Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2,269, Joseph Cook, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Conn.
Cook, Joseph or Cook
RE. 2269
Mercy
CONTENTS

7332
Mercy book Joseph Barr
act 7 July 38
Wicks, W. H. - 18th July 1880 - 18th Dec 1880 18th Dec 1880 - 18th Dec 1880
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Wm Battell Torrington Conn.

State of Connecticut Probate district of Farmington
? Town of Farmington Litchfield County Connecticut
On this 24 th day of July 1840 personally appeared before Abijah Collins Judge of the Probate district of Farmington Litchfield County State of Connecticut Widow Maria Cook a resident of said Town aged seventy one years who being first duly sworn according to law doth make make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows that she is the widow of Joseph Cook late of said Farmington who was a soldier in the army of the revolution that he was a private in said service I well remember that I heard him say a number of times that he was in service nine months in the year 1780 & that he went to Danbury at the time that place was burnt also was at New Haven when the British came there & at other places during the war in the service as a soldier. She further says that she was married to the said Joseph Cook first January 1792 that her husband the aforesaid Joseph Cook died the 19 th February 1822 and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before
That she was not married to the said Cook prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January from then hundred ninety four ———
Steven Cook

State of Connecticut, Litchfield County, in this twenty fourth day of July 1840 personally appeared before the Court of Probate within & for the District of Haverhill in said state & County at Haverhill in said District. Mercy Cook & made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration & subscribed the same in open Court. And this Court finds that the Declarant is the widow of Joseph Cook & that her declaration is entitled to full faith & credit -
A true copy of record. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court the day & year above written
Joshua Williams, Clerk

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1888 1889 1890 1891
1892
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State of Connecticut
Litchfield County 3 rd Warrenton
on this 19 th day of May one thousand eight hundred & thirty four per- sonally appeared before Abijah Ballou a justice of the peace in & for said County Allen Cook a resident of said Warrenton aged seventy six & on oath deposes & says that he was a brother of Joseph Cook who died Feby 19 th 1822 aged sixty years that the deponent was between two & three years younger than the said Joseph Cook. that he was known as Joseph Cook Jr until the death of their father who also bore the name of Joseph Cook, that he was present when the said Joseph Cook Jr intermarried with Mercy Gilet. They were married by the Reverend Joshua Williams the pastor of the Congregational Church in Warrenton. That from the best of his recollection it must have taken place sometime in the month of January seventeen hundred and ninety two. the deponent & his brother Joseph resided within the same neighborhood until the death of the said Joseph He thinks the marriage occurred about the time mentioned because he recollects that his brother intended to have been married the day he was thirty years of age but owing to some circumstance

he thinks it more probable to have been on account of the absence of the minister it was postponed a few days & his mother Joseph was thirty years of age the December preceding - the deponent himself was married June 30 th 1793 & his brother Joseph was born one year & some months before, & had one child who is now living forty seven years old -
And the deponent further states that he knew his said brother Joseph enlisted in the army to serve a nine months tour that he left home he thinks sometime in the month of May & returned late in the fall of the same year It must have been in the fall or commencement of winter because he recollects that the day he returned there had been a great fall of snow, & the deponent was slediding Order from a cider mill at the time He recollects further to have seen a discharge of his brother's signed by General Washington It was in his possession several years the deponent saw it a number of times What eventually became of it he knows not. He thinks he was commanded at this time by a Captain Bells. He recollects that his brother was again out in the service at the Danbury alarm & at New Haven. He is of opinion that Captain generally known as Major Seymour of Litchfield was his officer.

in the proof — further the deponent saith not Sworn to & Subscribed this 19 th May 1840 Min Cook Abijah Catlin justice of Peace
I Abijah Catlin justice of the peace within & for the County of Litchfield certify that Min Cook the Subscriber to the foregoing deposition is well known to me as a person of truth & veracity & his statements are entitled to all credit Abijah Catlin justice of Peace
Litchfield County. State of Connecticut } ss Harrington, Probate Office, I. Doshna Williams, Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Harrington, do hereby certify that Abijah Catlin Esq is a Justice of the Peace for Litchfield County duly commissioned, & qualified to administer oaths, &c that his Commission is dated the 29 th day of May 1839. & will expire on the 20 th day of June, 1840, & that the Signatures above, purporting to be his, are genuine, In Witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, & affixed the Public Seal, of said Court, at the Probate office, in Harrington, this Nineteenth, day of May One Thousand Eight Hundred & Forty, Doshna Williams.

POWER OF ATTORNEY — Revolutionary Pension Claims.
Know all Men by these Presents, That I, Norman Cook of the town of Haverstock County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut
hereby constitute and appoint George C. Ames of Washington City my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the Claim of Mercy Cook for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or Increase of Pension, that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments; and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, which Certificate I wish made payable to the children of said Mercy Cook
to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
WITNESS my hand and Seal this 20 th day of September A. D. 1852
Norman Cook
Signed and Sealed in the presence of
Abijah Gattine Levi's Catherin
STATE OF Connecticut COUNTY OF Litchfield } ss.
On this 20 th day of September A. D. 1852 before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Norman Cook and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand, } the day and year aforesaid.
Levi's Catherin
Justice Peace.

