Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12616, James Cook, Va.

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Service
Va. [handwritten]

[Star Symbol]
Cooke, James [handwritten]

Number
S. 12616 [handwritten]

carded

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Reowan

12.616 [handwritten]
[Check symbol] INVALID.

File No. 12.616 [handwritten]
James Cook
Priv. Rev. War.

Act: June 7, 1832

Index: - Vol. [blank], page [blank]

[Arrangement of 1870.]

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4200
Kentucky

James Cook [handwritten]
of Printer [handwritten] in the State of Ky [handwritten]
who was a Pri [handwritten] in the compny [handwritten] commanded by CaptainAdams [handwritten] of the Righ [handwritten] commanded by Col: Liftridge [handwritten] in the Va: [handwritten] line for 9 months from 1780 [handwritten]

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky [handwritten] at the rate of 30- [handwritten] Dollars -- cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.


Certificate of Pension issued the 15- [handwritten] day of Jany 33 [handwritten] and sent to [illegible] RM; Johnson. House of Reps [illegible]


Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 [handwritten]  - 45.
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar; 33    -     15.
   [handwritten] 
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                                                                           $60

{Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Nathan Rice [handwritten] Clerk.
Book D. [handwritten]  Vol. 9 [handwritten]  Page 34 [handwritten]

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State of Kentucky Butler County Set

On this 11th day of December 1832 personally appeared, before the county court, [scratched out] in open court before the court of Butler now sitting James Cook a resident of the county and State aforesaid aged seventy years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following [scratched out] declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832. That he entired the service of United States under the following named offices and [illegible] as herein stated that he was born in York county Pennsylvania in the year 1762 and moved to the State of Virginia when very young. That he first volunteered in the militia service in September or October 1780 for the term of three months under the command of Captain Robert Adams and Colnoel William Liftridge, all of Bedford County Via that they marched through Charlotte Prince Edward and Amelia Counties and in the course of a week or two days from the time they set out they gained the army under the command of General Robert Lawson stationed at Petersburg Virginia that in this term he was in no battle and does not [illegible] the name of any of the officers under the command of General Lawson Except on Captain Maston Clay He does not remember whether [illegible] served out the time for which he enlisted but he remembers that he was legally discharged by Capt Adamd verbally that he returned to Bedford County in Virginia and in January or February 1781 he volunteered again for the term of three months and marched under the command of Captain William Jones and marched under command of Colonel Lynch to join the army of Genl Byron (Bryan) in North Carolina that in the company that marched with him to join Genl Byron (Bryan) were Capts Thomas Helm, Jacob Moon and David Beard, that they marched through Halifax County and [illegible] Dan river on their way to Greens army that he was in the battle of Guilford where Capts. Moon, Helm and Jones were Killed. the Lieutenant being about the command of his company then [illegible] upon John Cox Ensign, sometime thereafter, about the expiration of the three months for which he volunteered he was verbally discharged by Colnel Lynch and he again returned to his home in Bedford  Via. IN September 1781 he again volunteered for the term of three months under the commando Captain David Beard and marched under Colonel Daniel Trigg through the counties of Charlotte, Prince Edward, Amelia, [illegible] and serve other other [scratched out] counties (the news of which I

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cannot recollect) to James River and marched down it about fifty miles, and passed through a little town called Cabin Point and crossed James River at Swan Point in sight of James Town thence to Williamsburg about 12 miles from James Town and thence to York Town about 12 miles Williamsburg. When he arrived at Yorktown Colonel Trigg was discharged and a man by the name of Tucker (whose Christian name he never knew) was appointed in his stead. He was at York Town During the siege and until after the capture of Cornwalis; he knew more of the officers at the siege of York Town except Washington, Lafeyette, Wayne and Lawson nor does he remember the regiment in which he served during any period of his services. He states that after the capture of Lord Cornwalis all Captain Beards company [illegible] himself and fifteen others obtained Doctors discharged and went home and that Capt Beard after attempting and failing to obtain discharges for the redo advised them to desert and meet him at Williamsburg where he would give them discharges and thus deserted himself leaving him, Cook and the said fifteen without an officer he further states that leaving thus left General Lafeyette advised them to go with the British prisoners to Minchester upon which they joined the company of Capt Giles and marching with the prisoners above Fredericksburg when half of them was sent to Fredricks Town in Maryland he went under Capt Giles with the other half to Minchester where he was discharged by Capt Giles. that he returned to Bedford County and after living there about thirty [scratched out], twenty [scratched out] five years, moved to Butler County in the State of Kentucky when he has since resided ever since. He further states that for the services above set forth he has never received any compensation and that he has never made application for a pension of any kind, that he is in narrow circumstances and that age and sickness have compeled him to make application for the provision made by Congress. He truly relinquishes every claim whatever to a pensions [dark spot makes words illegible] except the present and declares that his name is not in [dark spot makes words illegible] roll of the agency of any state
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid

his 
James x Cook
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cannot recollect) to James River and marched down it about fifty miles, and passed through a little town called Cabin Point and crossed James River at Swan Point in sight of James Town thence to Williamsburg about 12 miles from James Town and thence to York Town about 12 miles Williamsburg. When he arrived at Yorktown Colonel Trigg was discharged and a man by the name of Tucker (whose Christian name he never knew) was appointed in his stead. He was at York Town During the siege and until after the capture of Cornwalis; he knew more of the officers at the siege of York Town except Washington, Lafeyette, Wayne and Lawson nor does he remember the regiment in which he served during any period of his services. He states that after the capture of Lord Cornwalis all Captain Beards company [illegible] himself and fifteen others obtained Doctors discharged and went home and that Capt Beard after attempting and failing to obtain discharges for the redo advised them to desert and meet him at Williamsburg where he would give them discharges and thus deserted himself leaving him, Cook and the said fifteen without an officer he further states that leaving thus left General Lafeyette advised them to go with the British prisoners to Minchester upon which they joined the company of Capt Giles and marching with the prisoners above Fredericksburg when half of them was sent to Fredricks Town in Maryland he went under Capt Giles with the other half to Minchester where he was discharged by Capt Giles. that he returned to Bedford County and after living there about thirty [scratched out], twenty [scratched out] five years, moved to Butler County in the State of Kentucky when he has since resided ever since. He further states that for the services above set forth he has never received any compensation and that he has never made application for a pension of any kind, that he is in narrow circumstances and that age and sickness have compeled him to make application for the provision made by Congress. He truly relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the Agency of any state

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid

his 
James x Cook
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Questions by the court

Where and in what year were you born

Answer by Applicant
I was born in York County Pennsylvania and in the year 1762

Que by Court – Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it

Ans by Applicant – I have a record of my age at home

Qu by Court – Where were you living when called into service where have you lived since the revolutionary war, and where do you now live

Ans by Applicant – I lived in Bedford County afterward Campbell Virginia when I entered the service and resided there for about thirty years when I moved to Logan County Kentucky now Butler County Kentucky where I have since resided

Qu by Court – How were you called in to service, were you drafted did you volunteer, or were you a substitute and if a substitute for whom

Ans by Applicant – I volunteered every time I went into the army

Qu by Court – State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served, such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect and the General circumstances of your service

Applicant – I knew Wayne, Lawson, Lynch Leftridge Washington and LaFayette the numbers of the Regiments I cannot recollect I volunteered three times for three months each time, was in the battle of Gilford and the siege of York Town

Qu by Court – Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it

Ans by Applicant. – My first two discharges were verbal and given by Captain Adams at Petersburg and Colonel Lynch in North Carolina. When I left the service at Winchester, I and fifteen others received a written discharge and also a payroll from Capt Giles which was put into the hands of Sergt Oliver Branch the officer who marched us home, when we arrived
home he went to Richmond taking them with him and I have never heard of him since

Qu by Court – State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify to your char

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acter for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution

Applicant – Benjamin McReynolds and Jesse Scofield, Nathaniel Rand, John Hoaratt, Benjamin Porter Colnol Jon Porter
[names scratched off]


I Benjamin McReynolds a clergyman residing in Butler County Kentucky hereby certify that I have known James Cook who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, from my infancy. I was about 4 years of age when he volunteered and lived in Bedford Virginia I knew when he entered the service and when he returned from it. 

Two of my brothers served with him. I also believe him to be seventy years of age to be a man to whom the truest evidence is due and that it is believed in the neighborhood when he [illegible] that he was a soldier of the Revolution.
BMcReynolds EMEC

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid

I Jesse Scofield a resident in the county and state aforesaid do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with James Cook who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that I believe him to be 70 years of age, that he is reputed and [illegible] in the neighborhood where he resides to have him a soldier of the Revolution and that I concur in that opinion
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid  Jesse Scofield

And the said court do hereby declare this opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Benjamin McReynolds who has signed the proceeding certificate is a clergyman of the county and state aforesaid and that I see Scofield who has also signed a certification is a resident in the county and state aforesaid and is a valuable person and that this statement is entitled to credit.
 
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Butler County [illegible] 
James Tayler Masse

[words covered by small paper covering] Morrison clerk of the court of Butler County do hereby certify [words covered] the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the claim
[words covered] ...ent in the matter of the application of James Cook for [words covered] Pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 11th day of December 1832. [words covered]... is the 42nd year of the Commonwealth.

R. Morrison Clerk 
of Butler County Court

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Free
Rhu Johnson 

Col J.L. Edwards
Pension Office
War Dept

Vertical Writing
$30 her & an

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Please examine the case of James Cook sent to me by George Work that we hear from you 

[illegible]
Rhu Johnson
25th Dec 1832