Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2088, Edward Cockey, Md.
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Service
MD

Name
Cockey, Edward

Number
R.2088
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Know all men by these presents that I Ruth O Fitch of Madison Indiana a Grandchild of Col. Edward Cockey, deceased who was an officer of the war of the Revolution do hereby constitute and appoint Eleanor Maria Cockey of Baltimore County in the state of Maryland our true and lawful attorney irrevocably for us, and in our names to prosecute our claim for pension, Bounty Land, and all such sum or sums of money that may be found due, on account of services of said Col Edward Cockey as aforesaid; and hereby authorize my said attorney to examine all papers and documents touching my claim on file in the department at Washington or elsewhere and file any additional evidence or arguments she may think proper to ensure the recovery of the same, and to appoint attorney or attorneys under her for this purposes as aforesaid to make at her pleasure hereby confirming all and whatsoever my said attorney shall in my name legally do or cause to be done in and about the premises - In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and seal this Seventh day of February AD 1853

Ruth O Fitch - SEAL

Witness: Gaml.Taylor
Witness: Alabama Fitch 

State of Indiana Madison
Jefferson County

On this 7 day of February AD 1853 before the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace of the state of Indiana, in and for the Town of Madison, personally appeared Ruth O Fitch and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be her act and deed according to the true interest and meaning thereof. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand on the day and year above mentioned.

Gaml. Taylor - JP - SEAL
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State of Indiana, Madison
Jefferson County

On this 7 day of February AD 1853 before the subscribed one of the Justices of the Peace of the State of Indiana in and for the town of Madison personally appeared Ruth O Fitch and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be her act and deed according to the true interest and meaning thereof. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand on the day and year above mentioned.

Gaml. Taylor - JP SEAL

State of Indian Madison
Jefferson County

I hereby certify that Gamaliel Taylor Esq before whom the foregoing Power of Attorney was made and who has thereunto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the town aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn and that his signature thereto is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Superior Court for the town aforesaid this Seventh day of February AD 1853.

John G Sering - Clerk
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Know all men by these presents that I Louisa Applewhite 0originally of Baltimore MD) daughter of Thomas Cockey dec'd and Granddaughter of Edward Cockey dec'd who was a colonel in the war of the revolution do hereby constitute and appoint Ellen Maria Cockey of Baltimore County in the state of Maryland my lawful attorney for me & in my name to prosecute my claim for all pensions, bounty lands, & bonuses with all other sums due on account of services of said Col. Edward Cockey and I hereby authorize my said attorney to examine all papers & documents touching my interest or claim on file in the departments at Washington or elsewhere on file any additional evidence or arguments she may think proper to the recovery of the same, & to reappoint and render her for purposes aforesaid. In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand & seal this 15th day of July AD 1852.

Louisa Applewhite - SEAL

Witness:

State of Tennessee
Shelby County

Personally appeared before me Z Comer a justice of the peace for said county & state in the city of Memphis Louisa Applewhite the subscriber and acknowledged the above power of attorney as her deed and act according to the true intent & meaning thereof. In testimony whereof I here to set my hand and seal this blank day of blank AD 1852.

State of Tennessee
City of Memphis

I hereby certify that blank Esqr. before whom the foregoing power of attorney was made & who has thereto subscribed his name & seal was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Shelby State of Tenn. *& resides in the city of Memphis) duly commissioned & sworn - his signature genuine. In testimony of which I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of my office this blank day of blank 1852.
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United States of America
State of Tennessee
City of Memphis

I Hume F Hill Commissioner of the state of Maryland duly appointed and commissioned by the Governor thereof for the State of Tennessee to reside in the city of Memphis and take the acknowledgement and Proof of the Execution of Deeds or other conveyances or leases and of any construct, letter of attorney or other writings under seal or not, administer oaths and take and verify depositions etc. to be used or recorded in said state of Maryland do certify on this day personally appeared at my office in the city of Memphis, Louisa Applewhite to me known to be the individual named in and who executes the annexed letter of attorney and acknowledged that she executed the same as her voluntary act and deed.

Given under my hand and official seal this 15 day of July AD 1852.

