Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14504, David Copp, N.H. Also Served In French And Indian War
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Service
N.H.
Copp, David
Margaret
Also served in French and Indian War
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New Hampshire - (P.) 2, 213
Margaret Copp
Widow of David Copp, deceased
who died in March 1817,
of Strafford Co. in the State of New Hampshire
who was a Captain in the _____ commanded by Captain ___ of the regmt commanded by Col Poor NH 6 months, Captain

Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire (P.) at the rate of 120 Dollars per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 26th day of July 1838, and sent to Amasa Copp, Esq. Wakefield, N.H.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1838.  $840.00
Semi-anl. ending 4 Sept 1838.            60.00
                                                           _________
                                                            $900.00
Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3rd

Recorded by G.F. Rhodes Clerk, Book A, Vol 2, Page 23
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3576
Margaret Copp
widow of David
N.H.

aomd
6 mo Capt
120$
no deduction

Amasa Copp Esq.
Wakefield, N.H.
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State of New Hampshire
Strafford Co  let a Court of Probate holder at Wakefield in said County on the 15th day of September 1837~

Personally appearing the before mentioned Margaret Copp made solemn oath that the preceding declaration by her signed is just and true. and I hereby certify that the said Margaret Copp is a person of credibility.

Daniel C. Atkinson Judge of Probate

State of New Hampshire
Strafford Co
I Ira A. Eastman Register of Probate of said County hereby certify that Daniel Atkinson is Judge of Probate within and for said County and that the above is his true and genuine signature. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Court of Probate of said county this fifteenth day of September A.D. 1837~

Ira A. Eastman Registrar
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I Margaret Copp of Wakefield in the County of Strafford and State of New Hampshire, Widow, aged eighty eight years, wife and idow of David Copp of said Wakefield Esqr, Deceased, make this application for a Pension under the law of the seventh of July A.D. 1836 - for that in August in the year of our Lord of 1769 I was married to David Copp in Rochester N.H. by Col. Gage of Dover a Justice of the Peace within and for the Colony of New Hampshire. that in 1775 my husband, and myself lived in Wakefield aforesaid; that when the alarm of the Battle of Bunker Hill spread through the Country, my husband David Copp, who was an officer in the old French War, raised a Company of Volunteers in this vicinity, and in the latter part of July 1775 or the first of August same year marched to Portsmouth N.H. and helped Mr. Sullivan and John Langdon remove the Cannon from that town - that soon after they had removed the Cannon from Portsmouth, my husband marched his company to Winter Hill near Cambridge in Massachusetts and remained there till the latter part of May in the year of 1776. I am positive my husband was absent till some time in May 1776 as we had planted considerably before he returned, The particulars above were related to me many times and oft by my late husband - and I recollect his telling me that when the Companies were ordered to go from Portsmouth to Winter Hill, there were offered three Guineas to the Captain, who would march his Company there first, and my husband and Company arrived there two or three hours before either of the others, and the bounty was paid to him; I have often heard him relate the above and that his Company had one hundred and thirty men in it and many of them without Guns so anxious were they to defend the Country and achieve their independence - I further state that my husband David Copp died at Wakefield in March 1817 and that I have remained his widow from that time till now that I am in the Eighty ninth year of my age and am quite infirm.
Margaret Copp
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Record Division
3-525.
Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions
W.F. 14504  Washington, D.C. …., 19…

In reply to your request of ……, received ….. for a statement of the military history of David Copp a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension in the Bureau.

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment: July 7 Aug 1775

Length of Service: May 1776

Rank: Capt.

Officers Under Whom Service was Rendered (Colonel): Poor

State: N.H.

Also was an officer in the old French War. no further data. - 

Battles engaged in. (checked)

Residence of soldier at enlistment, Wakefield Strafford Co N.H.

Date of application for pension, Sept 15, 1837 Her was a 

Residence at date of application, Wakefield, N.H.

Age at date of application, She was in her 89th year.

Remarks: Soldier married at Rochester N.H. Aug 1769, Margaret or Peggy Palmer. He died at Wakefield N.H. Mar 1817. A son Amasa was living at Wakefield N.H. in 1838. The above noted is the only soldier of that name & c. 

Very respectfully,
Commissioner
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V.L.M.
Rev. War Section.
November 21, 1913.

Mr. Edmund S. Boyer,
62 High Street.
Somersworth, N.H.

Sir:
In response to your letter dated the 15th and received the 17th instant, you are advised that the record of David Copp, W. File No. 14.504, Rev. War, was forwarded to you June 14, 1913.

