Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5196, Frederick Hook, Md
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Md
Hook, Frederick
Sarah
NUMBER
R. 5196
CONTENTS
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REJECTED
5196
Sarah Hook


1853 Printed list of Rej. Suspended
Claims shows the following to lie until called for see letter on file from from
 John Munroe, Oct. 17. 1848
Attorney:
P. O.
Recognized.            Contract
Cert. of Dis.      Searched for   18

1939 - Apr 26 Hist to Mrs Eli V Brown
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No 14112
Sarah Hook
Md
5196

to lie until Called up

Act 7 July 1838
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Baltimore Octr 7th 1848,
Sir
Enclosed you will receive the proof
in support of Mrs Sarah Hooks claim to
a pension for services rendered to the
United States by her deceased husband
Fredrick Hook
Will you be kind enough to file the same
and reply to me as soon as you
can make it convenient
I am very respectfully
Your Obt. Servant.
John Munroe.

J L Edwards Esq
Comm of Pension
Washington D.C.
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No 14112
Sarah Hook
wd of Frederick
Md
Act 7 July 1838
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State of Maryland County of Baltimore to wit
On this 11th day of February A.D. 1848, before
the Subscriber a Justices of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for said County personally John Fishpaw a very aged - man
and of great respectability, who made oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God, that he well Knows and is intimately acquainted with
Sarah Hook now a resident of the
City of Baltimore, but formerly a resident of
Baltimore County, and who was the wife
and now the widow of Fredrick Hook who
did render service, to the United States in
Baltimore City during the Revolutionary War
as ensign in a captain Rutters Company under
Col. Nicholson, and rendered several tours
of actual service two months at a time or there
about, as she often times heard Fredrick Hook,
on many different occasions say, and that
he was recognized by all in his neighbourhood
who knew him to have served as a soldier
as before mentioned as he believes, and
further this deponent says and declares
that Fredrick Hook and Sarah Hook was
lawfully married shortly after the War of the
Revolution as he believes and lived together
as man and wife up to the time of her said husbands death, and he Fishpaw knows
the said Sarah Hook who is now living in
the City of Baltimore, and is about to apply
for a Pension from the United States on account of services rendered by the said Fredrick Hook during the revolutionary war is the identical widow of the said Fredrick Hook further he saith not
John Fishpaw
Sworn to before me,
John Bowman  J.P.
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State of Maryland County of Baltimore to wit
On this 28th day of February A.D. 1848 before
the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace of the
State of Maryland in and for said County
personally appeared Catharine Bell a resident
of said County aged about Eighty five years
now a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States , and made oath on the Holy Evangely
of Almighty God, that she well acquainted with
Fredrick Hook, and at the time when
serving as Ensign in a company commanded
by Captin Rutter, she believe rendered 
considable service during the revolutionary war in guarding the Military stores and Post
in which position Fredrick Hook rendered
several months actual service, which took
place in or about the year 1778. &79, and this
deponent further states that she is personally
acquainted with Sarah Hook his widow
and knows when they were married which
was shortly after the war aforesaid they
were living together as man and wife
up to the time of the said Hooks death
and that the said Sarah Hook has been a resident of the City of Baltimore in said State for some time and has never married since the death of her Husband Frederick Hook further this Deponent saith not,
Catherine Bell     her mark
Sworn & Subscribed 
before me
John Bowman J. P.
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B
3516 Poppleton Ave
Omaha Nebraska
March 8, 1939.
Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C
Sirs:
Will you send me any
data you may have as to
parents, children or other
relatives of Frederick (Frederick
Hook who fought in the
Revolutionary War under Genl.
Greene in the south for three
years, settling in Maryland
after the war. This information
is wanted for D.A. R work
I should like to know his
regiment etc.
Thanking you for what
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information you may be able
to give, I am 
Yours truly
Cassandra Brown
Mrs. Eli V. Brown)
P.S. This man came originally
from Holland, so the name
Maybe Houk or any of the
variation or even Hough.


