Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3182, Joel Cook, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
conn.
book, Joel
S. 3182
CONTENTS
carded

N o 3475 Pennsylvania
Job book
of Bradford Co. in the State of Penn a who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Smith of the Reg t commanded by Col. Chandler in the Connecticut line for 3 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 d day of Dec r 1832 and Pensioner Orwell Pa.
Arrears to 14th of September 1832 120.00 Pemi ant. allowance ending 14 th March 1832 } 40.00 $ 160.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by D. Brown Book D. Vol. 6
Page 51
Clerk

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress of the seventh of June 1832.
State of Pennsylvania Bradford County ss
On the 19 th day of Sept 1832 personally appeared Joel Cook, a resident of Orwell Township in the county aforesaid and State of Pennsylvania, aged eighty six years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of congress June 7 th 1832 that he enlisted according to the best of his recollection on the 27 th day of April 1777 at Plymouth in the State of Connecticut when he then resided as a private soldier in the company commanded by Captain David Smith, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel John Chandler in the line of the State of Connecticut on the continental establishment for the term of three years that he served in the said corps in the States of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania until the 27 th of April 1780, when he was discharged from the service at Morristown in the State of New Jersey that he was in the battle at Germantown and siege at Redbank and that he was placed on the pension roll under the law of 18 th March of 1818 that supposing that he could not draw after 1820, he did not apply until May the 20 th 1830 that he has received no certificate on that application that he relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present that he has been a resident of Orwell county and state aforesaid under every application for Pension and that that he herewith returns his certificate of Pension under the law of the 18 th of March 1818.
Sworn & subscribed in open court, this 19 th day of Sept. A.D. 1832.
Joel Cook
J. M. Zull, Prob.

and the said Courts do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states
By the Courts
J. M. Bell Prob.
I James P. Bell Prothonotary & Clerk of the Courts of Common Pleas of Bradford County Pennsylvania do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original recordings of the said courts in the matter of the applica- -tion of Joel Cook for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 19 th day of September 1832.
J. M. Bell, Prob.
Admitted
Pris. 3 yrs
$80.
Pension
Double
Pens

We John Eastabrooks residing in Orwell Township County of Bradford and state of Pennsylvania and Roswell Russell 2 o - residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joel Cook who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration. That we believe him to be eighty six years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution. and that we concur in that opinion
John Eastabrooks 2 o
Roswell Russell
Sworn & subscribed in open court this 18 th day of Sept. A.D. 1832 J. P. Bell Pro.

Declaration in order to be restored to the pension list under the act of first of March 1873
State of Pennsylvania } Bradford County } On this tenth day of May 1880 per-
sonally appeared in open court being a court of Common Pleas held at Towanda for the said county of Bradford Joel Cook resident in the said county aged eighty three years (the 18 th day of August 1829) who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the 18 th March 1818 & the 1 st May 1820. That he the said Joel Cook enlisted for the term of three years on the 17 th or 27 th day of April in the year 1777 in the State of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain David Smith in the regiment commanded by Col John Chandler in the line of the State of Connecticut on the continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said corps until the 27 th day of April 1780 when he was discharged from the service in Norristown in the State of Pennsylvania that his name has been placed on the pension list he does not know as it was dropped therefrom on account of property as he never sent a schedule of his property but supposes his name may have been omitted - and - And in pursuance of the act of the 1 st May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any other manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land or naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war" passed on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me now here I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed
Schedule of property
ninety two acres of land situate in the township of Small in the said county of Bradford and State of Penna on which is thirteen acres cleared and fenced The remainder in a state of nature - The said land is a part of a larger tract of three hundred & three acres the whole of which is subject to a mortgage for the payment of six hundred and six dollars with the interest due thereon