Hume F Hill - Commissioner

SEAL

He will execute Special Commissions directed to him from any state in the union; and will give special attention to the taking of depositions.
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State of New York
City and County of New York

Be it remembers that on the 24th day of July one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two before me Henry C Banks, Commissioner for the state of Maryland resident in the city of new York, duly appointed, commissioned and sworn to take acknowledgements and proof of Deeds and other writings in the State of New York, to be used or recorded in the said state of Maryland and to administer oaths and affirmations and to take depositions in the said State of new York to be used within the said state of Maryland appeared Beal Cockey who is personally known to me to be the individual described in and who executed the within deeds from said Beal Cockey to Ellen Maria Cockey. The said Beal Cockey then and there acknowledged to be that he executed the said deed for the purposes therein mentioned.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office on the twenty-fourth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two and of the Independence of the United States of America the Seventy-sixth.

Henry C Bank
Commissioner, etc.
4 & 5 New City Hall

SEAL
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For value Received
I do hereby sell and assign unto Elean Maria Cockey of Baltimore County in the state of Maryland and to her heirs and assigns forever, all right, titled and interest I may have in any claim or claims whatsoever of my grandfather Col. Edward Cockey who was an officer of the Revolutionary War against the government of the United States.

Witness my hand and seal this 24th day of July AD 1832.

Beal Cockey - SEAL

Attest: H C Banks
G.F. Rogers

For value Received
I do hereby sell and assign unto Elean Maria Cockey of Baltimore County in the state of Maryland and to her heirs and assigns forever all my right, title and interest I may have in any claim or claims whatsoever in the estate of late Beal Owings who was uncle to my mother.

Witness my hand and seal this 24th day of July AD 1832
of AD 1852

Beal Cockey - SEAL

Attest:
H D Banks
G F Rogers
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Know all men by these presents that we Nancy Mathias, Ellen and Henrietta Cockey of Carroll County Maryland grandchildren of Col. Edward Cockey deceased who was an officer of the Revolution do hereby constitute and appoint Eleanor Maria Cockey of Baltimore County in the state of Maryland our true and lawful attorney irrevocably for us and in our names to prosecute our claim for pension, bounty land and all such sum or sums of money that may be found due on account of services of said Col. Edward Cockey as aforesaid. And we hereby authorize our said attorney to examine all papers and documents touching our claim on file in the departments of Washington or elsewhere and file any additional evidence or arguments she may think proper to ensure the recovery of the same and to appoint attorney or attorneys under her for the purposes aforesaid to make at her pleasure hereby confirming all and whatsoever our said attorney shall in our names legally do or cause to be done in and about the premises. In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this seventeenth day of February AD 1853.

Nancy Mathias - SEAL
Ellen Cockey - SEAL
Henrietta Cockey - SEAL

Witness:
Wm A Wampler
John C Frizelo

State of Maryland Westminster Carroll County, on this seventeenth day of February AD 1853 before the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for the said county personally appeared Nancy Mathias, Ellen Cockey and Henrietta Cockey and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be their act and deed according to the true intent and meaning thereof - In testimony whereof i have hereunto set my hand and seal on the day and year above written.

Acknowledged before

Jesse Manning
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State of Maryland Carroll County to wit

I hereby certify that Jesse Manning Esquire before whom the within Power of Attorney was acknowledged and who has thereto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace of the state of Maryland in and for Carroll County aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn.

In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name and affix the seal of the Circuit Court for Carroll County this 19th day of February 1853

Jno B Boyle - clerk
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Power of Attorney of 
heirs to E.M. Cockey
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Know all men by these presents that we Henrietta Owings Cockey, Mary Cockey, J Cockey, E Cockey and Thos B Cockey grandchildren of Col Edward Cockey deceased (who as an officer of the war of the Revolution) do hereby constitute and appoint Eleanor Maria Cockey of Baltimore County in the state of Maryland our true and lawful attorney irrevocably for us and in our names to prosecute our claim for pension, bounty land, and all such sum or sums of money that may be found due on account of the services of said Col. Edward Cockey as aforesaid - and we hereby authorize our said attorney to examine all papers and documents touching our claim on file in the department at Washington or elsewhere and file any additional evidence or arguments she may think proper to ensure the recovery of the same and to appoint attorney or attorneys under her for the purposes aforesaid to make at her pleasure hereby confirming all and whatsoever our said attorney shall in our names legally do or cause to be done in and about the premises. In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 16th day of June AD 1852.