It is not the practice of this Bureau to furnish more than one such statement to the same person.

Very respectfully,
G.M. Saltzgaber
Commissioner.
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David Copp, W. File 14504 Rev. War, resided at Wakefield, Strafford Co., N.H. in 1775, and was commissioned Captain, July or August 1775, and served until May 1778, in Colonel Poor's regt. New Hampshire troops. He married at Rochester, N.H. August -, 1769, Margaret or Peggy Palmer. He died in 1817 at Wakefield where she pensioned in 1838 aged about eighty-nine years. Son Amasa was only child mentioned. It is stated that the soldier also served in the French and Indian War.

There is no other David Coppe or Copp on file. s. 36,470
Oct 7, 1916
To Warren C. Tudsbury
621 Citizens Natl. Bank Bldg.
Los Angeles, Calif.

his letter in jacket for Aaron Copp, Invalid, no number.
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(Stamped):
Pension Office
O
U.S. 
Nov 17 1913
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Edmund S. Boyer,
Lawyer,
62 High Street
Somersworth, N.H.

November 15, 1913.

Th Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Sir: ~

I would be pleased to be advised as to the record of a soldier of the Revolution, one David Copp, then resident of Wakefield, New Hampshire, whose widow, Margaret Palmer, I am advised, was a beneficiary of your Deapartment as a Pensioner by reason of the service of and her relation to the soldier.

All pertinent data in connection with this inquiry will be appreciated. I thank you for your attention.

Respectfully yours,
E. S. Boyer
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(Stamped):

Pension Office.
D
U.S.
Nov 28 1913
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Edmund S. Boyer,
Lawyer,
62 High Street
Somersworth, N.H.

November 25th., 1913.

The Honorable G.M. Saltzgaber
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir: ~

I beg your pardon and thank you for the advices sent to me, under your dating of the 21st. instant, in the matter of inquiry made for record of David Copp, W. File No. 14, 504, Rev. War.

Such was unintentionally repeated by reason of an oversight and a failure to find the papers sent to me, at earlier date, thru your office. A search brought them to light, confirming your advices of the 21st. instant. I regret that I was the cause of this mishap.

Respectfully yours,
E.S. Boyer
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Henry N. Copp,
Attorney at Law
Washington, D.C.

706 Eighth Street Northwest
SpecialtyL-Public Land Scrip and Soldiers
Homestead Rights

(Stamped): First Deputy Commissioner
Nov 19 1901
U.S.
Pension Office
November 15, 1901 (overlain stamp)

M.W.H.

Hon. H. Clay Evans,
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Dear sir:

I am informed that my great grandmother, Margaret Copp, widow of Captain David Copp, a Revolutionary soldier, was a pensioner. I will be glad to have the privilege of examining and copying the papers in her application and will be greatly obliged if her case can be withdrawn from the files and placed on the desk of Major Davenport where I will call in about a week's time or less if the papers can be readily found.

Very respectfully yours,
Henry M. Copp
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Pension Office D
U.S.
June 9 1913
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Edmund S. Boyer
Lawyer,
Somersworth, N.H.
62 High St

June 7th,. 1913.

The Honorable G. M. Saltzgaber,
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.

Sir:-

Your advices of the dating of the 6th. instant, in the matter of Revolutionary War Record of William Russell, so considerately furnished by your Department and thru your attention, have reached me and I thank you, very much, for such.

I am emboldened, but I hope that I shall not be found transcending my privilege or transgressing the rules of your Departent, to ask your aid in establishing, if possible, some data relative to others concerning whom I am asked to gain some information.

I am appending such data as we have at hand to this sheet for your use and would much appreciate whatever advices you may be able to send me in the several items. If such is not obtainable or not allowed, your advices to that effect would be acceptable.

Thanking you for such attention as your rules allow I am

Respectfully yours,
E.S. Boyer
Information wanted as to the War Record, if any, of William Burleigh who is reported as enlisting from Stratham, N.H., in the 3rd N.H. Regiment in the Continental Army at Kingston, July 4th, 1780, and going to Wercester [sic], Mass., to join the said Regiment. His wife's name was Olive…

Please advise as to what data the Revolutionary War Records show, if any, relative to this said William and, also, as to his wife, her full name. if of records in any way.

ofc. Edmund S. Boyer
Somersworth, N.H.

