Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 974, Henry Cook, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
book, Henry
S. 974
CONTENTS
carded.

Date of his death not on record
2289  New Jersey Penny Book
of Middlesex in the State of New Jersey who was a Private in the Corps commanded by Captain Gray - of the Regt. commanded by Col. Neilson in the New Jersey line for 14 months
Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey at the rate of 16 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 day of Dec 1833 and due to J. H. Rau Adopt. Parent
Arrears to the 14th of Sep '33 $116.66 Pension allowance ending 4th Mo '34 23.33 $140.00
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. Recorded by Go C. Stiles Clerk Book E Vol. B. Page 106
1833 758

Declaration of Henry Cook of Middlesex county State of New Jersey in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1833 State of New Jersey
Middlesex county ss. On this Thirtieth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty, three personally appeared in open court before the Judge of the Superior Court of Common Pleas now sitting at New Brunswick in the county of Middlesex Henry Cook aged seventy three 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 Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1833. That he was born in the township of Amwell in the county of Hunterdon State of New Jersey, on the ninth day of August Anno Domini 1759. He has no record of his age now in his possession but has been frequently informed by his parents of his age. He was living in Amwell, Hunterdon County, when he was called into service & lived there some twelve years, since which he has resided in New Brunswick Middlesex County where he now lives. He entered the service as a volunteer in May 1776 & joined as a private volunteer a company of one month under Capt. Arthur Gray, Col. Smith's New Jersey Line was engaged on Staten Island in constructing a fort at the Red Bank. His next tour was in the same year at Elizabeth Town under Capt. Gray. The British were then on Staten Island. This tour lasted one month as he well recollects because at this time he was drafted & delayed joined the tour as a private & doctor's soldier. He was engaged in guarding the lines. His next was around out as before joined three tours of a month each in the 1777 the same year under Capt. Stout Stout & Col. Smith chiefly at Smith's farms below Woodbridge. Engaged guarding the lines & during the time was marched in a detachment

under Col d Chamberlain over on the Island to take the enemy at Cuckold's Town near Richmond. In December 1776 he was ordered out as before I served for three terms of a month each without intermission - four months for himself & two months as a substitute for his step brother Phillip Hunter - all under Col d Gray Lieutenant Hageman & Col d Chamberlain. Immediately after the capture of the Hessian at Trenton at the close of the year 1776 they new marched towards the Delaware and reached Princeton on the day of the Battle there when the renowned Mercer fell but he was that marched to the Bariton above Roundabout - the enemy returned to Brunswick & the new kept stationed along the Bariton & at Red Bank, I was engaged in several - harassing the enemy along the lines and preserving the defenceless families & property of his fellow citizens. In the summer of 1777 he was ordered out again I served three terms of a month each under Col d Gray and was stationed in Woodbridge Township under the com- mand of Col d Chamberlain engaged in raiding along the lines & patrolling the shore & watching the enemy. In the fall of the same year 1777 he was ordered out again I served three terms of a month each under Col d Gray James Stout & Col d Chamberlain and he well recollects Col d Chamberlain's regiment was in company with them from the circumstance that they were his sister's relative to the same. During this period we marched to Pennsylvania by the way of Long Valley over the Delaware to Trenton & then to the Crooked Billet & the Valley Forge & then joined Washington's forces I was marched to Germantown & then to Red Bank. After which they returned to the Woodbridge Station. I was kept guarding in that vicinity. In the year 1778 he was ordered out I served three terms of a

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month each - the first term of a month under Captain Gray at Shrewsbury, the latter two months under the same Captain at Connecticut Farms. The Hoxes were the white under Lt. Chamberlain & was engaged all the time in guarding three sections of the road - in scouts and making the enemy. After which he was hurt very badly by falling out of the saddle up near so at the time of the battle of Brandywine remained so I say lame for a long time. He cannot speak with the same certainty of his services afterwards. Altho' he thinks he feels more yet he cannot particularize. He cannot state the names of the regular enlisted officers with whom he served except those heretofore mentioned. He never received any written discharge from the service and has no documentary evidence of his services. All the time he served he acted as a private. He does not  know has well acquainted with a rather well known to the Right Rev. Bishop Oliver & to the Rev. Dr. Clark. James May, man in this city, but lives now rather in an obscure manner. Is not well known to any clergyman now there to know of but refers to John Martin & to Mr. Ackerman two respectable citizens of this city who can attest to his character for truth & veracity. Their belief of his services as before to wit to prove the testimony of John Paul Jones and Mathias Abbe ————— respectable witnesses of the revolution who live in Boston or vicinity, where this applicant resides at the time of the war. He hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Given to subscribers in open court. Thos. Barracledge Henry Cooke

