Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 389-450, Robert Cockran, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Cockran, Robert
B.L.M. 389-450-Lt.-Col.
Issued Aug. 4, 1791,
No papers.
CONTENTS

January 31, 1940
Claire Tucker Willson 1190 South Williams Denver, Colorado
BA-J/MCS Robert Cockran B.L.Wt.389-450
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request for information relative to Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cochran who served in the Revolution and died at Sandy Hill, New York, July 3, 1812, in his seventy fourth year.
The Revolutionary War records of this office show that on August 4, 1791, Warrant 389 for four hundred and fifty acres of bounty land was issued on account of the service of Robert Cockran as lieutenant colonel of the New York troops in the War of the Revolution.
There are no further data on file relative to the service of Robert Cockran and none whatever relative to his family due to the destruction of papers in such claims when the War Office was burned in 1800.
For information relative to the location of this land, it is suggested that you address the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Interior Department, this city, giving the warrant number, the acreage and the date of issuance.
This is the only Robert Cockran (searched under all spellings) who served as lieutenant colonel that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.
Very truly yours
A. D. MILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Denver, Colo. 1190 So. Williams Jan. 3, 1940.
Veterans Administration Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:
Do you have a pension record of Lt. Colonel Robert Cochran, my revolutionary ancestor? He died at Sandy Hill, N.Y. July 3, 1812 in his seventy fourth year. Buried near Fort Edward N.Y.
I am trying to learn the name of his wife - date of her birth and death, also the date of their marriage and names of their children. He was born Mar. 1738 at Colerain Mass. My cousin has diary he kept during the Revolution and he refers to his wife as Mary.
Thanking you for any information I am Yours very truly, Blane Tucker Wilson

C. B. LITTLE, PRESIDENT, BISMARCK
TRUSTEES
C. B. LITTLE, PRES., BISMARCK LEWIS F. CRAWFORD, VICE-PRES., BISMARCK O. G. LIBBY, SEC., GRAND FORKS J. L. BELL, TREAS., BISMARCK I. A. ACKER, BISMARCK JOHN MOSES, HAZEN L. E. BIRDZELL, BISMARCK J. M. GILLETTE, GRAND FORKS G. GRIMSON, LANGDON
RUSSELL REID, CURATOR OF THE MUSEUM AND ACTING SUPERINTENDENT FLORENCE H. DAVIS, LIBRARIAN
STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH DAKOTA
TRUSTEE OF THE STATE
BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA
O. G. LIBBY, SECRETARY, GRAND FORKS
TRUSTEES
C. W. McDONNELL, BISMARCK MINNIE J. NIELSON, VALLEY CITY GEORGE F. SHAFER, BISMARCK GEORGE F. WILL, BISMARCK MRS. J. H. WISHEK, ASHLEY DANA WRIGHT, SAINT JOHN
TRUSTEES, EX-OFFICIO
GOV. GEORGE F. SHAFER SEC. OF STATE, ROBT. BYRNE STATE AUDITOR, JOHN STEEN COM. OF AGR. AND LABOR, J. A. KITCHEN STATE SUPT., BERTHA PALMER
Chief of Dpt. of Pensions, -2
Commanded Fort Edward Oct. 10, 1777, when Burgoyne undertook to retreat. Had with him two companies... (See Lossing's Field Book of the Am. Revolution, page 74) was probably on Gen. Gates staff.
In 1778 sent to Canada as a scout; succeeded in securing the necessary papers. The Military officials of The Royal Government offered $250. for his capture... (Lossing's History, Vol. 1, p. 102.)
In command of Ft. Schuyler, 1778. (Lossing, vol. 1, page 256.)
Promoted Lieutenant Colonel, 2nd New York Line, March 30, 1780 by Congress. From this time on he commanded Ft. Schuyler, Ft. Dayton and other forts on the border line between N.Y. settlements and the hostile Indians, Tories, and other soldiers.
Discharged when the army was demobilized at Newburgh, N.Y. in 1783... Served in army eight years without pay...
Died at Sandy Hill, July 3rd 1812; buried near Fort Edward, N.Y. (See picture of his tombstone, p. 102, vol. 1 of Lossing's History.)
Our North Dakota resident, a direct descendant of Co. Cochran, desires official record of pension paid this Revolutionary officer, as part of the proof required for organization of D.A.R.
Respectfully,
(Mrs.) Florence H. Davis
Librarian, State Historical Library, Bismarck, North Dakota.

C. B. LITTLE, PRESIDENT, BISMARCK
TRUSTEES
C. B. LITTLE, PRES., BISMARCK LEWIS F. CRAWFORD, VICE-PRES., BISMARCK O. G. LIBBY, SEC., GRAND FORKS J. L. BELL, TREAS., BISMARCK I. A. ACKER, BISMARCK JOHN MOSES, HAZEN L. E. BIRDZELL, BISMARCK J. M. GILLETTE, GRAND FORKS G. GRIMSON, LANGDON
RUSSELL REID, CURATOR OF THE MUSEUM AND ACTING SUPERINTENDENT FLORENCE H. DAVIS, LIBRARIAN
O. G. LIBBY, SECRETARY, GRAND FORKS
TRUSTEES
C. W. McDONNELL, BISMARCK MINNIE J. NIELSON, VALLEY CITY GEORGE F. SHAFER, BISMARCK GEORGE F. WILL, BISMARCK MRS. J. H. WISHEK, ASHLEY DANA WRIGHT, SAINT JOHN
TRUSTEES, EX-OFFICIO
GOV. GEORGE F. SHAFER SEC. OF STATE, ROBT. BYRNE STATE AUDITOR, JOHN STEEN COM. OF AGR. AND LABOR, J. A. KITCHEN STATE SUPT., BERTHA PALMER
STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH DAKOTA
TRUSTEE OF THE STATE
BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA
19 July 193D.
Chief of Department of Pensions, U.S. War Department, Washington, D.C.
Sir;
We are requested to procure for a resident of this state a record of pension having been paid to an officer in the Revolutionary War, namely, Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cochran.
Military record as follows: Born at Colerain, Mass. March, 1738. Settled afterward at Bennington, Vt.; moved to Rupert, Vt., and at one time lived at Rutland, Vt.
A private in Capt. John Fasset's Company, First Co. of Vt. militia, organized Oct 24, 1764, Bennington, Vt. (See Vt. Hist. Gazetteer vol. 1, page 146)
History of Vt. by R.E. Robinson, page 68, states: He was Captain of one Company of Green Mt. Boys, the year appears to be 1771.
An official Vt. history called "Governor and Council, Vol. 1," says that Ethan Allen, Seth Warren,, Remember Baker, Robert Cochran, and Peleg Sutherland, were all declared guilty of felony and sentenced to death by an act of the N.Y. Legislature of March 9, 1774.
In "Vermont for Young Volunteers" by M.I. Kimball, Montpelier Seminary, the following " March 13, 1775, Captain Robert Cochran was the first officer to arrive at Westminster, N.H. with his Company."
In 1776 he led his Company from Rutland, Vt. to assist the citizens against the Court officials and officers of the Royal Government, who had already shed American blood...
Was Captain at the capture of Ticonderoga and Crown Point and went with his Company to Canada. His record of his Company is accepted as authority as to who were there. He was under Major Brown. (Spark's History of Vermont.)
Captain in Col. Elmore's regiment, Connecticut Troops, April 15, 1776. ( Connecticut men in the Revolution, page 113)
Was under Col. Peter Gamesvoort at Ft. Schuyler Spring of 1777. Lieutenant Col. Willet was second in command; Cochran, with rank as Major, was third.
may be 2 men Re: Col. Cochran also

On May 29, 1930, Hon. Gerald P. Mage made request in behalf of Mr. H. M. Trucker of Napoleon, N. D., for location of land - granted to Colt. Cockran. See correspon- dence - in claim of David Whitney, W. 2013.
W.C. 2.
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Hon. Porter J. McCumber, U.S. Senate -
Jany. 7, 1918.
My dear Senator:
The records of this Bureau show that on August 4, 1791, a warrant numbered 389, for four hundred and fifty acres of bounty land, issued in favor of Robert Cochran, on account of his services as a Lieutenant-Colonel of the New York troops, in the War of the Rev.
There is no further data relative to him in this Bureau as there are no papers on file, the same having been destroyed in the burning of the War Office in 1800.
Senator's letter re: file 11376 folder Military.

Mrs. Daniel L. Strickland
20 LOCKWOOD ROAD SCARSDALE, NEW YORK
United States Pension Bureau Department of Revolutionary Pensions Gentlemen:-
Will you kindly send me a copy of Widows' File no 4161?
I understand there were two Robert Cochran's who served in the Revolution from Vermont. Can you possibly give me a copy of the pension service of each one? And have you any data which will tell who these Robert

Cochrans were - if they were any relation + where they died etc.
I shall greatly appreciate this, as there seems to be some confusion. My ancestor Robert Cochran was buried at Cambridge Vt. + is called Col. Robert Cochran by the Registrar Town Clerk of Cambridge but I understand that File no 4161 (if that is his) gives him only the rank of Lieutenant .
Very sincerely yours,
Helen L. Strickland
(Mrs D. R. Strickland)

April 11, 1936
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BA-J/MCS Robert Cochran, W. 4161 Robert Cockran B.L.Wt. 389-450
Mrs. D. L. Strickland 20 Lockwood Road Scarsdale, New York
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter requesting information relative to Robert Cochran who served in the Revolutionary War from Vermont.
You are furnished herewith, the records of the only soldiers named Robert Cochran or Cockran who served from Vermont or vicinity that are found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

April 11, 1936
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Robert Cockran B.L.Wt. 389-450 BA-J/MCS
Mrs. D. L. Strickland 20 Lockwood Road Scarsdale, New York
Dear Madam:
The Revolutionary War records of this office show that on August 4, 1791, Warrant 389 for four hundred and fifty acres of bounty land was issued in favor of Robert Cockran on account of his services as lieutenant colonel of the New York troops in the War of the Revolution.
There are no further data on file relative to his service and none whatever relative to his family due to the destruction of papers in such claims when the War Office was burned in 1800.
For information relative to the location of the land noted above it is suggested that you address The Commissioner of the General Land Office, Interior Department, this city, giving the warrant number, the acreage and the date of issuance.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

August 15, 1930.
Mrs. Florence H. Davis Librarian, State Historical Society Bismarck, North Dakota.
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section ILL
Dear Madam:
You are advised that the records of this bureau show that on August 4, 1791, Warrant No. 389 for four hundred and fifty acres of bounty land was issued in favor of Robert Cockran on account of his services as lieutenant-colonel of the New York troops in the War of the Revolution.
There are no further data on file relative to his service and none whatever relative to his family due to the destruction of papers in such claims when the War Office was burned in 1800.
Very truly yours,
E. W. MORGAN, Acting Commissioner.