[date stamp}
RECEIVED 
MAR 10, 1939
Mail sub-div
Vets Adm 14
reader #
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14112
Testimony in support
of Sarah Hook, Pension
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State of Maryland, County of Baltimore to
On this 25th day of February AD. 1848,
before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace
of the State of Maryland for said County personally appeared William Hinsey
a citizen of said County and a revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, who
being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath depose and say that he was well acquainted with Fredrick Hook, late of Baltimore County deceased before and at the time when he was mustering as Ensign in Captin Rutters Company in Baltimore
City, and under John Moal, Lt Col Nicholson and served some several tours about two months at a time during the revolutionary war in the year 1778. &79, in guarding the stores and posts, his reason for recollecting and having a more perfect knowledge of the said Hook, are from the fact of said Hook, and this deponents family living Neighbours in Baltimore County, where they were raised together, and this deponent further declares that very shortly after the War of the Revolution that Fredrick Hook, & his widow Sarah Hook were lawfully married and lived together as man and wife up to the time of his death, and that the said Sarah Hook who is now living in the City of Baltimore and about to apply to the United States for a pension for the services of her deceased husband Fredrick Hook, is the Identical widow and hath been always reputed as such as he believes,
Sworn and Subscribed
to before me
John Bowman J. P.
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State of Maryland Baltimore County Set.
I hereby Certify that John Bowman Esq. before
whom the afore going affidavits were made
and who has thereto respectively Signed his
name, was at the time of so doing a District
Justice of the third election District Court
for Baltimore County
In Testimony Whereof
Thereto set my hand and
affix the Seal of Baltimore
County Court this 16 March 1848
W.W. Bradford
Clk
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April 26, 1939.
BA-J/CC
Frederick Hook
R.5196
the
Feb.
28, 1848.
O
Mrs. Eli V. Brown
3516 Peppleton Avenue,
Omaha, Nebraska

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Frederick Hock, who originally came from Holland, served under General Greene in the south for three years and settled in Maryland after the war. The Revolutionary War records of this office show that one John Munroe, Baltimore, Maryland on October 17, 1848, submitted affidavits in behalf of Sarah Hook, widow of Frederick Hook, presumably in support of a claim for pension to have
been made by her. The records do not show that her application for Revolutionary War pension was ever submitted. The following
data are shown in the affidavits which were submitted;
One by William Kissey, February 25, 1848, one by Catharine Bell, same date and another by John Fishpaw February 11, 1843, all of
Baltimore County, Maryland. William Kissey stated that he was well acquainted with
Frederick Book late of Baltimore County, deceased; he entered the service in Baltimore City as ensign in Captain Rutter's
company and served under John Meal and Lieutenant Colonel Nicholson and served several tours during the years of 1778
and 1879, guarding stores and posts. William Kissey stated further that his family and the Hook family were neighbors in Baltimore County, were raised together, that Frederick and Sarah Hook were married shortly after the Revolutionary War and lived together until the death of Frederick Hook and that Sarah Hook was then (1848) living in Baltimore, Maryland.
about Catharine Bell was aged eighty-five years in 1848, when she stated that she was well acquainted with Frederick Hook when he
served as ensign in Captain Rutter's company, that he rendered considerable service during the Revolutionary War guarding military stores and posts in 1778 and 1779, that she was personally acquainted with Sarah Hook, his widow, who had not married since his death.
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John Fishpaw stated in 1848, that Sarah Hook, the widow
of Frederick Hook, had formerly resided in Baltimore County,
but was then a resident of the city of Baltimore, that he
Fishpaw, remembered said Book having served in the Revolutionary
war several tours and other statements similar to those given
by the other two witnesses.

The date of death of Frederick Hook and that of his widow
are not shown and no reference made to children, nor does this
office have any other information in regard to that soldier.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.