Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43395, Trueworthy Cook, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Cook, Truworthy S. 43395
CONTENTS

11.965 R
New York
Freeworth Cook
of Granby in the state of New York who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Chanian of the Connecticut line, for the term of Three years.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 18 of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th of June 1819 and sent to Barnet Mooneyboy. Granby New York
  Arrears to 4th of  Mar. 1819.  76.64    Semi-annual all'ce ending  Sep 1819.  48.00    9 Mo 18 31  at July 29. 1822   $124.64  
Continued
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Duplicate issued July 3. 1820 Dec 22 1819 & sent to Judge Wm D. Briggs Oswego Falls. New York
Cont. Notice of Pension & etc. to be sent to William D. Briggs Esq.

State of New-York, } ss :— Onondaga County, }
On this eighteen 13 th day of May 1818, before me the subscriber, First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the said county of Onondaga  Onondaga , personally appears Greenworthy Cook aged fifty eight years, resident in the town of Granby in the said county, 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 service of the United States in the revolutionary war:" That he the said Greenworthy Cook enlisted in March in the year 1777 for three years at Hartford in the state of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain David Smith in Chandler's Regiment of the Connecticut Line; that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States until the month of March 1780 when he was discharged from service in Monmouth in the state of New Jersey that he was in the battles of Germantown, Monmouth battle & was in Red Bank fort below Philadelphia when attacked by the British forces
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.
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.
Barnet Mooney — Greenworthy Cook
I, Barnet Mooney — First Judge, &c. as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Greenworthy 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. March 1818
Done at Granby in said County the 13 th day of May 1818
Barnet Mooney first Judge of said Court

On the 30 th day of January AD 1819 Henry Cook came before me and being put on his Oath did say that the within claim I have herewith Cook was his Father that he had no real estate, that he was in firm of body, and had not the means of supporting himself and family from which testimony I am satisfied he stands in need of the aid of his Committee for support
Barnet Atkinson First Judge Jury of Common Pleas
I certify that Barnet Atkinson is the first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas and was at the time of taking the above affidavit
I testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court and subscribed my name this 8th Feby. 1819.
J. Davis
Henry Cook Barnet Atkinson J. Davis Jury of Common Pleas Feb 1 1819

Truworthy Cook Punon Papis
11.965 Sept. 1819
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State of New York } Oswego County } ss
On this 18th day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in open Court being a court of record for the aforesaid County established as such by a public Statute of the state of New York. Trustworthy Cook aged sixty one years residing in the Town and County of Oswego and State of New York, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows to wit: he enlisted in the year 1777, in a company commanded by captain David Smith in the regiment commanded by Colonel Chandler called the eighth regiment in the Connecticut line and in the 1778 was transferred into captain Schuyler's Company in the same regiment and discharged in the state of New Jersey in the year 1780. And this declarant upon his oath of said further says his first application or declaration to the war department for a pension was dated on the 18th day of May 1818. in consequence of which declaration or application a pension certificate was issued to him in his favor numbered 11.985. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March in the year 1818. and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner dispose of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to be exempt as to being myself with the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of

the under States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of March in the year 1818. And that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule herunto annexed and by me subscribed excepting my pay wearing apparel and bedding -
Schedule
Job Ck
   Real estate I have now - 2 00   Iron chains 1 50   One Iron Pot 1 00   One Iron Kettle 1 00   One set Spoons 62   One set knives & forks 75   One Table 2 00   One Candle Stand 1 00   One Chest 1 50   Three Tea Cups & Saucers 13   One pt. Bowl 8   One Qt. Bowl 10   One Qt. Pitcher 18   Four copper shaving knives 2 00   1 pr Campapts 12   Two small chisels 25   One small Gouge 12   One shoe knife 12   One small saw 50   Three tin pans 1 12   $ 15 77  
Inventory Book

And this declarant upon his oath aforesaid further says that he is by occupation a cooper and in an infirmit state of health, his wife free Love aged 44 also infirm his Grandson aged 10 years who this decla- rant has to support in Good Health. And this declarants own age is 61 years - And this declarant says on oath aforesaid that he has set forth the whole number of his family and their ages - And also all his estate both real and personal in the above schedule -
Subscribed and sworn to in open court before me this 19th day of September 1820 John Grant Sw. First Judge Ass. Cy.
Oswego County
Clerks office
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Joseph Davis clerk of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court. And I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that
the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is fifteen dollars and 77 cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 21st day of September 1820
J. Davis Clerk

