Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17,642, Nathaniel Cook, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Cook, Nathaniel Anise
N. 17,642
CONTENTS

Corrine Elizabeth 967
Anise Cook
widow of Nathaniel Cook decd.
Conn
who died on the 18 October 1816
of Hartford in the State of Ct
who was a Corporal in the Company commanded
by Captain Starr Brown of the Regt. commanded
by Col. Stan in the Det.
time for 13 mos & 22 days Asst.
10 " " 18 " Sgt
2
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 10 1/2 Dollars 67 1/2 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7th day of June 1837 and sent Dennis Cook Springfield Mass.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1837 $610.02 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept " 50.83
$660.85
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 d }
Recorded by N.H. Addison Clerk, Book 4 Vol. 1 Page 76

State of Connecticut Hartford County ss
On this Seventeenth day of March in the year of our Lord one Thousand eight hundred and thirty seven personally appeared before the subscriber Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Hartford in said County of Hartford and State of Connecticut Annie Cook a Resident of Wethersfield in said County of Hartford and State of Connecticut aged Seventy nine 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 fourth eighteen hundred thirty six.
That she is the Widow of Nathaniel Cook who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and who served in all the term of three years and from five to eight Months, two of which time and service he was a corporal and the remainder of it a sergeant. He commenced his service early in the year of Seventeen hundred seventy seven and served at different times and places untill some time in the year seventeen hundred eighty. He enlisted in the first Regiment of the Connecticut line, under the command of Colonel Josiah Starr He was at the battle of Monmouth and in several other engagements during the term of his service. In the first part of the year seventeen hundred eighty he returned and on the seventh day of December of that year he was married. In the year seventeen hundred eighty one he again returned into the service and remained untill some time in the year seventeen hundred eighty two. This last term of service was performed by him after his marriage and after his first child was born. He was in repeated engagements endured many severe hardships and privations during the different periods of his service for his country, but the places where these engagements occurred and the time of their occurrence are not now distinctly recollected.

And the said Annie further declares that she was married to the said Nathaniel Cook at Chatham, Parish of Middle Waddsworth in the County of Middlesex and State of Connecticut on the seventh day of December in the year Seventeen hundred eighty by Rev. Benjamin Boardman that her husband the aforesaid Nathaniel Cook at Waddsworth in said County of Middlesex died on the eighteenth day of October in the year Eighteen hundred Sixteen; and that she has remained a Widow and unmarried ever since that period, all which will more fully appear by the several depositions and proofs hereunto annexed.
Annie Cook
Sworn to and Subscribed this Seventeenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven
Before me Thos. H. Seymour Judge And said Court doth further declare after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the customary interrogatories that in the opinion of said Court the said Annie Cook is the surviving Widow of Nathaniel Cook who was a soldier in the army of the Revolution; that said Nathaniel Cook served for a term of three years and from five to eight months, but that no further evidence except what is contained in the above declaration can now be procured respecting the last term of service alledged to have been performed by said Nathaniel Cook or after his marriage and after his first child was born; that said Annie was married to the said Nathaniel at Chatham, in the parish of Middle Waddsworth in the County of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, that said Nathaniel Cook is deceased, and that she still remains his Widow and has never again married, and further that said Nathaniel died on the eighteenth day of October in the year eighteen hun-

dred sixteen at said Haddam in said County of Middlesex.
I Thos. N. Seymour Judge of Probate for the District of Hartford in said County of Hartford and State of Connecticut holding Court at Northfield in said district, hereby certify that the above and foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of the Widow Eunice Cook for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Office this seventeenth day of March, 1837.
Thos. N. Seymour Judge of Probate.
ban d , Office of the Secretary of State March 17 th 1837-
at the date above I affixed
the seal of this State
Ray & H. H. H. Secretary

