cook, Widow of Peter, and trust it will be allowed without delay.
To aid in the investigation, it may be proper for me to state that since I received her Declaration, I have been informed that Mary or Molly Cook, Widow of John, of Greenbrier Co. Va. is now receiving a pension, and that her husband was a Brother of Peter, the husband of the present claimant and served under the same Officers with him, at least a portion of the time.
Claimant desires her pension payable at Wheeling.-
Very Respy. Yr. Obt. St.
Edm. F. Brown
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Brief in the case of Mary Cook decd, wid of Peter,
County and State of Virginia
acts 7 July 1838 & Supplementals.

Claim, ("original,")

Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Evidence of service; Record.
" of Marriage; Ages of children &c. &c
with a copy of the old family register. The marriage has been admitted by the Office. The only question has been that of identity. An appeal has been taken in this case, but thinking it sufficiently sustained I have concluded to allow it & thereby [illegible] the Secy. of the trouble of examining it.

The husband is entitled under Act '32 from 4 March '31 to 30 March '32 when he died.

Name and residence of Agent. F. F. Kirby
Edm: F. Brown Examining Clerk.
Present,
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Edwd. F Brown's
Letter ~
Claim of Mary Cook
of Kanawha Co Va
presented by me to
the Pension Office. &
letter of refusal sent
by me to Mr. Brown
of Cincinnatti
14th July 1850
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Cincinnati, Ohio, 22. June 1850.

Hon. J. M. H. Beale,
House of Reps. -
Sir:
Your predecessor
Hon. R Aug. Thompson, made some effort about 2 1/2 years ago, in relation to a Pension for Mrs. Mary Cook of Kanawha, Va. Widow of Peter, which claim had been in my hands nearly two years, and I conversed with him on the subject. The Marriage was admitted; and altho' I thought the service proven, the Department required the name of a Captain under whom another Captain had formerly served as Lieutenant, which latter was the one who enlisted Peter Cook. Mrs. Cook being then old, could not detail so much of Military History of the Revolution.
Mrs. Cook is now dead, and her heirs, feeling that the claim is just, are desirous to obtain the Pension. From my memory of the case, I think the Department was never informed that her Husband applied in his life time, and died soon after.
The enclosed will show that he did apply, and it is probably by reference to his papers on file, the Department will find additional light, and allow the claim.
Please request them to re-examine all the papers, with the enclosed and allow the claim, as early as practicable.
I have the honor to be,
Very Respectfully,
Yr. Obt. Servt.
Edm. F. Brown
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Affidavit of
Jesse Hudson J.P.
for
my Cook deceased
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2. July 1850.
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E. F. Brown
Atty.
Wash. D.C.
31. Oct. 1850.
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The affidavit of Jesse Hudson taken before me, John Hansford, a Justice of the Peace for the County of Kanawha and State of Virginia on this 27th day of June 1850 as evidence in the War Department Act [illegible] to a certain Peter Cook who represented himself to be a Revolutionary Soldier & the said Peter Cook lived on my land as a leaser for six years and then rented the place for some three or four after during which time I very frequently had conversations with him repeating his Revolutionary experience but do not at this time recollect all of the engagements he was in, but have a perfect recollection of his saying that he was an enlisted soldier and served out his time and that he served two six months tours either before or after he entered and this affidavit also states that the said Peter Cook has frequently told him that he was at the Surrender of Cornwallis at York and this affidavant has every reason to believe that he, the said Peter Cook, was there at the time from his description of the place and camp ground which the said Cook described to said affidant further this affidavit sayith not. 
Subscribed and sworn to before Jesse Hudson
John Hansford JP
Kanawha County to vis
I hereby certify that Jesse Hudson whose name is subscribed to the foregoing affidavit is a man of reputation & character and in my opinion his statements are entitled to credit. Given under my hand this 2d day of July 1850
Jacob Goshorn JP
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Revy Widow, &c.
File No. 6705
Mary Cook 
Widow
Peter Cook
Pvt. Rev: Kan.
Act. Feby 22/48
Index Vol A Page 143
Arrangement of 1870
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11.239
Virginia
Mary Cook, decd
widow of Peter
who died on the 30th March 1832
of Kanawha in the State of Virginia
who was a private in the company commanded by
Captain Burley of the Regt commanded 
by Levi F. Taylor in the Virginia 
line for [illegible]
Inscribed on the Roll of
at the rate of Dollars Cents
per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the third day of January 1852 and sent to Edw. F. Brown [illegible]
Arrears to the 4th of Semi-annual allowance ending
Revolutionary Claim Act July 7, 1838
Recorded by A H. Markland Clerk
Book D Vol 1 Page 265
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Mary Cook
Widow of Peter
Kanawha Co, Va
Acts, 1838, 43, 44, & 48
See papers filed by 
Hon. J.M.H. Beale and
letter from Pension Office to him of 5 July 1850
E.F. Brown, Atty
Wash. D.C.
31 Oct 1850
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9133
Virginia
Mary Cook dec
widow of Peter 
who was a private 
in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
80 Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence 
on the 4th day of March, 1843
Certificate of Pension issued the Third day of January 1852 and sent to Ed. F. Brown, [illegible]
Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844
Recorded in Book A2
Vol. 2 Page 135
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No. 13353 May 10 1847
Mary Cook Widow of Peter
Kanawha Co, VA
Acts 1838, 43 & 44
Please make payable at Wheeling, Va
Married 1783
July 7, 1838
E.R. Brown, Agent
Washington D.C.
10 May 47
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Letters addressed to this Office must be post-paid.
United States Agency and Notarial Office
E. F. Brown; Established in 1843. Seventeen doors east of the Treasury Department.
Edmund F. Brown, Attorney and Agent for Claimants, Notary Public, Illinois Commissioner, & c., Continues to settle all kinds of business with the several branches of Government, with his usual promptness, efficiency and fidelity; especially claims for pensions, patents, lands,Post Office and other Contracts, & c., 
F Street, near 14th Street
Washington City