dated Sept. 29. 1878 on which was endorsed in Feb or March 1878 one hundred dollars the residue with the interest is still due and amounts to more than one thousand dollars and is more than the land is worth - one old house of so small value as thought by the county appraiser not to be worth taxing. myself Joel Cook eighty three years old once a farmer but now unable to labor my wife Sarah Cook aged sixty five years unable to support herself For many years past I have lived with and been supported by my son who himself has a large family I should long before this have forwarded my schedule but being unacquainted with the rules which govern the war office department and remote from any source of information was made to suppose that so long as I possessed a small piece of new land in a new county encumbered by mortgage as it is I could not receive any relief from government under these circumstances I have struggled with embarrassed circumstances until I cannot hold out longer I must either throw myself on my children for who are poor or apply to the public for support for the short existence which yet remains - The person to whom the land is mortgaged is now in Europe or perhaps it would have been closed before this time Joel Cook I swear to and subscribed and defend the truth day of May 1880 in open court before me
Darius Bullock Prothonotary
I Darius Bullock Prothonotary & clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the said county of Bradford (being a court of record) do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the said Joel Cook did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of three years under an engagement on the continental establishment - I also certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said court that and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount of the value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule (free of incumbrance) is three hundred & fifty three dollars and fifty cents with the incumbrance, is worth nothing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this 17 th day of September
1880 Darius Bullock clerk of the court of Common Pleas of Bradford County

Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of September next, in Philadelphia, at the Bk: W. States,
Pennsylvania.
See Back
Payable

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
Joel Cook late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Pennsylvania Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to com- mence on the seventh day of May one thousand eight hundred and eighteen .
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this twenty second day of July one thousand eight hundred and nineteen .
J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War.

Geneva Office Dec 13 1832
on previous business
Towanda P. Dec. 7.
up St. Louis
Hon John H. Eaton Esq.
Secretary of war Washington

Sir, I enclose the application of Joel Cook which has been amended by the alteration of one figure & by an addition as to the value of the mortgage on the land encumbered with it made by the Judge
Yours respectfully
D Bullock Prothry.
1 Bedford Co Pa
Dec 7. 1873

Before me Sheron Darling one of the justices of the peace in and for the county of Bradford personally came Chauncey Grant who being duly sworn, doth say that he has been seventeen years acquainted with Joel Cook and his land which he knows that his wild land is not worth over one dollar and fifty cents per acre and his improved land not worth more than eight dollars per acre that he is the said Grant Assessor of property this year in and for the township of Orwell and that the above is a fair average valuation that he does not think the place could be rented for more than twenty Dollars — that there is a very heavy Mortgage against the land he knows and that the owner of it has been for many years over sea or it would probably have been closed before now he further says the said Cook is of moral and industrious habits but is unable to support himself by reason of the infirmities of old age and he further says that no Mortgage or encumbrance was considered in the valuation
Sworn and subscribed before me this 26th day of Decr AD 1831 before me
Chauncey Grant
Sheron Darling J.P. Bradford County, Pa.
I certify that Sheron Darling whose name appears above is known and recognized in the Courts of this county as a duly commissioned and acting Justice of the Peace, and that all his acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit. And I further certify that I am acquainted with the signature of said Sheron Darling and believe the above to be genuine; and also that said Darling resides in the township of Orwell in said county. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of office this 29th Dec. AD. 1831.
J. O'Dell, Prothonotary

Before me Theron Darling one of the justices of the Peace in and for the county of Bradford personally came Samuel Matthews who being duly sworn doth say that he is acquainted with Joel Cook and his land which he has that he does not think it would rent for more than nineteen and an half or twenty Dollars annually Samuel Matthews
Sworn & subscribed before me this 26 th day of December A D 1831
Theron Darling J.P.
Before me Aaron Chubbuck one of the justices of the peace in and for the county of Bradford personally came Theron Darling Esq. who being duly sworn doth say that he has been for many years acquainted with Joel Cook and his land which he has that the land is not well fenced and he thinks could not be rented for over twenty Dollars - that it is remote from the county seat and near the out lines of the township
Sworn & subscribed this 26 th day of December A D 1831 before me
Theron Darling
Aaron Chubbuck Justice of the Peace
Before me Theron Darling one of the justices of the Peace in and for the county of Bradford personally came before me Aaron Chubbuck Esq. who being duly sworn doth say that he is acquainted with the above witnesses that they live near Joel Cook the revolutionary soldier and solicitor for the renewal of his Pension that he is acquainted with the said Cook and from information has should think him a fit subject for the consideration of his country
Sworn & subscribed this 26 th day of December A D 1831 Before me
Aaron Chubbuck
Theron Darling J.P.