John Court this 30 th July AD 1833
Thos Hance Judge
We Squire Martin & David Ackerman both residents of the City of New Brunswick being duly sworn according to law on their oaths respectively, say that they are well acquainted with Henry Cook who has Subscribed Oath to the foregoing declaration - that he believes him to be of the age of twenty three years - that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution That we concur in that opinion - We further certify that said Cook is a man of truth & veracity, and that his statement may be relied on as true Subscribed Oath to. Squire Martin the day & year aforesaid. David Ackerman.
Thos Hance, Judge
And the said Court do hereby declare the opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogations prescribed by the war department that the above named Henry Cook as applicant for a pension was a Revolu- tionary Soldier served as he states. And the Court further certifies that Squire Martin and David Ackerman are residents of the City of New Brunswick highly respectable persons & credible witnesses. That their statements are entitled to full & entire credit.
Thos Hance } H. Ward } Judges Peter D. Harington }

27 December 20, 1938
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BA-J/CC Henry Cook S.974
Miss Mary Lucile Cook 1609 N.E. 21 Avenue, Portland, Oregon.
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Henry Cook who served in the Hunterdon County Militia.
The data which follow were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim S.974 based upon the Revolutionary War service of Henry Cook.
Henry Cook was born August 9, 1759 in Amwell Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Names of his parents not stated. He gave the name of his step-father as Phillip Hunter.
While residing in Amwell, Hunterdon County, New Jersey, Henry Cook enlisted in May 1776 and served at various times until sometime in 1778, amounting in all to about twenty months as private under Captains Arthur Grey, James Stout and Nathan Stout, and Colonels Isaac Smith, Lord Stirling, Chamberlain and Chambers, in the New Jersey troops. He was in the battle of Germantown.
After his service he resided about twenty years in Amwell, New Jersey. He was allowed pension on his application executed July 30, 1833, then a resident of New Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey.
There are no data in this claim concerning the family of Henry Cook, other than the reference to his step-father, who was living during the period 1776-1778.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address to whom sent and possibly the date of death of the pensioner, person paid

Henry Cook, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city and cite the following:
Henry Cook, Certificate No. 22890 Issued December 6, 1833 Rate $46.66 per annum Commenced March 4, 1831 Act of June 7, 1832 New Jersey Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

State of New Jersey Hunterdon County } ff:
On this twenty fourth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared before me, the undersigned one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of said County of Hunterdon, John Case, seior aged seventy five years & upwards, who being duly sworn according to Law, on his oath saith, that he is acquainted with Henry Cook of the city of New Brunswick and has been from boyhood, that they lived near by each other when the Revolutionary war took place, that he was with the said Cook on one tour of duty when they lay at Smith's farms in the fall of 1776, that they were then in the same Company, that while we lay here a Detachment of the militia went over to Staten Island to take some British then at Cuckoldstown, but did not succeed, that he recollects the said Cook once borrowing his gun to go on another tour, that this Deponent moved to the County of Super a short time after the Battle with the Hessians at Trenton, and has has left the neighbourhood of said Cook.
John Case Ser
Sworn & subscribed this 24 th . day of July A 1833 before me
Samuel Hill Judge
I the undersigned one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of said County of Hunterdon Do hereby certify that I am acquainted with John Case sen who has sworn to the foregoing affidavit, that I believe him to be a man of truth & veracity and that his statement is entitled to credit.
Given under my hand this 24 th day of July A 1833
Samuel Hill

