Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1824, Gideon Cooley, Mass

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Cooley Gideon Dinah
W. 1824
CONTENTS
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86 23
Massachusetts Gideon Cooley
of Long Meadow in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Thorp of the Regt commanded by Col Brooks in the War time for Ames
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of ~20~ Dollars ~ Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 rd day of Oct 1832 and Nat J. Millard Springfield Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $ 30.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 1 st Jan 33 10.00 $40.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by A. H. Addison Clerk Book D Vol. 2 a Page 43

324.
Massachusetts.
Finah Cooley, widow of Gideon Cooley
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private Mals Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 20 Dollars —————
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of Sept 1849 and sent to
George B. Morris, Springfield, Mass.
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 27 Vol. 2 July 29

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Hampden 3 18.
On this twenty seventh day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate now held at Springfield within & for said County. Greene Cooley now resident in Longmeadows in said County, (formerly a part of Springfield) & being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oaths make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. Viz: That he entered the service of the United States in the revolutionary war as herein stated He was born in said Longmeadows ( now then Springfield) on the last day of January in the year 1762 & will be seventy years old next January. His birth is recorded in said Longmeadows  Springfield In the forepart of June  July (thereabouts it was the 4 th or 5 th day) at said Longmeadows he enlisted into the service on the continental establishment - he does not remember the name of the recruiting office. he enlisted for a term of six months & served out the whole term. In about a week after his enlistment he was marched with 30 or 40 other recruits from said Springfield direct to West Point where he joined his company after having been drilled about three weeks. The company he joined was commanded by Capt. Thorp. - does not remember the other company officers, he was in the Regiment commanded by Col. Brooks (afterwards Gov. of Massachusetts) he remained in said service
6 months

about 6 weeks at said West Point, on guard - fatigue & drill duty - he then march d across the river to Fishkill By the way Dobbs Ferry or Kings Ferry where he remained about two weeks & then march d to New Jersey where the army then was, he then saw Baron Steuben & General Washington & he was there at the time of the execution of Maj t Andre where he then remained until about three weeks before he was discharged - then went to West Point & there was a service until the first part of January 1781
When he received a regular written discharge which was handed him by 1 st Capt t Tharp & he thinks was signed by him, he has not seen it since he gave it to a man with whom he lived more than 40 years ago - on his discharge he moved over to Fishkill & then returned to said Longmeadows where he has resided most of the time since.
He
hereby relinquishes all claims whatever to any other pension or annuity & declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn & subscribed this day & year aforesaid.
Gideon Godley

We Stephen Ashley & Seth Taylor both residing in Longmeadow aforesaid do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Gideon Cooley who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration that he  we believe him to be seventy years old, - that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and we concur in that opinion.
Stephen Ashley Seth Taylor
And the said Court, Present the Hon. Oliver B. Morris Judge, after investigating the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war Department do hereby declare their opinion that the abovenamed Gideon Cooley was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Stephen Ashley and Seth Taylor Esq. who have signed the preceding certificate are resident in said Longmeadow & are credible persons, & that their statement is entitled to credit -
I Justice Willard Register of said Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Gideon Cooley for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this twenty seventh day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
Justice Willard Register

State of Massachusetts 3/6 Hampden County 3/6
On this thirteenth day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty nine personally appeared before the Hon Oliver B Morris Judge of the Court of Probate for the said County of Hampden Triah Cooley a resident of Longmeadow in said county of Hampden aged eighty three years who being first duly sworn before 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 on the 29th of July 1848 entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving widows of officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army" that she is the widow of Gideon Cooley late of said Longmeadow deceased who was a pensioner under the act of June 7, 1832 and who served in the Army of the Revolution as stated in his declaration on file in the War Department of the United States. She further declares that she was married to the said Gideon Cooley in the month of November in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight, on Thanksgiving day, that her husband the aforesaid Gideon Cooley died on

twenty first day of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight that she has not intermarried since the death of the said Gideon Booley but continues a widow, that she does not now and never has received a pension from the United States, that she was not married to the said Gideon Booley prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January in the year eighteen hundred & 40 at the time above stated.
Disbah her  Booley mark
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampden ss. Subscribed and sworn to, the day and year first above written, before me, and I do certify that the said Disbah Booley being unable to write her name made her mark in my presence, and I do further certify that the said Disbah by reason of age and infirmity is unable to attend the court - and I the said Judge do declare my opinion that the facts stated by said Disbah in her declaration

above written are true — In testimony whereof I do hereunto subscribe my name, and cause the seal of the Court of Probate for said County to be affixed — Oliver B. Morris Judge of said Court
Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Hampden ss Justin Willard Clerk of the Court of Probate within & for said County do hereby certify that the Hon. Oliver B. Morris is the Judge of said Court and that the name of said Oliver B. Morris subscribed to the foregoing certificate is his genuine signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Probate Court at Springfield this fourteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & forty nine
Justin Willard Clerk