Henrietta Owings Cockey - SEAL
Mary Cockey - SEAL
J Cockey - SEAL
E Cockey - SEAL
Thos B Cockey - SEAL

Witness:
Samuel Norris

State of Maryland Baltimore City

On this sixteenth day of June AD 1852 before the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace of the state of Maryland in and for the city of Baltimore personally appeared Henrietta Owings Cockey, Mary Cockey, J Cockey, E Cockey & Thos B Cockey - and acknowledged the foregoing Power of attorney to be their act and deed according to the true intent and meaning thereof. IN testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand on the day and year above written.

Samuel Norris - Justice of the Peace
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State of Maryland Baltimore City

On this sixteenth day of June AD 1842 before the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for the city of Baltimore personally appeared Henrietta Owings Cockey, Mary Cockey, J Cockey, E Cockey & Thos B Cockey and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be their act and deed according to the true intent and meaning thereof. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand on the day and year above written.

Samuel Norris - Justice of the Peace

State of Maryland Baltimore City

I hereby certify that Samuel Norris Esq before whom the foregoing Power of Attorney was made and who has thereunto subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in and for the city aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn and that his signature thereto is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Superior Court for the city aforesaid this sixteenth day of June AD 1852.

Edward Dowling - Clerk 
of the Superior Court of Baltimore City
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illegible
Land Office
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Land Office of Maryland
Annapolis, July 1, 1852

I certify that it appears by an old record on file in this office among the revolutionary documents endorsed "List of Militia Officers of the State of Maryland " and in which the dates are from 1777 to 1781 that Edward Cockey is rated as Colonel of the Gun Powder Upper Battalion of Baltimore County. In witness whereof I have hereto set my name & affixed the seal of my office the day & year first herein before written.

J. Murray
Comm of the Land Office

Land Office of Maryland
July 1, 1852

I certify that it appears by an old record on file in this office among the revolutionary documents endorsed "List of Militia Officers of the state of Maryland" and in which the dates run from 1777 to 1781 that Joshua Stevenson was rated as Lieut. Col; William Harvey as Capt., Stephen Gile as Captain, John Talbott as Captain & Richard Colegate as First Lieut. of the Gun Powder Upper Battalion of Baltimore County.

In witness whereof I have hereto set my name and affixed the seal of the land Office of Maryland the day & year first herein before written.

J. Murray
Comm of Land Office
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Left Side Page

Rejected
2088
Edward Cockey

Right Side Page
1874 Feb 15
Letter to Mr. Cockey
New York City see copy within
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No 38736
Edward Cockey dec'd
Maryland

Hon. J. Vansant 21 Apr 1854
Hon. J Vansant 5th Feby 1855
Let Mrs E Maria Cockey April 1, '63

Rejected
Edward and his widow died in 1795

2088
Act 7th June 1832
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3d class
of evidence
Geo W Brown
Speech
before the
Maryland Hist Soc.
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House Reps
Wash. Jan 26, 1855

Dear Sir

Please return to me the papers of Miss E M Cockey which I filed in your office in April 1854 or if inconsistent with the rules of your dept to return papers please send a copy of those referenced to.
Respt.

J Taman [illegible]