I hereby Certify that I find upon the Church Book kept by the Rev. Benjamin Boardman one of my predecessors a record to the following effect viz. That Nathaniel Cook and Amie Sears were joined in Marriage by him on the 7 th of December 1780.
S. A. Loper Pastor of the Cong. Church Middle Haddam.
Middle Haddam February 21. 1837
State of Connecticut } S. S. Chatham County of Middlesex }
On this 21 st day of February 1837 Personally appeared S. A. Loper & made oath to the truth of the foregoing Certificate — And I hereby certify that he is a person known to me, and is a credible witness to the truth of the facts

I Hannah Brainard of Ludlow in the County of Hampden and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of the age of 79 years do depose and say that I lived in the town of Haddam in the state of Connecticut in the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty and in the Month of December of that year I was present at the Marriage of my Brother Nathaniel Cook at Chatham and That he had been a soldier or Sargeant in the Continental Army for the term of three years before his Marriage. In the Summer or fall of the year 1781 I went to live in his family for a short time at Chatham and nursed his wife with her first child. Soon after this my Brother left home and went again into the Army and continued in the service according to my best recollection untill the Spring or Summer of the year 1782 But at what place he was Stationed, or who his officers were I do not recollect - I also testify and say that Annie Cook has remained the widow of my Brother Nathaniel Cook from the time of his decease up to the present time -
Hannah Brainard
Hampden Feb February 27 1837
Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace within and for the County Hannah Brainard the Deponent above named and subscribed and made oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition. And I do certify That the said Hannah Brainard is well known to me as a person of truth and Veracity
William Rice Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Haddam ss.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampden ss. I John Ingersoll Clerk of the Common Pleas Court being a Court of Record within & for the County of Hampden do hereby certify that William Priest Esq. before whom the within Deposition was verified is a justice of the Peace in & for said County and that full faith & credit ought to be given to all acts done by him in said capacity that his name thereto subscribed is his true & genuine hand writing -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court at Springfield on this 27 th day of February 1837
John Ingersoll Clerk

May 11, 1931
Mr. R. M. Roosevelt 1707 Graybar Building New York, New York
Rev.& 1812 Wars Section MMHF:MLB
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter of April 16, in regard to securing information pertaining to one or more Revolutionary War soldiers named Nathaniel Cook, of Connecticut.
The Revolutionary War records of this bureau show that one Nathaniel Cook (W. 17642), of Chatham, Connecticut, served in that war; that he married Anise Sears in 1780, and that he died October 8, 1816, in Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut. There is no record of an application for pension made by that soldier, but his widow, Anise, received a pension.
Photostatic copies of the papers in her claim for pension will be furnished at the rate of 15¢ a page. The number of pages to be copied is fifteen. If you desire to have them certified, allow 25¢ additional for the set.
The proper amount should be forwarded to this bureau by money order drawn to the order of The Acting Commissioner of Pensions.
In the American state papers on a list of applications for invalid pension, returned by the district court for the District of Pennsylvania, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on April 25, 1794, class 9, page 102, appears the name of another Nathaniel Cook, and he is cited as follows:
Rank: Sergeant Regt.: Colonel Bradley's Disability: Wounded by a musket or rifle ball through the

back part of the arm, near the shoulder, wounding the muscles, and entering his side, which has produced a disability so as to render him incapable of performing more than five-sixths of the labor he otherwise could have done.
When and where disabled: August, Chemung
Residence: Luzerne
To what pension entitled: One-sixth
Remarks: Enlisted January 1, 1777; discharged January 11, 1780.
Evidence transmitted by the District Court complete.
There are no papers on file in this bureau in his claim for pension.
This bureau has no record of any other soldier by that name, of Connecticut.
Very truly yours
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner

1931-May 11- R.M. Roosevelt ad. cost of photos & furnished records Nathaniel Cook- Com. Rev. Service-ability-fee.
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 17642
Anise Cook
Widow of Nathaniel Cook
Sergt. Rev. War
Act: July 4 th 1936
Index:—Vol. 24 , Page 130
[Arrangement of 1870.]

