Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 2258-200, Apollos Cooper, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Cooper Apollos
B.L.Wt. 2258-200
CONTENTS

Power Attorney

Know all men by these presents, that we Jacob Cooper and Sarah Dobyns late Sarah Cooper heirs at law of Apollo Cooper deceased do hereby nominate constitute and appoint George Love of the County of Fauquier and State of Virginia our agent and true and lawful attorney in fact, with a power of substitution to demand and receive from the proper Officers in Richmond and Washington, any warrant or warrants that may be due us on account of the Revolutionary Services of Lieutenant Apollo Cooper an Officer in the Virginia line of the Continental Army who was slain in the battle at Brandywine. And our said attorney is fully empowered to surrender said warrant or warrants to the department at Washington and to demand and receive scrip, or Treasury Certificate, for the same, which scrip, Treasury certificates, or warrants we hereby authorize our said attorney to sell, assign or locate as he may think best. And our said attorney is further authorized by these presents, to demand and receive from the proper accounting Officer of the Treasury of the United States, a warrant for the seven years half pay with interest due to the widow and Orphans of the said Lieutenant Apollo Cooper and all other emoluments due to us on account of the aforesaid services of the said Lieutenant Apollo Cooper and to give receipts for the same; and in our name to do all other acts necessary to a complete execution of the premises hereby ratifying and confirming all which our said attorney, or his substitute or substitutes may do by virtue of these presents. And we do hereby revoke all former powers given by us, but this power shall be irrevocable. As to our hands and seals this 14 th day of October 1834.
Jacob Cooper (Seal)
Sarah Dobyns (Seal)
State of Kentucky Mason County, to wit:
We David Bronaugh and Conquest W Owens, Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Mason do hereby certify, that the within named Jacob Cooper and Sarah Dobyns personally appeared before us in our County aforesaid, and acknowledged before us in our County, that they had signed sealed and delivered the annexed letter and deed of Attorney to George Love. Given under our hands and seals this 14 th day of October 1834. —
D Bronaugh (Seal)
State of Kentucky Mason County, to wit:
C. W. Owens (Seal)
I Marshall Key Clerk of the County Court of said County Certify that David Bronaugh and Conquest W Owens Esquires whose signatures

are to the foregoing Certificate and is in their own proper hand writing are justices of the peace acting in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified and that full faith and credit ought to be given to all Official Acts by them done
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County at Washington the 14 th day of October 1834.
Marshall Key
Clerk's Office of Fauquier County Court May 9th 1839
This power of attorney was received in the Office & having been acknowledged before two magistrates, admitted to record.
test Tho s P. Kinoy D.L.
Virginia Fauquier County, to wit
I Alexander J. Marshall, Clerk of the County Court for the said County of Fauquier, in the State of Virginia, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true transcript from the records of the said Court.
In testimony whereof, I hereto subscribe my name and affix the seal of the said Court, this 9th day of May 1839, and in the 63rd year of the Commonwealth.
A. J. Marshall C.C.

Apollos Cooper N. 2258.

State of Kentucky set
At a court held for Mason County on Monday the 13 th day of October 1834, William Reed and James Reed appeared in open court, and proved that Apolloo Cooper late a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War was killed at the Battle of Brandywine; that at the time of his death he left a widow named Mary, and three children to wit; Robert Cooper, Jacob Cooper, and Sarah Cooper; that Robert Cooper died many years ago without any legitimate children, leaving Jacob and Sarah his heirs at law; that Sarah intermarried with James Dobyns, who died in the month of July last; that Jacob Cooper and Sarah Cooper are both living in the State of Kentucky, that Mary the widow of the said Apolloo Cooper intermarried with one William Stoker; that both Stoker and his wife have been dead several years.
Upon motion of the said Jacob Cooper and Sarah Dobyns it is ordered that the above proof be certified to the proper office
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Washington the 14 th day of October 1834
Marshall Key
Office of Rep s United States Washington May 2. 1839.
This is to certify that the foregoing is a true copy of a paper on file in this office, in support of a claim of the heirs of Apolloo Cooper, on the government of the United States, and now pending in Congress
S. M. Echols Ch. Clk. Off. St. Rep s

