Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 5015, Enoch Cook, Mass.
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SERVICE
Mass.

Cook, Enoch 


SERVICE
S. 5015
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1072
Massachusetts
Enoch Cook

Captain of Volunteers under
Col. Reed, in the Rev. War.

Ratio of disability, One Half,
Date of closing testimony, 6 Jan: 1824

Inscribed on the roll of Massachusetts,
at 10 dollars per month, to commence on the
5th January 1824.

Certificate of pension issued the 25th of June 1824
and sent to Pensioner, care of 
John Abbott, Esq. Westford, Mass.

Arrears to 4th Mar. 1824                        $19.67
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sep. 1824      $60.00
                                                 Total          $79.67

Act 4th Feb: 1822.
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I Enoch Cook of Westford in the County of Middlesex
being now in the seventy eighth year of my age do
depose and say that I was in the army of the revolution
as a volunteer at the time of the capture of
Burgoyne and his army, that I was wounded in
the battle which terminated in his capture and
the capture of his army at Beni's heights near
Stillwater; I was wounded by a musket ball 
to my left ankle which for a time disabled
me from standing or walking, the said wound
has at times troubled me ever since, breaking
out and becoming a sore as often as twice and
sometimes three times a year: it constantly
pains me even when healed over, and now disables
me from performing at least half or more of
the labor I could perform, had my ankle never been
wounded.  I have followed the occupation of
a farmer, and in the earlier and middle parts
of my life possessed a decent property, [illegible]
I have become embarrassed in my circumstances
and cannot pay demands without great inconvenience
against me in consequence
of losing a large sum, a thousand
dollars or more by people failing who have
been indebted  to me, which is the cause of my
present embarrassment.  I served out more
than the time I engaged for, which was six weeks
in the regiments, commanded by Col. Jonathan
Reed, formerly of Littleton, and as one of said
regiment guarded the prisoners of said Burgoyne's
army to Cambridge in said County of Middlesex
where I was discharged, or dismissed by said 
Col. Reed.  I lived in the town of Groton in
said County when I engaged as a volunteer
[half of line is crossed out]  and lived there there after
my return, till I moved to the town of [illegible]
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burg in the County of Worcester, and lived in
said town of Lennenburg till I moved to Westford
aforesaid in the year 1807, where I now
live.  I have not applied for a pension before
the present time in consequence of said wound,
because till within a few years I have possessed
sufficient property for the comfortable support
of myself and family, at present my situation
is otherwise, and I should be much relieved
by some assistance from the government, [smudged]
me, in consequence of said wound;  I am not
on the pension list of any state of territory.
(signature of Enoch Cook)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex May 11th 1820 On this day
personally appeared before me the subscriber one
of the Justices of the Peace, within and for the said
County of Middlesex, Enoch Cook above named,
whom I certify to be a man of truth and veracity
and being duly cautioned made solemn
oath that the foregoing affidavits by him 
subscribed contains the whole truth and nothing
but the truth relative to the transactions
therein named
John Abbott, Justice of the Peace