United States Agency and Notarial Office
Washington City 184  .
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13333
Mary Cook
Let to E. F. Brown
(see ltr in [illegible] R3632-Jacob [illegible] Fonda
May 26, '47
Let . to same August 23. '47
Let to Ditto Nov 1. '47
Let to Hon. R. A. Thompson
Feb 5th '48
Hon. J. H. Beale 5th July 1850
E. F. Brown 14 Jany 1831
Act 4th July 1838
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State of Virginia
County of Kanawha ss
The deposition of Reuben Daggs a resident of said County taken this the 9th day of April 1847 before me Jesse Hudson -- the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath state that he is fifty six years of age, that he was personally acquainted with Peter Cook who was believed to have been a soldier in the War of the Revolution and with Mary his wife that in the year of 1811 Peter Cook aforesaid & Mary the wife of said Peter with several children removed to the County of Kanawha aforesaid, & that in the year of 1812 this deponent intermarried with Phebe the second child of said Peter & Mary that the said Phebe was born on the 20th day of March 1785 that from the time of this deponents first acquaintance with the said Peter & Mary until the death of said Peter, which death took place in the County of Mason, Virginia on the 30th day Marych 1832, said Peter & Mary ever lived together as man & wife -- & this deponent would further state that soon after his acquaintance with said Peter & family, he saw a family record of said Peter's family & that this deponent has for more than thirty years last past frequently seen said family record & for
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fifteen years last past said record has principally been at this deponents house & in that record or book is the following record verbatim viz -- "Peter Cook was joined in wedlock to Marey Carpenter 27 May 1782" Solloman Cook was born 24 February 1783" and "Febey Cook was born 20 March 1785" together with the births of seven other children of said Peter and Mary that the before named Phebe is the deponents wife. 
This deponent farther states that he has often heard since Peter Cook say that he the said Cook served in the War of the Revolution and that he was entitled to land for his services from the State of Virginia and that said Cook lived in the County [illegible] in March the 30th day 1832 -- and farther saith not. 
In presence of Asa Lyman
his mark
Rewlen Daggs
Sworn to and subscribed the erasures being first made on the day and year first before written before me
Jesse Hudson J.P.
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State of Virginia County of Kanawha ss
I Jesse Hudson, a Justice of the Peace in service for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Reuben Daggs the foregoing deponent, that he is a man in good standing & that his the foregoing deposition is entitled to full confidence & credit. In testimony whereof I have hereuntuo set my hand this 9th day of April 1847.
Jisse Hudson J. Peace
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Apr 25
Asa Lyon Esq
Kanawha CH VA
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Apr 24, 1847
Sir:
There is no evidence of the marriage of Peter Cook & Mary Carpenter in my office.
F. Mauzy, Clk
[illegible]
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This is to certify, that it appears from a list in this office of such officers and soldiers of the Virginia Continental line, during the Revolutionary War as settled their accounts, and received certificates for the balance of their full pay according to an act of assembly passed the November Session 1781 that a certificate issued on the 25th day of September 1783 in the name of Peter Cook as a Soldier of Infantry for $48.4:11 which certificate appears to have been deliver to M Hawkins and was given for services prior to the 1st January 1782.
P 118
given under my hand at the Auditor's Office, Richmond, this 30th day of April 1847.
Jas. E. Heath, Auditor