Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6929, Ebenezer Cook, Conn
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Service: Conn
Cook, Ebenezer (or Ebenezer H.)
Jemima
Number:  W 6929
B.L. Mt 24330-160-55
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Vermont Roll
Ohio 1758
Pittsburgh

Ebenezer Cook

Swift's regt. 
Private     4
Connecticut Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the roll of Vermont 
at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on
the 1st of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 30 of June 1818
and sent to N B Haswell, Esq.
Burlington, Vt.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1818
4 months 34/30  $41.06

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818

3 years, 1777 -
continue

Richmond, Chillender
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Cer to Pen Agent 23 Sept 1837
From Burlington [illegible] to Ohio
Pittsburgh from 4 Sept 1836
Oct 30 1937 - Notification sent to Lewis B Sturgis, Norwalk Ohio

Notification sent July 11 11-1820
to David Russell Esq.
Burlington, Vermont
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721
Ohio Pittsburgh
Jemima Cook
widow of Ebenezer 
who served in the Revolutionary
war as a private.
Inscribed on the roll  at the rate of 
96 dollars 00
cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 
13th day of Decem. 1850
and sent to
A. S. Curtis
Norwalk, Ohio

Recorded on the roll of Pensioners under act
July 29, 1848, page 161, vol. A
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(March 3 - June 11)
165-25-8
Jemima Cook
wid of
Ebenezer Cook
Col Swift
Ct:: Contl Line
Rev War
Rev Pensioner
(No 24330 [illegible])Act 16[illegible] A[r 24/56
Ohio July 48
Boynton[illegible]

Amos Norris
Wellington, [illegible]
Vol [illegible] 20
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Ebenezer Cook
Petition for
Pension, April 1
Correct DM
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I Ebenezer Cook
of Richmond in the County of Chittenden and state of Vermont being sworn do testify & sat that on the 10th day of March AD 1777 I enlisted as a private soldier in Capt. Stephen Halls Company, in a Regiment whereof Coll. Hemon Swift commanded in the Connecticut Line - in the Revolutionary Service of the United States and continued in said service until I was Honnourable Discharged on the 3d day of March 1780 - which Discharge I have since lost by its being wet. And further that my circumstances as to prosperity is much reduced and have need of assistance of for support - and further saith not.
Richmond April the 1st 1818.
Ebenezer Cook

State of Vermont Chittenden County SS Richmond April the 1st 1818 
Then personally appeared before me Joel Brownson one of the assistant Judges of Chittenden County Court - Ebenezer Cook after being duly cautioned and carefully examined made solemn oath that this affidavit by him subscribed contained the whole truth & nothing but the truth
Jol Brownson

State of Vermont Chittenden County 
I Joel Brownson Assistant Judge of Chittenden County Court do hereby certify it hath been made to appear to me sattisfactory by that Ebenezer Cook the foregoing Deponent served in the Continental establishment as a private soldier for a period of more than nine months, and that he is now poor as well from personal knowledge as from the affidavit of Benoni Thompson & Isaac Gleason Esqr., hereto annexed, and that he is justly intitled in the opinion of the undersigned to the provisions of an act of Congress passd. on the 18th day of March 1818 entitled an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Richmond April the 13st 1818
Joel Brownson
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To the Honourable John C. Calhoun the Secretary of War for the United States
The petition of Ebenezer Cook of Richmond in the County of Chittenden & State of Vermont, humbly shewith that your petitioner was a soldier in the Revolutionary War in the Continental Establishment for a term of about three years, and that your petitioner hath a ball in one of his legs that he received while in the service of my Country which he expects to carry to his grave - and further that he is your petitioner is very poor hath a large family to support and no way to do it but by his labour, he further prays that he may be placed on the pention list of the United States agreeable to an act of Congress passed the 18th day of March 1818 entitled an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War. And I do hereby relinquish all claims to every pention heretofore allowed to me, by the laws of the United States and as in duty bound will ever pray
Richmond April the 7th 1818
Joel Brownson for Ebenezer Cook

The above petition was omited to be signed by the petitioner thro mistake and being a neighbour and acquainted with him signed as above for him
Joel Brownson

State of Vermont Chittenden County County Clerks Office Burlington Ver
I Nathan B Haswell, Clerk of Chittenden County Court do hereby certify that Joel Brownson before whom the foregoing affidavit and following certificate is given is an assistant judge of Chittenden County Court duly qualified, acting under the authority of this state that his name subscribed thereto is his own proper signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court to these presents, this 7th day of April 1817
Nathan B Haswell
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We the undersigned inhabitants of the Town of Richmond in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont being sworn do testify and say that we're well acquainted with Ebenezer Cook an inhabitant of this Town & know him to be in reduced circumstances and stands in need of support and verely believe him to be entitled to the provisions of an act passd. by the Congress of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 entitled an Act for the relief of certain persons engaged in land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War
Benoni Thompson Selectman
Isaac Gleason Justice Peace