Pennsylvania
Berks County ss.
On this 20 th day of December 1831 At the Court of Common Pleas of the said County now in session, before Edward Herrick Esquire President Judge of the thirteenth Judicial district of Penn a and of said Court, Jonathan Stevens one of the Associate Judges of the said Court being legally sworn doth depose and say that the amount of Property exhibited in the Schedule of Joel Cook in his application for a renewal of his revolutionary Pension, at a Court held on the 10 th day of May 1830 was valued at that time at Three Hundred and fifty in dollars without taking into consideration the incumbrances: but with the incumbrances at nothing. And the said Jonathan Stevens further says that he is particularly acquainted with the landed property of Joel Cook valued as above, having been called in 1816 as a Surveyor to divide between the said Joel Cook & his two sons, who then held the land of which the said Joel was a part as tenants in Common which service he performed on the Ground, & that from information communicated by him the said Court at that time made the aforesaid valuation.
Sworn & Subscribed before me Jonathan Stevens the 20 th day of December 1831
E Herrick Pres. Judge
Berks County ss.
In testimony that the above named E. Herrick is President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County and the above named Jonathan Stevens one of the Associate Judges of said Court I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of office this 20 th day of December Anno Domini. 1831.
O. Full, Prob.

only
Rev War
3182 INVALID.
1905-Oct. 3. Military and fam history to Philip R. Cook. M.B.H.
File No. 3182
Good Cook Brick line
Act: June 7, '32
Index:—Vol. A , Page 73
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Calvin PHILIP R. COOK, EDWARD S. AXELROD BY ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW, 299 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. TELEPHONE 3693 FRANKLIN
September, 16, 1905.
PENSION DEPARTMENT, Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:-
Will you kindly send me the record of your department and the war record of one JOEL COOK, who enlisted in the War of the Revolution as a private during 1877, - 1880, from Wallingford, Conn, or Litchfield County, Conn.
Said Joel Cook served three years in the army, and was honorably discharged.
Later he moved to Orwell, Pa. ( at that time I think Orwell was in Luzerne County, but now the boundaries are changed, and it is now in Bradford County), and he was in receipt of a pension under the Act of 1818, of I believe $3.00 per month.
He was born August 5, 1746, and died about 1837.
I believe these are practically all the facts I have at hand now, but if there are any others that will be necessary to you in order to give me the information required, I will be glad to furnish them to you.
I enclose stamped envelope for reply.
Yours very truly,
P.R.C. / W.
Philip R. Cook

See letter to J. Cook 5 March 1832
Referring Controversy See letter to David Butts Oct. 4 Jan. 1830. So
12.515 R Pennsylvania
Joel Cook
of Orange township in the state of Pennsyl a who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Chandler of the Pennsylvanian line, for the term of 3 years .
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 th of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 d of July 1819 and sent to Sons s Stevens, Esq. Asylum P. Office, P. a
Arrears to 4th of March 1819  9 25 /31 70.45 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sept. 1819 40.00
$126.45
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Bradford County.

