Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25923, James Westcott, Mass.
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Westcott, James
Westcot
Service Mass.
Number W.25923
Mary

Contents
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5974
New York
Mary Westcott widow of James Westcott
who served in the Revolutionary was, as private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 43 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on 
the 25 July 1851

Certificate of Pension issued the 16th ay of Aug. 185? and sent to Hon. W. W. Snow H of R

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act Feb. 2, 1848 Pae 244, Vol. 4
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New York 14775
James Westcott
of Milford i the State of N. Y. who was a priv. in the comp. commanded by Captain Hitchcock of the Regt. commanded by Col. Sprout on the Continental line for 13 mo. private

Inscribed on the Roll of N. Y. at the rate of 43 Dollars and 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of pension issued the 19 day of June 1833 and sent to Hon. W. G. Angel
Cooperstown N. Y.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833  86.66
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. '33  21.66
$108.32

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by F. F. Franciosi Clerk
Book E. Vol. 4 Page 38
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Mary Westcott
widow of James
New York

Feb. 2d 1848

Married Dec. 1782
He died July 25/51

Hon. W. W. Snow
House of Rep.
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State of New York
Otsego County
Surrogate's Court
On this twentieth day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty two personally appeared in open Court before me Hiram Kinne Surrogate of the County of Otsego in the State aforesaid Mary Westcott of the town of Milford in said County aged ninety one 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 1 1848. That she is the widow of James Westcot who was a Revolutionary Pensioner at the time of his death at the rate of forty three dollars and thirty three cents per annum. She further declares that she was married to the said James Westcot at Bennington in the County of Bennington and State of Vermont on the ninth day of December one thousand seven hundred and eight two by a minister of the Gospel whose name she does not now remember, that the annexed record is the original record of her said marriage with the said James Westcot taken from the family Bible kept by the said declarent and the said James Westcot and since the death of said James it has remained in the possession of this declarent and that she doth not know of any other record evidence of her marriage or any person now living who was present at her marriage. That her husband the aforesaid James Westcot died on the twenty fifth day of July in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty one at the town of Milford in the County of Otsego aforesaid that she has not intermarried but still continues his widow and that previous to her said marriage her name was Mary Mumford. She further declares that the original certificate of Pension which was granted to her late husband has as she is
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informed and believes to be true been forwarded to the War Department.
Mary   X  Wescot
her mark

Sworn in open Court before me this 20th day of May 1852. And I certify that I am peersonally acquainted with the above named Mary Westcot that she is a credible person and worthy of belief and that the reason she made her mark to the foregoing declaration is that she has never learned to write but imperfectly and that from age and infirmity she is now unable to write. And I further certify that I cut the paper hereunto attached purporting to be a record in the possession and I also certify that the word "seventy" in the foregoing declaration was written upon an erasure before it was signed.
(Seal)
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said Court this twentieth day of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty two.
Hiram Kine Surrogate
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James Westcoat was born in Coventry the County of Kent State of Rhoade Island June 20 1762
Mary Westcot was born in Exeter in Rhoade Island  Decm. 10th 1761
James Westcot & Mary Westcot were maried at Bennington, County of Bennington, State Vermont Dec. 9th 1782
ames Westcoat was born in Coventry the County of Kent State of Rhoade Island June 20 1762
Mary Westcot was born in Exeter in Rhoade Island  Decm. 10th 1761
James Westcot & Mary Westcot were maried at Bennington, County of Bennington, State Vermont Dec. 9th 1782
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A. P. XV  Apcrypha
37 Thus went it with Nicanor: and from that time forth the Hebrews had the city in their power. And here I will make an end.
Before Christ cir 162
38 And if I have done well, and as is fitting the story, it is that which I desired; but, if slenderly and meanly, it is that which I could attain unto.
39 For as it is hurtful to drink wine or water alone, and as wine mingled with water is pleasant, and delighteth the taste; even so, speech finely framed delighteth the ears of them that read the story. And here shall be an end.

