Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2,297, James Cooper, Penn. Penn. Sea Service
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Penn/Cooper,James/R. 2,297
Penn Sea Service
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State of New York
Oswego County
On this second day of June in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-six personally appears before me Robert H. Martin a Supreme Court Commissioner in and for said County James Cooper a resident of the town of Oswego in the and state aforesaid, aged ninety 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 pension made by the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832. 
Declarant was born in Bucks County in the State of Pennsylvania. That he entered the service of the United States at Philadelphia in the year 1777 according to the best of his recollection. The Company to which he belonged was commanded by Captain Jonathan Demning. That the regiment to which said company belonged was commanded according to the best of declarants recollection by Colonel Coates and General Potter was general of Brigade. That William Staats or Storh, Peter Strickler and Greg Strickler and Jacob Doughty and Thomas Doughty were privates in said company. That declarant enlisted as above stated early in the season of the year last above stated at the Office of Colonel Coates above mentioned for two months. From Philadelphia declarant marched with his company to Billingsport New Jersey; after remaining at Billingsport two months in the service
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of the United States declarant was discharges and returned home to his father who lived in Lower Dublin near Philadelphia.  In a few days after, declarants return as aforesaid, he again went to the office of Colonel Coates in Philadelphia and enlisted into the service of the United States for the term of two months, in a company commanded by Captain Bennett, which company belonged to a Regiment  commanded by Colonel [two illegible names] McVaugh.  That Major Bush was Brigade major. That the persons mentioned as privates in the Company of Captain Johnathan Dunning belonged to the Company of Captain Bennett aforesaid. That Thomas Tumlinson also was a private in Captain Bennetts Company. That Declarant proceeded with his company to Billingsport and from thence in gun boats to Wilmington.  From thence declarant went with his company and Regiment to join the army of General Washington, then lying on the east bank of the Brandywine. The next day after declarant reached the Brandywine with his company, the battle of Brandywine took place at which declarant was present.  Soon after the battle, declarant proceeded with his company to Philadelphia and encamped upon the Commons.  On the day following the were ordered back to reconnoitre the British army.  In a few days after declarant was engaged with the Regiment to which he belonged
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at the battle of White Horse.  In this battle Major Bush was struck in the knee by a grape shot, at the same time the horse rode by Major Bush was killed - Declarant assisted to lift Major Bush onto another horse and assisted to remove him to a private house.  Declarant remained about there continually under arms until his term of two months expired when he returned home to his father's house.  Soon after such discharge a proclamation or order was made by General Washington directing all forage to be removed from off the British lines into Bucks County near the headquarters of General Lacy.  Declarant was pressed into that service and was engaged in that service three months. Declarant cannot recollect the name of the officer having charge or Command at that service. After this service declarant continued to reside at Middletown in Bucks County until he was drafted into the service of the United States to serve two months.  That the Company to which declarant belonged was commanded by Captain White and ___ McCoy was lieutenant.  Declarant thinks the Regiment was commanded by Colonel Reid and thinks that General Mifflin was General of the Brigade: that they underhoused at Trenton and encamped near Trenton where declarant remained with his company until his term of two months expired, when he was
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discharged.

The next service performed by the declarant was on board the Ship Revolution.  Declarant enlisted at Philadelphia to serve three months on board said [illegible - O...] in the service of the United States, The Ship was commanded by Captain McNaughton.  That such enlistment was made in the summer the next season after declarants service in the Militia as last above stated.  That declarant continued in said ship arriving.  After taking a number of prizes, they captured the British Privateer called Black Snake, near Cape Henry.  Declarant was placed in command of said prize and proceeded therewith to Philadelphia. Declarant reached Philadelphia with said prize at which time the term for which he had enlisted expired.  That declarant received written discharges in the cases above mentioned when he was discharged but that such discharges have been lost.  

That declarant does not know of any person now living who was engaged with declarant in his service aforesaid.  That at the close of the war declarant was a resident of Bucks County, town of Middletown in the state of Pennsylvania, where he continued to reside a period of some eight or ten years after the war.  From thence he removed to the City of Philadelphia and resided in Arch Street nearly two years. From thence he
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removed to Cooperstownin the County of Oswego in the State of newyorkwhere he resided for six years.  From thence he removed to the town of DeKalb in the County of St Lawrence in said State where he has remained ever since the year 1801 until the year 1844 when he moved to Oswego where he now lives.

Declarant further states, that he has no record of his age, nor does he know where any such record is to be found. That he has no documentary evidence of his services.  That for several periods for which declarant enlisted as above stated or in which he was engaged in the Service of the United States as in herein before mentioned, he was not engaged in any civil [illegible] but was engaged in the duties of a soldier serving his whole time of his respective terms of service.

