Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16369, for Amos Perkins, Rhode Island
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Albany 4301
Cote Perkins
widow of Amos Perkins
who was a pensioner under the Act of March 1818
and who died on the 13 March 1833
of Otsego Co. in the State of
who was a Sergeant in the company commanded by Captain Gibbs R Island
commanded by Col. Richmond in the R. Island
line for 1 year

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 60 Dollars per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of Sep.
1839 and sent to Hon. J. N. Prentiss
Coopertown, N. Y.

Arrears to the 4th of Sep. '39
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar '60
$210.00
$ 30.00
$240.00
(Act July 7, 1838)
Recorded by D Brown    Clerk,
Book A. Vol. 2, Page 97
 
Dead
(Illegible) to Hon J. H. Prentiss 11. June 1840
See letter to Sec War, July 6 1840
Letter to Hon. J.A. Prentiss & 3rd (illegible)
26th Oct 1840.

Paid at the Treasury under
the Act of the 6th April 1838
from 4th March 1836 to 14 Dec 1839.
the day of her death
Agt. notified 5 Nov 1840
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Notification sent 25 June 1821, 
to Jno Russell Cooperstown, NY
15,396
New York
Amos Perkins
of New Lisbon - in the state of New York
who was a Sergeant in the regiment commanded by Colonel Richmonds of the Rhode Island line, for the term of one year.

Inscribed on the roll of New York
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 2nd of May 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 21st of Oct. 1819 and sent to Edward Pratt Esqr.
Cooperstown New York
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1820
$128.80
$  48.
$176.80
15 mo 30/31 4/30
(Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.)
Continued
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District of New York
Otsego County
: On this 6th day of February 1821
personally appeared in open Court being a Court of record for the County aforesaid Amos Perkins aged 62 years resident in New Lisbon in the County of Otsego in said District who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary War, in Capt. Gibbs Company. Colonel Richmonds regiment belonging to the Rhode Island line; and the date of
his original Declaration was on the 2nd day of May 1818 on which he has received a pension certificate No. 15396 And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift or sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intend thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land & Naval service of the United States in the revolutionary War" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto
annexed & by me subscribed.
Schedule of Real & Personal Estate & no
real estate - One old horse aged 16 years $15.
One Cow $18. 2 pigs $2.- one old table 6 Chairs 2 small kittles 1 small pot - 6 knives & forks
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6 cups & Saucers 1 ax 1 hoe - Blacksmiths tools $10 -

By occupation a Blacksmith I have a wife & 2 children residing with me Chauncey aged 20 years & able to support him self Lovida aged 17 years in poor health - my wife has been sick for the last three years & unable to labour I am not able to labour but little of my time - 
Sworn to & declared on this 6 July 1821 in open Court
Amos Perkins
Geo. Morell Clk.
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Amos Perkins V
Sargeant
1 year's service 76 & 77
Col. Richmonds regt.
R. Island line

Adm.
Cooperstown, NY
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State of New York Otsego County
Amos Perkins being duly sworn saith that he is a resident of the Town of New Lisbon in the County aforesaid and has served as a private Soldier in the War of the Revolution against the common enemy for the term of Nine
months and longer at a certain period of the war hereinafter mentioned on the Continental Establishment and is yet a resident citizen of the United States and by reason of his reduced circumstances in life is in need of the assistance of his Country for support and
this deponent further saith that he never has received any pension from the United States and doth hereby relinquish his claim to every pension which may have been heretofore allowed him by the laws of the United States
excepting and reserving to himself the right of
claiming and he does hereby claim a pension under an act entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service in the Revolutionary War" passed March 18th 1818
And this deponent doth further declare under oath that the time he entered the army of the United States in the War of the Revolution on the Continental Establishment the Officers under whom he served and Line to which he belonged together with the time and
manner of leaving the service are all correctly set forth according to the best knowledge and recollection of this deponent in the following manner that is to say he the said Amos Perkins is fifty-nine years old and he Enlisted into the service of the United States in the Line of Rhode Island on the 18th day of February
1876 under Capt Josiah Gibbs in Colonel William Richmonds Regiment of Infantry for the term of one year and served said
term in said Corps untill the expiration of said Enlistment and on the 17th day of February 1777 was duly discharged
The most of the aforesaid term this deponent was stationed at New Port Rhode Island and was at Newport when the enemy took possession of the same
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Amos Perkins
Sworn and declared the 2nd day of May 1818
Before me Edward Pratt
a Judge of Common Pleas
of the County of Otsego