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section B.L.Wt.2258-200 MCS/eel
June 8, 1929
Miss Olo V. Cooper Emmett Idaho
Madam:
I advise you that from the Revolutionary War records of this bureau it appears that Apollos Cooper served in the Revolution as a lieutenant of the Virginia line, and was killed September 11, 1777, in the battle of Brandywine.
He left a widow, Mary, who subsequently married William Stoker; also the following children: Robert, Jacob, and Sarah, who married James Dobyns, and he died in July, 1834.
Mary and William Stoker died several years prior to 1834.
In October, 1834, Jacob Cooper and Sarah Dobyns were residing in Kentucky, and were the sole surviving heirs of Apollos Cooper, Robert having been dead many years, date of death not given.
Warrant No. 2258 for two hundred acres of bounty land was issued May 30, 1839, to the above mentioned Jacob

Cooper and Sarah Dobyns on account of the Revolutionary War service of their father, Apollos Cooper.
The War of 1812 records of this bureau fail to afford any information in regard to pension having been claimed or bounty land having been granted on account of the services of an Apollos Cooper.
Respectfully,
EARL D.CHURCH Commissioner.

Coeur d'Alene - Idaho
January 14 th 1928
Chief of Pension and War Bureau Washington D.C.
Dear Sir -
We are writing you for Revolutionary War Record of Apollon Cooper, our great, great grand father, who lived in Loudoun County, Virginia, in the Potomac valley, previous to the Revolution.
Apollon Cooper, served as a second lieutenant and as a lieutenant in Captain Charles West's Company, known also as Reuben Briscoe's Company, Third Virginia Regiment, commanded by Colonel Thomas Marshall, Revolutionary War. Commissioned Second lieutenant February 19, 1776, promoted lieutenant (presumably first lieutenant) August 7, 1776, and was killed September 11 th 1776 or 1777 -
We have heard some of our ancestors were killed in battle of Brandywine. This might have been our great, great grand father

We are not sure about our great grandfather's name but think too, it was Apollon Cooper. For the reason that our great, great grandfather's name was Apollon and our grandfather (who? We remember so well) was also Apollon Cooper so look too, for war records (if there might be any) of my great grandfather Apollon Cooper.
And Oblige
Yours truly
Miss Ole V. Cooper
Mrs Mayme Cooper. Randall

Greencastle, Ind. May 1906
To the Chief Clerk, Old War and Navy Division , U.S. Pension Office, Washington D.C. Dear Sir:
Will you kindly inform me, at your earliest convenience, whether there is any record in your Official Archives of a Pension being granted to the widow or heirs of Apolos Cooper, 2nd Lieut. 3d Virginia , Continental Army, who was killed at the Battle of Brandywine, September II . 1777. He enlisted at Loudoun County, Va.
I will be greatly obliged for a copy of the record or any information you may be able to give me, one of his direct descendants,
Very respectfully yours, Cooper
Alice Pauline Dobell " Mrs. Alice Dobell "

O. W. AND N. DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
May 15, 1906.
Searched by Mill
Original No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant, _____
Soldier, Apollos Cooper
Service, 2 nd Lt. 3 rd Va.
Rev. War.
Remarks: _____
No V. W. Wid.
No V. W. Rej.

1906 May 18. History to Mrs. Alice Odell - & 1929 June 8. Hist. to Miss Olo B. Cooper, N.Y.C.
Apollos Cooper No 2258
Revolutionary War

The records of the Virginia Continental line on file in the Office of the Third Auditor furnish evidence that Lieut. Apollos Cooper was killed in the battle at Brandywine on the 11 th Septem r . 1777.
W.G.

COPY.
L.M.H.
May 18, 1906.
Mrs. Alice Dobell, Greencastle, Indiana.
Madam:-
In reply to your letter without date, received on the 14th instant, you are advised that from papers on file in this Bureau it appears that Apollos Cooper, served in the Revolutionary War as a Lieutenant of the Virginia Line on the Continental Establishment, and was killed in the battle of Brandywine, September 11, 1777.
He left a widow, Mary, who subsequently married William Stoker; also three children, Robert, Jacob and Sarah Cooper.
In October 1834, Jacob Cooper and Sarah, widow of James Dobyns, resided in the state of Kentucky and were the sole surviving heirs of Apollos Cooper.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.