Hon. L P Waldo
Rev Pension Admin
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1777 Septr. | 6 | To Henry Talbot  £ | 8 | " | " |
" " | 10 | " John Talbot | 5 | 10 | 9 |
1778 Jany | 1 | " John Foster | 36 | 17 | 6 |
" June | 14 | " Andrew Buchanan | 20 | " | " |
" " | " | " ditto | 20 | " | " |
" Octr | 12 | " ditto | 13 | 16 | 3 |
1780 June | 19 | " Richard Colegate | 37 | 4 | 2 |
" " | " | " Samuel Shaw | 33 | 18 | " |
" " | " | " Joshua Stevenson | 15 | 12 | 6
" " | " | " Stephen Cromwell | 22 | 10 | " | 
" " | " | " Stephen Gill of John | 8 | 3 | " |
" " | " | " William Harvey | 32 | 8 | 4 |
" " | " | " Benjamin Talbot | 36 | 6 | 9 |
1781 Novr | 3 | " Nicholas Kelly | 26 | 3 | 6 |
" " | " | " William Harvey | 32 | 9 | 6 |
" " | " | " Benjamin Talbot | 39 | 5 | 6 |
" " | " | " William Lord | 15 | 12 | 6 | 
" " | " | " Joshua Stevenson | 8 | 9 | 2 |
" " | " | " Abel Hardington | 2 | 19 | 6 |
" " | " | " Joshua Marsh | 30 | " | " |
" " | " | " Stephen Gill of John | 20 | 9 | 6 |
" " | " | " Daniel Shaw | 30 | 18 | " |
1784 April | 6 | " William Lynch | 5 | 10 | "|
With Interest £ | 512 | 4 | 5 | $2,276 | 53
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O.W. & N. Div

Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions
Washington, D.C. February 16, 1894

Sir:

Referring to your request for a statement of the military history of Edward Cockey, an officer of the revolutionary war, I have the honor to advise you that a careful search has been made by this Bureau and the only information found concerning him is a certificate from the State Land Office in Annapolis, Maryland, dated July 1, 1852, a copy of which you will please find enclosed. This certificate was placed on file with the application for pension of the heirs of the above-named officer as evidence of his service. The claim was rejected; both the officer and his widow having died in 1795.

Very respectfully

Commissioner

Edward Cockey
Room 141, 195 Broadway
New York, NY
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Miss E M Cockey
Baltimore, MD
Apr 6/63
Wants info rel to the 
service of Col E Cockey
Rev War

Rec'd Apr 7/'63

3d Auditors Office
Apr 24/63

Respect referred to the Comm of Pensions and the [illegible] so informed.
By respect

illegible
Anap
Comm of Pensions
illegible

Department of the Interior Apr 25, 1863, Pension office stamp
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Baltimore April 6th 1863

Sir

Permit me to request that you will be so good as to 
inform me, if the name of my grandfather cannot be found 
on the files of your office?  Col. Edward Cockey is his name 
and he served as such in the Maryland troops of the army 
of the Revolution, and to the end of the war.  I think 
that about, or directly after the close of the Revolution, he was 
at or in command to the troops at Frederick Town Maryland, or 
FT Virginia who had the charge of the British prisoners of war at that place 
some of his papers seem to indicate that such was the 
fact.  Wheather [Whether] he belonged to the Maryland line of the 
Continental line of the army, or to the malitia [militia] of the state 
I am unable to say.  I think that your office had the ad 
justment of the claims of the revolution.  If I am correct in 
this the records of this office will show if he was of the 
Continental line of the army, or of the Maryland line of 
malitia [militia].  As the subject is of some importance to me 
& will request that you will be so good as to give it 
your attention, and should I be under a mistake as to 
the office, will you be pleased lay this letter before the 
proper office.  I [word struck out] have made inquiry of the Pension 
office, but they have no records of him in that 
office.  So many changes has taken place since the 
days of the Revolution, by transfer of the duties & in
crease of offices, that it is hard to tell where to app
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for information, and the conflagration of the public buildings 
in the War of 1812 has increased the confusion.

That he served in the army is a fact, and no doubt to 
the end of the war.

He received no Bounty Land, nor half pay or 
the commutation pay, and I have reasons for thinking that 
he had back pay due him.

I will beg leave to ask, is he not entitled to the 
Land Bounty, the commutation pay and the back pay whether [weather] 
of the state malitia [militia] or the Continental line of the army? 

I would suppose that Congress would not make such a 
difference in rewarding the Patriots of the Revolution.