(from torn page)
tcott was Born
the 12th 1797

Apocrypha 
Westcott
Died December
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State of New York
Otsego County
Timothy Cooke being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is sixty two years of age that he has been well acquainted with James Westcott now deceased and Mary Westcott the foregoing declarent for the space of about thirty years that the said James and the said Mary cohabitated together as man and wife during that period up to the death of the said James on the twenty fifth day of July last. That said declarent has not intermarried but remains the widow of said James Westcot deceased.
Timothy Cooke

Sworn before me in open Court this 20th day of May 1852 and I certify that the above named Timothy Cooke isa credible man worthy of belief.
Hiram Kinne Surrogate of Otsego County aforesaid
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State of New York
Otsego County
Joseph Westcot being duly sworn deposed and said he is the son of James and Mary Westcot and is sixty eight years of age. That said James Westcot was a Revolutionary Pensioner at the time of his decease t the rate of forty three dollars and thirty three cents per annum. that his said father and mother cohabited as man and wife from his earliest remembrance to the death of his father in July last. That said Mary Westcot his mother is the above declarent and that she has not intermarried but remains the widow of the said James Westcot deceased. That deponent has seen the annexed record of Marriage in the family Bible kept by his father and mother from his earliest remembrance.
Joseph Westcott
Sworn in open court before me this 20th day of May 1852 and I certify that the above named Joseph Westcot is a credible person wo whose statements full credit is due.
(Seal)
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the Surrogate Court of Otsego County State of New York this 20th day of May 1852.
Hiram Kinne Surrogate
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James Westcott
MBrown Atty

16255

admd.
13 mo. pri
$43.33
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Otsego Common Pleas  (Seal)
October Term 1832
De(covered) order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 1932

State of New York
Otsego County SS.
On this 16th day of October 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Please in& for the Cunty of Otsego being a Court of Record & now sitting James Westcott Esquire aged 70 years & a resident of the Town of Milford in the County & State aforesaid who being first 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 7, 1832. that he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein after stated to wit,
In the year 1778 This deponent was a resident of the town of Louisborough (now Cheshire) in the County of Berkshire & State of Massachusetts & in the month of June of that year & a few days subsequent to his becoming sixteen years of age he enlisted into the service of the United States at the then town of Gageborough (now Winsor) for the term of six months in Captain Enos Parker's company. Thinks the one of the Lieutenants names was Twitchell. He lay with his company & one other during the whole term of enlistment at the Town of Springfield as a guard to the U. S. armory at that place & was therefore not attached to any Regiment as he believes. He served during the whole of the said six months and was discharged on the first day of January & returned home. And further this deponent states that in the year 1780 & in the month of June of that year he again enlisted at his place of residence aforesaid into the service of the United States for another term of six months. From thence he was marched to West Point & was attached to a company under the command of Captain Luke Hitchcock in the 12th Massachusetts Regt. commonly called Sprouts from the fact as this deponent was informed that one Col. Sprout formerly raised & commanded the Regt. Our Lieuts. name was a Mr. Foot. It was during this service that the treason of Genl. Arnold took place & the execution of Major Andre on the 2nd day of October which this deponent witnessed. He lay during some part of this time
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at a place called Fish Kill. Was discharged in December & returned home. In the following year (1781) he again volunteered for one month under Capt. William White & lay at the city of New Haven in the state of Ct. until the expiration of the time & then returned home. He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. He was born on the 20 June 1762 in the Town of Coventry County of Kent in the State of Rhode Island. Has a record of his age taken from the old family record in his bible at home. He removed to Cheshire Berkshire Co Mass. with his parents when about 15 years of age. When 22 years old he removed to Bennington Vermont about 2 years then to Eastown Washington Co. N. Y. about one year then to Pittstown (illegible) in said County thence to Maryland Otsego Co about 40 years since where he remained one year then to the town of Milford in said County  where he has ever since resided. Thinks he had a written discharge but does not know what has come of it. He has no other evidence of any kind except what is herewith sent nor can he procure any other testimony to his services.
James Westcott
Sworn & subscribed the day & year above written in open Court.
Horace Lathrop, Clerk
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Mr. Sherman Page of Unadilla & Elisha Foote of Cooperstown do certify that we are well acquainted with James Westcott Esquire who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be 70 years of age that he is reputed & believed to be a soldier of the Revolution in the neighborhood where he resides & that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn the day & year above written
Shern. Page
Elisha Foote
Horace Lathrop, Clerk
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I Amos Pettibone of Lanesboro in the county of Berkshire & Commth. of Mass. in his seventy second year of his age deposes & says that he was well acquainted with James Westcott during the time of the war of the revolution, sd. Wescott was then an inhabitant of sc. tow of Lanesborough, that to his personal knowledge sd. Westcott served as a soldier for six months from the first of July 1778 to the first of the month January in the company commanded by Capt. Parker in Springfield Mass. That he knows the above facts because he was a soldier in the same company during all the (illegible) with (illegible.
and further this deponent saith not.
Amos Pettibone