Ms. A. 1. 1 No 387.
Dinah Cooley, widow of Gideon,
Mass,
Act 29 July 1848,
Married 1798 Husband died 1838,
Adm d 6 months. pri, $20. per annum, for 4 March 1848,
Geo B. Morris Springfield, Mass,

An account of persons married by me Pitful Howland Seventeen hundred and ninety eight. November - Gideon Cooley of Longmeadow and Dinah Sikes"
I Joseph Ingraham certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the record of the marriage of Gideon Cooley and Dinah Sikes with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows "1798 November" and that the day of the month is not named
Joseph Ingraham Town Clerk of Springfield
I Joseph Ingraham above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the town of Springfield County of Hampden State of Massachusetts and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town with the exception above named as certified by me - Joseph Ingraham Hampden p May, 13 th 1849 Sworn before me George B Morris Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
HAMPDEN, ss.
I, RICHARD BLISS, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Hampden, do certify, that George B. Morris Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to his acts and attestations, done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Morris and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said Commonwealth, this fourteenth day of May , in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty nine
Richd Bliss Clerk.

8936
Gideon Cooley
on the Role of Slave for 6 Months
Admitted
$20—
J. W. Ward Springfield Mass

8936
BRIEF in the case of  Gideon Cooley  of  Longmeadow  in the State of  Massachusetts  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? In open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 70 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 Gen.     Enlisted In 17 6 Cap Thap, Col Brooks Regt  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none stated  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Longmeadow Mass  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Living witnesses  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
X Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
A Reitzel
Examining Clerk.

Reuben
WIDOW, &c.
own
File No.
18220
Dinah Cooley,
Widow
Green Cooley,
One Rev War,
Act:
July 29, 1848.
Index:—Vol.
a
Page
142
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Mass. Roll, Act 7 June 1832, Gideon Cooley, Sci $20 per annum, To what time last paid? P a to 4 th Sept. 1838. Billings.

James L Edwards Esq Pardon Offered

Springfield Mass May 15, 1849
Sir
I transmit to you enclosed, the declaration of Sarah Cooley for pension also the certificate of the town clerk of Springfield of the record of her marriage. When her pension certificate is issued be pleased to forward it to my address.
I have seen it stated in the newspapers that abstracts of the pension laws would be furnished to applicants at the pension office. I should esteem it a favor to receive the latest collection of the pension laws.
Truly Yours Geo B Morris
James L Edwards Esq Comm'r of Pensions

Gideon Cooley
6 months
8936
Gideon Cooley

I Hiel Chandler of Marlborough in the State of Vermont. now in the sixty ninth year of my age on oath do depose & say that I am well acquainted with Gideon Cooley of Longmeadow in the County of Hampden and Commonwealth of Massachusetts & have known him from childhood - that in the fifth month of June, latter part, there in the year seventeen hundred & eighty the said Cooley enlisted into the army of the U. S. on the Continental establishment - at said Longmeadow - for a term of six months - that he served out the whole of that time - I was in service with him during the whole period, he enlisted & served in Capt. Thorp's Company & Col. Brooks Regiment. said Company was called the Col. Company, & in the Mass. line - Gen. Patterson - Maj. Stebbins - said Cooley marched first to West Point then to Bobb's Ferry for a short time then to the Paris - then back to West Point where he was discharged honably. I saw Cooley take his discharge from Capt. Thorp. & saw it afterwards - & further say not.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hiel Chandler County of Hampden ss. July 4 th 1882 Then Hiel Chandler above named personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me Luther Willard Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampden ss. I John Ingersoll a Clerk of the Common Pleas Court being a Court of Record in the County of Hampden do hereby certify that Justice Willard Esqr before whom the within deposition was verified is a justice of the Peace for the County of Hampden and that his name thereto subscribed is his true & genuine signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of the said Common Pleas Court at Springfield on this first day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred thirty two
John Ingersoll Clerk