Your kind attention to this claim will ever be greatfully [gratefully] 
acknowledged by 

Sir
Most respectfully &c
E. Maria Cockey, 
Care of S. Hobbs, Esqr
No 48
George Street 
Baltimore

3d Auditors office 
Treas. Dept. 
Washington 
D.C.
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Pension Office 
November 13th 1852

Sir:

I herewith return the letters of Mrs. Ellen M. 
Cockey, and the copies of certain receipts in her posses
sion, and have to state, in reply to her inquiries, that we 
have no evidence of the service of Edward Cockey in the 
War of the Revolution in this office.  The receipts, however, 
indicate that he commanded a battalion of Maryland 
militia, and to which he also acted as paymaster.  The 
Records at Annapolis may, probably, furnish the partic
lars of his service, and the authority under which it was 
rendered.  There may be, also, in the Office of the Third Au
editor, or Register of the Treasury, some evidence showing 
the character of the disbursements made by him and an 
exhibit of his account.

I am, respectfully, 
Your Obt. Servt, 
J.E. Heath 
Commissioner 

Col. B. F. Larned, 
Actg Paymaster General,  
Exd. W.S.A. (Enclosure.)
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Respectfully referred to the 
Commissioner of Pensions 
for reply.
Dept. Int. } [illegible] Smith
Mch 25/63 } Chf. Clk 

[Stamp]
DEPARTMENT 
OF THE 
Mar 25 1863
INTERIOR

MrWhiting
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Baltimore March 24th 1863

Honble. Sir

I have taken the liberty to trouble you with this 
letter, & to request that you will have the goodness to in
form me, the number of acres of Bounty Land my grandfather 
Col. Edward. Cockey, was entitled to for his Revolutionary services 
and if any warrant or [illegible] has been issued for the same 
when & to whom?

My grandfather was a Col. in the Maryland 
line of the army & served to the end of the Revolution.
He and his widow received no pension or commut
ation pay per the U. States under any of the acts of Congress.

Any information [struck out: any information] you may be pleased to 
give on the above subject, will greatly oblidge [oblige] me.

Most respectfully 
Your obedt. servant 
E. Maria Cockey

To the Hon. Secty of the Interior 
Washington City  

Please address me to the care of Samuel Hobbs Esqr
No 48 George Street
Baltimore
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No. 01296.

New York, Dec. 9th. 1893.

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MAIL DIVISION
DEC 11 189[illegible]
CHIEF'S DESK

[Stamped vertically before address] 
FEB 8 1894

Commissioner of Pensions, 
Washington, D. C. 

Dear Sir:--

I am advised by Mr. Henry Kyd Douglas, Adjutant General of the state 
of Maryland whose office is at Annapolis that all the records of the Revolution
ary War have been forwarded to you for file.  Will you please advise me if you 
have said papers and if I could have access to them upon visiting Washington? 
My object is to trace the record of my great grandfather who was Captain of a 
company of militia and subsequently Colonel of the battalion in which he formerly 
served as Captain and who was engaged in actual service in Baltimore, in what is 
now Baltimore County, formerly Anne Arundel Co., and whose battalion was marched 
to the head of Elk.

I desire to get some information as to who was the commanding officer 
of the battalion before he was, and also would like to know if there are any 
muster rolls or records showing his service during the Revolutionary War.

Will you please advise me if those papers are accessible and if they 
contain the information that is desired, and upon what terms it can be had?  Any 
information you can give me will be considered a great favor.

Very truly yours, 

EDWARD C. COCKEY.

[Square mail receipt stamp and appears upside down on image]
MAIL DIVISION 
DEC 11 1893
CHIEF'S DESK.

195 Broadway,
Room 141
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O. W. & N. Div.
F. S.
on

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, 
BUREAU OF PENSIONS, 
WASHINGTON, D. C.  | January 11, 1894.

Sir:--

In returning herewith your communication of December 9th., I have 
to advise you that there are but very few of the records forwarded to this 
office by the State of Maryland now in existence, they having been destroyed 
by the burning of the War Department in the early part of this century.  Those 
now in possession of this Bureau may be examined by you although it is 
very doubtful if you would gain any satisfaction by so doing.

It is possible that the Bureau might be able to supply you with 
the military history of your ancestor from some other source than the original 
rolls.  Should you desire a search made please furnish his full name and 
the Christian name of his widow if possible, returning this letter, together 
with yours of Dec. 9th., with your reply.

Very respectfully, 

Wm Lockren
Commissioner.