April 16, 1931
Veterans Administration Bureau of Pensions Washington, D. C.
Attention: Mr. E. W. Morgan, Acting Commissioner
re: Nathaniel Cook - Revolutionary Service
Dear Sirs:
For the purpose of genealogical records I am trying to secure information on my ancestor, NATHANIEL COOK, born in Southington, Conn., September 25, 1735 (or 1725), died in Southington, Conn. November 27, 1833, married to Martha Scott on March 8, 1754. He served in the Revolutionary forces from the State of Conn. I understand Nathaniel Cook's application for Pension is on file in the Pension Office at Washington, and I would like to know if you will send me a certified copy of this application. If there is a charge for same, kindly let me know the amount.
I would greatly appreciate receiving any other information you have on hand concerning Nathaniel Cook. In the information I have been able to secure thus far, it seems that there are two Nathaniel Cooks, but I believe this is an error. With the facts I have on hand at present, however, I am unable to definitely prove there was only one Nathaniel Cook from Southington, Conn., (or Farmington, Conn.), in the Revolutionary War.
Anything you can do to help me straighten out the above will be very much appreciated. Trusting I may hear from you soon, I am
Very truly yours,
R. M. Roosevelt 1707 Graybar Bldg. New York City
rmr:ej
PS: If you have records or information concerning more than one NATHANIEL COOK from Connecticut, and would send me copies of same, I believe I could compare dates and facts and clear up the matter myself.
R.M.R.

Springfield Ms Mar 22 d 1837 Mr S. L. Edwards Sir
Enclosed are the declaration & deposition of B of the Widow Annice Cook.
She is in necessitous circumstances, and if the testimony she furnishes will warrant a petition, it will very much relieve her & her friends to receive it as soon as the convenience of the Department will allow. If the evidence is not sufficient, or is defective, the Department will very much oblige the subscriber by pointing out wherein defective & insufficient, that it may be corrected or supplied.
Very Respectfully Your Ob. Servt. Dennis Cook
Please send the certificate to my address.

1628
Anise Cook widow of Nathaniel Conn.
original no deduction
adm?
13 mo. 22 ds Corp.
10. " 8 " Serv t
24 mo.
Dennis Cook Esq Springfield Mass.
was stationed at some place in the name of Newbury

State of Connecticut Office of the Secretary of State February 23 rd 1837
I hereby certify that Noah Brooks and Lucius Brewster Esq s are Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Middlesex and that George Merrick Esq s is a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Hartford and have acted as such more than six months last past, which several appointments appear upon the records in this Office -
And I further certify that the signa- tures of the Brooks, Brewster and Merrick signed to the Depositions hereto annexed are genuine -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of this State and signed the same at the date above
Royal A. Kimball Secretary of State
... am impressed with the idea that he was stationed at some town of the name of Roxbury

I Jeremiah Stocking of the Town of Glastonbury in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut, being of the Age of Sixty Nine Years, and of sound Memory Depose and Say, That I was Intimately Acquainted With Nathaniel Cook a Revolutionary Soldier a Native of the Town of Haddam in the State of Connecticut and that the said Cook was one of the Three Years Men (so called) of the Continental Army, and Served the full Term of Three Years, and I Believe returned home in the Year A D 1780 - Also that Between the time he returned from the Army, and the Month of October in the Year A D 1781 he Married Anice Sears Daughter of Hezekiah Sears (with whom he served an Apprenticeship to the Shoemaking Business previous to his Enlisting into the Army) - In the year A D 1781 in the Month of October I was put an Apprentice to the said Sears, Their Father in Law to the said Cook, Mr Cooks wife then lived in her Fathers Family - but Mr Cook was Absent I Believe on a Tour of Military Duty, but at what point he was Stationed I do not Recollect, nor who were his Officers - I Believe he returned home from this Tour of Duty in the Spring of 1782 and worked in the same Shop with me until he removed his Family to his Native Town of Haddam where he lived until his Death which took place a short time before the present Pension Law came into Operation - When he Returned from his last Tour of Duty he had made Great Improvement in the Art of Shoemaking which he said he obtained of an Englishman with whom he occasionally worked He also brought with him an English Shoe knife which Always went by the name of the Roxbury Knife - from this Circumstance I am Impressed with the Idea that he was Stationed at some Town of the name of Roxbury

