Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 15829, Samuel Cook, Conn. Continental

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Conn. continental
book, Samuel Mary
W 15829
CONTENTS

3384.
New York  Hampshire Roll
✓ Samuel Cook. 4
Private - 1st Horse Master
Connecticut line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York — at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 th of October 1818 and sent to Samuel A. Wicker Ticonderoga.
Arrears to 4th of Sept: 1818. $: 37.86 Semi-ann. all'ee ending 4. March, 48 -
4 mo. \frac{22}{30} 1819. } $: 85.86 Wyllis
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
November 76 title the close of the war (1783)
✓ Hague Eliza
See letter 12 Sept: 1828 to Sec. of War.

Reported
Increase. A New York. M 24
Mary Cook dec?
widow of Samuel Cook who died on the 19th January 1819 of Warren Co in the State of N.Y. who was a Supt of Foreign Trade Comp y commanded by Captain Warren of the Reg t commanded by Col. Willis in the New York line for 1 mo & 7 days 22 " " 23 "
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 575 Dollars 26 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14 th day of March, 1831 & end 3 April 1843 when she died
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 th day of May 1837 and sent to Hon. Geo. Briggs N.Y.
Pension paid from $309.72 Semi-annual allowance ending Payable to Wm Cook Adm r Executor, for sole use of surviving children Wm Cook & Warner Cook
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the
Recorded by Book ② Vol. 2 Page 356 Clerk
105

Samuel Cook 13 April
Correct
** refers to the Clerks Certificate

State of New York
Efsex County ss
On this 13th day of April in the year of our Lord 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the court of Common Pleas of the County of Efsex personally appears Samuel Cook aged sixty one years resident in the town of Plague in the State of New York who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war:" That he the Samuel Cook enlisted in the United States service on the continental establishment in the month of November 1775 for the term of one year at Hartford Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain Ebenezer Sumner & the Regiment commanded by Colonel Willey of the Connecticut line continued to serve in said corps as in the service of the United States until the month of November 1776 when he was discharged from service at Red's Hill on the Hudson River
That he then immediately enlisted again into the company commanded by Captain Robert Warner of the same Regiment & line, for and during the Revolutionary war with Great Britain & continued to serve in said Corps or in the service of the United States until the year 1781 - that he was then transferred into the Quarter Master's Department and acted as Storage Master of the first Connecticut Brigade & continued to serve in said service of the United States until the twenty-third day of April in the year of our Lord 1783 was then discharged from said service by Colonel Timothy Pickering Quarter Master General of the United States at Red's Hill in the State of New York & that he is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services (and hereby relinquishes his claim to every pension heretofore allowed him by the laws of the United States)
Sworn to & declared before me Samuel Cook the day & year aforesaid
Ebenezer Douglass one of the Judges of Efsex County Common Pleas as aforesaid

State of New York } On the 29 day of April A.D. 1837 Warren County } Personally appeared before me Stephen Patterson of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Warren aforesaid, Mary Cook, a resident of Haines in the County of Warren and State of New York, aged Seventy three years and upwards, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836, that she is the widow of Samuel Cook who was a Soldier in the army of the Revolution, and did the duty of a Foreign Master, and was doing the duty of a Foreign Master in the Town of Newfield in the State of Connecticut, at the time of her marriage with the said Samuel Cook, and that she the said Mary Cook has not now recited the time of the said Samuel Cook's enlistment within the Regiment to which he belonged nor the officers under whom he served, but that he the said Samuel Cook was a Soldier in the Army of the Revolution and did the duty of a Foreign Master both before and after her marriage with him the said Samuel Cook until the close of the Revolutionary War, and she further declares that in consequence of his services as a Soldier of the Revolution as aforesaid, he the said Samuel Cook was allowed a pension under the Act of Congress of 1818, which services of the said Samuel Cook as a Soldier as aforesaid will more fully and particularly appear by his declaration and evidence of his services now remaining in the War Office at Washington, and she further declares that her name before her marriage with the said Samuel