That he hereby relinquishes any claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the presant; and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. 

Sworn to & subscribed 
the day & year 
aforesaid
before me
RH Martin
Supreme Court
Commissioner
And I the said 
 Robert H Martin
[also signature] James Cooper
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the Supreme Court Commissioner before whom the following deposition or declaration by James Cooper was sworn to do hereby certify that the said James Cooper was sworn to the same in my presence. that the said James Cooper subscribed and swore to the same in my presence. That the said James Cooper cannot by reason of bodily infirmity attend Court Witness my hand at Oswego in the County of Oswego this 2d June, 1846.  [signed] RH Martin Supreme Court Commissioner

State of New York, Oswego County 

I John Carpenter Clerk of said county of Oswego and also ___ clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county do hereby certify that Robert H Martin whose name is subscribed to the above certificate and to the [illegible - Jurat] of the foregoing deposition or declaration was at the date of the said [illegible] and certificate a Supreme Court Commissioner in and for said County duly qualified and authorised to take the same, And further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Robert H Martin and verily believe his signature to the said [illegible] and to the certificate on his genuine handwriting & signature.

And I further certify that the said Robert H Martin as such Commissioner is authorised by law, to perform all the duties & [illegible] every act and [illegible] which the first Judge of said Court may or can perform and execute out of Court.

In testimony whereof Ihan
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hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court and County this 20th day of June AD 1846
[seal attached and signed]

John Carpenter [illegible]
By H.D. Freeman [illegible initials?]
(Clerk absent)
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76. early Capt Dunning - Col Coates -Billingsport 2-
few days after enlisted! in Col Coates office in Philade[phia]
for 2 mo. Capt Bennett Brandywine x 2-
soon after was pressed into service by Forage Dept removing all forge &c in Bucks Co. 3x
afterwards drafted Capt. White near Trenton 
enlisted on board Ship Resolution Capt McNaughton x 3
Captured I brought into Philade[phia] the
Black snake
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37.097
James Cooper
NY
Ace of June '32
2297
Act of June 1832
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J. Fennimore Cooper, of Cooperstown, New York, being duly sworn, doth depose
and say: That James Cooper, late of De Kalb in the county of St. Lawrence, and
now of Oswego, as this deponent is informed and believes, is the brother of his late father
William Cooper of Cooperstown aforesaid. And this deponent further says that he has [illegible word]
way understood that the said James Cooper was the junior of this deponent's father,
by about two years, and that this deponent's father, if now living would have been
in his ninety second year, according to this deponent's belief.

And this deponent says that he, himself, is now in his fifty seventh year, and
that he well remembers to have heard, in his early youth, that the said James
Cooper had been out with the troops of Pennsylvania, in the service of the United States, during the war of the revolution; and that he particularly remembers a [illegible]
account which the said James Cooper gave to himself, of the manner in which his
regiment [illegible] from the battle of Brandy wine, and which account this deponent
believes to have been given to him, prior to the removal of the said James from the
County of Otsego to the County of St. Lawrence, is more than forty years ago.

And this deponent further says, that from his recollection of what was told him in
his youth, he has no doubt that the said James Cooper was out in the service of the
United States, during the war of the revolution, as mention, and that he was also present
on the field of Brandywine, though in what [illegible] this deponent cannot
say; but, that he has ever been of opinion it was as one of the militia.

And this deponent further says, he was told in his own youth, that the said
James Cooper had been at sea, also, though in that employment, in what