Sworn to and subscribed before me on the 4th day of April 1818
Joel Brownson Asst Judge of Chittenden County Court
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Ebenezer Cook

issd. 30 June 1818

Sep 1818
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Revolutionary Claim, under Act of Congress, May 1, 1820.
STATEOF VERMONT
Chittenden County, ss.} ON this 22 day of June 1820 personally appeared in Open Court, being the Supreme Court, for the County of Chittenden and a Court of Record for said County, by act of the Legislature dated March 2, 1797  Ebenezer Cook aged 60 years, resident in Richmond in said County, who being duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath, declare that he served in the revolutionary war, as follows:- Enlisted in March 1777 in Capt. Hollis' company in Col. Swifts Regiment Connecticut troops as will more full and at [unk] appear by my original declaration made before the Hon Joel Brownson April 1, 1818 and in which a pension certificate has issued date June 30th 1818 and numbered 1758.

And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, in the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent 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 and 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, and by me subscribed.

Schedule
1 cow $[unk] and 1 Hog $5.00         $2?.00
Iron Kettle at $8 Two wheels & reels at $2 10.00
[unk]- Tongs-Hand here & trammel  3.75
axe-hoe-chain-schythe- & stabyards   5.00
Table & Stand $2.00 5 Chairs $2.50  4.50
2 Pails & 1 sieve at                1.00
crockery $1.00- Pewter ware $1.75  2.75
Tin Ware                               1.00
Agur-[unk] & sugar                         7.00
[unk] articles pf furniture         8.00
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                                               $66.00

I have a wife aged 49 years who is infirm being troubled with a complaint called the dropsy. I have one child living with me whose name is Betsey Cook aged 6 1/2 years who us too young to do much labor. I am a farmer profession but by being old and infirm I am unable to work much and of my pension is taken from me I shall not know how to get along in the world as I honestly am in debts about forty dollars.

(Signed) Ebenezer Cook

Sworn to and declared on the 22 day of June 1820 Before said Court in open Court by order of Court
attest (signed) David Russell Clk

STATE OF VERMONT
Chittenden County, ss.} I David Russell Clerk of the Supreme Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of said court; and I further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is sixty six dollars and -- cents& [unk] of debts [unk] him of about $40.00. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, on this 30 day of June 1820.
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And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, om the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or part thereof, with intent 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 and 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, and by me subscribed.

Schedule
1 cow $[unk] and 1 hog $5.00   2?.00
Iron Kettles at $8 Tub wheels & reels at $2   10.00
[unk]- tongs- hand [unk] & trammel   3.75
axe-hoe-chain-scythe & [unk]  5.00
Table & Stand $2.00 5 Chairs $2.50   4.50
2 Pails & 1 sieve at                   1.00
Crockery $1.00- Pewter ware $1.75   2.75
Tin Ware                               1.00
[unk]- [unk] & Sugar                       7.00
[unk] articles of furniture             8.00
                                      ---------------------
                                             $66.00

I have a wife aged 49 years who is infirm being troubled with a complaint called the dropsy. I have one child living with me whose name is Betsey Cook aged 6 1/2 years who is too young to do much labour. I am a farmer profession but by being old and infirm I am unable to work much and of my pension is taken from me I shall not know how to get along in the world as I honestly owe in debts about forty dollars.

(Signed) Ebenezer Cook

Sworn to and declared on the 22 day of June 1820 Before said Court in open Court by order of Court
attest (signed) David Russell Clk

STATE OF VERMONT
Chittenden County, ss.} I David Russell Clerk of the Supreme Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is sixty six dollars and -- cents & [unk] of debts [unk] him of about $40.00. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, on this 30 day of June 1820.
David Russell Clerk
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Please forward to Fitchislle
Vernon County, Ohio to case of J C Curtiss
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The State of Ohio
Huron County} ss. On this 13th day of January 1849 personally appeared before the subscriber (a Justice of the Peace of said County) Jemima Cook a resident of [unk] Township in the County of Huron Ohio aged 76 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 7th day of July 1838 granting half pay and pension to certain widows of Revolutionary soldier. And also the acts [unk] to and extending the benefits of said act. And also that she may obtain the benefits of the act of Congress approved on the 2nd day of February 1848 granting pension to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Ebenezer Cook who was a Private in the army of the Revolution. She further declares that she was married to the said Ebenezer Cook on the 22nd day of April 1791. She further declares that the said Ebenezer Cook died on the 4th day of September 1847 and that she is still the widow of the said Ebenezer Cook who drew at the rate of ninety-six dollars per year and further that she is not on the pension Roll of any State and never has been of the truth of which statements I am fully satisfied. I further certify that the said Jemima Cook is personally known to me ad is a person entitled to full credit and further that in my opinion she is not from bodily infirmity able to attend a Court of Record for the purpose of making this declaration.
Jemima Cook