Edward C. Cockey, Esq.
Room #141, 
195 Broadway,
New York, N.Y.
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[Notes op right margin]
no rec
not on [illegible]
ad 
S & of

01296 C

New York, Feb. 7th, 1894.

Mr. Wm. Lochren, Commissioner, 
Department of the Interior, 
Washington, D. C. 

[Notes after address:
not on S.
" " W.]

Dear Sir: 

I thank you very much for your communication of Jan. 11th, 
which I return with my letter of Dec. 9th, attached to it, as 
requested.  My great grandfather's name was Edward Cockey.  He was 
Colonel of the Gunpowder Upper Battalion of Militia of Baltimore 
County, Md., and his Battalion was called into actual service 
several times during the period from 1776 until 1784.

His wife was Eleanor Pindell.  In regard to what you say with 
reference to the War Department.  I have a little reluctance to 
impose upon you the work that will be necessary in order to ascertain 
what I desire.  My great grandfather, I have every reason to 
believe was in the French and English War in [illegible], as well as in the 
Revolutionary war.  I am anxious to get all the data that bears upon 
his services in both wars.  If you can refer me to the proper 
resource where I can obtain the desired data, I shall esteem it a 
great favor.

With thanks for your courtesy, I have the honor to be, 

Very truly yours,

EDWARD C. COCKEY.

Room 141, 1 9 5 Broadway, City.

2088

[Square mail receipt stamp; appears upside down on image]
MAIL DIVISION 
FEB 8 1894 
CHIEF'S DESK.
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[illegible]

[Written vertically]
The Commissioner of Pensions

See letter - about B. Land

Col Edward Cockey 
Maryland sus - 1832

Letter to Int. Dept.

[Printed vertically right margin]
Department of the Interior, 
OFFICIAL BUSINESS.

[Two illegible stamps]
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Edward Cockey 
Md - sus 1832

Cole

[Address]

[illegible]

Hon L P Waldo 
Comsr Pensions 
Washingon
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[Envelope]

[Written vertically left margin]
Mr Whiting

[Address]

FREE

To the Honble. Secretary of the Interior 
Washington City 
D.C.

[Circular mail stamp]
BALTIMORE 
MAR
24
Md.
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State of Maryland } 
Baltimore City } S.S.

Be it known that before me 
the subscriber a justice of the Peace duly authorised [authorized] 
to administer oaths, personally appeared Rachel 
Kelly, and made oath in due form of law that 
she is eighty three years of age, and that she 
knew and was intimately acquainted with Col. 
Edward Cockey and of her own personal 
knowledge knew him to be an officer in the 
Revolutionary War, and that he was Colonel 
of the Gunpowder Upper Battalion of Baltimore 
County and that her father, the late William 
Bagford was a soldier and served under him 
in that War, and she distinctly recollects that 
while on duty one of her sisters was taken ill 
and it became necessary for him to come home 
immediately, and her mother wrote to Colonel 
Cockey informing him of the sickness in the 
family requesting him to let her father come home 
which request was acceded to.  Furthermore that 
she has never known or heard of any other Col., 
Edward Cockey but the above named that was 
in the Revolutionary War and that he died 
on the 1st Feb 1795 leaving a widow and 
three children viz: Urith, Joshua, & Thomas; 
that his widow died in August 1795; since 
then her 3 children have died leaving the 
following named children viz: Thomas B. Joshua, 
Ellen, Henrietta (of Joshua) Mary, Ellen M. 
Beale O. Edward and Henrietta (of Thomas) 
Cockey; Nancy Mathias, Ruth O Fitch and 
Louisa Applewhyte who are all and the only 
grand children now living of the said Col. 
Edward Cockey. (over)
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Sworn and subscribed to this third 
day of February 1853 before me 
Witness | Rachel her X mark Kelly 
James C Cayton

Sworn before 
Simon Kemp, Justice of the Peace of the State 
of Maryland, in and for Baltimore Coty.