STATE OF NEW YORK.
Otsego County Clerk's Office, ss. ┃ I Geo B Wilson Clerk of said
County, do hereby certify that Hiram S. Babcock Esquire, whose name
is subscribed to the annexed jurat abefore whom the annexed
afft purports to have been sworn was on the date of the same a Justice of
the peace in and for said County, and duly authorised by law to take the same. And
further, that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Justice
and verily believe his signature to the said jurat is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County, the 13th day of
June A.D. 1846
Geo. B. Wilson Clerk.
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 J. Fenimore Cooper, of Cooperstown New York, being duly sworn, doth depose and say: ______
That James Cooper, late of DeKalb in the county of St. Lawrence, and now of Oswego, as this deponent is informed and believes, is the brother of his late father, William Cooper, of Cooperstown, aforesaid. And this deponent further says that he has [illegible] ways understood that the said James Cooper was the junior of this deponent's father, by about two years, and that this deponent's father, if now living, would have been in his ninety second year, according to this deponent's belief. And this deponent says that he, himself, is now in his fifty seventh year, and that he will remember to have heard, in his early youth, that the said James Cooper had been out with the troops of Pennsylvania, in the service of the United States, during the war of the revolution; and that he particularly encounters a [illegible] account which the said James Cooper gave to himself, of the manner in which his regiment activated from the battle of Brandywine, and which account this deponent believes to have been given prior to the removal of the said James  from the County of Oswego to the County of St. Lawrence was more than forty years ago.  And  this deponent further says that from his recollection of what was told him in his youth, has no doubt that the said  James Cooper was out in the service of the United States during the war of the revolution, as mentioned, and that he was also [illegible] on the field of Brandywine, though in what [illegible] this deponent cannot say; but that he has ever been of the opinion that it was one of the militia. And this deponent further says, he was told in his own youth that the said James Cooper had been at sea, also, though what employment or in what station this deponent cannot say. From his knowledge of the life of said James, however, this deponent believes that he, the said James, was at sea during the war of the revolution, and that his service was principally on the coast, as he does not remember to have ever been told that the said James had visited any foreign country. Any further this deponent sayeth not. Cooperstown, June 10th 1846 J Fennimore Cooper
Subscribed and sworn 1846 this 13th day of June, before me
Hiram Babcock. Justice of the Peace
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Washington Jan 5th
Sir,
I have been requested on behalf of Mr. James cooper to ask you to reconsider his application for a pension. If such reconsideration be consistent with our rules I respectfully ask it be the present case. 
Mr. Cooper is an old gentleman of the most unimpeachable character &  respectability. Neither I nor I suppose [illegible] our in the place of his residence hear the least doubt of the fact of his service in the Revolutionary War. He is the uncle of J. Fenimore Cooper the author. 
I am respectfully 
your obt. servt
W Dreen

P.S. 
I endow your [illegible] to [illegible] Hough late cepeseutative or the [illegible] whic I now represent
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Service.                                                Member
Penn.          Cooper, James.               R 2294

Penn. Sea Service
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Washington June 24. 1846
Hon. J L Edwards
Dear Sir

I have the honor to [illegible] to you
herewith the Pension papers of James Cooper of
the Co. of Oswego N.Y. which I have pisk said
from R. H. Martin Esq. of Oswego. with a request
that I would [illegible] them for your consideration
I am Sir with Esteam
Your much obliged
and Obt servt
Wm J. Hough
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3
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division
APR 28 1921 19-
Chief of Rev. War Section
Sir:
I have this day received fro Mr. Eben Putnam draft no [strike through] 
cash
 for [double strike through] 
$30
100
requesting 
post office addresses [strike through]
copy [handwritten]
as per letter herewith
April 29, 1921
copies mailed
& said Div

Very respectfully
Abel Campbell
Chief of Division
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Name James Cooper 
Date Par 98, 1921
No. R2297
Pa Rev
Photographic copies wanted of
pieces, consisting of 2 page copies
Remarks:
[illegible] Exr. J. H. Wood
Chief Recory Div.
Serial 474[illegible]
T.F Dennis
Law Clerk
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CW
Cash 30c from Mr. Eben Putnam from Wellesley Farms, Mass, for 2 copies of 1 page form Revolutionary [Rev.] War claim of James Cooper of, R 2297-
Proctor Law 4/28/21

Stamp FINANCE DIVISION
APR 28 1921
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
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PHONE Branch 476
15998

6769

3-2233

BUREAU OF PENSIONS

Finance Division

June 14, 1927

Chief Rev. War Section Division.

I have this day received from
Jessie M. Casanova
cash No. __________
for $80/100, requesting
photostat copy as per
post office address [crossed out]
letter herewith.

O.J. RANDALL
Chief Finance Division
W.C.L.