Cook was Mary Wright and that she was married to the said Samuel Cook May at Fairfield in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut in the month of May A.D. 1781, The day of the month of her marriage she was not now in existence, - and she further declares, that her eldest son William Cook now living at Haver in the State of New York was born at New Fairfield aforesaid on the 3 rd day of February A.D. 1782, and during the time of the said Samuel Cook her said husband as a of the said Samuel Cook her said husband as a Bordin as aforesaid, and that she the said Mary Cook and Samuel Cook raised a family of nine children that they resided at New Fairfield aforesaid after their said marriage as aforesaid, three or four years, and from thence they moved to Haver in the State of New York, and from thence to Haver aforesaid, where she the said Mary Cook now resides, and has resided upwards of forty years last past, that her husband the aforesaid Samuel Cook died on the 19 th day of January A.D. 1819, at Haver aforesaid, and that she has remained a widow ever since that time, as will more fully appear by reference to the next hereto annexed I was and subscribed on the day and year above written Mary Cook before me Stephen Pratt Judge of Warren County Common Pleas
State of New York } I Stephen Pratt Judge of Warren Warren County } County Common Pleas do hereby certify that the above named Mary Cook the Applicant from her adverse age and bodily infirmity cannot attend Court. Stephen Pratt Judge of Warren County Common Pleas

State of New York } County of Warren } ff
On this second day of May eighteen hundred and fifty before the subscriber, a justice of the Peace in and for said county, personally appeared William Cook and made oath in due form of law that he is Executor of the estate of the late Mary Cook of the town of Hague in said county, deceased, — that she was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of $309. and some cents per annum — that she was the widow of Samuel Cook, — that she died on the third day of April eighteen hundred and forty three, — that the deponent, William Cook of Hague in  said  said county, Second  and  in  said  the  the town of Hague are the only children of the said Mary Cook now living. — That he, as Executor aforesaid, asks for on back pay any increase of pension, that may be found due in the case of the aforesaid Mary

book, widow of Samuel Cook for the services of her husband as Forage Master in the Revolutionary War, William Cook
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year first above written, the words of "Hague in said county" and "Piscataway in said state" having been first interlined also the words on back page,
Joseph Eastman justice of the peace
State of New Jersey Warren County
I, Marcus Melchior Clah of the Superior Court, Asbury Calif. the Joseph Eastman before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been sworn to on the day of the date of the same are of the Justice of the peace in and for said County and that I am now acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and only believe his name subscribed to the above affidavit to be proper hand writing and signature
In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court this 8th day of May 1850
Marcus Melchior Clah

The People of the State of New York, To all to whom these presents shall come, or may concern send Greeting;—
Know Ye that at the Town of Queensbury in the County of Warren on the sixteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty four before Orange Ferris Surrogate of the said County, the last will and testament of Mary Cook late of the said County deceased (a copy whereof is hereto annexed) was proved, and is now approved and allowed of by us; and the said deceased having whilst living, and at the time of her death, goods chattels and credits within this State, by means whereof, the proving and registering said will, and granting administration of all and singular the said goods chattels and credits; and also the auditing allowing and finally discharging the account thereof, doth belong to us; the administration of all and singular the goods chattels and credits of the said deceased and any way concerning her will is granted unto William Cook sole executor in said will named he having first taken and subscribed an oath before the said Surrogate faithfully and honestly to discharge the duties of such executor: Hereby requiring you the said William Cook to make or cause to be made a true and perfect inventory, of all and singular the goods chattels and credits of the said deceased which have or shall come to your hands possession or knowledge as also to make or cause to be made duplicates of such inventory and cause the same to be signed by the appraisers and the same so made and signed, that you make return thereof to the Surrogate of the said County within three months from the date hereof.
In testimony whereof, We have caused the seal of office of our said Surrogate to be hereunto affixed. Witness Orange Ferris Esquire Surrogate of the said County at Queensbury in said County the sixteenth day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty four
Orange Ferris Surrogate