Commonwealth of Mass. 
Berkshire SS 9 April 1833 
The above named Pettibone came personally before me & made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him signed & I further certify that I am well acquainted with sd. Pettibone, that he sustains a fair character for truth & veracity & that his statement is entitled to full credit.
Geo .N. Briggs Justice of the Peace

Rufus Carpenter of Cheshire in the County of Berkshire & Commth. of Mass. in the seventieth year of his age deposes and says that he now resides in the town of Cheshire aforsd. that during the revolutionary was he was acquainted with James Westcott than an inhabitant of the town of Lanesborough in sd. county of Berkshire that he himself very
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Regt. of Col. Sprout he enlisted he thinks in the month of June 1780 for six months in Cheshire aforsd. that the company in which he entered marched to Fishkill in the state of New York, that during sd. six month sd. James Wescott was a soldier in the company of Capt. Hitchcock in the same regiment above named. That he is confident that sd. Wescott was a soldier as aforsd. the which of sd. term that sd. deponent was in the service as aforsd.
Rufus Carpenter

Commonwealth of Mass.
Berkshire 9 April 1833
The above Carpenter came personally before me & made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed & I further certify that I am well acquainted with Carpenter & that he sustains a fair character for truth & veracity, &that his statement is entitled to full credit.
Geo. N. Briggs Justice of the peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Berkshire, SS. 
(Seal)
I, Henry W. Bishop, Register of the Court of Probate in and for said County, do hereby certify that George N. Briggs Esquire, before whom the annexed depositions were taken is one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly & regularly appointed, and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and have no doubt that the Signature annexed to said deposition is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court this ninth day of April, A. D. 1833
Henry W. Bishop, Register of Probate
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State of New York
Otsego County Ss.
Mr. David Swert a Clergyman residing in the town of Milford in the county aforesaid & Joseph Westcott a resident of the town of Milford in said County do certify that we are well acquainted with James Westcott who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration dated on the 16th day of October 1832, that we believe him to be 70 years of age or therein (illegible) that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion.
David Swert
Joseph Westcott
Sworn & subscribed before me this 16 day of April 1833
Daniel Winsor, Justice

I Daniel Winsor the Justice of the peace before whom the above affidavit was taken do certify that David Swert who has subscribed & sworn to the above affidavit is known to me to be a clergyman residing in the town of Milford County aforesaid & that Joseph Westcott who has also subscribed & sworn to the same is a resident of Milford aforesaid that he is a credible witness & his statement is entitled to credit.
Daniel Winsor Justice of Peace

State of New York
Otsego County
I Horace Lathrop Clerk of the Court of Common pleas in & for the County aforesaid do certify that Daniel Winsor before whom the above affidavits purports to have been taken was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in & for the said County so authorize by (illegible) to take the same and I am acquainted with his hand writing & verily believe the signature to the
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said affidavit & the certificate of credibility there appended to be his own proper handwriting & signature. & that I have duly authenticated the foregoing papers on the (illegible) under the seal of the said Court. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal of office this 19 day of April 18333
Horace Lathrop Clerk
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State of Massachusetts
Berkshire County SS
I Amos Pettibone being dully sworn saith that he is now A resident of the Town of Lanesborough in the County afsd. State aforesaid & aged 71 years that he was well acquainted with James Westcott during the revolutionary war who was then A resident of Bershire Co, Mass. that the said James Westcott did leave to the term of six months from the first day of July untill the first day of January in the year 1778 in Capt. Parker's Company in the Town of Springfield Mass & further saith not.
Amos Pettibone
Sworn & Subscribed before me this 28th day of August 1832
Ethan A. Rix, Justice Peace

State of Massachusetts
Berkshire County SS
Rufus Carpenter being duly sworn saith that he is now A resident of the Town of Cheshire in the County and state aforesaid & aged 68 years. that he was well acquainted with James Westcott in the revolutionary war who was the A resident of Berkshire Co. Mass that the said James Westcott did serve in the Company commanded by Capt. Hitchcock in Colnl. Sprouts Regiment in the year 1780
Rufus Carpenter
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 18th day of August 1832
Ethan A. Rix Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Berkshire...SS
I Henry W. Bishop Register of the Court of Probate within & for the County of Berkshire do hereby certify that Ethan A. Rix before whom the foregoing deposition was taken is one of the Justices of the Peace within & form said county
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County of Berkshire duly commissioned & qualified and that his signature subscribed to said deposition is genuine & in his own proper hand.
(Seal)
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court of Probate this twenty fifth day of September A. D. 1832
Henry W. Bishop

