Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22,682, Enos Cooke, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Cooke Enos Cook or
S 22,682
CONTENTS

11-117 — Pennsylvania
Enos Cook
of Lehigh Co in the State of Pennsylvania who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Samuel of the Regt commanded by Col Porter in the Pennsylvania line for
14 Mo. Dr — $ 46.68
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 48 Dollars 68 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th day of March 1833 and sent Edward Mott - Milford Pa
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 — 93.32 Semi-ann. allowance ending 1 st Sept 1833 — 23.33
$ 116.65
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by John L. Sprague Clerk, Book C Vol. 8 Page 9
(order to pay) See letter to P. Agt. Dec. 10. 1835 " Jas. Copehart & Order on Phil a Agent to pay - Aug t 10, 1837.

State of Pennsylvania Pike County ss 3/5.
On this twentieth day of November A.D. 1832 in open Court before the honorable John Coolbaugh and Daniel W. Dingman Esquires Associate judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Pike now sitting appeared Enos Cook a resident of Delaware Township in the said County now in the seventy third year of his age who being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 - That according to the information he received from his parents he was born in the town of South Hadley, County of Hampshire, State of Massachusetts, on the first day of January A.D. 1760, at which place he lived with his parents, till he attained the age of twenty one - That since that period he has resided in several places - That about twenty four years since he moved into Pike County (formerly Wayne) where he has since resided that in May seventeen hundred and seventy five he entered the service of the State troops of Massachusetts as a private - in the Company commanded by Captain Leonard, Lieutenants Smith and Gould - the regiment was commanded by Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge and Lieutenant Colonel Brown and Major Stacy, that he joined the army at Cambridge plain four miles from Boston - several other regiments of New England troops lay there at the same time under the command as he thinks of General Ward till the arrival of General Washington, some time in July who then took the command. Shortly after the arrival of General Washington, deponent thinks two regiments of rifle men from the States of Pennsylvania & Virginia joined them - Boston was at that time in possession of the British - that he served in the said regiment eight months viz from the 5th May 1775 till the 5th of January A.D. 1776 when he received his discharge signed by General Washington - and he says that he has lost his discharge, and has not seen it for upwards of twenty five years - That about the beginning of April A.D. seventeen hundred and seventy seven he entered as a volunteer in a company of Militia commanded by Captain Parker, Lieutenants Cook and Warner, attached to a regiment commanded by Colonel Leonard Lieutenant Colonel Hale (this was at Hadley, County of Hampshire, Massachusetts) in the month of April, the Regiment marched by the way of Albany, for Ticonderoga, that they arrived at Ticonderoga in the Month of May, that on their arrival they were stationed on the East side of the Lake, at a place called

Mount called, Independence about one mile from Ticonderoga. That there was a regiment of New Hampshire Militia also lay at Mount Independence commanded by Commandant Pond. There were two regiments laying at Ticonderoga one commanded by Colonel Marshall, the other by Colonel Seammell. The whole under the command of General St. Clair - that he was employed the deponent says while he lay at Mount Independence, in boating timber for a bridge, on the fortification, and occasionally on the out-ports - That while they lay there, General Burgoyne came up the lake with his fleet. landed his troops the back of Ticonderoga, and took possession of Mount-Independence - That on or about the fourth of July they were ordered to retreat in the night that the second morning after their retreat - their rear was attacked by a party of British infantry, they kept on the retreat for four or five days, when we were verbally discharged by General St. Clair - that he then returned to Hadley, suffering every privation - after an absence of three Months and a half - He further says that same time in the middle of the following August he again volunteered at Hadley in a Company of Militia commanded by Captain Moses Kellogg, Lieutenants Warner and Nickerson - in the regi- ment commanded by Colonel Elisha Porter - that he marched with the regiment to Stillwater to join General Gates - we reached his army about the beginning of September - that they lay adjacent to a brigade, commanded by Brigadier General Nyon - and to a brigade commanded by Brigadier General Patterson - Colonel Morgan's regiment of rifle men - and a brigade com- manded by General Glover were also there - That after the engagement between the armies of General Gates, and General Burgoyne, and the retreat of General Burgoyne - they were ordered to recross the Hudson river, and to march up the East side and take possession of Fort Edward - which they accordingly did - they continued there about as he thinks about three weeks that after the capitulation of General Burgoyne they re-crossed the river marched down the West side, to the former encampment of General Burgoyne and arrived there at the time that his army were parading their arms, and surrendering their army to General Gates shortly after he returned to Hadley after an absence of about two Months and a half - at that time he received no discharge, but was barely dismissed, together with the rest of the regiment by the Colonel. He further says that he has no documentary evidence, and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services. And he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension

annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension rolls of the agency of any State and he further saith that all those persons by whom he might have hired his service in the revolutionary war, are dead, or beyond his control - Sworn and subscribed in open Court this 20th. day of November A.D. 1832. Enos Cooke
De Seaman Prob y
Pennsylvania Pike County 3/3:
WE Jakez Rockwell, Edward Elliott, and Richard Edwards all residents of the town of Milford in the said County of Pike do certify that we have been well acquainted with Enos Cooke, who has sworn and subscribed to the above and foregoing deposition for these twenty years past, that during the whole of that period he has conducted himself as, and has borne the character of a man of honesty and veracity, and that we have frequently heard him converse on the subject of his Revolutionary Services, and from our long acquaintance with him, and our confidence in his veracity, we believe him, as is generally reported and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier in the Revolution - and that he is in the seventy third year of his age.
Jakez Rockwell Richard Edwards
Sworn and subscribed in Open Court this 20th day of November 1832
Edward Elliott.
De Seaman Prob y
And now November the twentieth A.D. Eighteen hundred and thirty two Enos Cooke the applicant aforesaid being sworn in open Court saith that there is no Clergyman in the neighbourhood of his present place of residence with whom he is acquainted or has any acquaintance of the deponent Sworn & subscribed in open Court this 20th November 1832. Enos Cooke
Sworn & subscribed in open Court this 20. November 1832
De Seaman Prob y

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department that the foregoing named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that the Clergyman now resident in the town Milford, the County town of the County of Pike - has resided but a short time in the said town and has as the Court is informed no acquaintance with the foregoing applicant - and that Isaac Rockwell, Richard Eldred and Edward Elliott are residents in the said town of Milford and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to Credit.
John Leob D r W m Dinan
Charles B. Seaman Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Pike and State of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that the above and foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Enos Cook for a petition.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this twentyth day of November A d 1832
Seaman CLK

19222 Enos Cook
Adm o Hands Private J 46.66
Edu a Mattpa Milford, Pike Co.

BRIEF in the case of  Enos Cook Delaware  County of Pike  in the State of  Pennsylvania  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 73 years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days As a Genl.     In 1775 8 Private Cap Leonard, Col: Woodbridge   1777 3 15 " " Parker. " Leonard   " 2 15 " " Kellogg, " Porter  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Hampshire County, Mass  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? none  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? correct 
X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
A. B. Houston Examining Clerk.

Revolution
22682 INVALID.
File No. 22,682
Emos Cook
Pre Rev War
Act: June 7 1897
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 78
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Free
Jas L Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions D o 6
(Inverness)
Gros Cook Palm

Philadelphia August 7 th 1837
Dear Sir
I have just been to the Pension office The agent says - he can't pay the Enclosed pension for the following Reasons
1 No payments made on any Pension after expiration of 90 days after the date of Pension
2 Commission of pensions must first examine the Vouchers and give Agent an order to pay - agreeably to 3 rd article of Circular of 29 Sept 1836
The above is what the agent directed me to say was the objections.
I am a stranger here and will be here only for a few days - the agent says that I will receive an answer in 2 or 3 days. I will wait 3 or 4 days -
Please have the Enclosed Examined and Send me an answer Immediately
Respectfully yours James Capehart

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