State of New York Otsego County
Silvanus Mather of New Lisbon
in the County aforesaid being
duly sworn saith he is personally well acquainted with him the said Amos Perkins the applicant above named and has been so acquainted with him the said Amos Perkins for Eight years and during that time the said Amos Perkins has sustained a good character for truth and veracity and he
this deponent verily believes that full credit ought to be given to the declarations of the said Amos Perkins when under oath
Silvanus Mather
Sworn and declared the 2nd day of May 1818
Before me Edward Pratt
a Judge of Common Pleas
of the County of Otsego
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From under my hand this is to Certify that Amos
Perkins of Voluntown Listed under me in the year Javeris and (illegible) put in Sargent and did the Duty for a Number of mounts faithfully at all times when commanded Coventry of 1777
Josiah Gibbs Capt.
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State of New York
Otsego County Thomas Foster of the town of Burlington and County aforesaid being duly sworn saith that he is well acquainted with Amos Perkins, now present and the applicant before named and has been acquainted with the said Penkins from his childhood & upwards - This deponent further saith that he together with the said Perkins in the winter of the year 1776 enlisted for one year under one Captain Josiah Gibbs in Colonel Richmonds regiment belonging to the Rhode Island line and this deponent knows that the said Perkins said during service year and was honorably discharged in the State of Rhode Island - at the time of this aftersaid discharge this said Perkins served as an orderly Sergeant. - And further this deponent saith not.-
Thomas Foster
Sworn and subscribed
before me this first day
of October 1819.
Otsego County.
John Russell
Judge of Ostego Com Pleas,
Otsego County I certify that Thomas Foster
is a credible witness.
Oct. 8. 1819-
John Russell
Judge Com Pleas
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State of New York
Otsego County
Clerks Office ss
I certify that Edward Pratt &
John Russell were Judges of Otsego Com Pleas at the dates of the respective foregoing writings under which their names appear, duly qualified as Such & that these respective signatures appear to be Genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto
affix the seal of said Court this first
day of October 1819
Ariel Spoford Dep Clk
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Said County duly elected and qualified and further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Justice and wearily believe his name subscribed to the foregoing affidavit and the annexed certificate of
Credibility to be his genuine hand writing and Signature.
Witness my hand and seal of office this
Tenth day of October AD 1838
Jesse Rose Clerk
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State of New York
Otsego County
On the Twenty - eighth day of September 1838 Personally appeared before me David
B. St. John a Justice of the Peace in and for
the said County of Otsego Caleb Perkins a resident of the town of Edmeston, in said County of Otsego
who being first duly sworn according to law,
doth on his oath make the following declaration That he is acquainted with Cota Perkins, Widow of the late Amos Perkins deceased, and also knew the said Amos Perkins in his life time and that the said Amos Perkins died at the town of Pittsfield, in the aforesaid County of Otsego, on the thirteenth day of March 1833 And that the said Cota Perkins now resides in the town of Otsgo in the aforesaid County with Lewis D Emerson her son in law, that the said Cota has never been married again since the death of her said Husband - Caleb Perkins
Sworn & Subscribed 
on the day and year above
written before me
David B. St John Justice

The word September was inserted in the fourth line from top through a mistake which I erased and inserted B. St Johns in lien thereof
David B. St John Justice

I certify that I am acquainted with the above
named Caleb Perkins, that he is a person of
Respectability, truth & Veracity
David B. St John Justice

State of New York
Otsego County ss 
I Jesse Rose Clerk of said County
do hereby certify that David B. St John Esqr before whom the above affidavit purports to have been sworn was on
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the day of the date of the Same a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly elected and qualified and further that I am well acquainted with the Handwriting of the said Justice and verily believe his name subscribed to the within affidavit this annexed certificate of
credibility to be his genuine hand writing signatures
Witness my hand & seal of officer
this 10th day of October 1838
Jesse Rose Clerk
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State of New York
Otsego County. ss.