Ques
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
W.F. 15829
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Samuel Cook a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Nov. 1775 Nov. 1776 Pvt. Benjamin Sumner Wyly Conn.   Nov. 1776 1781 Robert Warner in same regt.   1781 Apr. 23. 1783 Forage Master of the 1st Connecticut Brigade  
Battles engaged in, none stated Residence of soldier at enlistment, New Fairfield, Conn. Date of application for pension, Apr. 13. 1818. His cl. was also Residence at date of application, Hague, N.Y. Age at date of application, 61 years. date not stated
Remarks: He married in May or Aug. 1781 at New Fairfield Conn. Mary (Polly) Knight. She was al. pens. on an app. of April 29. 1837 while a resident of Hague N.Y. aged 73 yrs. There were nine children. Widow died Apr. 3. 1843 and William b. Feb. 3. 1782 & Warner b. about 1787 were the only surviving children. That are no other names given. Respectfully,
Commissioner.

A Mary Cook, decd widow of Samuel New York Warren Co.
increased from $309 \frac{72}{100} to $575, \frac{26}{100} per ann on 4 March 1831 to 3 rd April 1843 when she died Children William Cook & Warner Cook payable to William Cook Executor for sole use of the children deduct- ing what has been paid
Rev. George Briggs N.Y.

✓ May 13. 1858.
M rs George Briggs.
Transcript papers in the case of M rs Mary Cook, an applicant for an increase of Pension.
May 13/58 W. Allen
Letter to Hon George Briggs May 16. 1858
Rept to Com tee of Russian Dep. Interior May 16. 1858

House of Reps May 12 th 1890
Sir, I enclose herewith the application of the heirs of Mary Cook, widow of Samuel Cook, deceased, for an increase of pension under the act of H r of July 1890. New York roll. Mrs Cook's pension having been calculated at the rate of $13.33 per month instead of $25.00 per month for about twenty three months service of her husband as Forage Master, an increase is now claimed for the difference. You will oblige me by causing an examination to be made and a certificate to be issued in the name of the Executor at as early a day as practicable.
Respectfully Yours J. W. Briggs
Hon J. Ewing, Sec. of the Interior

State of New York Warren County ss
I certify that satisfactory Evidence has been adduced before the Circuit Court of Saratoga County to show that Mary Cook late of Hage in the said County and Widow of Samuel Cook was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the Rate of thirty dollars and 62 1/2 cents per month and some extra per Annum that she died on the thirtieth day of March Eighteen hundred and sixty three and that William Cook of Hage in said County and Warner Cook of Scenkeroga in the County of Schoharie and State aforesaid are the only children of the said Mary Cook now living
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court and County this 8 th day May 1850 Horace Mitchell Clerk of Saratoga County

1424  New York, Albany Mary Cook widow of Samuel Cook dec d who died on the 19th January 1879 of Warren Co in the State of N.Y. who was a Sgt Forage M te in the Company commanded by Captain Warner of the Reg t commanded by C t Willis in the New York line for 1 month & 7 days 22 " 4 23 "
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 309 Dollars 72 Cents, per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of Sept r 1837 and sent H m W m Slade, H oo of Reps.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1837 $2,043.18 Semi-annual allowance ending Mar 38 - 154.86
$ 2,168.04
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1839 } Section the 3.
Recorded by W. Addison Clerk, Book A Vol. 2 Page 105

1917 July 23 Hist. to Ella J. Child. 1923 May 24. Hist. Durn Alire Travel.
Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 15829
Mary Cook Wid of Samuel Cook Surg. Rev War.
Act July 4 th 1836
Index: Vol. A , Page 149
[Arrangement of 1870.]