This indenture made the twenty ninth day of Septem- ber in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hun- dred & fourteen between Joel Cook of the Township of Orwell in the county of Bradford & State of Penn- sylvania yeoman of the one part and William Poyntell of the city of Philadelphia & State afore- said of the other part Whereas the said Joel Cook is by a certain obligation or writing obligatory under his hand and seal duly executed and be- ing even at date here with standeth bound unto the said William Poyntell in the sum of twelve hund- red and twelve dollars lawful money of the Uni- ted States of America conditioned for the pay- ment of six hundred & six dollars like lawful money aforesaid in five even and equal instalments of one hundred and twenty one dollars thirty cents each to be paid annually together with lawful in- terest on each of the said instalments to be com- puted from the day of the date hereof without any favor or further delay as in by the said recited obligation & condition thereof relation to the same being had may more fully and at large appear. Now this indenture witnesseth that the said Joel Cook as well for and in consideration of the aforesaid debt or sum of six hundred and six dollars & for better securing the payment of the same with lawful interest in manner aforesaid unto the said William Poyntell his executors administrators assigns in dis- charge of the said obligation above recited as for & in consideration of the further sum of one dollar here truly paid by the said William Poyntell at and before the sealing and delivery hereof the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged hath granted bargain sold released and confirmed these these presents as grant bargain sell release & confirm unto the said William Poyntell his heirs and assigns all that tract or piece of Land lying & being in the Township of Orwell County of Bradford and State of Pennsylvania aforesaid Beginning at a sugar tree thence north 45 degrees West

144 puches to a post thence south 33 degrees west 434 puches to a sugar tree thence north eighty degrees east 210 puches to a sugar tree thence north 30 degrees east 261 puches to the beginning containing three hundred & three acres & allowances being the tract No 7 called Loden / being part of a larger tract of 3246 acres & eleven puches of land which the com- monwealth of Pennsylvania by letters patent bearing date the 15 th day of January 1801 Recorded in Pat- ent book No 36 page 208 granted and conveyed unto Samuel Menden in fee and the said Samuel Men- dith & wife by indenture dated the 21 st day of Sept 1801 recorded in Luzerne county and Book No 8 page 117 re granted & conveyed to William Poyntill the father of the grantee herein named in fee who by seized thereof by his last will and testament dated the 29 th day of June 1811 & remaining in the Registry office at Philadelphia devised the same interest to the mortgage herein named & to Robt Goldclayp and Alex r St Johnson Who by Indenture dated the day of June 1813 Recorded in Bradford county and Book No 1 page 239 granted and conveyed and their interest to the mortgage herein named and the said William Poyntill party hereto by indenture bearing date herein with but only acknowledged be- fore these presents granted & conveyed the tract or parcel of land above described & granted unto the said Lock Cook in fee subject to the payment of six hundred and six dollars which is secured by this present mortgage in fee simple & together also with all and singular the buildings improvements ways water courses rights privileges heredita- ments & appurtenances whatsoever to the same belonging or in any wise appertaining & the provisions & umbrage thereof. So have I to hold the said tract or piece of land hereditaments and premises above granted or intended so to be with the appurtenances to the said William Poyntill his heirs and assigns to

The only proper use and behoof of the said William Poynter his heirs and assigns to the only proper use and behoof of the said Providence Always hereby certifies that If the said Lock book herein ex- ecuted administrators or assigns or any of them do and shall well and truly pay or cause to be paid unto the said William Poynter his ex- ecutors administrators or assigns the aforesaid debt or principal sum of six hundred & six dol- lars on the day & time herein before mentioned & appointed for payment then of together with all lawful interest which may accrue or become due without any fraud or further delay and without any deduction defalcation or abatement for or in respect of any taxes charges or assess- ments whatsoever that then & from thenceforth as well this present indenture and the estate hereby granted as the said obligation above re- cited shall cease determine & become void any thing herein before contained to the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding In Witness Whereof the said parties to these presents have hereunto set their hands & seals the day and year above written Lock book Read. Sealed & delivered in presence of Thomas Britton John Goodrich the day of Anno Domini 18. before me came the above named & acknowledged the above Indenture of mortgage to be act and deed & desired the same to be re- corded as such Witness my hand & seal the day and year aforesaid Bradford County ss On this twenty sixth day of April A.D 1895 before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace in & for said county personally came John Goodrich who being duly sworn doth depose and say that he was per- sonally present & did see Lock book within Granton

seal and deliver the within mortgage as for his act and deed and that the name John Goodrich subscribed as a witness to said instru- ment is of his due execution own proper hand writing & that in the presence of said Grantor this the other witness respondent subscribed and saw Thomas Overton subscribe his name in attestation of such sealing and delivery witness my hand & seal But Ridgway Feb. 1815. Recorded April 26 1815.
Bradford County ss
I Alpheus Ingham Recorder in & for the county of Bradford do certify the above foregoing to be a true & exact copy of a mortgage recor- ded in said Book 122 page 105 &c Recorded April 25 1815
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this day and year to wit Nov. 29 th 1830
Alpheus Ingham Rec By James T. Vale Dep.
Q 125
Full Book March 6 William Paynter Copy
fees - 150