And the said court hereby delcare their opinion after in investigation of the matter & after putting interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the said James Westcott Esquire was a revolutioary soldier & served therein as he states. And the Court further certifiy that it appears to them that Sherman Page Esqr. of Unadilla & Elisha Foote Esq. of Cooperstown are creditble persons & their Statement is entitled to credit.
J. C. Morgan
S. Page
J. C. Wentworth
Justices

State of New York
Otsego County SS
I Horace lathrop clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Otsego do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the applicatioon of James Westcott for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of Office this 19th day of October 1832
Horace Lathrop Clerk

Westcott
Lanesboro
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Lanesborough, Berkshire County mass
9 April 1833

I Certify that I am well acquainted with Amos Pettibone of this town & Rufus Carpenter of Cheshire whose names are set to the affidavit severally made by them to which this certificate is annexed and that sd. Pettibon & Carpenter are men who sustain unimpeachable characters for truth & veracity & that their statements are entitled to full credit.
Geo. N. Briggs
Mem. Congress for
Berkshire District Mass.
I further certify that I am acquainted with Ethan A. Rix Esqr. whose signature as a magistrate appears on sd. affidavits, that he was at the time sd. certificate was made & now is an acting justice of the peace and that the signature is in his own hand writing
Geo. N. Briggs M.C.
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information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. 
James Westcott W. F. 25-923

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment/Length of Service/Rank/Officers under whom Service was rendered/State

June 1778/6 mos./blank/Capt. Enos Parker as guard as Springfield armory/Mass.
June 1780/6 mos./blank/Capt. Luke Hitchcock, Col. Sprout/12th Mass.
----1781/1 mo./blank/Capt. William White/blank
at execution of Major Andre
Battles engaged in:
Residence of soldier at enlistment: Lanesborough (Cheshire) Berkshire Co., Mass.
Date of application for pension: Oct. 16, 1832 His cl. al.
Residence at date of application: Milford, Otsego Co., N. Y.
Age at date of application: b. June 20,1762 at Coventry, Kent Co., R. I.  d. July 25, 1851 at Milford N. Y.
Remarks: He married at Bennington Vt. Dec. 9, 1782 Mary Mumford who was b.. at Exeter, RI. Dec. 10, 1761 and was allowed pension on an application executed May 20, 1852 while a resident of Milford N. Y&. Their son Joseph was 68 years old in 1852.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner
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Revy
WIDOW &C.
25923
Mary Westcott
Wid. of James Westcott
Priv. Rev. War
Act: Feb 2nd 1848
Index: Vol. W. Page 324 

 [Arrangement of 1870]
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Apr 14/94 Mil. Hist. to Miss E. S. Barrett
16 6th St. N. E. City

Feb. 18 1896 Mil. hist.to James W. Lester Esq.
Saratoga Spgs. N. Y.

1912 Feby 28 hist to Capt. R. H. Wescott.
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House of Reps. 
May 26th 1852

Dear Sir
I for'd. to your Dept. the enclosed pension papers of Wd. Westcott on which you will confer a favor by reporting to me.
Yours Truly 
W. W. Snow
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Brief in the case of Mary Westcott, widow of James, Otsego County and State of New York
act 2d Feb 1848

Claim, ("original" or "for increase")
Proof exhibited, (if original)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either ,state the substance.
Husband pensioner Act June 7 1832 Record evidence of Marriage

(If for increase)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?

Name and residence of Agent
Ho. W. W. Snow
H of Reps.

Examining Clerk
Ogden Niles
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May 27/52
Appl. of Mary Westcott widow of James

Hon. W. W. Snow
H. R. 

Free
W. W. Snow M.C.

Hon. J. E. Heath
Pension Dept.
Washington
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Respectfully referred to the Chief Clerk
B B Olbert
Chief Record Div.

Stamped-Chief Clerk Bureau of Pensions Apr 3 1894
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Washington D. C. 
April 1, 1894

Dear Sir,
I wish to obtain information in regard to James Westcott who was a soldier in the Revolution and drew a pension up to the time of his death about 1847, I would like the date of his enlistment, length of service &c. and if this is not the sources from which it may be obtained, please be so kind as to inform me where it can be found
Sincerely
(Miss) E. S. Barrett
16 Sixth St., N. E.
City
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To what time has James Westcott who was a pensioner on the New York Roll under the act of June 7 2832, at the rate of $43.33 per annum was paid?
(illegible)
Pension office
Aug 13/52  Died 25th July 1851. Paid to his death. B.L.B.
N. B. Please state in making enquiries in N.Y.  "Albany" or "New York City" 
yours B. L. B.
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New York (Albany) Roll
Mary Westcott widow of James who was a private Col. Sprout's Regt.
In Act 2d Feb. 1848
$43.33 per ann.