10 ct. stamped envelope Minneapolis, Minn. March 2 - 1923
Rev. W. U.S. Commission of Pensions, Washington D.C.
Gentlemen, I am writing to ask if you can furnish abstract of service of Samuel Cook who fought in the Revolutionary War and had rank of Sergeant. He received pension paid at Albany N.Y. and was born in 1758 and died in 1819. He lived in Ticonderoga town of

Hague and his wife's name was Mary Wright Cook.
We wrote to the Adjutant General Office of War Department and they advised writing you.
Thanking you, Very truly.
(Mrs) Alice Kavel
2316 Gasfield Ave Minneapolis Minnesota.

Rev Ser mm
312 West Court Street, Flint, Michigan. July 16. 1917.
Pension and Record Dept. Washington, D. C. Gentlemen;
Will you please send me the record of Samuel Cook who served as a soldier in the American Revolution? He was at one time in Capt. Warner's Company of the Third Regiment of the Connecticut Line, Col. Samuel Wyllys Formation of 1778-79.
Yours truly, Ella M. Guild.

In - ab - Sept 21. W.
James L. Edwards Esq
Wallade AM
Court of Sessions Washington

Sir
I send proof of the marriage of Mary Cook widow of Sam d Cook, applicant for a pension. The other papers have been sent you. If any thing further is wanting to complete the necessary testimony please inform me. If a certificate shall be granted, please send it to me.
I am requested to ask if the papers of Mrs. Ruth Barnum have been rec d . They have been sent from Addison Co. Vt. - Please report all case to me
Respectfully Yours J. H. Slade
Sept 20. 1837
J. L. Edwards Esq

Liondenoga June 5 th
Free.
June 10 th
James L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington City
Mary Cook Mrs. Service

Haque Warren County
June 2 d 1837
Sir, In answer to your letter of the 20 th of May last
I state that my mothers name is Mary Cook, and the papers in support of her claim for a pension were transmitted from the Post office in Caldwell in this County
The letter addressed by you to Thomas Archibald Esqr has been forwarded to me by which I learn that you require the record proof of the date of her marriage if to be found - and also at what time my father was appointed forage Master, As to the record proof of her Marriage I state that the town Clerk of New Fairfield Connecticut has been written to on the subject previous to the making out the papers and he returned for answer that the record of her marriage could not be found, I wish to know if I must procure the affidavit of the town Clerk of the fact, or will the affidavit of Melney H. Brewster the person who wrote to the town clerk be sufficient - My Mother says she was married by a justice by the name of H. Webb - As to the time my father was appointed Forage Master My Mother states, that her Deceased husband Samuel Cook was doing the duty of a Forage Master when she first became acquainted with him which was in the year 1780 and continued in the discharge of those duties untill he left the service as to the date of his appointment as Forage Master she is entirely ignorant
James L. Edwards Esqr I Am respectfully your Ob t Servt
Washington City
William Cook

New Fairfield March 27 th 1837
Sir I received your letter of the 7 th of March wishing me to examine the Records to find the marriage of Samuel Cook I have done so and cannot find a marriage I find that all the marriages that ever was Recorded were recorded in the 2 d Book of Records the Town of New Fairfield was divided into two Towns about the year 1802 or 3 I think that Sam l Cook must have lived in that part which is now Sherman it may be possible that his marriage is recorded by the minister or Justice who married them in that part of the Town by searching the Records I find a Deed signed by Samuel Cook & Mary Cook Dated the 17 th of January 1789 being land Distributed to the Mary out of her Fathers estate they then lived at Tycanderoga New York which is all the place I find their names on record feeling friendly to the Widows of the Revolutionary Patriots and shall charge nothing for my trouble in examining the records Yours respectfully Sarah T. Beman T.C. to Mr E. B. Hill Shorham V.F.