John Buffington, Justice of Peace
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No 794
Act 24 July
13824
Jemima Cook
wid of Ebenezer
Ohio
Act 7 July 1838
Rejected 7 July 1838
married before 1800
Husd. died 1847
Admd. Act 29 July 1848
$96 per annum
Comg. 4 March 1848

Pittsburgh Ag'y
H S Curtis
Norwalk, Ohio
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State of Ohio
Huron County ss.} I Geo. S. Tambling Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the county of Huron and State of Ohio do hereby certify that John Buffington before whom the foregoing Affidavit purports to have been taken was at the time of so doing an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly elected commissioned and sworn according to law and that the within signature purporting to be his is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at the Court House in [unk] this 17th day of January AD 1849.
Geo. S. Tambling Deputy Clerk H.C.R.
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165258
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The State of Ohio
Lorain County ss}
On this 14th day of May AD 1855 before me Amos Norris a Notary Public in and for said county personally came Jemima Cook, aged eighty three years a resident of Huntington Township Lorain County Ohio who being duly sworn according to Law deposes & saith that she is the identical Jemima Cook who is the widow of Ebenezer Cook decd who was a Revolutionary soldier & who as such recd a pension from the government of the United States & that hse the said Jemima Cook since AD 1848 has been in the annual receipt of Pension from the Unites States as the widow of the said Ebenezer Cook, who died at Litchville in the county of Huron in the State of Ohio on the 4th day of Sept 1847. That she has not recd any bounty land by virtue of any act of Congress heretofore passed & that she makes the declaration to obtain the the bounty land granted to her by the act of Congress approved March 3rd 1855, And she hereby appoints Amos Norris atty at Law of Wellington Lorain county Ohio to present her claim & [unk] her warrant when issued.
Jemima Cook

Sworn to & subscribed before me this 14th day of May AD 1855.
Amos Morris
Notary Public
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State of Ohio Lorain County ss}
On this 14th day of May AD 1855 personally came before me Amos Norris a Notary Public in and for said county & State Wareham N. Pierce and Sarah Kilburn person whom I certify to be respectable & entitled to credit & who being duly sworn say that they were present & saw Jemima Cook affix her name to the foregoing Declaration & they father swear that they know her to be in the record of Pensioners from the United States & that she is the person she represents herself to be & they deponents do reside in the Township of Huntington in the county of Lorain & State of Ohio & they also swear that are disinterested witnesses.
Wareham N Pierce
Sarah Kilburn

Sworn to & subscribed before me this 14th day of May AD 1855.
Amos Norris
Notary Public

THE STATE OF OHIO
LORAIN COUNTY, SS.} I, LANDON ROOD, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for said County, do hereby Certify that Amos Norris Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken, and who has thereto subscribed his name officially, in his own hand writing, was at the date of the said affidavit and now is an acting Notary Public within and for said Lorain County, authorized by the laws of the State of Ohio, to take acknowledgements as aforesaid, and duly commissioned and sworn, and to all whose official acts, full faith and credit are due, and ought to be given throughout the United States and elsewhere.
In Testimony Whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the Seal of said Court, at Elyria, this 30 day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty five.
L. Rood Clerk
By                                            Deputy Clerk
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November 16, 1934
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Ebenezer Cook
W. 6929
BA-J/MLB

Eva D. Lowe
Box 160 
Mullen, Nebraska

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of John Smart, Rufus Norton who married Hanna Cook in Connecticut, and Hanna Cook's father, Ebenezer H. Cook who served from Connecticut.

Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims for pension and bounty land made to the United States based upon military service of soldiers in that war.

A careful search of records fails to show such claims on file on account of the Revolutionary War service of either John Smart or Rufus Norton. The record was found of only one soldier named Ebenezer H. Cook and it is given herein as shown in pension claim, W. 6929, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

Ebenezer Cook (sometime referred to as Ebenezer H. Cook) enlisted March 10, 1777, served as private in Captain Stephen Hall's company, Colonel Heman Swift's Connecticut regiment, while in service received a ball in one of his legs and was discharged March 3, 1780.

He was allowed pensions on his application executed April 1, 1818, while a resident of Richmond, Chittenden County, Vermont; in 1818 the soldier stated he had large family to support but gave no names.

In 1820 he was still residing in Richmond, Vermont, aged sixty years. In 1837 he was a resident of Fitchville, Huron County, Ohio, to which place he moved to be with his children who resided there, but gave no names of children.
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He died in Fitchville, Ohio, September 3, 1847, as shown by the official records of Huron County, Ohio.

Ebenezer or Ebenezer H. Cook married April 12 or 22, 1791, Jemima Archer; they were married in Benson, Rutland County, Vermont, at the home of Friend Gibbs (no relationship to either stated); it was stated that the soldier had not been previously married. 