This is to certify that I am acquainted 
with Mrs. Rachel Kelly the above 
deponent and know her to be a lady of 
high character in the full possession of her 
natural & intellectual faculties & on whom 
every reliance may be reposed.
Witness my hand & seal this 
third day of February 1853
Simon Kemp [word Seal encircled]
Justice of the peace
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W-38,736

Claim 
by the Heirs 
of the late Col Edward Cockey 
for Revolutionary services 

con

Hon.
J. Vansant
H. R
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State of Maryland, City of Baltimore, Sct.

On this twenty second day of October A.D. 1853 before the subscriber a 
Justice of the Peace of said State in and for said City personally 
appeared Thomas Connolly, who being by me duly sworn on the 
Holy Evangely of Almighty God deposeth as follows, That he the said 
Deponent was intimately acquainted with Edward Cockey, deceased of Baltimore 
County, and that said intimacy commenced early in life and continued up 
to the time of the decease of said Edward Cockey which he believes 
occurred in or about the year seventeen hundred and ninety five. 
That said Edward Cockey was a Colonel commanding a battalion of 
the upper Gunpowder, Baltimore County Maryland malitia [militia].  That 
he the Deponent well remembers that said Edward Cockey was actively 
engaged in the Revolutionary army rendering services to the State of 
Maryland and the United States for at least five years or more 
to his certain knowledge, from the fact of seeing him and 
the companies under his command at different times and 
places in continual service aforesaid, with but few intervals, 
and that he knows him to be the only Edward Cockey then residing 
in Baltimore County in the State of Maryland commanding as aforesaid 
and that the services of the said Edward Cockey terminated at or about 
the end of the Revolutionary War, and that he believes the said Edward 
Cockey died in Baltimore County in the State of Maryland at or 
about the time aforesaid, and also that he believes that Elenor 
Cockey widow of said Edward Cockey whom he also well 
knew died in or about the same year of the death of her said 
husband Edward Cockey. The Deponent further declares and saith 
that the said Elenor Cockey had three children by her said 
husband Edward Cockey whose names were Joshua, Thomas 
and Urath all of whom were residents of Baltimore County when he 
last saw them. That he knows [struck out: that] the last named persons named 
to have been recognized by all who knew them as the children of 
Edward and Elenor Cockey. he further saith that he has 
no claim either directly of indirectly in this application. he further 
saith that he is ninety four years of age & a resident of Portage County Ohio } Thos his X mark Connolly 
Witness & present Jno Bogget }
Sworn before and subscribed in presence of 
Edwd T Barry

I hereby certify that I have been in the company of Thomas Connolly and 
have conversed with hi freely and believe him to be [words struck out] 
in every respect worthy of belief. Edwd T Barry
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STATE OF MARYLAND, 
Baltimore City, Sct.  

I HEREBY CERTIFY that Edward T Barry 
Esquire before whom the annexed affadavit [affidavit] and Certificate 
were made and who has thereto subscribed his name was at the 
time of so doing a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland, in 
and for the City of Baltimore, duly commissioned and sworn.
In Testimony Whereof I hereto set my hand and affix the seal of the 
Superior Court of Baltimore City, this 24th day of 
October A. D. 1853
Edwd Dowling 
Clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore City
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State of Maryland }
Baltimore City } S.S.

Be it known that before me 
the subscriber a justice of the Peace duly authorized to adminis
ter oaths, personally appeared, Eleanor Waters, and made oath 
in due form of law, that she was personally acquainted with 
Colonel Edward Cockey, and knew him to be an officer in the 
Revolutionary War and was attached to the "Gun Powder Upper 
Battalion of Baltimore County," and that her father the late 
John Dodd of Baltimore County and Col Cockey were on the most 
intimate terms friendship and that when Col Cockey died, 
which occurred on the 1st Feby 1795 and that she attended his funeral.
That he left a widow & three children-viz Urith, Joshua & Thomas. 
That his widow died in August 1795, and that since her death 
the three above named children have all died, leaving the following 
named children, Joshua Henrietta of Joshua, Ellen, Mary, Beal O. 
Edward, Henrietta of Thomas, Ellen M. and Thomas B. Cockey, 
Nancy Mathias, Louisa Applewhyte and Ruth O. Fitch-
which are the only grand children of the said Col Edward Cockey 
now living.
Sworn and subscribed on the third | Eleanor Waters
day of February 1853 before me 
Simon Kemp, Justice of the peace of the City of Baltimore