June 11 1852
Free P.O.
De
Secretary of War Washington
Hon Lewis Cass Chief S. P
Hon

Conwell Jan the 3 rd 1832
I have thought proper to write a few lines to you I am a poor old man for some and upwards the little land I have cleared is not well fenced and I am neither able to fence or cultivate it the country I live in is high cold and rocky with a thin soil and both wild and cleared land land has fell greatly in price here since the last war in consequence of the low price of government lands which are far superior to ours I live far from the county seat in the out skirts of the township and several miles from any post road the proceedings of government I knew but little of my information was casual and uncertain in that situation I struggled many years I have applied to my government for assistance I have disposed of no land since 1816 and I have with send the affidavits of judge stephens and others which may show show the government my real situation my papers were sent to Washington at the December court of 1830 and owing to the change in our county officers by which the papers were mislaid or some other cause unknown to me I did not not receive them to make amendments until last court I hope if the Pres is still insufficient there will be a quicker return and communication be made to me at my residence in Conwell
than Lewis Cass Secretary of War Washington
Joel Coe Conwell Bradford County Pa
DK Ps in addition to my poverty I am nearly Blind and cannot read or see objects to know them at a distance J C

Joel Cook
Private
Colonel Chandler's Regt Connecticut line
1777-3 years
11 th May 1810.
Roll
Admiral

State of Pennsylvania
Bradford County ss
On this eleventh day of May 1808 before me the Subscriber, one of the associate Judges of the County of Bradford in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania personally appears
Joel Cook aged seventy two years, resident in onward township Bradford County in the commonwealth aforesaid, 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 and naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary War". That he the said Joel Cook about the 27th day of April AD 1777 - enlisted in Watertown in the state of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain David Smith in a not commanded by Colonel Cronkhite of the Connecticut Line that he continued to serve in the said corps three years in the service of the United States, until the year one thousand seven hundred & eighty when he was discharged from service in Morristown state of New Jersey that he was in the battle of Germantown Mud-Island, besides various skirmishes -
And that he is in reduced circumstances and 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.
Joel Cook
Sworn to, subscribed and declared, before me the day & year aforesaid
John McKean Judges of Common Pleas Bradford County and State of Pa.
Sworn to & declared and subscribed before me the 19th day of Feby. 1809
Jonathan Stites one of the associate Judges of the Common Pleas of Bradford County

Jonathan Stevens
I know  that one of the Associate Judges in for Bradford County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Joel Cook did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration, against the Common Enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress And I further certify that I know the said Joel Cook to be in the adverse circumstances & to stand in need of the As- sistance of his Country for Support.
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Jonathan Stevens
Bradford County ss
I George Scott, Prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas in and for Bradford County aforesaid do certify and make known that John McLean Jonathan Stevens is, and was at the time of signing and taking the foregoing deposition and certifying the same as of the Associate Judges in for Bradford County in the State of Pennsylvania that the signature is their proper hand writing and that full faith and credit are due to their acts as such In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and seal of office at Meansville, in Bradford County aforesaid. May 18. 1877
George Scott Proth'y

As the foregoing Application was first made before John McLean Esq. an Associate Judge of Bradford County, but because the residence of the said John McLean was so dis- tant from that of the said Cook, and because he was intirely unacquainted with him he handed this with a Number of other applications to the Subscriber who am acquainted with the said Cook - The form is not so proper as might be drawn at this day but the Difficulty of his getting about as he is an old man and because he wishes to have his application take date from the day he made application to Judge McLean I send forward the original With the Signature of the said McLean - Jonathan Stearns