Soldier's widow, Jemima Cook, was alloed pension on her application executed January 12, 1849, at which time she was aged seventy-six years and a resident of Fitchville, Ohio, where she was still living in 1850. In 1855, she was a resident of Huntington township, Lorain County, Ohio. She died September 27, 1855.

The only child of Ebenezer or Ebenezer H. Cook and his wife, Jemima, whose name was designated in the claim, was Betsey, whose age was given in 1820 as six and one half years.

In 1837, one Ambrose Cook, aged thirty-two years, was residing in Fitchville, Ohio, his relationship to the family is not stated.

In 1897, one Mrs. Bessie Jones, aged eighty-three years and a resident of Huntington, Lorain County, Ohio, stated that she was the daughter of the Revolutionary War soldier, Ebenezer H, Cook, and his wife, Jemima; that her father was born in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut, where he was reared and enlisted; that he was in the battles of Germantown and Monmouth, also did service on the Indian lines, and that he was buried in Huron County, Ohio. The given name of Mrs. Bessie Jones' husband was not stated.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator

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August 8, 1934
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EBENEZER COOK
W. 6929
BA-J/MLB

Mrs. H. C. Crawford
2410 Clement Avenue
Parkersburg, West Virginia

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the record of Ebenezer Cook, of Connecticut, who served three years in the Revolutionary War.

The record of Ebenezer Cook is given below as found in the papers on file in pension claim, W. 6929, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

The date and place of soldier's birth and names of his parents are not stated.

Ebenezer Cook (sometimes referred to as Ebenezer H. Cook) enlisted March 10, 1777, served as private in Captain Stephen Hall's company, Colonel Heman Swift's Connecticut regiment, while in service received a ball in one of his legs and was discharged March 3, 1780.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 1, 1818, while a resident of Richmond, Chittenden County, Vermont; in 1818 the soldier stated he had a large family to support but gave no names.

In 1820 he was still residing in Richmond, Vermont, aged sixty years. In 1837 he was a resident of Fitchville, Huron County, Ohio, to which place he had moved to be with his children who resided there, but gave no names of children.

He died in Fitchville, Ohio, September 3, 1847, as shown by the official court records of Huron County, Ohio.

Ebenezer or Ebenezer H. Cook married April 12 or 22, 1791, Jemima Archer; they were married in Benson, Rutland County, Vermont, at the home of Friend Gibbs (no relationship to either stated); it was stated that the soldier had not been previously married.
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Soldier's widow, Jemima Cook, was allowed pension on her application executed January 12, 1849, at which time she was aged seventy-six years and a resident of Fitchville, Ohio, where she was still living in 1850. In 1855 she was a resident of Huntington Township, Lorain County, Ohio. She died September 27, 1855.

The only child of Ebenezer or Ebenezer H. Cook and his wife, Jemima, whose name was designated in the claim, was Betsey, whose age was given in 1820 as six and one half years.

In 1837, one Ambrose Cook, aged thirty-two years, was residing in Fitchvile, Ohio, his relationship to the family not stated.

In 1897, one Mrs. Bessie Jones, aged eighty-three years and a resident of Huntington, Lorain County, Ohio, stated that she was the daughter of the Revolutionary War soldier, Ebenezer H. Cook and his wife, Jemima; that her father was born in Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut, where he was reared and enlisted, that he was in the battles of Germantown and Monmouth, also did serve on the Indian lines, and that he was buried in Huron County, Ohio. The given name of Mrs. Bessie Jones' husband was not stated.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator



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Veterans Administration
Sirs - I am trying to find out something about my great  great-grandfather, Ebenezer Cook of East Haddam Conn. I have it from a distant cousin that he was in the Rev '76 to '81. That is all I know. He was a private. I wrote to East Haddam to the town clerk and among several Ebenezer Cooks from Conn. he gives this one.
Private Ebenezer Cook, Seventh Regiment, Company "Hall"- enlisted 3/10/77 - discharged
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3/10/80. Have you anything that will help me? Do you think even with the different dates given that he is the Ebenezer Cook I claim?

The Adjutant General suggested writing to you.

I surely will greatly appreciate any assistance you can give me.

Mrs. H. C. Crawford
2410 Clement Ave.
Parkersburg, W. Va.

July twenty-fifth

stamped addressed envelope attached OK
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Mrs. H.C. Crawford
2410 Clement Ave.
Parkersburg. 
W. Va.

[3 cent stamp]
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3-517
Rev. War
RECORD DIVISION
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.

Briefed by H. V. C.
Claim No.
Certificate No.
Claimants Mrs Bessie Jones daughter
Soldier Ebenezer H. Cook
Service
Additional Service Indian war
Germantown & Monmouth
No Claim, New Records
No Claim, Old Records
REMARKS:




Chief Division
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Bot 106
Muller Nebraska
November 10, 1934

Veteran's Administration
Washington DC
Dear Sir,
Will you please tell me if you have any war records of John Smart and also of Rupus Norton who married Hauna Cook in Connecticut? Her father was Ebenezer H. Cook and I wonder if he served in Conn. during the Revolutionary war. I would appreciate anything you could give me of these men.

