Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt-92-500, John Brooks, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Brooks, John
P.L. Wt. 92-500-Lt. Col. Com- mandant.
Issued Mar. 14, 1796
No papers.
CONTENTS

September 25, 1936
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Ruby Cogley 736 Denver Street Waterloo, Iowa
Am JOHN BROOKS B.L. Wt. 92-500 BA-J/MLB
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Brigadier-General John Brooks, who served from the State of Massachusetts.
The records of this office show that Warrant No. 92, for five hundred acres of bounty land, was issued March 14, 1796, on account of the services of John Brooks, Lieutenant Colonel Commandant, Massachusetts line, War of the Revolution.
There are no further data on file as to his services and no data whatever as to his family, or his age, because of the destruction of papers in such early bounty land claims when the War Office was burned in November, 1800.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

February 28, 1934
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Mrs. C.J.Wilde Box 570 Corpus Christi, Texas
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the records of Wade Hampton and of John Brooks, soldiers of the Revolutionary War: the former a captain in the South Carolina Troops, the latter a major or colonel who served under General Israel Putnam.
You are furnished herewith the histories of Wade Hampton(W.10078) and of John Brooks, Bounty Land Warrant No.92-500.
No charge is made for this service.
Very truly yours
A. D. MILLER Assistant to Administrator.

February 28, 1934
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Mrs. C.J.Wilde Box 670 Corpus Christi, Texas
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BA-j/1007/81 John Brooks B.L.Wt.#93-500
Dear Madam:
It appears from the  The records of this office show that Warrant Number 93 for five hundred acres of bounty land was issued March 14, 1796, on account of the services of John Brooks, lieutenant colonel commandant, War of the Revolution.
There are no further data on file as to his services and no data whatever as to his family or his age, due to the destruction of papers in such bounty land claims when the War Office was burned in November, 1800.
Mass. line
early
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Assistant to Administrator.
See letter in case Wade Hampton, W 10078

Rev.&1812 Wars Section.
MS.A.9.2.23
COPIED BY ADY
June 19, 1928.
S. E. Morison, Harvard College Library 418, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Sir:
I advise you that from the records of this bureau it appears that Warrant Number 92 for five hundred acres of bounty land was issued March 14, 1796 on account of the services of John Brooks, Lieutenant Colonel Commandant, War of the Revolution.
There are no further data on file as to his services and no data whatever as to his age or his family, due to the destruction of papers in such bounty land claims when the War Office was burned in November 1800.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT, Commissioner.

Waterloo, Iowa 736 Denver St. Sept. 2nd, 36
Veterans Administration, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sirs, Would it be possible for you to furnish me with any information about Brigadier-General John Brooks , where who served from the State of Mass. during the war of the Revolution.
Thanking you kindly,
I am,
Ruby Bagley

from S. E. MORISON Professor of History
Harvard College Library, 416 Cambridge, Massachusetts
March 29th 1 9 2 8
Bureau of Pensions Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen,
I should be very grateful if you could help me to clear up an historical point -- the date of the birth of General John Brooks of Massachusetts, born some time in May, 1752, and died March 1st, 1825. I am writing his biography for the Dictionary of American Biography, and find a great discrepancy between different authorities as to the exact date of his birth, tho' all give it sometime in May, 1752. If he ever applied for, or received a pension, I suppose that he would have been required to state the date of his birth. If you find any such statement in your records, in such a form that it would seem to have come from the General himself, and not taken over from a newspaper or other obituary, I should be very grateful if you would communicate it to me.
Sincerely yours,
S. E. Morison

Mass.
Brooks John
B. I. W. 92-500 Lt-Col. commandant Issued Mar. 14, 1796. No papers.