Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5201, Zalmon A Hooper, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Hooper, Salmon L.
R. 5201
CONTENTS

State of New York - 7
Tompkins County On this 24 th day of September 1834 personally appeared in the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Tompkins, being a court of record having a Clerk and Seal Nelson A. Hooper a widower of the Town of Dryden in said County of Tompkins and State of New York aged seventy years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following deposition in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. That in consequence of his advanced age & infirmities & a conflagration of memory he believes at this moment of time that the prime term of his service here according to his best recollection and belief is as follows to wit:
That he enlisted in the army of the of the United States as a private soldier on the first day of May 1780 for the term of three years with Captain Ezer as his first captain in the state of Massachusetts & served in Colonel John Dyer's Regiment in Massachusetts line in the Company commanded by Captain Ezer, Lieutenant Solomon Root, that he does not remember the names of any others of the field officers of the regiment or of his company, but the Colonel his captain and Lieutenant Root, that from Bridgewater the place where he was enlisted he marched to Roxbury near Boston where he joined his Regiment, that from Roxbury he marched in a few days after with his Company to Dorchester Point in the state of Massachusetts where he continued in the service of the United States for four months at the end of which term he was taken sick and returned home on a furlough where he continued for about eight weeks when he had recovered from his sickness he there and so much so as to do anything he was transferred from the line of the

Send Regiment to the Cannon and bell foundry of the United States at Bridgewater in the County of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts where he continued in the service of the United States while in the said foundry, that he was principally employed in cleaning & dressing balls & shells & occasionally in digging out cannon from the pits in which they were cast, and also in boring out cannon until the first day of May 1783. When the term of his enlistment expired and he received a written discharge signed by Joseph Oldunk the master of the Foundry. That something near forty years past he removed from Massachusetts to the State of Delaware and has not since resided in Massachusetts since that he has resided in the State of New York for twenty five years last past. That he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his services —
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or annuity except the pension, & declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the Agency of any state or Territory —
Sworn & subscribed
The day and year aforesaid
Moses Love Clerk
Salomon A. Hooper mark
We the undersigned being in the Town of Dyker and County of Tompkins and John Bette of the same place certify hereby that that we are well acquainted with Salomon A. Hooper who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy years of age that he is respected and beloved 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 day and year aforesaid Samuel Love Clerk
Respectfully Yours This John B. Bellis Deputy
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 the  Revolutionary  State who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident of the town of Dryden in this county and that John Bellis who has also signed the same is a resident of the said town of Dryden and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Samuel Love Clerk of the court of common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Salmon A. Hooper for a pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Ithaca this 24th day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty four.
Samuel Love Clerk

V.Y.W. Rev. War Section.
August 13, 1918.
Hon. Dan V. Stephens, Fremont, Nebraska. My dear Mr. Stephens:
In response to your letter dated the 9 th instant, I have the honor to advise you that it appears from the papers in the claim of Salmon A. Hooper, R. File No. 5,801, Rev. War, that he enlisted at Bridgewater, Massachusetts, May 1, 1780, under Captain Etren and Colonel Oliver Orr, and served four months. At the end of this time he became ill and returned home on a furlough, and upon his recovery at the expiration of eight weeks, was transferred to the United States Cannon and Ball Foundry at Bridgewater, where he served until May 1, 1783.
There is no data on file as to his family.
He applied for pension September 24, 1834, while a resident of Dryden, Tompkins County, New York aged seventy years. The claim was rejected on the ground that the alleged officers were incapable of verification, and service in the foundry was not construed as military duty by the pension law of June 7, 1832, under which he applied.
Very truly yours,
E. C. Tieman
Acting Commissioner.

13 Aug. 1862 Enl. by H. H. Dan Stephens
Note of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1878.
5201
P. O. Salmon Hooper Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contra
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

1882 New York Johnson & Co. New York New York New York
5207

Hon. N. Halsey 30 June 1835
OC
Dear Sir,
Rec. Vol. 33. pa. 346

Warbleton
Pensim H Jan'y 35
Sir
I have the honor to inform you that the claim of Salmon A Hooper has been examined. He alleges that he enlisted at Bridgewater Mass 1 May 80 for 3 years under "Capt Ethorn in Col Oliver Oots Regt" that about 4 mo after enlistment he was taken sick & when sufficiently recovered was transferred to the Cannon & Ball Foundry at Bridgewater where he served out his enlistment. There were no such enlistments & service under the authority of Mass'ts nor is there any knowledge in the Dept. of any officers of that name in the Mass'ts Line of the Continental Army in which such an enlistment could have been made. His claim is therefore rejected this paper placed on file
act 7 June
Hon N. Halsey.
C/35

Dec 27.
Mr
Mr. J. H. Hays -
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Conne. of Penna
Salmon Creek Hudson N.Y.

J. L. Edwards Esq.,
Will you be pleased to attend to the enclosed papers -
Yours Obedt Servt Nichol H. H.
Dec. 27. '34

DAN V. STEPHENS
3D DIST. NEBR.
COMMITTEE:
INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE
NEWTON W. PRESTON SECRETARY
House of Representatives H. S.
Washington, D. C.
Fremont, Nebraska, Aug. 9, 1915
Pension Department,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:
I have a constituent who is desirous of locating one of her ancestors and the War Department suggests to me that your Records might assist in securing the desired information. I will therefore be obliged to you if you will search your records and see if you can locate any information in regard to a Revolutionary Soldier, whose Record I am informed is as follows:
"Zalmunna Hooper, Jr., Born at Plymouth, Mass., Sept. 2nd 1750; died at Fleming N.Y., Febr. 26th, 1846. Served under Washington being the army at Valley Forge. Don't know where he enlisted whether Massachusetts, Maine, or New York or some State between Mass. and N.Y. Married Sarah Crandall."
I will appreciate your giving me the result of your investigation and any data you may find in regard to the above soldier.
Yours very truly,
Dan V. Stephens
M.C.