On the twenty fourth day of September
1838 Personally appeared before me Hiram Kinne one of the Judges of the County Court in the County aforesaid,
Cota Perkins a resident of the town of Otego in said County aged Seventy Seven years who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on her Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision
made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows" That she is the widow of Amos Perkins, who was a Private in the Revolutionary Army, and a pensioner of
the United States under the act of the 18 of March 1818 she further declares that she was married to the said Amos Perkins on the Third day of April Seventeen hundred and Seventy seven that she has no record evidence of her marriage and that her husband the aforesaid
Amos Perkins died on the Thirteenth day of March Eighteen hundred and Thirty three, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred & ninety four, vir, at the time above mentioned
Cote Perkins
Her Mark
Sworn to and subscribed
on the day and year above written
before me
Hiram Kinne Judge
of Otsego County Courts

N.B. The word 'Cote' in the 4th line written upon an erasure before signing
Hiram Kinne Judge of Otsego County Courts

I certify that the reason the above named Cote Perkins makes her mark is that from age and debility she is unable to write and I further certify that I am personally acquainted with
the above named Cole Perkins that she is in my opinion a credible person of good moral character and worthy to be believed and of the truth of whose declaration above written I am fully satisfied Hiram Kinne Judge
of Otsego County Court
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Otsego County ss
I certify that the within Cote Perkins
is in my opinion from personal observation so infirm and feeble as to be unable to appear in open Court and I have for that reason received her declaration and administered the oath to her out of Court
Hiram Kinne Judge of Otsego
County Courts-

N B The words that she has no record evidence of her marriage interlined before Execution 
Hiram Kinne Judge & c

State of New York
Otsego County ss

I Jesse Rose Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Hiram Kinne Esqr. before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been sworn was on the day of the date of the Same
a Judge in for Otsego County duly commissioned and Sworn: and further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Judge and verily believe his name subscribed to the foregoing affidavit
And the annexed certificate of credibility to be his genuine handwriting and Signatures
Witness my hand & seal of office
this 10 October AD 1838
Jesse Rose Clerk
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State of New York
Otsego County ss

Personally appeared before me Hiram Kinne one of the Judges of Otsego County Courts
Cote Perkins of the Town of Otego County aforesaid who being by me first duly sworn according to law deposed and said she is Seventy Seven years of age and that she is the widow of Amos Perkins deceased the revolutionary soldier and pensioner in deponent's declaration and previous affidavit mentioned that previous to her marriage with said Perkins her name was Cote Staples daughter of Jonathan Staples that she was married to said Amos Perkins in the month of April in the year 1777 by Robert Dickenson a Justice of the Peace in the Town then called Voluntown Windham County Connecticut that she knows of no record of her marriage and believes none was made by the person who married them. that she has had ten children that her eldest son Elisha was born in the year 1779 or about two years after her marriage that her youngest child Louisa with whom she now resides was born in the year 1803 that herself with two or three of her first infants were deprived of Comforts and suffered much in consequence of the Revolutionary War
the consequences of which she thinks follows her to this present day and further saith not
Cote Perkins, her mark
Sworn to and Subscribed
on this 25th day of March
1839 before me
Hiram Kinne Judge of
Otsego County Courts