Information wanted at to the Revolutionary War Record of David Copp (Page corner cut off here)
…, 1783, married to Margaret Palmer
…in August of 1839. She, Margaret
……usion as the widow of the said Da-
…tionary War. We have no record
…s amount, etc.
…full record of said soldier.

ofc. Edmund S. Boyer,
Somersworth, N.H.
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Widow, &c.
File No. 41504
Margaret Copp
Widow of David Copp
Captain Rev War
Act: July 4th, 36
Index: - Vol. A, Page 147

[Arrangement of 1870.]

1913 June 14 Hist. to Edmund S. Boyer V.L.M.
1913 N.H. to G.S. Boyer that Record was furnished June 1913 -
1916 Oct. 7 Hist. to Warren C. Tudbury
letter with Aaron Copp.
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Wakefield N.H.                 Free
July 30th
(sideways): Aug 4

James L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
District of Columbia

(sideways):
(illegible)
N.H.
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Wakefield July 30.1838

James L. Edwards Esq -

Dear Sir - some time since application was made to you as commissioner of Pensions by Margaret Copp of Wakefield for a pension as the widow of David Copp of said Wakefield who has been dead about twenty years - and who served for a time in the army of the revolution as  I understand there has been no return from the Pension Office. I have taken the liberty of writing you and asking the favor of you to inform me the situation of her claim - and if any further evidence is required.

She is now nearly ninety years of age is very infirm and helpless and if she is entitled to anything the sooner she realizes it the better as she is very much in need of it. Will you have the goodness to inform me as soon as you can conveniently the situation.

And you very Oblg Your Obt Servant
Ann W. Copp
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Wakefield N.H.                       Free
May 21st
J.L. Edwards Esquire
Pension Office
City of Washington D.C. 
(sideways):
3570 May 26
N.H.
4 July '36
3 See:
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Wakefield May 21 1838
Sir

Enclosed are sundry papers of Margaret Copp for your office My Father was married I presume as is stated by my Mother and Colo Jonathan Palmer but no record can be found of their marriage - when we called on Colo Gage's heirs, they informed us that a great quantity of papers of Esquire Gage were destroyed along [sic] while ago, being thought to be useless and as yet no record by him kept has been found - I wish you would confer with Doc Farrington our minister in Congress if this evidence of the marriage is not sufficient - The Doctor is acquainted with them and probably can give traditional evidence .

I am Sir yours
Amasa Copp
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Doctr. Richard Russell
Great Falls
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Town Clerks Office Dover May 17, 1837

Dear Sir

I have examined the records of Marriages for this town and do not find the marriage of David Copp & Margaret Palmer on record (commenced back to 1720 & examined up to 1780)

you will probably find the record at Rochester

Yours sc
Charles Young Town Clk
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I Jonathan Palmer of Wakefield County of Strafford & State of New Hampshire depose and say, that David Copp Esqr late of said Wakefield, deceased was married to Margaret Copp, his now surviving widow, when she was about eighteen years old, what year it was I cannot now recollect, but she will be eighty nine years olf next August, I was present at the marriage. Said marriage was solemnized at my Father's house in Rochester by Col. John Gage who then lived in Dover. Said Margaret Copp is my sister, Mr & Mrs Copp lived together as man & wife from the time of their marriage untill [sic] his decease which was some time in the year 1817. They lived at my Fathers house about one year after they were married, they then moved to New Durham and lived there two or three years and then moved to Wakefield and there lieved till his decease, and his widow said Margaret Copp lives there now; I have lived in said Wakefield about sixty two years -

Jon Palmer

State of New Hampshire
Strafford County Ss The third day of April 1838
Then personally appearing Jonathan Palmer above named and made Solemn Oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is true before me.
John Wingate Jus. Peace
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I Moses Yeaton of Somersworth in the County of
Strafford and State of New Hampshire, testify and
say that I was a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary war
and and am a Pensioner as such on the New
Hampshire Agency. that I am now in my eighty
fourth year of my age. that I was acquainted with
David Copp of this vicinity from the time I was ten
years old until about twenty four years ago. that
in the fall of 1775 I was a soldier in a company of
militia in Kittery near N. H. Commanded by Capt
Robert Parker and I have always understood that
Captain David Copp commanded a company of
Militia in Portsmouth at the same time, that
in December of the same year 1775 I went
a Lieutenant of a Company of Malitia Commanded
by Moses Yeaton, to Winter Hill near Boston Mass.
and remained at Winter Hill 'till the February following.
that I saw Capt David Copp at Winter Hill
while I was stationed there & it was said that he commanded
a company of Militia at the time on Winter
Hill. (signed) Moses Yeaton

