Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22,694, James Cochran, N.H.
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(3 - 1776)


SERVICE
N. H.

Cockran, James

NUMBER
S. 22,694

CONTENTS
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21716

New Hampshire

James Cochran
of New Boston in the State of N.H. who was a Priv/Sgt in the Company commanded by Captain Barron of the Regt commanded by Col Wingate in the N Hamp line for 1 month Private 
5 month Sergeant

Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 28 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of Oct 1833 and sent Joseph Cochran Jr. Esq New Boston N.H.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 - -  $70.83
Semi-anl. allowance ending Mar 4 -  14.17
[total] $80.00

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by D D Addison Clerk
Book E  Vol.1st  Page 77.


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New certificate issued Nov 20, 1833
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on Role Capt Barron's Compy
Col Wingate



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James Cochran
27.000

Private 1 month
Sergt 5
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6


Capt Barron's company
Col Wingate's Regt N 16


28.33 [subscript: 2 (possibly mean X 2)]
56 66
14 17
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71.83 [looks like addition - should be 70.83]


Joseph Cochran [Jr?] Esq
New Boston
NH
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STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.

County of Hillsborough, SS.

On this Fourth day of June 1833 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate, now sitting at Amherst within and for the County of Hillsborough, in the State aforesaid, James Cochran of New Boston in the County of Hillsborough & State of New Hampshire, aged 85 Who being 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. That is to say, In April 1775, the next day after the battle at Lexington in Mass. I left New Boston in company with James Caldwell Josiah Warren Robert Campbell Thomas Wilson Elijah Cochran & several [others?] for Cambridge in Mass. when we arrived there we were put under the command of Capt. Thomas Mc.Laughlen of Bedford & were reviewed by Gen. Ward & in a few days after were dismissed with leave to return home. In the month of August following I served one month as a substitute for one John Stone in Capt. Gordon Hutchins Company stationed on Winter Hill so called near the City  of Boston. About the last of June ^[or first of July] 1776. The town of New Boston were called upon to furnish troops for the term of six months to defend the Military Post at Ticonderoga. I turned out as a volunteer & went in defence of that post, & left New Boston about the last of June ^[or first of July] in Company with David Scoby Abner Hogg Robert Walker Thomas [illegible] Samuel Patterson & others, when we arrived at Ticonderoga we with other troops from the neighbouring towns formed a company & were organized by appointment of William Barron of Lyndeborough Captain, Whitefield Gilmore of Bedford 1st Lieut. --- Bartlett of Pembroke 2nd Lieut & David Scoby of New Boston Ensign, the field officers under whose command we were placed were Col. Wingate Lt. Col. Conner & Maj. Baker, under whose command I served as a Sergeant & did the orderly Sergeants
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duty ^[the latter part of the time] untill we were discharged which was about the last of November or first of December in that year which made five months that I served at Ticonderoga & one month on Winter Hill. John Stone for whom I served as a substitute on Winter Hill died in the service at Albany in New York in the year 1777.

[signature] James Cochran




He relinquishes every claim, whatever, to a pension or annuity, whatever, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State [signed] James Cochran Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid [signature] Edmund Parker, Judge of Probate


We Ephram P. Bradford a Clergyman residing in the town of New Boston in the county of Hillsborough aforesaid, and Joseph Cochran [illegible] - residing in New Boston aforesaid, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James Cochran who has subscribed and sworn to the above, and that we believe him to be 85 years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier in the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid,
[signature] Ephm. P Bradford
[signature] Joseph Cochran [Junr?]
Edmund Parker, Judge of Probate


And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, that after the investigation of the matter, and putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them, that the Rev. Ephraim P. Branford who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman resident in the
town of New Boston and that Joseph Cochran [junr?] Esqr who has signed the same, is a resident in the town of New Boston and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
[signature] Edmund Parker } Judge of Probate for said County of Hillsborough.