I am sincerely
Eva D. Lowe
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June 24, 1897- History
Mrs. Bessie Jones
Huntington, Ohio
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Dec 17/97-address as above
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Jan. 3/98 Hist. to Mrs. Bessie Jones- Huntington, Ohio
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1934 Aug 8- Hist to Mrs H C Crawford
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1934 Nov. 16-Hist to Eva D. Lowe


Revy WIDOW, &c.

File No. 6929
Jemima Cook
wid.
Ebenezer Cook
Prvt. Rev War

Act: July 29, 1848
Index:- Vol. A, Page 144

[Arrangement of 1870]
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Huntington Lorain Co Ohio
Nov 21, 1897

Hon Commissioner
Dear Sir,

You very likely remember the war record of my father Ebenezer H Cook which I wished you to furnish me. You did will, by giving me more facts than I expected and I shall ever be grateful for the favor. I sent it to representative Kerr who is attending my claim in Congress and in some way, he lost it, and wants me to furnish it again. I am very sorry to trouble you again, but it seems it must be gad, it was not my fault, losing it and I am sorry sure.
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you have furnished me with my Fathers war record, and know that I am his daughter all right; and when my case comes up in Congress will you speak a good word for me, it will cost you nothing, and may do me much good. I suppose you are acquainted with W S Kerr of Mansfield Ohio, member of the lower house of Congress. He wrote me the other day that he wanted you should state the com. and regiment that my father served in. The historie dead. When you have finished all you work and time with you is ended  [unk] Lord will bless and thank you has [unk] the thousands you've befriended.

May you given a corners lot in that heavenly hand supreme to dwell to all eternity with songs of gladness for your [unk]
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Will you please make out that report, and send it to me. Mr Kerr wishes to use it soon after Congress convenes, He wants I should mail it to him by the fourth of Dec,

Yours with respect,

Mrs. Bessie Jones
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Huntington Lorain Co Ohio
Dec 8 1897

I have no minutes of the time but as near as I can remember it was about three weeks before [unk] of Congress that you wrote me I sent it directly to Mr Kerr and whether he lost it in Washington or while he was in Mansfield I do not know. I wish now I had taken a coppy of it, but I never once thought it would get lost. My father was born and raised in Guilford Connecticut and there he enlisted with other young men at the time the enlisted to fight the battles of his country. In Germantown battle in Monmouth battles and on the Indian lines he did service. His name was Ebenezer H. Cook and my mothers name Jemima Cook, You wrote me that my father made application for pension when he was fifty eight years old and after his death his widow drew pension untill her death when the certificate was returned. I have no way of telling you of fathers officers or company.

Mrs. Bessie Jones

But when you find his name among the Connecticut troops you can get more.
I suppose by this time you have my second letter.
Mrs. Bessie Jones
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Huntington, Lorain Co.
Ohio
May 1897

Ebenezer H. Cook
Conn. Rev. War

Mrs. Bessie Jones
daughter of above names
Revo. War solider wishes
history of her father in
said war.

With 474844


Read all of both letters to get the details
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Huntington Lorain Co Ohio
May 1897

Chief Recorder,
Dear Sir, Your Hon I am the daughter of a Revolutionary Soldier who served in the war of 76 and broke the English yoke. My father drew pension sixteen years in the town of Fitchville Huron Co Ohio, before we moved to Lorain Co Ohio, and in Huron Co he lies buried. My mother drew pension three years here in Lorain Co when she died. The certificate returned to the war department so I have no coppy of it. When Gen Quam was commissioner he found my fathers name there for he wrote me that I was the daughter of Ebenezer H. Cook. 
over
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My Father enlisted in the town Guilford County of New Haven, and and State of Connecticut. And his record must be there. I hope you will do the best you can for me, for I spent the best years of my life tiding them through their last days, as ninty six dollars a year would not do it I think, and this community thinks, in view of what I have done for them, that I ought to be pensioned.
I am eighty three, in my eighty- fourth year, and have to do all my home work for the reason that I can't afford to hire it done. And it is more than I am able to do at my age in life. You can be sure of my regards, if you furnish me the correct statistics; I will be more than thankful. If you can furnish me with his regiment, and company in which he served and oblige.
Mrs. Bessie Jones
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Huntington Lorain Co Ohio
Nov 25, 1877

Hon Commissioner,
Dear Sir,
I think we will get acquainted of I keep on writing. I wrote you a second time to replace the one that Mr Kerr had lost. Now I will try and rectify the mistake I made in that. Guess I must have thought there was but one daughter of the revolution and that was me and I was so well known, and our family also that my statement did not need repeating, my fathers names was Ebenezer H. Cook, and my mothers names Jemima Cook before my father joined the army his residence was Guilford Connecticut.
Mr Kerr wishes the company and Reg
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in which he served, if obtainable. Please hurry that report as quick as possible. Please excuse all mistakes and blunders. Remember my age is against me.