I certify from reputation and personal acquaintance that the above named Cote Perkins is a credible person and is entitled to full credit in her statements and I further certify the reason why the above named Cote
Perkins makes her mark is that from age and debility she is unable to write
Hiram Kinne Judge of
Otsego County Courts
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State of New York
Otsego County ss
Personally appeared before the undersigned
Justice of the peace Elisha Perkins of the town of P(illegible) County aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he is seventy eight years of age and
a brother of Amos Perkins dis - who was a revolutionary soldier and late a pensioner of the United States. That said Amos Perkins
was married to Cote Staples (now the said widow Perkins) on or about the third of April-- 1777  That said Amos and Cote were married
by a justice of the peace by the name of Robert Dickinson or Dickenson in the town then called Voluntown Windham County Ct.
that he thinks they were legally married as it was disputed by none
That he was well acquainted with both at that time-- before and also after marriage
That said Amos moved his wife Cote home to their fathers house where they all lived together two or three years and that said Ames and Cote actually lived together as husband and wife and had children in the aforesaid family and previous to the close of the revolutionary War further saith not
Elisha Perkins
Sworn to and subscribed on this
the 28th day of March - 1839
before Elijah Gates Jr. Justice of the Peace

I certify from acquaintance - that the
above affiant is a reputable person and entitled to full credit
in his statements
Elijah Gates Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Otsego County ss
I Personly appeared before the
undersigned Hiram Kinne Judge of Otsego County Courts,  Louisa Emerson of the town of  Otsego County aforesaid.  Who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that she is 35 - years of age and a daughter of the said Amos and Cote Perkins. Her Father previously a Pensioner of the United States. Her Mother Cote Perkins the said applicant for the provision of the Act of July 7th 1838. That she lived with her parents the aforesaid Amos and Cote Perkins untill she was about twenty two years of age.  That her Father died about five years since.  And that she has had five brothers and three sisters- That her oldest brother Elisha Perkins if now living is nearly 61 years of age. Her second brother Jonathan now about 59 years of age.  That her oldest Sister Nancy is 56 -or- 57 years of age - that
she herself is the youngest Child of the family - and that she was 35 years of age the 18th day of September 1838 That she has often heard her parents the aforesaid Amos and Cote Perkins speak of - and describe the
trouble they had after their marriage in the revolutionary war - and further saith not--
Louisa Emerson
Sworn to and subscribed on this
the 25th day of March 1839
before Hiram Kinne
Judge of Otsego County Courts

I certify from personal acquaintance
that the above affiant is a creditable
person and entitled to full credit in
her statements Hiram Kinne
Judge of Otsego County Courts

N.B. The words 'Judge of Otsego County Counts', intenlined before signing
Hiram Kinne Judge
of Otsego County Courts
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Otego, Otsego Co. N.Y. Oct 12 1838
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Com Pension
Washington
Dear Sir,
Herewithal are enclosed the petition and affs. of Mrs. Cota Perkins, the widow of the late Amos Perkins died, praying a Pension, under
the act of June 1838 -
I am also instructed by Mrs. Anna Mack (Widow of the late Abner Mack died)
who is now living in this town, and who obtained a certificate for a pension. dated August 15 1838, Recorded in in Book A
Vol 2nd Page 72, made payable at the Connecticut agency at Hartford.  to request that the place of payment may be changed to the New York Agency, payable at Albany
she intends making that her future place of residence she also desires me to ask if she is not entitled to the Bounty Lands of her late husband, for services in the Revolutionary army as he never drew any, and if so entitled to be informed. the mode in which she can obtain them -
Please address me at this place, and say if the papers of Mrs. Sarah Collins submitted in September last have been passed upon -
I am (illegible) very respectfully
(illegible) friend of Jesse'
T. R. Austin
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Apl 6
(Illegible) NY
Cooperstown, NY
April 1

Free
Jno. H. Prentiss
(illegible) 6.

J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Comm. of Pensions
Washington City.
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Cooperstown, April 1, 1839.
J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Sir:
The enclosed (illegible) to
a (illegible) pending in your office.
Will you have the goodness to (illegible)
thus, in common with those on file, and
give me a division thereof only your
office this will (illegible)?