State of New Jersey Huntingdon County ss.
On this second day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the inferior Court of Common pleas in & for the County of Huntingdon aforesaid Matthias Able aged seventy six years & upwards who being duly sworn according to law on his oath saith, that he is acquainted with Henry Cook of the City of New Brunswick and has known him from boyhood, that they lived near by each other when the Revolutionary war took place. That he was with the said Cook on one tour of duty to Smiths Farms near Staten Island in the same Company of Militia under Capt. Nathan Stout, in the month of August in the same year & at the same time the battle of Long Island took place. We heard the report of the Cannon at this battle whilst we lay at Smiths Farms. We were out this tour and laid at Smiths Farms & Woodbridge two months. Colonel Isaac Smith commanded the Militia at these places at that time. I was called out on another tour of duty with the said Cook in October the same year the battle of Germantown took place as we were in that battle. We belonged to the same Company which was commanded by Capt. James Stout. General Forman commanded the Jersey Militia. The said Cook was out on this tour one month. I went out on another tour of duty with the said Cook to Raritan at the time the British laid in New Brunswick. He was out this tour one month. And further this deponent saith not. Sworn & subscribed before me this 2 nd day of August 1833
his Matthias Able mark
Rich d L. Core
I the undersigned one of the Judges of the inferior Court of Common pleas of said County of Huntingdon do hereby certify that I am acquainted with Matthias Able who has sworn to the foregoing Affidavit that I believe him to be a man of truth & veracity & that his statement is entitled to credit. Given under my hand this 2 nd day of August A D 1833
Rich d L. Core

State of New Jersey Hunterdon County } ss
I Isaac G Farlee Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Hunterdon, do hereby certify that Samuel Still Esq Richard Cox Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavits were taken then were, and now are, Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Hun- terdon, duly commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and credit are due to all their official acts or said, and that I am acquainted with their signatures, and that their signatures are genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at Flemington this second day of August A.D. eighteen hundred and thirty three
Isaac G Farlee Clerk
Admitted Private 14 mrs

Henry Cook
J. F. Riddell New Brunswick

WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
20 Sept 1833
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: { ). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim.
A Statement, shewing the Service of Henry Coock
   Period when the service was rendered. Duration of the claimant's service. Rank of the claimant. Names and rank of the Field officers under whom he served. Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service. Proof by which the declaration is supported.   Years. Months. Days.      
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.

REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1852.
The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c., Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
 1. The Regular Troops.  2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.  3. Persons employed in the Naval Service.  4. Indian Spies. 
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.
DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1852.
State, Territory, or District of } ss. County of } On this _____ day of _____ personally appeared (a) before A. B. a resident (b) of _____ in the county of _____ and State, Territory or District of _____ aged (c) _____ 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, passed June 7th, 1852. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) _____, with _____ and served in the _____ (e) regiment of the _____ line, under the following named officers:
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) 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, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of _____
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
A. B.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
I _____ of the Court of _____ do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of _____ for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this _____ day of _____ &c.
If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the _____ and C. D. residing in (the same) _____, who has hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with _____, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be _____ 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.
Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the _____ and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the _____ and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Clerk of the Court of _____ do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of _____ for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this _____ day of _____ &c.
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
See remarks in case of Joseph Steller

alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following ( m ) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
 1. Where and in what year were you born?  2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?  3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?  4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?  5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.  6. { To a Soldier. { Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it? To an Officer. { Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?  7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. 
The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons—one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
The traditional evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the inquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d] The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:—For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."
It is important, in all cases, to determine, with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months , is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required.
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
Proof of Service.
[1] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
[2] The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only.
[k] This traditional evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
17.974.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Henry Cook a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     May 1776 various times Pvt. Arthur Gray Isaac Smith N.J.   1st Maryland Nathan Stark Benjamin   all James Stark  
Battles engaged in, Brandywine Residence of soldier at enlistment, Amity, Hunterdon Co. N.J. Date of application for pension, July 30 1833 His ch. al. Residence at date of application, No. Bergen St. Middlesex Co. N.J. Age at date of application, in small top Hunterdon Co. N.J. Aug. 9 1839
Remarks: The data are from his family.
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Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

MULTNOMAH CHAPTER PORTLAND, OREGON
117 1609 N.E. 21 Ave., Portland, Oregon. Nov. 3, 1938.
Veterans Administration. Washington, D.C.
Dears Sirs,
Do your records show a pension paid to Eleanor Hunt Cook, widow of Henry Cook who served in the Revolution in New Jersey, probably in the Hunterdon County Militia.
If so, may I have that complete record, please.
Yours very truly,
Mary Lucile Cook,
Miss Mary Lucile Cook.