Yours truly

Mrs Bessie Jones
Huntington Lorain Co Ohio
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24330


Rev war
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Mrs. Bessie Jones OWM

Huntington Lorain Co Ohio
June 7 1897

Commissioner of Pensions

I have been directed to the chief recorder of Pensions, and he has failed to find my fathers name on his records, he has treated my case like a gentlemen and I should ever appreciate his kindness. He has directed me to you as the leading star in the galaxy of light. He says you are custodian of the pensioner records of all wars, and I think I will like to try your skill a while. For it does seem when a man has drawn pension, as many years as he has, there ought to be some record somewhere, showing how it is done. Please give me what information you can and as quick as you can and oblige.
Mrs Bessie Jones
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No 13824
Jemima Cook
a
Let. to J. C. Curtis
June 16th 1849
Letter Jemima Cook 27th Sept 1849
Letter to Alfred S Curtis
Jany 19: 1850
Let to same August 20/50

act 7 July 1838
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Mrs. J. Cook
165258
FREE

Hon L. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington 
D. C.
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[unk] act 27 July 68 O, Pittsburgh
Boynton
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attention of
W Alloson
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No 794
Sept 30/50
Decl.
Jemima Cook
wid
Ebenezer H.
29 July 1848
Ohio

FREE
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D. C.
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Norwalk October 16, 1850

Hon J L Edwards 

I send you the papers in the case of Mrs Jemima Cook and hope they will prove satisfactory. I would claim it a favor if you would send me the pension Laws & instruments. Please let me hear from you as soon as convenient.

Yours &c.
A S Curtis
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Ebenezer Cook
Enlisted March 1777 in
Capt S. Halls Co Col Swifts
Regt Conn line
Discharged March 3d 1780
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corr. sent Sept 21
Mr Evans

James L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Application for a Transfer
To the War Department
State of Ohio
Huron County}ss.
On this 13th day of September 1837 before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Huron personally appeared Ebenezer Cook of Fitchville in said County, formerly of Richmond, Chittenden County State of Vermont who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Hall in a Regiment commanded by Col Heman Swift, in the service of the United States, that his name was placed on the Pension Roll of the State of Vermont, from whence he has lately removed. That he now resides in the State of Ohio where he intends to remain and wishes his pension to there payable in future. The following are the reasons for removing from said Vermont to said Fitchville that his Family & children have removed to to, & now live & reside in said Fitchbille where the deponent intends to remain at the residence of his Life.

Ebenezer Cook

Sworn and subscribed to before me the day & year aforesaid.
Samuel Preston Jus Peace
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State of Ohio
Huron County} ss. 13 September 1837
Personally appeared before one Samuel Preston a Justice of the Peace within & for said County, Ambrose Cook of Fitchville in said county aged Thirty two years, and being duly sworn, on his oath declares & suggest that he has for many years last part been acquainted with Ebenezer Cook, the within named declarant & deponent that he knows him to be the same identical person who was placed upon the Pension List roll by the Law or act of Congress of the year 1818. That his pension has heretofore been payable at the Pension Agency of Vermont, and I also certify that the above named Ambrose Cook and whose name is hereto subscribed is a person of veracity.
Ambrose Cook

Sworn and subscribed the day & year above mentioned Before me
The name "Cook" interlined 7th line [unk] to be before signing and also the name "Cook" interlined 3d Line from to before signing also the name "Cook" interline 13th Line from to be before signing.
Samuel Preston Jus. Peace

The State of Ohio
Huron County ss.} I David Gibbs Clerk of the Court of Common Please in and for said County of Huron, do certify that Samuel Preston Esq is a lawfull Magistrate as above & that the foregoing signature purports to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of said Court at Norwalk this 13th day of September AD 1837.
D. Gibbs Clerk H.C.P.
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Oct 3
Mr Evans

FREE

J L Edwards Esq
Comr of Pensions
Washington
DC
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Town of Burlington
Sept 28, 1837

J L Edwards Esq
Comr of Pensions

Sir,
Ebenezer Cook inscribed on the Rill of this agency at the rate of eight dollars per month under the act of 18 March 1818 was last paid the 4th Sept 1836 on the 7th of same month as appears by one Book.