And further More Having been acquainted with Mrs Cook Since the death of her Husband, Death I know the fact That she hath remained his widow up to this time - And further the Defendant saith not.
Jeremiah Stocking
State of Connecticut County of Hartford ss
ss Glassbury
On this 20 th day of February 1837 Personally appeared Jeremiah Stocking signer of the foregoing affidavit and made oath to the truth of the same before me - and I hereby certify that he is personally known to me and is a credible witness.
George Merrick justice of Peace Hartford County 3

Comptrollers Office Hartford Ct Feb. 23 d 1837
On application for evidence of the service of Nathaniel Cook, I have examined the Books & papers remaining in this Office relating to the Revolutionary War, & find & certify as follows; Viz:—
“Connecticut Line Vol 1 st . Settlement with the 1 st Connecticut Regt Josiah Starr Col o , before Jan. 1 st 1780— Nathaniel Cook Col o from 8 th April 1777 to May 31 st 1779, 2 years, 1 month, 22 days. Nathaniel Cook Sergt from June 1 st 1779 to Jan. 1 st 1780; 7 months. Nathaniel Cook Sergt from Jan. 1 st 1780 to April 8 th 1780, 3 months & 8 days”—
In absence of the Comptroller, certified By Noyes H. Kimball Secretary of State

Comptrollers Office Hartford Connecticut March 16th 1837
I certify that no further evidence appears on the Books in this office of the revolutionary services of Nathaniel Cook than that which is herein certified to by R R Heiman Secretary of State Wm Field Comptroller.

I Seymour Hurlbut of the town of Chatham in the county of Middlesex in the State of Connecticut of the age of eighty years do testify and say that I was personally acquainted with Nathaniel Cook of Chatham and that I married his sister Deborah Cook and that the said Cook was one of the three years men (so called) of the continental army and served the full term of three years and returned home in the year 1780 and that he was married to Annie Sears in the fall of 1780 and in the year 1781 he was out on a tour of military duty but at what place I do not recollect nor who his officers were nor how long he did stay, some time afterward he moved to Haddam and lived until he died which was in the year 1818 and furthermore do know that the said Annie has remained his widow up to this Date Seymour Hurlbut
State of Connecticut County of Middlesex town of Chatham. On this 22 nd Day of February 1837 Personally appeared Seymour Hurlbut signer of the foregoing deposition and made oath to the truth of the same Before me and I hereby certify that he is personally known to me and is a credible witness
Levi Bruns justice of the Peace Middlesex County

I Deborah Hurlbut of the town of Chatham in the county of Middlesex in state of Connecticut am sister of the age of eighty two years and that I am sister to Nathaniel Cook James of Chatham in the state of Connecticut I do testify and say that the said Cook was one of the three years men (so call) of the continental army and that he served the full time of three years and returned home in the year 1740 and that he was married to Annie Lewis in the fall 1760 and in the year 1774 he was out on a tour of military duty but at what place I do not recollect nor who his officers were nor how long he did stay every time afterwards he moved to Haddam and lived there until he died which was in the year 1828 and furthermore do know that the said Annie has remained his widow up to this Date.
Deborah her X Hurlbut Mark
State of Connecticut County of Middlesex town Chatham ss
On this 22 nd day February 1837 Personally appeared Deborah Hurlbut signer of the foregoing deposition and made oath to the truth of the same Before me and I hereby certify that she is personally known to me and is a credible witness
Luci Bunn justice of the Peace Middlesex County