18 W. Union Av. Bound Brook, N.J.
Dec - 2 - 1912
Pension Office Washington, D. C.
Dear Sirs; -
Kindly send me Certified copy of war record of John Lindall of West Windsor New Jersey. Who fought in the Revolutionary war. Widow's pension number is 11635.
Also widow's maiden name

of the war 3 , don't know that he received any pension, his invalid number was 974.
Also if you have any record of his wife or ancestors. I will be very grateful and thank you for any information you may be able to give me. Trusting I may get an early reply from you.
Sincerely
Mrs. A. D. Coddington
18 W. Union Ave. Bound Brook, N.J.

birth, marriage 2 and death together with birth and death of said John Lindall.
I want to join the daughters of the American Revolution and they have asked for the Certificate from pension office.
Also all records you have pre- taining to Henry Cook of Hun- terdon Co. N.J. who fought in the Revolutionary war he lived as near as I can find out what was at a place called Maidenhead at the time

of the war 3 , don't know that he received any pension, his invalid number was 974.
Also if you have any record of his wife or ancestors. I will be very grateful and thank you for any information you may be able to give me. Trusting I may get an early reply from you.
Sincerely
Mrs. A. D. Coddington
18 W. Union Ave. Bound Brook, N.J.

1912 Dec 6 Heist To Mrs. A. L. Woodington, V. L. M. 1938 Mar 27 sent to Mary Cook cc.
2
New Mar.
INVALID.
File No.
944 Henry Cook, Mrs. N. J. Line.
Act:
June 7, 1892.
Index:—Vol.
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[Arrangement of 1870.]
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I Nicholas Boorman Clerk of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas of the County of Middlesex do hereby certify that the foregoing examined paper contains the proceedings of the said court in relation to the matter of the application of Henry Cook as aforesaid as a pension and also all the proceedings appertaining to said matter.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this fourth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three
N Boorman Clerk
State of New Jersey Middlesex County. Personally appeared before me the undersigned one of the Justices of the Peace in & for said County HENRY COOK known to me to be the individual applicant for a pension who has subscribed the foregoing declaration who being duly sworn on his oath saith that he served in the manner & during the periods mentioned in his original declaration & he has no hesitation in adding that he served faithfully. As to the objection of his not being liable to have served so long as frequently as he has set forth by the laws of the State he begs leave to refer to an abstract of the laws of the Convention Legislature of New Jersey on this subject prepared & forwarded as he has no doubt by the Department by the Honorable James F. Randolph. He again respectfully refers the Department to his original paper for the length of his services & the details thereof affirming then that he is confident he served more than he has specified but cannot more particularly specify his services. And he also refers to the testimony heretofore

produced to prove the facts of his services which he was enabled to do with great trouble & at considerable expense being compelled to go to the country of Winston due when he decided during the war to procure their testimony besides whom he does not know that he can procure any other witnesses. He repeats that he found as he has before set forth & during the period between the  war he was wholly devoted to his country & was not engaged in any civil pursuit. He asks therefore very respectfully a re-examination of his claim & prays its allowance - Soliciting as he now does some compensation from a prosperous country for his services rendered at a period when even the services & exertions of an individual as valuable as himself were valuable to that country.
Subscribed before me this 18th Oct - A.D. 1833
Henry Cook
Peter R. Pennycuick Justice of the Peace
Henry Cook - 100 - 100 - 100 New Jersey
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State of New Jersey I, Nicholas Booraem Clerk of the Superior Court of Common Pleas in & for the county of Middlesex do hereby certify that Peter R. Pennycuick before whom the foregoing affidavit was made was at the time a Justice of the Peace in & for said county of Middlesex duly commissioned and sworn, that I am acquainted with his signature and that his signature above is genuine
Not Publicly Requested to be P.D. H. C. 1833
New Brunswick N.J.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said court at New Brunswick this 18th day of October A.D. Eighteen hundred and thirty three N Booraem Clerk