Very respectfully
E T Englesby [unk]
for R S Cole
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Mr Evans
Mr Allison
Oct 26

FREE

J L Edwards Esq
Commr of Pensions
Washington
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Norwalk Ohio 18 Oct 1837

J L Edwards Esq
Commr of Pensions

Sir
I wrote to you a few days since relative to papers sent to you for a Transfer to the Pension Agency of Pittsburgh from Vermont for the future payment of Ebenezer Cooks Pension. Those papers were forwarded by me as agent to Mr Cook & which when the transfer shall be effected you will transmit the evidence to Mr Cook to my care at the office here. Mr Cook was here yesterday & desired the Post master to deliver to me any Letter from you to him according a Circular was handed to me, directed to him but said nothing respecting the papers which I forwarded to you.
Mr. Cook served in the Revolutionary War in a company commanded by a Capt Hale in a Regiment commanded by Col Swift of Connecticut. I wrote to you also respecting a claim for a Pension in behalf of the surviving widow of one Hezekiah Rowland a Revolutionary soldier. Your decision in these two cases will much oblige me & the applicants and also any further evidence which may be deemed requisite you will please to mention.

I am Sir respectfully you obt servt
Lewis B Sturgis
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[unk] June 18/49
Jemima Cook

free
War Department
Pension Office
Washington City
D.C.


Fitchville
June 11
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Huron Co, Ohio
Fitchville June 4th 1849
Sir,
Some time in Feb. last I forwarded to to your office a statement &c. for widows Pension since which time I have received no comm on the subject. My husband Ebenezer Cook died on the 4th Sept 1847 being a revolutionary pensioner- his papers were forwarded to the department and I received his arrears but have never received any thing on my own account. Presuming that the declaration which I made either did not reach you or that it had been overlooked I write for information.

Yours
Jemima Cook
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I, Loyal C. Kellogg, of Benson, in the county of Rutland and State of Vermont of lawful age, do make oath and say that I am the Town Clerk of the town of Benson aforesaid and have the care and custody of the records belonging to the said office of Town Clerk of said town; and that by the laws of the said State of Vermont, it is required that a record should be made of all marriages solemnized in said town by the minister or magistrate before whom such marriage is solemnized, and that a copy of the same should be by him deposited in the Town Clerk's office to be there recorded, that there is no record remaining in this office of the marriage of Ebenezer H. Cook to Jemima Archer, and that there is no record remaining in said office of any marriage solemnized in said town prior to the month of December in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety four (1794).
I further say that the said town of Benson was organized in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty six, and that Asahel Smith, Esquire, was a Justice of the Peace residing in said town from the time of its organization until his death in the month of June in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety four, as I have been informed and believe; and that during the said time he was the only Justice of the Peace who resided in said town and acted in that capacity, as I have understood and believe. I further say that I am an Attorney at law, and have had occasion in my professional business to inquire after the
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records of the said Smith as Justice of the Peace as aforesaid, but that I was never able, on diligent search and inquiry, to obtain any trace of such records, or any evidence that such records were kept and preserved by him; and that I do not believe that there is any records which was made by the said Smith of his official acts as Justice of the Peace as aforesaid, now in existence. And further I say not.
L. C. Kellogg

State of Vermont
Rutland County ss.} The foregoing affidavit was subscribed by the above named Loyal C. Kellogg and sworn to by him, at Benson in said county, on this 29th day of October A.D. 1849, before me.
M. W. Smith Justice of the Peace


Certificate of Justice Commission
Eastman & Danforth, Printers

State of Vermont
          County, ss.} I, Frederick W. Hopkins Clerk of the County Court of the County of Rutland in the State of Vermont, which is a court of record, do hereby certify that M. W. Smith is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the thirtieth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty nine and will expire on the thirtieth day of November next; that his signature to the foregoing affidavit is genuine, and that he is duly qualified by the laws of this State to to take affidavits &c.
Given under my hand and the seal of said County Court, this thirtieth day of October A.D. 1849.
F. W. Hopkins CLERK
By N. J. Hopkins Depty
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letter sent correctly
8 Nov 49
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P.O. Vernon Erie Co Ohio Nov 1849

Dear Sir
The enclosed Letter has not been called for which leads me to think that it is misdirected as I know of no person of that name in this vicinity.

Truly yours
L B Johnson PM

To the commissioner of Pensions
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I Friend Gibbs of the Township of Huntington Lorain County State of Ohio, of lawful age, being duly sworn do depose testify & say that Ebenezer H Cook and Jemima Archer were married at my House in the Town of Benson State of Vermont, in the year 1791 by Asahel Smith Esq then acting Justice in said Town of Benson, & I have been well acquainted with the above named Ebenezer H & Jemima Cook up to Mr Cooks death & know the said Jemima to be his only wife and further I say not.
Friend Gibbs

Sworn and subscribed before me this 6th day of Dec 1849.
John C. Kingsley, J. Peace

The State of Ohio
Lorain County ss.} I Myrum R Keith Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said county, do hereby certify that John C  Kingsley Esq. by whom the foregoing affidavit was taken was at the time of taking the same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified, that I am acquainted with his signature and know the above to be genuine and that the same is in due form and in accordance with the laws if the State of Ohio. Witness my signature and the seal of the said court at Elyria this 8th day of December AD 1849.
M. R. Keith Clerk
Per H Wallace Deputy
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Norwalk Huron Co. Ohio Jan 19th/50

