Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 12744, John Cool, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Boot John Abigail
NUMBER _____
W 12744
CONTENTS

Maine 3727.
John Cool
Waterville in the State of Maine who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Jenkins of the Reg d commanded by Col Baener in the Mass: Troops here for
3 years.
scribed on the Roll of Maine the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28. day of Oct. 1832 and sent to Robert C. Vose, Augusta Me.
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1832 — $ 120. -- Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 March. 33 40. --
$ 160. --
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Francis J. Fancin Clerk, Book (D. Vol. 1 st Page 52.

Rep d
Maine. 348.
Abigail Cool widow of John Cool who was a Private in the Mass. Troops.
Husb d died 8 th Octo. 1846.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1844. 8 th October 1846.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 th day of Feby. 1847. and sent to
Hon. L. Severance, Ho. of Rep s .
[Act of JUNE 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A,
Vol. 2. Page 2.

John Cool
Sergeant. Mass. troops.
Hinkins Co; Brewster's Regt.
3 years.
advent private 3 years $80
R. C. Vose Augusta Me.

State of Maine.
KENNEBEC, ss.—I, JOHN A. CHANDLER, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, before whom the within proceedings was had, is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State; I also certify that the within contains the original proceedings of the said Judge, in the matter of the application of John Cool for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this 16 th , day of July .
A. D. 1832, —
J. A. Chandler Clerk

Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
STATE OF MAINE, } ss. KENNEBEC COUNTY, }
On this sixteenth day of July A. D. 1832 personally appeared before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, of said State, John Cool a resident of Waterville in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged seventy seven years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following dec- laration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832 That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1777 with Captain Jenkins and served in Col. Brewer's regiment of the Massachusetts line or troops under the following named officers: Jenkins Captain Brewer Colonel , that in March 1777 he enlisted as a private in that company and regiment for the period of three years - That in this service he was in both the battles at the taking of Burgoyne and in battle at Trenton , where he was taken prisoner and carried to New York, remained two weeks and was then exchanged, and continued to serve until March 1780, when he was discharged at Poughkeepsie , and that his discharge is now in the war department
That he was placed on the Maine roll under the Act of Congress of March 18, 1818, and that his pension certificate is numbered 12,007 and dropped therefrom on account of his property. That at that time he resided in Waterville in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, and now resides in the same town -
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State, except as aforesaid.
his John X Cool mark
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, Before
Nathan Weston Jun Not S.P. Com L
And the said Judge does hereby declare his opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.
Nathan Weston Jun

State of Maine.
No 2
KENNEBEC COUNTY, ss.
ON this twelfth day of July, 1820, personally appeared before Nathan Weston Junior one of the Justices of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, being a Court of Record for said Counties, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having original jurisdiction, unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, John Cool aged fifty five years, resident in Waterville in the County of Kennebec within said State, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. in the Company commanded by Captain Jenkins and Regiment commanded by Colonel Brewer then part of the line of the State of Massachusetts upon the Continental Establishment, for the period of three years, and was in both the battle at the taking of Burgoyne, and battle at Terra Town when I was taken prisoner and carried to New York & remained in prison two weeks, when I was discharged.
that his original declaration was made before Judge Weston on the twenty sixth day of March 1819; that he is now on the Maine Roll, and that his pension certificate is numbered 12087. And I, the said John Cool do further solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; 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 hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Witness N. Weston Jr
John Cool Mark
The following is a Schedule of my whole Estate and income, necessary clothing and bedding excepted, viz:
The right in equity to redeem one hundred acres of land mortgaged for four hundred and forty five dollars, with interest due thereon about six years, with the buildings, an old house unfinished, and an old barn lately repaired - my right to redeem said property is the value of one hundred and fifty dollars - seventy acres of land, about thirty acres under improvement, and which has been for many years improved by my son, and son in law, and they now live upon the same, my right to the first is of the value of two hundred and fifty dollars -
 One old mare twenty years old of the value of fifteen dollars -  One three years old " " thirty dollars -  One yoke of oxen fifty " " forty dollars -  Two cows " " thirty dollars  Three young cattle " " twenty one dollars  Two calves " " four dollars 
etc.