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Mereworth Cook a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Mar. 1777 Mar. 1780 Pvt. David Smith Nehemiah Rice Chandler Sherman Conn.                                     
Battles engaged in, Germania, Red Bank, Monmouth. Residence of soldier at enlistment, enlisted at Watertown, Conn. Date of application for pension, May 18, 1818. His cl. was ab. Residence at date of application, Granby, Onondaga Co. N.Y. Age at date of application, 58 years. He died July 29, 1822 {from A.B. Remarks: His wife Mary Cook was 54 years old in 1820 at which time they had a grand son aged 10 years. A son Henry was referred to in 1819. Name of grand son not stated as there is no other data on file as to his family.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

State of New York } Onondaga County } Miles Dunbar of the Town of the said County after fifty years being duly sworn saith that he is generally knowing & well recollects the facts that Trueworthy Cook of Granby in the County of Oswego and served as a Private soldier in Captain Smith's Company in Colonel Chandler's Regiment from some time in the Spring of the year 1777 until the Spring of the year 1780 when he was discharged - That some of the latter part of said time the Regiment was commanded by Col. Sherman - That this Regiment entered into the same Company on the thirty first day of March 1777 & served in the same until the thirty first day of May 1778 Regiment until the thirty first day of March 1780 when he was discharged & he well knows the said Trueworthy Cook all the time of his said service -
Miles Dunbar
Subscribed before me 26 th day of January 1819
Joshua Root First Judge of Court. Com. Pleas I do certify that I am acquainted with Miles Dunbar that he is a man of truth & an credible Witness - Onondaga Jan. 26. 1819 Joshua Root First Judge of Court. Com. Pleas

Lee Honble J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War Washington City D. C.

Oswego Jan'y. 11 th 1820
Hon ble J. C. Calhoun Sir)
The enclosed certificate for my pension was handed me by Judge Mooney and there is no doubt it is intended for me the christian name is Freeworthy instead of Treeworthy will you please to examine my application for the pension - and send me another certificate, please directed to William Dolloway. Oswego. N.Y. & oblige your Humble Servt.
Freeworthy Cook

Rev Sec 409 Stuart Ave Kalamazoo, Mich
Commissioner of Pensions:-
Have you any record of True H. Cook who fought in the war of the Revolution? I do not know whether he ever applied for a pension -
Respt
Mrs H. P. Streng

198 Mar. 9 Hist. Soc. 15-11-11. H. P. Strong.
43 395 INVALID.
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Trinity Church St. Peter's
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[Arrangement of 1870.]

Onondaga County ss -
William Cook of the Town of Deerpark in said County being duly sworn deposes and says that he is personally acquainted and has been personally acquainted with Freeworthy Cook the person in the annexed Affidavit named ever since the year one Thousand seven hundred and seventy five that this deponent and the said Freeworthy Cook did on or about the 30 th day of March one Thousand seven hundred and seventy five Enlist as Common Soldiers in the service of the United States in a Company commanded by Captain David Smith of the Eighth Connecticut Regiment commanded by Colonel Chandler that they both enlisted for the term of three years and that this deponent and the said Freeworthy Cook did continue to serve the United States the same Company and Regiment during the full term of their Enlistment and since at the expiration of the time of their enlistment receive an honorable discharge from the service this deponent further says that he was personally acquainted with the said Freeworthy Cook during the whole term of his service as above stated and that the said Freeworthy had the reputation of a faithful and good soldier during the whole of the said time Wm Cook
I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with William Cook the person who made the above Affidavit and believe him to be of good character for truth and veracity and further certify that the said William Cook personally came before me and signed the above Affidavit and on his solemn Oath to the truth of the above Affidavit Sworn and subscribed this 22 nd day of February 1879 Jonathan Stanley a Judge of Onondaga Common Pleas

6343
6343
Mary Cook
and H. Uniah
act 7 July '38

State of Vermont } Rutland County } ss
On this 26 th day of March, 1839, personally appeared before the Hon. Ambrose L. Brown, Judge of the Probate Court of the District of Rutland in said County, Mary Cook, a resident of Shrewsbury in said County, aged seventy-four years, who being first duly sworn 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 July 7, 1838, entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows:"
That she is the widow of Ulrich Cook, late of Shrewsbury aforesaid, deceased, who was a private in the revolutionary war, and served as follows, to wit: He resided, during that war, in the town of Richmond in the County of Cheshire in the State of New Hampshire; and in the year 1780, was taken from, or served in Col. Webb's Regiment, for the term of six months - for proof of which, she refers to the deposition of Robert Bishop, of Plymouth in the County of Windsor in the State of Vermont, sworn to before Ethan Wetmore Esq. a Justice of the Peace in and for said Windsor County on the 27 th day of September, 1838, setting forth the time and place of said six months service; and she further refers, for additional proof, to the rolls of the New Hampshire Militia, now in the War Office of the United States. She has no further information or knowledge of the names of the officers under whom the said service was performed, but respectfully refers, as aforesaid, for information.
That afterwards, in the year 1781, the said Ulrich Cook enlisted into, or was drafted into (which, she doth not know) Capt. Pratt's Company in Col. Fletcher's Regiment of the New Hampshire Militia, and served therein, as she is informed and doth verily believe, for the full term of ten months, or thereabouts; for proof of which, she refers to the depositions of Russell Ballow, and James Eddy, herewith transmitted, and, also, to the said New Hampshire Rolls, now in the war office of the United States as aforesaid.
She further declares, that she was married to the said

Uriah Cook on the sixth day of March, in the year seventeen hundred and eighty six; that her husband the aforesaid Uriah Cook died on the twenty-first day of March, 1830; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz: at the time above stated.
Mary her  Cook mark
In presence of A. L. Brown
I sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before me. And I do hereby certify, that by reason of bodily infirmity, the said Mary Cook, the applicant, is unable to appear in said Court to make her aforesaid declaration; wherefore, she hath made the same before me at her own residence in Shrewsbury aforesaid.
A. L. Brown
State of Vermont } Rutland County } I, Frederic W. Hopkins, Clerk of the Probate Court of the District of Rutland in said County, do hereby certify, that the Hon. Ambrose L. Brown is Judge of said Court; that as such, he is authorized by law to take acknowledgments of affidavits, as in the annexed affidavit of Hiram Cook; and that the several signatures annexed to the said affidavit, and to the foregoing declaration of the said Mary Cook, purporting to be those of the said Judge, are, severally, genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court, and subscribed my name, at Rutland in said District, this 26 th day of March, in the year of our Lord, 1839.
F. W. Hopkins

I, Hiram Cook, of Shrewsbury in the County of Rutland in the State of Vermont, aged 30 years and upwards, do depose testify and say, that the said Ulrich Cook, whose name is mentioned in the preceding declaration of Mrs. Mary Cook, was my father; and that he died at said Shrewsbury, on the twenty first day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty. And I further depose and say, that the said Mary Cook was the reputed lawful wife of the said Ulrich Cook, deceased; and that she hath not intermarried since the decease of her said husband.
Hiram Cook
State of Vermont, } Rutland County } Be it known, that on the 26 th day of March, 1839, before me, Ambron L. Brown, Judge of the Probate Court of the District of Rutland in said County, personally appeared the said Hiram Cook, who hath subscribed the preceding affidavit in my presence, and made oath in due form of law, that the same contains the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth. And I do hereby certify that the said affiant is a credible witness.
A. L. Brown

This may certify Uriah Cook and Mary Comstock both of Richmond have been joined in marriage this sixth day of March A.D. Seventeen Hundred and Eighty Six By Artemas Morrick Clerk
I Jarvis Weeks hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the record in fair legible figures as follows
This may certify that Uriah Cook and Mary Comstock both of Richmond have been joined in marriage this 6th. day of March A.D. 1786 By Artemas Morrick Clerk
I Jarvis Weeks above named do hereby and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the town of Richmond, County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town of Richmond with the exception above named as certified by me Jarvis Weeks Town Clerk
State of New Hampshire Richmond October the 2 nd 1839 I hereby certify that the above named Jarvis
Weeks Town Clerk personally appeared before me and I know that the above certificate subscribed by him is a true extract Before me Timothy P. Kimball Justice of the Peace

State of New Hampshire Grafton County, ss.
I Henry Goodridge Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Timothy Pickering is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly com- missioned and qualified; that his commission was dated on the 21 day of May 1839, and will expire on the 20 day of May A.D. 1844; and that his signature within written is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court at Keene the 22 day of October 1839.
H. Goodridge. Clerk
Mary Cook Sheriff of Grafton

State of Vermont Rutland COUNTY OF Wind
ss. Hiram Cook _____ being duly
sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is a son — of Uriah Cook . of Vermont — deceased, to whom a pension was probably due, & who was — an applicant for a pension from the State of Vermont — that this deponent is directly interested as one of the claimants in said claim.
Hiram Cook
Sworn and subscribed before me this 4 day August 1851 and I do hereby certify that the said Hiram Cook _____ is a respectable person, and that I have full faith in the truth of the above statement sworn to by him as being directly interested in said claim.
John Buckmaster Justice Peace
Know all Men by these Presents, That I Hiram Cook a child — of Uriah Cook _____ deceased, to whom a pension was probably due, and who was an applicant for a pension from the State of Vermont — do hereby constitute and appoint ARAD JOY, of Ovid, N. Y., my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name as one directly and personally interested, as also for and in behalf of all others interested in the claim or application for a pension as above mentioned.
Witness my hand and seal, this 4 day of August 1851
SEALED AND DELIVERED IN THE PRESENCE OF
John Buckmaster L. A. Buckmaster
Hiram Cook
STATE OF Vermont County of Wind  Rutland
Be it known that on the 4 day of August 1851
before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State, duly authorized by law to administer oaths and take acknowledgements, personally appeared Hiram Cook — above named, and duly acknowledged the above Power of Attorney and affidavits to be his act and deed.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand the day and date above mentioned.
John Buckmaster Justice Peace

as also for and in behalf of all others interested in the claim or application for a pension as above mentioned.
STATE OF VERMONT, } RUTLAND, S. S. COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, }
I, FREDERICK W. HOPKINS, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland, being a court of record and having a seal, as hereto attached, do certify that
John Brackmaster Esq.
was, at the date of the paper writings to which this is attached, and now, is, a JUSTICE OF THE PEACE within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission is dated the thirtieth day of November, Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and fifty and expires the thirtieth day of November next; that his signa-
ture to the foregoing jurat and certificate is genuine; and that the said paper writings are executed according to the laws of this State, and are in due form.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of Court, at Rutland, this ninth day of August Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and fifty- one
F. W. Hopkins CLERK. By A. L. Brown Deputy Clerk

226 Jan
No. _____
Mary Cook
Service: wid of William
Enlisted: _____, 18
our REJECTED
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Pages: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
No. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Uriah Cook
of Vermont Revolutionary
The inclosed order was filed in the pension office long before the new cir- cular of 18 April 57 of course it was in accordance to the rules when put on file it was returned to me
I wish to see the papers on file
from Abad Joy

To the Comt. of Pensions Sir I have appointed Arad Joy of Ovid New York, my agent to investigate my claim to a pension due to Uriah Cook, an appli- cant for a pension from the State of Vermont, I am one of his children. Hiram Cook Dated March 10th 1851

Mary Cook
more than one year since, when here I had these papers in hand & then judging the case to be made out I had the promise of a re-view of the case & a report - all this before the 5 year rule so that I am not cut off, as I claim as of Jan'y. 1852
Please examine & report to me -
Abad Joy March 12. 53

Ovid June 14th 1853
Dear Sir
The 6 old cases of mine that you placed in one of the lower left hand pigeon holes of your desk & that you was so obliging as to encourage me, that they would soon be placed in the hands of an examining clerk, have not one of them been reported to me
These are the same 20 cases that were to have been examined in Feby. 1852 under promise of the then Chief clerk
I am Most Respectfully Your Obed Servt
Hon S.P. Waldo Commr of Patents
Abad Joy

Mary Cook. Revolutionary Vermont
Refer to the profile file
St. John
Bradley
Ovid N.Y.

Washington Feb 20. '82 Vermont
The case of Uriah Cook, & his widow Mary Cook, I judge a plain case for a pension
Formerly 5 mo 21 day was admitted, after that the objections against 7 months more service in '81 I judge must have been removed by the evidence of a fellow soldier who entered the service with him & left the service with him, & who as he says receives a pension for 7 months service, to wit Russell Ballou,
James Eddy testifies he saw him in service in '81 Libo Aldrich testifies that he knew no other man in town of his name or name of Uriah Cook after 1778 therefore the service in '81 could not have been Uriah, but must have been Uriah
Nothing seems to have been done in the case since 1840 - The proof of marriage will probably not be denied - Widow is dead, but left several children as I am informed 3 at least have appointed me their agent - I quote the proof as it seems to me, there it is
12 Months 21 day, I judge will be admitted
I ask respectfully to have all the papers on file carefully re-examined & a report made & me

Orion N.Y. Oct 1. '57
Sir
I inclose formal power of attorney in the case of Uriah Cook, an applicant from Vermont. I ask for a copy of his alleged service, & for a statement of the state of this case
Respectfully Your Ob dt Serv t Abad Joy.
Hon J. E. Heath Comdg. Dist

This may certify that I Robert Bishop of Plymouth in the County of Windsor & State of Vermont of lawful age depose do testify & say that I was knowing to Zeriah Cook serving during the Revolutionary war in the New Hampshire Militia & was with him at West Point & was placed as a guard over the Court Martial that tried Major Andre with said Cook & others & was taken from Col. Webbers Regiment & was served as a guard to General Arnold previous to that time on what was called the Robinson Farm on the east side of North River opposite West Point with said Cook & others & after Andres Trial we were stationed at Fort No 3 until we were discharged & is confident that said Cook served six months at that time & further this deponent saith not
Robert Bishop
Windsor } at Plymouth this 27 th day of September 1838 County so } Personally appeared Robert Bishop, signer of the above & made oath that the foregoing deposition is true
before me Enoch Wetherbee Justice Peace
State of Vermont, } Windsor County, ss }
I, Lyman A. Marsh, Deputy Clerk of the County Court of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Enoch Wetherbee is an acting Jus- tice of the peace in and for said County, duly com- missioned and qualified - that his commission was dated on the 7 th day of November 1838 and will expire on the last day of November 1839, and that his signature above written is genuine - Given under my hand and the seal of said County Court, this 15 day of October 1839. L. Marsh, Deputy Clerk

State of Vermont, } S. Lyndon A. Marsh, Deputy Clerk of the Windsor County, } County Court of the County and State afore- said, do hereby certify that the said Enoch Wetherbee is now, and was at the time of swearing the said deponent Robert Bishop to wit, to wit on the 27- day of September 1838, a justice of the peace in & for said County of Windsor; that his commission under which the said acknowledgment was taken, was dated on the first day of November and ex- pired on the last day of November 1838, & that his signature within written is genuine.
Given under my hand & the seal of said County Court this 21 day of October 1839-
S. Lyndon A. Marsh Deputy Clerk
Deposition of Robert Bishop
Robert Bishop's Deposition In Mary Cook's Claim

I, Ziba Aldrich, of Shrewsbury in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont, aged 84 years and upwards, do depose testify and say, that I was acquainted with Uriah Cook, late of said Shrewsbury, deceased, who died in said town in the month of April, 1830. He was younger than myself; and I was acquainted with him from his early infancy, until his death. He was born in the town of Bellingham in Massachusetts, and when a boy of the age of 8 or ten years, he came to reside in Richmond, New Hampshire, with his father, whose name was Nicholas Cook, in which town the said Uriah resided, until he removed into Vermont (Shrewsbury) soon after the peace of 1783. I was knowing to him the said Uriah Cook's being called into the service, and have heard him say that he was at West Point when Arnold attempted to surrender that place - and I have heard him relate that he served at other times. And I further depose and say that I was also acquainted with one Zuriel Cook, of the same town of Richmond aforesaid, who was a cousin of the said Uriah Cook; and that the said Zuriel sickened and died in the winter season of 1778-9. I have no recollection of his ever having been out in the service in the revolutionary war. I was well acquainted with the inhabitants generally of said town of Richmond, and never knew any other man belonging to said town, during the revolutionary war, of the name of Zuriel Cook.
Witness to the signing
Ziba X Aldrich mark
Alma Aldrich John Gove
June 28. 1830

I, Hannah Aldrich, of Shrewsbury in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont, aged 82 years and upwards, do depose, testify and say, that I have heard read the annexed affidavits of my husband, Ziba Aldrich, and that I am well acquainted with all the facts therein stated, and know them to be true. I further depose and say, that I was present, and was knowing to the sickness of the said Zuriel Cook, and attended his funeral at said Richmond in the year 1778-9 in the winter of that year.  Witness to the signing } Hiram Cook } Seps Goss } Hannah T Aldrich mark
Form 28 July 1840
State of Vermont } Rutland County } Be it known, that on the 28 th day of January, 1840, before me the subscriber, a Notary Public for the State of Vermont, duly admitted and sworn according to law, and residing at Rutland in said County, personally appeared Ziba Aldrich, and Hannah Aldrich, to me well known to be persons of truth and veracity and credible witnesses, who subscribed their respective foregoing affidavits in my presence, and in presence of the subscribing witnesses thereto, and severally made oath, in due form of law, that the affidavits by them respectively subscribed, as aforesaid, do contain the truth, and nothing but the truth.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my Notarial Seal, and subscribed my official signature at Shrewsbury aforesaid, this twenty eighth day of January, anno Domini, 1840
Seps Goss Not. Public

I Russell Ballou of Shurton in the County of Cheshire in the State of New Hampshire do testify and say I formerly lived in the Town of Richmond in the County & State above written that I did list as a soldier in the United States service as one of the New Hampshire militia for the term of six months and there served my country as a soldier the full term of seven months of which I drew pay for it was in the year 1801 of the above time I was at Castleton the first three months then at Shurtonborough now called White hall the remainder of the time I was at Castleton it being the State of Vermont I listed in said Town of Richmond under Capt Pratt of Chesterfield in said County of Cheshire in the Regiment commanded by Col Colonel Fletcher and that Uriah Cook of said Richmond did then and there list at the same time with me under the same Captain Pratt and did serve his country with me as a soldier the full term of seven months and at the end of the seven months returned with me to Richmond Russell Ballou
Cheshire SS October 15 1830 then the above named Russell Ballou made oath that the fore- going deposition is just and true before me Amos Balch justice of the Peace

State of New Hampshire Cheshire County ss.
I Henry Boolidge Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Amos Kealey is an acting Justice of the peace, in said County of Cheshire duly commissioned and qualified: that his commission was dated on the 21 day of June 1839, and will expire on the 20 day of June A.D. 1844: and that his signature within written is genuine - Given under my hand and the seal of said Court at Keene this fifteenth day of October A.D. 1839 - H Boolidge Clerk
Russell Ballou's Deposition Mary Cook's Claim
The Deposition
of Russell Ballou
I further certify that the said Amos Kealey was in Commission, and an acting Justice of the Peace in said County of Cheshire for the term of office of years im- -mediately preceding the date of the commission above named but of the date of his prior commission being not advised. Witness my hand and seal of said the day and year above written - H. Boolidge Clerk

Capt. James Eddy's Affidavit M rs Mary Cook's claim

I, James Eddy, of Clarendon in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont, aged 76 years, do depose, testify and say, that I have been acquainted with Ulrich Cook, late of Shrewsbury in said County, ever since the year 1781, until the period of his death, which took place at said Shrewsbury a few years past - how long I do not exactly remember. I was myself a soldier in the Vermont troops, at the commencement of my acquaintance with him, having then enlisted for what was called the ten months service. I first became acquainted with said Cook at Castleton in this State - he belonged to a New Hampshire regiment, at that time commanded by Col. Fletcher, but I do not know to what Company said Cook belonged at the time. The Regiment was at Castleton some two or three months, and then moved to Sheepsborough; that is, two or three companies of the Regiment went there, at a time, from Castleton; and after a few months, were relieved by other companies or troops. I do not know for how long a term the said Cook enlisted, nor how long he actually served: I know that my acquaintance commenced with him in the summer of 1781 - I should think early in the season - and that I often paraded with him, while his company remained at the said Castleton. And further this deponent saith not.
JAMES EDDY
State of Vermont } Rutland County } ss }
Be it known that on this 25 th day of October, 1859, before me, John Gove, a Notary Public, duly appointed and sworn for the State of Vermont, according to law, residing at Rutland in said County, personally appeared the above named James Eddy, to me well known to be a person of truth and veracity, and made oath in due form of law, that the preceding affidavit, by him

nothing but the truth. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed my Notarial Seal, at Rutland in said County, the day and year herein last above written.
Joseph Gove
(Faint, mirrored text from the reverse side of the page, likely bleed-through from the original document.)

Rutland V t 29 Oct. 1839
Sir
I transmit herewith the declaration and vouchers of Mrs Mary Cook, of Shrewsbury, for a pension under the act of July 7, 1838.
Vouchers,
Proof of marriage.
Robert Bishop's deposition.
Russell Ballou's deposition.
Cap t . James Eddy's affidavit.
Reference is made in the declaration to the New Hampshire Rolls, now in the War Office.
Be pleased to communicate your decision to me.
I am very respectfully
Your att d . servant
Depe Gove
James P. Edwards Esq o Comm r . of Pensions City of Washington

In the matter of Mary Cook, widow of Uriah Cook

In the Matter of Mary Cook - widow of Uriah Cook
Act July 7. 1838
Mrs. Cook filed her declaration March 28/39 - claiming pension for her husband's services in the Revolutionary War - and alledging that he served 6 months in Col. Webber's regiment, and 10 months under Capt. Pratt in Col. Fletcher's regiment of N.H. militia.
The rolls of the Office show that one Jeriel Cook performed 11 mo. & 28 days service during 1780 & 1781 - from the town of Richmond N.H., in Col. Fletcher's regiment of Militia.
James Eddy swears that he was acquainted with Uriah Cook of Richmond N.H. When he first became acquainted with Cook, he (Cook) was a member of Col. Fletcher's regiment of N.H. Militia. They were stationed at Castleton Vt. where they remained 2 or 3 months and then proceeded to Skene'sboro'. He does not know how long Cook served. This was the only testimony available in the case, the depositions of Robert Bishop and Russell Ballou being ruled out as they were not certified to be credible witnesses - and the

Office, by letter dated January 20/40, - informed the agent of the Claimant, that "if the widow or some other person would make affidavit that there was no such person in the town of Richmond as Zuriel Cook, then a pension of would be allowed the widow of Uriah Cook" - the mar- riage having been established by the record proof.
In compliance with this suggestion of the Office, the Claimant files the affidavits of Ziba & Hannah Aldrich, of Shrewsbury, Vermont - who swear that "they were well acquainted with the inhabitants of Richmond and knew Uriah Cook, and were knowing to his being called out into service. They were also acquainted with Zuriel Cook of Rich- mond N. H., who died in the winter of 1778 & 79; he was a cousin of Uriah Cook. They never heard of Zuriel being in the war. - Were present at his funeral."
This office is then called upon to grant a pension to the widow of Uriah Cook, upon the mere recollec- tion of two witnesses of the precise date of a death which had occurred more than 60 years previously, when that recollection, too, contradicts the record of the office, the correctness of which record

is substantiated by these very witnesses themselves. These witnesses testify that there was a Zuriel Cook in Richmond, during the revolutionary war, and the record says that it was Zuriel Cook who performed the service. Should we permit this array of testimony to be successfully contradicted by the bare recollection of the witnesses who swear to the precise date of a circumstance, happening more than sixty years previously, and without the mention of any one fact which would tend to fix the date of that circumstance in their memories? We think not. The claim was therefore properly rejected by the office.
A. D. Evans
Approved L. P. M.

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War Department
Pension Office
January 20, 1840.
Sir:
I find from our rolls that Zuriel Cook, of Richmond, served in the N. H. militia 5 mos. 21 ds. in 1780. It also appears that Richmond furnished 15 men in 1781, for the positive [frontier?] service. They were called out in both years for 6 months. I have no doubt but that the name Zuriel was intended for Uriah. But, it will be well to have the widows affidavit, or that of some other person acquainted with the family, proving that no such person of the name of Zuriel Cook resided in the town. When that fact is established, the widow of Uriah Cook, Mrs. Mary Cook, may receive a pension for 11 mos. & 21 days.
I am respectfully
Your ob. servt
S. L. Edwards
Copy Govt Exg Rutland Vermont

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Pension Office,
March 25, 1840.
Sir,
The additional evidence in the case of Mrs. Mary Cook, widow of Ulrich Cook, deceased, shows that there was an inhabitant of the town of Richmond, N. H. named Zuriel Cook - and therefore the service credited to the town of Richmond in the name of Zuriel Cook cannot be allowed to the claimant whose husband is named Ulrich Cook, unless it is shown by _____ (as intimated in the evidence) that Zuriel Cook died before 1780.
I am respectfully
Your H. best
S. L. Edwards 3
Dear Genl. Ely } Rutland } Vermont }

Rutland Vt 1 Feb. 1840
Sir-
In reply to your letter, of the 20 ult, I now transmit the affidavits of Mr. Ziba Aldrich, and of his wife Mrs. Hannah Aldrich, both of whom have been long personally acquainted with Ulrich Cook, and his present widow, and were also acquainted with Zuriel Cook who died before the performance of the services claimed for Ulrich Cook. Mrs. Cook could not depose to their facts:
she never knew that there was such a person as Zuriel Cook (who was a cousin of her late husband) and resided in a distant part of Richmond; but, as to when military services or death she could not recollect.
Zuriel Cook having deceased in the winter of 1778-9, could not therefore have served in 1780; and the mistake of writing his name, instead of Ulrich Cook's, was probably a clerical error on the part of the town authorities of Richmond.
Mr. Aldrich came to Shrewsbury in 1779, and brought his wife there in 1780, where they have resided ever since. They are as reputable people as any in that town.
I am respectfully
Your obedt Servt
Defer Gove
James L. Edwards Esq m Comm r of Pensions City of Washington

Rutland Vt 2 nd April 1840.
Sir -
On reading your letter of 20 th Jan y . relating to the claim of M rs Mary Cook, in connexion with that of the 28 th ult. in the same case, I am utterly at a loss to read, & make sense of, the word which is inserted in the original of the last letter, immediately before the parenthesis; of both which letters, copies are made (as far as I can read them) and are herewith transmitted.
On the 20 th of January last, you was pleased to say: "I have no doubt but that the name Zuriel was intended for Uriah. But it will be well to have the widow's affidavit, or that of some other person acquainted with the family, proving that no such person of the name of Zuriel Cook resided in the town." To this purport, Liba Aldrich, & Hannah Aldrich, both of whom had been acquainted with Zuriel Cook, deposed on the 28 th of Jan y . 1840, that said Z. Cook had died at Richmond in the winter of 1778-9; and that the said Hannah had attended him in his last sickness, & was present at his funeral. I retained no copies of these depositions; but I have a perfect recollection, that both of them stated, tho' I do not recollect whether they deposed to the fact, that in the winter of 1778-9, when Zuriel Cook died, there was no other person of that name, in the town of Richmond, of competent age to do military duty.
Under these circumstances, I cannot guess at the word which should fill the blank underscored in the copy of your letter of the 28 th of March. Will you have the kindness to explain it?

"Unless it is shown" — to quote from your last letter, — "(as intimated in the evidence) that Zaniel Cook died before 1780."? Allow me, respectfully to inquire, If the depositions, above referred to, do not establish this fact, even by your own rule of the 20 July, when you advise, in terms, that "it will be well to have the widow's affidavit, or that of some other person acquainted with the family, proving that no such person as Zaniel Cook resided in the "town" of Richmond — in 1780 , or in 1781 ? If this fact be not already established, I must beg your indulgence to advise, what more must be done to prove it.
I am very respectfully
your affec. servt
Oliver Gooch
James B. Edwards Esq. Commr. of Pensions City of Washington

add proof
Mary Cook N.Y.
April 15. 44

Rutland Vt. April 8, 1840
Sir—
Since I wrote you on the 2 d inst. in relation to the claim of M rs Mary Cook, I learn that Russell Ballou, whose deposition was sworn to before Amos Baley on the 15 th Oct. 1835 & is now on your files, draws a pension for 7 months service in 1781. Unknown Rolls will show this fact. M r Ballou deposes, that Uriah Cook was out with him under Capt Pratt during the same time. If this testimony be true, your letter of the 20 Jany. is erroneous in allowing that tour at six months only; or, Ballou draws for one month too much. His pension is $23, 33 per ann. — which corresponds, in length of time, to that sworn to in his deposition, herein referred to.
I am very respectfully your obed servt Ebenezer Dorr
James L. Edwards Esq d Coun. of Assis City of Washington

Rutland Vt 15 April 1840 Rutland Vt 15 April 1840
Sir -
I transmit herewith your letter of the 28 th ultimo, for which you wrote me on the 8 th instant.
I am very respectfully
Your ob t . serv t
Depe. Govz 3
James L. Edwards Esq Comm ee of Pensions City of Washington

Unat Book (Richmond) a. 1830. May m. 86 s.
1780 6m. Killibber 1781. 10. Pratt Sal Fletcher
5 21 6. 11. 31
31 11. 234.
Vol 4 Unat Book p 593 5 21 from Richmond - N.H. Vol 3 list of new Series - Special ch. n Vol 3. Book. Poultry p.a.d. & lesson done by turn 1781. Richmond 15 Mar for parties - p 87 -

Dept of War Penna Office Jan 17. 1840
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Yours of the 11th was recd last evening. I have attended to yours