J.L. Edward Com. of Pensions

Dear Sir
Mrs Jenima Cook widow of Ebenezer Cook deceased late a pensioner on the Ohio roll has applied to me to assist her in procuring her pension Ebenezer Cook died some time in the month of Sept 1847. Mrs Cook wishes to obtain a pension for the time that expired previous to the Act of Bed 2d 1848 and also for the time since that act. She has complied with the Act of July 7th 838 with the exception of filing a declaration. The question is whether she will be compelled to file two declarations the one under the act of July 7/38 - and the other under the act of Feb 2d/48 or whether one declaration can be made to answer for both laws - and further whether the declaration made before a Judge of the County Court will be sufficient if certified by the County Clerk

Your Obt Serv
Alfred S Curtis
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State of Ohio{
Huron County { Ss
I Henry Brown Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas at Norwalk in and for said County do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that Ebenezer Cook late of said County of Huron died in Fitchville in said County on the third day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty seven and that he was at the time  of his death a pensioner of the United States; that he left a widow to wit Jemina Cook who is still living and is a widow
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office at Norwalk this 16th day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty 
H. Brown Clerk
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State of Ohio
Huron County {Ss
On this 16th day of March AD 1850 personally appeared  before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Juron aforesaid Jemina Cook a resident of Fitchville in the County of Juron aged Eighty 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 7, 1838 entitled an Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" that she is the widow of Ebenezer Cook who was a soldier int he Revolutionary War and who did prior to his death receive a pension from the government of the United States

She further declares that she was married to the said Ebenezer Cook on the 12th day of April in the year seventeen hundred and ninety-one; that her husband the aforesaid Ebenezer Cook died on the third day of September in the year eighteen hundred and forty seven; that she was not married to him previous (crossed out) prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety-four viz at the time above state

she further says that she is still a widow
Jemina Cook

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 16th day of March AD 1850
F Wickham
Associate Judge A. C. P.

State of Ohio
Huron County Ss{
Court of Common Please

I Henry Brown Cleark of said Court (which is a court of Record) do hereby certify that the said Jemina Cook appeared in open court and being first duly sworn according to law and made and subscribed the above declaration and I further certify that the above signature of Jemina Cook is her genuine signature and that the signature of F Wickham is his genuine signature and that he is one of the Judges of this Court as witness my hand and the seal of this Court affixed this 16th day of March A.D. 1850 at Norwalk
H. Brown Clerk
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Fitchville August 1st /50

Dear Sir:

About last March there was forwarded to the Department an application to have Jemina Cook (widow of Ebenezer Cook a Revolutionary pensioner) placed upon the Pension Roll & receive a Certificate entitling her to widow's pension which application was accompanied by the necessary papers & evidence all of which was forwarded from "Norwalk Huron County Ohio since which time we have heard nothing from the department on the subject. Will you please inform me at the earliest opportunity the situation of tit & if the evidence & documents are sufficient please forward a certificate to me at "Fitchville Huron County Ohio"

Respectfully
Jemina Cook
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State of Ohio
Huron County Ss}
On this 24th day of September AD 1850 personally appeared in open Court Mrs Jemina Cook a resident of Fitchville in the County of Huron aged seventy six years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 29th 1848

She further declares that she was married to Ebenezer H Cook on the twelve day of April in the year seventeen hundred and ninety first that her husband the aforesaid Ebenezer H. Cook died on the fourth day of September A.D. 1847; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the second of January eighteen hundred viz at the time above stated. She further swears that she is now a widow and that she has never before made any application for a pension
Jemina Cook

Sworn to and subscribed in open Court the day and year above written
H. Brown Clerk
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State of Ohio
Huron County Ss}

I Henry Brown Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the said County of Huron de hereby certify that Jemima Cook appeared in open Court on the said 24th day of September AD 1850 and subscribed the foregoing affidavit and was duly sworn according to law
In testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Norwalk this 24th day of September AD 1850
H. Brown Clerk
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Norwalk Ohio Sept 24th 1850
J L Edwards Esqr
Sir
I send you again the
declaration of Mrs Jemina Cook to which let
me call your earliest attention Mrs Cook is
poor quite so and has been waiting with a
good deal of anxiety about this pension. It is
almost her only means of support and as the
matter is very short may I hope that it will meet
with prompt attention. I wish the legality of her
receiving a pension under the law of /38 might
be submitted to the new secretary and to the
atty general. Please let me hear from you as
soon as convenient whether these papers are
sufficient or not

Yours &c
J L Edwards
A S Curtis
Com Pensions
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Name: Cook, Ebenezer
Grade: Corporal
Line: New Hampshire
Warrant Number: 3002
Acreage: 100
Issued: Nov. 28, 1789
to not named-

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 subsequent
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.