Jane Blevins Cooper Pension Application, May 1850, Cover Letter

Pension Files of Jane Blevins Cooper

Cover letter of May 1850 in the Widow's Pension Application of Jane Cooper

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                                                                Annawaika Ala
                                                                May 5th 1850

Sir

      Enclosed I send you the proof in support of my claim to a pension under the Act of Congress passed the 21st of July AD 1848, granting half pay to widdows and orphants in certain cases &c [~~~~illeg. line or lines in a fold~~~~] thing, to establish my claim, you will please refer to the papers (now on file in your office) in support of my claim to bounty land under the act of 11 of Feb 1847 and also to Now Wm. W. [Co...?] of Alabama " you will please inform me of the arrival of these papers by addressing me at Annawaika De Kalb Co. Ala Care of Mr George C. White.

                                                                Respectfully your Obt sevt &c
                                                                [Jane?] Cooper

Hon G Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington DC

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TRANSCRIPTION NOTE:

Difficult to read, with ink blots bleeding through from other side. I really can't read the applicant's given name at all, but since it is enclosed within other papers with Jane Cooper as the applicant, it is apparently Jane's letter.

Transcribed by D.K. Pritchett from a photocopy of the court document. This file dated 20 June 2001.

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