Thirteen sheep & six lambs " twenty dollars Two swine " six dollars one pr Old cart wheels " four dollars Farming utensils of the value of fifteen dollars Old household stuff (besides bedding) fifteen dollars
The annual income of the foregoing property deducting what I yearly pay for interest does not exceed forty dollars. I owe as much as one hundred dollars over and above what I have due me. My family consist of eight in number. Myself, my occupation is that of a farmer; by reason of age having been afflicted with the rheumatism for seven years - am now able to do but little labor. My wife Abigail aged fifty, subject to rheumatism her sister Sally Potter aged fifty four years - my son Loring aged eighteen partially blind, My daughter Louisa aged twelve; Emeline aged ten years, my son John aged eight years and Lora aged five years; My two youngest children are quite feeble.
Except the foregoing and my necessary bedding and clothing I have no estate or income whatever.
Witness at Weston to my John Davis (mark)
Subscribed Sworn to and declared both the oath and schedule on the twelfth day of July 1820
Before me Nathan Weston Jr. Judge Sup. Prob. Court for the State of Maine
State of Maine
I John Davis, Clerk of all the Judicial courts, held within and for the County of Washington, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said court; and that the original was exhibited in open 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 four hundred and forty nine dollars.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this ninth day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
John Davis Clerk of the court for the County of Washington. (Seal: Oct 12. 1820)

13252 { 440
Abigail Cool
(Ms)
Act 7. July
m 90. d 46!
rejected
Act 17 June 44
adm'd 2 yrs pri
80 from 8000
Col J. L. Edwards 46 when her husband died - loan of Pensions
13252/1
Yrs. S. Severance (J. R.)

State of Maine County of Penobscot ss. Be it known that before me Moses Appleton a Justice of the Peace for the County of Penobscot person- ally appeared Margail Cook who upon oath saith that she is the Widow of the late John Cook who died on the eighth day of October 1846. & late a Pensioner in the Army of the revolution inscribed on the list roll of the Maine Agency That she was legally married to the said John Cook on the eleventh day of November in the year one thousand seven hundred & ninety. That she has not intermarried but continues a Widow. That she makes this applica- tion to obtain for herself the pension provided for Widows of the Soldiers of the army of the revolution by a Law of the United States. She further states that she has resided with her husband ever since she was married to him in the Town of Waterville which was formerly a part of Winslow.
Witness
S. Plaisted
Margail Cook
X
Penobscot ss. February 13 th 1847. Personally appeared the above written Margail Cook and made oath, that the above written application and affidavit is true & I further certify that she is entitled to full credit as a witness
Moses Appleton Justice of the Peace
The Pension certificate when made out may be given to the Hon ble Mr. Tervance or transmitted to Moses Appleton Esq. Waterville State of Maine or to the Applicant herself

Married John Coole to Abigail Pattee November 11 th 1790
A true copy from the Town Records of Winslow - Attest
Winslow Febr. 11 th 1847 Asa Burnham Town Clerk of Winslow
State of Maine } February 11 th 1847 Personally appeared Hennebec Co. } Asa Burnham above written, and made oath that he is the Town Clerk of the Town of Winslow in said county before me - And I further certify that he is a credible witness -
Mrs. Appleton Justice of the Peace for the County of Hennebec -
State of Maine } Hennebec County ss Be it known that personally appeared before me Mrs. Appleton Justice of the Peace for said County of Hennebec deponent Jonathan C. Tozer and made oath in due form of Law. That he was present at the marriage of John Coole with Abigail Pattee both then of Winslow what is now Waterville that they were married by Justice Pattee at her Father's, about fifty & sixty years ago, and that she is the identical person who now makes application for her Pension - & that I am now seventy one years of age
witness Asa Burnham Mrs. Appleton.
his Jonathan C. Tozer clerk
Sworn and subscribed before me this twelfth day of February 1847 and thereby certify that the above deponent is a credible witness -
Mrs. Appleton Justice of the Peace

Dear Seward
COOL, JOHN (MASS.)
W-12749
Mr. Cool, Dim.