I CHARLES H. ATHERTON, Register of the court, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original
proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of James Cohran [illegible]

[seal on lower left]

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court, this fourth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty [written over: two] three

[signature] C.H.Atherton         Register of Probate, for said country of Hillsborough.
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STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.

County of Hillsborough, SS.

At the Court aforesaid, On the application aforesaid, the following interrogatories were propounded to the said [handwritten] James Cochran [end handwritten] and the following answers given, to wit:


1. Where, and in what year were you born?
Answer,
[handwritten] I was born in Salem Mass. in the year 1748. [end handwritten]

2. Have you any record of your age, and where is it?
Answer,
[handwritten] I have no record of my age, but my Father always told me I was born in the year 1748. [end handwritten]

3. Where were you living, when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and
where do you now live? 
Answer, 
[handwritten] I have lived in the town of New Boston in the County of Hillsborough & State of New Hampshire eversince the year 1759. & on the same farm that I now live on. [end handwritten]

4. How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute, for whom?
Answer,
[handwritten] I turned out as a volunteer when I went to Ticonderoga for the term of six months. But the month that I served at Winter [winter Hill?] I served as a substitute for John Stone. [end handwritten]

5. State the names of some of the regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served, such Continental and Militia Regiments, as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service?
Annswer,
[handwritten] Gen. H. Gates, Col. Wingate, Col. Conner & Maj. Baker [end handwritten]

6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it? 
Answer,
[handwritten] I never had any written discharge [end handwritten]

7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution?
Answer,
[handwritten] Jacob Hooper Rev. E.P. Bradford Abner Hogg & Elijah Cochran [end handwritten]


Certified by
[signature] C.H.Atherton
Register.
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Joseph Cochran
27.000

Private 1 month
Sergt 5
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6

Captain Barron's company
Col Wingate's Regt [N 16?]


28.33 [subscript: "2"]
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56.66
14.17 [should be 15.17 if the sum below is correct?]
-----
71.83


Joseph Cochran Jr Esq
New Boston 
NH



Please to make return to Joseph Cochran Junr. Esqr.
New Boston New Hampshire
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I Elijah Cochran of New Boston in the County of Hillsborough & State of New Hampshire of 80 years of age depose & say that James Cochran of said New Boston an applicant for a pension for Revolutionary services, & Brother of mine, served one month as a substitute for one John Stone a private in Capt Gorden [Gordon?] Hutchins Company stationed on Winter Hill near Boston Mass, in the month of August or September 1775. I served in the same company at the same time for the term of eight months. In June 1776 the town of New Boston was called upon to furnish troops for the term of six months to defend the Military Post at Ticonderoga, the said James enlisted for said term, & I went as far as May Holmes in Francestown with him to assist him in carrying his baggage, how long he served I cannot tell for I was in the service at New York when he returned home, but have always understood that he served five months, at that time. I further say that the said James has always sustained a good moral ^character distinguished for truth & veracity.

[signature] Elijah Cochran


State of New Hampshire ⎬ May 31st 1833. Then the above
Hillsborough ss        ⎬ named Elijah Cochran appeared
before me the subscribed & made solemn oath that that the above affidavit by him subscribed is in his
belief Just & true. I further certify that said Elijah Cochran is ^[a credible witness &] considered a man of truth & veracity.

[signature] Joseph Cochran W. Justice of the Peace
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Rev.and 1812
Wars Section
AWF/eel


February 16, 1929


Mrs. I. P. Gough
4202 North Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland,



Madam:

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.22694, it appears that James Cochran was born in 1748 in Salem, Massachusetts.

While residing in New Boston, New Hampshire, he served with the New Hampshire troops as follows:

The next day after the battle of Lexington, marched to Cambridge and served a few days as a private in Captain Thomas McLaughlin's Company; from in August, 1775, one month in Captain Gordon Hutchins' Company; from June or July, 1776, five months as orderly sergeant in Captain William Barron's Company, Colonel Wingate's Regiment.