CLAIM OF Mercy Cook ACT OF July 7 1838
Mary Cook 38 10/10
STATE OF Connecticut } ss. COUNTY Litchfield }
Be it known, That on this 20th day of September A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty two , before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Norman Cook a resident of Hanington in said County, and made oath according to law that he is the son of Mercy Cook widow of Joseph Cook deceased
who was a Revolutionary Pensioner applicant for a pension under the above act which is now suspended at the rate of allowed . Rollers per annum; that he has been informed that the said Pension ought to be increased; that he is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, before me. Lewis C. Cuthbert J. Peace.
Norman Cook
I, Lewis Cuthbert Norman Cook of this County, and is, I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth.
Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, do hereby certify that who executed the foregoing paper is a respectable resident of this County, and is, I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth.
Lewis Cuthbert - J. Peace.
I, Lewis Cuthbert do hereby certify that Lewis Cuthbert executed, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and the name thereunto subscribed, is his signature.
Clerk of the Hanington Court in the County and State aforesaid, before whom the foregoing papers were executed, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and the name thereunto subscribed, is his signature.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official Seal this 20th day of September A. D. 185 2
Lewis Cuthbert Clerk.

STATE OF Connecticut } COUNTY OF Litchfield } ss. Probate District of Haverhill
It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me the Honorable Court of Probate for the district aforesaid that Mercy Cook late of said district was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of $ an applicant for a pension per annum and that she died on the first day of November eighteen hundred and Forty Eight leaving surviving
and that Norman Cook Samuel Cook Joseph Cook Lucy Mix Joel G Cook and Charles H Cook the only surviving child ren of the aforesaid. Mercy Cook
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this Twenty first day of September one thousand eight hundred and fifty two
James Austin Jr Clerk

7334 Mercy Cook widow Joseph Cook born
Suspended Let. to Mr. Batell Aug. 8 th 1840 See Time May 13 th 1840 Act 7. July 28 th

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
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P. O. _____
Mercy Cook
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
REJECTED
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contra
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

State of Connecticut } Daven Clark Offic Haverston July 29 th 1840 Sitka Judea County } b.
I hereby certify that no record of the marriage of Joseph Cashin and Mary Gilt is to be found in this Office
Attest. Amos Alsworth Daven Clark

Tomingsport Litchfield Co Connecticut July 30 th 1840
Honorable James I d Edwards
Dear Sir
Enclosed you have the application of Widow Mary Cook a resident of this county for a pension under the act of Congress of July 1838 her late husband was a late Joseph Cook was a private soldier in the army of the revolution owing to the death of those who served with him we can't prove but a part of his service you will I presume give her a small pension for the service of her husband so far as the service is proved.
I am Sir
Respectfully
your obedient
Sir
William Wattell

Clear of Pensions
P
Mercy Cook
Joseph -
Con Mus 1838

Montvill 28 th 1853.
Sir
I want to know if the pension of Joseph Cook who was in the revolution war, has ever been taken up I put it in John Horton's hands to get, and cannot find anything about it, and want you should write to me if it can be had or not, I am the last Grand Son of the said Joseph Cook. Mr Horton said that he could get it and I would like to know in hast Joseph Pierce
PS please direct your letter to Joseph Pierce Norwich City, Ct

I James Bartholomew of Granby in the County of Bedford State of Connecticut aged Seventy eight years before I say that I was a native of the Town of Farmington in the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut - That I removed from Farmington about Twenty years - I further before I say that while I lived in the Town of Farmington I came the War of the Revolution I was here appointed with for the back in of the Town of Farmington - I further before I say that I was well knowing that I had for the back in Enlisted into the Continental Service for the term of Nine Months in the Spring of the year 1780. I was knowing that I for the back in was with the Regiment according to his Disbanded then? His term of Nine Months fully out - I was knowing seeing him at the time of the Battle of Red Bank, the British Spy - I was in the Army during the time above mentioned but not in the same Regt. with the back in I belong to a Regt of Artillery back in a Reserve in a Regt of Continental Soldiers James Bartholomew
State of Connecticut - Hartford County 11 - Granby March 10. 1836. Personally appeared the above named James Bartholomew to me personally known to be who is a Disputable Debtor with the above named John D. Smith the Truth of the above deposition by him subscribed
Before Me - Joshua D. Smith Justice of the Peace

I, ROYAL B. HINMAN, Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern,
THAT Joshua H. Jewett Esq. is
and for more than six months last past, has been a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Hartford in said State, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified, having full power and authority, by the laws of said State, to take the acknowledgment of Deeds and to certify the same; also to administer oaths to witnesses and to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give certificates thereof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to the official acts and attestations of the said Jewett
in Court and Country.
In testimony whereof, I have, in my capacity of Secretary as aforesaid, hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of said State, at the City of Hartford, in said State, the 27 th day of July — in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty And I certify that the signature of said Jewett hereunto annexed is genuine.
Royal B. Hinman
Secretary.

I, ROYAL R. HINMAN, Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern,
THAT Meijah Cottrell is
and for more than one year last past, has been a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Simsbury in said State, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified, having full power and authority, by the laws of said State, to take the acknowledgment of Deeds and to certify the same; also to administer oaths to witnesses and to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give certificates thereof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to the official acts and attestations of the said Cottrell
in Court and Country.
In testimony whereof, I have, in my capacity of Secretary as aforesaid, hereunto set my Hand, and af- fixed the Seal of said State, at the City of Hartford, in said State, the 27 th day of July in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty
And I certify that the signature of said Cottrell hereunto annexed is genuine.
Royal R. Hinman Secretary.