State of New Hampshire
Strafford ss Somersworth May 11 1837
Moses Yeaton Then personally appeared, signed & made oath that the
above testimony by him subscribed, in his belief,
is just and true.
Before me
Richard Russell Jus. Peace
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I Rebeca Bickford of Somersworth in the County
of Strafford and State of New Hampshire Widow
woman, eighty two years, old depose & say that
I was brought up in Rochester in said County
and State, that I lived about one mile from
Barnabas Palmer of said Rochester Father
of Peggy Palmer & was well acquainted with
her and was acquainted with Capt David Copp
of said Rochester and that Capt David Copp
and Peggy Palmer were Married about
four years before the commencement of
the Revolutionary war.  Rebeca Bickford herXmark
Witness
James S Bickford
Richard Russell

State of New Hampshire
Stafford ss  Somersworth August 23, 1837-
Then personally appeared the above named
Rebaca Bickford and made solemn oath that the
above written instrument by her subscribed
is just and true before me
Richard Russell Jus. Peace

I hereby certify that the above named Rebeca
Bickford is in the full posession of her mental
facilities & very intelligent, and has given a minute
account of both the Copp & Palmer Families
Richard Russell
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State of New Hampshire
Strafford ss
I Ira A. Eastman
Register of Probate of said County
hereby certify that Richard Russel whose
name is affixed to the certificates of the annexed
depositions was on the eleventh day of May last
past and on the twenty third day of August
last past a Justice of the Peace within and
for said County, and that the signatures
affixed to said certificates are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and 
affixed the seal of the Court of
Probate of said County this
fifteenth day of September
A.D. 1837 -
Ira A. Eastman
Register
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I Benjamin Page of Chichester in
the State of New Hampshire Depose and
say That I was well acquainted with
David Copp late of Wakefield in
the State of New Hampshire deceased.
I was with said Copp at Portsmouth
N.H. in the year 1775 about 
the first of August in that year till
the latter part of October following
he was then a Captain in the
Continental service, some time in
October I left Portsmouth and went
to Cambridge Mass, I left Captain Copp
at Portsmouth, he had the command
of a Company there; I think to the best
of my knowledge he marched his
company that fall to Winter Hill
near Cambridge, and remained there
about three months, he then belonged
to Col. Poor's Regiment.
Benjamin Page

State of New Hampshire
Strafford ss June 26th 1837. Then the above
named Benjamin Page personally appearing
made solemn oath that the above Deposition
by him subscribed is true before me
John Wingate Justice Peace
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State of New Hampshire
Strafford ss
I Ira A. Eastman Register of
Probate of said County hereby certify that the
within named John Wingate was on the 26th day
of June last past a Justice of the Peace within
& for said county, & that the within signature
purporting to be his I believe to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal
of the Court of Probate of said
County this fifteenth day of
September A.D. 1837-
Ira A Eastman
Register
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I John Trickey of Dover in the State of
New Hampshire aged about eighty five years
and a Revolutionary Pensioner depose and say
that in the fall of the year following the Battle of
Bunker Hill 1775 I enlisted at Portsmouth
in said state into the Company commanded
by Captain David Copp. I enlisted I think for the 
term of three months. Soon after I enlisted Captain
Copp marched his company to Winter Hill
near Boston and we remained there till my
time was out and then I came home to Newington
New Hampshire-- Capt. Copp spent the latter
part of his life in Wakefield N.H. and I
understood he come with his company from
that region.  Captain Copp commanded the
Company the whole time that I was out
as aforesaid.
John Trickey

State of New Hampshire
Strafford County ss
7 April AD 1837
Then the above named John
Trickey, who is known to me to be a person of truth
and veracity, personally appeared and in due form of Law made with oath that the foregoing affidavit by him signed is just and true.
Before me, Francis Cogswell, Jus Peace

State of New Hampshire
Stafford County ss. I Francis Cogswell Clerk of the Superior
Court of Judicature for said County
hereby certify that Francis Cogswell is a Magistrate as before
mentioned and that the foregoing signature by him
signed is his own proper signature-
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the Seal of said Court this
seventh day of April AD 1837
F. Cogswell Clerk
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Bro Copp.
I have taken Mr Trickeys affidavit
as you will perceive. He thinks Lemuel
Marvin of Moultonborough was in the same 
Company and also Ebenezer Watter of
Barnstead, both of whom are Pensioners.
Yrs. dr. F Cogswell