Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 618, John Cooper, New Jersey
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
New Jersey

Cooper, John

NUMBER
S. 618
carded

CONTENTS
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State of New Jersey Sussex County SS:
On the 28th day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the inferior court of common pleas now sitting John Cooper a resident of the Township of Vernon county of Sussex and state of New Jersey aged 69 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 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated I entered the service about the month of April 1778 for one month as a substitute for Francis Brown under Captain Romine we lay durreing that time about Hackensack Bergen county New Jersey and when my time expired I again entered for one other month as a substitute for John Slote under Capt. Hopper & Lieutenent Campble do not recollect my other officers in the month of May 1778 we lay at Hackensack and Aquaskanack and different places in New Jersey after that time had expired I entered again and about the first of June 1778 under Capt. Zabrisky with my father and we served a half month we lay at a place called liberty pole in Bergen County. I then entered again and about the middle of June 1778 for one other month under Capt Peter Ward and Lieutenant Mead and lay dureing that month at the New Bridge and Tapan Bergen county New Jersey and at the expiration of that term; I enlisted about the middle of the month of July 1778 for three months under Captain Peter Ward Lieutenant Mead and others which I do not recollect their names we lay that term in Bergen County New Jersey and after service of that time; I entered for one other month in October 1778 under Captain Romine and lay dureing that term of time at a place called liberty pole. I entered after that month had expired
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for one other month in the month of May 1779 under Captain Peter Ward we lay at Aquackanock and Second River in New Jersey after the expiration of this month I entered the service for three months in the month of June 1779 I entered under Captain David Merenus we lay at Aquackanock Essex County and Second River Bergen County in New Jersey untill I served my term of time out and left the service in September 1779 I have no documentary evidence and know of no person whose testimony I can procure who can testify to my service I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state I was born in the city of New York on the 23d of August 1763 I have a record of my age in a family bible at home I was liveing in (illegible) Bergen County New Jersey when I entered the service and have lived in the county of Morris New Jersey untill the year 1825 when I moved where I now live in the township of Vernon county of Sussex New Jersey since the revolutionary war I never received any written discharge I am known in my present neighborhood by General Benjamin Hamilton and Major William Simonson and who can testify as to my character for veracity and their belief of my services as a soldier of the revolution
John Cooper

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Jos. Y Miller
Andrew Willson    Judges
James Stoll
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September 27, 1932
BA-J/AWF
Mr. James W. Ballou  John Cooper
122 W. Everett Street   S.618
Dixon, Illinois
Dear Sir: 
Reference is made to your request for the Revolutionary War record of John Cooper of Bergen County, New Jersey. 
The date furnished within herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 618, based upon the Revolutionary War Service of John Cooper.  He was born August 23, 1763 in New York City, the names of his parents were not given. While residing in Wynocky (?), Bergen County, New Jersey, he served as a private in the Bergen County, Militia as follows - from sometime in April, 1778, one month in Captain Romine's company; from sometime in {illegible}, 1778, one month in Captain Hopper's company; in June, 1778, one month in Captain Peter Ward's company; from sometime in October, 1778, one month in Captain Romine's company; from sometime in May, 1779, one month in Captain Peter Ward's company; from sometime in June, 1779, three months in Captain David Marinus' company.  After the Revolution he lived in Morris County, New Jersey until 1825, when he moved to Vernon Township, Sussex County, New Jersey.  He was allowed pension on his application exe-
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cuted August 28, 1832, then a resident of Vernon Township, New Jersey.  There are no data in this {illegible} to family, other than the reference to his father as given within.  In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the names of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, John Cooper, S. 618, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C. citing all of the following data - John Cooper Certificate number 9777 served June 17, 133 Rate $38.33 per annum To commence March 4, 1831 Act of June 7, 1832 New Jersey Agency 
Very truly yours 
A.D. Hiller Assistant to Administrator
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Brief objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of John Booker {illegible} New {illegible} which require
further proof or explanation.
1: Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes
V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes
VI. Has he given the names of the officers whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1838? yes
VIII. Has the Clerk given their opinion? yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? no
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason for not obtaining it? no
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? yes
XIV. If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses to his service? If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified as to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? yes
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? 
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes  
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not , which of them is not answered? 
Explanatory Notes *QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who , being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For _____year _____months, and ____ days, I served as a _____For  _____ months and ____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension.