Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,600, James Cooper, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Cooper James
S. 34,600
CONTENTS
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THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED
540. To James Cooper Esquire. Greeting. We, Reposing especial trust and confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct, and Fidelity, DO by these presents constitute and appoint you to be a Captain in the Fourteenth Massachusetts Regiment in the Army of the United States, to take rank as such from the 1 st day of January 1777. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of a Captain by doing and performing all manner of things therein belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers, under your command, to be obedient to your orders, as Captain. And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions, from time to time, as you shall receive from this, or a future Congress of the United States, or Committee of Congress for that purpose appointed, a Committee of the States, or Commander in chief for the time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your Superior Officer, according to the rules and discipline of War, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in force until revoked by this, or a future Congress, the Committee of Congress forementioned, or a Committee of the States.
Entered in the War Office and examined by the Board
Attest
Robt. Hodges Secretary of the Board of War
Witness his Excellency Samuel Huntington Esq. President of the Congress of the United States of America, at Philadelphia the 29 th day of September 1779, and in the Fourth Year of our Independence.
Sam l Huntington President

Academy Quarters New Windsor May 30 th 1785
Captain Cooper has, at his own request, obtained permission to resign his Commission in the Service of the United States of America.
By Command of His Excellency
D. Humphrys
Deputy Comp.
To the Commander in Chief -
COOPER, JAMES (MASS) 5-34600

34600 Rev INVALID.
File No. 34,600
James Cooper Capt Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 9, Page 84
[Arrangement of 1870.]

10.280
Massachusetts Damrs Cooper
of _____ in the state of _____ who was a Captain in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bradford  Mass me, for the term of 1 Year 8 Mo
scribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on the 3 of April 1815
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 of May 1816 and sent to N Mitchell Dedham Norfolk Co
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819  225 24 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819  120
345 24
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

James Cooper Taunton (Officer.)
If the Judge will certify that the applicant needs the assistance of the country for support of the claim will be admitted - not otherwise.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
ss.
On this third day of April A. D. 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared James Cooper of Taunton aged eighty years, resident in the said Circuit, who being by me first duly cautioned according to law, on his oath made the following declaration, by him signed, 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," viz That he served as a Captain in said war from 29 th Sept. 1779 to 30 th May 1781 in Col. Brad ford's Reg t Mass. Line —
/ See his said Declaration & Commission enclosed/
So many have testified, that they served under Col t Cooper, that there can be no doubt of his service —

And I the said Judge from further enqui- ry am satisfied the said Cooper from his reduced circumstances needs the assistance of his country for support. —
Also And I, the said Judge, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said James Cooper did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the com- mon enemy, for the term of nine months, on the continental establishment; 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.
Nahum Mitchell
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
ss.
1818.
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That is one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, consisting of the Counties of Plymouth, Norfolk, Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket in said Commonwealth—that the same Circuit Court of Common Pleas is a Court of record—that the signature to the above cer- tificate is the true signature of the said Judge, and that the seal thereunto affixed is the seal of the said Court.
} Clerk of the Judicial Court for the County of

James Cooper Taunton

I James Cooper of Taunton in the County of Bristol and Commonwealth of Massachusetts in my eighty first year depose set forth and declare that I was an officer in the war of the Revolution against Great Britain on the Continental establishment and in the Massachusetts line — That after serving at Roxbury as a lieutenant I received a Commission of Captain under Col. Garmall's Bradford in the Massachusetts line bearing date the 29. Sept r 1779 and faithfully served till May 30. 1781. My commission and the discharge endorsed thereon I herewith exhibit.
James Cooper
Sworn to April 3. 1818
At the time Capt d Cooper made the above Declaration no oath was required, and therefore he made none, as to his circumstances; and he lives at a distance and is very old, and he has not therefore been notified to appear again before me. —
From the best information I can obtain relative to his property, he is not destitute, nor affluent. He has some estate, but is entirely past all personal labor, and a pension would render the short time he may probably continue in life, more comfortable. —
Nathan Mitchell: Judge