(illegible) July 25, 1851 when he died
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Rev. War.
Feb. 23, 1912

Captain R. H. Wescott, U. S. A.
fort D. A. Russell,
Laramie County, Wyoming

Sir:
In reply to your letter dated the 15th and received the 19th instant, you are advised that the Revolutionary War pension records fail to afford any information in regard to Ziba Wescott and James Westcott who was a Private in Captain Kimball's company, Colonel Hitchcock's Rhode Island regiment.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner
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Fort D. A. Russell, Why.
February 15th, 1912

Pension Department
Old Records Division
Washington, D. C. 

Gentlemen:
Will you kindly send me all genealogical data appearing in any pension or land warrant application, concerning the following persons.

1. James Wescot, 3rd Corporal, Capt. Enos Parker's Co. Benjamin Simonds Regiment, Mass. Militia, who enlisted 14th Aug.  1777
2. James Westcott, Private Capt. Kimball's Co., Col. Hitchkock's Regiment R. I.
3. Ziba Wescott (I am not certain of this Ziba's regiment, one Ziba is mentioned as having served in the 10th Conn. in 1775, but the Ziba I want lived for a time and probably died in Ira, Rutland Co., Vt. 
Very respectfully
R. H. Wescott

Address
R. H. Wescott.
Capt. 11th Infantry
Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo.

Stamped-U. S. Pension Office H, Feb. 19 1912
act. Feb 23, 1912
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O. W. & N. Division
F. S. 
M. E. C. 

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D. C. 
February 18, 1896

Sir:
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of James Wescott 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 this Bureau.

Dates of Enlistment or appointment/Length of Service/Rank/Officers under whom service was rendered/State

June 1778/6 mos./Pvt./Capt. Enos Parker Guard duty/Mass.
June 1780/6 mos./Pvt./Capt. Luke Hitchcock, Col. Sprout/Mass.
----1781/1 mo./Pvt./Capt. William White/Mass.

Battles engaged in: None
Residence of soldier at enlistment: Cheshire, Mass.
Date of application for pension: October 16, 1832
Residence at date of application: Milford, N. Y.
Age at date of application: Born June 20,1762 at Coventry, R. I., moved to Cheshire Mass, to Bennington, Vt., to Easton N. Y. to 
Pittstown, N. Y. to Salem, N. Y. to Maryland . Y., to Milford N. Y. He married Mary Mumford 
Dec. 9, 1782 and died in July 25, 1851.
V
Very respectfully,
Commissioner

James W. Lester, Esq.
360 Broadway
Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
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TimothyCook 5024-I James Wescott 2592398

Letterhead Law Offices of C. S. & C. C. Lester

January 9, 1896
William Lochren, Esq.
Commissioner
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir: Will you kindly send me a statement of the military history of James Westcott, a soldier of the Revolutionary War. He received a pension from the general government, which was continued to his widow after his death.
Please also send me a similar statement of the military history of timothy Cooke, a soldier of the second War for Independence, who also received a pension up to the time of his death, and oblige.
Yours truly
James W. Lester

P
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Stamped-U. S. Pension Office Jan. 13 1896
Stamped-Old War & Navy Files Jan. 15 1896
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Apl. 26
N.Y.

Pension Office   FREE
J. L. Edwards
Commr. of Pensions
Washington City D. C. 

Postmark/stamp-Cooperstown, NY Apl. 20
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Cooperstown N. Y.April 19, 1833

Sir
I herewith return to pension papers of James Westcott Esqr of this County corrected in all respects as desired.
I have the former affidavits to be certified & have procured new ones from the Same also certified all of which I send on together with a Clergyman's certificate instead of two citizens as at first sent. You have all the papers which have been used in the application duly certified. It is believed no objections can now be made to the merit or formality of the application.
An answer is respectfully requested in the case of Abijah Fairchild whose (illegible) declaration has been forwarded some time since
Your obt. svt.
W. G. Angel
per M. Brown
Direct all pension papers to Cooperstown instead of Burlington which belong to Mr. Angel
M. Brown

J. L. Edwards Com &c.