Copies made of 
&
Finance Division
notified
June 30, 1927
[handwritten]
signature unreadable
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Phone Branch 476
[illegible 7 words]
refer to Requisition No. 15998
Requisition for Duplicating, Addressograph, Photostat, and Blue Print Work.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR WASHINGTON
CHIEF, Division of Publications, Room G 137.
Please furnish work specified below.
June 24, 1927   192
Bureau ordering PENSIONS Deliver to Room No. 
(ALL COPY FOR DUPLICATING WORK SHOULD BE PLAIN AND WRITTEN IN ELITE TYPE, EXACTLY LINE FOR LINE AS IT IS TO APPEAR ON FINISHED JOB.)
Title and description of job two photostat copies of one page, from the Revolutionary War pension claim of James Cooper, R. 2297
no. of copies two of one page
Shall form be kept standing NO _________days
For further information see A.E. Wilson
Room No. 5033 Phone No. 541
Approved [illegible] Chief Clerk of Bureau
Margaret M.H. Finch Chief of Branch XXXXXX of Division
NOTE: No order made "SPECIAL" unless statement showing necessity is written below and approved by Chief Clerk of Bureau ordering
CHECK WORK DESIRED
Duplicate
Multigraph | single or double space? | Facsimile Signature?
Mimeograph | Once? | Twice? | Side? | End?
Electric Typewriter | Fill in addresses? |Dated?
Addressograph from lists
Envelopes, size | Cards, size
Proof List | Pay rolls
Labels (submit sample) | Corrections
Fill in letters | Tabulation sheets
Photostat X  Size actual Official Use? Repay? yes $.30
Blue Print Size Official Use? Repay?
Remarks
(OVER)
Stamp DIVISON OF PUBLICATIONS
RECEIVED Jun 24 1927
DEPT. OF THE INTERIOR
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[three words illegible]
bureaus.
(Date) 192.
INDICATE BY AN X IN PROPER SQUARE ACTION TO BE TAKEN
On list
[checkbox] Make new addressograph plate
[checkbox] Change addressograph plate
[checkbox] Destroy present addressograph plate as follows:
Now reads 1
2
3
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Should read 1
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FOR USE OF DUPLICATING AND ADDRESSING SECTION
ADDRESSOGRAPH
The above change was made 192 .
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Commissioner of Pensions
[Body paragraph] I desire two photostat copies of one page (both certified) from the Revolutionary War pension claim of James Cooper, R. 2297, Pennsylvania Troops.
Received payment
80 cents
[in handwriting, first name unintelligible] Antorua W Ford. 
[type font] Rev. and 1812 Wars Section


[in handwriting, unintelligible] Jamie M. Casainra
[in handwriting, crossed out] 727 Kennedy Sh. h. W. 
Washington, D.C. 
[handwritten over crossed out lines] Phillysburg - Pa - Ouiter Co

[stamp in bottom left center in type font with black line border] FINANCE DIVISION
BOOK-KEEPER'S DESK
JUN 14 1927
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
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Photo stat copies2 of 1 page signed by James Fennimore Cooper
Mailed to Mr Eber [illegible]. Wellesley Farmes
Mass. [illegible]
Photos mailed to Mrs. Jessie M. Casanova
1927-June 30- [illegible]
No.: 2297
Name: James Cooper
Service:
Enlisted:   , 18   .
Discharged: REJECTED, 18  .
Application filed:   , 18  
[illegible]ges:
Reenlisted:
Attorney:
[illegible]
Recognized. Contract.
Cert. of Dis  Searched for   ,18 .
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State of New York
St. Lawrence Co
of
Rev Justin B Taylor and Colonel Seth Pomeroy of the town of DeKalb in the County of St. Lawrence aforesaid being duly sworn each for himself says the said Justin B. Taylor that he is a clergyman and now in the discharge of the office of a minister of the gospel at Dekalb in said County. That he has been acquainted with James Cooper now of Oswego an applicant for a pension for about five years. That he believes that the said James Cooper to be of the age of ninety years, that during his acquaintance with the said James Cooper, deponent has always believed that he was a revolutionary Soldier, and that he is reputed and believed to have served in the war of the Revolution in the neigbourhood in which the said James Cooper has always during the acquaintance of the deponent maintained a high character for strict integrity and intelligence. And the said Seth Pomroy of the town of DeKalb in said County for himself says, that he has been acquainted with the said James Cooper about thirty years during which time the said James Cooper lived in the town of DeKalb in said County. That the said James Cooper has always been reputed and believed in the neighbourhood in which he lived to have been a revolutionary Soldier and that
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deponant concerns in that opinion. ANd that deponant believe that the said Jame Cooper is of the age of ninety  Years. 
Justin B Taylor
Seth Pomeroy
Subscribed and Sworn before me this 13 day of June 1846
Orin M. Fisk Justice of the Peace

And I the said Justice before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken do heareby certify that the said Justin B Taylor mentioned in said affidavit is a minister of the Gospel as in said affidavit stated and of good standing and further certify that the said Seth Pomeroy also mentioned in  said affidavit is a man of good character and standing and that his statements are entitled of credit. 
Orin M Fisk Justice of the Peace
State of New York 
St Lawrence County Clerk Office

I martin Thatcher Clerk of the County of St. Lawrence and also Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that Orin M Fisk Esq whose name is subscribed to the above certificate and the Ierat [?] of the foregoing of fridavit [?] was at the date of Each a Justice of the Peace in and for the County Elected & qualified and duly authorized to take the same and further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Justice and
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verily believe his signature above written in genuine In Testimony above I have hereunto set  my hand and affixed the seal of said Court and County this 15th day of June A.D 1846 Martin Thatcher [illegible]