John Cool, soldier in the 12 th Massachusetts regim t having served faithfully the term of three years, discharged the service of the United States, and permitted to return to his place of abode on Henebeck river, in the Massachusetts state free return'd in his Arms after engagements. —
Given at Fishkill this twelfth day of March 1780. —
Abraham Williams Capt. Comander 12 th Mass. Regim t
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26. 2

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 12744.
Abigail Cool Widow of John Cool Priv Mass Troops
Act: June 19 th /44
Index:—Vol. a , Page 147
[Arrangement of 1870.]

John love M c 80$ at 7 June '32 - last pay?
23 Feb '47
[Signature] Paid to 4 th March 1846.
B.I.B.

12087 Q
Maine
John Cook
of _____ in the state of who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Prout of the Massa line, for the term of 3 Years
inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 26 of March 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 of June 1819 and Signed to RC Foster Augusta Maine
Arrears to 4th of September 1819 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 112.60
5 31 30  $42.60
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Not entitled
Notication sent Nov. 21. 1820 to Robert B. Dorr, Augusta, Maine

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT, May 12 th 1819
BY THIS I CERTIFY, That it appears by public, official documents remaining in this Department, that John Cool served as a Soldier in Capt. Sewall's Company, and Col. Sprout's * Regiment, (being one of the Regiments in the Massachusetts Line, and on the Continental Establishment,) in the American Army, in the War of the Revolution, from March 22 nd 1777 to March 12 th 1780 , being Three years and  months .
Alden Bradford
Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
* formerly Brewer's Regt. and in one Book it is Spelt Cole A. Bradford Lucas

FREE
Hon. Luther Severance No 8
Washington D.C.

Waterville February 13 th 1847
Hon ble L. Severance —
Dear Sir —
I take the liberty to enclose to your care the application of the Widow Cook for a Pension Certificate the record on the Town Book being somewhat imperfect, I thought proper to get the affidavit of a Person present at the ceremony of the marriage — I hope you will be able to obtain the pension certificate before you leave — I have not directed the application not knowing who is Pension Commissioner, you please to make the proper direction —
With respect & esteem Your humble Serv
Mrs Appleton

John Cool, Waterville Private Col. Sprouts Mass Reg. 1777. to 1780  3 years  March 26 1819-
On Roll Admitted Prof- Discharge & Attestation Certificate
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. To the Col. a citizen of the United States, aged

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
I John Cool, a citizen of the United States, aged sixty five years, born in Pownalborough now Dresden Maine, and now resident in Waterville, in the District of Maine, upon oath testify and declare, that in March 1777 I enlisted as a private soldier, for the term of three years, in the war of the revolution against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, in Capt Jenkins's company, and Colonel Brimer's regiment, Massachusetts line. This period I fully served out, and was honorably discharged at Fishkill March twelfth A.D. 1780. The discharge which I received and in which I am named, and I being the same person therein described, is herunto annexed. I was in the battle of Hubbardton, and in both the general battles at the taking of Burgoyne, and wintered one winter at Valley Forge.
From my reduced circumstances in life, I need the assistance of my country for support. And I do hereby relinquish all my claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the U. States, if any; but I am not to my knowledge borne on any pension list whatever.
John his X Cool mark
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Plenipot.
On the twenty sixth of March A.D. 1819 John Cool above named, after being carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the above declaration, by him signed, the same having been first distinctly read to him.
Before me. Nathan Weston Esq. C.C.C. Mass

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I the subscriber, being Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset do hereby certify to your Honor, that John Cool , a citizen of the United States, now resident in Waterville in said county of Kennebec, in the District of Maine, on the twenty sixth day of March A.D. 1819 , made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence, as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same and the proceedings had thereon to your Honor; that he might be placed on the pension list of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an act entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed March 10, 1818, which declaration, and the other evidence produced by the said applicant, is herunto annexed.
And I do further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of the

said applicant, and a careful consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a private soldier , in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid; and that from his reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance of his country for support.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the court in which I preside to be hereunto affixed, this sixth day of May, 1819.
Nathan Weston Jun. C. Just. C.C.C. Pleas & R. Circuit
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
KENNEBEC, ss.
THE Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Kennebec, hereby certifies, that the Honorable NATHAN WESTON, Junior, Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto his Certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presides.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand: Dated at Augusta, in said County of Kennebec, this eighth day of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen John Davis