Sherman August 7 th 1837.
Sir,
I received your communication on the third of the present month and shall endeavour to answer it so far as I am able.
I cannot find any record of Mrs Cook's marriage on the Records in Sherman; for when the Towns of Newfairfield and Sherman were divided the old records were all left in Newfairfield; and it has not been the law in this State to record marriages in this State but seventeen or eighteen years on Town Records.
I went to the daughter in law of Ephraim Stubbell Esq. Mrs Lucy Stubbell and found out by her that she was acquainted with the circumstances of the marriage of Samuel Cook and Polly Wright as she says she was then called; I also there found among the records of Ephraim Stubbell Esq. the original record of the marriage of Samuel Cook and Polly Wright which I will give you word for word.
You will see that in this case he has not signed his name as Justice of the Peace; and if it is necessary to have that fact ascertained you will have to send to Hartford to the Secretary of State.
I have made considerable enquiry, and find there is no probability you will find her marriage on Newfairfield records.
Yours &c
Hugh Gelston
$ c Paid County Clerk's fee - .75 My fees will be 2. — $ 2.75
P.S. I should have answered this sooner, but have had to wait to get returns from County Clerks.

August .. 1781 Then I married Samuel Cook and Polly Wright
Ephraim Stubbell The above is a true copy of the sworn record Attest Hugh Gelston Town Clerk
Fairfield County ss Shermon August 14th 1837 Personally appeared Hugh Gelston who is the Town Clerk of the Town of Sherman and made oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate by him subscribed Before me Eli Bransdley Justice of Peace

State of Connecticut Fairfield County } ss.
I Thomas Bloorne Clerk of the County Court within and for the County of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut do hereby certify that Eli Beardsley Esquire of Sherman in said County is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County duly commissioned and qualified; that his Commission was dated on the 10 th day of June A D 1837 and will expire on the 19 th day of June A D 1838. Given under my hand and the Seal of said County Court this 9 th day of August A D 1837.
Thomas Bloorne Clerk
Eli Beardsley Justice of Peace

State of Vermont } Be it known that before me Edwin H. Hunt Adrian County } one of the Justices of the peace within and for the County of Addison aforesaid personally appearing Elijah Wright a resident of Shushan in said County of Addison who being first duly sworn according to Law doth depose and say that he is Intenty two years of age and upwards that he became acquainted with Samuel Cook late of Hague in the State of New York - Some time in the year 1780 at Windfield in the State of Connecticut where he the said Elijah Wright then lived and he then understood that the said Samuel Cook belonged to the American Army as a forage Master, and that he the said Samuel Cook was married to Mary Wright a sister of his the said Elijah Wright at Windfield aforesaid in the month of May 1781. according to his the said Elijah Wright's recollection - and that his sister the said Mary Wright to whom the said Samuel Cook was married as aforesaid was older than him the said Elijah Wright - That the said Samuel Cook and Mary Cook lived and cohabited together from the time of their marriage as aforesaid until the decease of the said Samuel Cook which according to the best of his the said Elijah's recollection was in 1819 and that they raised a family of children and that their eldest child according to the best of his recollection was born upon the close of the Revolution, and the said Elijah Wright does further depose and say that the said Samuel Cook both before and after his marriage as aforesaid as he then understood and very likely belonged to and did duty in the American Army as a forage Master. That after the marriage as aforesaid the said Samuel Cook and Mary Cook resided at Windfield something like three or four years and from there they moved to Mendon in the State of New York and from there to Hague in the State in the State of New York where the said Samuel Cook continued to reside until his decease, and that his widow Mary Cook sister of his the said Elijah Wright now resides at Hague aforesaid and has remained a widow ever since the decease of her said husband Samuel Cook and further says not Sworn and subscribed this 5 th day of April 1837
Before me Edwin H. Hunt Justice Peace
I hereby certify that the above named Elijah Wright is a credible witness and that his statement is to be relied on Edwin H. Hunt Justice Peace

State of Vermont Addison County } ss.
Samuel Swift, Clerk of the County Court for the said County of Addison, do hereby certify that Aldney H. Everest, before whom the within affidavit of Elijah Wright was made over at the time, a Justice of the peace for said County and his name subscribed thereto is his own signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this 6 th day of April 1837.
Sam l Swift.

