Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12592, Asahel Cook, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
book, Asahel
NUMBER
S. 12592
CONTENTS
carded

6498 New York
Habel Cook
of Genesee in the State of N. York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain James D. of the Inf commanded by Lieut. Porter in the Heights line for 13 months
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 43 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28th day of Feby. 1833 — and Rev No 14 P.L. 1831 No. of Ref.
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 1832 $65.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4th '33 21.66 $86.66
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Book
Vol.
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Page
158
Clerk

Asahel Cooks
Declaration.
✓ 18334
Please, Direct to H. W. Soper, Batavia, Genesee Co. N. Y.
Examined
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13 mo. pri
$43.33

State of New York
Genesee County ss, Warham Cook being duly sworn doth depose and say that he resides in the town of Skaneateles Onondaga County State of New York - That he this deponent was sixty six years old the tenth day of January 1832 - That he is a brother of Asahel Cook the applicant for a pension in the declaration herewith annexed - That he this deponent resided with his father in Northampton in the State of Massachusetts when the revolutionary war commenced & continued to reside with his father at Northampton aforesaid until the war was closed - That he this deponent will recollect the circumstances of his brother Asahel Cook aforesaid entering for six months to go to Springfield Massachusetts as he this deponent thinks in the year 1778 & that the said Asahel Cook was gone from home and as this deponent understood & believes in the service of the United States about six months at that time - And this deponent further saith that in the year following being 1779 the said Asahel Cook again went into the United States service for one month and left home to go to New London Connecticut for one month & was gone from home about one month - And this deponent further saith that in the year 1780 Elisha Cook a brother of this deponent entered or volunteered into the United States service for six months and that after the said Elisha Cook entered or volunteered as aforesaid the

Said Asahel Cook agreed to take the place of the said Elisha Cook & serve the said six months instead of the said Elisha Cook - and that the said Asahel Cook accordingly left home & went into the service to serve for the term of six months, as a substitute for the said Elisha Cook & that the said Asahel Cook was gone from home at that time for the said term of six months & as the deponent understood & believes in the service of the United States as aforesaid & further saith not
Subscribed & sworn to this 11 th day of September 1832 before me
Asahel Cook
Timothy Fitch Justice of the Peace
State of New York Genesee County ss
I Timothy Fitch, Clerk of said county certify that Timothy Fitch before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been taken and made was on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said county. And that I am
well acquainted with the signature of said Justice subscribed to said affidavit and verily believe the same to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed my official seal this twenty fifth day of October 1832
Timothy Fitch Clerk By B. Pringle Dep. Clerk
Asahel Cook's Aff.

Declaration of Asahel Cook, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7- 1832
State of New York
Genesee County ss.
On this Sixteenth day of October in the year eighteen hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open court, before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, now sitting in the town of Batavia in and for the county of Genesee, in said State, being a Court of Record and having a seal, Asahel Cook, a resident of the town of Byers in the county of Genesee and State of New York, aged Seventy years on the 28 th October 1831, 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 7-1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
That early in the Spring of 1778, but the precise time he cannot recollect he enlisted in the army of the United States, in the continental service and served under Capt. Leonard in the Massachusetts line for six months - he does not recollect any other of his company officers - and he was not attached to any Regiment - he marched immediately to Springfield and was stationed there to guard the Military Stores of the United States - that there were no other troops there except the one company commanded by Capt. Leonard - that he served the six months and then received a discharge from Capt. Leonard which he has lost by moving from one place to another that at the time of his enlistment, he lived in Northampton, Massachusetts -
That in the month of May 1779 he volunteered at Northampton for one month under Capt. Joseph Cook in the Massachusetts militia - that he does not recollect the names of the Lieut and Ensign and that he was in Col. Porter's Reg. t of Hadley - that he cannot recollect the names of any other officers of the Regiment - that he went to New London to guard the place - that the British were then lying in the sound or between Long Island and Fisher's Island that he served the month and was then discharged by Col. Porter -
Cook enlisted or volunteered as aforesaid then

and went home.
* went as a substitute for his brother Elisha Cook who had enlisted for six months - and went
That in the month of May 1780, he re-enlisted again for six months in the State militia - that he cannot recollect the names of any of the commissioned officers of the company - that the Orderly Sergeant was Ethan Strong and in Col Benjamin Tupper's Regiment - that Anson Tupper was Adjutant and was under Gen Patterson - that he does not recollect the names of any other officers of the Regiment - That he went from Northampton to West Point - that he remained at West Point one or two weeks, until the three months men came on and they then left there and went down the River, crossed at King's Ferry and marched to what was called the English Neighborhood and joined the Continental Army under the command of Gen. Washington, who was there at that place - that Brigadier Gen. Poor - Gen. Green - Col. Marshall, Col. Morgan - Col. Washington were also there - That he remained at the English Neighborhood and in that vicinity till about the first of November 1780 when the army retired to West Point and he remained there till his time was out and he was discharged by Gen Washington - That he received a written discharge which he has lost - That he was born in Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts on the 28 th October 1761 - That he has a Record of his age in his account book at home which he copied from his father's Bible - That after the war he lived at Northampton a few years - in Pittsfield, Mass. 5 years in Greenfield, Saratoga Co. N. Y. 5 years in White town, Oneida Co. N. Y. 5 years in Marcellus Onondaga Co. N. Y. about 14 years - Then in Byers where he now resides about 20 years - That he knows of no person living by whom he can prove his service except Hezekiah Cook his brother - That the Rev. William Darnford and Lemuel Perkins, reside in his neighborhood, are well acquainted with him and can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief in his services as a soldier of the Revolution - He truly relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency

of any State. — Subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid in open court Timothy Fitch Clerk
Asahel P Cook
We, William Danforth a clergyman and Leonard Perkins, both residents of the town of Byron, in the county of Genesee and State of New York, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Asahel Cook who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy years of age, that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. Subscribed & sworn to the day & year aforesaid in open court Timothy Fitch Clerk
Wm Danforth Leonard Perkins
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 William Danforth a clergyman who has signed the preceding Certificate residing in the town of Byron in the County of Genesee & State of New York and that Leonard Perkins who has also signed the same is a resident in the same place and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Isaac Wilson Robert Carriff William Mitchell
Cook entitled or volunteer as aforesaid the

I, Timothy Fitch, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Genesee in the State of New York, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court, in the matter of the application of Asahel Cook for a new trial.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this sixteenth day of October 1832.
Timothy Fitch clerk

Shell book of New York
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BRIEF in the case of
Abahel Cook of Byron  of Tunbridge in the State of New York  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 70 - Oct 28 1831.  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Spring In 1778 6 Pri Col Leonard   May 1779 1 " Capt Cook, Col Porter   May 1780 6 Col Tupper, Genl Washington   13  
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Massachusetts  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Living 
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Defective  Papers not attached & no certificate of the credibility of witnesses
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J. Mahony Examining Clerk.  July 22 1833

Rev 11/23
12592
INVALID.
File No. 12592
Isabel Cook Miss Boer War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. A , Page 78
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of New York Genesee County ss: I, Timothy Fitch, the Justice of the Peace, before whom the annexed affidavit of Warland Cook was taken, do hereby certify that the said Warland Cook who made the same is personally known to me and I further certify that the said Warland Cook is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit. Timothy Fitch
State of New York Genesee County ss: I, Timothy Fitch, Clerk of said county of Genesee, hereby certify that I am well acquainted with my hand writing and do know that the signature to the above certificate is my own hand writing — In Witness my whereof I have set my hand and seal of office this 16 th Feb'y 1833. —
Timothy Fitch Clerk