REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION AFFIDAVIT - LEONARD COOPER Copyright (c) 2002 by Janet Putt Neville. This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. [jandneville@yahoo.com] *********************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons.Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permissionto the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** Source: Library of Virginia Digital Collection Cooper, Leonard (Couper,Cowper) Pen. 92 1785-1789 Soldier, 4th Virginia Regiment--Corps of Invalids Shenandoah County I certifie that Capt. Leonard Cooper formerly of the Virginia Line during his convalesence in the Invalid Corps at West Point ____from the 1st Jan. 1785 to the 1st August 1785 has received the whole of his subsistence and given ____ ____ as a Capt. from the ____provided. Signed: Wm. Carleton, Sec'y I certify that I have not made any settlement with Capt. Leonard Cooper of the Invalid Corps nor have I received any certificate in his name. Signed: A W Dunscombe, Comm'r for Accts. Va. Richmond Jan. 11 1786 Office of Army Accts. New York Feb. 26 1787: This may certify that Capt. Leonard Couper was annexed to the Invalid Regiment in the late war and continued in the same until the 3rd day of November 1783 after which he was continued at West Point in a Corps of pensioners and received from the United States while in the Corps the annexed sums and that he was discharged with the whole corps by the Secretary at War in consequences of a Resolution of Congress June 7 1785 placing all the invalids on one establishment--he received in the year 1784 $80--in the year 1785--$120=$200 which sum is to be charged to Capt. Coupers pension allowed under the resolve above mentioned agreeably to a letter of mine to the State Auditors dated June 23 1786. Signed: Jno. R-o---(illegible) Bainbridge(Surg?) certified that Leonard Cooper had his thigh taken off about 5 to inches below the hip. Received 50 pounds yearly, certifed by James Wood that he served in the Service and that he received wounds by pistol shot. ****files for John Corbett found in Capt. Coopers files, placed accordingly in Corbett's files.