State of New York Warren County ss. On the 29 th day of April A.D. 1837 Stephen Pratt one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Warren, advised William Cook a Resident of Hagan in the County of Warren, who being first duly sworn, according to Law, doth on his oath depose truly and say that he is fifty five years of age and upwards. That he is the son of Samuel Cook late of Hagan aforesaid deceased, and Mary Cook now a Resident of said Hagan, and that in the said Samuel Cook his father was a pensioner of the United States, under the act of 1818, and that he the said Samuel Cook died at Hagan aforesaid on the 19 th day of January A.D. 1819 a short time after he received his pension Certificate from the War Department and that his mother Mary Cook widow of the said Samuel Cook is now living at Hagan aforesaid and that she has remained a widow ever since the death of her said husband Samuel Cook and further say not
Sworn and subscribed on the _____ day of _____ A.D. 1837 William Cook
Before me Stephen Pratt Judge of Warren County Common Pleas
I hereby certify that the above named William Cook is a credible witness and that his statement is entitled to credit.
Stephen Pratt Judge of Warren County Common Pleas

State of New York On the 29 th day of April A.D. 1837 Warren County Personally appeared before me Stephen Pratt one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Warren aforesaid Warren Cook a resident of Hargreaves in the County of Warren aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath depose that he is fifty years of age and upwards that he is the Son of Samuel Cook late of Hargreaves aforesaid deceased and Mary Cook now a resident of said Hargreaves and that he the said Samuel Cook his father was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States under the act of 1818, and that he the said Samuel Cook died at Hargreaves aforesaid on the 19 th day of January 1819, a short time after he received his pension Certificate from the War Department and that Mary Cook his Mother and widow of the said Samuel Cook is now living at Hargreaves aforesaid and that she has remained a widow ever since the death of her said Husband Samuel Cook and further says not Warren Cook Sworn and Subscribed on the day of A.D. 1837 above written Before me Stephen Pratt Judge of Common Pleas Warren County Common Pleas
I hereby Certify that the above named Warren Cook is a credible witness and that his statement is entitled to credit Stephen Pratt Judge of Warren County Common Pleas

State of New York } I Stephen Pratt one of the Judges Warren County } of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Warren aforesaid do hereby declare my opinion after the investigation on the matter of the application of the said Mary Cook for a pension that the said Samuel Cook was a Soldier of the Revolution and died as she states and that she the said Mary Cook was married to the said Samuel Cook as she also states and that she is now the Widow of the said Samuel Cook and has remained a Widow ever since the death of the said Samuel Cook. And the said Stephen Pratt Judge as aforesaid do further certify that it appears to me that the said Mary Cook who has made the foregoing declaration and William Cook Warren Cook and Abijah Wright, who have made their affidavits are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit Stephen Pratt Judge of Warren County Common Pleas
I Stephen Pratt one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Warren aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Judge on the matter of the application of Mary Cook for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 21 st day of April A.D. 1837. Stephen Pratt Judge of Warren County Common Pleas

P. 745 N1776 Mary Cook 13 May 1837 Pension office Land of Saml NY
4 July 36 3 Sec
Manuscript Aug. 1781 1819 Accd
Ad Secy 1mo 7 - $ 11.16
Dear Master,
as Lieut. 22 mo 23 d, 303. 56 " " " 1783 309 72
Sevier end Apr 17 83 109 72
Peruam - coming 4 March 1831.
For Wm Lloyd JR
State of Mississippi, as to 1000 per share of stock.

State of New York Warren County ss
I Thomas Archibald Clerk of the said County
Do certify that Stephen Pratt Esq before whom the within Affidavits purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County And that I am acquainted with his hand Writing and truly believe his name subscribed to the within Affidavits to be his proper hand Writing and Signature
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Office in this 15th day of May A D 1837
Thomas Archibald Clerk

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Book, Samuel GRADE Private LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER 3887 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Aug. 23, 1796
to Joseph Thomas
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.