This is to certify that Mrs Eleanor Waters, the aforesaid 
deponent, personally known to me that she is in the entire possession 
of her physical and mental faculties, and is a lady of high 
respectability.
Witness my hand and seal this third day of 
February 1853.
Simon Kemp, Justice of the peace of the 
State of Maryland, in and for Baltimore City.
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Treasury Department 
Third Auditors Office 
Septem 8th 1852

Sir

Your letter without date 
making inquiry whether your grand
father Col Edward Cockey of the Maryland 
line every received "commutation pay, half 
pay for life, or received nothing at all" and 
similar inquiry as to Captain John Cockey 
Owings.  In reply I have to state that upon 
examination of the records here they are 
not found to afford any evidence that either of the 
persons named received or were returned 
as being entitled to commutation pay, nor do 
the books or returns afford any evidence of 
either having been in service in the war 
of the revolution.

Respectfully 
Your Obt Serv

Jno B. Gallaher
Auditor

E M. Cockey, Esqr
care of 
Miss Charlotte D D. Owings
Golden Post Office 
Baltimore County 
Maryland
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Mr Watkins - In making our his papers-I think you had 
better mention from the 5 different dates of the recpts [receipts] 
he must have been in the service the whole time 
the recpts [receipts] are as follows - 1777
1778
1780
1781 & 1784
You had also better mention the proof to be good 
that he was called into actual service for the 
defence [defense] of Baltimore.  Also that he went to the 
head of Elk, also to Frederick Town, to guard 
the British prisoners there

Mrs Kelly and Waters are ready to prove that they 
never knew but the one Edward Cockey and that 
they attended his funeral at his residence, and think 
they will be able to state it was within so many 
miles of upper Gun Powder, and that his widow lived 
but a short time after

Mr Murray at Anapolis [Annapolis] should have mentioned that 
the officers he paid in the recpts [receipts] were the same that 
he mentioned in the proof, as having served under 
him. Mr Murray said that he could find no dates 
to the proof he gave.  I was afterwards informed 
that he Mr. M. was not the right place to look for 
them

I fear this claim will have an enemy in John Mason 
who is in Congress
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The recpts [receipts] showing that Col. Cockey paid 
monies to officers bear three if no four 
different dates.  Including nearly the whole 
compass of the war.  Also showing actual 
service for the defence [defense] of Baltimore 
as his services were [illegible] in different 
parts of the state of Maryland, & for 
which he received no compensation as an 
officer.  I hope the gentlemen of the 
Committee may see it their duty to reward 
the heirs of a useful and meritorious officer 
of the state which they do honorably 
represent.  Should this not meet their 
views, may I not ask if the claim for service cannot 
be referred to Congress for payment.

By whose order did he perform service 
for the defence [defense] of Baltimore, & march to 
the head of Elk, and by whose to Frederick 
Town to guard the British prisoners there. 
Could he have been so long in the service 
somewhere and at such times and places 
without being ordered by the Commander 
in Chief.  I do not know the Gen. under
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which Col. Cockey served, but presume 
it must have been Mordecai Gist as 
they were brothers and sisters children and 
lived in the same section of country.

The proof that the monies paid by Col. 
Cocky, is the strongest corroboration 
that can be had, from the old 
files at Anapolis [Annapolis] as they show the 
men to have served under him who  
signed the recpt [receipt].  You may 
observe the name of Archibald 
Buchanan, to some as the of the recpts [receipts] 
whose hand writing can be duly 
sustained.  When Mr Murray gave 
me the certificates he assured me 
that his name was no where else 
to be found, and [illegible] has 
had the Treasury searched to see 
[illegible] the many had been furnished
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form Vam-51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives


NAME    Cockle, John

GRADE   Private

LINE        Crane's Continental Artillery
                (Massachusetts)

WARRANT NUMBER. 3986

ACREAGE  100

ISSUED  June 27, 1789
to - not shown-
_____

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 
1800" which are 
registers of bounty land warrants issued to non commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subse
quent dates.  Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. 
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.