I kept a memorandum with Dr. Clinch,
requesting a nomination of the mother
of Mary Hyatt - it should have been
written Judg. Will you see that my request in that case is complied with, and oblige
your (illegible),
Jun. H. Prentiss

Attended to
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Free

Hon J. H. Prentiss M. C.
Cooperstown - N.Y.
Norwalk, Ct.
Sep 6
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Voluntown September the 2nd 1839
I hereby certify that I have diligently searched
the Records of Marriages of the Town of
Voluntown but can find no Record
of the Marriage of Amos Perkins and Cote Staples on Record.  But find from the books that Robert Dixon Esq. Served as Justice of
the peace and some marriages by him Recorded on book about the year of Seventeen hundred and seventy three and four to Seventy Seven
Attest Elisha Potter Town Clerk

State of Connecticut
Windham County ss
Personly appeared before me Benjamin
Gallup, 2nd.  A Justice of the peace within and for the County aforesaid Elisha Potter of Voluntown who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that be is 38 years of age and Clerk of Voluntown.  And that the statements in the above certificate are correct as certified by him -
Benjamin Galherhand
Justice of the peace
Sworn to and subscribed
on this the 2nd day of September 1839

I certify that from long and personal acquaintance with the above Clerk.  (Elisha Potter) I am confident that he is a credible man and entitled to full credit in his statements.
Benjamin Galherhand Justice of the peace
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State of Connecticut
County of Windham ss 
I Orlando H Smith
Clerk - Protem of the Court of Probate within and for the district of Voluntown in said County and State, it being a Court of record, do certify that Benjamin Gallup & is Justice of the peace within and for said Windham County and that his signature to the within deposition is genuine and in his own hand writing - In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal of said Probate Court
This the 2nd day of September 1839 -
Orlando H Smith Clerk of Probate
Protem
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July 30
W Luce
for att
Cote Perkins

Free
Jno H. Prentiss 
M. C.

Edwards, Eqr.
Court of Pensions,
Washington City.
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Cooperstown, NY.
July 25, 1839.
J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Copster
Sir:
The enclosed certification, of the  Clerks of the Town of Voluntown, has (illegible) to the application of the widow Cota Perkins for a Pension.  She was (illegible) in Voluntown, or is in proof on file in your office; and I think this (illegible) will (illegible) the (illegible) to as to (illegible) has a certificate
of the (illegible) of the country.
(illegible) Forth fully
your off. (illegible)
Jno: H. Prentiss
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
October 28th, 1840.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Executor of Cote Perkins, decd. -
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, N.Y. Agency, at the rate of Sixty Dollars per annum, under the law of the 7th July 1838, has
been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1836, to the 16th December 1839, the day of her death.
Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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V N. York
Cote Perkins
let. to T. R. Austin, 5. March 1839
to Hon. J. H. Prentiss 13. April 1839
to same 2. August 1839

Act 7. July 1838
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WIDOW, &c.
File No. 16369
Cote Perkins
Widow of
Amos Perkins
Sergt Rev War
Act July 7th, 38
Index: Vol. M, Page 122
(Arrangement of 1870.)
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Feb 12
(illegible)
Jno. H. Prentiss
M. C.

J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Comm. of Pensions,
Washington.

Hon. J. H. Prentiss, HR
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Washington, May 11. 1839
J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Sir:
The enclosed letter has (illegible) to an application for a Pension:  Will you have the goodness to (illegible) the (illegible) contained in it, and address (illegible) (illegible) the subject. 2
(illegible) (illegible) Gratefully, (illegible)
Jno H. Prentiss
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Sept. 28
(illegible)
NY
Cote Perkins

Free
Jno: H. Prentiss
M. C.

J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Comm. of Pensions,
Washington City.
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Cooperstown, Sept. 23, 1839.
J.L. Edwards, Esq.
Sir:
The enclosed letter, etc., is
(illegible) will the application of
Widow Cota Perkins for a pension.
You will please to (illegible) it
with the other papers on file
in your office, in her case, and
I trust the proof will be sufficient
to justify the grounds of a pension.
(illegible) respectfully,
Your (illegible) (Illegible)
Jno. H. Prentiss