He was allowed pension on his application executed June 4, 1833, at which time he was living at New Boston, New Hampshire.

It is not stated that soldier was married.

Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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[table]
[column headings: "DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT". "LENGTH OF SERVICE.". "RANK.". "OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. [sub-headings: "CAPTAIN". "COLONEL".]". "STATE".]

[row 1: "Apl 20, 75". "Few days". "Pri". "Thomas McLaughlin". [blank] "N.H."]
[row 2: "Aug, 75". "1 mo.". """. "Gordon Hutchins". [blank] "N.H."]
[row 3: "June or July 76". "5 mos.". "ordly sgt". "William Barron". "Wingate". "N.H."]

[not in any particular column] [illegible] next day after [out?] of Lex & [illegible] to [illegible]


[end table]



Battles engaged in, [handwritten] none mentioned. [end handwritten]
Residence of soldier at enlistment, [handwritten] New Boston, N. H. [end handwritten]
Date of application for pension, [handwritten] June 4, 1833 [end handwritten]
Residence at date of application, [handwritten] New Boston, Hillsborough Co. N H [end handwritten]
Age at date of application, [handwritten] [b?] Salem Mass. 1748 [end handwritten]

Remarks:
[handwritten] It is not stated that sol was mar. [end handwritten]



Very respectfully,
[blank]
Commissioner.

15567b2m11-01
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Law Office of John C. Gulick, 132 Nassau St.,
(Vanderbilt Building.)    
New York, Aug 14th, 1905


Dear Sirs
I desire to learn whether the records showing grants of your office show any part of a pension to the following soldiers of the Revolutionary War who served in the New Hampshire troops, namely, 
Major James Cochran
Ensign Jonathan Stanyan
Phineas Dearborn
Reuben Dearborn
or of pensions granted to the widows of any of them.  Thanking you in advance for the trouble occasioned by an answer
I am
Yours very truly,
[signed] John C. Gulick

To the Comr of Pensions

[[stamp]
U. S. PENSION OFFICE
A
AUG 15 1905

[Partial stamp in middle of letter]
NAVY 
AUG 16 1905
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Address
Ellen J. Abbott
27 Chestnut St
Andiver [Andover?] Mass.

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Gentlemen -- Will you please send to me the Military History of James Cochran who was a soldier of the Revolutionary War and was granted a pension I think enlisted from Amherst NH.  He enlisted for three years.
And oblige
[signed] (Miss) Ellen J. Abbott
27 Chestnut St
Andiver [Andover?] Mass  Aug 9th 1905
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Mrs. I. P. Gough
2402 North Charles Street
Baltimore, Maryland

Dept. of Interior
Pension Office

Would you kindly give me any data you have in relation to James Cochran, Private & Sergeant, New Hampshire Rev. Militia.  Placed on Pension List Oct. 24, 1833
Also of Joseph Roby, enlisted June 14, 1779 from Charles Co. Md.
Reported Discharged, Dead, Sept 25, 1780
I would gratefully appreciate an early reply.
Sincerely,
[signed] Mrs. I. P. Gough
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Revolution
22694
INVALID.
File No. 22,694
James Cochran
Sergt. Rev War
Act:  June 7th '32
Index:  Vol. 2, Page 78
[in brackets]  Arrangement of 1870.

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Aug 24, 1905  History to Miss Ellen J Abbott, Andover Mass
Sept 25, 1905 History to John C. Gulick, New York, N.Y. - M.R.

1906 Apr 3 history to Mrs. Thomas J. Sandford M.B.H.

1929 - Feb. 16 - Hist to Mrs. I. P. Gough  Awf.
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The Hon. J. L. Edwards Esq.
Com. of Pensions
Washington City
D. C.


Error to be corrected}
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Nov. 19th 1833

The Hon. J. L. Edwards Esq.
Sir, Enclosed is James Cochran's Pension Certificate you will please to correct the error, and make it payable at Portsmouth, New Hampshire and return the same to the subscriber.
Yours &c,
[signed] Joseph Cochran Junr.
New Boston
Hillsborough Co,
New Hampshire.
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I Jacob Hooper of New Boston in the County of Hillsborough & State of New Hampshire of 83 years of age depose & say that I have been an Inhabitant of said town & a near neighbor to James Cochran of said New Boston the applicant for a pension for Revolutionary services, for 58 years last past.  I recollect very well his turning out as a soldier & going to Ticonderoga in the year 1776 or 1777.  I do not recollect which, I think he enlisted for six months & served that term, but cannot say certain.  I further say that he has always sustained the character of a man of truth & veracity.  I do not recollect of his serving on Winter Hill so as to feel willing to swear to it, although there is some such impression upon my mind.
[signed]  Jacob Hooper

State of New Hampshire  Hillsborough SS.}
June the nineteenth 1833.  Then the above named Jacob Hooper appeared before me the subscriber and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is in his belief Just & true.  I further certify that said Jacob Hooper sustains a good moral character & is considered a man of strict truth & veracity.
[signed] Joseph Cochran Junr. Justice of the Peace

I Andrew Wallace Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the County of Hillsborough in the State of New Hampshire, certify that Joseph Cochran Junr. within and above named is a Justice of the Peace for said County of Hillsborough, as aforesaid, and that the foregoing signatures, purporting to be his, are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office, and subscribed my name, this twenty sixth day of June in the year of our Lord 1833.
[signed] A. Wallace  Clerk
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I Abner Hogg of New Boston in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire of 74 years of age depose & say that the Town of New Boston was called upon to furnish troops for the defence of the Military Post at Ticonderoga in the month of June 1776 for the term of five or six months.  I with James Cochran David Scoby Robert Walker Thomas Smith Samuel Patterson & others all of New Boston & in the same Company left said Town in the month of June in said year & went in defence of said Post - & after we arrived at Ticonderoga with troops from other towns formed a Company & were organized by the appointment of William Barron of Lyndeborough [Lyndeboro] Captain [,]  Whitfield Gilmore 1st Lt - Bartlett of Pemborke 2nd Lt & David Scoby of New Boston Ensign.  James Cochran of New Boston was Sergeant & did the orderly Sergeants duty part of the time, we served the time for which we enlisted which was five or six months I do not recollect which. our field officers were Col. Wingate  Lt, Col. Conner & Maj. Baker & the chief commander at that post was Gen. Horatio Gates.  I have lived in the town of New Boston ever since I was six years old & have been personally acquainted with James Cochran of said town the applicant for a pension for revolutionary services ever since I came to said town & the said James Cochran has always sustained a good moral character distinguished for truh and veracity,
[signed] Abner Hogg

State of New Hampshire
Hillsborough ss.}  June 3rd 1833.  Then the above named Abner Hogg personally appeared before me the subscriber & made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is Just & true.  I further certify that the said Abner Hogg is a credible witness & considered a man of truth & veracity,
[signed] Joseph Cochran Jr.  Justice of the Peace
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Payments to be made at Providence Rhode Island
by the [?] of U. S. B. Bank
Agent for paying Pensioners, 
in the Agency of Rhode Island

Recorded in the Pension Office, 
in Book E Vol. 1st Page 77
by [signed] DD Addison  Clerk
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WAR DEPARTMENT.

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th June, 1832, James Cochran of the State of New Hampshire who was a Private & Sergeant in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive twenty eight dollars and thirty three cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the 4th of March, and the 4th of September, in every year.

Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty fourth day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty three
[signed] Lew Cass
Secretary of War.

Examined and Countersigned.}
Geo Wm Crump
Acting Commissioner of Pensions.
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Law Office of John C. Gulick, 132 Nassau St.,
(Vanderbilt Building.)    Telephone 1885 J-John.
New York, Sept 22, 1905

Commissioner of Pensions,
Pension Bureau,
Dear Sirs;
Several weeks ago I wrote your office inquiring whether you had on file any records showing grants of pensions on account of services in the War of the Revolution of the following
Major James Cochran
Ensign Jonathan Stanyan
Reuben Dearborn
Phineas Dearborn
Such services being in the New Hampshire troops.  As no reply has been received, I thought my letter may have miscarried and therefore write again.  If there be any records relating to all or any of these names, I desire a copy of them, and will pay whatever charge is required for having them made.  The papers are desired in support of an application for membership in the Sons of the Revolution and as evidence of the revolutionary services of the candidate's ancestors, above.  An answer is requested.
Yours very respy,
[signed] John C. Gulick


[two stamps:]
O. W. N. DIVISION
SEP 25, 1905
RECEIVED

U. S. PENSION OFFICE
A
SEP 23 1905
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No. 245 W. 109th St.  New York City,
March 27th, 1906.

Commissioner
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D. C.

Dear Sir:  Will you please send me the military history of James Cochran, a soldier of the Revolutionary War and who was my great grandfather?  The dates of enlistment or appointment are April 1775; Feb 1776; Feb 1777; -- 1780.  He served under Colonel Sullivan and Colonel Cilley and probably enlisted at Amherst N. H.
Please inform me the amount of expense attached, if any, and I shall immediately send it.
Yours respectfully,
[signed] Mrs. Thomas J. Sandford.


[two stamps:]

O. W. & N. DIVISION FILES    MAR 29 1906

U. S. PENSION OFFICE  A  MAR 29 1906
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O. W. and N. Division. 3-525.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,,
Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington, D. C., April 3, 1906.
M. B. H.
S.F. 22694
Rev. War.

Madam:
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of James Cochran, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.

April 20, 1775 . . . few days . . .Private . . .Captain Thomas McLaughlin . . . .State N.H.
August 1775 . . . 1 mo . .Private . . Captain Gordon Hutchins . . N.H.
June or July 1776.. . . 5 mos. . . . Orderly Sergeant. . . Captain William Barron . . Colonel Wingate . . .N. H.

Not the soldier whose history was requested  See Md 7f 14565

Battles engaged in, none mentioned
Residence of soldier at enlistment, New Boston, N. H.
Date of application for pension, June 4, 1833.  His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, New Boston, Hillsborough Co., N.H.
Age at date of application, born at Salem , Mass, 1748.
Remarks: [blank]

Very Respectfully, 
[signed] V. Warner
Commissioner.

Mrs. Thomas J. Sandford
#245 W. 109 St, New York, N. Y..

[two stamps:]
O. W. & N. DIV.
APR 7 1906
FILES

U. S. PENSION OFFICE.
A.
APR 7 1906
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington, D. C., Aug 24, 1905.
[[along the side] Chief
I.S.C.
Inv. 22,694
Rev. War.

Madam:
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of James Cochran, a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.

Apl 20, 1775 . . . few days . . .Captain Thomas McLaughlin . . . .State N.H.
Aug 1775 . . . 1 mo . .Pri . . Captain Gordon Hutchins
June or July 1776.. . . 5 mos. . . . Sergt. . . Captain William Barron . . Colonel Wingate

Battles engaged in, none mentioned
Residence of soldier at enlistment, since 1759, New Boston, Hillsborough Co., N. H.
Date of application for pension, June 4, 1833.
Residence at date of application, New Boston, N.H.
Age at date of application, 85 years, born at Salem , Mass, 1748.
Remarks:  His claim was allowed.

Very Respectfully, 
[signed] V. Warner
Commissioner.

Miss Ellen J. Abbott
27 Chestnut St, Andover, Mass.

[stamp]
U. S. PENSION OFFICE.
A
AUG 29 1905